In a powerful show of unity and dignity, over 100 members of the Indian community in Ireland held a silent protest outside the Department of Justice in Dublin. The vigil was in response to the brutal ...

Chinese consumers have rapidly turned away from the iconic US brand, leading to plunging sales, spiking debts and a historic ...

Chinese new words extraction is an important problem for Chinese information processing. In this paper a new words extraction method based on machine learning is proposed, where the context ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty ...

The pictorial shorthand of emojis is perfect for small phone screens. It has also sprawled into a lexicon rich in metaphor ...

Test your knowledge of the Great Wall of China with this quiz! Explore facts about its construction, purpose, length, key ...

We propose to perform image-based ancient coin classification by recognizing symbols minted on the reverse side of coins. Dense sampling based bag-of-visual-words model is used for symbol recognition.

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Highly successful Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 is coming to New Zealand in August with an English-language version. The film, based on the story of Ne Zha, a well-known deity in Chinese folklore, ...

Icarus Football is celebrating the fifth Icarus Cup with a bevy of incredibly unique jersey designs. We pick our 12 favorites (not including ours, of course). Once a year, amateur footballers from ...

Number words and number symbols : a cultural history of numbers by Menninger, Karl, 1898- Publication date 1992 Topics Numerals -- History, Numeration -- History, Abacus -- History Publisher New York ...