Central Asia has been a geostrategic crossroads of people, capital and ideas since the first Han dynasty caravans traveled the ancient Silk Road.
Descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming-dynasty Emperor (1368-98), the Zhu clan was a big landowner around Changsha in Hunan province, where Zhu was born in 1928.
Started during the Tang Dynasty and later expanded by Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644), the stone wall extends more than 13.7km and is the most complete city fortification to have survived in China.
For the first time all three members of the Smith boxing dynasty feature on a card for the first time - former English middleweight champion Paul, and younger brothers Callum and Stephen.
The first Aoyama work one encounters is "Idle Evening, " a poem by the Chinese Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi, first exhibited in 1938 by the prestigious Taito Shodoin calligraphic association when the artist was in his 20s.
They have mastered the first art of survival for a political dynasty: having lots and lots of children.
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The first such establishments date back to the Tang dynasty (618-907).
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney also focused on national security and worked in a dig on Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry, whose first husband was from the well-known condiment dynasty.
Another Singer favorite enlivens a case of miniatures a delectable palm-size morsel of earthenware from the first half of the 8th century, during the Tang dynasty, energetically depicting two musicians precariously perched on the back of a braying camel.
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The first unambiguously modern state, Mr Fukuyama believes, was the Qin dynasty in China, founded in 221BC.
The Ottoman dynasty did not observe primogeniture (the right of the first-born son to the throne), so in principle the throne was available to any imperial son.
Each part has something valuable to offer the first, for example, includes a priceless handscroll by the Yuan Dynasty calligrapher Yang Weizhen (1296-1370) and the whole provides a comprehensive understanding of the artist's influences and evolution.
Remember that the Qing dynasty, with all its inherited rituals, survived into the first decade of this century.
It is not the first time the heir apparent of India's powerful Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has spoken about his disinclination to become the prime minister in the event of his party winning the general elections.
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