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B.C.
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Appendix:Variations of "bc"
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en 1962 w:Tsuen-hsuin Tsien Engravings on Stone and Jade Written on Bamboo and Silk: the Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions https://archive.org/details/writtenonbamboos0000chie/ w:University of Chicago Press 61-11897 6210098 84 https://archive.org/details/writtenonbamboos0000chie/page/84/ A group of eleven inscribed tablets of jade and stone, dating from about the sixth century B.C., is said to have been discovered around 1940 at Ch’in-yang, Honan.
en 1997 Helmut Brinker On the Origin of the Human Image in Chinese Art "Visions of Man in Chinese Art" with Selected Japanese Paintings https://archive.org/details/visionsofmaninch0003unse/ Kaikodo 962-7956-06-6 40785569 28 https://archive.org/details/visionsofmaninch0003unse/page/28/ Several fragments of reddish-brown clay statuettes of the Hongshan culture, found at Dongshanzui in Kazuo county, Liaoning province and dating to 3500 B.C., all seem to be kneeling or seated figures of about half life-size or smaller.
en 2002 w:Nicola Di Cosmo From Peace to War: China's Shift from Appeasement to Military Engagement Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History https://books.google.com/books?id=dNGol-W5Zi0C w:Cambridge University Press 0-521-77064-5 2001025577 46393350 239 https://books.google.com/books?id=dNGol-W5Zi0C&pg=PA239 The following year ten thosuand Hsiung-nu cavalry invaded Shang-ku,⁹⁶ but in 121 B.C. General Huo Ch’ü-ping, at the head of ten thousand cavalry, setting off from Lung-hsi⁹⁷ marched for over one thousand li, crossed the Yen-chih Mountains,⁹⁸ and attacked the Hsiung-nu.
en 2021-05-11 Rowan K. Flad It’s a golden age for Chinese archaeology — and the West is ignoring it w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20210511161603/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/11/chinese-archaeology-egyptian-bias-sanxingdui/ 0190-8286 2269358 PostEverything https://archive.is/qLzNQ A Swedish geologist turned archaeologist, Johan Gunnar Andersson, for example led the project that led to the discovery of the “Peking Man” fossils, in the 1920s, at the site of Zhoukoudian, dating to circa 200,000 to 700,000 years ago, and also helped establish evidence of “prehistoric” culture, in the form of early painted ceramics at the Neolithic site of Yangshao, dating to circa 5,000 to 3,000 B.C.
en 2021-07-23 Eric Kim Bulgogi, Any Way You Slice It w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20210723191939/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/dining/bulgogi-recipes.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/dining/bulgogi-recipes.html July 23, 2021 0362-4331 1645522 Food https://archive.ph/nivAp During the Goguryeo kingdom (37 B.C. to A.D. 668), the Maek people in the northern Korean Peninsula ate maekjeok, a dish of grilled pork marinated in doenjang, a fermented soybean paste. Years later, maekjeok evolved into neobiani, a dish of broad, thin slices of beef tenderized and grilled over flames. A feature of royal court cuisine during the Joseon dynasty (1392 to 1910), neobiani is considered a predecessor to today’s beloved bulgogi.
Proper noun
en @init of:British Columbia province c/Canada.
en Maryse Zeidler Hereditary chiefs slam Vancouver Island city council for remarks on restoring Indigenous place names w:CBC News 2024-11-02 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/campbell-river-bc-indigenous-place-names-1.7371071 At a city council meeting on Oct. 8, Campbell River councillors discussed a letter sent by the B.C. Geographical Names Office inviting comments on the name changes. https://web.archive.org/web/20250930222312/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/campbell-river-bc-indigenous-place-names-1.7371071 30 September 2025
Derived terms
en B.C. Coast B.C. Interior Coast of B.C. Interior of B.C.
Anagrams
en bc C.B. CB CνB c&b
en case citation abbreviations