Confucius (Kong Fu-tse) was an ancient Chinese philosopher. He was born around 551 BC at Shantung province and died around 479 BC. His father, Shuh-liang-heih, who was of royal descent, died when Confucius was three years old, and the boy was reared in comparative poverty by his mother, Ching-tsai. At the age of seventeen he was made inspector of corn-markets, at nineteen he married, and after about four years of domesticity, in which a son and two daughters were born him, he commenced his career as a teacher.
In 517 BC he was induced by two members of one of the principal houses in Lu, who had joined his band of disciples, to visit the capital with them, where he had interviews with Lao-tse, the founder of Taoism. Though temporarily driven from Lu to Tsi by a revolution, he soon returned thither with an increasing following, and at the age of fifty-two was made chief magistrate of the city of Chung-too. So striking a reformation was effected by him that he was chosen for higher posts, became minister of crime, and with the aid of two powerful disciples elevated the state of Lu to a leading position in the kingdom. Its marquis, however, soon after gave himself up to debauchery, and Confucius became a wanderer in many states for thirteen years. In 483 he returned to Lu, but would not take office. The deaths of his favourite disciples Yen Hwin and Tse-lu in 481 and 478 did much to further his own, which took place in about 479.
Confucius left no work detailing his moral and social system, but the five canonical books of Confucianism are the Yih-king, the Shu-king, the Sbi-king, the Le-king, and the Ghun-tsien, with which are grouped the 'Four Books', by disciples of Confucius, the Ta-heo or Great Study, the Chung-Yung or Invariable Mean, the Tun-yu or 'Philosophical Dialogues', and the Hi-tse, written by Meng-tse or Mencius. The teaching of Confucius has had, and still has, an immense influence in China. All his teaching was devoted to practical morality and to the duties of man in this world in relation to his fellow-men; in it was summed up the wisdom acquired by his own insight and experience, and that derived from the teaching of the sages of antiquity. Research Confucius
Brandon Lee was an actor. He was born in 1964 at Oakland, California and died in 1992. A martial arts expert, trained by his father Bruce Lee, Brandon Lee always wanted to be an actor, and first appeared in the 1986 television film 'Kung Fu', and his feature film debut in 1988 in the Hong Kong produced film 'Legacy of Rage'. He was killed in a freak accident while making the film 'The Crow'. A prop bulletlodged in the barrel of a gun was propelled out by the firing of a blankcartridge only to strike Brandon Lee who died several hours later in hospital. Research Brandon Lee
The GIMP (GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a computer software application that started as an undergraduate project by Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball at the University of California and has evolved into an application designed for retouching photographs, composing and authoring images. Its powerful capabilities as an image manipulation program make it a worthy competitor to other similar programs such as AdobePhotoshop or Corel PhotoPaint, but the biggest advantage of The GIMP is it's free availability although it's not freeware, rather it is an OSS (Open Source Software) program covered by the GPL license, which gives the user the freedom to access and also to change the source code that makes up the program. The Gimp offers a full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, an ink tool, and cloning. Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space; sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools, allowing for high-quality anti-aliasing; full Alpha channel
(transparency) support; layers and channels. Advanced scripting capabilities provided by a procedural database so you can call internal GIMP functions from external scripts, such as Script-Fu, Perl-Fu (Perl scripts) and Python-Fu (Python scripts). The GIMP offers multiple undo and redo, limited only by disk space; transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear, and flip. File formats supported include PostScript, JPEG, GIF, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PCX, BMP and many others. Selection tools including rectangular, elliptical, free, fuzzy, paths, and intelligent scissors. The GIMP supports plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new functions, new file formats, and new effects filters. The GIMP is probably best known for its use on the GNU/Linux platform, but there are many platforms that GIMP can run on, including GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT4 and 2000, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, Digital Unix, OSF/1, IRIX, OS/2 and BeOS. Research Gimp
The Fletcher FU-24 Utility is an American five-seater general utility monoplane developed primarily for agricultural use, and first flown as a prototype in 1954. The Fletcher FU-24 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane powered by a Continental O-470-N six-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine providing a top speed of 220 kmh. Research Fletcher FU-24
The Fu Manchu Virus is a computer virus which infects .COM, .EXE and overlay files. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation and corrupts program or overlay files. Research Fu Manchu Virus
The ch'ao-fu was a Chinese man's robe consisting of a kimono-style upper body with long, close-fitting sleeves that were terminated in a horse-hoof cuff; a closely-fitting neckband over which was worn a detached collar with wing-like tips that extended over the wearer's shoulders; a pleated skirt with a banded waist lower body. Ch'ao-fu were worn in different colours dependant upon rank. Research Ch'ao-fu
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