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mapsontheweb · 5 months

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Zheng He's Travels

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#maps #LegendesCarto #twsourced #zheng he #voyages

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quotesfrommyreading · 9 months

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The exploits of Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, and other European explorers during the age of discovery—all predicated on a mastery of sail—are well known and exhaustively rehearsed. The true history of sail-powered oceanic exploration extends far earlier than the 16th century and far beyond Europe’s shipyards and outposts. Five thousand years ago, the Austronesians began charting and populating the many scattered islands of the Pacific, braving the ocean in double-hulled canoes laden with chickens, fruit, tubers, and firewood. By 2600 BCE, the ancient Egyptians were dispatching sailing ships to Lebanon to gather cedar. Around 1000 CE, Viking explorer Leif Ericsson reached the shores of North America. In 1405, Chinese admiral Zheng He guided a magnificent armada of 317 ships—60 of them boasting multi-tiered decks, nine masts, and 12 sails each, if historical accounts are to be believed—to Southeast Asia and India in pursuit of exotic spices. In the following centuries, after all this precedent, Europe began to churn the oceans with increasing numbers of carracks, caravels, frigates, and galleons.

— The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String

#ferris jahr #the long knotty world-spanning story of string #history #maritime history #naval history #travel #commerce #trade #austronesian peoples #egypt #ancient egypt #norsemen #china #leif erikson #zheng he

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arthistoryanimalia · 1 year

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More for #InternationalZebraDay: Detail from p.189 of the sole known surviving copy of Yi yu tu zhi, c. 1430, from Ming Dynasty China, depicting a zebra (identifiable as a Plains Zebra, Equus quagga) being led by a keeper. [Cambridge Digital Library]

This illustration records what was probably the first zebra seen in China ; it was brought back from Admiral Zheng He's voyage to East Africa (one of the "Ming Treasure Voyages") and presented to the Ming emperor, along with a giraffe and an oryx (also probably the first of each seen in China).

#zebra #zebras #mammals #illustration #book illustration #China #Chinese art #15th century #Ming Dynasty #Zheng He #Ming Treasure Voyages #African animals #Cambridge Digital Library #International Zebra Day #animals in art

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sshbpodcast · 2 years

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Getting Shipshape with Starfleet Ship Shapes: Part 4

By Ames

We’re finally at the end of our starship road trip, until the upcoming seasons of all the currently running shows introduce more and more ships to prove me wrong. We’ve enjoyed getting pedantic about Star Trek ship aesthetics with you here on A Star to Steer Her By, so let’s finish off the last leg of this journey with some of the newest designs we’ve seen in the last couple of years, months, even weeks!

Last week, we took a look at all the ships from the Kelvin universe and from Discovery, and the final ships we have to look at come from the rest of the currently running shows, featuring some captains from the past to swoon over! I’ve battled to nab screenshots of some of the latest glimpses of ships, here for you to feast your eyes on below (when you can see them, that is; some screens are way too dark!). Listen to our full coverage of the ships on this week’s podcast episode (banter starts at 50:49) and sail away with us on our journey. Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning.

[images © CBS/Paramount, Ex Astris Scientia, Eaglemoss Ltd., Star Trek Shipyards, Star Trek Timelines, probably others]

La Sirena (Kaplan F17 speed freighter)

La Sirena is a whole different shape than normal ships because we’re looking at a freighter instead of a big starship, but she’s the hero ship of the show, so we’re covering her! The red color and white stripes are nice. She looks a little like a cricket, with wings and antennae that swoop back very efficiently. If not for the smaller size, we could see this ship in Star Wars. Mostly, it’s clear by her looks that she’s utilitarian but still has that need for speed.

USS Nightingale (Wallenberg class)

We see some more nice colors, this time in nicely complementary turquoise and orange, in the fleet of Wallenburgs we see evacuating Romulus. Their compact, LEGO-like structure makes them solid little things, which makes sense because they were meant to tug other vessels or cargo containers. We also see two slight variants in the design (one a little bigger than the other), which is always good for variety’s sake.

USS Zheng He (Inquiry class)

We see roughly one million of these things at the end of season one Picard, though purportedly there are like three slight variations in the design. Collect them all! When you think about where the Federation is at (post Borg attacks, post Dominion War), it would make sense to just crank out the same ship on an assembly line. Eagle-eyed fans may see something like these oyster shells with nacelles in the Star Trek Online MMORPG game, though we must admit that those pylons that angle forward like a turkey aren’t the prettiest things.

USS Stargazer (Sagan class)

Somehow we have a new Stargazer just to be confusing. Like the old Stargazer, it’s got the four-nacelle look. It’s like someone made a Constellation class ship but with the Sovereign class aesthetic, so that’s kinda interesting. We suspect it was designed to look like it could be a kitbash, except that it’s all CGI new. I’m left thinking this was all just a nod to the fans, which I could go either way on.

USS Cerritos (California class)

Speaking of ships that are all CGI, let’s look at some more animation! The California class seems unnecessarily huge for its role, at least to me. It’s over 100m longer than a Sovereign class ship, and the biggest hero ship of a show so far, mostly thanks to it’s incredibly long pencap nacelles. Overall, it kinda looks like a cartoon scooter. It’s fine; I’m not gaga over it or anything. But really, what’s the in-universe reason why it’s so big?

USS Titan (Luna class)

Riker gets a leg up every so often in Lower Decks, and we finally get to see the canonical design of the Titan that he’s at the helm of in a bunch of novels. It’s a little like the Voyager and the Reliant had a baby. It’s got that crow’s nest section and underslung nacelles of a Miranda class, while having the sleek, futuristic look of any of the more recent ship designs we’ve seen. We’re digging it.

USS Vancouver (Parliament class)

I may have misspoke on the podcast about which ship on Lower Decks this one was because all the CGI kinda runs together for me. This is the one Tendi and Rutherford are enamored with in “Cupid’s Errant Arrow.” Tendi calls it “the greatest ship I’ve ever seen,” but I’ve seen better (just keep reading this list for one!). We find the Parliament class to mainly be a trimmed-down Nebula class without the table on top. Like California class, it’s also needlessly huge, with the biggest saucer section in Starfleet. For reasons!

USS Archimedes (Obena class)

Sigh. Sonya Gomez’s little ship is literally just an Excelsior class with a little extra stuff it didn’t need. Like we said about the Enterprise-B: you messed up an already perfect ship when you didn’t need to. We’re a bit disappointed in how the Lower Decks designers updated one of our favorite designs, chunking up some of the smooth lines with rough edges. Our beautiful luxury cruise liner now looks more like the rows of balconies on an apartment building, and we’re pretty displeased.

USS Protostar (Protostar type)

Here’s the good news! We’re big fans of Prodigy on this podcast, and also big fans of its beauty queen of a ship, the Protostar. It’s got a really sleek, spade-like shape to it and it just looks so smooth and shiny like someone’s been polishing it incessantly for years. The bussard collectors are just flat disks, which is new. The deflector dish just looks like a strip, like on the Defiant. It’s a smiley, happy little corvette of a ship and we’re into it!

USS Archer

These next ones are the newest ships on the block, so bear with the relatively few screengrabs from Strange New Worlds that are available since there’s no model kit to refer to for these ones. We get mere glimpses of the Archer in episode 1, and we can tell that they went with the one-nacelle style of something like the Kelvin, but it’s unclear just how well-attached that neck is based on the couple of angles we see. It’s like they took the infamous Freedom class and made it a little less utterly ridiculous. A little.

USS Farragut

And lastly, we finally get a look at Jim Kirk’s first ship, the Farragut, and she looks a little like the Kelvinverse’s take on a Miranda class. The nacelle pylons are rounded, like everything in the Kelvin movies is rounded (but we opined on this last week, so let’s move on). Mostly, this ship just looks clunky. It’s a little like someone tried to streamline a Miranda class, with its single hull and underslung nacelles, but managed to lose all its charm while doing so.

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And those are all the Federation starships we have on the lot until we get a new shipment in! We’re sure to see more in the future, so keep watching this spot. We’ve also got more ships on the way in the coming weeks as we detect some alien ships in the vicinity! And as always, make sure you’re also following along with our watch through Voyager (we’re almost halfway through already!) on SoundCloud or wherever you like listening to podcasts, hail us on Facebook and Twitter, and set course for the shipyard! Engage!

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bluesyemre · 1 year

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The routes of Marco Polo, Zheng He and Ibn Battuta

Marco Polo, Zheng He ve İbn Battuta seyehatlerinin rotaları.Sarı rota: Zheng HeMavi rota: Marco PoloKırmızı rota: İbn Battuta pic.twitter.com/kd4XJTQ4k0— homocinematicus (@abbilidi) January 30, 2018

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#explorers #ibn battuta #map #maps #marco polo #travel #traveling #zheng he

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k-star-holic · 2 years

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Hani "Moy Yat morning weight check...up 2kg after shooting on Wednesday" (WE ARE EXID)

#EXID #Hani #Yesterday #exid #Seo Hye-lin #Solji #Moy Yat #Zheng He

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psitrend · 12 years

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38 rare pictures of eunuchs during the Qing Dynasty

New Post has been published on https://china-underground.com/2012/10/22/38-rare-pictures-of-eunuchs-during-qing-dinasty/

38 rare pictures of eunuchs during the Qing Dynasty

A eunuch (太監, Taijian) is a man who has been castrated in his early life for this change to have major hormonal consequences.

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They have performed a wide variety of functions in many cultures: treble singers, courtiers, domestics, religious specialists, government officials, and harem servants.

Records of eunuchs in China date to the Shang dynasty, when the Shang kings castrated prisoners of war.

In China, castration included the removal of the penis as well as the testicles.

Both organs were cut off with a knife at the same time.

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From ancient times until the Sui Dynasty, castration was both a traditional punishment and a means of gaining employment in the Imperial service

Men sentenced to castration were turned into eunuch slaves of the Qin dynasty state to perform forced labor for projects such as the Terracotta Army.

From ancient times until the Sui Dynasty, castration was both a traditional punishment (one of the Five Punishments) and a means of gaining employment in the Imperial service.

In China, castration included the removal of the penis as well as the testicles. Both organs were cut off with a knife at the same time.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were about 70,000 eunuchs employed by the emperor, with some serving inside the Imperial Palace.

Certain eunuchs gained immense power that occasionally superseded that of even the Grand Secretaries, like Zheng He, who lived during the Ming Dynasty.

When the Ming army finally captured Yunnan from Mongols in 1382, thousands of prisoners were killed and, according to the custom in times of war, their young sons – including Zheng He – were castrated. (Wikipedia)

Certain eunuchs gained immense power that occasionally superseded that of even the Grand Secretaries, like Zheng He, who lived during the Ming Dynasty.

Images of Chinese eunuchs

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via Eunuchi

http://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/brush_shutter/essential_china.html http://www.usrf.org/news/010308-eunuchs_china.html http://gb.cri.cn/15884/2007/02/01/ http://taijian.baike.com/article-80849.html http://ilishi.blog.sohu.com/118388051.html Wikipedia

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pazzoincasamatta · 4 days

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con quale partireste per scoprire l'America?

#Zheng He #Colombo #le dimensioni contano #reddit

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kramlabs · 4 months

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#zheng He #1421 #shit just keeps getting older #amnesia #phantom time hypothesis

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zheng-hee-hee · 1 year

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Voyage number 8!

#boat #sailing #ocean #yippee!!!#zheng he

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19daysmanhua · 13 days

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Chapter 441: Smile Translator: https://twitter.com/maomaozaii Editor: https://twitter.com/Lum_Cheng

Please credit maomaozaii on twitter as the translator if you upload it to instagram etc. Join our discord if you want to chat with like-minded people and be the first to see new updates~

#19 days #old xian #tianshan #he tian #mo guan shan #zhanyi #jian yi #zhan zheng xi #brother qiu #translation

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bizarrelittlemew · 6 months

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Finally gaining approval and popularity in a world you always craved being a part of vs. watching the other person enjoying the very thing you're trying to escape

One difference:

#i honestly think stede stays quietly behind because he thinks he doesn't deserve better than to be ridiculed and ignored #while ed leaves before things go to shit because he's 1) panicking and 2) can't allow himself to be loved for real yet #meaning he can't step in like stede did when things start going wrong (but i wonder if the fight with zheng would've happened if he stayed)#this has been bouncing around in my head since thursday but i've never struggled more with a gifset lmao #these were hell to color and i gave up making this coherent bye #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmdedit #ofmdsource #ofmd gifs #ida.stuff #ofmd 2x7 #ofmd s2 #edward teach #stede bonnet

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travern · 2 years

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Ocean Demons – Inspector Spacetime

They encountered the Third Inspector and Yosif when they threatened P. T. Barnum's exhibition of one of their kind as "The Feejee Mermaid" in the eponymous Season 9 serial, with assistance from the Sergeant.

They came back for the new series in the 2021 spring special, "Myth of the Ocean Demons", in which the piratical aquatic aliens attack 15th-century Chinese Admiral Zheng He's treasure fleets on their voyage of discovery to the Americas. Although The Thirteenth Inspector is able to rout them, she must cover up the evidence of extraterrestrial involvement, and the Ming treasure voyages‘ global discoveries fade

#Inspector Spacetime #Ocean Demons #aliens #Zheng He #P. T. Barnum

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allboutheyaoi · 6 months

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