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Gongsar [1] Ugyen Wangchuck ( Dzongkha: ཨོ་རྒྱན་དབང་ཕྱུག, Wylie: o rgyan dbang phyug; 11 June 1862 – 26 August 1926) was the first Druk Gyalpo (King) of Bhutan from 1907 to 1926. In his lifetime, he made efforts to unite the fledgling country and gain the trust of the people. Kings of the Wangchuck dynasty. Ugyen.
Menander I Soter (Ancient Greek: Μένανδρος Σωτήρ, romanized: Ménandros Sōtḗr, lit. ' Menander the Saviour '; Pali: Milinda; sometimes called Menander the Great) was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek King (reigned c. 165 /155 –130 BC) who administered a large territory in the Northwestern regions of the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia.
One Piece. One Piece (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Shueisha 's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 1997, with its individual chapters compiled in 108 tankōbon volumes as of March 2024.
Acer turkestanicum Pax. Acer platanoides, commonly known as the Norway maple, is a species of maple native to eastern and central Europe and western Asia, from Spain east to Russia, north to southern Scandinavia and southeast to northern Iran. [2] [3] [4] It was introduced to North America in the mid-1700s as a shade tree. [5]
The Peaches of Immortality are a major item featured within the popular fantasy novel Journey to the West. The peaches are first encountered when, in heaven, Sun Wukong is stationed as the Protector of the Peaches. The peach garden include three types of peaches, all of which grant over 3,000 years of life if only one is consumed.
Tantalus. Tantalus ( Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος Tántalos ), also called Atys, was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his punishment in Tartarus: for trying to trick the gods into eating his son, he was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water ...
The legend of Mai An Tiêm was the ninth tale told in Lĩnh Nam chích quái, [1] a semi-fictional collection written in the fourteenth century, under the title Tây Qua Truyện ( chữ Hán: 西瓜傳; literally 'The Tale of the Western Fruit'). Mai Tiêm was an official in the Hùng King 's era. He was originally a foreign slave bought from ...
Maelgwn was the first king to enjoy the fruits of his family's conquest and he is considered the founder of the medieval kingdom's royal family. He is thus most commonly referenced by appending the name of the kingdom to his own: Maelgwn Gwynedd.