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A complex scenario for the origin and diversification of Artemisia and Seriphidium , and subsequent parallel evolution of the two genera in the Old and New Worlds, was proposed by Ling [ 39 49 ] . The putative common ancestor to both "sister genera" was hypothesized to have existed in northern Asia, based on reported fossil pollen records that date the taxa to the early Oligocene or lower Eocene of the lower Tertiary, with speciation accompanied by migrations during the Tertiary and Quaternary periods - forced southward by the advancing polar ice sheets.
The tomb of Emperor Yongle (Chang Ling) is the largest, although its underground palace, where the emperor and his empress are buried, has not been opened.
Hsing-Hsing, who died Sunday, and Ling-Ling, who died in 1992, drove otherwise reasonable people barking mad.
While gardeners today make the distinction between heath and heather plants, these words are said to derive by separate paths from some ancient word for wasteland; heath via the Anglo-Saxon, and heather via Norse hadder . In Scandinavia, the plant itself is called lyng or ling , which is a common name in Yorkshire and northern England generally for what the Scots and Irish call heather . Ling is used as a name in parts of Scotland too, but this includes the rough grasses as well as the heathers that grow on the wasterland.
An article defends Chai Ling, who led the Tiananmen Square protests and now runs an American Internet start-up, from charges of selling out and, more gravely, of guiding the protests with naive extremism.
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