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Poon Jan-Wai
Poon may refer to: * The Calophyllum, also known as the "''Poon Tree''" * Poon (surname), an East Asian surname * ''Po-on'' (novel), a novel by Filipino author F. Sionil José * Poon (county), a former county in Kwangtung (Guangdong), China Other uses * A fool (Australian) * several trees in the genus Calophyllum See also * Poona (other) Poona or Pune is a metropolis in Maharashtra, India. Poona may also refer to: Places * Poona, Queensland, a town and locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia * Poona Dam, in Queensland, Australia * Poona National Park, in Queensla ... {{disambig zh:潘姓 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calophyllum
''Calophyllum'' is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family Calophyllaceae. They are mainly distributed in Asia, with some species in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, and the Pacific Islands. History Members of the genus ''Calophyllum'' native to Malesia and Wallacea are of particular importance to traditional shipbuilding of the larger Austronesian outrigger ships and were carried with them in the Austronesian expansion as they migrated to Oceania and Madagascar. They were comparable in importance to how oaks were in European shipbuilding and timber industries. The most notable species is the mastwood (''Calophyllum inophyllum'') which grows readily in the sandy and rocky beaches of the island environments that the Austronesians colonized. Description ''Calophyllum'' are trees or shrubs. They produce a colorless, white, or yellow latex. The oppositely arranged leaves have leathery blades often borne on petioles. The leaves are distinctive, with narrow parallel vei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poon (surname)
Pān is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the East Asian surname . It is listed 43rd in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is romanized as P'an in Wade–Giles; Poon, Phoon, Pon, or Pun in Cantonese; Phua in Hokkien and Teochew. In 2019 it was the 36th most common surname in Mainland China. 潘 is also a common surname in Vietnam and Korea. It is romanized Phan in Vietnamese (not to be confused with Phạm) and Ban or Pan in Korean. Distribution Pan 潘 is the 37th most common surname in mainland China and the 31st most common surname in Taiwan. None of the romanizations of Pan 潘 appeared among the 1000 most common surnames during the 2000 US census.United States Census Bureau.Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000". 27 Sept 2011. Accessed 29 Mar 2012. Origins As with many Chinese surnames, the origins of the Pan are various and sometimes legendary. One origin was a clan name taken from a fief north of Shaanxi gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Po-on (novel)
''Po-on A Novel'' is a novel written by Francisco Sionil José, a Filipino English-language writer. This is the original title when it was first published in the Philippines in the English language. In the United States, it was published under the title ''Dusk: A Novel''. For this novel's translation into Tagalog, the title ''Po-on Isang Nobela'' – a direct translation of ''Po-on A Novel'' - was adopted.Jose, F. Sionil (Francisco Sionil) 1924-present, Spirit and Literature, Manoa - Volume 18, Number 1, 2006, pp. 51-57, University of Hawai'i Press, Project MUSE, Muse.jhu.edu (undated) retrieved on April 17, 2008 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poon (county)
Bao'an County, formerly named Xin'an County, was a historical county in South China. It roughly follows the administrative boundaries of modern-day Hong Kong and the city of Shenzhen. For most of its history, the administrative center of the county was in Nantou. History During the Three Kingdoms, the later Bao'an County, along with Dongguan and Boluo counties, formed a single large district with the name Boluo ().Krone 1859. In 331, the Eastern Jin Dynasty established Bao'an County, one of six counties under Dōngguān () Prefecture. This prefecture's area included modern Shenzhen and Dongguan.Brief History of Shenzhen , Shenzhen Government official website. In the second year of the Zhide of Suzong [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fool (stock Character)
There are several distinct, although overlapping categories of fool as a stock character in creative works (literature, film, etc.) and folklore: simpleton fool, clever fool, and serendipitous fool. Silly fool A silly, stupid, simpleton, luckless fool is a butt of numerous jokes and tales all over the world. Sometimes the foolishness is ascribed to a whole place, as exemplified by the Wise Men of Gotham. The localizing of fools is common to most countries, and there are many other reputed imbecile centres in England besides Gotham. Thus there are the people of Coggeshall, Essex, the "carles" of Austwick, Yorkshire, the "gowks" of Gordon, Berwickshire, and for many centuries the charge of folly has been made against silly Suffolk and Norfolk (''Descriptio Norfolciensium'' about twelfth century, printed in Wright's ''Early Mysteries and other Latin Poems''). In Germany there are the " Schildbürger", from the fictitious town of "Schilda"; in the Netherlands, the people of K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poona (other)
Poona or Pune is a metropolis in Maharashtra, India. Poona may also refer to: Places * Poona, Queensland, a town and locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia * Poona Dam, in Queensland, Australia * Poona National Park, in Queensland, Australia * Poona (crater), impact crater on Mars Other uses * Poona Ford (born 1995), American football player * Poona, a competitive sport from which badminton has its origin See also * Poona Pact The Poona Pact was an agreement between Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on behalf of Dalits, depressed classes, and upper caste Hindu leaders on the reservation of electoral seats for the depressed classes in the legislature of British ..., an agreement reached in 1932 by B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi for fair representation of Indian depressed classes in legislative assemblies of British India * Puna (other) * Pune (other) * Poon (other) * {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
