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Unsong (other)
Unsong or ''variation'', may refer to: * Unsong (novel), a science fiction novel by Slate Star Codex blog writer Scott Alexander * Eun-sung (), using McCune–Reischauer romanization; a Korean given name * ''Unsongs'' (album), a 2016 album by Moddi * "Unsong" (song), a 2000 song by 'Shriekback' off the album ''Naked Apes and Pond Life'' * Tonsan station, a North Korean train station on the Kŭmgol Line, formerly named "Unsong" * Unsong station, a North Korean train station on the Hambuk Line at the Unsŏng Mines * Unsong station, a North Korean train station on the Manpo Line at the Unsong Colliery on the Changja River * Unsong District (), Chonchon County, Chagang Province, North Korea * Unsong Ward (), Hungnam District, Hamhung City, South Hamgyŏng Province, North Korea * Unsong Village (), Hwangju County, North Hwanghae Province, North Korea * Unsong Village (), Anju City, South P'yŏngan Province, North Korea See also * Unsung (other) * Song (other) * U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slate Star Codex
''Slate Star Codex'' (SSC) was a blog focused on science, medicine (especially within psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism. The blog was written by Scott Alexander Siskind, a San Francisco Bay Area psychiatrist, under the pen name Scott Alexander. ''Slate Star Codex'' was launched in 2013, and was discontinued on June 23, 2020, as Alexander feared publication of his full name in a ''New York Times'' article. , the blog is partially back online, with the content restored but commenting disabled. A successor blog, ''Astral Codex Ten'', was launched on Substack on January 21, 2021. Alexander also blogged at the rationalist community blog ''LessWrong''. Notable posts ''The New Yorker'' states that the volume of content Alexander has written on ''Slate Star Codex'' makes the blog difficult to summarize, with an ebook of all posts running to around nine thousand pages. Many posts are book reviews (typically in the social sciences or medicine) or reviews of a topic in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eun-sung
Eun-sung, also spelled Eun-seong, or Un-sung, is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 26 hanja with the reading "''eun''" and 27 hanja with the reading "''seong''" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. People with this name include: *Choi Eun-sung (born 1971), South Korean male football player *Hong Eun-seong (born 1983), South Korean male field hockey player *Eunseong Kim (born 1971), South Korean male physicist *Lee Eun-sung (born 1988), South Korean actress *Ji Eun-sung (born 1991), South Korean actor Fictional characters with this name include: *Go Eun-seong, in the 2009 South Korean television series ''Brilliant Legacy'' *Ji Eun-sung, in the 2004 South Korean film ''He Was Cool'' *Cha Eun-seong, in the 2016 South Korean television series ''Marriage Contract'' See also *List of Korean given names References {{given name K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unsongs
Pål Moddi Knutsen (born 18 February 1987 in Senja), known by the artist name Moddi, is a Norwegian musician, author and activist, whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice. Background Pål Knutsen grew up on the island of Senja in Northern Norway. As a child, he showed a particular concern for the environment, an interest which would come to shape his musical direction in the years to come. During high school, Knutsen was leading the local chapter of the environmentalist group Nature and Youth. "My first songs were an attempt to give a voice to the voiceless nature", he later explained about his motivation to create music. Musical career The first release under the name of Moddi was recorded in 2007 and distributed in 20 home-made copies. Later followed the debut album ''Floriography,'' recorded with producer Valgeir Sigurðsson in Iceland and containing songs from Knutsen's period in Nature and Youth. Q magazine described the album as "irr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naked Apes And Pond Life
''Naked Apes and Pond Life'' is the eighth full-length album by Shriekback. The 2000 release was a surprise resurfacing for the band, after many years of quiet. It gathered many songs performed in intimate appearances in London over the preceding years, recorded in the studio by Barry Andrews, Martyn Barker, Lu Edmonds (last seen on 1985's '' Oil & Gold''), as well as Simon Edwards and Mark Raudva. Many of the tracks are instrumentals, but the strong vocal-led "Berlin" and ''Big Night Music''-esque "Everything's on Fire" are standouts. Critical reception AllMusic wrote that "much of ''Naked Apes & Pond Life'' finds Shriekback playing a sort of twisted world music that resembles the organic/electronic mix of ''Big Night Music'', but adds a variety of exotic instruments and percussion." Track listing #"Stimulate the Beaded Hamster" - 1:17 #"Pond Life" - 4:05 #"Hostage" - 4:12 #"Invisible Rays" - 3:48 #"Claxon Bolus" - 1:36 #"Massive Custard" - 1:44 #"JP8" - 2:17 #"Unsong" - 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hambuk Line
The Hambuk Line is an electrified standard-gauge trunk line of the Korean State Railway in North Korea, running from Ch'ŏngjin) on the P'yŏngra Line to Rajin, likewise on the P'yŏngra line.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), The Hambuk line connects to the Hongŭi Line at Hongŭi, which is North Korea's only rail connection to Russia, and at Namyang to the Namyang Border Line, which leads to Tumen, China, via the bridge over the Tumen River. Although located entirely inside North Hamgyŏng Province, this line is one of the DPRK's main trunk railways. The line's total length is ; in terms of length, it is the second-longest rail line in the country after the P'yŏngra Line, accounting for 7.7% of the national total of railway lines.The traffic and geography in North KoreaHambuk Line(in Korean) Over ten rail lines - secondary mainlines and branchlines - connect to the Hambuk Line, including the Musan Line, the Hoeryŏng Colliery Line, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manpo Line
The Manp'o Line is an electrified standard-gauge trunk line of the North Korean State Railway running from Sunch'ŏn on the P'yŏngra Line to Manp'o on the Pukpu Line. The line continues on from Manp'o to Ji'an, China.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), p. 91, Description The length of the line from Sunch'ŏn Station to Manp'o Ch'ŏngnyŏn Station is ; it is another to the border, making the total length from Sunch'ŏn to the border . It also connects to the Kaech'ŏn, P'yŏngdŏk, Ch'ŏngnyŏn P'arwŏn, Unsan and Kanggye Lines. Not including Sunch'ŏn, there are 44 stations on the line; the average distance between stations is . The Manp'o Line runs in the northwestern part of Korea along the banks of the Ch'ŏngch'ŏn and Changja rivers. It is an important trunk line connecting ten cities, counties and districts in South P'yŏngan, North P'yŏngan and Chagang provinces. This connection is particularly important to the economies of North P' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chonchon County
Chŏnch'ŏn County is a ''kun'', or county, in central Chagang province, North Korea. Originally part of Kanggye county, it was made a separate county in 1949. North Korea's largest fir tree is located in this county. Administrative divisions Chŏnch'ŏn County is divided into 1 '' ŭp'' (town), 5 '' rodongjagu'' (workers' districts) and 11 '' ri'' (villages): Environment The terrain is high and mountainous, being located in the centre of the Chagang mountains; the highest point is Sungjoksan, 1984 m above sea level. The Chogyuryong Mountains pass through the eastern part of the county. The eastern part of the county is relatively flatter, being located in the Jangja River valley with other deep valleys on either side of the Hwakyongchon stream. Other waterways flowing through the county are the Hoedok stream, both of which flow into the Jangja river. Two-thirds of the county is occupied by mountains ranging from 400 to 1000 metres high. The average temperature throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungnam
Hŭngnam is a district of Hamhung, the second largest city in North Korea. It is a port city on the eastern coast on the Sea of Japan. It is only from the slightly inland city of Hamhung. In 2005 it became a ward of Hamhung. History The port at Hŭngnam was the site of the Hŭngnam evacuation, a major evacuation of both United Nations military and North Korean civilians during the Korean War in late December 1950. Approximately 100,000 troops and material and 100,000 civilians were loaded onto a variety of merchant ships and military transports totaling 193 shiploads over the weeks leading up to Christmas 1950, and were transported to safety in Pusan and other destinations in South Korea. The evacuation included 14,000 refugees who were transported on one ship, the SS ''Meredith Victory'' - the largest evacuation from land by a single ship. This was made possible by a declaration of national emergency by President Truman issued on 16 December 1950 with Presidential Proclamati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hwangju County
Hwangju County is a county in North Hwanghae province, North Korea. Geography Hwangju is bordered to the northwest by Sariwŏn, to the northeast by Songrim and Kangnam, to the southwest by Yŏnt'an, to the south by Pongsan, and to the southeast by Ŭnch'ŏn History During the Joseon Dynasty, Hwangju was one of the most important cities in the area, leading to the first character of its name to be used in naming North Hwanghae Province. In 1930 its importance increased when Songrim, then a township of Hwangju County, was promoted to town status and renamed Kyomipo (Kenjiho in Japanese). There, the Japanese built a flourishing steel plant, which brought much prosperity to Hwangju. In 1947 Songrim was separated from Hwangju and made a city; since then, the county has been mostly agricultural. The old core of the city is still surrounded by its ancient walls. Climate Kumchon had a fairly severe climate, with an average temperature of 10.2 degrees. Inland, the average January temp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
