Mayotte, island between NW Madagascar and Mozambique
Manama, capital of Bahrain
(dialect) (loanword) manhole
1.horse roundworm2.parascaris equorum
1.Basay, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan2.Maasai people of Kenya
horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus)
Malong, a district of Qujing City 曲靖市[qǔ jìng shì], Yunnan
1.troika2.(fig.) three driving forces; three-person leadership structure
1.Limassol, Cyprus2.Lemesos
Centaurus (constellation)
Sima Chengzhen (655-735), Daoist priest in Tang dynasty
Sima Rangju (c. 800 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), military strategist of the Qi State 齐国[qí guó] and author of “Methods of Sima” 司马法[sī mǎ fǎ], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武经七书[wǔ jīng qī shū]
Tsushima Strait, between Japan and South Korea
1.to censor an image2.to pixelate
Ramat Gan, city in Israel, location of Bar-Ilan University
1.merry-go-round2.carousel
1.Ismail (name)2.Shāh Ismāil I (1487-1524), founder of Persian Safavid dynasty, reigned 1501-1524
Przevalski horse (Equus przewalskii) wild horse of Central Asia first identified in 1881 by Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普尔热瓦尔斯基
1.tarred road2.asphalt road
Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
1.to work like a horse and toil like an ox2.fig. to slave for sb
Baima Snow Mountains, up to 5430 m., in Dechen or Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪庆藏族自治州[dí qìng zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Yunnan
paper dolls for ritual use in the shape of people or animals
Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan 忽必烈 from c. 1260
1.the Church (as Royal Court)2.the Holy See3.the Vatican
1.Roman sandals2.ankle-strap sandals
old tea-horse market between Tibet, China, Southeast Asia and India, formalized as a state enterprise under the Song dynasty
old tea-horse road or southern Silk Road, dating back to 6th century, from Tibet and Sichuan through Yunnan and Southeast Asia, reaching to Bhutan, Sikkim, India and beyond
Gulf of Martaban, Myanmar (Burma)
rushing to stake one's claim in new markets (idiom)
Tsing Ma Bridge (to Hong Kong Airport)
1.tournament (contest in Western chivalry)2.jousting
Aristolochiaceae (birthwort family)
1.Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 17932.Paul McCartney, former Beatle