The Manchus (or Man) are a minority people concentrated in the northeastern provinces of Liaoning, Heilongjian, Jilin, and Inner Mongolia in China. In the 1990 national census, the number of Manchus in China was 9.84 million. The Manchus are descended...

About 10 million Manchus mainly live in north-east China, in Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces. Since the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), which was ruled by the Manchus, large numbers moved to the Han regions south of the Great Wall and have...

The Manchu people (Manchu: Manju; simplified Chinese: 满族; traditional Chinese: 滿族; pinyin: Mǎnzú, Mongolian: Манж) are a Tungusic people who originated in Manchuria (today's Northeastern China). During their rise in the seventeenth...

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2007. There are 82 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 10, 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy was established in Annapolis, Md.On this date:In 1813, composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole, Italy.In...

On Monday, July 23, the French designer François Girbaud hosted a party celebrating his new line of denim clothing, called Le Jean, in the Marithé and François Girbaud Showroom, which occupies the 9th floor of a building on 10th Avenue and 36th Street. The crowd,...

Goose Gossage can understand why some players would try steroids. With major league salaries so high, finding a way to extend a career is an awfully tempting proposition."Chances are, I probably would have done it, too," Gossage said Wednesday.That doesn't mean baseball's newest Hall of...

The New England Patriots' big, brawny and bearded guys were just plain bad.The AFC champions' heralded offensive line allowed a season-high five sacks to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl on Sunday, failing to give Tom Brady the type of tight protection they...