Tungus

How To Use Tungus In A Sentence

• The Sung were attacked by the Eastern Tatars or K'itans of Tungusic (Tatar) origin, who founded in Northern China a dynasty, under Ye-liu The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
• The massive three tonne rock was bought to Krasnoyarsk after an 2004 expedition to the site of the so-called Tunguska event'' - a mysterious mid air explosion over Siberia in 1908 was 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and felled an estimated 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers 830 sq mi. Posthuman Blues
• Several decades earlier, in eastern Manchuria, NURHACHI (1559–1626, Taizu) had organized militarily (1615) under eight banners a group of Tungusic tribes. B. The Qing Dynasty
• Ostyak and the Tunguse many tales resembling that of the bird Roc in the _Thousand and One Nights_. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
• Catastrophists love to point out the damage that might have been caused if a fireball that exploded over an uninhabited forest area in eastern Siberia known as Tunguska on June 30, 1908, had hit elsewhere. Godzilla's Attacking Babylon!
• Today, researchers say the mystery known as the Tunguska event may be solved. Archive 2009-07-05
• Luckily, the Tunguska impact took place in an unpopulated corner of the globe. Should something like it explode above New York City, the entire metropolitan area would be razed.
• Against violent and cunning opposition, the three of them unearth a scheme to capture the submicroscopic black hole that caused the Tunguska Event and use its awesome power to transform the world -- or end it altogether. January 2009
• At around 7:15 AM, Tungus natives and Russian settlers in the hills northwest of Lake Baikal observed a huge fireball moving across the sky, nearly as bright as the Sun.
• It was made up of Kogury remnants and several Tungusic peoples (largely Malgal) living in central Manchuria (the present Heilongjiang Province in China). 681-91