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Politically, China proper (where the core of Han culture and settlement began in the middle of the Yellow River valley) and frontier areas of China were brought together under the Qing dynasty, mostly during the 18th century. Incursions by earlier dynasties into Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and southern Manchuria did occur, but were later reversed. It is this latest process of expansion that accounts for the enormous size of the People's Republic of China today.

The voltage and wave-length at the quantum limit of the spectrum under investigation are denoted by ν₀ and λ₀.

Ay, Ay, Ay, all is up; and I must up too / Early in the morning, aloft from alow.