Half-length Portrait of an Old Woman is a seventeenth-century painting attributed to the Dutch artist Abraham Bloemaert.
The work, generally dated to the 1630s, is executed in oil on panel and is held in the collection of the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art. It was exhibited in 2025 at the Gemäldegalerie Berlin as part of the exhibition From Odesa to Berlin.
Yongchang Commandery (永昌郡) was an imperial Chinese commandery in present-day western Yunnan. Created in 69 CE during the Eastern Han and abolished by the Sui dynasty in 602 CE, it served as a military outpost, a hub on the Southern Silk Road, and a meeting ground between the Han world and mainland Southeast Asia.
The Ecosystems Mission Area (EMA) is one of six mission areas of the United States Geological Survey (USGS). EMA provides independent biological, ecological, and environmental-health science that informs management of public lands and natural resources overseen by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI).
Changsha Commandery (長沙郡) was the first imperial Chinese commandery in Hunan. Established by the late Qin dynasty (210 BCE) and abolished when the Sui dynasty ended the commandery tier (589 CE), it governed the lower Xiang River basin and the eastern slopes of the Nan Mountains. Its seat, Linxiang, lay on the west bank of the Xiang within modern Changsha; earthworks and bricks stamped **長沙宮** mark the site.