MAQUE Web Design Agency
Maque may refer to: * MAQUE Web Design Agency, web design agency based in London - also known as ''maque'' *Mexican lacquerware, also known as ''maque'' *Mahjong, also known as ''maque'' (), Chinese tile-based game * Sparrow (TV series) (), 2016 Chinese TV series See also *Maque choux, a traditional dish of Louisiana *Maki-e is a Japanese lacquerware, Japanese lacquer decoration technique in which pictures, patterns, and letters are drawn with lacquer on the surface of lacquerware, and then metal powder such as gold or silver is sprinkled and fixed on the surface ...

Mexican Lacquerware
Mexican lacquerware (''laca'' or ''maque'' in Mexican Spanish) is one of the country's oldest crafts, having independent origins from Asian lacquerware. In the Mesoamerican chronology, pre-colonial period, a greasy substance from the Coccus (insect), aje larvae and/or oil from the salvia, chia seed were mixed with powdered minerals to create protective coatings and decorative designs. During this period, the process was almost always applied to dried gourds, especially to make the cups that Mesoamerican nobility drank chocolate from. After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, Conquest, the Spanish had indigenous craftsmen apply the technique to European style furniture and other items, changing the decorative motifs and color schemes, but the process and materials remained mostly the same. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the craft waned during armed conflicts and returned, both times with changes to the decorative styles and especially in the 20th century, to production techni ...
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Mahjong
Mahjong (English pronunciation: ; also transliterated as mah jongg, mah-jongg, and mahjongg) is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century. It is played by four players (with some three-player variations found in parts of China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia). The game and its regional variants are widely played throughout East and Southeast Asia and have also become popular in Western countries. The game has also been adapted into a widespread online entertainment. Similar to the Western card game rummy, mahjong is a game of skill, strategy, and luck. To distinguish it from mahjong solitaire, it is sometimes referred to as mahjong rummy. The game is played with a set of 144 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols, although many regional variations may omit some tiles or add unique ones. In most variations, each player begins by receiving 13 tiles. In turn, p ...
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Sparrow (TV Series)
''Sparrow'' () is a 2016 Chinese television series based on the novel of the same name by Hai Fei (海飞), starring Li Yifeng as the title character. It aired on Hunan TV from 5 September to 20 October 2016. Plot Synopsis Set in the 1940s during Shanghai's revolutionary times, communist agent Chen Shen infiltrates the Japanese' base and adopts the code name "Sparrow". His mission is to obtain the "zero" intel, a secret plan that could destroy China. To do so, he becomes the assistant of Bi Zhongliang, the leader of the Special Operations Team under the Public Security Bureau. In March 1940, the Collaborationist Wang Government was announced. The invading Japanese army hunted down Anti-Japanese in Shanghai, and the puppet government set up a "special operations department" headed by Bi Zhongliang (played by Zhang Luyi), a former National Revolutionary Army officer. Chen Shen ( Li Yifeng ), a CCP member codenamed "Sparrow" who has been lurking beside Bi Zhongliang, lost contact ...
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Maque Choux
Maque may refer to: * MAQUE Web Design Agency, web design agency based in London - also known as ''maque'' * Mexican lacquerware, also known as ''maque'' *Mahjong, also known as ''maque'' (), Chinese tile-based game * Sparrow (TV series) (), 2016 Chinese TV series See also * Maque choux, a traditional dish of Louisiana *Maki-e is a Japanese lacquerware, Japanese lacquer decoration technique in which pictures, patterns, and letters are drawn with lacquer on the surface of lacquerware, and then metal powder such as gold or silver is sprinkled and fixed on the surface ...