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| | Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi | |
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| | Nana (name) / Nana (1880 novel by Émile Zola) / Nana (Japanese manga series) | |
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| | fifth year E5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1988 or 2048 | |
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| | China National Farmers' Games (sports meeting for peasants held every 4 years since 1988) | |
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| | Chucky, murderous villain of the 1988 US horror movie "Child's Play" | |
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| | Przevalski horse (Equus przewalskii) wild horse of Central Asia first identified in 1881 by Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基|普尔热瓦尔斯基 | |
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| | Glorious Revolution (England, 1688) | |
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| | Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲綢之路|丝绸之路 | |
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| | History of Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋 or Liu Song 劉宋|刘宋, sixth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Shen Yue 沈約|沈约 in 488 during Liang of the Southern Dynasties 南朝梁, 100 scrolls / (not to be confused with 宋史) | |
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| | Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights | |
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| | Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights | |
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| | treaty of Tianjin of 1885 ceding Vietnam to France | |
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| | UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988) | |
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| | National Intercity Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since 1988 | |
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| | Tianjin agreement of 1885 between Li Hongzhang 李鴻章|李鸿章 and ITŌ Hirobumi 伊藤博文 to pull Qing and Japanese troops out of Korea | |
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| | Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights | |
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| | Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲綢之路|丝绸之路 | |
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| | Jeremy Lin (1988-), Taiwanese-American professional basketball player (NBA) | |
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| | River Elegy, influential 1988 CCTV documentary series, said to have stimulated the Beijing Spring democracy movement of 1980s | |
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| | Captain William M Lang (1843-), British adviser to the Qing north China navy 北洋水師|北洋水师 during the 1880s | |
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| | unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by Westernisers against conservatives, crushed by Qing troops | |
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| | Rihanna (1988-), Barbadian pop singer | |
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| | Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awarded by the European Parliament annually since 1988 | |
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| | Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (awarded by EU since 1988) | |
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| | Treaty of Livadia (1879) between Russia and China, relating to territory in Chinese Turkistan, renegotiated in 1881 (Treaty of St. Petersburg) | |
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| | Huang Chao (-884), leader of peasant uprising 875-884 in late Tang | |
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