[steamer] The Taiping was a Chinese steamer that sank after a collision with another vessel en route to Taiwan on January 27, 1949, leading to the deaths of over 1500 passengers and crew combined. The ship was packed to nearly twice capacity with over 1,000 refugees fleeing Communism after the Chinese Civil War, traveling from Shanghai to K...
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• (a.) Alt. of Taeping
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(from the article `Xuanzong`) In 712 the ineffectual Ruizong abdicated in favour of his son (who took the temple name Xuanzong), but, at the urging of Ruizong`s ambitious sister ... ...emperor died in 710, probably poisoned by her, she tried to establish herself as ruler as Wuhou had done before her. But Li Longji, the future ... [2 ...
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town, northwestern Peninsular (West) Malaysia. The town is situated on a coastal plain just west of the Bintang Range. It originated as a Chinese ...
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