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Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese politician who was the paramount leader of the People's ... Coincidentally, when Deng's later political fortunes were down and he was sent to work in a tractor factory in 1974 ... Gao has argued that "Deng Xiaoping and many like him [in the Chinese Communist Party] were not really Marxists, ...
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1 Jan 2020 ... Comrade Deng Xiaoping, 1997 ... Down with Deng Xiaoping! ... Deng attempted to consolidate his power base but was not yet strong enough ...
30 Oct 2018 ... An influential son of Deng Xiaoping, the former Chinese leader who steered the country towards decades of economic growth, urged his ...
26 Feb 2018 ... ... Xiaoping before stepping down from all of his official roles in 1989. ... Since taking power as party chief in 2012, Xi has shown he is not shy ...
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3 Jun 2015 ... While the government has periodically cracked down on graft, there has not been an anti-corruption campaign on this scale. But that doesn't ...
Biography of Spiro Agnew, vice president for U.S. Pres. Richard ... could be indicted, Agnew launched an attack on the administration and vowed not to resign.
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The islands—including Taiwan, those of Japan and Indonesia, Sakhalin and other ... subcontinent broke off from Africa and began drifting northeastward to collide ... The mountain systems of Central Asia not only have provided the continent's ...
Augustine asserted that Christians' credibility was dependent on their not being ... and one sister, he seems to have been the only child sent off to be educated.
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Cathaysia, a landmass comprising the former tectonic plates of North and South China, was not incorporated into Pangea. Rather, it formed a separate, much ...
A moving body keeps moving not because of its inertia but only because of the absence of a force to slow it down, change its course, or speed it up. Read More ...
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Although they were not yet working in what was to become the Futurist style, the group ... represented Marinetti's demands for a pared-down elliptical language, ...
The Reconquest might have taken root at that earlier date had it not been for a resurgence ... At that time, Moorish unity broke down, and the Christian lands of northern Spain ... Alfonso IAlfonso I, sculpture in the Paseo de la Argentina, Madrid.
