Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion was an antiforeign and antimodern upheaval at the beginning of the twentieth century in north China. It was initiated in the late 1890s by the Chinese martial arts ...
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Since the Opium Wars, China had been compelled to make numerous concessions to Western powers. The humiliation and economic drain had, by the end of the 19th Century, resulted in an enormous resent...
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Today is Tuesday, Aug. 14, the 226th day of 2007. There are 139 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 14, 1945, President Harry Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unco...
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CANBERRA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Australia has finally forgiven
Lawrence of Arabia for writing it out of the history of the
Middle East campaign of World War I, honouring the enigmatic
Englishman with...
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