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  2. Leshan - Wikipedia

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    Leshan has a long history, with written records tracing back to around 700 BC during the Kai Ming dynasty of the Shu Kingdom.Around the early Spring and Autumn period, the Ba people, led by Kai Ming Bie Ling, migrated from western Hubei and settled at the confluence of the three rivers in what is now Leshan, including present-day Fengzhouba and the Dadu River.

  3. 2024 in China - Wikipedia

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    18 September – A ten-year old student of a Japanese school dies in a knife attack in Shenzhen. The suspect is arrested. [81] 25 September – China carries out its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 1980, launching a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean [82] that lands near the Marquesas Islands. [83]

  4. Dong Leshan - Wikipedia

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    Dong was born on 14 November 1924 in Ningbo, Zhejiang. [1] While in college, he began translating from English to Chinese works. [2] After graduating from St. John's University, Shanghai with a degree in English in 1946, [3] Dong was hired by Xinhua News Agency as one of the first news translators in the country.

  5. Chinese calendar correspondence table - Wikipedia

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    Relationship between the current Sexagenary cycle and Gregorian calendar. This Chinese calendar correspondence table shows the stem/branch year names, correspondences to the Western calendar, and other related information for the current, 79th Sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar based on the 2697 BC epoch or the 78th cycle if using the 2637 BC epoch.

  6. 2024 Zhuhai car attack - Wikipedia

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    Fan purchased the car with a loan a week before the attack and picked it up on 10 November, the day before the attack. [26] On 27 December 2024, Fan Weiqiu (樊维秋) was sentenced to death by the Zhuhai Intermediate People's Court. The court publicly tried the case of the defendant for endangering public safety through dangerous methods and ...

  7. Is 2024 a leap year? Everything you need to know about the ...

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    This year, 2024, is a leap year which means that February will have 29 days instead of 28. The last leap year was in 2020. It is commonly thought that leap years happen once every four years ...

  8. 2024 is a leap year, but why? Here’s the science behind the ...

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    Years divisible by 100 (century years such as 1900 or 2000) cannot be leap years unless they are also divisible by 400. (For this reason, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but ...

  9. Ghost Festival - Wikipedia

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    15th day of the 7th lunar month: 2024 date: 18 August: 2025 date ... (14th in parts of southern China). [1] [2] ... three months and one year after the death day of a ...