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The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
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The li was a Chinese unit of measurement equal to just over a third of an English mile.
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The Zongli Yamen (Tsung Li Yamen) was an advisory body created in China after 1861 to deal with foreign affairs and other state modernisation projects. It consisted of national and provincial state officials but was limited by a lack of power and the creation of an admiralty in 1885 and a formal foreign office after 1901.
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Li Po was a Chinese poet born in 700bc. He died by drowning.
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Tseng Kuo-Fan was a Chinese soldier. He was born in 1811 at Hunan and died in 1872. He was literary examiner in 1843 and later took part in the repression of the Taiping rebellion, building a flotilla of junks in 1850 with which he cleared the Yang-tse-kiang and captured Chang-sha, Wu-chang and Hanyang. He drove the rebels from Kiangsu province, and being made viceroy of the Kiang province in 1860, he eventually captured Nanking in 1864. Failing to suppress the Nienfei rebellion he was superseded by his lieutenant Li Hung chang.
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Tze-His was Dowager empress of China. She was born in 1835 at Beijing and died in 1908. She entered the seraglio of the emperor Hien-fung at the age of fifteen, and by her beauty and wit soon rose to be second to the empress Tze-an. On the death of Hien-fung in 1861, her son, Tung-Chih came to the throne, but during his reign and that of his successor, Kwang-su, Tze-His wielded the imperial power. Assisted by Li Hung-chang she ruled wisely and successfully until the war with Japan in 1894-1895, after which she sought to introduce western reforms and succeeded in suppressing the opium trade.
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Christy Chung (also known as Lai-Tai Chung and Li Ti Zhong) is a Canadian actress. She was born in 1970 at Montreal, Quebec. She started acting in films made in Hong Kong.
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Rachel Grant (real name Rachel Louise Grant de Longueuil) is a Philippino-born English actress. She was born in 1977 at Luzon. She is best known for her role as 'Professor Myang Li' in the television series 'Brainiac'.
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Lithium is a metal element with the symbol Li.
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The NCU Li Virus is a computer virus which infects .EXE files. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation and corrupts program or overlay files and data files.
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