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Chiang Kai-Shek was a Chinese political and military leader. He served with Sun Yat-Sen during the 1911 revolution and later became leader of the nationalist government. He opposed the communists and fled to Taiwan in 1950.
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Sun Yat Sen was the founder and first president of the Chinese Republic. He was born in 1867 near Canton and died in 1925. Educated at the American university at Hawaii, while studying medicine in Hong Kong he abandoned medicine to become a politician and took part in a revolutionary plot in 1895 and upon its discovery fled to England. He was captured in 1896 by the Chinese Legation in London and held prisoner until his release was demanded by the Prime Minister. In 1905 he founded the China Revolutionary League in Europe and Japan and played a large part in the revolution of 1911.
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Valerian (Publius Licinius Valerianus) was a Roman Emperor from 253 to 260. He was born in 190 and died in 266. A leading sen ator, and censor in 251, he was sent by the emperor Gallus against the upstart emperor Aemilianus on the Danube, but both Gallus and Aemilianus were murdered, and Valerian, who had been proclaimed emperor in Rhaetia, was acknowledged by the senate. A good soldier and administrator, he deputed his son Gallienus to rule the west, and, after defeating the Goths, in 257, he recovered Antioch from the invading Persians, and pursued their king Shapur I to the Euphrates, but was captured near Edessa, in 260, and lived for the rest of his life in ignominious captivity.
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Sen Yung is an actor. He was born in 1915.
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The Riel is the currency of Cambodia. One Riel is equal to 100 sen.
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The yen is the currency of Japan. One yen equals 100 sen.
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SEN is an abbreviation for State Enrolled Nurse
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The Yat Sen was a Chinese cruiser of 1650 tons displacement launched in 1930. The Yat Sen was powered by coal-fired boilers providing a top speed of 20 knots and carried a complement of 173. She was armed with one 6 inch gun; one 5.5 inch gun; four 3 inch anti-aircraft guns'; two 3 pdr guns and four machine-guns.
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