1928 - Births

The Empress Dowager Cixi (Chinese: 慈禧太后; Hanyu Pinyin: Cíxǐ; Wade-Giles: Tz'u-hsi) (November 29, 1835 –November 15, 1908), popularly known in China as the Western Empress Dowager (西太后), and officially known posthumously as Empress Xiaoqin Xian (孝欽顯皇后), was a powerful and charismatic figure who was the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, ruling over C ...

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• Empress Dowager Cixi - Youth
• Empress Dowager Cixi - Names
• Empress Dowager Cixi - Road to power
• Empress Dowager Cixi - Regency under Tongzhi
• Empress Dowager Cixi - Securing absolute power
• Empress Dowager Cixi - Crisis with Guangxu
• Empress Dowager Cixi - Overview of politics
• Empress Dowager Cixi - Tomb
• Empress Dowager Cixi - Historical opinion
• Empress Dowager Cixi - Reference

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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant, the second-largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter. Saturn has a prominent system of rings, consisting of mostly ice particles with a smaller amount of rocky debris. It was named after the Roman god Saturn. Its symbol is a stylized representation of the god's sickle (Unicode: ♄). The Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese cultures refer to the planet as the earth star (土星), based on the Five Elements. [2], [3] Including:

• Saturn - Physical characteristics
• Saturn - Rotational behavior
• Saturn - Planetary rings
• Saturn - History
• Saturn - Physical characteristics
• Saturn - Dark side of the rings
• Saturn - Spokes of the rings
• Saturn - Natural satellites
• Saturn - Exploration of Saturn
• Saturn - Pioneer 11 flyby
• Saturn - Voyager flybys
• Saturn - Cassini orbiter
• Saturn - Best viewing of Saturn
• Saturn - Appearance
• Saturn - Occultation of stars by Saturn between 1800 and 2100
• Saturn - Saturn in fiction and film
• Saturn - Saturn in various cultures

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1928 - January-May. January 6-7 - River Thames floods in London - 14 drowned January 7 - Moat at the Tower of London, previously drained in 1843, is completely refilled by a tidal wave January 12 - US murderer Ruth Snyder executed at Ossining January 17 - OGPU arrests Lev Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled to Turkestan February - Kurume University (Japan) established February 11 - 1928 Winter Oly ...

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