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The Invention of Paper: China's Gift to Knowledge

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The Invention of Paper: China's Gift to Knowledge

How Cai Lun made writing accessible to everyone in Han Dynasty China.

en hi ta te mr kn ml gu bn

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2018
For the first time since its transition to democracy, the Congress of Deputies in Spain passed a motion of no confidence against the government.
2015
The river cruise ship Dongfang zhi Xing capsized in the Yangtze, resulting in 442 deaths in China's worst peacetime maritime disaster.
2008
A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroyed the King Kong Encounter and a large archive of music and film master recordings.
2007
Cyclone Gonu develops from an area of convection in the Arabian Sea, later becoming the worst recorded natural disaster in Oman.
2001
A Hamas-affiliated Islamist militant blew himself up outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 people, most of whom were teenage girls.
1999
On landing at Little Rock National Airport in the U.S. state of Arkansas, American Airlines Flight 1420 overran the runway and crashed (wreckage pictured), resulting in 11 deaths.

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