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  2. Chinese cruiser Yat Sen - Wikipedia

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    After reverting to its old name (逸仙) and rejoining the ROCN, Yat Sen / Yi Xian remained active during the Chinese Civil War and the ROC government's subsequent withdrawal to Taiwan. It participated in numerous patrol cruises but was not involved in any major action until being decommissioned on 1 June 1958 and sold for scrapping on 19 May ...

  3. Yixian - Wikipedia

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    Yixian may refer to : . Places and jurisdictions. Yi County, Anhui, in China; Yi County, Hebei, in China; Yi County, Liaoning, in China; the Latin Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Yixian, near Beijing and Baoding

  4. Yi County, Hebei - Wikipedia

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    Yi County or Yixian (simplified Chinese: 易县; traditional Chinese: 易縣; pinyin: Yì Xiàn) is a county in Hebei province of China, administratively under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Baoding. [1] It has an area of 2,538 km 2 (980 sq mi).

  5. Xi'an - Wikipedia

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    Xi'an's rail station, located just north of Xi'an's walled city, is one of the eight major national rail stations and the main rail hub of Shaanxi Province. The new Xi'an North railway station , situated a few miles to the north, is the station for the high-speed trains of the Zhengzhou–Xi'an High-Speed Railway .

  6. Yixian Formation - Wikipedia

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    The Yixian Formation (simplified Chinese: 义县组; traditional Chinese: 義縣組; pinyin: Yìxiàn zǔ; formerly transcribed as Yihsien Formation [1] or Yixiang Formation [2]) is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous.

  7. Xian (Taoism) - Wikipedia

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    Schafer noted xian was cognate to xian 䙴 "soar up", qian 遷 "remove", and xianxian 僊僊 "a flapping dance movement"; and compared Chinese yuren 羽人 "feathered man; xian" with English peri "a fairy or supernatural being in Persian mythology" (Persian pari from par "feather; wing").

  8. Sun Yat-sen - Wikipedia

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    Sun 1 Yi 4-hsien 1: Tongyong Pinyin: Sun Yì-sian: IPA [swə́n î.ɕjɛ́n] ... Xi describes Sun as the first person to propose a method for Chinese revival ...

  9. Yi County, Anhui - Wikipedia

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    Yi County or Yixian (simplified Chinese: 黟县; traditional Chinese: 黟縣; pinyin: Yī Xiàn) is a county in the southeast of Anhui Province, China, under the jurisdiction of Huangshan City. It has a population of 100,000 [ when? ] and an area of 847 square kilometres (327 sq mi).