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Ma Xinyi, courtesy name Gushan (穀山), art names Yanmen (燕門) and Tiefang (鐵舫), posthumous name Duanmin (端敏), was a Chinese Muslim official and military general of the Qing dynasty of…
Ma Xinyi, Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (born 1821)
Rupert's Land, or Prince Rupert's Land, was a territory in British America based on the Hudson Bay drainage basin. The right to "sole trade and commerce" over Rupert's Land was gra…
Following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company, Manitoba was established as a province of Canada.
The Tower Subway is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in central London, between Tower Hill on the north bank of the river and Vine Lane on the south. In 1869 a 1,340-foot-long (41…
One of the world's earliest underground tube railways opened in the Tower Subway (interior depicted), a tunnel beneath…