Kansu
Britishnoun
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Boarding school pupil Kansu Mansaray wishes Ebola would "vanish from Sierra Leone" as he wants to return to his studies.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2015
Officially, the toll at the end of last week stood at 150,000; the only natural catastrophe to claim more lives in this century was the 1920 earthquake that killed 180,000 in Kansu, China.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Kansu, the terminal province of the Great Wall, ferocious Tungan cavalrymen entered Sinkiang in 1931 under the leadership of a 26-year-old horseman�Ma Chung-ying.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last May Chungking lifted its blockade, let foreign correspondents enter the Border Region, the Communist area in Shensi, Kansu and Ninghsia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Distribution.—Known presently from eastern Kansu eastward through Shensi, Shansi and Hopeh to southern Jehol, probably also in northeastern Szechuan, exact limits of range unknown.
From Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Apodemus peninsulae, with Description of a New Subspecies from North China by Jones, J. Knox
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