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Re: Osama or Usama?



On 8 Oct 2001 at 14:07, Donna Halper wrote:

> Ditto for China's
> big city-- is it Beiping, Beijing, or some other permutation?  

Actually, Beiping, or something like that, was its name under Nationalist rule.  Their capital was 
Nanking.  Peking, or Beijing, means "Southern Capital."  Beiping means 'Southern City" or 
something like that.


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