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3 Tianenmen Square in Beijing, largest public plaza in the world

4 Delivery “truck” in Beijing How many privately owned automobiles are there in China? Zero

5 Chairman Mao Tiannenmen Sq.

6 Mao Zedong Chiang Kai-shek

7 Chiang Kai-shek with Roosevelt and Churchill World War II

8 The “Rape of Nanking” 1937 by the Japanese

9 A Japanese soldier displays a Chinese head and the sword he used to cut it off. One soldier beheaded 105 in one day, a record

10 The Great Wall

11 Chairman Deng Xiaoping during U.S. tour of 1979 and in youth

12 Deng salutes Lincoln, significance?

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14 A crowded street in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan

15 The gate to Chiang’s tomb

16 The Golden Buddhas of Taiwan

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20 Hanoi Hue, Da Nang Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

21 Vietnam Laos Cambodia

22 Angkor Wat, a Buddhist temple built in the 1100’s in Cambodia

23 A relief sculpture at the west entrance Cambodian boy

24 Finalists from the Miss Cambodia pageant 1998

25 Pol Pot, Cambodian communist, murderer of 3 million

26 Amputees are a common sight in Cambodia today, millions of landmines are still waiting to explode when touched

27 Skulls from Pol Pot’s killing fields Most of the missing are presumed dead.

28 Vietnamese girls on the way to school, the traditional white suits are called... Ao dais

29 Ho Chi Minh Tomb in Hanoi

30 Thich Quang Duc’s suicide 1963

31 Girls take a pedicab in Saigon. A Vietnamese woman harvests rice.

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33 Bangkok, the capital

34 The “Big Buddha” of Thailand (100 feet tall)

35 Floating grocery stores in Bangkok

36 Pagoda Mt. Fuji

37 Cigarette vending machines

38 Japanese bullet trains take commuters to work.

39 Japanese punks with mohawk haircuts

40 South Korea’s flag North Korea’s flag

41 Seoul, South Korea, 1988 Olympics held here, modern city

42 Flo-Jo

43 Canada’s Ben Johnson ran the fastest 100 meters ever (9.79)

44 Dried fish for sale in a Seoul fish market.

45 Korean Yin and Yang symbols

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47 Balinese farmer, on ox, playing flute, under umbrella

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49 Rangoon, the capital

50 Pork on a stick and fish for sale

51 Thingyan, Burmese water festival

52 Burmese girls pour water on each other during Thingyan celebration.

53 Burmese monks (Theraveda Buddhism) What possessions are they allowed to have?

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55 Ulaan Baatar, the capital

56 Downtown Ulaan Baatar

57 A three-year old Mongol boy on horseback, nomadic herders

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59 Mongol family in front of their yurt

60 Mongol girls in brightly colored dresses

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64 The Sultan of Brunei, one of the richest men in the world

65 Sultan, born 1946, became 29th Sultan of Brunei in 1967

66 The mosque in Bandan Seri Begawan, the capital city

67 Oil-rich Bandar Seri Begawan

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70 Luzon Mindanao

71 Luzon, the big island in the north Mindanao, the big island in the south

72 A cockfight in Cebu, Philippines Steel claws attached to feet for maximum kill


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