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Chinese men who laid the last rail of the transcontinental railroad, pictured at its 50th anniversary celebration, 1919.

While the US Civil War raged, another war between rival clans in the Chinese province of Guangdong killed 500,000 people and fostered epidemics that killed another million.

The major city in this province is Guangzhou, also known as Ca…

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