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"text": "On March 2, in Hua-lien city on the east coast, the district chief, Chang Wen-ch’eng, notified all organ heads and local leaders to meet at 2:00 P.M. to discuss how to prevent an uprising.",
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"ref": "1993, Joseph R. Allen, “Yang Mu and Lo Ch'ing: A Profile”, in Forbidden Games & Video Poems, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 11:",
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"ref": "2001, Robert Green, Taiwan, Lucent Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 14:",
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"ref": "2017 October 11, Yi-yin Lin, “PCT Hua-Lien Aboriginal Student Center Launches A Rebuilding Project Supported By ASPM”, in Peter Wolfe, transl., Taiwan Church News [台灣教會公報社], archived from the original on 2021-10-18, Mission Services:",
"text": "Rev McCall remarked that missionary Robert Donnell McCall, his brother-in-law, loved the beautiful lands and the aboriginal people of eastern Taiwan so much that half of his ashes was bid to bury at the cemetery of Kuan-fu Presbyterian Church at Hua-lien after he retired and died at US.",
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"ref": "2021 August 18, “The perfect summer drink with the Tokyo Olympics 2020 Ambassador Ocean Bomb Orange feat. Son Goku”, in Karman Foods, archived from the original on 2021-09-26:",
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"text": "In 2010 we conducted a survey on Xylaria species at a backyard of a residence in Hua-lien located in eastern Taiwan, where a nesting site of O. formosanus had previously been inundated following a heavy rain, and numerous Xylaria stromata kept emerging from the nesting site after termite activities had ceased.",
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