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Empress Dowager Cixi

Chinese empress (1835–1908).

Born November 29th, 1835 in Beijing.

Died November 15th, 1908 at 72 years old in Imperial City.

Occupations
monarch, painter, photographer, politician, queen regnant

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. Arthur Schopenhauer