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None of this was conceivable as recently as 1992, when Beijing's proclamation of "one country, two systems" - and the decision to peg the mainland's currency, the Renminbi, to the Hong Kong dollar - unleashed the floodgates of foreign investment.

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[The] Tasmanian devil is found only on the island of Tasmania, which is that small island just to the south of the mainland of Australia.

These are quartz crystals and feldspar, so most sand in the world on the mainland is made of quartz crystal and feldspar.

And there they survive on the mainland until about 10,000 years ago, and actually, surprisingly, on the small islands off of Siberia and Alaska until about 3,000 years ago.

All we know is, soon after the dingoes were brought in, thylacines were extinct in the Australian mainland, and after that they only survived in Tasmania.

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