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Between the years 1 and 5, while working for the de facto head of state Wang Mang, Liu Xin was the first to give a more accurate calculation of pi at 3. 1457, although the exact method he used to reach this figure is unknown.
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Between 1600 and 1945, Edo / Tokyo was leveled every 25 – 50 years or so by fire, earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic eruptions or war.
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Between the years 1911 and 1920, Honduras saw relative stability.
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Between 1898 and 1914, the peak years of Italian diaspora, approximately 750, 000 Italians emigrated each year.
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Between 1939 and 1945, at least 1. 5 million Polish citizens were transported to the Reich for forced labour ( in all, about 12 million forced laborers were employed in the German war economy inside the Nazi Germany ).
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