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Every schoolchild learns how larger European empires, including Russia, divided up the country among themselves in the 18th and 19th centuries, temporarily erasing it from the map.

In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.

He lectured a schoolchild’s correct spelling of “potato” at a spelling bee, getting it wrong as “potatoe.”

Every schoolchild learns the name: Mesopotamia – the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of civilization.

He remembers being instructed, as a schoolchild, to stand waving along the route of the royal motorcade.