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nickname of Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo
Michelangelo (Tw)
Paul
(loanword) romance
Borobudur (in Java, Indonesia)
Rowling (name) / Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965-), author of the Harry Potter series of novels
lit. to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom) / fig. to try every possible means of obtaining food (in times of starvation)
Byelorussian (person)
South Carolina, US state
Mizongyi, Mizong, My Jhong Law Horn - "Lost Track Fist" (Chinese Martial Art)
Miluo River in Hunan province, tributary of the Xiang River 湘江, flows into Dongting Lake 洞庭湖
Monrovia, capital of Liberia
Russian (person)
snail fever (bilharzia or schistosomiasis), disease caused by schistosome parasitic flatworm
Russia
Russian empire (1546-1917)
tempura (loanword from Japanese)
Russian Federation, RSFSR
Colorado
George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist
Cairo, capital of Egypt
Rome, capital of Italy
Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD)
Rostock (city in Germany)
the Grand Canyon (Colorado)
Croatia
South Jeolla Province, in southwest South Korea, capital Gwangju 光州
Brahmin
Law Kar-Ying (1946-), Hong Kong actor
Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
Łódź, third largest city of Poland
Roman law
bow-legged / bandy-legged
Tetris (video game)
Marco Polo (1254–c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo)
many things arranged together, or connected together / to go on limitlessly
Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
Barcelona, Spain
baroque (period in Western art history) (loanword)
Hua Luogeng (1910-1985), Chinese number theorist
Zorro
Europe / Europa
Zagros mountains of southwest Iran
jackfruit / breadfruit / Artocarpus heterophyllus
all-embracing / all-inclusive
Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330-c. 1400), author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and other works
the Latin alphabet
Jura mountains of eastern France and extending into Switzerland
Russian roulette
North Jeolla Province, in west South Korea, capital Jeonju 全州
all roads lead to Rome / use different means to obtain the same result (idiom)
Tom Robbins, American novelist
Belarus
Roche, a Swiss multinational healthcare company that focuses on pharmaceuticals and diagnostics
the Louvre, museum in Paris (Tw)
Luozhuang district of Linyi city 臨沂市|临沂市, Shandong
Colosseum (Rome)
romance (loanword) / love affair
(Indian mythology) Asuras – powerful, malevolent beings who oppose the gods
Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case
compass
(math.) Galois theory
Jurassic (geological period 205-140m years ago)
inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet
Robin Hood (English 12th century folk hero)
lit. you can net sparrows at the door (idiom) / fig. completely deserted
the Ramayana (Indian epic)
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Russian nuclear scientist and dissident human rights activist
(Tw) Florence, Italy
Jeolla or Cholla Province of Joseon Korea, now divided into North Jeolla Province 全羅北道|全罗北道 and South Jeolla Province 全羅南道|全罗南道
Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
Baltic
Belarus
clenbuterol hydrochloride (diet pill that burns fat) / e.g. Spiropent
proletariat (loanword) / abbr. for 普羅列塔利亞|普罗列塔利亚
Baltic Sea
net for fishing or bird catching / (fig.) fetters / to snare (a valuable new team member etc) / to bring together under the one umbrella
Ebro River (in northeast Spain)
Russian ethnic group (of northeast China and Xinjiang etc) / Russian nationality / Russians (of Russia)
Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), Italian operatic tenor
Solomon Islands
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
demon in Buddhism / poltergeist in temple that plays tricks on monks and has a taste for their food
Rhode Island, US state / Rhodes, an island of Greece
Florence, Italy
Luodong or Lotong Town in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县, Taiwan
(Indian mythology) battlefield where Asuras 修羅|修罗 fought the gods; (fig.) a scene of cruelty and carnage; (slang) emotionally charged confrontation (esp. one involving a love triangle)
unified Silla (658-935), Korean kingdom
sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum)
roller (loanword)
the Apollo project (1961-1975), the NASA moon landing project
dogbane (Apocynum venetum), leaves used in TCM
Peloponnese (peninsula in southern Greece)
the Palace of the King of Hell 閻王|阎王
violet (color)
Luohu, a district of Shenzhen City 深圳市, Guangdong
Roman letters / Roman alphabet
Zapatero (name) / José Luis Zapatero (1960-), Spanish PSOE politician, prime minister of Spain 2004-2011
Eastern Roman empire or Byzantium (395-1453)

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