word-bazaar:The Signs as Queens : Sagittarius - CixiBorn in November 1835, the Empress Dowager Cixi
word-bazaar:The Signs as Queens : Sagittarius - CixiBorn in November 1835, the Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧太后) controlled the empire of China during the Qing dynasty for 47 years. She started as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor as a young girl, and gave birth to a boy who became the Tongzhi Emperor at the death of his father. Empress Dowager Cixi died in the Hall of Graceful Bird at the Middle Sea (中海儀鸞殿) in Beijing in 1908. -- source link
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