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American fashion designer Ruth Harkness encounters and captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan; it becomes the first live giant panda to enter the United States.
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Ruth Harkness
American fashion designer, socialite, and panda owner
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Sichuan
Province in Southwestern China
Sichuan, previously romanized as Szechwan or Szechuan, is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Giant panda
Species of bear
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