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							<td><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The neighborhood gate for Qianmen had two of these beasts supporting the pillars in 2004. You will see that they managed to duplicate them and there are now five of them on the new gate as of 2008.</font></td>
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