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Old 10-31-2011, 09:09 AM   #47
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Default Re: Game: Guess the (historical) character!

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Originally Posted by trans View Post
I´m stumped. Is the "#5" meant literally, or is it some kind of a pun or reference to a language other than English (or both)?
I don't know enough about it off-hand and don't care enough to google it at work, but it may have something to do with early communist China (Edit: early in the sense of Maoist) and the "Gang of Four." Perhaps there was another leader in the mix who was a fifth wheel, so to speak.

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