In June the county, whose tyre, petrochemical and paper-making industries have made it much richer than Huimin, held a foundation-stone ceremony for its own Sun Tzu theme park.

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"Before the end of this year we laid a foundation stone of expanding the brewery to ten-fold of whatever we have now, " she says.

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The foundation stone of the European project has been Franco-German co-operation.

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The first thing I bought when I was asked to follow the Millennium Centre's foundation stone on its journey to Cardiff was a packet of sea-sickness tablets.

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It will not be known if the foundation stone, laid in 1764, has been discovered until phase two of the renovations is under way - at the front of the building.

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AD, the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur consulted a Persian astrologer called Nawbakht to find a conjunction of the planets favourable to laying the foundation stone for a new capital.

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