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Article: Feature: Largest-ever fireworks show lights up Olympic feast
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 8, 2008
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Feature: Largest-ever fireworks show lights up Olympic feast
by Xinhua Writer Tan Jingjing
BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- A little girl nicknamed Ge Ge shouted
with excitement when she saw fireworks bursting into the air amid
thousands of smiling faces.
Clapping hands and cheering "Go! Go! Beijing!" with her elder
sister, Ge Ge giggled to see more fireworks blossoming in the sky.
The sisters were among the 90,000 spectators in the National
Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, to witness Friday's largest
ever pyrotechnics featuring the Olympic opening ceremony.
China, as the birthplace of gunpowder, treated global television
audience of four billion with a colorful and high-tech ...
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