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Celebrate your favorite month of the year with these January birthstone earrings by CRISLU. Stud earrings feature round-cut, garnet-colored cubic zirconias (3 ct. t.w.) set in sterling silver with a platinum finish. Approximate diameter: 1/4 inch.

For 25 years Mao Zedong ruled one quarter of the world's population. This is the extraordinary story of a farmer's son who became a God in his life time but in private never shook off his peasant roots; a man who presided over one of the most radical experiments in social reform ever seen in human history but who will be remembered as one of the bloodiest dictators of the twentieth century