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From Deadwood, South Dakota, to Bottineau, North Dakota, and east to Duluth and St. Paul, opium lured many toward illicit ...
From Deadwood, South Dakota, to Bottineau, North Dakota, and east to Duluth and St. Paul, opium lured many toward illicit ...
The iconic Singapore breakfast of kopi, kaya toast and soft boiled eggs has inspired a traveling exhibition Read more at ...
"The Chinese would never shave," he said, studying the metal strips on his tray. "They would pluck their hair. Tweezers were also used for smoking opium, but this one looks like it was for grooming." ...
The Chinese had little interest in Britain’s chief export ... the impact of orally consumed opium paled in comparison to the devastation wrought by opium smoking, which merchants now began to push ...
Chinese sailors arrived in the UK in the 1850s ... tempt young English girls and host immoral activities of gambling, opium- smoking and plotting international conspiracies. The Home Office ...
Back in Kowloon, most of their neighbours were Chinese or Portuguese and mingling ... and the musicians performing there were mostly opium smokers, too. Dou soon became famous in opium dens ...
Myanmar has now surpassed Afghanistan as the world’s leading opium producer, and according to the Global ... particularly along Myanmar’s eastern border, where Chinese criminal networks operate ...