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Of opium, fire temples, and sarees: A peek into the world of India's dwindling Parsis. Cherylann Mollan - BBC News, ... a Persian king who was the founder of the Achaemenid empire.

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Of opium, fire temples, and sarees: A peek into the world of India's dwindling Parsis. Image caption, ... a Persian king who was the founder of the Achaemenid empire.

1880s opium trail infected city-folk and pioneers alike, across states and the Dakota Territory From Deadwood, South Dakota, to Bottineau, North Dakota, and east to Duluth and St. Paul, opium ...

Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production plunged by an estimated 95 percent by 2023 from 6,200 tons in ...

De Orta also tells stories, for example about the Persian opium enthusiast he met when serving as a physician at the court of Ahmadnagar: ‘This Khorasani [man from East Persia], though he was well ...

In 2024, opium prices reached ₹65,486 per kilogram, a tenfold growth from ₹6,535 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban government banned poppy growing Subscribe Sign in View Market Dashboard ...

January 31, 2025 at 6:00am GMT. An early 20th century electric shock machine, a rare Oriental opium pipe and gold sovereign coins worth in total an estimated close to £30,000 are among items from ...

The Opium Wars signalled the start of what is referred to as the “century of humiliation” in China, a period when the country was colonized and dictated to by foreign powers.

When finished, the Trans-Iranian will jog south 865 miles through the middle of the country it serves, joining the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf. U. S. and German firms began the line in 1927 ...

It showed a Persian cat apprehensively sitting between a lion and a bear. “I will pat its head,” says the bear, “and you shall stroke its tail.” ... furthermore, smoking opium.