The Opium Smugglers is a 1948 book by Ion Idriess. It was one of a number of books he wrote for children. "For The Young". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 31...
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The Opium Wars (simplified Chinese: 鸦片战争; traditional Chinese: 鴉片戰爭 Yāpiàn zhànzhēng) were two conflicts waged between China and Western powers during...
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The First Opium War (Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought...
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of opium poppy cultivation and harvest. As of 2021, Afghanistan's harvest produces more than 90% of illicit heroin globally, and more than 95% of the European...
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Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum. Approximately...
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The history of opium in China began with the use of opium for medicinal purposes during the 7th century. In the 17th century the practice of mixing opium...
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Sam Kee Building (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
Building was the focus of rumours of opium smugglers using a tunnel system beneath Chinatown to elude authorities. Locals claimed that smugglers "escape[d]...
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Hearts, or The Opium Smugglers is a 1918 Australian silent film about opium smugglers in Sydney. It is considered a lost film. Opium smugglers work in Sydney...
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The destruction of opium at Humen began on 3 June 1839 and involved the destruction of 1,000 long tons (1,016 t) of illegal opium seized from British...
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Laudanum (redirect from Opium tincture)
of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine). Laudanum is prepared by dissolving extracts from the opium...
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Khun Sa (section Militia leader and opium trade)
was dubbed the "Opium King" in Myanmar due to his massive opium smuggling operations in the Golden Triangle, where he was the dominant opium warlord from...
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on the opium trade. Today, the Thai side of the river confluence, Sop Ruak, has become a tourist attraction, with an Opium Museum, a Hall of Opium, and...
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The TNLA claims that they arrest opium smugglers regularly and the narcotics seized are publicly burned on special occasions to deter drug trade. The...
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was an American merchant and drug smuggler who made a large fortune smuggling illegal opium into China. He was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President...
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Akew (Chinese: 吳亞嬌; died 1880), was a Chinese opium smuggler and house owner in Hong Kong. She was the central figure in a pirate scandal in 1849, which...
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Illegal drug trade (redirect from Drug smuggler)
to reduce the rates of drug consumption. The government of the Qing Dynasty issued edicts against opium smoking in 1730, 1796 and 1800. The West prohibited...
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Papaver somniferum (redirect from Opium Poppy)
as the opium poppy or breadseed poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae. It is the species of plant from which both opium and...
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Shan State Army (section Opium trade)
fighting against the Communist Party of Burma (CPB), Kuomintang soldiers sponsored by the CIA in Myanmar, and opium smugglers in Shan State. The SSA however...
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"Ku-Shing" by the Chinese, was a wealthy American sea merchant, opium smuggler, and philanthropist. His sixty-foot pilot schooner, the Sylph, won the first recorded...
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Old China Trade (category History of foreign trade of the United States)
trafficking in opium. The trade era overlapped the First Opium War, which resulted from an attempt by China to enforce its prohibition on opium smuggling by Western...
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Tai-Pan (novel) (category First Opium War)
agreement with another opium trader. Dirk Struan pilfered a lorcha from pirates in Macau. He became a clandestine opium smuggler for other China traders...
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Madak (category Opium in China)
blend of opium and tobacco used as a recreational drug in 16th- and 17th-century China. It emerged in southern coastal areas in the first half of the 17th...
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Paul Carbone (category Nazis assassinated by the French resistance)
to go to Shanghai with him. There the pair got involved in opium smuggling. This lasted for about a year until the outbreak of World War I, when they...
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Nagasaki Magistrate's office who takes credit for cracking down on the opium trade within the region, and is known for cavorting with many prostitutes around...
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Haijin (category Foreign relations of the Ming dynasty)
the Qing. This produced the Canton System of the Thirteen Factories, but also the opium smuggling that led to the First and Second Opium Wars in the 19th...
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Gunmen (1988 film) (category Films set in the 1930s)
drug raid, Ting kills Haye's uncle, Leung. Haye, who has now became an opium smuggler, vows of revenge and later kills Ting's partner. Ting also swears revenge...
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An opium den was an establishment in which opium was sold and smoked. Opium dens were prevalent in many parts of the world in the 19th century, most notably...
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Opium was widely used by Arab physicians around 1000 AD . Opium addiction was rampant in China, and after opium was banned in 1799, opium smuggling became...
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Amitav Ghosh (category The Doon School alumni)
India. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018. "The Butcher, the Brewer, the Opium Smuggler: On Amitav Ghosh's "Smoke and Ashes"". Los Angeles Review...
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Heroes Among Heroes (category Films about opium)
starring Donnie Yen as the protagonist So Chan, who was one of the Ten Tigers of Canton. The film shows opium smugglers in the Qing Dynasty, China, with...
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