One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

The iconic Black Opium Eau de Parfum is at one of the cheapest prices we have spotted it going for in Boots' sale.

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:That the Chinese were buying a little bit of opium every time, and that number was increasing. PRESENTER:'The key to the opium trade was British control of India, 'where the ...

Only the previous day, I had seen Fortune’s name in Lucy Inglis’s fascinating book Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium. I checked back and there was just this one reference to “the ...

We still have a few more days to go before the long weekend officially starts, but that hasn’t stopped retailers from ...

Escaping opium’s grasp was the first step of Sin ... Rather than wearing traditional Hmong clothing, she’s dressed in a fuzzy brown jacket and jeans as she snaps photos for her Facebook ...

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Below is an abbreviated history of everyday objects purchased during the Civil War Era. It was shared by Historian James Ayers, and taken from a 1939 Catskill Mountain News.

The Crusaders were introduced to cotton in the Holy land and from then were not satisfied with their ugly woollen clothes ... Company then took to smuggling opium into China to pay for the ...