All of Arthur’s actions after escaping the garotte were self-destructive: Linda’s abandonment caused Arthur to mutilate her Quaker confidant in season 5; Polly’s death in season 6 drove him to find relief in Birmingham’s opium dens. However, if he’d not escaped the garotte, that destr...
Fix and Passepartout saw that they were in a smoking-house haunted by those wretched, cadaverous, idiotic creatures to whom the English merchants sell every year the miserable drug called opium, to the amount of one million four hundred thousand pounds—thousands devoted to one of the mos...
Chatsworth, Blenheim Palace, Holkham Hall and Boughton House, and marks the first time they were filmed in 3D. These 5 episodes shed light on these well-loved, spectacular buildings, as well as their treasures that tell human
colorful wire and any cheap electronic gizmo that looked interesting. I hung it all on my crudely constructed box. Visiting adults to my attic were often fascinated by its authenticity. It worked mostly by imagination, mine. I had a lot of fun with that project and it may be why I believ...
the Chinese opened restaurants all over the Netherlands. Many Chinese who started a new life in the Netherlands were illegal though. The Chinese also opened their own pleasure houses: gambling houses, opium dens and clubhouses. In the 1960s, Dutch people discovered Chinese opium and added this ...
Madge Frettlby, are forced to search for the truth themselves in order to save his life. Their investigation not only uncovers a trail of secrets and scandal from opium dens and brothels to the cream of society, but their revelation threatens to tear Madge’s family apart.Add to your WATCH...