During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on...
Text I 1confront [kEn5frQnt] v. a) force to deal with or accept the truth of; bring face to face with使对峙,使当面对证:When the police confronted her with the evidence, she confessed she was guilty.当警察用证据与她当面对证时,她坦言自己犯罪了;b) to meet, to be faced with(尤其在...
John Maynard Keynes was literally high when he carried out the most important economic negotiations in British historyEd Conway
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When was the Mongol Empire? When did the Qing Dynasty start? When was the Great Chinese Famine? When did the Qing Dynasty make peace with Britain? When did Tibet become a part of China? When was the Taiping Rebellion? When did China declare war on Britain in the Opium Wars?
In ill health most of his life, by 1915, London was almost lame. His bowels gave him continual pain, and in order to reduce the pain, Londonbegan using opium and morphine, and it was not long before he became addicted to the drugs. ...
Egyptian, Philistine Greek and Roman records – in other words, all around the Mediterranean. They all knew of the poppy, and its upsides and downsides. Tribes in the Caucasus enjoyed the poppy at least in special con...
Charles George Gordon was a British Army officer and Imperial administrator of the late 19th century. Gordon was born in London in January 1833. He was educated at the Taunton School and the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. He fought in the Crimean War and the Second Opium War. He also...
After 1842 when China lost the Opium War with Great Britain the British realized that Shanghai was in an excellent location to serve as a seaport for the densely populated Yangtze River Plain. They forced the Chinese government to allow English traders to settle on the wastelands outside the ...
“By 1839, then, the position of Americans in the Chinese opium trade was this: American vessels carried the Turkey drug; an American receiving ship was stationed in the outer waters; and an American firm, Russell & Company, ranked as the third largest agency for Indian opium in China. But...