opium
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Playboi Carti Playboi Carti was the only headline-tier act who did not broadcast his show on the Flog Gnaw livestream, leaving reams of Opium record label superfans caterwauling in the comments.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024
Foremost among them was Britain, which won Hong Kong as a colony after victory in the one-sided First Opium War in 1842.
From Washington Times • Dec. 11, 2023
Kuang is beloved for her historical fantasy novels: the “Poppy War” trilogy, inspired by China’s Opium Wars, and “Babel,” a critique of colonialism set in an alternate-universe Oxford.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2023
After a brief period of relative peace, the Second Opium War broke out in 1856 after Chinese soldiers seized a British ship in Chinese waters, crewed by Chinese sailors suspected of piracy.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
And Esperanza, if Matt knew anything about the woman who wrote A History of Opium, would descend on the convent like a fire-breathing dragon.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing opium
East Asia - High School
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The Middle East and Central Asia - High School
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Chinese History - Middle School and High School
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