Open the door to Islam Beg’s house and the thick opium smoke rushes out into the cold mountain air, like steam from a bathhouse. It’s just past 8 a.m. and the family of six — including a 1-year-old ...
The deliberation was infernal and tempestuous. Adherents of Nigeria’s two major religious faiths, Christianity and Islam, duked it out in a verbal war over alleged dominance and deliberate subjugation ...
They were the kings of the opium trade in 19th Century China - two Scots with good educations and an unscrupulous yearning for money. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can ...
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