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Opium, a recreational drug cultivated in Indian by the East India Company and sold in China by British smugglers.

The history of opium in China.

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Other Japanese atrocities

Japan censor any mention of the rape of Nanking in school curriculum

The aftermath of the rape

The city of Nanking recovers from the ravages of it's sack from the Japanese

Japanese soldiers throw babies into boiling water.

Japanese army invades China

I have never read a book with such a long introduction as this one - 60 pages.

Malthus' influence on Charles Darwin and Karl Max

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Other elements that are deadly if take in large quantities

Thallium acetate, a colourless and tasteless substance used as a rat poison was the weapon of choice for Graham Young. He poisoned fold for the slightest misunderstanding l.

Thallium, a greenish substance when heated is the choice of poison in the stories of Agatha Christie. Thallium element is named after the Greek word 'Thallos' which means green.

King George III of the UK and Ireland gets poisoned by Lead through his wine and food. Wine decanters made of lead slowly corroded and got lead into the wines.

Lead poisoning might have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire as it was prevalent in Roman cooking among the the rich and ruling class.

The Portugues take over from the Chinese in colonizing Americas

"Wealth is thus bad ethically only in so far as it is a temptation to idleness and sinful enjoyment of life, and its acquisition is bad only when it is with the purpose of later living merrily and without care. But as a performance of duty in a calling it is not only morally permissible, but actually enjoined."

"We thus take our starting point in the investigation of the relationship between the old Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism the works of Calvin, of Calvinism, and the other Puritan sects.