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2. East India Company - Wikipedia

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   The East India Company started selling opium to Chinese merchants in the 1770s in exchange for goods like porcelain and tea, [61] causing a series of opioid addiction outbreaks across China in 1820. [62] The ruling Qing dynasty outlawed the opium trade in 1796 and 1800, [63] but British merchants continued illegally nonetheless.

3. United States Merchant Marine - Wikipedia

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   The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United ...

4. J. P. Morgan - Wikipedia

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   In 1900, Morgan began talks to purchase Andrew Carnegie's steel business and merge it with several other steel, coal, mining and shipping firms. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company, Morgan merged it with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses (including William Edenbirn's Consolidated Steel ...

5. History of the foreign relations of the United Kingdom

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   The causes included political disputes and increasing competition from merchant shipping. Religion was not a factor, since both sides were Protestant. [ 38 ] The British in the first war (1652–54) had the naval advantage with larger numbers of more powerful " ships of the line " which were well suited to the naval tactics of the era.

6. Vladivostok - Wikipedia

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   Vladivostok (/ ˌ v l æ d ɪ ˈ v ɒ s t ɒ k / VLAD-iv-OST-ok; Russian: Владивосток, IPA: [vlədʲɪvɐˈstok] ⓘ) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia, located in the far east of Russia.

7. Phillips Exeter Academy - Wikipedia

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   Phillips Exeter Academy was established in 1781 by Elizabeth and John Phillips, prominent citizens of Exeter, New Hampshire.. John Phillips had made his fortune as a merchant and banker before going into public service.