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  1. Oct 2020
    1. He had slightly slipped a little into his pocket, but being detected, they seized him, and taking his hat and wig from his head, threw them, together with the tea

      Why was he treated so badly, he was only trying to get a morsel of tea, and there could have been no way the British knew it was tea from that specific ship.

    2. In about three hours from the time we went on board, we had thus broken and thrown overboard every tea chest to be found in the ship

      In just three hours the entire shape of American history changed with the dumping of tea

  2. Apr 2020
    1. It is like seeing the sun after being confined to a dark room,or like a parched throat getting wine.

      That was how behind imperial China was in compared to the western world

    2. Concepts of citizenship and individual rights were part of the Meiji discourse and found their way into Chinese debates through Japanese writ.ings

      Ideals along with technology from Japan and the western world came to China

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