Eating undercooked or raw poultry or red meat increases your risk for becoming infected with salmonella. Symptoms include abdominal cramps, fever and diarrhea and begin within 12 to 72 hours of consuming contaminated food.
Opium War. a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
When the Chinese emperors tried to stop them, the British waged the âOpium Warsâ of the mid-19th century, occupying Hong Kong to make sure the drug markets remained open. English poets romanticized the recreational use of the drug, and by the time Thomas De Quincey published âConfessions of an English Opium Eaterâ in 1821, the British were importing tens of thousands of pounds of it per year.