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Nationalizing the salt and iron trades eliminated this threat and produced large profits for the state. [7] This policy was successful in financing Emperor Wu's campaigns of challenging the nomadic Xiongnu Confederation while colonizing the Hexi Corridor and what is now Xinjiang of Central Asia, Northern Vietnam, Yunnan, and North Korea. [8]
SS Onoko was an iron-hulled Great Lakes freighter.She was launched in 1882 in Cleveland, Ohio by the Globe shipbuilding firm, as its hull number #4, and sank on September 14, 1915, in Lake Superior near Knife River, Minnesota.
Edmonds is a New Zealand brand of baking products and creator of the Edmonds Cookery Book. It was founded in 1879 as a baking powder manufacturer by grocer Thomas Edmonds after hearing his customers complain about the available baking powder not always rising properly.
The SS Lakeland was an early steel-hulled Great Lakes freighter that sank on December 3, 1924, into 205 feet (62 m) of water on Lake Michigan near Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin, United States, after she sprang a leak.
Bureau of Salt and Iron Monopoly (鹽鐵司) - responsible for industries related to public work, notably the production and distribution or merchandise of salt, but also other areas such as the production of weaponry Military (bing'an) Armaments (zhou'an) Market tax (shangshui'an) Capital supply (duyan'an) Tea (cha'an) Iron (tie'an)
This guy gave new meaning to the slogan “Gottahava Wawa.” Police in East Windsor, N.J., arrested a 24-year-old man on Dec. 23, and charged him with misusing the town’s 911 system for ...
Sang Hongyang was born in Luoyang, one of the Han dynasty's major commercial centres, to a family of merchants.In his youth, he was known for his mathematical prowess. When Emperor Wu ascended to the throne in 141 BC, Sang came to his notice and was eventually invited to become an Attendant (侍
Northwell Health focuses on how women need access to supplemental screening tests to find the cancers that mammograms might miss.