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  2. The Nutmeg's Curse - Wikipedia

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    The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis is a 2021 non-fiction book by Amitav Ghosh. It discusses colonialism and environmental issues with particular focus on the Banda Islands . [ 1 ] It is Ghosh's second non-fiction work to discuss climate change , after The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016).

  3. Giles Milton - Wikipedia

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    Giles Milton FRHistS (born 15 January 1966) is a British writer and journalist, who specialises in narrative history. [1] He writes non-fiction, historical fiction, and children's history books, and is best known for Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and Nathaniel's Nutmeg.

  4. Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands was a process of military conquest from 1609 to 1621 by the Dutch East India Company of the Banda Islands.The Dutch, having enforced a monopoly on the highly lucrative nutmeg production from the islands, were impatient with Bandanese resistance to Dutch demands that the Bandanese sell only to them.

  5. Smoke and Ashes - Wikipedia

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    Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories is a 2023 non-fiction book by Amitav Ghosh.The book arose from research Ghosh conducted on the historical opium trade and its relation to India and China while he was writing his fiction novel series, the Ibis trilogy.

  6. Quebec French profanity - Wikipedia

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    Mailbox sign using French-Canadian profanity. The closest English translation of sentiment and severity is "No admail motherfucker.". Tabarnak is the strongest form of that sacre, derived from tabernacle (where the Eucharist is stored, in Roman Catholicism).

  7. Category:Curses - Wikipedia

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    Curse and mark of Cain; Curse of 39; Curse of Carlisle; Curse of Ham; Curse of Muldoon; Curse of Scotland; Curse of the Boulder Valley; Curse of the Braganzas; Curse of the ninth; Curse of Timur; Curse of Tippecanoe; Curse of Turan; Cursed Films; Curses of Cain and Ham and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Cursing of the fig tree

  8. The Calcutta Chromosome - Wikipedia

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    The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1996 [1] English-language novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh.The book, set in Calcutta and New York City at some unspecified time in the future, is a medical thriller that dramatizes the adventures of people who are brought together by a mysterious turn of events.

  9. António de Abreu - Wikipedia

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    António de Abreu (c. 1480 – c. 1514) was a 16th-century Portuguese navigator and naval officer. He participated under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque in the conquest of Ormus in 1507 and Malacca in 1511, where he was injured.