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- Thread starter Ceiling Cat
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In 1854, Commodore Perry gifted 110 gallons of American Whiskey to the Japanese emperor. That gift has since evolved into a $6 billion industry, with Japan’s Suntory distillery winning 2015’s World Whisky of the Year.
North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvos from Sweden in 1974( along with numerous buses, and tractors , many of them are still in use today ) and has yet to pay it off, resulting in a debt of 2.2 billion kronor ($322 million) For the Volvo cars alone.
Trained ravens are used in parks in France to pick up trash and cigarette butts, they are rewarded with food for each piece they bring in.
Were there sugar plantations in the south and they used predominantly slave labour?
The railroad? I recall hearing how they'd sit in trains and shoot hordes of buffalo from the windows as they rolled on by. Just for fun, of course.
The introduction of firearms did not cause the near extinction of the buffalo, it was the introduction of the railroads that allowed the white man to transport the buffalo meat to markets in big cities that rapidly cause the species to diminish.
Slavery abolitionist refused to use products grown and harvested by slave labor, sugar cane was one of these products.
