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Poetry in ocean: Hong Kong from the water
The British sunk their claws into Hong Kong in stages. In 1842 they colonised Hong Kong island; 1860 saw the seizure of the Kowloon peninsula, and in 1898, the British took out a 99-year lease on ...
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Hong Kong protests: From Gandhi to Martin Luther King, Jr, the history behind civil disobedience and what it means for HK
Hong Kong protests: march to the US consulate ends ... Thoreau had stopped paying his taxes in 1842 and was later arrested in 1846. “If 1,000 men were not to pay their tax bills this year ...