From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9627 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, August 31 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9627 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Shopper, You can qualify to get a $50 Target gift card! ["Target Shopper ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:48:51 -0400 From: "Target Shopper Gift Card Chance" Subject: Shopper, You can qualify to get a $50 Target gift card! Shopper, You can qualify to get a $50 Target gift card! http://impetue.za.com/IqvtvCog8DU81-za5lXdE10phNJKVI9qhyb7aOTGlalM__4Odw http://impetue.za.com/Sr5YTYaJwxRNWF1DcfNbTpPx2xzDh5V9GPYbwggeRe2zD5TGyw n 1833 the East India Company lost its monopoly rights in the tea trade with China. A plan was prepared for growing tea in India. Superintendent Campbell began experimentation in 1840 in Darjeeling which soon proved successful. European planters and sponsors acquired large stretches of the surrounding hillside and converted them to plantations, called tea gardens. Existing tracks and paths in the hills were improved, renamed as roads, and connected to the Hill Cart Road. The botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, who visited Darjeeling in the 1840s, noted that carts and pack animals on these roads were bringing fruit and produce from Nepal, wool and salt from Tibet, and labourers looking for work from just about everywhere. The labour migrations created a burgeoning hostility between the East India Company and the neighbouring Himalayan kingdoms. By 1849 the hostility came to a head. Campbell and Hooker were allegedly kidnapped. Despite the two being released without harm, the British exploited the incident to annex some 1,700 square kilometres (640 sq mi) of territory between the Mechi and the Teesta rivers from Sikkim. Darjeeling became a municipality in 1850. In the span of 15 years, this Himalayan tract had become a hill station, an official retreat for British administrators in a hilly, temperate, region of India. Hill stations, such as Simla (summer capital of the British Indian Empire), Ooty (summer capital of the Madras Presidency), and Nainital (summer capital of the North-Western Provinces) were all established between 1819 and the 1840s, a period during which the rule of the East India Company had spread to the greater part of the Indian subcontinent and the British felt confident about planning them. Darjeeling later became the summer capita ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9627 **********************************************