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First Monday Trade Days. Coordinates: 32°33′13″N 95°52′00″W. First Monday Trade Days Main Gate. First Monday Trade Days is a monthly flea market held in Canton, Texas. The market is actually held on the Thursday through Sunday preceding the first Monday of each month. It purports to be the largest and oldest continually operated flea ...
The Arbors. The Arbors were an American pop vocal group formed in 1964 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The members, two sets of brothers, met at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and began playing local shows in Michigan before moving to New York City. They recorded a single for Mercury Records which garnered little attention, but their next single ...
The Canton System (1757–1842; Chinese: 一口通商; pinyin: Yīkǒu tōngshāng; Jyutping: jat1 hau2 tung1 soeng1, lit. "Single [port] trading relations") served as a means for Qing China to control trade with the West within its own country by focusing all trade on the southern port of Canton (now Guangzhou). The protectionist policy arose ...
The Thirteen Factories, also known as the Canton Factories, was a neighbourhood along the Pearl River in southwestern Guangzhou (Canton) in the Qing Empire from c. 1684 to 1856 around modern day Xiguan, in Guangzhou's Liwan District. These warehouses and stores were the principal and sole legal site of most Western trade with China from 1757 to ...
5 things to do: Canton Farmers Market, Queen tribute, Great Trail Fest, new Bigfoot movie. Gannett. Ed Balint, Canton Repository. August 22, 2024 at 6:49 AM. The annual Great Trail Festival will ...
Here are eight events you shouldn't miss this week in Stark County: 1. Ridgewood art showcase. The Historic Ridgewood neighborhood in Canton will host its annual artist event from 9:30 a.m. to 3: ...
Wu Bingjian (Chinese: 伍秉鑑; 1769 – 4 September 1843 [1]), trading as "Houqua" [2] and better known in the West as "Howqua" or "Howqua II", [a] [3] was a hong merchant in the Thirteen Factories, head of the E-wo hong and leader of the Canton Cohong. He was once the richest man in the world.
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