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    The Gin Drinkers Line, or Gin Drinkers' Line, was a British military defensive line against the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong during the Battle of Hong...
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    Kwai Chung (redirect from Gin Drinkers Bay)
    Chung Tsai (葵涌子). Kwai Chung was a stream (Chung) that emptied into Gin Drinkers Bay (葵涌澳). The whole bay was reclaimed for land and the stream is no...
    5 KB (562 words) - 08:34, 12 April 2024
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    miserable lives of gin drinkers and the healthy and enjoyable lives of beer drinkers. The Gin Craze began to diminish after the Gin Act 1751. This Act lowered...
    9 KB (1,210 words) - 19:28, 15 May 2024
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    Gin (/dʒɪn/) is a distilled alcoholic drink flavoured with juniper berries and other botanical ingredients. Gin originated as a medicinal liquor made...
    34 KB (3,731 words) - 15:40, 10 May 2024
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    tailored to the flavours of the gin, is sometimes said to allow the aromas of the drink to gather at its opening for the drinker to more easily appreciate....
    15 KB (1,592 words) - 15:20, 30 April 2024
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    Gimlet (cocktail) (category Cocktails with gin)
    effect on the drinker) or after the surgeon Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Gimlette (1857–1943), who is said to have first added lime cordial to gin to help combat...
    5 KB (515 words) - 23:59, 10 April 2024
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    Street and Gin Lane with their depictions of the deprivation of the wasted gin-drinkers and the corpulent good health of the beer-drinkers, owe a debt...
    37 KB (5,274 words) - 17:53, 5 April 2024
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    Ghose is the author of two novels, The Gin Drinkers, published in 1998, and Blind Faith, in 2004. The Gin Drinkers was also published in the Netherlands...
    17 KB (1,331 words) - 04:36, 14 May 2024
  • drinker". Telegraph. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2019. "HENDRICK'S GIN REVIEW". From the Gin Shelf. Retrieved 20 April 2019. "Hendrick's Gin Has...
    14 KB (1,229 words) - 12:58, 19 March 2024
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    first to caricature Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (as an elderly gin-drinker with a Beryl Reid voice). One of the most-watched shows of the 1980s...
    74 KB (7,630 words) - 21:31, 13 May 2024
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    launched the Cygnet 22 range of gins. Jenkins claimed that she became a gin drinker because, unlike other types of alcohol, gin was typically "cleaner" to...
    48 KB (4,768 words) - 12:25, 21 March 2024
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    mid-1930s work began on improvements to defences including along the Gin Drinkers' Line. By 1940, the British determined to reduce the Hong Kong Garrison...
    76 KB (10,241 words) - 02:12, 21 March 2024
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    Plymouth Gin is a style and brand of gin that has been distilled on the same premises on the Barbican in Plymouth, Devon, since 1793. The site of production...
    17 KB (1,845 words) - 17:10, 22 April 2024
  • headmaster, Mr. Snoddy, Danny accidentally discovers Mr. Snoddy is a heavy gin drinker, and agrees to keep the secret. Delivering the bill causes Danny to be...
    11 KB (1,216 words) - 22:50, 15 May 2024
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    Martini (cocktail) (category Cocktails with gin)
    The martini is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth, and garnished with an olive and/or a lemon twist. Over the years, the martini has become one of...
    22 KB (2,473 words) - 02:25, 27 April 2024
  • Caofeidian Qinhuangdao Port Container Terminal 9 Crooked Harbour Double Haven Gin Drinkers Bay Hongkong International Terminals Ltd. Hebe Haven Holt's Wharf Inner...
    6 KB (626 words) - 14:23, 25 January 2024
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    the Gin Drinkers' Line the British would surrender Hong Kong and that the operation would last only three days at most. Maltby had expected the Gin Drinkers'...
    53 KB (7,821 words) - 20:18, 3 March 2024
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    Lin Pai Industrial Area to the east. It is part of the reclamation of Gin Drinkers Bay in 1960s. Kwai Fong is named after Kwai Fong Estate, a public housing...
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  • a major role in the defense against Japanese Invasion of Hong Kong. Gin Drinkers Line is across the area. Because there were many major constructions...
    1 KB (154 words) - 04:40, 13 April 2021
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    Binge drinking (redirect from Binge drinker)
    body mass of the person drinking. A person could be defined as a binge drinker even if he or she never becomes intoxicated. The term, however, has succeeded...
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