Anonymous ID: 75cd46 June 3, 2018, 9:18 a.m. No.1618327   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8379

>>1618038

Very interesting place.

>https://infogalactic.com/info/Stone_Town#Omani_Dominion

In the 19th century Stone Town flourished as a trading centre. It was especially renowned for the commerce of spices (mostly cloves) and slaves. Around middle of the century, the sultanate had a close relationship with the British; David Livingstone, for example, is known to have stayed in Stone Town in 1866 while he was preparing his final expedition into the interior of East Africa.[11] In the same period, several immigrant communities from Oman, Persia and India formed as a consequence of the town's intense commercial activity. The Sultan of Zanzibar encouraged immigration of foreign traders who became very wealthy and settled in the city who brought diversity to the cities architecture.[12]

Anonymous ID: 75cd46 June 3, 2018, 9:42 a.m. No.1618483   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8548

>>1618379

wow, predictive programming at its finest:

>https://infogalactic.com/info/Stand_on_Zanzibar

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"The Happening World" – These chapters consist of collage-like collections of short, sometimes single-sentence, descriptive passages. The intent is to capture the vibrant, noisy, and often ephemeral situations arising in the novel's world. At least one chapter of the narrative, a party where most of the characters meet and where the plot makes a significant shift in direction, is presented in this way.

 

The key main trends are based on the enormous population and its impact: social stresses, eugenic legislation, widening social divisions, future shock, and extremism.

 

The book centres on two New York men, Donald Hogan and Norman Niblock House, who share an apartment.[2] House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of the all-powerful corporations. Using his "Afram" (African American) heritage to advance his position, he has risen to vice-president at age twenty-six.

 

A second major plot is a break-through in genetic engineering in the fictional South East Asian nation of Yatakang (an island nation and a former Dutch colony, like Indonesia), to which Hogan is soon sent by the US government ("State") to investigate.

 

Puerto Rico, referred to by the nickname "Junior-but-one State," and the Sulu Archipelago—renamed "Isola"—are part of the United States.