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Some 20,000 chests of opium were confiscated from British merchants in Guangzhou (Canton).
Iranian authorities confiscated copies of Zan after it printed a cartoon showing a thug being asked to kill a woman rather than a man because under Islamic law a woman's "blood money" is half that of a man's.
Soldiers confiscated thousands of weapons in Ambon last Monday following clashes that left 18 people dead.
In the center is a statue of Juan Ponce de León in full regalia that was cast in 1797 from the iron of a British cannon, confiscated after their unsuccessful attack on the city.
Arlington National Cemetery, "the nation's most hallowed military burial ground ," was born in an act of theft: The U.S. government confiscated it in 1861 from Gen.