WikiPedia definition of "amboyna"
The Amboyna massacre [1] was the 1623 torture and execution on Ambon Island of twenty men, ten of whom were in the service of the British East India Company, by agents of the Dutch ...
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Amboyna can refer to: Ambon, Maluku, a city in Indonesia; Ambon Island, sometimes named Amboyna, part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia; Amboyna burl of Pterocarpus trees
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The wood known in Indonesia as amboyna is the burl of the tree, named after Ambon, where much of this material was originally found. Often amboyna is finely sliced to produce an ...
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Amboyna Cay or An Bang Island (Tagalog: Lagos; Chinese: 安波沙洲; pinyin: Anbo Shazhou; Vietnamese: Đảo An Bang; Malay: Pulau Amboyna Kecil) is an island in the Spratly Islands ...
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Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants is a tragedy by John Dryden written in 1673. Its subject is the Amboyna massacre that took place on Ambon Island in 1623
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Amboyna is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae. [1]
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In 1673 the poet John Dryden produced his tragedy Amboyna; or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants. In 1796 the British, under Admiral Rainier, captured Ambon, but ...
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A burl (British bur or burr) is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. It is commonly found in the form of a rounded outgrowth on a tree trunk or branch that is ...
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Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family Fabaceae, most of which yield valuable timber traded as padauk (or padouk); other common names are mukwa or narra.
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Agents of the Dutch East India Company used a precursor to waterboarding during the Amboyna massacre, which took place on the island of Amboyna in the Molucca Islands in 1623.
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