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Red trousers helped French industry says newspaper
A French paper claims the red military trousers were chosen to save the madder plant, shifting dye from white to red a century ago to preserve a key industry. Also notes abundant Afghan wine and a public distillery practice in Kafiristan, and a Vienna hill flint mine with neolithic town relics dating 5000 years.
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