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... Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nat... ... pre-epidemic levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian ... ... one. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, Egypt in 1875, Eastern Europe between 1912 to 1919 and Turkey in 1927. In Russi... ...r 6 days Casualties: 60,000 dead Felt as far as: Algiers (1100 kilometers to the east) Side effects: tsunami 20 meters high (at Cadiz) to 6 me... ...loture.htm Fingerprints Fingerprints were first used to identify criminals in Bengal, India in the 1890s. The London Metropolitan Police intro... ...ourt Oath". On July 14, 1789 crowds stormed the Bastille - a fortress prison in east Paris - in response to ominous movements of royal troops in...

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..., because the surface is so seldom perfectly level. There are hundred of men in East Tennessee that will testify to this fact from actual experience.... ...sed for a bad purpose. But to proceed. A black cat drops dead at the sight of a Bengal Tiger; a cat of any other color is not affected in the least....

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...rdo: Leeds 1909, Cheltenham 1910, Southport I9lI, Portrush (Irlando) 1912, Eastbourne 1913, She eld 1914, Bath 1915, Y ork 1916, Liverpool 19l9, Birm... ...o C. Torbes fariĝis membroj de la societo; granda ilustrita revuo “ e Far Eastern Review” presis lecionojn de E, eĉ oni povis legi tiam pri lernejo, ... ... ktp. La unua, kun kiu li parolis E-e, estis Trompeter, kiu vizitis lin en Eastsound en la 1890-aj jaroj. Per brulego en 1904 li perdis ĉiujn leterojn... ...Bombay kaj Udipi. En 1906, post E kunveno aranĝita en “ Asiatic Society of Bengal” , oni fondis E grupon ankaŭ en Calcutta, kie A. Sirnper gvidis kurs... ...ogo, prop-is en Delhi, Agra kaj aliaj urboj. L. Sinha klopodis speciale en Bengalio, ankaŭ lia frato skribis en la gazetaro favore por E. ” (1933.) UE... ...uracisto. Nask. 2 jun. 1857 en Kinsale. E-isto de 1907. Starigis grupon en Eastbourne, 1909. Prez. de Sudorienta EF de 1930. Robinsono Kruso. Romano d... ... Sinha Lakŝmiswar, hindo, instruisto de ped. manlaboroj en Santi- niketan, Bengalio. Nask. 6 jun. 1905 en Rarisal, Orient-Norda Hindujo. Sendita al Sv... ...is denove en Svedujon. Verkoj: „Sivaĝi,“ originala historia drameto, 1928 „Bengalaj fabeloj“ 1930; kaj broŝuro pri interhoma interkompreno, 1931. Sinj... ...to; sekr. N. Booth, Netherton, Hudders eld. Anglujo; kas. D. H. Davis, 23 East Dulwich Grave, East Dulwich, London S. E. 22. Reprezentantoj (agentoj)...

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....8/2012 3 The Bangladesh Liberation War was an armed conflict pitting East Pakistan (Now Bangladesh) and India against West Pakistan, re- sulte... ...ngladesh) and India against West Pakistan, re- sulted in the secession of East Pakistan, which became the independent nation: Bangla- desh. The wa... ... army units di- rected by West Pakistan launched a military operation in East Pakistan against Ben- gali civilians, students, intelli- gentsia, and ... ...elli- gentsia, and armed personnel who were demanding separa- tion of the East from West Pakistan. The movement con- flicted on the basis of BANGLA ... ...est Pakistan. The movement con- flicted on the basis of BANGLA language. Bengali military, pa- ramilitary, and civilians formed the Mukti Bahini (B... ...and the Mukti Bahini defeated the West Pakistani forces deployed in the East. The re- sulting surrender was the larg- est in number of prisoners of... ... and the eastern zone (modern-day Bangladesh) was initially termed East Bengal and later, East Pakistan. Although the population of the two zones... ...by Muhajirs and in the East by Biharis, although Genealogically Bengali belongs to the group of Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages,- here marked ... ... culture. The majority groups in West Pakistan spoke Punjabi, while the Bengali language was spo- ken by the vast majority of East Pakistanis. The...

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...(see West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 88 Germany, Federal Republic of (West Germany) 90 Ghana 91_... ...II. Central America and the Caribbean IV. South America V. Europe VI. Middle East VII. Africa VIII. Soviet Union, East and South Asia IX. Southeast As... ...G Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) UA... ...s and petroleum products Major trade partners: exports mostly USSR and other Eastern bloc countries; imports mostly USSR and other Eastern bloc countr... ... million; expendi- tures, $5.8 million (1984) Monetary conversion rate: 2.70 East Caribbean dollars=US$l (December 1986) Fiscal year: probably calenda... ...tionality: noun Bangladeshi(s); adjec- tive Bangladesh Ethnic divisions: 98% Bengali; 250,000 Biharis and fewer than one million tribals Religion: 83%... ... service (Iceland has no conscription or compulsory military service) Bay of Bengal Calicut ( \ Mldurai Laccadive \ / Sea \y See region*!map VIII Anda...

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... less when you think of compounded yearly increases. But when you look at East Asia the gross domestic product had an annual growth rate of 6.4% and... ...tion. This means that a recession in the West is a depression here in the East. ―I have heard it said that the poor will always be with us. What... ...own of vultures and into the dankest city in the world where the wares of Bengal were openly sold. Tiger claws. Cobra skin belts, Indian silks, spic... ...but less aid is being given for food. With 4% of the world‘s population, East Africa gets 20% of the food aid, and Africa as a whole, with 7% of th... ...ion likely to work is to pay people to not reproduce. ―I know that Eastern Europe is reducing its population. Even the Catholic countries, li... ... expect a population drop of 13% in Hungary by 2060, and a drop of 18% in Eastern Europe by that time. And of course the number of people over 65 wi...

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... 3 PERIYAR, THE PROPHET OF THE NEW AGE THE SOCRATES OF SOUTH EAST ASIA FATHER OF THE SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENT AND ARCH ENEMY OF IGN... ...ailed by a UNESCO Award as ‘the prophet of the new age, the Socrates of south east Asia, father of the social reform movement and arch enemy of igno... ...to the nation? The way you threaten us, go and threaten (Jinnah) Sahib, the Bengal Muslims: they will immediately break your teeth and give it in ... ...sam, Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Manipur, Orissa, Rajasthan Sikkim, Tripura, West Bengal, Dadra and Nagar, Haveli, Delhi. Middle stage: 19 States /UTs, ... ...halaya, Orissa, Punjab, 338 Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Chandigarh. Secondary stage: 23 States /UTs, Andhra Pradesh, ... ...ur, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamilnadu, Tripura Utter Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi, Pondichery. That is 11 states/UTs the drop out rate ... ...3.92 Tamil Nadu 9.04 Andhra Pradesh 7.68 Karnataka 7.63 Gujarat 6.80 West Bengal 5.06 (Source: National SC/ST Commission Report 1996-1997 and...

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...X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

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...sing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West XXX. The Faithful River XXXIII. In Captivity XXXV. Initiation... ...is wife and take aboard a North Sea pilot to help him sail the ship up the east coast. He had not felt equal to the task by himself, for it is the sor... ... her lines at bow and stern. It is impossible to say. She was built in the East Indies somewhere, of teak-wood 37 Joseph Conrad throughout, except th... ...at ship, already old then, made some wonder- ful dashes across the Gulf of Bengal with cargoes of rice from Rangoon to Madras. She took the secret of ... ...at passage, and memorable enough in its way. In a great airy ward of a Far Eastern hospital, lying on my back, I 48 The Mirror of the Sea had plenty ... ... 64 The Mirror of the Sea Perhaps she was coming from Port Elizabeth, from East London—who knows? It was many years ago, but I remember well the capta...

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...t I tried to take it, my ambition fired When sixteen years of age, Seeing “East Lynne,” played here in the village By Ralph Barrett, the coming Romant... ...rnor? For when the returns began to come in And Cleveland was sweeping the East It was too much for you, poor old heart, Who had striven for democracy... ...es of children Dancing at the foot of a mountain. A breeze blew out of the east and swept them as leaves, Driving some up the slopes. . . . All was ch... ...led. For soon as hog-eyed Allen reached the walk, Close on his steps paced Bengal Mike, brought in By Kinsey Keene, the subtle-witted one, To match th... ...e feared. But when the hog-eyed one Saw Bengal Mike his countenance grew dark, The bristles o’er his red eyes twitc... ... lowered. Round and round The court-house paced he, followed stealthily By Bengal Mike, who jeered him every step: “Come, elephant, and fight! Come, h... ...s Were cast, and closed the polls, before the door Of Trainor’s drug store Bengal Mike, in tones 130 Spoon River Anthology That echoed through the vi... ... Has gashed him with its teeth, the hog- one Rushed with his giant arms on Bengal Mike And grabbed him by the throat. Then rose to heaven The frighten...

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... his acquaintance had been proposing to him to go a voyage for them to the East Indies, and to China, as private traders. “And now, uncle,” says he, “... ... as I have said, with his project of carrying me thither in his way to the East Indies. I paused a while at his words, and looking steadily at him, “W... ...these I carried a tailor, who had offered himself to go a passenger to the East Indies with my nephew, but afterwards consented to stay on our new pla... ...that was an exceeding difficulty to us, for that the ship was bound to the East Indies; and though we were driven out of our course to the westward a ... ...n, especially the passengers, at the no- tion of being carried away to the East Indies; they then en- 19 Daniel Defoe treated me that as I was driven... ...ouch at Surat; but the chief of the supercargo’ s design lay at the Bay of Bengal, where, if he missed his business outward-bound, he was to go out to... ...nd I thought the affair had been over. We were at this time in the road at Bengal; and being willing to see the place, I went on shore with the super-... ...efore me, which was to wait for some English ships, which were com- ing to Bengal from Achin, on the island of Sumatra, and get passage on board them ... ...re. Then we went up to Saskan, were eight months out, and on our return to Bengal I was very well satisfied with my adventure. Our people in England o...

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...wever, my fate to make the passage to India (on board of the “Samuel Snob” East Indiaman, Captain Duffy) with this lovely creature, and my misfortune ... ...stion; and old Colonel Lilywhite, carrying his wife and seven daughters to Bengal, swore that he would have a divorce from Mrs. L., and made an attemp... ... his way humbly to join the regiment at headquarters. The —‘th Regiment of Bengal Cavalry, then under the com- mand of Lieut.-Colonel Julius Jowler, C... ...ale ale (I drank two hundred and thirty-four dozen the first year I was in Bengal)—and it was no small piece of fun, certainly, to see old Mrs. Jowler... ...rilliant campaigns; then taking dawk, I travelled across the country north-eastward, and had the honour of fighting by the side of Lord Lake at Laswar... ...o blacken the reputation of public men. I ask, was any one of these men in Bengal in the year 1803? Was any single conductor of any one of these paltr... ...nd inflaming the minds of the various na- tive princes against the British East India Company. A number of these entered into Scindiah’s ranks: one of... ...ibly have done so—and the loss of his army would have been the ruin of the East India Com- pany—and the ruin of the English East India Company would ... ...r Gahagan have established my Empire (bah! it was a republic then!) in the East—but that the man before us, Lieutenant Goliah Gahagan, was riding at t...

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...o- sition. It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivi- lized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. Lispeth, having ... ...d Lispeth—especially Lispeth—for their kindness. He was a traveller in the East, he said—they never talked about “globe-trotters” in those days, when ... ... her by the time he was butterfly-hunting in Assam. He wrote a book on the East afterwards. Lispeth’s name did not appear. At the end of three months,... ...gagement—with red eyes, while Phil was sailing to Darjiling—”a port on the Bengal Ocean,” as his mother used to tell her friends. He was popular enoug... ...g fifty rupees a month out of office hours. He had the noise of the Bay of Bengal and a Bengali Babu for company; nothing more. He sent foolish letter... ...th his “dear, good Wonder,” they might be induced to leave the “Immemorial East” in peace. “No wise man has a policy,” said the Viceroy. “A Policy is ... ...s Mellish, and he had lived for fifteen years on land of his own, in Lower Bengal, studying cholera. He held that cholera was a germ that propagated i... ...ew all the rubbish into the fireplace and laughed. He knew that men in the East do not make love under win- dows at eleven in the forenoon, nor do wom... ...rson, he was called to distinguish him from his father “Young” Gayerson, a Bengal Civilian, who affected the customs—as he had the heart—of youth. “Ve...

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...h salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for the sub-lieutenants get 280 pounds, 32 Around the ... ...overnor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra. But British India, properly so c... ...ious rajahs in the interior who are absolutely independent. The celebrated East India Com- pany was all-powerful from 1756, when the English first gai... ...d the gover- nor-general and his subordinates, civil and military. But the East India Company has now passed away, leaving the British possessions in ... ...site T annah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bunde... ...ly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a li... ..., bears, and wolves which fled be- fore the locomotive; and the marvels of Bengal, Golconda ru- ined Gour, Murshedabad, the ancient capital, Burdwan, ... ... in sight of the great Andaman, the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal, with its picturesque Saddle Peak, two thou- sand four hundred feet ... ...” “Oh, a trifle of sea-sickness—I’ve been staying in my berth. The Gulf of Bengal does not agree with me as well as the Indian Ocean. And how is Mr. F...

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...ue to the failure of the Russian munitions. Then for a time the war in the East was mobile and precarious while the Rus- sians retreated to their pres... ...thened line of supplies, and Bloch is back upon his pedestal so far as the Eastern theatre goes. Bloch has been equally justified in the Anglo-French ... ...ugh or getting round; and so too the losses of the German colonies and the East African War are scarcely to be reckoned with in the main war. They hav... ...sion of the main war. Whatever surprises or changes this last phase of the East- ern Empire, that blood-clotted melodrama, may involve, they will but ... ... subjugated, London humbled, Russia suppliant, Belgium conquered, the Near East a prey. Such an admission will be a day of reckoning that German Impe-... ...eland, a Germany, a Jugo-Slav region, a Constantinople, a Rajputana, and a Bengal. I do not mean that these are absolutely fixed things; they may have... ...As it is, certain things are so inevitable—the integration of a modernised Bengal, of China, and of Egypt, for example—that the question before us is ... ...here is no Indian nation, there never has been, but there are manifestly a Bengal and a Rajputana, there is manifestly a constellation of civilised na...

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...bour gossip. The Hilda had unaccountably lost her figurehead in the Bay of Bengal, and her captain was greatly affected by this. He and the ship had b... ...eared at night—a clear fine night with just a slight swell— in the gulf of Bengal. Went off without a splash; no one in the ship could tell why, how, ... ...ches of papers brought by the last mail reported a series of crimes in the East End of London, there was a sensational case of abduction in France and... ...ing them a carefully-thought-out scheme for the ship’s em- ployment in the East and about the China Seas for the next two years. I spent the day at th...

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...st,” he said, with emphasis. “Where have you come from?” said I. “From the East,” said he, “and I am hoping that you will give him the message on the ... ... there, and most of the folk of India proper. Balkh and Bokhara there meet Bengal and Bombay, and try to draw eye-teeth. Y ou can buy ponies, turquois... ...ut you and their own affairs. That’s what I want.’ “ ‘Do you remember that Bengali woman I kept at Mogul Serai when I was a plate-layer?’ says I. ‘A f...

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...or the present festivities. Y oung Bedwin Sands, then an elegant dandy and Eastern traveller, was manager of the revels. An Eastern traveller was some... ... Mesrour the Nubian appears, with bare arms, bangles, yataghans, and every Eastern ornament—gaunt, tall, and hideous. He makes a salaam before my lord... ...of her costume. The second part of the charade takes place. It is still an Eastern scene. Hassan, in another dress, is in an attitude by Zuleikah, who... ...l black slave. It is sunrise on the desert, and the Turks turn their heads eastwards and bow to the sand. As there are no dromedaries at hand, the ban... ... of the oriental travellers, sings a comic song, composed by Mr. Wagg. The Eastern voyagers go off dancing, like Papageno and the Moorish King in The ... ...o was also a passenger on board the Ramchunder. He had passed ten years in Bengal. Constant dinners, tiffins, pale ale and claret, the prodigious labo... ...s there ready to replace the horrid little narrow crib in which the portly Bengal gentleman had been confined during the voyage? He could not think of... ...he next morning, “Mr. Joseph Sedley of the Honourable East India Company’s Bengal Civil Service.” Amelia found him up very early the next morning, mor... ...his friend, the Major, been at his elbow. That gentleman would not let the Bengalee rest until he had ex- ecuted his promise of having a home for Amel...

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...ch Steam Naviga- tion Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the ... ...would not bet in its favour. 21 Jules Verne The frigate skirted the south-east coast of America with great rapidity. The 3rd of July we were at the o... ...der Farragut, faithful to his promise, was to turn the course to the south-east and abandon for ever the north- ern regions of the Pacific. The frigat... ...rkness was intense. I caught a glimpse of a black mass disappearing in the east, its beacon lights dying out in the distance. It was the frigate! I wa... ...ared through the fringes of a thick cloud that the wind was driving to the east. The surface of the sea glittered with its rays. This kindly light rea... ...he Kuro-Scivo of the Japanese, the Black River, which, leaving the Gulf of Bengal, where it is warmed by the perpendicular rays of a tropical sun, cro... ...id of them behind. The 27th of January, at the entrance of the vast Bay of Bengal, we met repeatedly a forbidding spectacle, dead bodies floating on t...

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..., vanished over the hills, reappeared a little blue outline far off in the east, going now very fast before a gentle south-west gale, returned above t... ...d patriotic cries, and then flew up very swiftly and easily into the south-eastern sky, rising and falling with long, easy undulations in an ex- traor... ... in packing and dis- persing the rest. Sealed packing-cases went north and east and west to various pantechnicons, and the engines were boxed with pec... ...?” said Edna. “Oh!—manoeuvres,” stid Bert. “Oh! I thought they did them at Easter,” said Edna, and troubled no more. The last great British war, the B... ...g up with her floriferous hat in her lap, shockingly neglected. The beach, east and west, was dotted with little people—they seemed all heads and feet... ...at the sight of Asiatic airships, had broken into a Hindoo insurrection in Bengal and a Mohametan revolt hostile to this in the North- west Provinces—...