Chennai Port (redirect from Madras Port)
was not until the 1850s that work began on a pier to berth vessels following suggestions from the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Till 1815,...
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Pithecellobium dulce (redirect from Madras Thorn)
Pithecellobium dulce, commonly known as Manila tamarind, Madras thorn, monkeypod tree or camachile, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family,...
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The Rio Tinto Pier (Spanish: Muelle de Rio Tinto) was a commercial pier formerly used for the trade of material from the mines of the Rio Tinto Company...
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Tamil Nadu. The strait is named after Robert Palk, who was a governor of Madras (1755–1763) during the Company Raj period. The unique feature around Palk...
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p. 149. "Proceedings of the Madras Music conferences". The Journal of the Music Academy, Madras. 61. Music Academy (Madras, India). 1930. Besant, Annie...
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com. Retrieved 2014-02-01. Pier Paolo Piciucco, A companion to Indian fiction in English 2004, Atlantic Publishers & Dist Pier Paolo Piciucco, A Companion...
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Richard Gadd (category People educated at Madras College)
described himself as a "middle-class guy from Fife". He was educated at Madras College and studied English literature and theatre studies at the University...
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de Torchon Deadly Circuit 16 Jayanta Das 54 India Actor, Director Gattu Madras Cafe 16 Sebastiano Lo Monaco 65 Italy Actor Graduation Party I Viceré 16...
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Kanyakumari (section Kanyakumari Pier)
renamed to "Kanniyakumari" by the Government of India and the Government of Madras. According to a Hindu legend, Kanya Devi, an avatar of Parvati, was to marry...
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Bombay (now Mumbai) on 3 November 1961, when she was received at Ballard Pier by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. That December, the ship was deployed...
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London to Brindisi in Italy, then by boat from Brindisi to Bombay's Ballard Pier where they could directly board the Imperial Indian Mail for a 40-hour journey...
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images are shown, illustrating the transformation of the early 20th century Madras into modern-day Chennai. Kattradhu Kalavu in a post-credits scene, Tap Dancing...
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Nagar, Chennai and completed the Class XII from Vana Vani school at IIT Madras. He earned his degree from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering and...
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List of private-use airports in Oregon (redirect from Pier 126 Heliport)
Springs Ranch Airport Madras OG19 Bombay Farms Airport Madras OG35 Mountain View Hospital Heliport Madras 72OR Ochs Private Airport Madras OG51 Six Springs...
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Hindi) name board at the Tirusulam suburban railway station in Chennai (Madras). Almost all railway stations in India have signs like these in three or...
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sons, Sergio and Pier Luigi, whose focus was on top quality fabrics development, including cashmere and extra fine wools. Sergio and Pier's research gave...
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progressive erosion and floods. Submerged wharves and several meter lengths of pier walls have excavated in recent times have corroborated the literary references...
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line from Royapuram to Arcot is built. 1857: University of Madras is founded. 1862: First pier is constructed at the harbour. 1864–65: Presidency College...
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1 January 1880. The railway portion of the route within India was from Madras (Chennai) to Tuticorin. At Tuticorin, passengers embarked on the boat mail...
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His father was Colonel John Thomas Smith of the Madras Royal Engineers who became Master of the Madras and Calcutta Mints and designed a machine for minting...
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archaeologist K. V. Soundararajan. Submerged wharves and several meter lengths of pier walls excavated in recent times have corroborated the literary references...
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Block-setting crane (section Tynemouth Pier)
installing the large stone blocks used to build breakwaters, moles and stone piers. The mid-Victorian age was a time of great expansion in industry and shipping...
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and steel from the plant was used to construct the railway stations at Madras central and Egmore stations and was also exported to Sheffield. The company...
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succession of schools in Madras, including the Lutheran Mission School in Purasawalkam, C.R.C. High School, and the Madras Christian College Higher Secondary...
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Culture of Thalassery (section Pier cannons)
effect did not reach the Travancore-Cochin area, which was not under the Madras Presidency, and where inequality was greater in number. In the colonial...
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Treaty of Amiens. These coastal regions were temporarily administered under Madras Presidency between 1793 and 1798, but for later periods the British governors...
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in Union Hall. A key source of employment in the area is fishing, and the pier has its own ice plant and fish processing factory run by Glenmar Shellfish...
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Madras Manufacture and Trade: Shifting Patterns of Exchange. University of Minnesota. p. 65. Evenson, Sandra Lee (1994). A History of Indian Madras Manufacture...
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May with the loss of all 655 passengers and 82 crew. It was en route from Madras, India, to Rangoon, Burma, across the Bay of Bengal. 737 1914 United Kingdom...
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up the last lifeboat with survivors and left the area at 08:50 bound for Pier 54 in New York City. Of the 711 passengers and crew rescued by the Carpathia...
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