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    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, 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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