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  • tourism. So this is new to Sri Lanka. So we are anxious to see how it works. Hiran Cooray, chairman of a highly successful Sri Lankan luxury chain, Jetwing...
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  • of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (which is the official capital of Sri Lanka) suburb...
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  • Sinhalese, M.I.A. is the most famous Sri Lankan in the world. She has the right to speak. I didn't know about Sri Lanka and the trouble there until M.I.A...
    55 KB (8,053 words) - 18:11, 22 January 2024
  • forced labour moved to plantations in the Dutch-ruled coastlands of Sri Lanka. A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History (2011) From the outset...
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  • eighteen is called Hinayana – the form of Buddhism prevalent today in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. We could call it southern Buddhism...
    25 KB (2,546 words) - 01:46, 10 March 2022
  • B. R. Ambedkar (category Civil rights activists)
    millions embracing Buddhism in the land of its birth. Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan Prime Minister and former President, [5] ...though Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar...
    85 KB (13,286 words) - 16:17, 20 June 2024
  • Communalism is a significant social issue in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Communal conflicts between religious communities in India, especially...
    33 KB (5,040 words) - 06:32, 2 March 2024
  • of peace and a land of prosperity. Arthur C. Clarke, as quoted in the "Sri Lanka" in Sunday Times (31 December 2000). The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot...
    118 KB (15,665 words) - 20:38, 24 June 2024
  • and Pakistan were given independence in 1947, Burma (Myanmar), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and Palestine following in 1948. The Labour government of 1945–51 wished...
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  • deconstructionist tenet of the Madhyamika school. James was under the tutelage of the Sri Lankan Buddhist scholar Anagarika Dharmapala (see note on Anagarika Dharmapala)...
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  • Winston Churchill (category People of World War II)
    Remarks on the April 5, 1942) Easter Sunday Raid on Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) on 5 April 1942. From a conversation at the British Embassy, Washington...
    440 KB (66,916 words) - 10:56, 11 July 2024
  • fates. Our parents had come from Trinidad and Jamaica and Barbados, from Sri Lanka and Poland and Somalia and Vietnam. They worked shit jobs, struggled with...
    33 KB (5,304 words) - 13:59, 12 July 2024
  • cannot make war… kill in the name of one’s own religion, that is, in the name of God. Statements on his official plane traveling from Sri Lanka to the Philippines...
    121 KB (17,084 words) - 10:33, 20 June 2024
  • Margaret Thatcher (category People of the Cold War)
    the Philippines, from Jamaica to Japan, from Malaysia to Mexico, from Sri Lanka to Singapore, privatisation is on the move...The policies we have pioneered...
    267 KB (39,767 words) - 17:13, 31 May 2024
  • but even more sinister is the role of the Church in Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka. Many of the Tamil Tigers are Christian, including the late miss Dhanu...
    601 KB (93,079 words) - 11:23, 29 June 2024
  • forced labour moved to plantations in the Dutch-ruled coastlands of Sri Lanka. Jeremy Black, A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History 2011 He...
    65 KB (10,878 words) - 07:29, 15 February 2024
  • Elvis did not care, he continued singing. About Mahinda Rajapaksa, former Sri Lankan President, in an article written by Kamalika Pieris and published at the...
    1.28 MB (230,585 words) - 00:05, 7 July 2024
  • Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia, The Philippine Islands, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand, Then Borneo, and Vietnam. Tunisia,...
    80 KB (13,463 words) - 02:58, 14 March 2024
  • What's going on here? 'Jay: [pouring drinks] We're saying farewell to the Sri Lanka deal. Ten months of negotiations. Matt: You just got here, so you don't...
    190 KB (29,386 words) - 02:18, 13 May 2024