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| :: About me :: → Name: Nicholas :: Barnstars ::
| :: What I do here :: → Write India related stub articles :: My Featured Articles :: → Template:FA India :: My DYKs :: ...that Dr. Acacio Gabriel Viegas was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai in 1896, and later became the president of the Bombay Municipal Corporation? ...that Cherrapunji in India is the wettest place in the world? ...that Jinnah House was the Mumbai residence of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and is the centre of a property dispute? ...that Kuttanad in Kerala, is India's only region below sea level? ...that Skeleton Lake in Uttranchal, India is named after the discovery of the remains of approximately 600 people who died in a sudden hailstorm? ...that the Chicken's Neck is a narrow strip of land 24 km in width connecting India to its north-eastern states? ...that the Asiatic Society of Bombay possesses one of the only two surviving original copies of Dante's The Divine Comedy? ...that the Fairy Queen is the longest-operating steam locomotive in the world? ...that Wai-Wai is a popular noodle-like snack eaten in Nepal, Sikkim and in northern parts of West Bengal? ...that seven countries have more than one capital city? |
