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| | Factory Act. | | Factory Act. |
| | + | fixed working hours for children below 12 |
| | + | dangerous machines fenced. |
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| | + | Vernacular Press Act repealed. |
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| | + | Census System introduced in India |
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| | A curtain- huge seven story mansion of Bombay, streets, railway lines, ships and factories. | | A curtain- huge seven story mansion of Bombay, streets, railway lines, ships and factories. |
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| | + | Sarasvati: |
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| | + | It is raining in Bombay and the streets are full of large black flowers moving briskly on dhotis and pants and sarees. The water bounces off those thick petals, runs down them onto the ground. Sometimes a flowerhead moves and you see a face stuck like a lump in a plant's throat. But most of the time, the rain is hard, and no one's face is seen. |
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| | + | Dhundhi falls ill that monsoon, his face is pink with a cold that will not go, his nose is red, his eyes are always watering and his head is so hot, you'd think someone had tried to cook him. His mother gives him all manner of medicine, but to no avail. |
| | + | That is when his Kaka swings his bottle with the sugar pills |
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| | + | Sarasvati: |
| | + | Dhundi's kaka worked in the railways in the day, but in the evenings, he became a doctor. He had a cupboard full of 300 bottle with little white pills that were sweet.. and all kinds of liquids in a dusty cupboard in his living room. |
| | + | He had hardly any patients. So he was most delighted when Baba |
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| | + | Mandakini: |
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| | + | Dhundhi |
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| | + | Sarasvati: |
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| | + | He was most delighted when Dhundhi fell ill. That evening, when Dhundhi got up, sneezing and coughing, he saw that his Kaka was standing over his head. Small white pellets were being bounced about in a transparent glass tube. |
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| | + | Dhundi shook his head. |
| | + | His worried mother who was standing behind said" Dhundi, do as Kaka says, this medicine cannot harm you" |
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| | + | Dhundhi looked at her, she looked doubtful herself. |
| | + | He shook his head again. |
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| | + | Kaka made a funny noise at the back of his throat, which meant, " Just listen to me!" |
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| | + | (Neelkanth is giggling.) |
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| | + | Neelkanth: |
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| | + | Like how?? |
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| | + | Sarasvati Bai purses her lips and pushes the muscles of her throat till an odd sound, like of a turkey clearing his throat, emerges. |
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| | + | All the children laugh, Neelkanth gets a extended fit of giggles. |
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| | + | Sarasvati Bai: |
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| | + | " Just listen to me!" |
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| | + | and so Dhundi swallowed the medicine. And it was sweet. |
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| | + | His kaka then grandly said |
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| | + | Water has memory, Dwarkabai. I give a water poison,and then keep diluting it, till the poison seems to be gone. Then I put these sugar pellets into the water, and carrying it |
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| | + | Manda: Like a medium, like the voice for a ghost.. |
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| + | Kaka: |
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| + | Carrying it, the sugar pills travel in your body, smell out the similar poison. Poison meets poison and is demolished by itself. |
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| − | '''1881''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCLXXXI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] (see link for calendar). | + | You are making it sound mysterious like Abhimanyu's Chakravyuh, bhau! |
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| − | ==Events==
| + | Mandakini: |
| − | ===January - April===
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| − | * [[January 16]]-[[January 24]] - [[Siege of Geok Tepe]] - Russian troops under general [[Skobeleff]] defeat [[Turkomans]]
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| − | *[[January 24]] - [[William Edward Forster]], the chief secretary for [[Ireland]], introduces his [[Coercion Bill]] - it goes through a long debate before it is accepted [[February 2]]
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| − | *[[January 25]] - [[Thomas Edison]] and [[Alexander Graham Bell]] form the [[Oriental Telephone Company]]
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| − | *[[February 2]] - [[Parkfield Earthquake]]
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| − | *[[February 5]] - [[Phoenix, Arizona]] is incorporated.
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| − | *[[February 13]] - First issue of the feminist newspaper ''[[La Citoyenne]]'' is published by [[Hubertine Auclert]].
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| − | *[[February 19]] - [[Kansas]] became the first [[U.S. state]] to prohibit all [[ethanol|alcoholic]] beverages.
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| − | *[[March 4]] - [[Rutherford B. Hayes|Rutherford Birchard Hayes]] is succeeded as [[President of the United States]] by [[James Garfield|James Abram Garfield]].
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| − | *[[March 12]] - [[Andrew Watson]] makes his [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
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| − | *[[March 13]] - [[Alexander II of Russia]] is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. He is succeeded by his son, [[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]].
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| − | *[[April 14]] - [[Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight]] erupted in [[El Paso]], [[Texas]]
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| − | *[[April 21]] - The [[University of Connecticut]] is founded as the Storrs Agricultural School.
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| − | *[[April 25]] - [[Caulfield Grammar School]] is founded in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]].
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| − | *[[April 28]] - [[Billy the Kid]] escapes from [[New Mexico]] jail.
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| − | ===May - August===
| + | Did Baba become alright? |
| − | *[[May 12]] - In [[North Africa]], [[Tunisia]] becomes a [[France|French]] protectorate.
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| − | *[[May 21]] - The [[American Red Cross]] is established by [[Clara Barton]].
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| − | *[[May 21]] - The [[United States Tennis Association]] is established by a small group of tennis club members.
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| − | *[[June 12]] - The [[USS Jeannette (1878)|USS ''Jeannette'']] is crushed in an [[Arctic Ocean]] ice pack.
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| − | *[[July 1]] - [[General Order 70]], the culmination of the [[Cardwell-Childers reforms]] of the [[British Army]]'s organisation, came into effect.
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| − | *[[July 2]] - [[James Garfield|James Abram Garfield]], [[President of the United States]] is shot by [[lawyer]] [[Charles J. Guiteau|Charles Julius Guiteau]]. He survives the assassination attempt but he suffers from [[infection]] of his wound.
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| − | *[[July 4]] - In [[Alabama]], the [[Tuskegee Institute]] opens.
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| − | *[[July 20]] - [[Indian Wars]]: [[Sioux]] chief [[Sitting Bull]] leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to [[United States]] troops at [[Fort Buford]] in [[Montana]].
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| − | * [[3 August]] - [[Pretoria Convention]] peace treaty signed, officialy ending the war between the [[Boers]] and [[United Kingdom|Britain]]
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| − | *[[August 27]] - A [[hurricane]] hits Florida and Carolinas; about 700 die
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| − | ===September - December===
| + | Sarasvati bai nods her head: |
| − | *[[September 5]] - The [[Thumb Fire]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Michigan]] destroys over a million acres (4,000 km²) and kills 282 people.
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| − | *[[September 19]] - US President [[James A. Garfield]] dies. Vice President [[Chester Arthur]] becomes the 21st President of the United States.
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| − | *[[October 26]] - [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]] in [[Tombstone, Arizona | Tombstone]], [[Cochise County, Arizona|Cochise County]], [[Arizona]], [[United States|USA]].
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| − | * [[October 29]] - ''[[The Judge]]'' (US magazine) first published.
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| − | * [[November 11]] - The [[Clarkson Memorial]] in [[Wisbech]] was completed and unveiled to the public.
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| − | * [[November 19]] - A [[meteorite]] struck earth near the village of Großliebenthal, a few kilometers southwest of [[Odessa]], [[Ukraine]].
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| − | * [[December 5]] - The 47th [[US Congress]] (1881-83) convenes
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| − | * [[December 8]] - At least 620 die in fire at [[Ring Theatre]], [[Vienna]]
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| − | ===Unknown date===
| + | He did.. ( looking at Mahadev).. but he was not sure, was he going to recover anyway- or was it that the waters had actually got a memory? |
| − | *Founding of the [[Pali Text Society]]
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| − | *[[University College Dublin]] is established in [[Ireland]]
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| − | *The United States National Lawn Tennis Association (USNLTA) is founded, and the first U.S. [[Tennis]] Championships are played.
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| − | *Founding of the [[League of the Three Emperors]]
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| − | * ''[[London Evening News]]'' begins publication
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| − | * Some [[Vatican City|Vatican]] archives opened to scholars for the first time
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| − | * [[Abilene, Texas]] is founded.
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| − | * [[Leyton Orient F.C.]] is Founded
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| − | * [[Minto, North Dakota ]] is Founded
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| − | ==Births==
| + | [[Image:Sore-throat-drawing.png]] '''''Cadbury's Cocoa Absolutely Pure''''' ''Cadbury's Cocoa is especially rich in flesh forming and strength maintaining principles.Cadbury's Cocoa is delicious, nutritious, digestible, comforting..suitable for all seasons of the year'' |
| − | *[[January 1]] - [[Vajiravudh]], [[King of Thailand]] (d. [[1925]])
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| − | *[[January 9]] - [[Lascelles Abercrombie]], English poet and critic (d. [[1938]])
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| − | *[[January 9]] - [[Giovanni Papini]], Italian essayist, poet, and novelist (d. [[1956]])
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| − | *[[January 17]] - [[Antoni Łomnicki]], Polish mathematician (d. [[1941]])
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| − | *[[January 31]] - [[Irving Langmuir]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1957]])
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| − | *[[February 12]] - [[Anna Pavlova]], Russian ballerina (d. [[1931]])
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| − | *[[March 4]] - [[Richard C. Tolman]], American mathematical physicist (d. [[1948]])
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| − | *[[March 4]] - [[Maude Fealy]], American stage and film actor (d. [[1971]])
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| − | *[[March 17]] - [[Walter Rudolf Hess]], Swiss physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1973]])
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| − | *[[March 23]] - [[Roger Martin du Gard]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1958]])
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| − | *[[March 23]] - [[Hermann Staudinger]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1965]])
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| − | *[[March 25]] - [[Béla Bartók]], Hungarian composer (d. [[1945]])
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| − | *[[March 25]] - [[Mary Gladys Webb]], English writer (d. [[1927]])
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| − | *[[May 19]] - Official birthday of [[Kemal Atatürk]] [[List of Presidents of Turkey|First Turkish President]] (d. [[1938]])
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| − | *[[June 17]] - [[Tommy Burns]], Canadian-born boxer (d. [[1955]])
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| − | *[[July 4]] - [[Ulysses S. Grant III]], American soldier and planner (d. [[1968]])
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| − | *[[July 27]] - [[Hans Fischer]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1945]])
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| − | *[[July 30]] - [[Smedley Butler]], U.S. general (d. [[1940]])
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| − | *[[August 6]] - Sir [[Alexander Fleming]], Scottish researcher, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1955]])
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| − | *[[August 19]] - [[Georges Enescu]], Romanian composer (d. [[1955]])
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| − | *[[August 20]] - [[Edgar Guest]], English poet (d. [[1959]])
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| − | *[[September 8]] - [[Harry Hillman]], American athlete (d. [[1945]])
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| − | *[[September 16]] - [[Clive Bell]], English art critic (d. [[1964]])
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| − | *[[September 17]] - [[Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter]], English soldier (d. [[1955]])
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| − | *[[October 1]] - [[William Boeing]], American engineer and airplane manufacturer (d. [[1956]])
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| − | *[[October 11]] - [[Hans Kelsen]], Austrian legal theorist (d. [[1973]])
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| − | *[[October 15]] - [[P. G. Wodehouse]], English-born writer (d. [[1975]])
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| − | *[[October 22]] - [[Clinton Davisson]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1958]])
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| − | *[[October 25]] - [[Pablo Picasso]], Spanish painter (d. [[1973]])
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| − | *[[November 14]] - [[Nicholas Schenck]], Russian-born film studio executive (d. [[1969]])
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| − | *[[November 24]] - [[Al Christie]], Canadian-born director and producer (d. [[1951]])
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| − | *[[November 25]] - [[Pope John XXIII]] (d. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[December 24]] - [[Juan Ramón Jiménez]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1958]])
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| − | *[[Kemal Atatürk]], founder and the first [[President of Turkey]] (d. [[1938]])
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| − | *[[Antoni Józef Śmieszek]], Polish Egyptologist and linguist (d. [[1943]])
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| − | *[[William Temple (archbishop)|William Temple]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[1944]])
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| − | *[[Hiram Wesley Evans]], American leader of KKK and prohibitionist (d. [[1966]])
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| − | *[[January 3]] - [[Anna McNeill Whistler]], Whistler's mother (b. [[1804]])
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| − | *[[January 21]] - [[Wilhelm Matthias Naeff]], [[member of the Swiss Federal Council]] (b. [[1802]])
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| − | *[[February 5]] - [[Thomas Carlyle]], Scottish writer and historian (b. [[1795]])
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| − | *[[February 9]] - [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], Russian novelist (b. [[1821]])
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| − | *[[March 13]] - Czar [[Alexander II of Russia]] (b. [[1818]])
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| − | *[[March 28]] - [[Modest Mussorgsky]], Russian composer (b. [[1839]])
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| − | *[[April 19]] - [[Benjamin Disraeli]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1804]])
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| − | *[[May 24]] - [[Samuel Palmer]], English artist (b. [[1805]])
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| − | *[[June 6]] - [[Henri Vieuxtemps]], Belgian composer (b. [[1820]])
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| − | *[[July 17]] - [[Jim Bridger]], American explorer and trapper (b. [[1804]])
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| − | *[[July 18]] - [[Billy the Kid]], American gunslinger (b. [[1859]])
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| − | *[[September 7]] - [[Sidney Lanier]], American writer (b. [[1842]])
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| − | *[[September 19]] - [[James A. Garfield]], 20th [[President of the United States]] (assassinated) (b. [[1831]])
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| − | *[[September 22]] - [[Solomon L. Spink]], U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. [[1831]])
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| − | *[[October 3]] - [[Orson Pratt]], American religious leader (b. [[1811]])
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| − | *[[October 31]] - [[George W. DeLong|George DeLong]], American naval officer and explorer (starvation) (b. [[1844]])
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| | + | [[Ravi Varma spends time in Baroda]]. He is invited to attend the investiture ceremony of Sayaji, who is finally getting his rightful powers as a king. |
| | + | T Madhava Rao is Dewan at the Baroda court. |
| | + | As state guest of Baroda, Ravi Varma paints prolifically. He gets an order of five Puranic and religious pictures, including Nala and Damayanti. |
| | + | Do you know the story of Nala, the poet who learn how to count? |
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| + | Not today, I will write it for you later sometime. Difficult for a man down on money to remember the lesson of this story. Difficult as counting the leaves on a tree. Difficult.. |
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Factory Act.
fixed working hours for children below 12
dangerous machines fenced.
Vernacular Press Act repealed.
Census System introduced in India
A curtain- huge seven story mansion of Bombay, streets, railway lines, ships and factories.
Sarasvati:
It is raining in Bombay and the streets are full of large black flowers moving briskly on dhotis and pants and sarees. The water bounces off those thick petals, runs down them onto the ground. Sometimes a flowerhead moves and you see a face stuck like a lump in a plant's throat. But most of the time, the rain is hard, and no one's face is seen.
Dhundhi falls ill that monsoon, his face is pink with a cold that will not go, his nose is red, his eyes are always watering and his head is so hot, you'd think someone had tried to cook him. His mother gives him all manner of medicine, but to no avail.
That is when his Kaka swings his bottle with the sugar pills
Sarasvati:
Dhundi's kaka worked in the railways in the day, but in the evenings, he became a doctor. He had a cupboard full of 300 bottle with little white pills that were sweet.. and all kinds of liquids in a dusty cupboard in his living room.
He had hardly any patients. So he was most delighted when Baba
Mandakini:
Dhundhi
Sarasvati:
He was most delighted when Dhundhi fell ill. That evening, when Dhundhi got up, sneezing and coughing, he saw that his Kaka was standing over his head. Small white pellets were being bounced about in a transparent glass tube.
Dhundi shook his head.
His worried mother who was standing behind said" Dhundi, do as Kaka says, this medicine cannot harm you"
Dhundhi looked at her, she looked doubtful herself.
He shook his head again.
Kaka made a funny noise at the back of his throat, which meant, " Just listen to me!"
(Neelkanth is giggling.)
Neelkanth:
Like how??
Sarasvati Bai purses her lips and pushes the muscles of her throat till an odd sound, like of a turkey clearing his throat, emerges.
All the children laugh, Neelkanth gets a extended fit of giggles.
Sarasvati Bai:
" Just listen to me!"
and so Dhundi swallowed the medicine. And it was sweet.
His kaka then grandly said
Water has memory, Dwarkabai. I give a water poison,and then keep diluting it, till the poison seems to be gone. Then I put these sugar pellets into the water, and carrying it
Manda: Like a medium, like the voice for a ghost..
Kaka:
Carrying it, the sugar pills travel in your body, smell out the similar poison. Poison meets poison and is demolished by itself.
Dwarkabai:
You are making it sound mysterious like Abhimanyu's Chakravyuh, bhau!
Mandakini:
Did Baba become alright?
Sarasvati bai nods her head:
He did.. ( looking at Mahadev).. but he was not sure, was he going to recover anyway- or was it that the waters had actually got a memory?
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1881
Ravi Varma spends time in Baroda. He is invited to attend the investiture ceremony of Sayaji, who is finally getting his rightful powers as a king.
T Madhava Rao is Dewan at the Baroda court.
As state guest of Baroda, Ravi Varma paints prolifically. He gets an order of five Puranic and religious pictures, including Nala and Damayanti.
Do you know the story of Nala, the poet who learn how to count?
Not today, I will write it for you later sometime. Difficult for a man down on money to remember the lesson of this story. Difficult as counting the leaves on a tree. Difficult..
Cadbury's Cocoa Absolutely Pure Cadbury's Cocoa is especially rich in flesh forming and strength maintaining principles.Cadbury's Cocoa is delicious, nutritious, digestible, comforting..suitable for all seasons of the year
