How To Use Assam In A Sentence
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The duke and duchess were caught up in a minor earthquake in Assam last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Assam four weeks of rain, ahead of the monsoon season, have devastated huge areas, making 5m people homeless.
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All five macaque species occurring in Thailand are present, namely rhesus Macaca mulatta, crab-eating M. fascicularis, pig-tailed M. nemestrina, Assam M. assamensis and stump-tailed M. arctoides.
Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand
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Qassam himself was "martyred" by British troops in 1935, at the start of the Palestine Revolt, and then largely forgotten until his memory was revived by Hamas.
Which Way for Hamas?
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Lavishness of decoration, mastery of execution, expansion of palettes with mixed colours are some of the characteristics of Assam's manuscript paintings.
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The shamal blew when Bassam and his friend were about halfway to Baghdad.
Peace Meals
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One of the ancillary reasons, Hall decided to visit Assam was because he wanted to see if he could find the fabled graveyard of elephants - the final resting place these behemoths head towards when they sense the end was near.
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Areas such as Cambay basin, Krishna-Godavari basin and Assam-Arakan basin are considered as most prospective areas for shale gas exploration, Srivastava said.
Daily News & Analysis
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The elephant-catching tribe, the Singphos, prepare for a catch in Assam, often tracking spoor on a river bank.
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TV pictures showed women queuing in Assam in light drizzle.
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But both of those crowds could be dwarfed by an anticipated 9,000 gate at the Kassam Stadium, which would be United's best attendance since the play-off semi-final second leg against Exeter when 10,691 packed in - including a good-sized following from Devon. saddletramp, wantage says ...
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The dominant tree species in this moist forest are the dipterocarps, Anisoptera thurifera, Hopea gregaria, H. iriana, H. novoguineensis, Shorea assamica, S. montigena, S. selanica, and Vatica rassak.
Buru rain forests
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Because the Meghalayans were fighting with the Assamese (and because the plane out of Meghalaya, Vayudoot Airlines, was too scary to fly again) I had to take a bus into neighboring Assam.
Traveling in India: Removing the Mask « Colleen Anderson
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Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical.
The Sun
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The dipterocarps include Anisoptera costata, Hopea celebica, H. gregaria, Shorea assamica, Vatica rassak, and V. flavovirens.
Sulawesi lowland rain forests
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The principal chief conservator of forests had recently said hoolock gibbons were abundantly available in Assam and there was no need to raise a hue and cry to protect them.
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An integral part of the rich Assamese art and culture, which has flabbergasted renowned scholars, this highly skilled art is gasping for survival.
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The world of the hoolock gibbons in the Borajan reserve forest in Assam is dying, thanks to illegal tree-felling.
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Bangladesh borders on the Bay of Bengal in the south; on the Indian states of West Bengal in the west and north, Assam and Meghalaya in the northeast, and Tripura and Mizoram in the east; and on Myanmar in the southeast.
Bangladesh
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It is obtained from semi-domesticated multivoltine silkworm, Antheraea assamensis.
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Saurauja, Prunus: 3 species of Aralia, Castanea, Quercus, etc. A species of Panicum is here cultivated; the Assamese know it by the name Cheena, 3 species of Polygonatum, including that from Laim-planj, one foliis carnosis oppositis. 2 species of Begonia, making altogether six.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Anupam Nath/Associated Press Assamese dancers perform Bihu, a local folk dance, during Rongali Bihu celebrations in Guwahati, April 14, 2011.
The Indian New Year
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They can be found in Burma, Borneo, and other parts of Southeast Asia, such as Sikkim or Assam.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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Kala-azar, transmitted by sandflies was endemic in Assam until 1950, with three major epidemics between 1875 and 1950.
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We ended up staying a week – eating chendol, gorging on assam curries, having massages, hanging out at the night market, encountering boiling pots of satay flavoured lava, meeting wonderful people, being enchanted and doing all those things couples are meant to do on holidays.
Archive 2009-12-01
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On August 22, 2010, the Supreme Court passed an interim order on a suit filed by Assam in 1988 against Nagaland on a border dispute that they should attempt to resolve this dispute through mediation.
Mediation in Indian Courts
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They are: Assam, Meghalaya, Arunchal Pradesh, Mizoram (known for eating dog), Nagaland (known for eating these giant spiders I saw), Manipur.
Memories of India: Meghalaya « Colleen Anderson
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Pericopsis elata largely known as Assamela or Afrormosia, is a high tree, belonging to the Fabaceae family, often found in the semi-deciduous forest types.
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The Brahmaputra River, one of the great rivers of the world, pours down from Tibet, in a steep declivity, into Assam, down toward Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal.
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Parliament's computerised interpreter system is designed to translate proceedings simultaneously from English to Hindi and vice versa, and from other languages such as Assamese, Kannada or Tamil into Hindi and English.
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
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[3] The passamezzo, passy-measure or half-measure was a popular
Days of the Discoverers
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For the foot-tapping, we must turn to the folksy Balkan dance melodies, the bumpy 'New Age' arrangement of a passamezzo by Mainerio and Pickett's bongo-enhanced version of a chanson by Le Jeune.
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Rational Review
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One official, Bassam al-Husseini, called the decapitation "an act of God.
Hullabaloo
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The ad campaign is being aired in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Assamese and Oriya so that it can reach out to the masses.
Global Voices in English » Celebrity Power in Indian Elections
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The film describes the hunting down of a rogue elephant in Assam.
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Assam is open to foreigners but some areas are riddled with bandits, while the ‘no man's land’ between unneighbourly India and Bangladesh is patrolled by bored but trigger-happy armies.
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His immediate response was to arrest 150 people for suspected links with Hamas's military wing, Izzadin el-Qassam.
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In the northeastern state of Assam, ethnic clashes between indigenous tribes and Muslim settlers have killed more than 50 people in recent weeks.
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The ad campaign is being aired in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Assamese and Oriya so that it can reach out to the masses.
Global Voices in English » Celebrity Power in Indian Elections
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I bought a 3 tea combo assam, nilgiris, darjeeling for my colleague, he simply loved it and also said he had never tasted such a great tea :D.
Ajwaini Arbi ke Tikkey (Colocassia with carom seeds)
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In the northeastern state of Assam, ethnic clashes between indigenous tribes and Muslim settlers have killed more than 50 people in recent weeks.
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A viciously intense, poetically raw story, interspersed with moments of dark humor, about two young men - Bassam, the narrator, and his friend since childhood, George - known as De Niro, for his habit of playing Russian roulette like Robert De Niro's character in
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The DTR encompasses a variety of rare and endangered animals in abundance such as Rhesus macaque, leaf monkey, pigtail macaque, stumptail macaque, hoolock gibbon, Assamese macaque, slow lorris and giant squirrel.
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The menu, which existed only in Bassam's head and varied according to his whims, was primarily Egyptian.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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Diganta Talukdar/Demotix The Armed Forces Special Powers Act was passed in 1958, giving the armed forces greater autonomy in so-called "disturbed areas" in the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Jammu & Kashmir.
A Decade-Long Crusade
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Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical.
The Sun
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Hurd's program enables speakers of 59 different languages -- including Assamese (India), Basque (Spain), Igbo (Nigeria), and Inuktitut (Canada) -- to use Microsoft's products.
Nataly Kelly: How Translation Is Changing the World
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In Hassam's painting, however, the fish appear as much a part of the environment as the antique furniture, artless young woman, and sunny garden that beckons beyond the open windows.
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Most of the remaining habitat in this ecoregion is semi-evergreen rain forest and includes eight characteristic dipterocarp species: Anisoptera thurifera, Hopea gregaria, H. iriana, H. novoguineensis, Shorea assamica, S. montigena, S. selanica, and Vatica rassak.
Halmahera rain forests
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Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical.
The Sun
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Many Nagas are said now to speak broken Assamese and Hindi.
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I have the book, "The Agony of the Leaves", and it introduced me to the sublime pleasure of "peppertoast", which I enjoy regularly with a nice pot of assam.
Tea and Toast Part III- Toast
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While the other silk producing states like Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam and Jammu and Kashmir have only 5\% of bivoltine silk in their total production portfolio, in Tamil Nadu it is 25\%.
The Financial Express
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A portion of the crassamentum treat - cd in that manner, was triturated with water as long as it appeared capable of acting as a solvent.
Medico-Chirurgical Transanction
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They are in friendly touch with their neighbours, the Passamaquoddy band of the Maliseet.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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ULFA chief's arrest subdues 'blasty' Assam atmosphere
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After that, we adjourned to the drawing room where Carlo served us a pot of my finest Assam and some cucumber sandwiches.
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Of course, economically and socially, India's film industry has a stronghold that even Los Angeles could only imagine: Bollywood, true, but also Telegu, Assamese, Malayalam ... their regional industries trump our national one, making India the overall leader in global ticket sales.
Derek Beres: The Spell (and Sell) of the Expectable: Slumdog Millionaire
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ONGC's onshore exploration areas are located in India's major sedimentary basins including the Cambay basin and Jaisalmer basin in the west, and the Assam and Assam-Arakan basin, Krishna-Godavari basin and Cauvery basin in the east.
ONGC Plans to Buy Onshore Drilling Rigs
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In other news, I have a delicious cup of tea this morning -- Mokalbari Estate East assam from Upton Tea, brewed for four minutes.
Mary mary quite contrary
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Assam in the morning and rose congou in the afternoon?
Taking umbrage
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I dropped the strainer method and adopted tea bags, made in the mug, but the drink (Assam with no more than a drop of milk and two heaped spoons of sugar) turned out the same: hot, strong and syrupy.
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I open the shop at exactly 8.30 every morning, Monday to Saturday, and I take the quiet time before customers arrive to enjoy a sweet mug of Assam tea.
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Within the heritage zone, sit-down restaurants of note include Kedai Makanan Teik Seng (closed Tuesdays) at Carnavon Street between Chulia and Campbell streets assam prawns (glazed with tamarind) and roast pork stir-fried with sweet soy sauce and chilies are a must.
A Tale of Two Cities
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Prosaic and uneventful to the last degree was our passage, the only incident worth recording being our "gamming" of the PASSAMAQUODDY, of Martha's Vineyard, South Sea whaler; eighteen months out, with one thousand barrels of sperm oil on board.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
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A tall, good-looking young man, poised and self-assured, Bassam is a Christian.
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But what of the intolerable Hamas Qassam rockets on the Israeli city Sderot, the fourteen Israelis killed by those rockets since 2005 (four of them in the current violence), the vile annihilationist language of the Hamas Charter?
Eyeless in Gaza
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It said it will continue to provide assistance for the country's rural road development program in other states such as Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, and West Bengal, as well as for public resource management projects in Assam and Mizoram.
ADB to Lend India $7.4 Billion for Infrastructure Projects
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Diganta Talukdar/Demotix The Armed Forces Special Powers Act was passed in 1958, giving the armed forces greater autonomy in so-called "disturbed areas" in the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Jammu & Kashmir.
A Decade-Long Crusade
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In the upper Assam areas of the ecoregion, the forests are made up of Duabanga-Pterospermum-Terminalia in association with Bombax ceiba, Pterspermum acerifolium, Laportea crenulata, Duabanga sonneratioides, Terminalia myriocarpa, and Calamus tenuis.
Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
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But if the Israelis really do fear the loss of their deterrent from Lebanon — which is kind of chimerical; Israel is the regional superpower, and it says a lot that Hamas’s rockets are crude Qassams — then stopping now might play into the same psychodrama.
Better Watch What You Say | ATTACKERMAN
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Anupam Nath/Associated Press Lal Krishna Advani, Bharatiya Janata Party leader, is presented with a traditional Assamese hat by party workers at a public meeting in theeastern Indian city of Gauhati, Assam , Thursday.
India in Pictures
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Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical.
The Sun
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As oxygen penetrates the fine moist membranes of the air-vessels of the lungs, and unites with the blood by a chemical attraction, as is seen to happen, when blood is drawn into a bason, the lower surface of the crassamentum is of a very dark red so long as it is covered from the air by the upper surface, but becomes florid in a short time on its being exposed to the atmosphere; the manner of its introduction into the system is not probably by animal absorption but by chemical attraction, in which circumstance it differs from the fluids before mentioned both of heat and electricity, and of ether and essential oils.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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I had in front of me some of the finest destructive agents you could wish to light upon -- carbon-monoxide, chlorine-trioxide, mercuric-oxide, conine, potassamide, potassium-carboxide, cyanogen -- when Edwards entered.
The Beetle
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Established in 1990, it has been working for the uplift of the poor and deprived cane and bamboo artisans from Barak Valley situated in the southern part of Assam.
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Without the discomfort of necessity, people tend to become complacent, as can be gauged from the present-day Assam compared to its historically famous yesteryears.
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A new Muslim entrant from the last year is the Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF) in the northeastern state of Assam which won nine seats in the provincial assembly elections last year and expects to win 4-5 seat in the current national elections.
Global Voices in English » Indian Elections 2009: God and Country
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Curiously anachronic, this sonic cross breeding soon becomes totally confusing as the human ear fails to clearly distinguish between the input from the orchestra and that of Passamonte's live box.
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Hassam Omar, a Somali refugee living in Pretoria, was attacked during the spate of xenophobic violence that rocked South Africa in 2008.
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Then I got the assam sambal shrimp, which was tasty but not that spicy, while my friends got nyonya chicken, a tasty bowl of deep fried small pieces of boneless chicken in a sweet sauce; tamarind beef, which reminded me of potroast and some dishes I've had at Burma in the past, and Malaysian Curry Shrimp, which I don't think I tried.
Archive 2008-02-01
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If they do not have love for fellow assamese, what then are they talking about fighting for Assam and Assamese?
Latest News Online - The Indian Express
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Assam is in the firing line of changing weather patterns as it lies on the edge of the growing range of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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European Pressphoto Agency A girl played a traditional musical instrument made of bamboo while performing the 'Bihu Dance' for Rongali Bihu, the festival which marks the the Assamese New Year, in Guwahati, India, April 14, 2011.
The Indian New Year
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Photo by Swapan Nayak 'Sampoi Nungtau lost everything, even her main source of income, an autorickshaw, which was set on a fire on June 10, 2003 during clashes with a tribe that rivaled her own in Kachar Hills, Assam.'
Art as Witness
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The last gregarious flowering of muli bamboo in Mizoram, Tripura, Manipur and Barak Valley of Assam was reported in 1958-59 and was followed by famine in those areas.
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During the Assam agitation, the agitation-leaders came up with numbers like 4/5 millions of illegal aliens in Assam.
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Dick, if thou keep not off my heels in the passamezzo --
Days of the Discoverers
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Wildlife: A female hoolock gibbon named ‘Siloni’ who was found chained in a temple at Silonijan in Assam province in 2002 was purchased at Rs. 500 by the Director of Kaziranga Wildlife Sanctuary S. N.Buagohain and raised her in the precincts of his quarters for a year before being handed over to Kaziranga authorities for training her to live in the wild.
Front Page: India: 14th January 2009
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Guwahati, April 5: Machor tenga, a sweet-and-sour curry which has come to be known as the leitmotif of the Assamese kitchen, has gone global.
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The _gayal_ is of a much milder disposition than the _gaur_, and is extensively domesticated, and on the frontiers of Assam is considered a valuable property by the people.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Tens of thousands of homes, made of bamboo and straw have been washed away by waters sweeping across 25 of Assam's 26 districts.
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If thou goest to him, and say Ilderim sent thee, will he not be glad of such a fine sturdy trooper - ye may touch the hilt, and eat the salt, and belike he'll forget the assami* (* In this sense, a deposit paid by a recruit on enlistment.) for my sake.
Fiancée
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It was real blood, composed of lymph and crassamentum, and not a mere celestial ichor, as the Phantasmists allege.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical.
The Sun
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There were dances and songs -- a sailor's contra-dance to the music of a horn pipe, a stately passamezzo by the Indian court, a madrigal and an ode in compliment to the Queen. [
Days of the Discoverers
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Quick note: I cannot stress enough how wonderful this will taste if you can get a good floral, loose leaf black tea such as an assam or a darjeeling with light floral flavors.
Dove's Eye View:
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Sandwiched between the frozen Tibetan plateau to the north and the sweltering Indian valley of Assam to the south, Bhutan is slightly larger than Switzerland, but with a population of just under 700,000 and much bigger mountains (its tallest peak, Gangkhar Puensum, at 24,741 feet, is the highest unclimbed summit in the world).
Hidden Kingdom
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Some of the video clips are in Assamese, and even though many in the crowd only speak Bengali, the language barrier does not seem to dissuade them from watching.
Hanna Ingber Win: India: Three Wives, 10 Kids Is Enough
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The duke and duchess were caught up in a minor earthquake in Assam last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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Father, François Ciquard, to the Penobscot at Oldtown about 1785 For nearly ten years he ministered to them and the Passamaquoddy, when he was transferred to the Maliseet on the Saint John.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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In their saris, salwar kameez, kurtas, t-shirts, trousers, lunghis and banians, people from Assam to Kerala, from Gujarat to Jharkhand, were gathering in Mumbai for the World Social Forum.
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In Assam and Bihar in India, embankments built to contain the Koshi River have led to waterlogging, and even worse, cause catastrophic floods when they suddenly burst as a result of improper construction and inadequate maintenance.
ICIMOD Press release
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This particular one-horned Rhinoceros is the biggest of all rhinos inhabiting in the world and found only in Assam and foot of Himalayan, Nepal terai.
Rhinos Are Being killed For The Horn !!
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Na segunda, procuram quebrar a má disposição matinal no metro, onde milhares de transeuntes passam na sua rotina diária. nas escadas rolantes estava um agente dos Improv a cumprimentar as pessoas.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Assam is in the firing line of changing weather patterns as it lies on the edge of the growing range of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chin and sides of the throat are paler grizzled than on the back and the lower part of the throat; the chest, belly, and inside of the limbs are either pale yellow or rich orange-yellow, or passing into pale chestnut in the Assam variety, in which the belly is rarely lineated.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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It is gratifying that Bassam Tibi, a leading scholar of Damascene origin, has republished his seminal work on fundamentalism in the wake of September 2001.
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Also known as Afrormosia, Kokrodua and Assamela, the African teak (Pericopsis elata) has brown, green or yellow-brown bark.
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Railway police in Assam have set up a team to probe the mysterious disappearance of a Salesian priest from a train four days ago.
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Information is so scanty regarding the hoolock gibbon (found in Yunnan, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Assam) and the white-cheeked gibbon (found in Yunnan, Laos and Vietnam) that their conservation status is not even defined.
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This move is bound to jeopardise the flow of the Brahmaputra, the lifeline of the Assam valley, causing devastating floods during the rainy season.
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He calmed secessionist sentiment by dealing constructively with the regional parties of Kashmir, Assam and Punjab.
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The French term _dentelle_ is also of modern date, and was not used until fashion caused _passament_ to be made with a toothed edge, when the designation _passament dentelé_ appears.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
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My massaman curry was a little oilier and less creamy than you might expect, but all the constituent parts potato, a good scattering of cashews were present and correct, and the notably fresh vegetables were accurately cooked.
Top 10 best budget restaurants in Cheltenham and Gloucester
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Most everything here is good, including the assam laksa
Stylish Street Food in Kuala Lumpur
