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	Colombo travel guide - Wikitravel
		Colombo's international airport is at Katunayake, close to Negombo, on the coast north of Colombo.
		Colombo Zoo is being renovated, and plan to have an open area for the elephants
		Colombo, though facing trouble by the present political instability is still a great place to visit.
	wikitravel.org /en/Colombo (1310 words)

	Colombo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colombo (කොළඹ in Sinhala; கொழும்பு in Tamil) is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka, located on the southwest coast adjacent to the present administrative capital of Kotte.
		Colombo port is one of the busiest ports in asia.
		The population of Colombo is a mix of Sinhalese, Muslims, Tamils and Christians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colombo (3062 words)

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		Beira Lake, administratively part of the port of Colombo, is connected with the harbor by a canal and locks.
		Colombo handles most of the foreign trade of Sri Lanka and is an important fueling station.
		The city was taken by the Dutch in 1656 and by the British in 1796.
	www.2747.com /2747/world/city/colombo.htm (58 words)

	Joe Colombo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the spring of 1970, Colombo responded to increasing FBI scrutiny of his activities by picketing FBI offices in New York City, claiming that the FBI was harassing Italian-Americans.
		Colombo is also mentioned on an assassination victims list in Volume IX part II of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and Organized Crime report of Ralph Salerno, consultant to the Select Committee on Assassinations.
		Colombo was replaced as head of the Colombo family by Vincent Alo, and his assassination touched off a second intra-family war with the Gallo forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Colombo (678 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Colombo
		The Archdiocese of Colombo, situated on the western seaboard of the Island of Ceylon, includes two of the nine provinces into which the island is divided, viz.
		In 1796 Colombo was taken by the English, and one of their first acts was to repeal all the Dutch laws against the Catholics (1806); soon afterwards the rights restored to the Catholics of the United Kingdom by the Emancipation Act were conceded to their coreligionists in Ceylon.
		During the Dutch period the ecclesiastical administration of the island had been in the hands of the Bishop of Cochin on the neighbouring continent; but in 1830 Gregory XVI constituted Ceylon a vicariate Apostolic and the first vicar Apostolic, Don Vicente de Rozario, was consecrated in 1836.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04124a.htm (1119 words)

	AllRefer.com - Colombo, Sri Lanka (Sri Lankan Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Colombo is also Sri Lanka's financial center; a major attempt was made during the 1980s to transform it into an offshore banking center.
		In the 1880s, Colombo replaced Galle as Ceylon's chief port and became a major refueling and supply center for merchant ships on the Europe–East Asia route.
		Colombo served as an Allied naval base in World War II and was made the capital of independent Ceylon in 1948.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Colombo.html (475 words)

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		The Fort of Colombo, which like Jaffna and Galle was really a fortified town, was demolished around 1870 in the interest of urban development, soon followed by most of the buildings within it.
		The Colombo Fort was a walled city, with administrative and military buildings, as well as cinnamon storehouses, mills, a parade ground, a church, residential buildings, and stalls for horses and elephants.
		And as another Englishman writes in 1859: 'The bulk of the Singalese (in Colombo) are often handicraftsmen and servants, the Parsis are merchants, the Moors retail dealers, the Malays soldiers and valets, the Tamils labourers and coolies, and the Caffre excavators and pioneers.
	members.lycos.nl /krane/ceylon/ceyloncolombo.htm (1541 words)

	Joseph Colombo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Colombo figured the odds and decided the chances of Magliocco and Bonanno winning out were low - and zero if he took word of the plan to the intended victims, namely Carlo Gambino and Tommy Lucchese.
		Colombo's idea was that this would make Italian Americans proud of their heritage, and that in unity they would be able to fight the authorities' alleged victimization of them.
		But meanwhile some of Colombo's lieutenants grew alarmed by the declining revenues of the family while their boss was minding everything but crime business.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/colombo.html (1266 words)

	Murder, Inc.COM - Joseph Colombo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Colombo started out as a hit man for Joseph Profaci along with the Gallo brothers and the team was responsible for several murders.
		Colombo was very ambitious and was given orders during the Banana wars to carry out the assassinations of some of the most powerful men in the underworld, namely Carlo Gambino and Tommy Lucchese.
		Colombo refused to stop, though, and this would angered Gambino, who was considered the most powerful Mafia boss to ever exist in modern American crime.
	www.murderinc.com /fam/colm.html (597 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Colombo is best known for his discovery of the pulmonary circuit of the blood, which he made through vivisectional observations.
		Colombo had gained the favor of Giovanni Antonio Schilino, one of the Riformatori of Padua, who had him appointed professor of surgery in 1541.
		Colombo's sons retrieved the few copies that had been issued and printed a new title page, dedicating the work to the new Pope, Pius IV.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/colombo.html (703 words)

	About Colombo
		Colombo, Sri Lanka's bustling capital, is located on the country's west coast and with a population of between 800,000 and one million (estimates vary) is by far the country's biggest city, as well as its window on the world.
		Colombo's streets, which buzz with life during the day - when its population is swollen by some 400,000 commuting workers - are virtually empty after nightfall,with little nightlife outside a handful of international-standard hotels.
		Fort, between Colombo Harbour to the north and the murky urban lagoon of Beira Lake to the south, is the heart of Colombo.
	www.sritravel.8m.net /colombo.htm (1496 words)

	Council News
		The Colombo Fire Brigade assisted by other agencies in the area was able to put off the fire in few hours saving many lives.The fire is believed to have been caused by an electrical short.
		Colombo Municipal Council has arisen to meet the needs of all affected and the dead.
		As the Colombo Municipal Council possessed considerable personnel and mechanical equipment it was decided to extend such facilities to the other affected areas.
	www.cmc.lk /pub_board.asp (636 words)

	ESA - Space Science - Home - Grandfather of the fly-by: Giuseppe 'Bepi' Colombo
		Colombo was a mathematician and engineer of astonishing imagination, whose bald head and grey moustache in his later years were a familiar sight in the corridors of both ESA and NASA.
		Giuseppe Colombo was born in 1920 in Padua, Italy, where he attended primary and secondary schools.
		Colombo and one of his colleagues, Mario Grossi, approached NASA and the Italian Space Agency with the idea, which was eventually developed into the Tethered Satellite System (TSS).
	www.esa.int /esaSC/SEMJAF0P4HD_index_0.html (447 words)

	Colombo
		THE Colombo Crime Family is the only New York City family to become known by a name other than the one given to law enforcement by Joe Valachi - the first soldier to publicly break the vow of omerta.
		At that moment in 1971, Colombo was shot and severly wounded by a lone fl gunman as he was about to preside at a large Italian American Civil Rights League rally.
		Being boss of the Colombo family is not as appealing as it once was.
	www.ganglandnews.com /colombo.htm (1533 words)

	Colombo Dental Associates
		Colombo is a member of the American Dental Association, Academy of General Dentistry, American Academy of Implant Dentistry and O.K.U., which is awarded only to the top 5% of dentists nationwide.
		Colombo also welcomes those interested students to the field of dentistry by donating her time at Career Day in numerous middle schools in our local area.
		Colombo maintains a personal commitment to continue practicing expert and progressive dentistry as well as giving back to the community by sharing her time and her passion for mentoring.
	www.colombodentalassoc.com /biodoctors.htm (737 words)

	Colombo : General Information - 7 Blue Seas
		Colombo won't hit you in the face with its exoticism like Mumbai, nor enchant you like Paris, but this former capital city of Sri Lanka has a lively and frenetic pace, coupled with a distinct combination of its Eastern roots and Western influences.
		All in all, Colombo will leave a definite impression on you, and you'll be remembering its pungency and energy for a long time to come.
		Colombo is the largest artificial harbor in Asia, and the most important port on the Indian Ocean.
	www.7blueseas.com /destinations/port.asp?pid=59&rid=4 (677 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mateo Realdo Colombo
		Colombo occupied this post until 1548, when he received a call to the chair of anatomy in the Papal University at Rome.
		Colombo made as many as fourteen dissections in one year at Rome.
		Colombo is famous as a teacher of anatomy and physiology, and first used living animals to demonstrate various functions, especially the movements of the heart and lungs.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04125a.htm (348 words)

	John Robert Colombo - COLOMBO & COMPANY
		Colombo and Company is the publishing imprint for books written, compiled, edited, or translated
		by the author and anthologist John Robert Colombo and by peers and colleagues.
		For the website devoted to Colombo's poetry, see The University of Toronto Library collection.
	www.colombo.ca (41 words)

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