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	Mumbai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mumbai is the seat of the Bombay High Court, which exercises jurisdiction over the states of Maharashtra and Goa, and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
		Built in 1833, the Asiatic Society of Bombay is the oldest public library in the city.
		This is followed by either a general degree course in a chosen field of study, or a professional degree course, such as law, engineering, medicine etc. All professional colleges in Mumbai are affiliated to the University of Mumbai, one of the largest universities in the world in terms of graduation rate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mumbai (4775 words)

	Hastings Lees-Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liberal MP At the January 1910 general election Lees-Smith was elected as a Liberal for the two-member Northampton constituency.
		Unfortunately for Lees-Smith, the Conservatives stood down in the 1923 general election and he was defeated by the Liberal candidate; this defeat prevented him from being appointed as a Minister in the first Labour government.
		When Labour returned to office in 1929 he was made Postmaster-General where he defended the nationalised Post Office and tried to smarten up the Post Office counters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hastings_Lees-Smith (607 words)

	Travel in Mumbai(Bombay)-India-Asia-History-WorldTravelGate.net®-
		Sir Robert Grant (1779-1838) governed Bombay from 1835 to 1838 and was responsible for the construction of a number of roads between Bombay and the hinterland.
		Bombay began to attract fortune hunters by the hundreds and the population had swelled from 13,726 in 1780 to 644,405 in 1872, in a little less than a hundred years.
		In 1960 the state of Bombay was split into Maharashtra and Gujarat states on linguistic basis, the former retaining Bombay city as its capital.
	www.asiatravelling.net /india/bombay/bombay_history.htm (1852 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		This name was later changed to "Bombay" by the British and much later challenged by the Shiv Sainiks, a renegade political party in the state, saying that the name of the city was "Mumbai" from the Mumbadevi temple.
		Soon Bombay saw the rise of the Parsi Liquor Mafia in the "Play House" area, which was later changed to Pillhouse by the locals and became a red light district.
		In 1960 the state of Bombay was split into Maharashtra and Gujarat states again on linguistic basis, the former retaining Bombay city as its capital.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=6965682&postID=110612860864715745 (2143 words)

	History of Bombay
		Bombay began to attract fortune hunters by the hundreds (and probably still does) and the population had swelled from 13,726 in 1780 to 644,405 by 1872, in a little over a hundred years.
		The docks at Bombay are a monument of the industry, enterprise and integrity of a Parsi family, the Wadias which moved in from Surat at the instigation of the British.
		The Fort (downtown) area in Bombay derives its name from the fact that the area fell within the former walled city, of which only a small fragment survives as part of the eastern boundary wall of the St. George's Hospital.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~smdas/history2.htm (1466 words)

	States - Delhi
		Bombay's central business district (CBD), comprising most of the commercial and business centres and government offices, is located in the extreme southern part of the city.
		Bombay harbour is to the east of the city.
		Bombay's vehicular population is growing at a rate of 10 per cent per annum which is reflected in automotive pollutant emissions.
	www.ess.co.at /GAIA/CASES/IND/BOM/BOMmain.html (2079 words)

	Post & Telecommunications
		Most post offices throughout Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei and larger cities in India are reliable, but elsewhere you should only send packages from the capital city’s GPO (General Post Office).
		Beware of the post office near Khao San Road: travelers have reported that the contents of their packages posted from here were missing when they got home.
		Most larger post offices in Asia have poste restante counters, but, unless you are in Thailand, Malaysia, India or Singapore, I recommend that you only use poste restante at the GPO in the capital city.
	pleth.tripod.com /7.htm (972 words)

	B Definitions: Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary
		In the context of general equities, conference meeting during which customer indications and orders, along with the traders' own buy/sell preferences, are conveyed to the entire organization.
		Cash flows generated by a foreign project that cannot be immediately repatriated to the parent firm because of capital flow restrictions imposed by the host government.
		Generally referring to an index, it indicates that the index is composed of a sufficient number of stocks or of stocks in a variety of industry groups.
	www.duke.edu /~charvey/Classes/wpg/bfglosb.htm (8646 words)

	History of Mumbai - Mumbai on the net
		The docks at Bombay are a monument of the industry, enterprise and integrity of the Wadia family which moved in from Surat at the instigation of the British.
		Lord Sandhurst governed Bombay between 1895 and 1900 and it was during his tenure that the Act was passed which constituted the City Improvement Trust which, among other things, built the Sandhurst Road in 1910 and handed it over to the municipality.
		The population of the city was panic stricken as rumours spread rapidly that the explosions signaled the commencement of hostilities by the Japanese on the same style as the surprise attack on Pearl Harbour in the Hawaiian islands in December 1941.
	www.mumbainet.com /cityinfo/history.htm (3092 words)

	Attorney General - History
		For some months, both offices and office holders remained unchanged, however, the name of the office of Schout, was changed to the English Sheriff.
		The Attorney General was also barred from holding the state or county offices of Treasurer, Clerk of the Supreme Court, Prothonotary, Register, Recorder or Sheriff.
		The position of Attorney General and the constitutional responsibilities of the office remained virtually unchanged from 1897 until 1969 when the Department of Justice was created by statute to provide expanded legal and prosecutorial services to our State government.
	www.state.de.us /attgen/main_page/history.shtml (542 words)

	Fraters Libertas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Bill has posted his picks already and we definitely are not on the same page this year.
		Earlier generations coped with the thought that they couldn't control what happened to their offspring all the time by reasoning that once the kid walked out the door, God took over.
		His argument that "in general, exit poll data are sound" fails having suppressed evidence and the conclusion that "it is impossible that the discrepancies between predicted and actual vote counts in" Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania was not substantiated statistically.
	www.fraterslibertas.com /2005_03_01_archive.html (14696 words)

	Mumbai (Bombay) \| Historical Background \| WCities Destination Guide
		The second governor of Bombay, Gerald Aungier, saw the opportunity to develop the islands into a centre of commerce to rival other ports still in the hands of local kingdoms.
		The population of Bombay was estimated to have risen from 10,000 in 1661 to 60,000 in 1675.
		Landmarks from this period are the The Gateway of India, the General Post Office, the Town Hall(now the Asiatic Library) and the Prince of Wales Museum.
	www.wcities.com /en/guide/history/683/guide.html (1225 words)

	INTEL DUMP
		The Washington Post reports that college students across America are joining the military's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) in increasingly larger numbers than before.
		Suburban Bombay, whose official name is now Mumbai, has been the site of five explosions — two on buses, two at markets and one in a train — in the last eight months that have killed a total of 15 people.
		The Bombay police commissioner, R. Sharma, said on Monday night that law enforcement authorities suspected that so-called jihadi groups were also responsible for the blasts, although he offered no specific evidence for that assertion.
	philcarter.blogspot.com /2003_08_24_philcarter_archive.html (7179 words)

	Informed Comment
		All hell broke loose on Wednesday in the Mideast, with a Hizbullah attack on the Israeli army and Israeli reprisals, and the Israeli dropping of a 500 pound bomb on Gaza.
		The likelihood is that the sophisticated coordinated attack on the trains in India's western commercial hub of Mumbai (Bombay) was carried out by al-Qaeda-linked groups seeking the independence of Muslim-majority Kashmir from India.
		They had already warned over the weekend that given that half of Gazans are children, that the adult unemployment rate is 40 percent, and that malnutrition had already been widespread, the further degradation of electricity, water and food delivery systems by Ehud Olmert threatened a humanitarian catastrophe.
	www.juancole.com (8325 words)

	Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Sound Off
		Generate a lot of nonsense communications to keep the NSA and FBI busy while some real terrorists sneak into the country and create millions of pot-holes in all the highways.
		By the standards I see in many comments (schmidty excepted) you have posted and articles I read in your paper Benedict Arnold was well within his rights to contact and have discussions with a country bent on our distruction, after all he only talked.
		More to the general point of the discussion: It would not matter if the president claimed to be going after child molesters instead of terrorists.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /soundoff/comment.asp?articleID=257206&source=mypi (9105 words)

	open book
		Here is one long post from back then, from my previous blog, in which I hashed out my opinions on the war, mostly negative, for those of you with long memories.
		Around 6:30 am Eastern, I believe, the Vatican posts the daily "Bulletin." It's sometimes added to after the initial posting (as was the case today).
		Some are translated and posted into the English section, but there are also sections in other languages that see a lot of interesting information and activity.
	amywelborn.typepad.com (4442 words)

	Cybernoon.com
		To keep pace with the advancement in all areas the department of Posts launched the 'Direct Post' service in Mumbai in a function held yesterday at the General Post Office (GPO).The 'Direct Post' service in Mumabi was launched by R. Ganesan, Secretary to Government of India and Chairman, Postal Services Board.
		K Noorjehan, Post Master General, Maharashtra and Goa explained, 'Direct Post' is the undressed component of Direct mail and would comprise of un-addressed postal articles like letters, cards, brochures, questionnaires, pamphlets, promotional items like CDs, floppies and cassettes meant for customers within India.
		Five and half per cent discount would be admissible to the sender or concerned advertising agency where Direct Post articles tendered are in quantities of over 50000 articles.The sender will have to specify the numbers and areas in which the sender wishes Direct Post articles to be distributed.
	www.cybernoon.com /DisplayArticle.asp?section=fromthepress&subsection=inbombay&xfile=July2005_inbombay_standard7348 (509 words)

	RGE - So, is the Bush Administration for bashing China or against it?
		For anyone who's interested, I've posted the arithmetic on a simplified 1 year scenario, in which China accumulates 300B USD on Jan 1, sterilizing 200B and expanding by 100B, then floats to a 30% appreciation on Dec 31.
		Bombay: The RBI may allow the rupee to gain gradually in the next few weeks in a bid to stave off rising inflation and as it prepares the ground for a possible revaluation of the Chinese yuan, analysts said.
		And lets not forget the remark from the high ranking general in the PLA publicly stating his "personal view" that American intervention in the Taiwan conflict should be retaliated with a nuclear strike on US territory going against the PRC No First Strike policy.
	www.rgemonitor.com /blog/setser/91428 (11879 words)

	Bilingual conversations (kottke.org)
		I generally only codeswitched while speaking, but if I was writing something that could only properly be expressed in a particular language I'd swtich for that idea, then return to the other.
		Generally the reason for code switching is because of the vocabulary.
		Caribbean English is itself a generally similar patois everywhere; but in addition every island community has evolved a uniquely identifiable vocabulary based on inclusions from aboriginal and occupying cultures over hundreds of years, as well as local vernacular identifiers.
	www.kottke.org /03/09/bilingual-conversations (17566 words)

	Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music - Ge
		General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc.
		General nature of the evidence of Aegean civilization
		General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
	education.music.us /Ge.htm (204 words)

	Articles - Mahatma Gandhi
		Gandhi was a mediocre student in his youth at Porbandar and later Rajkot, and barely passed the matriculation exam for the University of Bombay in 1887, joining Samaldas College.
		While the government was successful in repressing the Indian protesters, the public outcry stemming from the harsh methods employed by the South African government in the face of peaceful Indian protesters finally forced South African general Jan Christian Smuts to negotiate a compromise with Gandhi.
		Following this, he was arrested in Bombay by British forces on August 9, 1942 and held for two years.
	www.haabaa.com /articles/mahatma-gandhi.php (3412 words)

	Exit Poll Smoking Gun - Bloggers can attack with New Zeal! By Mickey Kaus
		An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight report in September accused the company of improperly deferring $200 million of estimated expenses in 1998, which allowed management to receive full annual bonuses.
		But the Post has also done a much better job bringing Johnson into the story than the NYT, and has historically been quite tough on Fannie Mae (especially by running a big David Vise series in 1995).] 12:51 A.M. Polipundit embarrasses CBS (if that's even possible at this point).
		Klein's story comes at a time when the Post is trying to recover from the race-tinged in-house controversy that followed the naming of a white managing editor over two other candidates, one of whom was fl.
	www.slate.com /id/2111460 (6047 words)

	ABC News: Report: NASA Inspector General Probed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		WASHINGTON Feb 3, 2006 (AP)— NASA Inspector General Robert W. Cobb is under investigation for complaints that he failed to investigate safety violations and retaliated against whistle-blowers, according to The Washington Post.
		Current and former employees of Cobb's office alleged that he suppressed investigations within NASA and penalized his own investigators when they pursued cases, the Post reported on its Web site Thursday night.
		According to the complaints described by the Post, Cobb hampered investigations into problems such as a malfunctioning self-destruct procedure during a space shuttle launch and the theft of data on rocket engines.
	abcnews.go.com /Technology/wireStory?id=1574651 (346 words)

	Albion's Seedlings: India Plays the Anglosphere Card
		The comments on his post are interesting, too.
		Then again, with the way globalization is going, our versions may end up coinciding as India and the USA become economically (think of those call centers) and perhaps even culturally interdependent (as in the fluidity between the film industries in the anglosphere).
		Jewish cultural influence is more pervasive in general American culture than people realize; it's just become part of the background.
	anglosphere.com /weblog/archives/000283.html (2486 words)

	Homeland Security Is Faulted in Audit
		Nearly three years after it was formed, the immense Department of Homeland Security remains hampered by severe management and financial problems that contributed to the flawed response to Hurricane Katrina, according to an independent audit released yesterday.
		The report by Homeland Security Inspector General Richard L. Skinner aimed some of its most pointed criticism at one of DHS's major entities, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
		For example, the department said it has created a special procurement office to oversee hurricane contracts and is using consultants to monitor the process.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/28/AR2005122801515.html (639 words)

	Andrew Sullivan \| The Daily Dish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		I wrote here that Jim Haynes was White House general counsel, when the Bush torture policy was devised and implemented.
		The next day, attendance at schools and office was close to 100%, trains and buses were packed to the brim, the crowds were back.
		Washington, as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, explicitly renounced acts of military terror against Loyalists and the Undecided, and he forbade any acts of torture or war crimes on the part of American soldiers against British and in particular Hessian forces who were captured in battle.
	time.blogs.com /daily_dish (6988 words)

	The Prince of Wales Museum of Western India - Home Page
		In the early years of the twentieth century, some prominent citizens of Bombay decided to set up a Museum with the help of the government to commemorate the visit of the Prince of Wales.
		On March 1, 1907, the then government of Bombay handed over to the museum committee a spot of land known as the "Crescent Site", situated at the southern end of the present Mahatma Gandhi Road.
		George Wittet had collaborated with John Begg in the construction of the General Post Office building.
	www.bombaymuseum.org (201 words)

	The Plank
		Yesterday I wrote that the CIA is exempt from the new Geneva-compliant approach to detainees in the war on terror.
		If Lamont wins the primary and the general election, which is akin to drawing an inside straight, then the direct effect is positive.
		The Washington Post gauges the damage inflicted on Grover Norquist by the Abramoff scandal.
	www.tnr.com /blog/theplank (7208 words)

	Architectural Style
		It was in the last decade of the 19th century that Bombay witnessed a phase of experimentation in architecture.
		This synthesis of forms such as the horseshoe shaped arches from Moorish Spain, Islamic domes and Victorian towers came to be known as the Indo-Saracenic style of architecture.
		Initiated in Bombay by John Begg (1866-1937) who was the Consulting Architect to the Government of Bombay and first seen in Bombay in the architecture of the General Post Office Building, the Indo-Saracenic style became the paradigm for British Architecture in this country.
	www.bombaymuseum.org /powm/bldgarch.htm (436 words)

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