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  Meerut - LoveToKnow 1911
The Eastern Jumna canal runs through the whole length of the district, and supplies the rich tract between the Jumna and the Hindan with a network of distributary streams.
The main branch of the Ganges canal passes across the centre of the plateau in a sweeping curve and waters the midland tract.
From 1707 till 1775 the country was the scene of perpetual strife, and was only rescued from anarchy by the exertions of the military adventurer Walter Reinhardt, afterwards the husband of the celebrated Begum Samru, who established himself at Sardhana in the north, and ruled a large estate.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MEERUT.htm   (787 words)

  
 Jumna - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Jumna, after issuing from the hills, has a longer course through the United Provinces than the Ganges, but is not so large nor so important a river; and above Agra in the hot season it dwindles to a small stream.
The traffic on the Jumna is not very considerable; in its upper portion timber, and in the lower stone, grain and cotton are the chief articles of commerce, carried in the clumsy barges which navigate its stream.
The Jumna is crossed by railway bridges at Delhi, Muttra, Agra and Allahabad, while bridges of boats are stationed at many places.
www.1911ency.org /J/JU/JUMNA.htm   (586 words)

  
 JUMNA, or JAMUNA - Online Information article about JUMNA, or JAMUNA
The Jumna here emerges from the Himalayas into the valley of the Dun, and flows in a S.W. direction for 22 m., dividing the Kiarda Dun on the W. from the See also:
This is no doubt partly caused by the eastern and western Jumna canals, of which the former, constructed in 1823-1830, irrigates 300,000 acres in the districts of Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar and See also:
The headworks of the two canals are situated near the point where the river issues from the Siwaliks.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /JEE_JUN/JUMNA_or_JAMUNA.html   (940 words)

  
 Jumna
The subsequent action, in which the enemy suffered a crushing defeat, could be seen by the married families from the deck of the Jumna.
On the return of the 'Tenth' to Trinkitat, the officers gave a dinner to the General and staff, and to the Captain and officers of the Jumna, who were invited over from Suakim for the occasion.
The day after the battle of El Teb the families had been transferred to the Serapis and departed for England; no doubt to the relief of their menfolk, for wives and warfare are not a satisfactory mixture.
www.barnardf.demon.co.uk /pictures/jumna.htm   (810 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The boys Gunga and Jumna, named for the two great holy rivers of north India, are the sons of poor widowed Govindji (Leela Chitnis), who slaves away in the mansion of the local zamindar or feudal landlord, assisted by Gunga, the elder son.
Bright-eyed Jumna is sent to the village school, where he imbibes inspirational lectures about the New India, in which citizens shoulder civic responsibilities and enjoy wonderful opportunities, in the form of the song Insaaf ki dagar (“the path of justice”).
The pathetic scene in which Kamla, during a stormy night, comes to beg him to elope with her, establishes Jumna as a disciplined but inhuman paragon of social propriety — an object of simultaneous admiration and disapproval — and sets the stage for the eventual showdown between the two brothers.
www.uiowa.edu /~incinema/gungajumna.html   (682 words)

  
 Agreement concerning the loan of waters of the Colorado River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
This share shall be determined annually by the British Government on the basis of the proportion of the actual or estimated area of irrigation in Patiala territory to the entire area irrigated on the Western Jumna Canal (including the actual or estimated Patiala area) that obtained in the year next preceding.
The entire area irrigated by the Western Jumna Canal shall also include the area in Jind territory, for which a fixed annual payment is made by the Jind State, in accordance with the Agreement for the time being subsisting between the British and Jind Governments.
The Patiala Distributaries shall remain under the sole control and administration of the British Government for a period of five years dating from the commencement of the first crop to which water may be supplied from a Patiala Distributary.
www.internationalwaterlaw.org /RegionalDocs/Jumna-Canal-India2.htm   (1639 words)

  
 Taj Mahal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Taj Mahal at dusk, on the southern bank of the Yamuna (Jumna) River, Agra, India.
The sandstone gateway at the southern end of the Taj Mahal complex, Agra, India also spelled TADJ MAHALL, mausoleum complex in Agra, northern India, on the southern bank of the Yamuna (Jumna) River.
In its harmonious proportions and its fluid incorporation of decorative elements, the Taj Mahal is distinguished as the finest example of Mughal architecture, a blending of Indian, Persian, and Islamic styles.
www.engineering.com /content/ContentDisplay?contentId=41007011   (558 words)

  
 Jumna, a whaling ship crushed by ice at Melville bay in 1863.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Jumna, a whaling ship crushed by ice at Melville bay in 1863.
In 1840 the master of the Jumna was Capt.McGill, then in 1855 it was Capt.J.Sharp.
Her first whaling trip ended in Melville Bay on the 6th July 1863, when she was crushed by the ice.
www.mightyseas.co.uk /marhist/whitehaven/brocklebanks/jumna.htm   (192 words)

  
 SS Jumna, builder's model   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The engine of the 'Jumna' was the first of Brock's patented design and the first quadruple expansion in the British India fleets.
'Jumna' sailed from London on her maiden voyage on 21 September 1886, causing a considerable stir as the largest vessel yet seen in Queensland waters.
She had an unpleasant mishap while in the Royal Docks at London in December 1890, when a steam pipe burst, scalding to death seven of the engine-room workers and severely injuring two more.
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /maritime/collections/models/TO7726.asp   (289 words)

  
 Pages 152-154
Since the troops had been embarked for England all ranks 4,ere accompanied by their families, and the wives spent the few days between Aden and Suakim in making useful articles for the campaign.
There was a pleasant sequel to the voyage, for at the first.regimental dinner after their return the Commanding Officer of the ioth Hussars presented to the officers' mess a picture of H.M.S. Jumna, as a memento of all they owed to the ship and its company.
Some of the Union and Castle ships were chartered as transports for the campaign, and of these the 3,ooo-ton Arab of 1879 became headquarters ship at Suakim; a function which was to become common enough in the Second World War, but which was unusual in these early days.
www.barnardf.demon.co.uk /pictures/Jumna2.htm   (736 words)

  
 Hindu temples on the river at Jumna, India
Hindu temples on the river at Jumna, India
Temples were built beside the river Jumna across which the baby Krishna had been carried at night.
The print by Daniell was used by Humphrey Repton as a source for his design of an aviary at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton.
library.wellcome.ac.uk /doc_WTL040012.html   (77 words)

  
 Optimization of Nucleic Acid Sequences -- Lafontaine and Lavery 79 (2): 680 -- Biophysical Journal
Within JUMNA, each base is a flat, rigid body (with the exception of the rotating thymine methyl group).
Minimizing the energy of a given nucleic acid structure with respect to its sequence in this way is, however, physically incorrect.
A special feature has been added to JUMNA and ADAPT to simplify the treatment of canonical basepairs.
www.biophysj.org /cgi/content/full/79/2/680   (3372 words)

  
 Jumna and other Brocklebank vessels, Joseph Heard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Jumna and other Brocklebank vessels, by Joseph Heard
This unusual group portrait features six vessels of the famous Brocklebank Line.
He was apprenticed on 'Hercules' (far right) and captained all the others.
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /maritime/collections/paintings/jumna.asp   (76 words)

  
 Gunga Jumna, Bollywood Movie
Jumna, meanwhile, finds a silent worshipper in Kamla, the Zaminders daughter.
One day, Hariram the brother in law of the zamindar, tries to force himself ona Dhanno.
Jumna is forced to give up studies for livelihood.
www.bollywood.tv /movie/Gunga_Jumna--557   (283 words)

  
 IndianCDStore.com :: Gunga Jumna DVD Home page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In Haripur, lived a widow with her two sons, Gunga & Jumna.
Jumna, meanwhile, finds a silent worshipper in Kamla, the zamindar's daughter.
He goes to surrender to his brother Jumna who is a police officer now.
www.indiancdstore.com /viewdetails.asp?p_id=650   (351 words)

  
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Finally, all rotational parameters refer to rotations around defined axes in space and thus are easy to understand.
Input geome try can come from a protein data bank file (.PDB or.BRK), files of the format used in our laboratory and for the Jumna program (.MAC, described in a separate guide) or a general data file (.DAT).
In the latter case atoms should be specified, after an initial title line, by giving the atom name, the XYZ coordinates, the subunit name and the subunit number in the format (A4,3F10.5,1X,A4,I4).
www.csb.yale.edu /userguides/datamanip/curves/doc.html   (3026 words)

  
 Conformational Deformability of RNA: A Harmonic Mode Analysis -- Zacharias and Sklenar 78 (5): 2528 -- Biophysical ...
In Jumna each nucleic acid strand is considered as a chain of
The Amber4.1 force field within Jumna consists of the pairwise additive Coulomb-type electrostatic and 6-12 dependent Lennard-Jones
All structures were generated using Jumna (Lavery et al., 1995
www.biophysj.org /cgi/content/full/78/5/2528   (7685 words)

  
 FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE., Journal of a Tour through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the Sources ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE., Journal of a Tour through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges.
Journal of a Tour through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges.
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www.polybiblio.com.cob-web.org:8888 /antiqbot/47.html   (159 words)

  
 Jataka Vol. II: Book II. Dukanipāta: No. 205. Gaṅgeyya-Jātaka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Once upon a time, during the reign of Brahmadatta, king of Benares, the Bodhisatta became a tree sprite on the bank of the Ganges.
At the point where Ganges and Jumna meet, two fish met together, one from the Ganges and one from the Jumna.
"The Tortoise answered, "The Ganges fish is beautiful, and the Jumna fish is beautiful: but I am more beautiful than you both." And to explain it, he uttered the first verse:--[152]
www.sacred-texts.com /bud/j2/j2058.htm   (522 words)

  
 jumna's Profile:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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Only people in jumna's network can add testimonials.
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 International Montessori Congress
I belong to the Darug, I speak daruk.
Nin coomerah yen-mow tah boo-rai-ya, yen-ma kaoui jumna, gnee-ee;
The afternoon I am walking it is all of us singing, walk this way, you; yours on earth.
www.montessori-ami.org /congress/2005sydney/program.htm   (4291 words)

  
 rediff.com, Movies:The Rediff Column: Deepa Gahlot lists her ten best films
I have nothing against poverty and grime, though I wouldn't actively seek it.
My all-time favourite films are Ganga Jumna, Guide and Sholay -- can't get more mainstream than that!
However, I will say this much -- over the last decade or so, the quality of films has slid alarmingly.
www.rediff.com /entertai/2001/jul/06deepa.htm   (1459 words)

  
 Flickr: Photos from Ran Chakrabarti
Sunset looking west from a deserted muslim graveyard (Ran Chakrabarti, November 2002)
On the banks of the River Jumna in the early morning light (Ran Chakrabarti, November 2002)
On the banks of the River Jumna in the early morning (Ran Chakrabarti, November 2002)
www.flickr.com /photos/ran_chakrabarti   (231 words)

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