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Entries from April 2009

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April 30, 2009 · 26 Comments

320: What are these efforts for?
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319: Herbert Hoover.

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April 29, 2009 · 13 Comments

319: Bilbo, meet Gandalf. Identify the man with the cigar, seen here in a meeting with Nehru, in his capacity as the Chairman of President Truman’s Famine Emergency Committee. He gives off the appearance of being only slightly smaller than the most famous thing named for him. :)

318: Ipsita Roy Chakraverti, a promoter of Wicca and a self proclaimed witch. The film Sacred Evil was based on her “case files”.

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April 28, 2009 · 14 Comments

318: Identify the kooky lady and the not-quite-well-received film based on her.

317: Thomas Babington Macaulay, Macaulayism

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April 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

317: What pejorative term for a policy / way of thought is derived from this man’s name?

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316: Shiva Kesavan, first Indian to qualify for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Also happens to be the first Indian to win an international medal in winter sports.

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April 26, 2009 · 5 Comments

316: First Indian to qualify for a 2010 event. Has a few other achievements too. Who?

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315: Libraries in Chennai – Connemara, Devaneya Pavanar and Roja Muthiah.

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April 25, 2009 · 2 Comments

315: These three people link to Chennai institutions. Identify.

314: Emperor Kanishka – Ganishka from the Japanese series Berserk based on him, the artifact known as the Kanishka casket and a coin bearing his image.

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April 24, 2009 · 2 Comments

314: Connect.

313: Kalki Krishnamurthy – he named one of his works after the “Poimaan Karadu” – a natural formation near Salem, Tamil Nadu.

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