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The style of the boxes was very much aimed at the demand of the European market, boxes imitated traditional English forms such as jewellery boxes, sewing baskets and writing boxes. Although porcupine quill boxes were originally made for English residents, by the late 19th century there was a thriving commercial export trade.
Sri Lanka, geologically speaking is an extremely old country. Ninety percent of the rocks of the island are of Precambrian age, 560 million to 2,400 million years ago. The gems form in sedimentary residual gem deposits, eluvial deposits, metamorphic deposits, skarn and calcium-rich rocks. Nearly all the gem formations in Sri Lanka are located ...
Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about 31 km off the southern coast of India. After over two thousand years of rule by local kingdoms, parts of Sri Lanka were colonized by Portugal and the Netherlands beginning in the 16th century, before control of the entire country passed to Britain in 1815.
A History of Sri Lanka. India: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-04320-0. C. Gaston Pereira, Kandy fights the Portuguese. Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications, July 2007. ISBN 978-955-1266-77-6; Channa Wicremasekera, Kandy at War. Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2004. ISBN 955-8095-52-4
Postal museum is a Sri Lanka's national museum of post that located at the Postal Headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Firstly, the postal museum was functioned at the Central Telegraph Office during 1918–1925, and moved to General Post Office in 1994. Again, a national postal museum was opened on 6 July 2010. [1]
Sri Lanka Customs Commemorative coin Silver 10.50 2008 1000 60th Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Army 28.50 Silver 11.90 2009 1000 60th Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Army 28.50 Cu-Ni 8.25 2009 5000 60th Anniversary Central Bank of Sri Lanka [2] Central Bank Crest A tree depicting the growth and the stability of Sri Lanka's economy 38.61 Silver 28.28
Sagwa may refer to: Kim Sagwa (born 1984), South Korean writer; Sagwa, neighbourhood of Grand Bay–Westfield, New Brunswick, Canada; Sa-kwa (Korean: 사과, romanized: Sagwa), 2005 South Korean film; Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, a 1994 children's book by Amy Tan Sagwa, main character of the 2000s television series Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
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