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Nooit Gedacht, which means "never thought of", was built in 1735 as a country house for the Dutch Commandeur of Point de Galle, Casparus de Jong (Lord of Spanbroek). [1] [2] When he retired from his official position de Jong became a merchant, supplying spices to the Dutch East India Company but following the arrival of the British in 1796 the residence was purchased by Mudaliar Amerasinghe of ...
Edward's Pillar or Galle Tower is a masonry column, which was used as a trigonometrical altitude station, located on the summit of Rumassala Kanda in Unawatuna [1]The 15.3 m (50 ft) high column is located upon the hill, 80.4 m (264 ft) above sea level. [2]
Unawatuna is a coastal town in Galle district of Sri Lanka.Unawatuna is a major tourist attraction in Sri Lanka and known for its beach and corals. It is a suburb of Galle, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) southeast to the city center and approximately 108 kilometres (67 mi) south of Colombo.
A week after wind-whipped wildfires began their deadly rampage through Southern California, investigators search for clues into what started the devastating blazes. The answers may take months or ...
Taylor Hill/WireImage Darius Rucker The Grammy winner, 58, clarified in an Instagram post on Saturday, Feb. 1, that he has indeed been "living in London" while recording new material and prepping ...
County routes in Broome County, New York, United States, are signed with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices-standard yellow-on-blue pentagon route marker.Even numbered routes are east–west roads that increase by multiples of four from south to north with the exceptions of CR 70 and CR 86, while odd numbered routes are north–south roads that increase by multiples of four from ...
Aubrey Dameron disappeared from Grove, Oklahoma, in March 2019. Remains found in January have been positively identified as belonging to her. The Quapaw Nation Marshal Service has stated that the ...
Galle was known as Gimhathitha in ancient times. The term is believed to be derived from the classical Sinhalese term meaning "port near the River Gin". It is believed that the town got its name as Gaalla in the native tongue as a result of the large number of bullock carts that took shelter in the area, following the long slow journeys from remote areas of the island.