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Oh! Calcutta! is an avant-garde, risqué theatrical revue created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of sketches on sex-related topics, debuted Off-Broadway in 1969 and then in the West End in 1970. It ran in London for over 3,900 performances, and in New York initially for 1,314.
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City or town Namesake Notes Almora, Uttarakhand: Almora, Illinois [19] Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu: Madras, Oregon [54] named for a bolt of Madras cloth: Delhi, National Capital Territory: Delhi Township, Michigan Delhi, New York [10] Delhi, California: Golkonda, Telangana: Golconda, Illinois [19] Kolkata, West Bengal: Calcutta, Ohio [10 ...
Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) was a colonial city. The British East India Company developed Calcutta as a village by establishing an artificial riverine port in the 18th century CE. Kolkata was the capital of the British India until 1911, when the capital was relocated to Delhi .
Margo Sappington (born July 30, 1947 in Baytown, Texas) is an American choreographer and dancer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was nominated in 1975 for both a Tony Award as Best Choreographer and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography for her work on the play Where's Charley? .
During the British Raj, until 1911, Calcutta was the capital of India. [4] By the latter half of the 19th century, Shimla had become the summer capital. [5] King George V proclaimed the transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi at the climax of the 1911 Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911.
John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune (1801–1851) was an English educator, mathematician and polyglot known for promoting women's education in India. [1] He was the founder of Calcutta Female School (now known as Bethune College) in Calcutta, [2] which is considered the oldest women's college in Asia. [3]
Kolkata, [a] also known as Calcutta [b] (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, 80 km (50 mi) west of the border with Bangladesh.