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  2. Kabuliwala (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Kabuliwala, is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1892, [1] [2] during Tagore's "Sadhana" period (named for one of Tagore's magazines) from 1891 to 1895. . The story is about a fruit seller, a Pashtun (his name is Rahmat) from Kabul, Afghanistan, who visits Calcutta (present day Kolkata, India) each year to sell dry frui

  3. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    follow the organization of a passage and to identify antecedents and references in it, draw inferences from a passage about its contents, identify the main thought of a passage, ask questions about the text, answer questions asked in a passage, visualize the text, recall prior knowledge connected to text, recognize confusion or attention problems,

  4. Euphrates Tunnel - Wikipedia

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    Philostratus (d. 250 CE) also describes the tunnel's construction in the Life of Apollonius of Tyana: [5] [6] "And [Babylon] it is cut asunder by the river Euphrates, into halves of similar shape; and there passes underneath the river an extraordinary bridge which joins together by an unseen passage the palaces on either bank.

  5. The Nameless City - Wikipedia

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    In this passage, Chaldaea is a historic region in Mesopotamia, whereas Sarnath, Mnar, and Ib are places in Lovecraft's story "The Doom that Came to Sarnath". Later in the story, a single paragraph mentions Lovecraft's fictional Arab poet, an actual 5th century philosopher , a writer from the Middle Ages , a legendary Persian king, and one of ...

  6. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Wikipedia

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    He argues that the shared reaction to the melodramas displays an alignment in the beliefs of the Bowery residents. In Maggie, the majority of low class residents drink, gamble and fight each other. Yet, Maggie, a low class woman herself, does not engage in this behavior. Instead, Crane writes, "The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle.

  7. Ford, GM donate $1 million and contribute vehicles to Trump's ...

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    DETROIT (Reuters) -U.S. automakers Ford Motor and General Motors will donate $1 million each, along with vehicles, to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's January inauguration, company ...

  8. College Football Playoff quarterfinal schedule, matchups ...

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    And all four have been favored in their first two games. Favorites are 8-0 straight-up so far this postseason and are 7-1 against the spread. The only underdog to cover the point spread through ...

  9. Elon Musk says Starlink inactive in India after second device ...

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    Elon Musk said Starlink satellite internet is inactive in India, his first comments since authorities seized two of the company's devices in recent weeks, one in an armed conflict zone and another ...