Bleeding Kansas
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Bleeding Kansas (1854-58), a term referring to violent encounters between pro-slavery and antislavery factions in the Kansas territory. The
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed that self-determination would resolve the question of slavery in these territories. Pro-slavery settlers burned the town of Lawrence on May 21, 1856, an act followed by the murder of five pro-slavery settlers by
John Brown and accomplices. Ensuing raids and retaliations caused the death of hundreds, and the territory was declared in open insurrection. U.S. troops sent in by President
Franklin Pierce were able to assert control by dispersing the pro-slavery militia.
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Tender Notice: Kumbakonam Municipality Seeks Water Tank (India)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/22/2009; 342 words
; TAMIL NADU, India, Sept. 22 -- Kumbakonam Municipality, Kumbakonam, said it had a requirement for the supply of water...hindustantimes.com. For more information, contact Kumbakonam Municipality, Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Tender Notice: Kumbakonam Municipality Seeks Construction Services (India)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/22/2009; 341 words
; TAMIL NADU, India, Sept. 22 -- Kumbakonam Municipality, Kumbakonam, said it was soliciting services for construction...hindustantimes.com. For more information, contact Kumbakonam Municipality, Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Advani, Naidu visit Kumbakonam, announce Rs 2.5 mn solatium.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 7/20/2004; 514 words
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BSNL's expansion in Kumbakonam Telecom District likely to be over by August 15, 2008.(BUSINESS)(Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: India Weekly Telecom Newsletter; 6/27/2008; 700+ words
; The expansion work of BSNL in the Kumbakonam Telecom District (Tamil Nadu) for...in addition to a secondary switch in Kumbakonam, to improve cellphone services. BSNL also plans to set up 32 mobile towers in Kumbakonam town over the next couple of months...
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Drugs, doctors rushed to Kumbakonam from Pondicherry.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 7/17/2004; 347 words
; ...doctors and medicines have been rushed to Kumbakonam in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu...authorities have sent drugs and medicines to Kumbakonam to supplement the stock of the medicines...and surgeons had also been rushed to Kumbakonam to assist the doctors, Valsaraj said...
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Kumbakonam town shrouded in grief.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 7/17/2004; 700+ words
; Kumbakonam, July 17 (PTI) Amid heart-rending scenes, the mortal remains of several of the 90 children who perished in the devastating...
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Tender Notice: Kumbakonam Municipality Seeks Electrical Materials, Street Light Maintenance (India)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/25/2009; 319 words
; KUMBAKONAM, India, Feb. 23 -- Kumbakonam Municipality said it was soliciting supply of electrical materials for street...information, contact Commissioner at 0091-435-2425419 or e-mail commr.kumbakonam@tn.gov.in.
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Chidambaram visits surviving victims of Kumbakonam tragedy.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 7/29/2004; 414 words
; ...on Thursday met the survivors of the school fire tragedy at Kumbakonam, which claimed 94 lives and lashed out at the state administration...rules, Chidambaram, who visited the Government Hospital at Kumbakonam, where the children were admitted for treatment, told reporters...
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Mani Shankar Aiyer rushes help to Kumbakonam.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 7/16/2004; 458 words
; ...India's Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyer is rushing to Kumbakonam and has mobilised Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, which...whose parliamentary constituency Mayiladuthurai the town of Kumbakonam is located . The Minister said he has also asked by party...
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ONGC Cauvery Asset, celebrating its golden jubilee, was contributing liberally for social welfare activities, a top official has said. Anil Johari, Group General Manager, Cauvery Asset said construciton of a new bridge across Arasalar in Karaikal town, distribution of fishing nets worth Rs 15 lakh to tsunami-hit fishermen here and an emergency-cum-burns ward at Kumbakonam government hospital, were some among them.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 8/15/2006; 700+ words
; ...town, distribution of fishing nets worth Rs 15 lakh to tsunami-hit fishermen here and an emergency-cum-burns ward at Kumbakonam government hospital, were some among them. Besides these, Rs 103.79 has been spent for promotion of education, healthcare...
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Kumbakonam
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kumbakonam , city (1991 pop. 150,869), Tamil Nadu state, SE India, on the...the river delta, has one of the highest population densities in India. Kumbakonam is an agricultural trading center in an area known for its rice and betel...
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Ramanujan, Srinivasa Aaiyangar
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...SRINIVASA AAIYANGAR ( b Erode, near Kumbakonam, Tanjore district, Madras province...bookkeeper in the firm of a cloth merchant in Kumbakonam. At the age of seven, after two years...he transferred to the high school at Kumbakonam. In 1897 he placed first in the Tanjore...
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Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...fractions. Srinivasa Ramanujan, born into a poor Brahmin family at Erode on Dec. 22, 1887, attended school in nearby Kumbakonam. By the time he was 13, he could solve unaided every problem in Loney's Trigonometry, and at 14 he obtained the theorems...
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