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Guests get lost in space at inn on California's Palomar Mountain
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The observatory on Palomar Mountain is a magnet for astronomers
internationally famous for its Hale Telescope. And I'd always
thought of Julian, nestled between the neighboring Volcan and
Cuyamaca mountains, in terms of apple pie and great motorcycle
roads. That is, until the Comet Hale-Bopp led me to a stargazer's
dream getaway: Observer's Inn.
Last year, after chasing through San Diego County's back roads to
photograph the comet, I stumbled into Julian as the sun rose. The
only other person on the streets was a guy in jeans who was also
sleepless over the comet. He told me about a ...
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Books: Mutineers without bounty
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...entrenched camp, the Mahratta leader Nana Sahib tricked the exhausted defenders into...his army and closed in on Cawnpore, Nana had 200 British women and children...have been swept into the sea, as Nana Sahib threatened. But the rebellion...
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Having Mangal Pandey for dinner aboard a vintage train.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
; ...lines of the trains of the 1850's 'Sahib, Sind and Sultan', a restaurant...The train has been named after 'Sahib, Sind and Sultan' the three engines...Tantia Tope Lah Jawab, or from Nana Sahib Ki Pasand (crispy cubes of potato...
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Our Bones are Scattered.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...by 112 pages of notes. It is a tale of treachery by Nana Sahib and his henchman, Azimullah Khan, of the inept British...slaughter of the garrison on the banks of the Ganges after Nana Sahib had granted them 'safe conduct'. That affair was then...
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Our Bones Lie Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal
; ...theme with admirable detachment. The characters of the Nana Sahib, Tantia Topi and Azimullah, long enshrined in British...eighteen nightmare days, surrender was inevitable. Under Nana Sahib's promise of a free passage down-river, Wheeler...
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Reflections on a poignant past
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...sent by the mysterious Col Creighton to be educated as a sahib. It was amusing to see a field full of latterday Kims...tanneries fills the air. It was here that the forces of Nana Sahib of Bithur laid siege to about a thousand British residents...
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Suspicious minds
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...brought carnage to Cawnpore and Lucknow. Even leaders such as Nana Sahib or Mohamed Ali Khan, who realised the civil and political...power might be a mirage and that the seemingly all-powerful sahibs might have feet of clay. That, too, provided a spur. As...
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Sad prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...against the 4,000-strong forces of the treacherous Nana Sahib for three weeks, tortured by the grinding heat and shortage...fearful massacre of 73 women and 124 children after the Nana had promised them safe conduct out of Cawnpore was the...
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Bounty from a mutiny
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...insurrection there. After a ferocious siege most them were massacred following a false armistice from the rebel leader Nana Sahib. Young Margaret herself, it was reported, had been seized by a sowar, an Indian cavalryman, named Nizam Ali Khan...
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Mutiny with no mercy... REVIEW.(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...given the derisive nickname 'Clemency' Canning for insisting on justice, not vengeance. In Cawnpore, the smiling Nana Sahib promised the British safe passage down the Ganges and then fired on their boats. Surviving women and children were slaughtered...
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Books: The rebels who refused to bite the bullet Saul David's brilliant analysis of the uprising in India shows that it was about much more than pork grease, finds Frank McLynn
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...lords. Meanwhile disgruntled members of Indian families who had lost out under the East India Company, notably the Nana Sahib, soon to be a key figure in British journalistic demonology, tried to foment a general uprising against the British...
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