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DREAM WEAVERS
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Fanciful Kashmiri chain-stitch embroidery weaves chains and
figures on the homey textiles sold at River Jhelum. The shop, named
for a waterway in Kashmir, is the result of a three-month visit to
the mountainous region by proprietor Elizabeth Gazelle. It is
brightened by hand-embroidered rugs (...
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TREASURE CHESTS
The Boston Globe
; River Jhelum has been in the Porter Square Shopping Center for only about a year and a half, but the stunning wooden and papier- mache boxes, woolen rugs, and decorations sold there have existed in India for hundreds of years. The intricately carved walnut boxes have a hidden latch and velvet-lined
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Mangla hydel power station. (Mangla dam, Pakistan)
Economic Review
; The Mangla Dam, constructed across river Jhelum, was completed in 1967 under the Indus Basin settlement plan. The reservoir so created has a gross storage of 5.88 MAF at a conservation level of 1202 feet S.P.D (Survey of Pakistan Datum) and a residual storage capacity of 0.52 MAF at the assumed
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Sizing up the brain: mutations that produce small brains may reveal how human intelligence evolved.
Science News
; In the 1960s, Pakistan built a mammoth dam on the river Jhelum to generate electric power and store water for irrigation. Known as Mangla, the dam created an upstream lake that displaced about 20,000 families from the district of Mirpur. Around the same time, England's textile industry was facing a
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Early Civilization in Asia
Maps.com World History Maps
; 00-00-0000 Map of Early Civilization in Asia Luoyang Zhengzhou Anyang Hemudu Xi'an Madurai Harappa Kalibangan Mohenjo Daro Cochin Bactria Baluchistan Ceylon Route Of The Aryan Invasion Shang Western Zhou Indian Ocean Arabian Sea Bay Of Bengal Yellow Sea Huang River Wei River Tigris River Narmada
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Mangla Hydroelectric Power Station extension project units 9-10.
Economic Review
; With the completion of this project, the capacity of Mangla Hydropower Station has increased from 920 to 1,150 MW. It is a general observation that a factory using about three MW of electricity can provide directly and indirectly 4,000 to 5,000 jobs. The addition of this 230 MW power will not only
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