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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Kandy , city (1995 est. pop. 108,000), capital of Central prov., Sri Lanka, on the Kandy Plateau. Once the capital of the Sinhalese Kandyan kingdom, it is now a mountain resort and market center for an area producing tea, rubber, rice, and cacao. The main part of the city overlooks a scenic artificial lake built by the last king of Kandy in 1806. Near the lake is the Temple of the Tooth, said to house one of Buddha's teeth. This sacred relic, brought to Sri Lanka in the 4th cent. (reputedly by a princess who hid it in her hair), may have been destroyed (1560) by the Portuguese. The relic, which... Read more

Kandy
...kingdom to be subjugated by a colonial power. Kandy survived the predations of the Portuguese...when the British took over Ceylon in 1796, Kandy was left on its own. The first British attack on Kandy in 1803 failed; in 1815 Kandyan chiefs invited... Read more

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	Ways of making you buy You may think that you don't need a new necklace, or another pair of earrings. But then you just haven't met Kandy Smith, the queen of pyramid selling. ; ...Tupperware-esque - not a film-set rural idyll. Kandy Smith meets me with outstretched hand...eyesight," she says, by way of introduction. Kandy is full of facts and stories. She burbles...asks. Pat tells her which one she likes. Kandy stays silent. "I let people sell to each... Read more
	Crik: King and Zoysa fit for Kandy test ; ...News (Australia) 11-20-2001 Crik: King and Zoysa fit for Kandy test KANDY, Sri Lanka, Nov 19 Reuters - Fast bowlers Reon King and...Test, beginning at the Asgiriya International Stadium in Kandy tomorrow, following Sri Lanka's opening victory by ten... Read more
	Viva!: dragony AUNT: What to get for grandma's surprise; Mizz Kandy Floss . . . your shoulder to cry on.(Features) ; Byline: Mizz Kandy Floss Dear Kandy, We want to surprise our gran by giving her garden a make-over. We...bushes trimmed for pounds 50! Buy a gnome and keep the change. Miss Kandy will be hosting the Per Una Fashion Show at Marks and Spencer in... Read more
	Gourmet Kandy Kottage goes extra mile for sweetness ; ...Adams-Davis, owns and operates the Gourmet Kandy Kottage in Merrillville.(PHOTO) (BRIAN...Candies for 18 years along with the Gourmet Kandy Kottage. Adams-Davis is helped at the store...MAP) One of the offerings at Gourmet Kandy Kottage is a 2.79-pound mountain of caramel... Read more
	Viva!: dragony AUNT: Who is the ginger nut in a soap opera? Mizz Kandy Floss . . . your shoulder to cry on.(Features) ; Byline: Mizz Kandy Floss Dear Kandy I think my husband is having an affair. I went away last weekend to visit my Aunt June, and on my return I discovered a ginger hair on a bar of soap (my hair is brown, my husband is bald, and the cats are black... Read more
	Viva!: dragony AUNT: Hot dog van man's now playing it cool; Mizz Kandy Floss . . . your shoulder to cry on.(Features) ; Byline: Mizz Kandy Floss Dear Kandy, Whilst on holiday recently at Butlins I fell madly in love with a boy called Steve. He worked on the hot dog counter and was so lovely. I gave him my number but he hasn't called yet. It's already been 11 hours... Read more
	NOW GO FOR A THOUSAND; FIRST TEST, SRI LANKA v ENGLAND, ALL THE ACTION FROM THE THIRD DAY IN KANDY Miracle-man Murali's on top of the world and Warne tells him to make it four figures.(Sport) ; Byline: Dean Wilson REPORTS FROM KANDY SHANE WARNE predicted yesterday that Muttiah Muralitharan could...THE LIFE AND CONTROVERSIAL TIMES OF A RECORD-BREAKER 1972: Born Kandy, April 17 1991: Selected for Sri Lanka A's tour of England. 1992... Read more
	Cricket: Test record in sight for Sri Lanka's Kandy man.(Sport) ; MUTTIAH Muralitharan is seeking the sweetest of homecomings in Kandy by breaking Shane Warne's Test bowling record. Off-spinner Muralitharan...overhaul Australian Warne's 708 Test wicket tally. The son of a Kandy confectioner, fate and a slightly under-par return in the recent... Read more
	Cricket: Test record in sight for Sri Lanka's Kandy man ; MUTTIAH Muralitharan is seeking the sweetest of homecomings in Kandy by breaking Shane Warne's Test bowling record. Off-spinner Muralitharan...overhaul Australian Warne's 708 Test wicket tally. The son of a Kandy confectioner, fate and a slightly under-par return in the recent... Read more
	ENGLAND HAVE TO TAKE KANDY; Anderson: swing attack Weather eye: Michael Vaughan takes a close look at the Kandy wicket, watched by chairman of selectors David Graveney (top) while No 6 rivals Ravi Bopara and Owais Shah get ready for a net session (left). ; ...England could ask for no better venue than Kandy to begin their attempt toemulate Nasser...series where they are least effective. Kandy is where Darren Gough took eight wickets...in keeping with Headingley in April than Kandy in December. But yesterday it had changed... Read more

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