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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!hri.com!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!nil!sahmed
  2. From: sahmed@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Saif Ahmed)
  3. Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
  4. Subject: Re: The Black Hole of Calcutta ?
  5. Message-ID: <SAHMED.93Jan23145545@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Jan 93 19:55:45 GMT
  7. References: <1js61rINN4ta@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
  8. Sender: nobody@ctr.columbia.edu
  9. Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
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  11. In-Reply-To: mahmud-mehdi@yale.edu's message of 23 Jan 1993 14:24:43 -0500
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  15. In article <1js61rINN4ta@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> mahmud-mehdi@yale.edu (Mehdi Asif Mahmud) writes:
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  17.        Does anyone know what "The Black Hole of Calcutta" is/was (will be?)
  18.    a reference to? Care to enlighten me, please? 
  19.  
  20. It is an room or dungeon if you will in which Nawab Siraj-ud Dowla
  21. imprisoned a large number of Europeans including women and children
  22. most of whom suffocated to death.
  23.  
  24. Saif
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  31. | | Saifuddin Ahmed                                                        |
  32. | | sahmed@occs.cs.oberlin.edu                                             |
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