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The Andaman Islands are an archipelago, made up of 200 islands, in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region.^[1]

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Archipelagoes of India
Archipelagoes of Southeast Asia
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Pleistocene Asia
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A. D. Loganathan

Major General Arcot Doraiswamy Loganadan (also spelled as 'Loganathan' in some historical references) (12 April 1888 – 9 March 1949) was an officer of the Indian National Army (which army was allied with the Japanese Empire against British India during World War II), and was also a minister in the Azad Hind Government (another provisional ally of the Japanese Empire during World War II) as a representative of the Indian National Army there.

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Adivasi

The Adivasi are heterogeneous tribal groups across the Indian subcontinent.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Albizia lebbeck

Albizia lebbeck is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar.

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Alfred Radcliffe-Brown

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, FBA (born Alfred Reginald Brown; 1881–1955) was an English social anthropologist who helped further develop the theory of structural functionalism.

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India. Andaman Islands and Andaman and Nicobar Islands are Archipelagoes of India, Archipelagoes of Southeast Asia and Archipelagoes of the Indian Ocean.

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Andaman boobook

The Andaman boobook or Andaman hawk-owl (Ninox affinis) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae.

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Andaman cobra

The Andaman cobra or Andaman spitting cobra (Naja sagittifera) is a species of cobra endemic to the Andaman Islands of India.

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Andaman coucal

The Andaman coucal or brown coucal (Centropus andamanensis) is a species of non-parasitic cuckoo found in the Andamans, Coco and Table Islands.

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Andaman crake

The Andaman crake (Rallina canningi) is a bird species in the family Rallidae.

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Andaman cuckoo-dove

The Andaman cuckoo-dove (Macropygia rufipennis) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.

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Andaman district

Andaman district was a district in the Indian Union Territory (UT) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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Andaman drongo

The Andaman Drongo (Dicrurus andamanensis) is a species of bird in the family Dicruridae.

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Andaman horseshoe bat

The Andaman horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus cognatus) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae.

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Andaman rat

The Andaman rat (Rattus stoicus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

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Andaman scops owl

The Andaman scops owl (Otus balli) is a species of the Strigidae family and is native to the Andaman Islands of India.

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Andaman Sea

The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated from the Bay of Bengal to its west by the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands. Andaman Islands and Andaman Sea are maritime Southeast Asia.

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Andaman serpent eagle

The Andaman serpent eagle (Spilornis elgini), also known as the Andaman dark-serpent eagle or the dark serpent eagle, is a medium-sized bird in the family Accipitridae, the raptor family, that is only found in India on the Andaman Islands.

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Andaman shrew

The Andaman shrew or Andaman white-toothed shrew (Crocidura andamanensis) is a critically endangered species of mammal in the family Soricidae.

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Andaman spiny shrew

The Andaman spiny shrew or Andaman shrew (Crocidura hispida) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.

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Andaman treepie

The Andaman treepie (Dendrocitta bayleii) is a species of bird in the family Corvidae.

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Andaman wood pigeon

The Andaman wood pigeon (Columba palumboides) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.

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Andaman woodpecker

The Andaman woodpecker (Dryocopus hodgei) is a species of bird in the woodpecker family Picidae.

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Andamanese languages

The Andamanese languages are the various languages spoken by the indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.

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Andamanese peoples

The Andamanese are the various indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, part of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the union territory in the southeastern part of the Bay of Bengal.

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Andesite

Andesite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition.

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Animism

Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.

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Archibald Blair

Archibald Blair (1752–1815) was a naval surveyor and lieutenant in the Bombay Marine.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Argillite

Argillite is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed predominantly of indurated clay particles.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician.

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Asian elephant

The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south.

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Ayeyarwady Region

Ayeyarwady Region (ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး,,; formerly Ayeyarwady Division and Irrawaddy Division) is a region of Myanmar, occupying the delta region of the Ayeyarwady River (Irrawaddy River).

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Azad Hind

The Provisional Government of Free India or, more simply, Azad Hind, was a short-lived Japanese-controlled provisional government in India.

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Baháʼí Faith

The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.

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Bamar people

The Bamar are a Sino-Tibetan-speaking ethnic group native to Myanmar.

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Banded pig

The banded pig (Sus scrofa vittatus) also known as the Indonesian wild boar is a subspecies of wild boar native to the Thai-Malay Peninsula and many Indonesian islands, including Sumatra, Java, and has been introduced to the Lesser Sundas in ancient times.

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Bangalore

Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

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Baratang Island

Baratang Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. Andaman Islands and Baratang Island are Volcanoes of India.

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Barren Island (Andaman Islands)

Barren Island is an island located in the Andaman Sea. Andaman Islands and Barren Island (Andaman Islands) are Volcanoes of India.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Battle of Aberdeen (Andaman Islands)

The Battle of Aberdeen, on the Andaman Islands of India close to Port Blair, was an armed conflict that occurred on 14 May 1859 (according to Portman but 17 May according to other sources) between the natives of the Andaman islands, the forces of the British colonial government in India, and to some extent the convicts (Indian independence activists) of the Ross Island Penal Colony.

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Bay of Bengal

The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean.

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Bengal Presidency

The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule and later a province of India.

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Bengalis

Bengalis (বাঙ্গালী, বাঙালি), also rendered as endonym Bangali, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Bungarus andamanensis

Bungarus andamanensis, the South Andaman krait, is a species of krait, a venomous elapid snake, which is found in the Andaman Islands of India.

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Burl

A burl (American English) or burr (British English) is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.

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Buttress root

Buttress roots, also known as plank roots, are large, wide roots on all sides of a shallowly rooted tree.

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Cave

A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface.

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Cellular Jail

The Cellular Jail, also known as Kālā Pānī (ۘकाला पानी), was a British colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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Chatham Island (Andaman Islands)

Chatham Island is an island of the Andaman Islands.

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Chennai

Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.

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Chin Hills

The Chin Hills are a range of mountains in Chin State, northwestern Burma (Myanmar), that extends northward into India's Manipur state.

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Chital

The chital or cheetal (Axis axis), also known as the spotted deer, chital deer and axis deer, is a deer species native to the Indian subcontinent.

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Chola Empire

The Chola Empire, which is often referred to as the Imperial Cholas, was a medieval Indian, thalassocratic empire that was established by the Chola dynasty that rose to prominence during the middle of the ninth century and united southern India under their rule.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Coco Islands

The Coco Islands (ကိုကိုးကျွန်း) are a small group of islands in the northeastern Bay of Bengal.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Diglipur

Diglipur (sometimes spelled Diglipore) is the largest town of North Andaman Island, in the Andaman Archipelago, India.

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Diospyros

Diospyros is a genus of over 700 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs.

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Dipterocarpus

D. retusus'' in Köhler Dipterocarpus is a genus of flowering plants and the type genus of family Dipterocarpaceae.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Dudhnath Tewari

Dudhnath Tiwari (or Tewari also spelled Doodnath Tewarry in British Indian records) (fl. 1857–1866) was an Indian convict (number 276) from the Sepoy mutiny who was sent to the penal settlement in the Andamans and became famous for escaping and living with the Andamanese tribes for about a year. Andaman Islands and Dudhnath Tewari are andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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Edible bird's nest

Edible bird's nests, also known as swallow nests (p), are bird nests created from solidified saliva by edible-nest swiftlets, Indian swiftlets and other swiftlets of the genera Aerodramus, Hydrochous, Schoutedenapus and Collocalia, which are harvested for human consumption.

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Edible-nest swiftlet

The edible-nest swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus), also known as the white-nest swiftlet, is a small bird of the swift family which is found in Southeast Asia.

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Epiphyte

An epiphyte is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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First Anglo-Burmese War

The First Anglo-Burmese War (ပထမ အင်္ဂလိပ်-မြန်မာ စစ်;; 5 March 1824 – 24 February 1826), also known as the First Burma War in English language accounts and First English Invasion War (ပထမ အင်္ဂလိပ် ကျူးကျော် စစ်) in Burmese language accounts, was the first of three wars fought between the British and Burmese empires in the 19th century.

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Flood myth

A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution.

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Frog

A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek ἀνούρα, literally 'without tail').

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Geotourism

Geotourism is tourism associated with geological attractions and destinations.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Great Andamanese

The Great Andamanese are an indigenous people of the Great Andaman archipelago in the Andaman Islands.

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Havelock island

Swaraj Dweep, is one of the largest islands in Ritchie's Archipelago, to the east of Great Andaman within the Andaman Islands.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Hindustani language

Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).

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Human cannibalism

Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

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Hyderabad

Hyderabad (ISO) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana.

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Igneous intrusion

In geology, an igneous intrusion (or intrusive body or simply intrusion) is a body of intrusive igneous rock that forms by crystallization of magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth.

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Igneous rock

Igneous rock, or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.

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Indentured servitude

Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Independence Act 1947

The Indian Independence Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 30) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan.

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Indian independence movement

The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.

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Indian National Army

The Indian National Army (INA; Azad Hind Fauj; 'Free Indian Army') was a collaborationist armed unit of Indian collaborators that fought under the command of the Japanese Empire.

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Indian Navy

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST), sometimes also called India Standard Time, is the time zone observed throughout the Republic of India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indigenous peoples

There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.

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Infection

An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce.

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Interview Island

Interview Island is an island of the Andaman Islands.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Jack Johnson (musician)

Jack Hody Johnson (born May 18, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter, primarily in the soft rock and acoustic pop genres.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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James Howard Williams

James Howard Williams, also known as Elephant Bill (15 November 1897 – 30 July 1958), was a British soldier and elephant expert in Burma, known for his work with the Fourteenth Army during the Burma Campaign of World War II, and for his 1950 book Elephant Bill.

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Jangil

The Jangil (also Rutland Jarawa or Rutland Onge) were one of the Indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands in India.

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Japanese occupation of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The Japanese occupation of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands occurred in 1942 during World War II.

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Japanese war crimes

During its imperial era, the Empire of Japan committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars.

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Jarawas (Andaman Islands)

The Jarawas (Jarawa: Aong) are an indigenous people of the Andaman Islands in India.

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Jenkins's shrew

Jenkins's shrew (Crocidura jenkinsi) is a critically endangered species of mammal in the family Soricidae.

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John Allen Chau

John Allen Chau (December 18, 1991 – November 17, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, a tribe in voluntary isolation, after illegally traveling to North Sentinel Island in an attempt to introduce the tribe to Christianity.

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Kaalapani

Kaalapaani is a 1996 Indian Malayalam-language epic historical drama film written by T. Damodaran and directed by Priyadarshan.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Lady Gregory

Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager.

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Land reclamation

Land reclamation, often known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds.

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Last Glacial Period

The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.

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Late Jurassic

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of endemic birds of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

This is a list of endemic birds of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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List of islands of Indonesia

The islands of Indonesia, also known as the Indonesian Archipelago (Kepulauan Indonesia) or Nusantara, may refer either to the islands composing the country of Indonesia or to the geographical groups which include its islands.

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List of trees of the Andaman Islands

The Andaman Islands fall within the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot.

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Lists of islands

This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water, and by other classifications.

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Little Andaman

Little Andaman Island (Onge: Gaubolambe) is the fourth largest of the Andaman Islands of India with an area of 707 km2, lying at the southern end of the archipelago.

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M. M. Kaye

Mary Margaret "Mollie" Kaye (21 August 1908 – 29 January 2004) was a British writer.

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Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Mao Kun map

Mao Kun map, usually referred to in modern Chinese sources as Zheng He's Navigation Map, is a set of navigation charts published in the Ming dynasty military treatise Wubei Zhi.

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Marco Polo

Marco Polo (8 January 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.

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Marianne Wiggins

Marianne Wiggins (born November 8, 1947) is an American author.

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Maritime boundary

A maritime boundary is a conceptual division of Earth's water surface areas using physiographical or geopolitical criteria.

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Mayabunder

Mayabunder is a town and a tehsil in the northern part of Middle Andaman Island, Andaman Archipelago, India.

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Merchant ship

A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire.

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Middle Andaman Island

Middle Andaman Island is an island of the Andaman Islands.

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Middle Chinese

Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the Qieyun, a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions.

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Ming treasure voyages

The Ming treasure voyages were maritime expeditions undertaken by Ming China's treasure fleet between 1405 and 1433.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Monotheism

Monotheism is the belief that one god is the only deity.

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Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.

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Mud volcano

A mud volcano or mud dome is a landform created by the eruption of mud or slurries, water and gases.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Narcondam hornbill

The Narcondam hornbill (Rhyticeros narcondami) is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae.

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Narcondam Island

Narcondam, India's easternmost island, is a small volcanic island located in the northern Andaman Sea. Andaman Islands and Narcondam Island are Volcanoes of India.

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New Delhi

New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).

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Nicobar district

Nicobar district is one of three districts in the Indian union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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Nicobar Islands

The Nicobar Islands are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean. Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands are andaman and Nicobar Islands, Archipelagoes of India, Archipelagoes of Southeast Asia, Archipelagoes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Archipelagoes of the Indian Ocean, maritime Southeast Asia, Pleistocene volcanoes and Volcanoes of India.

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North Andaman Island

North Andaman Island is the northern island of Great Andaman of the Andaman Islands.

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North Sentinel Island

North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island. Andaman Islands and North Sentinel Island are lands inhabited by indigenous peoples.

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Onge

The Onge (also Önge, Ongee, and Öñge) are an Andamanese ethnic group, indigenous to the Andaman Islands in Southeast Asia at the Bay of Bengal, currently administered by India.

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Ophiolite

An ophiolite is a section of Earth's oceanic crust and the underlying upper mantle that has been uplifted and exposed, and often emplaced onto continental crustal rocks.

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Pashtuns

Pashtuns (translit), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are a nomadic, pastoral, Eastern Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. They historically were also referred to as Afghans until the 1970s after the term's meaning had become a demonym for members of all ethnic groups in Afghanistan.

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Pūluga

Pūluga (or Puluga) is the creator in the religion of the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman Islands.

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Penal colony

A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory.

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Phuket province

Phuket is one of the southern provinces (''changwat'') of Thailand.

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Plume-toed swiftlet

The plume-toed swiftlet (Collocalia affinis) is a small bird in the swift family Apodidae.

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Political prisoner

A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity.

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Port Blair

Port Blair is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal.

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Preparis

Preparis Island is an island which is part of the Yangon Region of Myanmar.

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Priyadarshan

Priyadarshan (born 30 January 1957) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who predominantly works in Malayalam and Hindi cinema.

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Pterocarpus

Pterocarpus is a pantropical tree genus in the Fabaceae family.

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Pterocarpus dalbergioides

Pterocarpus dalbergioides, the Andaman padauk, Andaman redwood or East Indian mahogany, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.

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Rajendra I

Rajendra I (/rɑːdʒeɪndrə/; Middle Tamil: Rājēntira Cōḻaṉ; Classical Sanskrit: Rājēndradēva Śōla; Old Malay: Raja Chulan; – 1044 CE), often referred to as Rajendra the Great, Gangaikonda Cholan (Middle Tamil: Kaṅkaikoṇṭa Cōḻaṉ), and Kadaram Kondan (Middle Tamil: Kaṭāram Koṇṭāṉ), was a Chola Emperor who reigned from 1014 and 1044 CE.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo

Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo,, PC (Ire) (21 February 1822 – 8 February 1872) styled Lord Naas from 1842 to 1867 and Lord Mayo in India, was a British statesman and prominent member of the British Conservative Party who served as Chief Secretary for Ireland (1852, 1858–9, 1866–8) and Viceroy of India (1869–72).

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Royal Indian Navy

The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) was the naval force of British India and the Dominion of India.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Rudraksha

Rudraksha (IAST) refers to the dried stones or seeds of the genus Elaeocarpus specifically, Elaeocarpus ganitrus.

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Rupert Hart-Davis

Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis (28 August 1907 – 8 December 1999) was an English publisher and editor.

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Saddle Peak (Andaman Islands)

Saddle Peak or Saddle Hill is located on North Andaman Island in India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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Sageraea

Sageraea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae.

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Saltwater crocodile

The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands and freshwater rivers from India's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaic region to northern Australia and Micronesia.

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Sambar deer

The sambar (Rusa unicolor) is a large deer native to the Indian subcontinent, South China and Southeast Asia that is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 2008.

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Sedimentary rock

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.

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Sentinelese

The Sentinelese, also known as the Sentineli and the North Sentinel Islanders, are an indigenous people who inhabit North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal in the northeastern Indian Ocean.

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Shahid

Shahid (شهيدة, شُهَدَاء) denotes a martyr in Islam. The word is used frequently in the Quran in the generic sense of "witness" but only once in the sense of "martyr" (i.e. one who dies for his faith); the latter sense acquires wider usage in the hadith.

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Sher Ali Afridi

Sher Ali Afridi (died 11 March 1872) was an Indian soldier of Pashtun background, convicted of murder and imprisoned at the penal colony of Port Blair, Andaman Islands.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Shipwrecking

Shipwrecking is an event that causes a shipwreck, such as a ship striking something that causes the ship to sink; the stranding of a ship on rocks, land or shoal; poor maintenance, resulting in a lack of seaworthiness; or the destruction of a ship either intentionally or by violent weather.

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Sikhism

Sikhism, also known as Sikhi (ਸਿੱਖੀ,, from translit), is a monotheistic religion and philosophy, that originated in the Punjab region of India around the end of the 15th century CE.

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Six Suspects

Six Suspects is the second novel by Vikas Swarup, an Indian diplomat and author of The New York Times bestseller Q&A.

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South Andaman Island

South Andaman Island is the southernmost island of the Great Andaman and is home to the majority of the population of the Andaman Islands.

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Southern red muntjac

The southern red muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) is a deer species native to Southeast Asia.

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Spreading the News

Spreading the News is a short one-act comic play by Lady Gregory, which she wrote for the opening night of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, 27 Dec.

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Srivijaya

Srivijaya (Sriwijaya), also spelled Sri Vijaya, was a Buddhist thalassocratic empire based on the island of Sumatra (in modern-day Indonesia) that influenced much of Southeast Asia.

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Subhas Chandra Bose

Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a legacy vexed by authoritarianism, anti-Semitism, and military failure.

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Sumatra

Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. Andaman Islands and Sumatra are maritime Southeast Asia.

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Swiftlet

Swiftlets are birds from the four genera Aerodramus, Collocalia, Hydrochous and Schoutedenapus, which form the tribe Collocaliini within the swift family Apodidae.

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T. V. Padma

Padma Tiruponithura Venkatraman (born 13 November 1969), also known as T. V. Padma, is an Indian-American author and scientist.

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Tamils

The Tamils, also known as the Tamilar, are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry mainly to India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, to the union territory of Puducherry, and to Sri Lanka.

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Telugu people

Telugu people (తెలుగువారు|Teluguvāru), also called Andhras, are an ethno-linguistic group who speak the Telugu language and are native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Yanam district of Puducherry.

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Ten Degree Channel

The Ten Degree Channel is a channel that separates the Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands from each other in the Bay of Bengal.

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Thanjavur

Thanjavur, also known as Thanjai, previously known as Tanjore,Pletcher 2010, p. 195 is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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The Sign of the Four

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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The Times of India

The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.

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Thrust fault

A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.

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Toad

Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.

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Ultramafic rock

Ultramafic rocks (also referred to as ultrabasic rocks, although the terms are not wholly equivalent) are igneous and meta-igneous rocks with a very low silica content (less than 45%), generally >18% MgO, high FeO, low potassium, and are composed of usually greater than 90% mafic minerals (dark colored, high magnesium and iron content).

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Uncontacted peoples are groups of indigenous peoples living without sustained contact with neighbouring communities and the world community.

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Union territory

A union territory is a type of administrative division in the Republic of India.

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Utkarsh

Utkarsh (उत्कर्ष) is a given name of Hindi and Indian origin primarily for males and meaning prosperity, awakening, and flourishing.

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Veer Savarkar International Airport

Veer Savarkar International Airport is an airport located south of Port Blair and the primary airport serving the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India.

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Vikas Swarup

Vikas Swarup (born 22 June 1961) is a retired Indian diplomat and writer.

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Viper Island

Viper Island is an island of the Andaman Islands.

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Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam (formerly known as Vizagapatam), also known as Vizag, Viśākha or Waltair, is the largest and most populous metropolitan city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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White-headed starling

The white-headed starling (Sturnia erythropygia), also known as the Andaman white-headed starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.

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William Boyd (writer)

William Andrew Murray Boyd (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.

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William Cornwallis

Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, (10 February 17445 July 1819) was a Royal Navy officer.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wubei Zhi

The Wubei Zhi (Treatise on Armament Technology or Records of Armaments and Military Provisions), also commonly known by its Japanese translated name Bubishi, is a military book in Chinese history.

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Yangon

Yangon (ရန်ကုန်), formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma).

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Yangon Region

Yangon Region (formerly Rangoon Division and Yangon Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar.

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Ypresian

In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene.

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Zhao Rukuo

Zhao Rukuo (1170–1231), also romanised as Zhao Rugua, Chau Ju-kua, or misread as Zhao Rushi, was a Chinese government official and writer during the Song dynasty.

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Zhu Fan Zhi

Zhu Fan Zhi, variously translated as A Description of Barbarian Nations, Records of Foreign People, or other similar titles, is a 13th-century Song Dynasty work by Zhao Rukuo.

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Zoological Survey of India

The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), founded on 1 July 1916 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of the Government of India as a premier Indian organisation in zoological research and studies to promote the survey, exploration and research of the fauna in the country.

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1st millennium BC

The 1st millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy: JD –). It encompasses the Iron Age in the Old World and sees the transition from the Ancient Near East to classical antiquity.

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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_Islands

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