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Page 101
... India , was taken aboard . After a 23 - day run across the Indian Ocean , the Ghats Mountains of India were sighted , and Calicut was reached on May 20. There da Gama erected a padrão to prove he had reached India . Welcomed by the ...
... India , was taken aboard . After a 23 - day run across the Indian Ocean , the Ghats Mountains of India were sighted , and Calicut was reached on May 20. There da Gama erected a padrão to prove he had reached India . Welcomed by the ...
Page 232
... Indian Muslims to the Turkish sultan , and in 1921 he was elected president of a district Khilafat committee in his native North - West Frontier Province . Soon after attending a Congress Party gather- ing in 1929 , Ghaffar Khan founded ...
... Indian Muslims to the Turkish sultan , and in 1921 he was elected president of a district Khilafat committee in his native North - West Frontier Province . Soon after attending a Congress Party gather- ing in 1929 , Ghaffar Khan founded ...
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... Indian and Pacific oceans , uses its claws to catch flies from the undersides of leaves . The male of O. saratan , of the Red Sea , builds a sand mound about 16 cm ( 6 inches ) high and tamps a path from the mound to his burrow , some ...
... Indian and Pacific oceans , uses its claws to catch flies from the undersides of leaves . The male of O. saratan , of the Red Sea , builds a sand mound about 16 cm ( 6 inches ) high and tamps a path from the mound to his burrow , some ...
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