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February 8th 2008
Hello from Sri Lanka! Local news... Well I arrived on the afternoon of Sunday 3rd to discover that there had been a bomb blast just an hour before at the main Colombo train station killing 10 and injuring 100, as well as a smaller blast at a zoo in Colombo that day. That followed a bomb on a local bus in Dambulla on Saturday 2nd that I read about just before I left home, and an incid ... read more

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The Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka late in the 6th century B.C., probably from northern India. Buddhism was introduced beginning in about the mid-third century B.C., and a great civilization developed at the cities of Anuradhapura (kingdom from circa... ... read more