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Coorinates: 22°34′11″N 88°22′11″E / 22.5697, 88.3697

Trivia about calcutta

  • A monument at St. John's Church in this Indian city remembers the victims of the "black hole"
  • This city was founded by England's East India Trading Company in 1690
  • Until 1912 it was the capital of British India (black hole & all)
  • This city has a population density of about 79,000 people per square mile, the country's highest
  • In 1756 the Nawab of Bengal had the British East India Company garrison “holed up” in this city
  • Capital of British India until 1912, it was where Mother Teresa ministered to the unfortunate
  • Calcutta,Thimphu,Phnom Penh
  • It grew out of 3 villages: Sutanati, Govindapur & Kalikata
  • The government of the state of West Bengal lives in the Raj Dhavan, or Government House, in this city
  • At the end of the century, the British East India Company founded this city, later famous for a black hole
  • Take a look, it's the city where the woman seen here did the work that made her famous
  • This 1961 Lawrence Welk pop hit takes its title from the name of a city in India and features a harpsichord
  • This capital of the state of West Bengal is India's largest city
  • From 1773-1912 this city, India's largest, served as the nation's capital
  • Oh! this city! was the capital of British India from 1772 to 1912
  • A 1737 300,000 were killed in this city, once India's capital, by an earthquake--or it may have been a cyclone
  • The winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore was born in this former capital in 1861
  • This large Indian city on the Hooghly River was founded in 1690 by Job Charnak of the East India Company
  • Robert Clive recaptured this city from the Nawab of Bengal in 1757
  • Luckily, the 1947 Alan Ladd film named for this city wasn't a "black hole" in his career
  • Ogden Nash started a limerick, "There was an old man of" this city in India "who coated his tonsils with butta"
  • It's the Indian city that's the home to Eden Gardens, Asia's largest arena for cricket

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