Within a week, they had berths on board the Vasco de Gama to Japan. Route taken by Mexico’s first international scientific expedition, 1874-5. All rights reserved Their route back home was via Hong Kong, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the Suez Canal, Italy and France (see map). By the ...
From Gouravilla to Stockholm where another Trinity Rugby stalwart Malin Gunatilleke was at the helm. He and his wife Sharmo were active at Maskeliya and Darrawella clubs. Malin is at present the Secretary General of the Planters Association of Ceylon. T...
and prepared me for my Planting career. The exercise was easy for them as my elder brother was one of the first recruits when the British decided to Ceylonise the industry, and he was already
Sri Lanka now has 330 power plants in operation with a capacity of 775 MegaWatts, that contributed about 16 percent of energy in 2023, the last full year data that has been published, Ceylon Electricity Board Chairman Tilak Siymabalapitiya told the ADB seminar. There are 210 mini hydro plan...
Britishchemist, born in Ceylon, whose research contributed to the development of colloid chemistry. He is remembered for his investigation of the Donnan Effect (1911) which advanced the understanding of the living cell. This is the effect of a semi-permeable membrane between two electrolytes and ...
Specifically, cinnamon is the bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree, which is native to the island and surrounding countries. The bark is peeled off, rolled into tubes, or ‘quills’, and is then dried. It’s these sticks or quills of cinnamon bark which we buy at the supermarket, and it’...
India, midway between Calcutta (Kolkata) and Dhaka (now in Bangladesh), and then spread throughout most of India, Burma (Myanmar), and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). By 1820 epidemics had been reported in Siam (Thailand), in Indonesia (where more than 100,000 people succumbed on the island of ...