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Diego Maradona has been a cocaine user and an alcoholic. He has had more than one fight on the football field, even once in front of the King of Spain when the monarch was watching a match. Then again, he has suffered many injuries and illnesses, including weight issues which affected his play. Once, he fired a gun at TV and newspaper reporters who, he said, were invading his privacy.
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The War of Liberation in Bangladesh in 1971 took the world by surprise and has affected the politics of the country ever since. But how did it come about?
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In 1757, Lord Clive, a British general, won the Battle of Plassey, and brought India under the sway of the East India Company, a de facto arm of the British government. Yet, even as the celebrations were taking place in London, there was a rumour that, in a hundred years, there would be a major and successful revolt against foreign rule. A century later, almost to the day, and the Indian Revolt, the Great Rebellion, the Sepoy Mutiny, the Indian Mutiny or the First War of Independence – it is known by many names, depending on one’s political stance – broke out.
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During British rule of India, Bengal experienced several of the worst famines in the history of mankind. The first hit Bengal in 1769 after the British took control of India in 1757, following the Battle of Plassey. This lasted from 1769 to 1773. More than 10 million people died.
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The story of India’s struggle for independence from Britain after nearly two hundred years is very well-known. India had long been known as ‘the Jewel in the Crown’ of the Empire. In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria became an empress on the strength of British rule in the subcontinent. Tales of the mystical East were as much part of the English schoolchild’s education as the novels of Charles Dickens. The British economy had boomed because of the export of textiles to India from the factories of northern England.
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In this speedy jaunt through the history of football, there will be little time for us to study the tactics of the great Pele or Maradona. You can read about them on the GED site. But, for now, we will look at the early history of the game – which was criminalized in England – and onto its professionalization, before taking a glance at its commercialization into a multi-billion dollar global business.
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Mahatma Gandhi is one of the best-loved men in all history. Although he worked all his life for Indians, his belief in fighting against wrong without using guns, knives or bombs has changed the world. His ideas were important for Martin Luther King, for example, in his fight for Afro-American rights in the U.S. In India, he is called ‘Bapu’ and many Indians see him as the father of their country.
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On 21st February, 1952, Pakistani soldiers fired at a peaceful procession around Dhaka University, called to protest Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s decree, reiterated by the new governor-general, Khawaja Nazimuddin, that Urdu – and only Urdu – would be the national language of Pakistan, East and West. Five protesters, most of them students, were shot dead and at another rally the next day to mourn the murdered martyrs, others died, including a nine-year-old boy, called Ohiullah.
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Every day on Polish radio, there is a recording of a trumpeter warning a city of an attack. It stops suddenly and unexpectedly. This is in commemoration of the man who sounded the alarm in Poland’s then capital city, Krakow, when he saw the advancing Mongol army on the horizon. It stops in mid-phrase because an arrow hit him in the throat.
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