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  2. Sosale Garalapury Sastry - Wikipedia

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    Sosale Garalapury Sastry (November 1899 – 22 September 1955) was an Indian industrial chemist known for his work on the manufacture of sandalwood soap through the establishment of the Mysore soap factory in Bangalore. This earned him the nickname of Soap Sastry. He also served as a director of industries and commerce in Mysore State.

  3. Flip-flops - Wikipedia

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    The modern sandals are made of more modern materials, such as rubber, foam, plastic, leather, suede, and even fabric. [13] Flip-flops made of polyurethane have caused some environmental concerns; because polyurethane is a number 7 resin , they can't be easily discarded, and they persist in landfills for a very long time. [ 27 ]

  4. Sandal Soap Factory metro station - Wikipedia

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    Sandal Soap Factory is an elevated metro station on the North-South corridor of the Green Line of Namma Metro serving the nearby Orion Mall area of Bengaluru, India. It acquires its name from the factory of the Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited situated nearby. It was opened to the public on 1 March 2014. [1] [2]

  5. Odel - Wikipedia

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    The company started when Otara Gunewardene began selling factory surplus garments and apparel from her car boot to family and friends in 1989. [5] [6] [7]Gunewardene registered Odel (the name is based on her own name, Otara Del Gunawardene [5]) as a private limited liability company on 31 October 1990 [7] [8] and the company opened its first 37 m 2 (400 sq ft) store on Dickmans Road in Colombo.

  6. Culture of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Polonnaruwa Vatadage Sri Lanka Ceylon Tea. The culture of Sri Lanka mixes modern elements with traditional aspects and is known for its regional diversity. Sri Lankan culture has long been influenced by the heritage of Theravada Buddhism passed on from India, and the religion's legacy is particularly strong in Sri Lanka's southern and central regions.

  7. Mysore Rosewood Inlay - Wikipedia

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    inlaid wood carving, Lalitha Mahal Palace Hotel. Mysore Rosewood Inlay covers a range of techniques used by artisans in around the area of Mysore in sculpture and the decorative for inserting pieces of contrasting, often coloured materials like ivory shells, mother-of-pearl, horn and sandalwood into depressions in a rosewood object to form ornament or pictures that normally are flush with the ...

  8. Mysore - Wikipedia

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    The name Mysore is an anglicised form of Mahiṣūru, [11] which means "the abode of Mahiṣa" in the vernacular Kannada.The common noun Mahiṣa, in Sanskrit, means buffalo; in this context, however, Mahiṣa refers to Mahishasura, a mythical demon who could assume the form of either a human or a buffalo, and who, according to Hindu mythology, ruled the ancient parts of Mysore Kingdom, known ...

  9. Srirangapatna - Wikipedia

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    Srirangapatna was the scene of the last and decisive battle of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, fought in 1799 between Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore, and a combined force of 50,000 men provided equally by the Nizam of Hyderabad and the East India Company, under the overall command of General George Harris.