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  2. Economic history of India - Wikipedia

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    Although ancient India had a significant urban population, much of India's population resided in villages, whose economies were largely isolated and self-sustaining. [citation needed] Agriculture was the predominant occupation and satisfied a village's food requirements while providing raw materials for hand-based industries such as textile, food processing and crafts.

  3. List of highest-grossing Indian films - Wikipedia

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    Since 2003, there are markets in over 90 countries where films from India are screened. [3] During the first decade of the 21st century, there was a steady rise in the ticket price, a tripling in the number of theatres and an increase in the number of prints of a film being released, which led to a large increase in the box office collections.

  4. Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I - Wikipedia

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    The United States was involved in at least one hostile encounter with Germans in the Pacific during World War I. On 7 April 1917, SMS Cormoran was scuttled in Apra Harbor, Guam to prevent her capture by the auxiliary cruiser USS Supply. The Americans fired their first shots of the war at the Germans as they attempted to sink the ship.

  5. Bombardment of Madras - Wikipedia

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    The Last Cruise of the Emden: The Amazing True WWI Story of a German-Light Cruiser and Her Courageous Crew by Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Globe Pequot Press, 2001 ISBN 978-1-58574-382-7; Hellmuth von Mücke, Helene Schimmelfennig White (1917). The Emden. Ritter. Karl Friedrich Max von Müller: Captain of the Emden During World War I by John M. Taylor

  6. List of highest-grossing Indian films in overseas markets

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    In China, some of the Indian films to gain commercial success there during the 1970s–1980s included Awaara, Tahir Hussain's Caravan (1971), Noorie (1979), and Disco Dancer. [22] [23] After Indian films declined in the country, it took decades before Tahir Hussain's son Aamir Khan opened up the Chinese market for Indian films in the early 21st ...

  7. List of World War I films - Wikipedia

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    During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence. A, D 1937 US Street of Shadows: Mademoiselle Docteur: G. W. Pabst: During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German ...

  8. The Man Who Knew Infinity - Wikipedia

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    Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 63% of critics gave the film a positive rating, based on 131 reviews with an average score of 6.2/10. The critics' consensus reads: " The Man Who Knew Infinity might be a tad too conventional to truly do its subject justice, but Dev Patel (Srinivasa Ramanujan) and Jeremy Irons (G.H. Hardy ...

  9. Economic history of World War I - Wikipedia

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    War costs and their financing: a study of the financing of the war and the after-war problems of debt and taxation (1921) online Bogart, E.L. Direct and Indirect Costs of the Great World War (2nd ed. 1920) online 1919 1st edition ; comprehensive coverage of every major country; another copy online free Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine