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  2. Frank the Poet - Wikipedia

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    Francis MacNamara (c. 1810 – 28 August 1861), known as Frank the Poet, [1] was an Irish writer and poet who was transported as a convict to the penal colony of New South Wales. While incarcerated, he composed improvised verse that captured convict life and exposed the cruelties of the convict system.

  3. Help:Multilingual support (Indic) - Wikipedia

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    For example, to install Kannada fonts, Simply enter as root on the console and type in the command: yum install fonts-Kannada This will download the Kannada fonts from the repositories and install it. Similarly, for Hindi, say, enter as root on the console and type in the command: yum install fonts-Hindi

  4. Svarga - Wikipedia

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    The sacrifices that one performs are stated to journey directly to heaven, and are stored to await the sacrificer on his arrival. One hymn describes Svarga to be a realm that contains water-lilies and lotuses, lakes of butter with banks of honey, along with streams flowing with a number of foods such as wine, milk, curds, and water.

  5. Convicts in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Several convicts had escaped into the bush and were left behind to unknown fates with the local aboriginal people. One such convict, the subsequently celebrated William Buckley, lived in the western side of Port Phillip for the next 32 years before approaching the new settlers and assisting as an interpreter for the indigenous peoples.

  6. Svargarohana Parva - Wikipedia

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    The Svargarohana Parva describes the arrival of Yudhishthira to heaven, his visit to hell, and what he finds in both places. Yudhishthira is upset when he finds evil people in heaven and good people in hell. He demands that he be sent to hell where people who love him are present. The gods then reveal that their loved ones are indeed in heaven.

  7. Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Carey attracted also the interest of Henry Martyn, later of Persia, to Hindi. [8] Presbyterian Samuel H. Kellogg who taught at the seminary in Allahabad [9] headed three translators working on translation of the Old Testament into Hindi, including William Hooper, of the Church Missionary Society, and Joseph Arthur Lambert. [10]

  8. Vale of tears - Wikipedia

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    The phrase also occurs in the writings of Jerome (c. 347–420) [2] and Boniface (c. 675–754), [3] but was perhaps popularized by the hymn "Salve Regina", which at the end of the first stanza mentions "gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle", or "mourning and weeping in this valley of tears".

  9. Kruti Dev - Wikipedia

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    Kruti Dev (Devanagari: कृतिदेव) is [citation needed] Devanagari typeface and non-Unicode clip font typeface which uses the keyboard layout of Remington's typewriters. [2] In north Indian states many public service commissions conduct their clerk , stenographer , data entry operator 's typing exams using the Kruti Dev typeface. [ 3 ]