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...that the Mayurakshi River in India wreaks havoc with its floods even after the construction of a dam?

...that Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata, India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor?

...that Kadambini Ganguly was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female doctor (allopath) in South Asia?

...that the Stoneman serial murders of thirteen homeless people in the summer of 1989 in Kolkata remain unsolved?

...that when Krishna Mohan Banerjee, a member of the famous Young Bengal group in Kolkata, in British India, converted to Christianity in 1832, he lost his job in David Hare’s school?

...that Gnanendramohan Tagore was the first Asian to be called to the bar in England in 1862?

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...that a fire that broke out a few days before Hiralal Sen died destroyed all his films including India's first political film?
...that Russian Indologist Gerasim Lebedev was the founder of the first European-style drama theatre in India and also the first printing house in Europe equipped with Indic scripts of Bengali and Devanagari?
...that when John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune opened the first secular girls' school in Calcutta in 1849, outraged bystanders swore at the girls as they were carried to school in covered carriages?
...that the Mahishya caste is one of the predominant Hindu castes in West Bengal, India?
...that the Young Bengal leader Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee was largely ostracized for marrying the widow of Maharaja Tejendra?
...that the Mayurakshi River in India wreaks havoc with its floods even after the construction of a dam?
...that the Young Bengal leader Ramgopal Ghosh was threatened with ostracism for opposing the Hindu religion?
...that one person was killed and another injured when they entered a tiger's cage in Alipore Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, and tried to put a floral garland round his neck?
...that the tyranny and the perceived dread of Gobindram Mitter, a British deputy in Calcutta, earned him a place in a Bengali rhyme?
...that zookeeper Ram Brahma Sanyal's pioneering works on the scientific treatment of captive breeding led to his zoo's hosting the first live birth in captivity of a Sumatran Rhinoceros, a feat not replicated for 112 years?
...that after the Battle of Palashi in 1757, Nabakrishna Deb organised a Durga Puja where Lord Clive offered thanksgiving?
...that Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata, India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor?
... that human sacrifices were once offered in Chitpur, now home to Kolkata’s latest railway passenger terminal?
...that the Tagore family, with over three hundred years of history, has exercised the greatest influence on reawakened Bengali spirit?
...that Motilal Sheel, a Bengali merchant in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India in the early 19th century, donated the land on which the Calcutta Medical College was built in 1835?
...that Kadambini Ganguly was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female doctor (allopath) in South Asia?
...that Indian author and journalist Peary Chand Mitra played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance in the 19th century and became known as the "Dickens of Bengal" due to his clear Bengali prose?
...that Rasik Krishna Mallick, a student at Hindu College, Kolkata, a leading Derozian and journalist, shocked a court in British India in the 1820s when he stated that he did not believe in the sacredness of the Ganges?
...that Kallol was perhaps, the first conscious literary movement to embrace modernism in Bengali literature?
...that innovative Indian film director Ritwik Ghatak's first feature film Nagarik premiered after his death, twenty-four years after it was made?
...that Raj Bhavan was inspired by the Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire?
...that the British East India Company received the farman (permission) for trading in Bengal and fortification of Kolkata as a reward when the company surgeon William Hamilton treated suspected fistula of the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar?
...that the Stoneman serial murders of thirteen homeless people in the summer of 1989 in Kolkata remain unsolved?
...that Narayan Debnath made the comic-strip character Batul The Great a superhero when the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 flared up?
...that noted Bengali writer Rajnarayan Basu was a tutor of Asia's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore?
... that the Chinese of Calcutta have established the only Chinatown in India?
...that a statue now stands where Matangini Hazra was shot in 1942 during the Quit India Movement?
...that a tornado that hit Dantan in West Bengal, India on March 24, 1998 killed over 250 people?
...that when Krishna Mohan Banerjee, a member of the famous Young Bengal group in Kolkata, in British India, converted to Christianity in 1832, he lost his job in David Hare’s school?
...that Mangalkavya depicted the social customs of Bengal in the middle ages?
...that the Partition of Midnapore to divide Midnapore, India's most populous district, was achieved 81 years after the first attempt in 1921?
...that the Sannyasi Rebellion was a series of clashes between Indian ascetics and the British East India Company during the eighteenth century in Bengal?
...that the British Indian Association played a catalytic role in building up Indian political consciousness?
...that Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan preferred to close down his weekly newspaper Somprakash rather than sign an undertaking for it?

...that bridges carrying India's Grand Trunk Road over the Barakar River were washed away in 1913 and 1946?
...that Fort William College, set up for the training of British officials, fostered the development of Indian languages?
...that Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was the second railway in the world that was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO?
...that in 1913, the Indian poet and philosopher Dwijendranath Tagore wrote the book Boxometry about the construction of boxes?
...that Gnanendramohan Tagore was the first Asian to be called to the bar in England in 1862?

...that the Chappell Ganguly controversy in Indian cricket resulted in fiery street protests in Ganguly's home town of Calcutta and then raised debate in the Parliament of India?
...that Satyendranath Tagore, the first Indian to join the elite Indian Civil Service, played a pioneering role in freeing women from being imprisoned in their homes?

...that unlike other Young Bengal members, Hara Chandra Ghosh refrained from involvement in religion and social reformation?

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