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Stimulating Biographies in Thuppahi …. Visited Yesterday by Assorted All Sorts

Michael Roberts  The digital system sustaining my THUPPAHI WEBSITE provides daily reports on the items that receive a viewing. Looking over the LIST for 2 February 2026 and focusing on items that had just ONE VIEWING I have chosen items … Continue reading

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The Royal-Thomian: A Message from Revd Marc Billimoria

A Message in Facebook from the Retd Warden, Fr. Marc Billimoria. early March 2026  It is one year this week since I was part of organizing this spectacular sporting event – the blue ribbon and quintessential Big Match, the Battle … Continue reading

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Chinese Fleet’s Impact on Sri Lanka in the Early 15th Century 

Charles Schokman’s Discovery of Amazing Facts conveyed in an Email entitled “A Bit of Ceylon History” Amazing how they sailed with 30,000 sailors on 35 massive ships In fact some ships were garden ships supplying food to the sailors! The … Continue reading

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Rise Sir James Anderson & Captain Lancashire At Age of 43! Volaarey! Cantaarey!

Item in ESPNcricinfo, 12 December 2025 James Anderson will be taking on a new responsibility in his 44th year next summer, after being appointed as Lancashire’s full-time captain for their County Championship campaign. Anderson, 43, stepped in as an interim captain … Continue reading

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Inspirations: A Female Rhodes Scholar in Engineering

Kate Rogers, in Dalhousie News  ….6 …in RHODES  CONNECT, https://www.dal.ca/news/2026/01/08/all-rhodes-lead-to-home-sierra-sparks.html Sierra Sparks was inspired by strong female role models from a young age. The first-year medical student from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, entered a field where women were few and stereotypes … Continue reading

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Duleep Mendis: Basic Bio-data

FROM https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/duleep-mendis-49629 Wisden Overview A strong, burly, wristy batsman capable of destroying attacks at any level when the mood took him, Mendis played in key part in Sri Lanka’s early days as a Test-playing country. Mendis, who had first played … Continue reading

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Elephant House breaches Australian Market … Icily

An Item in the  Financial Times 23 December 2025 …..Sent by Jayantha Somasundarum of Canberra … where the web deployed this  title: “Elephant House Ice Cream marks historic launch in Australia” Ceylon Cold Stores PLC (CCS), a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings … Continue reading

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Rejuvenating the Sinhala World at S. Thomas’ College

Professor Sandagomi Coperahewa, in Daily News, 2 February 2026, where the title runs thus: “The Thomian legacy in the promotion of Sinhala ….. In connection with the 175th anniversary celebrations of S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia, which takes place on … Continue reading

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In Memory of Rienzie Wijetilleke: His role in Salvaging SL Cricket

S. Skandakumar in GOOGLE Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) administration was in chaos when President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga appointed Rienzie Wijetilleke who passed away yesterday at the age of 85, as Chairman of the first interim committee to administer Sri Lanka … Continue reading

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An American Outsider’s Appraisal of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict unto Death

  Prefatory Note by Michael Roberts in Adelaide, 7 June 2025  Brian Victoria was a colleague teaching Japanese in the Asian Studies Department when I moved to Adelaide Univerisity Anthropology in 1977; and we got to know each other at … Continue reading

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