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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southern Bangladesh on the Ganges River delta. The phenomenon known as “the Barisal guns,” unexplained sounds resembling distant thunder or cannon fire, may be seismic in origin.
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With electricity cuts throughout the day, use of the Internet is severely limited in Barisal, as in other Bangladeshi cities.
Waterworld 2008
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With electricity cuts throughout the day, use of the Internet is severely limited in Barisal, as in other Bangladeshi cities.
Waterworld 2008
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Few places epitomise the devastating effect as well as Bashail, a town of 3,500 people in Barisal district in southern Bangladesh.
Bangladesh feels economic backlash from Middle East crisis 2011
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Few places epitomise the devastating effect as well as Bashail, a town of 3,500 people in Barisal district in southern Bangladesh.
Bangladesh feels economic backlash from Middle East crisis 2011
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Barisal, a major river port in southern Bangladesh, offers a case study of the costs of that vacuum: a middle-sized city that reeks of garbage and raw sewage, because treatment plants are inadequate and canals have dried up, and because unauthorized high-rises have brought ever more people into the urban core.
Waterworld 2008
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Barisal, a major river port in southern Bangladesh, offers a case study of the costs of that vacuum: a middle-sized city that reeks of garbage and raw sewage, because treatment plants are inadequate and canals have dried up, and because unauthorized high-rises have brought ever more people into the urban core.
Waterworld 2008
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Then I read in Wikipedia that "As so many Sylhetis are resident abroad, Sylhet has a major flow of foreign currency from non-resident Bangladeshis; many Sylheti families 'sole source of income comes from relatives abroad and this attracts influx migrant workers and families from other parts of Bangladesh, earning livings by peddling rickshows, working as servants and peasants, particularly people from Comilla, Noakhali, Mymensingh and Barisal are found lower denomination jobs in Sylhet."
Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008
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UNB, DhakaSharmin Sulatana Shirin (Narayanganj) and Masuda Begum (Barisal) took joint lead in the Parachute 30th National Women Chess Championship with five points each after the sixth round matches at the Chess Federation hall-room here on Friday.
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Three people were killed in Patuaknali while two each in Barisal, Chandpur and Bhola districts during the late-night scourge over the coast.
Cyclone Reshmi Wreaks Devastation in Southwest, Killing 9 2008
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Manirul Islam, officer-in-Charge of Mehendiganj upazila of Barisal, said the dead body of Ainal Khan, 71, was recovered from Maskata River on Monday morning.
Cyclone Reshmi Wreaks Devastation in Southwest, Killing 9 2008
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