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Перевод: Calcutta

[имя собственное]
Калькутта [геогр.]

Тезаурус:

1. Out of the hundreds of pictures that my husband Bob Turner and I took, we decided to publish a book by ourselves of 130 images showing the life, culture and people of Calcutta.
2. The Prime Minister's press conferences have become increasingly crowded over the years in what has been dubbed The Blue Hole of Calcutta.
3. The first Sealdah station of 1862 derived its prime grandeur from its engineering works: a six-mile embankment had to be built to bring the railway into the centre of Calcutta.
4. Calcutta must be the worst place to live.
5. Then came an offer of land in the swampy jungle area 40 miles to the east of Calcutta, known as the Sandurbans.
6. Harrogate branch member H Sawyer still has a February 1945 copy of Delta, published in Calcutta for 180 Wing, South East Asia Air Forces.
7. Calcutta has to be about the worst place in the World to live.
8. But such protection derives from licensing conditions which are stricter than those in the theatre, where shows like Oh, Calcutta! had to rely on advisory "adults only" notices at the box-office.
9. Three years later, the Siemens brothers extended cable communications even further by implementing an 11,000km telegraph line between London and Calcutta, a very considerable achievement, one which had been yet another adventure, the sort that provided - like the Atlantic cable saga - the densely-packed reports and darkly realistic illustration for which the Illustrated London News had become justifiably renowned.
10. Jack treats in three clinics six hundred people, six days a week - relying totally on voluntary help, his only income being from the Calcutta Rescue Fund, a small UK based charity.
11. His concern for leprosy sufferers, whom he had seen being thrown alive into burning pits, led to the establishment of a leprosy hospital in Calcutta - a very advanced concept for the time.
12. I was no longer ill-digested curry, but a human being, whose imminent launch into a difficult, hostile world, would make my poor mother, labouring in the steamy heat of Calcutta, scream with agony.
13. I had to go to Leeds for a show just after my return from Calcutta, he said, and there really wasn't much to choose between them.