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New addition to my railway stamps - Sri Lanka - commemorative stamp issued February 2nd, 1986 to celebrate the inaugural run of the "Viceroy Special" train. #stamps #philately #stampcollecting #railway #trains

Huge lantern built in Sri Lanka for their annual Vesak festival Original post

Sri Lanka Curry House in Minneapolis International Market in Nashville

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The brown-headed barbet (Psilopogon zeylanicus) is a regular visitor in our neighborhood. A bird who loves his fruits, from guava to mango to jackfruit, this chap here still has some guava on his whiskers to prove it. #Birds #SriLanka #urban #NaturePhotography

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Hard to see how test cricket continues indefinitely if the public don't want to watch it. Sri Lanka offering free tickets for what should be one of their marquee series. There was no one there to watch West Indies Vs Pakistan either.

On the show this week: • How Michigan’s primary became a proxy battle for Israeli influence in the US • Israel is gaming AI to shape what's read about the country online • Many of Sri Lanka’s Buddhist monks are now preaching nationalism - but one of them is pushing back ▶️ youtu.be/U8MY9dJEyt0

India have named Sarfaraz Khan as replacement for the injured B Sai Sudharsan for the two-match Test series against Sri Lanka

Le 4 août 2006, 17 de nos collègues ont été exécutés à #Muttur, au Sri Lanka. Vingt ans plus tard, leurs familles attendent toujours la vérité et la justice. À travers un nouveau rapport, elles témoignent pour que leur mémoire ne soit jamais oubliée 👇 shorturl.at/H3cOP

Benyasiri Eimviriyapong (Thailand) and Fatima Shahzad (Pakistan) write about the Hands Off Asia conference held in Colombo, Sri Lanka by the International Peoples Assembly and Tricontinental: nocoldwar.org/news/debt-de...

Sri Lanka's Cabinet approves bill to replace 1948 immigration law, adding biometric e-passport provisions ahead of parliamentary submission #SriLanka

Unelected nobody spouts bollocks. His parents are immigrants from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 in the 80s....is he reporting them too? Absolute fucking weapon #ReformUK

Sri Lanka deployed heavily armed troops to its main maximum-security prison on Friday following an unsuccessful breakout attempt by inmates u.afp.com/SHNM

🗓️ #OTD in 1944 – COPP 7 leaves the naval base at Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in sub HMS Tudor (📸 IWM A21448) to do recce around north-west Sumatra (now part of Indonesia). It's Tudor's first patrol after arriving in SE Asia from the UK. #NavalHistory 1/2 ▶️ buff.ly/YUR61lj

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1971 "Bentuta" watercolor by Byron Birdsall. Many Alaskans are familiar with Birdsall's Alaska work, but he did paint landscapes from elsewhere, here seemingly referring to Bentota, Sri Lanka, which he did visit. Via Anchorage Museum. #srilanka

Nibbles: Museum of Cider, Aport apple, Rattan genebank, Sri Lanka rice, Saudi coffee landscapes – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/nibb... #genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #ecotourism #biodiversity