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Baha'dur Shah was the last of the Grand Moguls of India. A descendant of Tamerlane, in 1857, during the Indian mutiny, the Muslims who wished to restore the empire of the Moguls placed him, then a very old man, at the head of the movement in Delhi, but the city was soon retaken by the British, and the emperor was banished to Rangoon, where he died in 1862.
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Thakin Nu (U Nu) was a Burmese statesman and writer. He was born in 1907 at Wakema and died in 1995. Educated at Rangoon University, he joined the Dobhama Asiayone Nationalist Organisation and acquired the name, Thakin ('master') while working for Burmese independence as a student, and was often given the title of respect, U ('The Honourable'). He was minister of foreign affairs from 1943 to 1944, minister of publicity and propaganda from 1944 to 1945 and Prime Minister of Burma from 1948 to 1956, 1957 to 1958 and again from 1960 to 1962. He was ordained as a Buddhist priest in 1980.
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Abraham Sofaer was a Burmese actor. He was born in 1896 at Rangoon and died in 1998 of congestive heart disease.
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Harry H Corbett was a British comedy actor and writer. He was born in 1925 at Rangoon, Burma and died in 1982. He is perhaps best remembered for his co-starring role as the son in the BBC television series 'Steptoe & Son'.
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James Wilby is an English actor. He was born in 1958 at Rangoon, Burma.
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The Battles of Arakana were a series of British offensives between 1942 and 1945 during the Second World War to dislodge the Japanese from Arakan, a coastal region of Burma offering an invasion route from India with access to central Burma. The British mounted three offensives in this area; the first in December 1942 had limited objectives and was largely in order to give British forces confidence in operating against the Japanese. It was halted by the Japanese at Donbailk and withdrew. The second in December 1943 advanced as far as Maungdaw before being halted. The third offensive was more a renewal of the second offensive which eventually captured Rangoon on the 3rd of May 1945.
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The Bibby Steamship Line was an old English shipping company established in the early 19th century by John Bibby and trading between Liverpool, England and Colombo and Rangoon.
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The Gulf of Martaban is an expanse of ocean south of Rangoon.
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Mandalay is the chief town of Upper Burma. It stands on the River Irrawaddy 495 km north of Rangoon.
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Rangoon (now, since 1989 Yangon) is the capital of Burma (now Myanmar).
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