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10 hours ago · However, in the past thousands of uncremated bodies were thrown into the Ganges during cholera epidemics, spreading the disease. Even today, holy men, pregnant women, people with leprosy or chicken pox , people who have been bitten by snakes, people who have committed suicide, the poor, and children under 5 are not cremated at the ghats but are ...
- 1,999,000 km² (772,000 sq mi)
- Bay of Bengal
- 2,525 km (1,569 mi)
10 hours ago · Educated in Confucian principles from youth, Minh Mạng became the Emperor of Vietnam in 1820, during a deadly cholera outbreak that ravaged and killed 200,000 people across the country. His reign mainly focused on centralizing and stabilizing the state, by abolishing the Viceroy system and implementing a new full bureaucracy-provincial-based ...
- 557,000 km² (215,000 sq mi)
- None (rule by decree)
10 hours ago · Solomon Islands, [7] also known simply as the Solomons, [8] is a country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia. It is directly adjacent to Papua New Guinea to the west, Australia to the southwest, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the southeast, Fiji, Wallis and ...
