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...biriyanis are outstanding. When in Bangalore you have to try a dosa or an idli, the breakfast staples of southern Indians. Dosas are thin crepes made with a rice-and-lentil batter. The same batter is used to make steamed white dumplings called idlis. Both are served with coconut chutney and spicy sambhar (lentil gruel). Most of the restaurants specializing in these dishes are spartan but clean, and a really satisfying meal can be had for a song. The standouts include the Mavalli Tiffin Room, tel: (91-80) 2222 0022, a Bangalore institution, and Dosa Stop...
...Later, when Kennedy rejoined his crewmates on Olasana, he carved a message into a green coconut husk: nauro isl native knows posit he can pilot 11 alive need small boat kennedy. The skipper asked the two islanders to take the note to a naval base at Rendova Harbor, 60 km away. The pair sought out another scout, with whom they took the message to Australian Coastwatcher Reg Evans. Based on Kolombangara, Evans had been on watch the night PT 109 went up in flames. The U.S. authorities had all but given up hope of finding the missing...
...After the war, Gasa and his wife Nelma raised six children, living off coconuts and other crops grown in Kauvi, and fish caught in Vonavona lagoon. Little of the outside world has crept into the village; most of the residents are the old man's descendants, who still live from the sea and their gardens. Only rarely does Gasa leave the island. He and Kumana, who lives on Ranongga Island near Gizo, were invited by President Kennedy to his 1961 inauguration. But the pair never got to Washington; they were duped en route in Honiara, the capital, by colonial officials...
...branches that have crept among them like tree roots. Around her, lying in other cavities in the sharp rock and covered by volcanic ash, are the resting places of more human bones, all arranged in different positions of repose. Bats wheel above on the wind, which rushes through the coconut palms and sets the blue tarpaulin covering the graves flapping - a humble covering for one of the most important archaeological finds the South Pacific has yet seen...
...area is still littered with a ghostly confetti of coral and shell. Since then, earthquakes have pushed the shore about 800 m away, and the burial ground is now on private land used in recent times for cattle grazing, surrounded by a green tide of dense bush, vine and coconut palms. Some time later a village, now vanished, sprang up on top of the graves, perhaps as memory of them faded. Animal bones have been found with the remains, and large pieces of Lapita pottery appear to have been broken and placed in the grave pits. Flat pieces of coral...