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Word: machilipatnam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1977-1977
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...miles inland across the low-lying rice land and coconut gardens of the Krishna River delta. About 150 sq. mi. of land became a solid sheet of water. Twenty-one villages, 13 of them in the delta, were inundated, leaving 2 million homeless. The port of Machilipatnam, 20 miles upriver, was destroyed. All told, about 2 million acres were affected, including 200,000 acres of rice ready for harvesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Sudden Death on the Bay of Bengal | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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