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Former name of Kolkata, the State capital of West Bengal (India)
a city and port in East India on the Hooghly River and capital of West Bengal state. The new name for Calcutta is Kolkata. black hole of calcutta, the
{i} seaport and capital city of West Bengal state in eastern India
the largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world; located in eastern India; suffers from poverty and overcrowding

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Black Hole of Calcutta
a small room used as a prison in Calcutta, India. In 1756, 146 British prisoners were put into it, and most of them died in one night. People sometimes say that a small very crowded room or dark place is "like the Black Hole of Calcutta
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
orig. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu born Aug. 27, 1910, Skopje, Maced., Ottoman Empire died Sept. 5, 1997, Calcutta, India; beatified Oct. 19, 2003 Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity. The daughter of a grocer, she became a nun and went to India as a young woman. After studying nursing, she moved to the slums of Calcutta (Kolkata); in 1948 she founded her order, which served the blind, the aged, the disabled, and the dying. In 1963 the Indian government awarded her the Padmashri ("Lord of the Lotus") for her services to the people of India, and in 1971 Pope Paul VI awarded her the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize. In 1979 she received the Nobel Prize for Peace. Although in her later years she suffered from a worsening heart condition, Mother Teresa continued to serve the poor and sick and also spoke out against divorce, contraception, and abortion. Her order included hundreds of centres in more than 90 countries, with some 4,000 nuns and hundreds of thousands of lay workers. She was succeeded by the Indian-born Sister Nirmala. The process to declare her a saint began within two years of her death, and Pope John Paul II issued a special dispensation to expedite the process. She was beatified on Oct. 19, 2003, reaching the ranks of the blessed in the shortest time in the church's history
black hole of calcutta
a dungeon (20 feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as 146 English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula; the next morning only 23 were still alive
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