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People in Odisha celebrate Kartik Purnima by setting afloat miniature boita (boats) made from banana stem to remember the historical significance of the day. In Tamil Nadu, Karthikai Deepam is celebrated where the Purnima corresponds to the Krittika nakshatra. People light rows of lamps on their balconys. In Tiruvannamalai, a ten-day annual festival is held to celebrate Karthikai Deepam.
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Fake news in the United States in the 1890s was recognized. One editorialist wrote in 1896 that: > The American newspapers are fairly beating their own record at the present > time in their success in getting up sensations and setting afloat fake news. > . . . our people are in a frame of mind which accepts without question the > most absurd statements the mind of man can conceive, and even try to invent > excuses for their credulity.
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False news was recognized as a problem in the United States in the 1890s. One editorialist wrote in 1896 that: > The American newspapers are fairly beating their own record at the present > time in their success in getting up sensations and setting afloat fake news. > . . . our people are in a frame of mind which accepts without question the > most absurd statements the mind of man can conceive, and even try to invent > excuses for their credulity.
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A hostile Ireland would cut British communications with her South American allies and he said he might request an audience with the king to tell him that his anti-Catholic policy would lead to an explosion. Fitzwilliam had been asked to become honorary director of a prospective Royal Hibernian General Railroad Company but as he wrote to Lord Grey on 20 January 1825: "...my answer has been that whatever I could do to prevent the establishment of such a company, I would do—think of placing at the mercy of a set of London capitalists all the landed property of Ireland. ... traffickers in money—a very useful class, I grant—but are we quite sure, that setting afloat such projects, putting them in newspapers, may not be converted into swindling means?"Smith, p. 384.
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