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CD makes milestone in history:
The shiny disc that changed the world
Last night, I decided to wind down with a movie
after a hard day’s work. All I had to do was take out a shiny disc
that is 12 cm in diameter and pop it in to a player. In just one
minute, I was watching Martin Scorsese’s homage to celluloid – Hugo
– in gorgeous 3D. As the disc was being read by a laser, I only had
to sit back and relax.
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Bellanwila Esala perahera in full swing
In the good all days, some new born Buddhist
babies were taken to the Bellanwila Rajamaha Vihara premises and
kept under the Sacred Bodhi Tree, one of the saplings of the Most
Sacred Jayashrimaha Bodhi to invoke the blessings of the Triple Gem.
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Pattini, the most venerated goddess in Lanka
Goddess Pattini is the most venerated and
worshipped goddess in Sri Lanka for centuries. Buddhists and Hindus,
both whole-heartedly pay obeisance to her seeking her assistance and
protection regarding vicissitudes of life especially pestilence,
sickness, pains of child birth and so on.
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