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The Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, c.1860

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Duke Ellington was despatched to the Far East on a goodwill tour under the patronage of the U.S.State Department. Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra went to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Egypt, India, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Persia (now Iran), and Turkey.
 

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Vernon Corea's news article in his EMCEE Column in the Ceylon Daily News in the 1960s on Clarence Wijewardena, Annesley Malewana and The Moonstones - this was the first ever newspaper article on the Moonstones.
 

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Japanese flying ace Captain Mitsuo Fuchida led the attack on Colombo on 5th April 194

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Japanese flying ace Captain Mitsuo Fuchida led the attack on Colombo on 5th April 1942. After the war Fuchida converted to Christianity and became a Christian missionary.
 

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Admiral Chuichi Nagumo and his fleet attacked Colombo, Ceylon on 5th April 1942.

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