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Andrea Marr -Number 1 in AUSTRALIAN BLUES & ROOTS AIRPLAY CHART Hi my Sri-Lankan friends, I am not sure if one of our countryman have had a number one album in the Australian Blues Charts before but in any case I am over the moon to share my news with the Sri-Lankan community. Could you please share this with your networks and let them know the album is available in JB HiFi stores Australia wide and of course on itunes. Go Lanka!  Andrea Marr – Vocalist/Vocal Coach Tel:0403184887 www.andreamarr.com   AUSTRALIAN BLUES & ROOTS AIRPLAY CHART www.abarac.com.au Here are the 25 most-played new and reissued CD’s from Australian Blues & Roots artists in the month of October 2017. Thanks again for all the support of Australian music, Australian artists, labels and Independent radio… The charts are based on real statistics from actual radio airplay data contributed by numerous radio presenters from ...

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“ALBERT EINSTEIN, NO LESS” ! – By Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ Link to the original story: Albert Einstein in Colombo and Negombo: October 1922 and January 1923 – By Kirthi Tennakone Just taking my chance to “introduce” the great man who was Albert Einstein, no less! , through two other great men,  Professor Kirthi Tennakone, a gentleman I have not been privileged to meet, & James Alagaratnam, formerly an ex-Peterite, presently, an honoured O.B.U. member of our Alma-Mater in the little town of Bambalapitita, who now  resides in Canada. I have not only been privileged to talk with James, I now consider him a friend who will soon be also a “member” of eLanka which now proudly boasts over ten thousand regular members, who receive a regular “personal” newsletter weekly & the list is growing steadily. . eLanka has thus far, been a website especially for “Lankan/Aussies” but is ...

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 Albert Einstein in Colombo and Negombo: October 1922 and January 1923 – By Kirthi Tennakone There is hardly anyone who hasn’t heard of Einstein – a synonym for extraordinary genius. Einstein popped up in the news recently. Three Americans won the 2017 Nobel Prize, for detecting gravitational waves – the only prediction of his theory which remained unverified. Einstein derived his famous theory of General Relativity as an imaginative idea. Yet, to the amazement of the whole world all his predictions have been precisely verified. You will be astonished to hear this incredibly remarkable man and his wife passed Pettah in rickshaws to see a Buddhist Temple in October 1922. Again in January 1923 he was humbly waiting in the Negombo Railway Station, talking to a Sri Lankan woman, whom he later described as the one of the prettiest women he had ever seen. Even in the early 1920’s, Einstein ...

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