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unusual facts about Victoria College, Cooch Behar



2008 H5N1 outbreak in West Bengal

At least eleven districts of West Bengal, including Birbhum, Nadia, Murshidabad, Burdwan, Hooghly, Cooch Behar, Malda, Bankura, Purulia, Howrah, West Midnapore, South 24 Parganas and South Dinajpur are affected by bird flu.

The infection was caused by the H5N1 subtype of the Influenza A virus and occurred in at least thirteen districts, including Birbhum, Nadia, Murshidabad, Burdwan, Hooghly, Cooch Behar, Malda, Bankura, Purulia, Howrah, West Midnapore, South 24 Parganas and South Dinajpur and several new inclusion are reported daily.

Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College

Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College or ABN Seal, earlier Victoria College, is a co-educational college in Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India.

Annie Scott Dill Maunder

Annie received her secondary education at the Ladies Collegiate School in Belfast, which later became Victoria College.

Bishnu Prasad Rabha

This was despite the fact that due to participation in freedom struggle he was forced by the colonial British regime to leave Ripon College at Calcutta and transferred to Victoria College (now Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College) at Cooch Behar.

Charles Thomas Le Quesne

He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and Exeter College, Oxford where he received a 1st class Honors in Mods in 1906 and a 1st class in Lit.

Etymology of Cooch Behar

But there are many theories or stories behind the naming of Cooch Behar.

Godfrey Lias

At one time, Godfrey Lias was an Assistant Master at Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt, and then Head-master at the Muhammadan Anglo Oriental College (now Aligarh Muslim University) in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Helen Waddell

Helen was educated at Victoria College for Girls and Queen's University Belfast, where she studied under Professor Gregory Smith, graduating in 1911.

Macrobrachium agwi

It was discovered when a shipment of ornamental prawns, destined for the aquarium trade was shipped from Cooch Behar, East Bengal, India to Europe.

Malone Road

At the northern end of the road, Number 1 Malone Road is Methodist College Belfast, while further south lies Victoria College, Belfast.

Paul Cox

His teaching at Prahran College of Advanced Education in the 1970s influenced a number of photographers and filmmakers, including Carol Jerrems and Bill Henson.

Tancrède-Charles Gaboury

He was born in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Canada East, the son of Jean-Baptiste Gaboury and Rosalie Ayet dit Malo, and was educated there, at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe, at Saint Joseph's University in Ottawa and at Victoria College in Montreal.

United Kingdom Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge

The 2010 finalists were: Abbeyfield School, Bradford Grammar School, The Community Science College @ Thornhill, Dinnington Comprehensive School, Girls Aloft (Victoria College), Horsforth Secondary School, John Leggott College, Lostock Hall, Royal Liberty School, Thornton Grammar School, Wootton Bassett School and Worksop College.

Victoria College, Melbourne

Research in 1990 found that the college's students mainly lived in eastern and southern Melbourne, and on the Mornington Peninsula.

William Henry Brouse

Born in Matilda Township, Dundas County, Upper Canada of German ancestry, he attended Upper Canada Academy in Cobourg, Canada West in 1839, Victoria College until 1845, and received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1847 from McGill College.

William Ryerson

In 1830, with his brother John, he was a member of committee to establish the Upper Canada Academy, which later became Victoria College.

Wong Tape

He received his education at Victoria College in Hong Kong and, after his father's death in 1891, at Otago Boys' High School.


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