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Black Hole of Calcutta   /blæk hoʊl əv kˌælkˈətə/   Listen
Black Hole of Calcutta

noun
1.
A dungeon (20 feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as 146 English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula; the next morning only 23 were still alive.






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... tunnels, nobody ever takes into account practically this most important factor in human and animal life. We toil for bread, but we ignore the supply of oxygen. And why? Simply because oxygen is universally diffused everywhere. It costs nothing. Only in the Black Hole of Calcutta or in a broken tunnel shaft do men ever begin to find themselves practically short of that life-sustaining gas, and then they know the want of it far sooner and far more sharply than they know the want of ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen



Words linked to "Black Hole of Calcutta" :   donjon, keep, dungeon



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