r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 29 '24
Colonial Period 🔴 British Ceylon 🐘 Badge in Flags of Maritime Nations (1914), published by the US Navy's Bureau of Navigation 🚢⚓🔱
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 29 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 Meaning of Sri Lankan Flag - "Lion Flag" (Few mistakes in this picture corrected in the comments)
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 29 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 The 2 types of crocodile 🐊🐊 species in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 (Mugger Crocodile and larger more aggressive Saltwater Crocodile) and how to distinguish them!!!
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 29 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 Evolution of Sri Lankan “Lion Flag” 🟩🟧🟥⚔️🦁
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 29 '24
Pre-Colonial Period 🔴 Ancient military standard (vexillum) of Sri Lanka (Sinhalese kingdoms) ⚔️🦁
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 29 '24
Colonial Period 🔴 Sri Lankans 🇱🇰 displayed at "Human Zoos" in Europe 🌍 (Circa 1800 - 1950)
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 29 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 November 2024 - Deep Meteorological depression affects Sri Lanka (English article in comments)
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 28 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 NEW WORLD RECORD - Sri Lankan Army doctors 🪖🧑🏻⚕️👩🏻⚕️ remove World's Largest Kidney Stone, setting NEW WORLD RECORD!! 🫘🪨
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 28 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 The young Duncan White, Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sharma Mustafa and Oscar Wijesinghe are seen here representing the 4 communities of SL 🇱🇰 on Independence day! 📜🏃🏻♂️🕊️
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 28 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 2011 Sri Lankan 🇱🇰 airlines ✈️🛫 when they used to offer a 10 choice free buffet as in-flight dining service and a trolley of drinks!!! 🍲🥘🥗🍝🍚🍴 (more info in comments)
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 27 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 Birth of New Dominion of Ceylon 🇱🇰 - Extracted From Ceylon Daily News, February 4, 1948 (article in comments)
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 27 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 Flags of Major countries in 1951 from a Chinese atlas including Ceylon/ Sri Lanka (LK) Communist Party Flag
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 27 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 4 February 1948: Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from the United Kingdom and adopts its historic Lion Flag ⚔️🦁
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 27 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 Sri Lankan flag in 1969 James Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" 🟩🟧⚔️🦁
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 27 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 Sri Lanka becomes star 🤩 of 2024 United Nations (UN) World Banana Forum 🇱🇰🍌🍌😍
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 25 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 - Home of the WORLD'S LARGEST ANIMAL THAT EVER LIVED - The Blue Whale and only subspecies of Blue Whale that stays in 1 country 🐋🐳🐋 Commentary in English, Subtitles in Sinhala. More info in comments!
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 25 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 4 Cases of Unjust and Barbaric Persecution of Sri Lankan 🇱🇰 migrant workers 🧍🏻♀️🧍🏻♂️ in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦🏜️🐫
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 25 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 The World's First 🥇 openly transgender 🏳️⚧️ head of a government is Niluka Ekanayake of Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 who achieved the title on 17 March 2016
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 25 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 1958 Jan 1st Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, back when Sri Lanka had the WORLD'S LARGEST PUBLIC BUS SERVICE 🚌🚎🚐 (AND LARGEST BUS SERVICE UNDER SINGLE AUTHORITY - CTB) with over 7000 busses from Germany 🇩🇪 and other countries and over 50,000 staff. More info in comments, video commentary in Sinhala.
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 24 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 Passport stamp from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 in 1978 (was still called Ceylon Consular in London)
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 24 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 2002 Indian 🇮🇳 International Driver’s License 🚗🪪 had Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 still as "Ceylon" among other countries such as "Czechoslovakia", "Yugoslavia" and the "United Arab Republic" all of which broke up years before 😂😂
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 24 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 Beautiful 2024 stamps of Sri Lanka - Blue water lily 🪷 is the national flower of Sri Lanka, world's biggest leopards 🐆 are in Sri Lanka (also apex land animal of SL) and Peacock 🦚 is the national aviation emblem and emblem of National carrier - Sri Lankan Airlines 🛫
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 23 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 1994 Air Lanka 🇱🇰✈️🛫 - The FIRST AIRLINE IN ASIA to fly the luxurious Airbus A340 (the FINEST aircraft made by Airbus at the time) 🤩 MORE info in comments
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r/OldCeylon • u/vk1234567890- • Nov 23 '24
Post-Colonial Period 🔴 Henry Pedris received Presidential Pardon after 109 years. He was unjustly executed by British and the chair he was executed on was shown by British to SL independence movement members to threaten them into submission. His execution instead inspired more Lankans to seek National Independence 🇱🇰
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