mutiny
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The first census of British India was conducted in 1871-72, 14 years after the shamefully bloody Sepoy Mutiny, and counted some 200 million Indian subjects.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
It was headed to the Seattle suburb of Renton from Friday Harbor, a popular tourist destination in the San Juan Islands, when it abruptly fell into Mutiny Bay and sank.
From Washington Times • Oct. 6, 2023
“There’s nothing left,” a witness in a sailboat on Mutiny Bay said in a 911 call.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023
While this “Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” is unlikely to be remembered with Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” or “Sorcerer,” it offers a bracing demonstration of the director’s sensibility and craft.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2023
In Mutiny on the Bounty, when people died at sea, they were wrapped in white sheets and thrown overboard with millstones around their necks so that the corpses wouldn’t float.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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The Cay
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