Sri Lanka was originally called Suvarnadvipa—the Golden Island. Mispronounced by the British as Serendip, it inspired Sir Horace Walpole to coin the term serendipity. Well, long after Walpole, Sri Lanka is not called the Emerald Island for nothing. Discovered by Marco Polo in 1271, Sri Lanka is located in the middle of the Indian Ocean. […]
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