Dacca
Britishnoun
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It found a similar modus operandi, where the news outlets "reference and promote each other constantly", with misleading names such as "Times of Bombay, The Delhi Times, and Dacca Times".
From BBC
If the US leg of the Dacca’s Rock or Bust tour resembles the European dates, be prepared for all the above.
From The Guardian
Writes Ali in the poem “The Dacca Gauzes”: “Those transparent Dacca Gauzes / known as woven air, running / water, evening dew: / a dead art now, dead over / a hundred years.”
From Architectural Digest
The next claim came from Rajendralal De, an Indian chemist working in Dacca, then part of British India and now in Bangladesh.
From Scientific American
AC/DC — which has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide — formed in 1973 in Sydney, Australia, and is known to many of its fans down under as Acca Dacca.
From Seattle Times
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