Nauru Edition
Looking Back at 1900 Day leads today's complete edition for Nauru.
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Bengal is the heart of the nationalist movement. The British partition of Bengal in 1905 has inflamed Hindu-Muslim tensions. The jute mills of Calcutta employ thousands. The countryside is poor and getting poorer. The monsoon still decides who eats and who does not.
The Nauru flag is a story in cloth: the blue field is the Pacific Ocean, the yellow stripe is the equator, and the white star is Nauru's position one degree south of the equator. The twelve points of the star represent the twelve original tribes. It is one of the few national flags that tells you exactly where to find the country.