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Finding a lanky boy in a dark red T-shirt wandering around as though he had just returned from his regular daily swimming practice was obviously a total surprise. This  was not the case at all. He can't explain why he decided on routine swimming, despite his considerable height. He didn't appear to realise that the chlorine in the water would turn his face dark. He and two other older boys were swimming without realising this important fact. This will continue for a minimum period of one full month, as was revealed. Every day, these three lads go to a nearby pool to practice swimming. But the younger one did not go for the usual practice  on the particular day since he had developed a slight cough, which was definitely learned following his smart disclosure in the night.  He seemed to be unaware of the fact that chlorine in the water would darken his fair face. Unaware of this significant reality, he and two others continued swimming. This  goes on regularly but sudd...
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Tees Maar Khan

Had Nizam of Hyderabad not hunted thirty tigers, this title would not associated with him. It was said to be just a title of bravery. As history goes, the Nizam got this very title after hunting as many as 30 tigers in an elongated period of ten years. In the ideal of his flawless shot, the title was given to him.

About 140-year-old this proverb Tees Maar Khan is most often reiterated. Since Mir Mehboob Ali Khan, the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad had hunted thirty tigers, this title was bestowed upon him. 

He set up camp in the forests between 1880 and 1890, killing thirty tigers in the process. 

As a result, Mir Mehboob Ali was known as Tees Maar Khan. Despite being a hunter; he was also a poet. He wrote numerous poems in Telugu and Urdu. In addition to Urdu and Telugu, he spoke Persian fluently.

After him, his grandson Azam Jah, in the year 1935 surpassed him by killing as many as 35 leopards in just 33 days. 

Again, around 300 tigers had been killed by British military officer Colonel Jeffrey Nightingale and Hyderabad fifth Nizam, Afzal-ud-Daula. 

Nonetheless what was glued with the name of Mehboob Ali Khan remained famous up to this present day.




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