Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, novelist, composer, painter and philosopher whose work reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1913 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for Gitanjali, becoming the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category. He wrote poetry as a child and first published under a pseudonym as a teenager, and later founded Visva-Bharati University as a centre of learning. He was a critic of nationalism and of British rule, yet he also led a huge body of work that included some two thousand songs. His compositions were chosen as the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.

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Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.