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Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Famous Quotes on India (by non-Indians)
Famous Quotes on India (by non-Indians)
- Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
- Mark Twain said: India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
- French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
- Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA said: India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Saturday, 27 September 2014
15 Amazing Facts You Didn't Know About Animals
1
Housefly
Houseflies don’t allow their short lifespans (14 days) to hinder
their musical abilities. They always hum in the key of F.
2
Ostrich
Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the male ostriches
can roar like lions.
3
Bat
Bats are the only mammals that can fly, but wouldn’t it be
awesome if humans could fly too?
4
Kangaroo
Kangaroos use their tails for balance, so if you lift a
kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop.
5
Spider
On average, there are 50,000 spiders per acre in green
areas. Bet you’ll think twice before going outside now – unless you’re this
guy.
6
Tiger
Tigers not only have stripes on their fur, they also have
them on their skin. No two tigers ever have the same stripes.
7
Crocodile
Here’s a tidbit that might be useful if you plan on becoming
the next Steve Irwin: To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb
into its eyeball – It will let you go instantly.
8
Flea
Fleas can jump up to 200 times their height. This is
equivalent to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.
9
Cat
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. All the better for them to
eavesdrop on your conversations and plot your demise.
10
Elephant
Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away. They are also
one of the three mammals that undergo menopause – the other two being humpback
whales and human females.
11
Koala
Koala bears almost exclusively eat only eucalyptus leaves
and nothing else.
12
Beaver
Because beavers’ teeth never stop growing, they must
constantly gnaw on objects to keep them at a manageable length. Their teeth
would eventually grow into their brain if they didn’t maintain them.
13
Ant
Beware an ant uprising! There are one million ants for every
human in the world. These resilient creatures also never sleep and do not have
lungs.
14
Oyster
Oysters can change gender depending on which is best for
mating. Talk about successful adaptation.
15
Butterfly
Butterflies have two compound eyes consisting of thousands
of lenses, yet they can only see the colors red, green and yellow.
Friday, 26 September 2014
Thursday, 25 September 2014
Top 10 Places You Aren’t Allowed To Visit !
Top 10 Places You Aren’t Allowed To Visit
10. RAF Menwith Hill (U.K) – Worlds largest electronic
monitoring site. This place is able to detect any type of missile attack around
the globe, reportedly.
9. Club 33 (Disneyland California, USA) – This may be one of
the few places on Earth that are not government controlled, yet is almost just
as hard to gain access to. This address is located in the New Orleans Square
part of the theme park and is a club exclusively for VIPs with a membership.
Some people wait half their lives just to get access to this club.
8. Bohemian Grove (California, USA) – A secret place in the
woods reserved only for the worlds most powerful people.
7. Vatican Secret Archive (Vatican City) – While you are
able to request texts to be delivered to you from the archive for browsing, the
archives themselves are off limits to everyone except a few people.
6. Lascaux Caves (France) – This delicate site is home to
part of our human heritage. Only a few very important scientists are allowed in
the caves due to the ancient age and nature of the artwork contained within.
5. Pine Gap (Australia) – Only place in Australia Designated
as a No Fly Zone.
4. Metro 2 (Moscow, Russia) – Underground train system in
Moscow supposedly reserved for use by Russian secret services and top
government officials.
3. Room 39 (Pyongyang, North Korea) – Supposedly a
government controlled operation that deals in illegla drug trafficking and
smuggling.
2. Mezghhorye (Russia) – The supposed location of Russia’s
nuclear missile site. This is heavily guarded by Russian troops at all times.
1. Area 51 (Nevada, USA) – This list probably wouldn’t be
complete without including Area 51. This is the rumored location of alien
corpses, the Roswell crash remains, and test site for various strange aircraft.
Incredible India !
Interesting Facts about India
- India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.
- When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
- The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
- The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name 'Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
- Chess was invented in India.
- Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
- The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.
- The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
- India is the largest democracy in the world, the 7th largest Country in the world, and one of the most ancient civilizations.
- The game of Snakes & Ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat'. The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. In time, the game underwent several modifications, but its meaning remained the same, i.e. good deeds take people to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
- The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
- India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.
- The largest employer in India is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.
- The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
- Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
- India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
- The Art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word 'NAVGATIH'. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
- Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.
- The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.
- Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also originated in India.Quadratic Equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 (i.e. 10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C.during the Vedic period.Even today, the largest used number is Terra: 10*12(10 to the power of 12).
- Until
1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world
(Source: Gemological Institute of America). - The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
- Sushruta is regarded as the Father of Surgery. Over2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
- Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
- India exports software to 90 countries.
- The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
- Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.
- Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.
- There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.
- The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568 respectively.
- Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and 52 A.D. respectively
- The largest religious building in the world is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built at the end of the 11th century.
- The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.
- Sikhism originated in the Holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. Famous for housing the Golden Temple, the city was founded in 1577.
- Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
- India provides safety for more than 300,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who escaped to flee religious and political persecution.
- His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, runs his government in exile from Dharmashala in northern India.
- Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
- Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years !
Amazing Space Facts Space, Planet And Universe !
- 1. Saturn's moon Titan has plenty of evidence of organic (life) chemicals in its atmosphere.
- 2. Life is known to exist only on Earth, but in 1986 NASA found what they thought might be fossils of microscopic living things in a rock from Mars.
- 3. Most scientists say life's basic chemicals formed on the Earth. The astronomer Fred Hoyle said they came from space.
- 4. Oxygen is circulated around the helmet in space suits in order to prevent the visor from misting.
- 5. The middle layers of space suits are blown up like a balloon to press against the astronaut's body. Without this pressure, the astronaut's body would boil!
- 6. The gloves included in the space suit have silicon rubber fingertips which allow the astronaut some sense of touch.
- 7. The full cost of a spacesuit is about $11 million although 70% of this is for the backpack and the control module.
- 8. Ever wondered how the pull of gravity is calculated between heavenly bodies? It's simple. Just multiply their masses together, and then divide the total by the square of the distance between them.
- 9. Glowing nebulae are named so because they give off a dim, red light, as the hydrogen gas in them is heated by radiation from the nearby stars.
- 10. The Drake Equation was proposed by astronomer Frank Drake to work out how many civilizations there could be in our galaxy - and the figure is in millions.
- 11. SETI is the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence - the program that analyzes radio signals from space for signs of intelligent life.
- 12. The Milky Way galaxy we live in: is one among the BILLIONS in space.
Fantastic Facts About Humans...!
1) Humans are unusal in a way , because when the find food they usually carry it some were else rather than eat it right away !
2) Humans are the only species that can choke on their own food !
3) when we are cold,the muscles around the hair follicles contract - a reflex left over from when our ancestors had long body hair,but since we dont have much body hair ,all we see are the goose bumbs on our skin !
2) Humans are the only species that can choke on their own food !
3) when we are cold,the muscles around the hair follicles contract - a reflex left over from when our ancestors had long body hair,but since we dont have much body hair ,all we see are the goose bumbs on our skin !
Did you know ?
1) The first FIFA World cup was hosted and won by urugay !
2) Earth rotates 1.5 milliseconds slower every century !
3) Cleopatra became the queen of egypt when she was only a teenager !
4) Applesauce was first food eaten in space by an American astronant !
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