Isn't it strange how 2 hours seem so long when you're at Temple, and how short they seem when you're watching a good movie?
Isn't it strange that you can't find a word to say when you're praying, but you have no trouble thinking what to talk about with a friend?
Isn't it strange how difficult and boring it is to read one chapter of the Bhagwad Gita, but how easy it is to read 100 pages of a popular novel ? Isn't it strange how everyone wants front-row-tickets to concerts or games, but they do whatever is possible to sit at the last row in Jagran? Isn't it strange how we need to know about an event for Temple 2-3 weeks before the day so we can include it in our agenda, but we can adjust it for other events in the last minute? Isn't it strange how difficult it is to learn a fact about God to share it with others, but how easy it is to learn, understand, extend and repeat gossip?
Isn't it strange how we believe everything that magazines and newspapers say, but we question the words in the Bhagwad Gita? Isn't it strange how everyone wants a place in heaven, but they don't want to believe, do, or say anything to get there? Isn't it strange how we send jokes in e-mails and they are forwarded right away, but when we are going to send Messages about God, we think about it twice before we share it with others? IT'S STRANGE ISN'T IT?
*When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'*
27. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 26. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it. 25. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. 24. Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won't be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount. (Common Sense) 23. Uncle Phil, from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, did the voice of Shredder in the TMNT cartoon. 22. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms. 21. The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one. 20. During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps. 19. The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population. 18. The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ. 17. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this. 16. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted. 15. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever. 14. The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year. 13. The Kamp Krusty episode of the Simpson's was originally meant to be made as the Simpsons movie. 12. Men can breastfeed babies.
11. There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you've probably never heard of. 10. Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants. 9. In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written first and the individual name written second (opposite of the America method). That's why Asian athletes like Yao Ming and Ichiro Suzuki have Yao and Ichiro written on their jerseys. Those are their family names and in America their names are written Ming Yao and Suzuki Ichiro. 8. Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860 7. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet. 6. Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States. Long Beach, WA. 5. The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter. 4. The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula. 3. 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. This isn't true; Joseph Swan did. 2. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible. 1. The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas
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Longest English Word:
Praetertranssubstantiationalistically has 37 letters. 2)
Book Without Letter "e" : GADFY, written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn't contain a single word with 'e' in it 3)
Word without Vowel :
Rhythm Sky Fry Cry
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Human Brain :
Organ of body which has no sensation when cut. 5)
Crocodile :
Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating. 6)
No of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS :
They are ** **B* Bee * ** **C* Sea* ** **G** * Zee* ** ** I* Eye * ** ** Q* Queue* ** ** R* Are * ** ** S* Yes * ** **T* Tea* ** ** ** U* You * ** ** Y* Why
Fascinating Animals, Birds, Trees: 1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue. 2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes. 3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open. 4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months. 5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species. 6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs. 7) DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal. 8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw. 9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body. 10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food. 11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed. 12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell. 13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds. 14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
What are They : 1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say DADDY': 2) What goes up & never comes down:AGE
LIPS
3) Patches over patches but no stitches:CABBAGE
FUTURE 5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves: ROAD 6) You can never wet it:SHADOW 4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you:
7) What belongs to You, but used by your friends more often you do:
YOUR NAME
In 24 Hours Average Human: H EART beats 1,03,689 times. 2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times. 3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles. 4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches 5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches 6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids) 7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD. 8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR. 9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEM P E R ATUR E. 10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT. 11) Speak 4,800 WORDS. 12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times 1)
F1 is not only just F1
F1 car is made up of 80,000 components, if it were assembled 99.9% correctly, it would still start the race with 80 things wrong! When an F1 driver hits the brakes on his car he experiences retardation or deceleration comparable to a regular car driving through a BRICK wall at 300kmph!!!
F1 car can go from 0 to 160 kph AND back to 0 in FOUR seconds!!!!!!! F1 car engines last only for about 2 hours of racing mostly before blowing up on the other hand we expect our engines to last us for a decent 20yrs on an average and they quite faithfully DO....thats the extent to which the engines r pushed to perform...
An average F1 driver looses about 4kgs of weight after just one race due to the prolonged exposure to high G forces and temperatures for little over an hour (Yeah thats right!!!) At 550kg a F1 car is less than half the weight of a Mini.
To give you an idea of just how important aerodynamic design and added down force can be, small planes can take off at slower speeds than F1 cars travel on the track. Without aerodynamic down force, high-performance racing cars have sufficient power to produce wheel spin and loss of control at 160 kph. They usually race at over 300 kph.
In a street course race like the Monaco grand prix, the down force provides enough suction to lift manhole covers. Before the race all of the manhole covers on the streets have to be welded down to prevent this from happening! The refuelers used in F1 can supply 12 liters of fuel per second. This means it would take just 4 seconds to fill the tank of an average 50 liter family car. They use the same refueling rigs used on US military helicopters today.
TOP F1 pit crews can refuel and change tyres in around 3 seconds. It took me 8 sec to read above point
During the race the tyres lose weight! Each tyre loses about 0.5 in weight due to wear.
Normal tyres last 60 000 - 100 000 km. Racing tyres are designed to last 90 - 120 km. A dry-weather F1 tyre reaches peak operating performance (best grip) when tread temperature is between 900C and 1200C.(Water boils boils at 100C remember) At top speed, F1 tyres rotate 50 times a second.
And thats not MagicÂ…. Its only the Power of Human ImaginationÂ…
Hitler loved animals, and was quite merciful towards them. History's most feared man was also a strict vegetarian.
Pictured here in his judo gear, Putin was originally turned down by his judo instructors. The teachers didn't think that 14-year-old Vladimir was tall enough. But young Vladimir didn't lose hope. Today, Russian President Putin has a black belt in judo!
Late Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was deeply interested in politics, so much so that it took him seven years to graduate! Not without a sense of humor, Yasser is known to have guests wait so he can watch his favorite television show, Tom & Jerry! At age four, the Dalai Lama was named the Supreme head of Tibet! Having authored over 500 books, his primary hobby still remains collecting and repairing watches!
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy " is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capo NE's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps.
They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses " is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of die! Sel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the l! Azy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
SOME UNKNOWN FACTS
In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition For the executives of the Decca Recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, One executive said, " We don't like! Their sound. Groups of guitars are On the way out." The group was called
The Beatles.
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In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency Told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, " You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married". She went on and became
Marilyn Monroe.
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When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb,
He tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, " I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process".
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In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson Took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in The country.
They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid Company, To purchase the rights to his invention--an electrostatic Paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation.
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A little girl--the 20th of 22 children, Was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, She contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, Which left her with aparalyzed left leg.
At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on And began to Walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, Which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every Race she entered, She came in last.
Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she Actually won a race. And then another. >From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl--
Wilma Rudolph, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.
A schoolteacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics And for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would not become anybody in life. The boy was
Albert Einstein
MORAL: WINNERS NEVER QUIT...QUITTERS NEVER WIN
Interesting Facts: 1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." 2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt" 3. Almonds are members of the peach family. 4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. 5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. 6. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
7. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. 8. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." 9. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. 11. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl. 12. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.
13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, L.A. 14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 16. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. 17. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. 18. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. 19. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. 21. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. 23. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. 24. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. 26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 27. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 28. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. 30. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
31. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand. 33. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." 34. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. 35. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic." 36. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason. 37. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. 38. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead." 39. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases
THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW: 1. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. 2. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander, the Great Diamonds - Julius Caesar 3. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 4. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs
in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. 5. 'I am.' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 6. Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month? A. Conception. 7. Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you could find the letter (alphabet) 'A' ? A. One thousAnd. 8. Q. What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common. A. All invented by women. 9. Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey 10. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase *'goodnight,sleep tight*'. 11. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as "the *honeymoon*". 12. Last but not least: In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden and thus the word *GOLF* entered into the English language. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood plasma. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times. Donkeys kill more people annually
than plane crashes. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley 's gum. The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. (Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you!) Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN! The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first " Marlboro Man." Walt Disney was afraid OF MICE! PEARLS MELT IN VINEGAR! The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs... but, not downstairs. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!) And the best for last..... Turtles can breathe through their butts. (I know some people like that, don't YOU?)
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
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Lord Ram was born in 5114 BC SUNIT BEZBAROOWA & ARVIND JOSHI TIMES NEWS NETWORK SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 08, 2003 02:12:42 AM "Ram was and is for real. He was born on January 10, 5114 BC," Saroj Bala, IRS, Commisioner of Income Tax says, calmly, with the assurance of one who has tangible facts. Taking on the contemporary historical interpretation of Ramayana as a religio-literary text, and Lord Ram as a semi-mythical figure, is this unassuming person who zealously devotes her spare time to research in history when she's not playing the tax mandarin. And she has chosen the unusual combination of astronomy, Internet and literary texts to provide us a startling picture of Shri Ram. This might change the way we look at history and religion. We might refuse to begin reading Indian history from that comma, or hyphen called 'Indus Valley.' We
might have to stretch the beginnings by a few thousand years because, as Saroj Bala says - Ram was born on January 10, 5114 BC. Excerpts of an interview with the lady who has the intellectual courage to go beyond the obvious: What got it all started... As an amateur historian, I've always been interested in Indian culture and heritage. I am proud that we're Indians and the products of one of the oldest civilisations. However, British rule changed us; we developed a sense of being somehow inferior. But I could never reconcile to theories like the theory of Aryan invasion to India in 1500 BC. That would make Indian civilization only 3,500 years old. And if you choose archaeology to dig beyond 7,000 years, you'd have to dig more than 60 metres - something not being done in India as yet. So, archaeology is not the only answer. There's a lot of objective research of another kind that needs to be carried out in earnest. So, how can we say Ram was born on January 10, 5114 B.C... My colleague Pushkar Bhatnagar of Indian Revenue Service is the real originator of this theory. He acquired a software named Planetarium, used to predict planetary movements and configurations. By entering in this software, precise details of planetary positions vis-à-vis zodiac constellations described by Maharishi Valmiki in the Valmiki Ramayan, it is possible to determine important dates starting from Shri Ram's birth-date to the date of his return to Ayodhya. More than just Ram's date of birth... The results have not just thrown up Shri Ram's date of birth; it has actually traced the entire sequence of incidents throughout Ramayan. Pushkar Bhatnagar starts with tracing Ram's birth. Then he moves ahead in the narrative. Valmiki Ramayan states Ram was 25-years-old when he went to exile. When the configuration of planets described at this point is fed into the software, the date thrown up matches perfectly with Ram's age at that juncture of his life - 25 years. Again in the 13th year of Ram's exile, during a war with Khar and Dushan, Valmiki describes a solar eclipse. The software proves that on that given day there was indeed a solar eclipse (with Mars in the middle). This solar eclipse and the particular configuration of planets could be seen from Panchavati (longitude and latitude plainly shown in the software). Hanuman Saw 8 Constellations while flying to Lanka... In the Sunderkand, when Valmiki describes Hanuman crossing the sea and returning from Lanka to Rameshwaram, he gives details of 8 constellations. Usually, one can see not more than 6 constellations at a given point of time. But since Hanuman was flying across, and it must have taken him approximately 4 hrs to get there, he could see 8 constellations - in two hours one constellation would have moved out of sight and another become visible. So, in a period of 4 hrs he saw 8 constellations! Historicising Shri Ram. Man or God... After researching on Shri Ram, I do believe he's a man who walked the earth in flesh and blood. There is an essential difference between the Valmiki Ramayana and the Tulsi Ramayana. Tulsidas was a devotee who looked up to Ram, but Valmiki was a contemporary. Valmiki has written Ram's life-history, as a biographer does - he's a contemporary of Ram, and this is not very different from what happens all over the world. Kings have always had their life-history written. The submerged bridge...
Recently, NASA had put pictures on the Internet of a man-made bridge, the ruins of which are submerged in Palk Strait between Rameshwaram and Sri Lanka. This clearly should be treated as historical evidence that corroborates its mention in Valmiki Ramayana. The puzzle of Indian history... The presence of Ramayana, Mahabharata and Vedas cannot be explained by the short period between the decline of the Indus valley civilization and the Rig Vedic period. A civilization cannot suddenly burst into advanced writing. One needs to look at various sources of history to re-build it. Especially when looking at ancient history. One needs to excavate, look at literature, ancient texts, astronomy. Government apathy to archaeological diggings and investigation in this direction... There's been a very strange development in the media and the people of India. We have started seeing ancient India as something equivalent to the word 'Hindu'. The very word Hindu came into circulation only after the advent of Islam in India. In Ramayana and the Vedas , there is no mention of the word 'Hindu'. At the most, there is only mention of terms like 'Aryavrat' or 'Bharatvarsh' and residents here are called as 'Aryans'. Since centuries, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs have been living in this country and it's their land as much as it is to a Hindu. Anything that has happened on this land in the past is their common heritage. But, unfortunately, politicians with vested interests have divided the people on artificial religious lines and making it appear that anything related to ancient India was perhaps related to Hindu, which is not the case and should not be the case. There has never been any strong will... It is not that researches have been not taken place. There has been excellent work done by noted historians like Sir Alexander Cunningham and Dr Lal. Cunningham has written as many as 21 volumes on ancient Indian history. But one needs special permissions to access these texts. Unfortunately, Cunningham's work that has very important information has not seen the light of the day. Dr. Lal has pictured the ancient city of Dwarka and it can be read in 'The lost city of Dwarka'. He has listed out 1000 artifacts. Only 9 crores needed to be sanctioned by the government in placing a transparent tube to the sea-bed that could allow people to see for themselves the wonder that was Dwarka. And now people equate the sum total of ancient history to 'a temple or no-temple' at Ayodhya. Delay in research also because science hadn't arrived... Without the aid of science it is practically impossible to manually calculate the exact planetary configuration 7, 000 years back. It is science which is going to validate our history and prove that it is much older than 3, 500 years. What would be the implications of your research on the society? I seriously feel that there can only be positive effects of my research. In fact, Indians should seriously re-look how old is our history and culture. This is not the end of the research; it's just the beginning. People should be encouraged to do more in-depth research by all means such as archaeology, dating methods and oceanography. Max Mueller had come up with the theory that Aryans had come to India in 1500 B.C. In the Internet, Max Mueller Foundations says that that they have re-looked at this theory and is of the opinion that this theory is no longer valid because Indian history is much older than that period. It's just that people have to open up their minds and find out the answers for themselves.
50 Facts !! [1] If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side
[2] If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off. [3] Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. [4] Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it. [5] The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'. [6] The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal. [7] The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing. [8] The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night. [9] Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day. [10] Frank Perdue's chicken slogan, "It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken" was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate." [11] Dalmatians are born without spots. [12] Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
[13] The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings] or 'against' (in criminal proceedings] [14] Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left [15] The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids [16] The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee [17] Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks [18] The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones [19] Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die [20] Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart [21] The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate [22] When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red [23] When Hippos are upset, their sweat turns red [24] The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor [25] The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney [26] Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros [27] Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan [28] It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it [29] The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples
[30] There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower [31] The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting [32] Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death [33] It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body [34] The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets [35] Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game [36] The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air [37] Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die [38] In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling.) [39] Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself." [40] The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot [41] Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. [42] The average person laughs 13 times a day [43] Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil) [44] Women blink nearly twice as much as men [45] German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog [46] Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump [47] Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound
[48] Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death [49] If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause. [50] The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced. Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space. Every second, 8000 Coca-Cola Company products are consumed in the world. In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia for only five cents a glass. A pharmacist named John Pemberton created the formula for Coca-cola. In 1929, the Coca-Cola slogan was "The Pause That Refreshes." Pepsi got its name from the ingredient pepsin, which is said to aid in digestion, however, it is not known. The Coca Cola company offers more than 300 different beverages. The citrus soda "7 UP" was created in 1929. The original name of the popular drink was "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", but it got changed to "7 UP." The formula for Coca-cola has never been patented. The oldest major soft drink in America is Dr. Pepper, which originated in Waco, Texas in 1885. The original name for the soft drink Pepsi was "Brad's Drink." The reason the soft drink Dr Pepper is called that is because the inventor Wade Morrison named it after Dr. Charles Pepper who had given him his first job. When Coca-Cola was invented, American tourists that visited Spain were surprised to see that Coke was three times as expensive as a glass of brandy.
1. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979. 2. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water. 3. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 5. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. 6. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes. 7. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 8. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
9. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted. 10. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing. 11. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
12. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, foot, rather than right foot, left foot. 13. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a atty meal. 14. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting. ACTS: Some Facts
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time y chop onions. 2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient! 3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name. 4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite. 5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle. 6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stam 8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old. 9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water 11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. 13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes. 14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through th system and be excreted. 17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing. 18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, foot, rather than right foot, left foot. 20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a atty meal. 21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting. Here are some interesting facts about Bangalore 1. Bangalore has the impeccable record of highest growth within a span of 20 Years 2. Bangalore has highest number of pubs in Asia. 3. Bangalore has highest number of cigarette smokers in India.
4. Bangalore has the highest number of software companies in India-212, followed by Hyderabad - 108, Pune - 97. Hence called the Silicon Valley of India 5. Bangalore has 21 engineering colleges, which is highest in the world in a given city. Bangalore University has 57 Engineering colleges affiliated to it, which is highest in the world.
6. Bangalore is the only city in the world to have commercial and defense Airport operating from the sa strip. 7. Bangalore has highest number of public sectors and government Organizations in India.
8. Bangalore university has highest number of students going abroad for higher studies taking the first place from IIT-Kanpur.
9. Bangalore has only 48% of local population (i.e.Kannadigas) .Hence a true cosmopolitan with around 25% Tamilians, 14% Telugites, 10% Keralites, 8% Europeans, and 6% a mixture of all races.
10. Bangalore police has the reputation of being second best in India after Delhi. 11. Bangalore has the highest density of traffic in India. 12. Bangalore has the highest number of 2-wheelers in the world. 13. Bangalore is considered the fashion capital of east comparable to Paris
15. Bangalore has produced the maximum international sportsmen in India for all sports ahead of even Mumbai & Delhi.
16. Bangalore has produced the maximum number of scientists considered for Nobel Prize nominations 17. Bangalore has produced the highest number of professionals in USA almost 60% of the Indian population abroad is from Bangalore (except Gulf). 18. Bangalore is famous for THREE: Software Professionals, Girls and Dogs.
19. Bangalore is famous for its dog bites, an average of 12 people are bitten by stray dogs per MINUTE somewhere in Bangalore!!! !!!!!
