1. City of seven hills: Rome. 2. Dry ice: Carbon dioxide. 3. The planet nearest to Sun: Mercury. 4. The word “United nations” is first of all suggested by: Franklin D. Roosevelt. 5. The 191th country which has taken membership in U.N.O. is= East Timor. The 192nd country is= Monte Negros (which got itself separated from Serbia and formed as independent country). 6. The world famous emperor of France, Napoleon spent his last days in exile: in Elba Island situated in Mediterranean Sea. 7. The modern Olympic games were first held in the year 1896 and the number of countries participated were= 14. 8. Ring of fire is present in = Pacific Ocean. 9. The first person who reached the North Pole = Robert Pierre. 10. “Boston Tea Party” is related to the independence movement of America. 11. “World Ozone day” is celebrated on= 16th October. 12. Old name of Present Thailand country is= Siam. 13. “Venice of Japan” is = Hiroshima city. 14. The first woman who occupied the Delhi throne is= Rajia Sultana. 15. “Sitar”, a musical instrument (like violin) is invented by= Ameer Khusru. 16. “Laws of Heredity” were founded by= Gregory Mendel. 17. The old name of Istanbul is= Byzantine. 18. “East India Company” was established by= Lord Cole Bird of England. This company arrived in India in 1604 AD, to do business and later on occupied the whole country and ruled it up to 1947 and India became independent on- 15TH august 1947. 19. The language called “The Italian of the East” (beautiful for its style of speaking) is: “Telugu language” (one of the South Indian languages). 20. Land … [Read more...]
10 Interesting facts on countries, Hitler, Churchill
1. Brazil was discovered by-Pedro Alwarez Kabral while “Sandwich Islands were discovered by Captain Cook. Vasco-Da-Gama founded the sea route to India. He landed at a village called “Kappakadavu”, near Calicut, (Kerala state), situated on the western seacoast in South India, on, April 16, 1498. 2. Christopher Columbus founded the American continent (Caribbean Islands). But, USA was discovered by Amerigo Vestacchi,a navigator of Italy. 3. Religious sentiment: It is a crime either sneezing or coughing in a church in Nebraska State in America. 4. Nails of fingers of hands grow four times more speedily than the nails of toes. 5. Honey: It never gets spoiled so easily and remains tasteful for a pretty long time. The honey preserved in the vessels and which were kept along the Mummies (dead bodies of the ancient Egypt kings), remained afresh even today, as discovered by the archeologists. 6. Smeling salt: The actual chemical substance is-“Ammonium carbonate”. When a person becomes unconscious (without any serious head injuries), if this salt is kept near his nose, the patient become conscious (recovers). 7. Potatoes were first found in the dry lands of Peru country. 8. Favorite movie of Adolph Hitler–The King Kong (1933). 9. Umpire state building (in New York): 1million bricks were used for its construction. 10. Winston Churchill, the famous ex-Prime minister of Britain, was born as a premature baby, (in seventh month). … [Read more...]
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