1. Dr. D. Ramanaidu: He is an Indian movie producer who made 130 movies in 9 Indian languages in 45 years. The first picture name is “Ramudu- Bheemudu” in the year 1963. His name was included in the “The Guinness book of world records”. 2. Beautiful queen: Mary Antoinette, wife of 16th Louis, the French emperor. In the 18th century, she was credited as the most beautiful lady among all the women of those days. People spread rumors and made false propaganda against her intentionally by some for the sake of money, for example, she spent the public money lavishly on luxurious things and made the public suffer by making improper decisions. More over, the public are of the opinion that she was responsible for the 1789 French revolution. Her husband was hanged after the revolution. Later on, she was subjected to “Guillotine method of killing” on 16th October 1793. 3. Ancient wars: A. Megiddo war: that took place “Nico “the king of Egypt and” Josiah of Judah”, in 608 BC. B. Marthone war: That took place in 490BC between Athenians and the Persians. The Persian king, “Derius “was defeated. C. First Spartan war: This war began in 459 BC and continued for20 years, between “Sparta and Athens”. It was also called “Piloponishias war”. D. 100 years war: Took place between England and France between 1338 -1453 AD. E. War of Roses: It occurred internally in England between two land lords, during 1455-1485 AD. … [Read more...]
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1. Batting paradise: In the history of world cricket, for the first time, 8 centuries were made in only one test match, played at Antigua in West Indies. Brian Lara also scored highest test score (400) at this ground. 2. Bombay (Mumbai) Stock Exchange (BSE): It was established in 1875. BSE is still preferred by foreign investors even though NSE is popular among Indian investors. 3. A mummy, belonging to 3,000 BC was found by the archaeologists in the state of Uttarpradesh, in India. 4. Monks (religious persons) in India were revolted against the Britishers (foreign rulers) in the year 1763 AD. (Even though , the Britishers came to India in 1604 AD, solely on business purpose , but later on they changed their tactics and began to establish their rule in this vast country and their supremacy was confirmed after winning in the Placy war of 1757). 5. Indian freedom fighters: The famous patriot namely Sardar Bhagat Singh was sentenced to death (at the age of around 23 years), by the colonial rulers, during the freedom struggle in India and was kept in Lahore central jail. Another patriot, by name “Jatin Das”, who was also lodged in the same jail, observed “fasting unto death” (for the release of Bhagat Singh), but his purpose was not fulfilled and he lost his precious life on the 63rd day of fasting (Bhagat Singh was executed later on). 6. A peculiar and horrible tradition: In many parts of India, there was a horrible tradition called “Sati sahagamanam”, which means, if a person dies, his wife (or wives in the case of kings) was also cremated by keeping her on the funeral fire, along with the dead body of her husband. Raja Ram Mohan Ray, a noted … [Read more...]
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