1. Roosevelt record: Theodor Roosevelt, the 20th president of America, expressed his New Year greetings and also personally made shake-hands with 8513 persons, on this day. 2. Movements of eye-lids: The most speedily movable part (muscle) in human body is eye-lid and we move it 5 times in a second that makes 15000 times in a day (the number is more in women). 3. Leonard Da- Vinci: He used one hand for writing and another hand for painting and drawing pictures. Indian star cricketer Sachin Tendulkar bats with right hand and he uses left hand for writing. 4. About Nokia: Nokia is a world number one cell-phone manufacturing company is located in Finland. In 1865, the company stared a paper mill with the name “Nokia” and within a short period, it earned good name and the area where the mill was also became popular with the name as “Nokia town”. The paper mill was established by “Frederic Ides Tam”. Later on, the paper mill was converted to “Rubber Company”. After the 2nd world war, Nokia purchased shares in a cable company and began to produce cables bud could not succeeded in that business as expected. From 1990 onwards, it started producing mobile phones and stood as “number one” in the world. 5. National flag of Mozambican: It contains the picture (figure) of AK-47. 6. The queen-house fly lays 1500 eggs per day, on an average. 7. Cat contains “2 pairs” of vocal cards (man contains only 1 pair). 8. The just born Giraffe is of 6 feet in length and the just born “panda’ weight is “4 ounces” only. 9. “Pepsi” was the first business product to be sold in Russia. 10. Michel Jordan, the ex- basket-ball –player of America: He used to shave his … [Read more...]
India and its rich heritage
Ancient India and its great people: India is famous for its rich heritage and culture. India produced so many great personalities in those days in Medicine, Space and Physics. 1. India is the 7th largest country in the world and it is the second in population after China. 2. The Portuguese introduced tobacco in India in the early period of 16th century. 3. Aryabhattu: This famous astronomer discovered in 499 AD about the structure and moving speed, etc. of the earth. But he did not make any propaganda of his discoveries. But the credit had gone to Copernicus, after 1000 years. 4. Takshasila: This is the first university in the world which was established in 700 BC. 60 subjects were studies in those days in that university. 5. Sri Bhaskaracharya: He wrote two books, viz “Siddhantasiromani” and” Bhuvanakosam”, 400 years before Sir Issac Newton proposed gravitation theories. 6. Charaka: The first surgeon of the world who conducted number of operations, including surgeries on the human skull, eyes and also did plastic surgery. 7. Vatsayana : He wrote the famous book namely , “Vatsyana kama sutralu” (rules on sex practices), on married life and sexual techniques. 8. Sanskrit: The oldest language in the world which was originated in India. 9. Yerrapragada Subbarao: The world famous doctor from Andhra Pradesh went to America and later on became the director of “Lederle drug manufacturing company”. He discovered the drugs like Subbamycin, DEC, Folic acid, Tetracycline etc. … [Read more...]
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