Some curious facts on great leaders, artists and interesting incidents in history. 1. Vladimir Lenin’s dead body: It is at kept (preserved) in a tomb in the red square area in Moscow city. Lenin was a great revolutionary leader and died in 1924. Recently, a professor Valerie Bikov (if he is permitted) said that he would preserve the body of Lenin for another 100 more years, with the help of modern technology. 2. Monalisa painting: Pascal Cote (of France), who is doing research on Monalisa portrait, recently brought to the notice that there were eye-brows on her eyes. 3. Guinness book of world records: It was printed and published for the first time in the year 1955. Till now, the patent rights on the book belonged to HIT entertainment organization of Britain. Recently, Gym patison of Canada purchased he rights on the book for 7000 million dollars. 4. Jecoloterus Renan: It is the name of the largest sea scorpion (8 feet in length). The remnants of it have been discovered recently, near Fromm, a border city, in West Germany. It is expected that it belonged to the period between 460-255 lakhs years of BC. 5. Golden temple in South India: The name of the temple is “Sri Laxminarayani (Sri Mahalakshmi) Goddess golden temple. This temple has been constructed recently in a place called “Sripuram”, near Velur, I40 Km from Chennai in an area of 100 km, at a cost of 6000 million dollars and 1500 kg of gold was utilized. The gentle man who is responsible for the temple construction is Satish Kumar. 6. Tomb of “Tubman Mummy” in Egypt: Tub-an-Khayun ruled Egypt around 1000 BC. The tomb of this king was discovered by “Howard carter” the … [Read more...]
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Interesting general knowledge questions and facts: 1. Music channel M TV, started broadcasting its programmes from August 1st, 1981. 2. Soviet Russia: 47 Jar (Russian) emperors were cremated in “Kremlin”. 3. Queen Elizabeth-1, got bald head due to “measles” disease, which infected (attacked) her in the year 1562 (when she was 29 years old). She used to wore 80 types of wigs throughout her life, in order to hide the fact (of having bald head), from the public. 4. Oral contraceptive pills: These pills are prescribed to be used by married women to prevent pregnancy, as a family planning method (temporarily). These pills do the same function in “gorillas” also, as they do in humans. 5. Michael Jackson: Red and black are his favorite colors. 6. Saint Thomas: Apostle and disciple of “Jesus Christ”. He came to India to propagate the teachings of Jesus and also Christianity, during the reign of emperor “Gonzo pernis”, in the year 52 AD. 7. Angkor Vat temple in Cambodia: The biggest temple in the world was constructed by the king Suryaverma 2. 8. The word “Pakistan” was coined by “Rahmat Ali”. 9. Peacock throne (India): It was prepared by the famous Mogul emperor “Shajahan” (he also constructed the “Tajmahal”), at a very high cast in 17th century.The last Mogul emperor who sat on it was “Mohammad Shaw”. Now it is in Iran. 10. Second World War: Russia had lost more number of persons and soldiers in that war. 11. Sir George Kelly (of England): He laid the foundation for “aerodynamics” and is considered as the “father of Aeronautics”. 12. Akbar, the famous Mogul emperor was an illiterate. 13. Agra city was founded … [Read more...]
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