1) During the Stone Age it has been reckoned that there were as many left-handed people as right-handed people. By the Bronze Age this number had fallen by half and today about 5 per cent of the population are left-handed.
2) When Mohammed Ali was ruler of Egypt he created two infantry regiments consisting solely of one eyed soldiers.
3) Cleopatra, queen of Egypt was one of the most beautiful women in history. She was born in 69 BC. She married the famous Roman general Julius Caesar. After Caesar’s death she fell in love will mark antonym, the successor of Caesar who jointly ruled the Roman Empire with his wife Octavia’s Brother Octavian’. Antony divorced Octavia and married Cleopatra. Octavian declared war on Antony and Cleopatra and defeated them. Antony committed suicide, by falling on his sword. Cleopatra tried to charm Octavian. Falling to do so, she also killed herself. She is said to have held a snake to her breast and died from its venom.
4) Gunpowder was first used by British force in 1346; one hundred years after the Chinese troops had used it against the invading Mongols.
5) When Ram was sent to the forest for 14 years of exile, his brother Bharat installed Ram’s sandals on the throne and discharged the king’s duties on his behalf, paying reverent homage to his sandals.
6) At first we did not have letter –boxes as we have them today. In London, Paris and Vienna, postmen would carry sacks or boxes with slits in them and the people could drop their letters inside these boxes. The postmen then took these letters to the post office to be sorted. Fixed letters boxes were put in Paris in 1653 but postmen, afraid of losing their jobs put mice in the boxes. It took 50 years to set things right.
7) Cats were regarded as sacred by the ancient Egyptians 4,000 years ago. The Egyptians believed that cats had the power to protect them from evil. They worshipped a god with a cats face. When a domestic cat died, it was buried with great respect and mummified to preserve it.
8) The crusades were wars between Christians and Muslims in the middle ages. They took place in Palestine, the holy land. First, in 1071 Muslims captured the city of Jerusalem in Palestine. The Muslims stopped Christians from visiting the holy places in Palestine. The Christian forces started the first crusade and took Jerusalem from the Muslims in 1099. There were seven more crusades after the first one.
Many of them failed because the crusaders quarreled with each other. The Muslims took back much of the holy land from the Christians.
9) The first ship to soil around the world was the Viltoria commanded by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. The Voyage took nearly three years-from 1519 to 1522. Magellan was killed during the Voyage, and the 18 sailors who survived became the first people to travel around the world.
10) The British liner, Titanic, was the world’s largest ship at that time and experts believed that it was unsinkable. But on the night of 14 April 1912, during its first voyage, it hit an iceberg in the middle of the Atlanta Ocean. It sank and, out of more than 2200 people on board, over 1500 was drowned.
Freedom is the most difficult element to secure under existing condition. i am not an advocate of certain forms of freedom which most adults find unendurable. There should be no enforced respect for grown-ups who should allow themselves to be called fools whenever children wish to all them so.we can not prevent our children from thinking us fools by merely forbidding them to utter their thoughts.
In fact, they are most likely to think ill of us if they dare not say so. Children should not be stopped from thinking freely only because the grown-ups are in the habit of forcing ideas on them.Given the proper opportunities, children sometimes come forward with really remarkable views. If they express opinions on religion or politics or morals they may be met with argument provided it is genuine argument but not if it is only a dogma. The adult may, and should. suggest ideas to children rather than imposing conclusion on them.It is undesirable to allow grown-up children to lead a life of licence, but it is also undesirable to disallow them free and original thinking and force ideas on them Children sometimes express ideas of original and remarkable worth.Their views on religion, politics or morals should be met with on real ground alone.
A home stay at a green refuge In Thippannahalli leaves behind comfortable and contented memories. Thippannahalli, a green refuge near Chikmagalur is the best place to find peace and serenity in the present day hectic lifestyle. Valleyed between forests with tall trees and pepper vines, Thippanahalli is the ultimate experience any nature lover should never miss.Homestay provides comfortable cottages in this heaven of nature. In Homestay, hosts behave like family, asks guests where they have been, what they have seen, what they will like to do and then they enrich all this with their own views and experiences.The services that Homestay offer to their guests are multi faceted. From providing guides for adventure lovers to helpin people to satiate their cultural tastes they have everything to make their guests feel at home.It will not be an exasageration to say that Homestay is synomous with Comfort, Care and Content.
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As India is a popular name in the world mostly because of its population.
We have more than 110 crores people in our world and one research says that before 2025 India will be world's No1 country in the population.
Some time this is good because we Will have the maximum man power but some time it sounds odd that from where such a huge employment Will be created to get all of them engaged.
India is still fighting to settle there proper infrastructure, so it will be every difficult to provide job for the young stars and I think if we do not think about tomorrow then it will be not possible to et engaged .
So from today our Government have to think and they have to utilise the proper uses of money kept at swiss banks by our corrupt politicians and business man so that the profit will equally distribute and everybody can stay live happy
Holidays
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Holidays are the days that one spends away from one’s routine work. They do not always mean the act not doing ant important work, but are meant to be only for relaxation. Holidays may be combined with even physical exertion. The important fact to be remembered about holidays is that they should include work that is not normally done by a person. The ways in which such holidays are spent depend upon the temperament and even moods of different individuals.
A person who spends the whole day in intellectual pursuits like a teacher, or a lawyer or an executive toiling over daily financial problems may feel quite relaxed and even happy when he spends a few hours in this small garden. He feels the joy of creation when what he was tended grows into a plant and yields flowers or fruit. This work, through physically tiresome takes his mind away from this daily worries or avocation. This can be termed a holiday. Some others may prefer to spend their holidays sitting in their gardens, under the shade of the cool trees and pour their mind over a play of writers like Shakespeare or Galsworthy, or poems of Keats or shelly, or novels of Hardy or Dickens, or the charms of Somerset Maugham… these people will feel that these hours spent in the company of great writers is the best form of enjoying a holiday.
Holidays can also be properly enjoyed in the company or friends of relatives. Here again, the psychology of the people plays an important part. This enjoyment may be in an out door excursion to well known sports or sitting by the fireside, exchanging their views on matters that interest them.
Busy executive or businessmen or others who toil to make their economic life happy may find that the best holiday for them would be playing in the company of their children. This gives them a mental peace which they cannot other wise get.
Holidays thus can be enjoyed in different way. The only thing that matters is that it should relax the mind so that the ``holidays’’ – can be fresh to tackle their usual problems.
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