Amazing facts about India
Photo LinkThe official Sanskrit name for India is Bharat. INDIA has been called Bharat even in Satya yuga ( Golden Age ) More INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT India : - The name `India’ is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan’ combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero. Sanskrit is
Top 10 Prehistoric Fish Alive Today
Top 10 Prehistoric Fish Alive Today 10 Hagfish According to the fossil record, hagfish have existed for over 300 million years, which means they were already old when dinosaurs took over the world! Found in relatively deep waters, these animals are sometimes called slime eels, but they are not really eels, and actually, they may not even be fish at all,according to some scientists. They are very bizarre animals in all regards; they have a skull but lack a spine, and they have two brains. Almost blind, they feed at night on the carcasses of large animals (fish, cetaceans etc) wh
How to leave Pakistan-Life and People of Pakistan
While Pakistan first neighbor India looks to the future after launch its first unmanned moon mission, next door things seem to be spiraling downwards. People are forced to escape, look how!
Nostradamus predictions
Nostradamus predictionsNOSTRADAMUS, the French Christian Jew who lived in France in the 16th century, made many accurate forecasts, including the two World Wars. 18 of his 950 quatrains refer to a third world war. Some Nostradamus experts had given the date for the start of such a war as mid-1999, referring to the Balkan conflict surrounding Kosovo. They obviously misinterpreted the quatrains. Their attention then turned to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack onthe World Trade Center in New York.NOSTRADAMUSBorn Michel de Notredame on 14 December 1503 in St Remy, France, he was the o
Boiling point of water
Boiling point of waterIn 1841, Anders Celsius defined his temperature scale on the melting and boiling temperature of water. Although Celsius did not discover the thermometer – both Philo and Hero of Alexandria (who also mentioned steam power in 50 BC) described such a principle – his design was much more precise than any previous such invention. Celsius scaled his measurements as 0 for boiling point and 100 for freezing point but the order was later reversed. You might have been told that water boils at 100 degrees Celsius (212F) but the boiling point of water actually depends on th
World population facts
World population factsThe US Census Bureau reported that the 6 billionth person was born at 1.24am on Sunday 18 July 1999. The United Nations however, had set that landmark at 12 October 1999.Every second 5 people are born and 2 people die, a net gain of 3 people. At this rate, the world population will double every 40 years and would be 12 billion in 40 years, 24 billion in 80 years, and more than 48 billion in 120 years. However the United Nations estimate that world population will stabilize at 12 billion in 120 years, citing that effective family planning will result in a universal
World’s largest water bomber and heli firefighters
World’s largest water bomber and Heli-firefightersEarth is getting hotter. The 2000s was the warmest decade in a thousand years. Global temperature, in general, keeps increasing, creating conditions that intensify wildfire danger, by warming and drying out vegetation and by stirring the winds that spread fires. Fast fires are hard to contain and likely to expand into residential areas. Already about 1 billion people live in areas prone to natural disasters.The United States suffer from one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialized world, with more than 2 million fires repor
Replica Of Bear Grylls' Former Camel Carcass Residence Displayed In Sydney
Camelot – A Replica of Bear Grylls’ Famous Camel CarcassIf you’re a fan of Discovery Channel, you know about Bear Grylls’ crazy adventures from “Man vs. Wild”, and particularly about the famous camel carcass he used to protect himself in the Sahara Desert.In an original advertising move to promote the new season of “Man vs. Wild”, Discovery Channel placed a replica of the camel carcass in Sydney’s Wynyard Park and put it up for rent, on a popular website.Passers-by had the chance to crawl inside the carcass, dubbed Camelot, to see how Bear felt during his survival test in Sahara,
