The term bungalow gained currency in India in the seventeenth century when the English East India Company officers started coming to India. It is derived from the Hindi word bangla, which means belonging to Bengal. Bungalows are generally one and half-storeyed houses with a front porch. The architecture of bungalows is archetypal of eastern Indian…
The Maldives, located in the Indian Ocean, is the country with the lowest elevation point. The Maldives is an archipelago of 1,192 small coral islands grouped into 26 atolls. Only 200 of these islands are inhabited. All these islands are low-lying, none rising higher than 2.4 metres (about 8 feet) above sea level.
In 1769, a Franciscan priest Father Juan Crespí accompanied a group of Spanish soldiers on the first European land expedition through California. In his journal he described a ‘beautiful river from the northwest’ and named it ‘Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Porciúncula’. In 1781 a settlement by the river was established. This settlement was…
Chandamama is the longest-running children’s magazine in India. It was launched in Telugu by Chakrapani in July 1947. Chakrapani was the founder editor of the magazine and B. Vishwanatha Reddy has been the publisher since the last forty years. It is published in thirteen languages including English. Chandamama is also published in Santhali, making it…
The value of pi is represented as 3.14159 or 22/7. However, pi is a transcendental number, which means that it is a nonterminating, nonrecurring decimal. Mathematicians have used computers to calculate the value of pi to millions of digits. The millionth digit after the decimal has been calculated and found to be the number ‘1’.
A dimple is a small indentation on the cheek that appears when a person smiles. It is a kind of facial muscle deformity. It is caused when a particular facial muscle called the zygomaticus major is shorter than normal and pulls down the overlying skin when stretched. A chin dimple is a small line on…
