Marion Jones was the first woman to win five track and field medals at a single Olympic Games in Sydney (2000). After years of denial, she was compelled to confess of being a drug cheat and was jailed for lying to the investigators.
Malgudi was envisioned by R. K. Narayan, the eminent writer, for his numerous books. Located somewhere in South India during the British times, the fictional town had the Mempi Hills as the backdrop with tigers and bamboo forests. The town had a college called Albert Mission College, and a cinema hall called the Palace Talkies….
Albert Einstein used to keep portraits of three scientists: Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell in his study. Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, and someone who is considered as one of the most influential scientists of all times. By way of the formulation of the laws of motion and universal…
Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy was a doctor and a freedom fighter who went on to become the second chief minister of West Bengal in 1948 at Gandhiji’s behest. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy was a philanthropist and took major interest in the social, cultural and industrial development of West Bengal. He was awarded Bharat Ratna for his…
Concrete is a man-made material and is mostly an aggregate of cement, fly ash, slag cement, limestone, sand, chemical admixtures and water. It is the most used man-made material in the world today.
Alaska, the largest state in the United States by area, was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867 for $7.2 million. It has a tidal shoreline of 54270 km. It is not divided into counties, but into 16 boroughs.
