The word ‘vaccine’ is derived from the Latin word vacca meaning cow. A vaccine is prepared from killed microbes or other substances that resemble the activity of the organisms that are known to cause the disease. English physician and scientist Edward Jenner established the system of vaccination. He used the vaccination material extracted from virus of…
Jagadish Chandra Bose as a professor of Physics at Presidency College, Kolkata, was offered a salary substantially lower than his European colleagues, many of whom were less qualified than him. Prof. Bose was then under the Imperial Education Service (IES). He refused to accept it but nevertheless left no stone unturned in discharging his duties. After…
Michelangelo’s mother had died when he was still a child, and so he was sent to live with his nurse and her quarryman husband. Michelangelo used to run around in the quarry and sketch figures of charcoal on the whole pieces of marble, which he then carved. His father remarried and he was called back….
In 1792 the weapon suppliers of Tipu Sultan designed and successfully developed the first iron-cased rockets. These were used by Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, rulers of the kingdom of Mysore, against the East India Company during the Anglo-Mysore Wars. The British then spread this technology around the world.
Gautam Buddha was born on a Baisakhi Purnima, received enlightenment on a Baisakhi Purnima and attained nirvana on a Baisakhi Purnima.
Erwin Rommel was a German Field Marshal in World War II. He was a highly decorated officer of World War I. His troops were known to treat the war prisoners humanely and never accused of war crimes. He was highly skilled in the art of desert warfare, which earned him the name Desert Fox. Hitler forced…
