On 23 January 1556 in Shaanxi, China, a devastating earthquake took place. It was the era of the Ming Dynasty. Most of the people were living in artificial caves at that time. The epicentre of the earthquake was the Wei River Valley in Shaanxi Province. More than 8,30,000 people got killed as the artificial caves…
Whenever the Holy Mother Sarada Devi and Sister Nivedita used to interact, the former would talk in Bangla and the latter in English. But it is said that each used to understand the language of the other.
20 August 1897 is officially considered to be the day when Ronald Ross identified the malaria parasite in the Anopheles mosquito. His finding had tremendous impact on the fight against the disease, for which he was awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1902, and later knighted. It was indeed a remarkable achievement for…
Ron Galella was referred to as ‘Papa Paparazzo’. Ron Galella had several odd encounters with celebrities two conspicuous ones among them were: Being sued by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Getting five teeth knocked out by a punch of an irate Marlon Brando.
The Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus) or the pygmy white-toothed shrew is the smallest mammal by weight. It grows to a length of 4 cm and weighs 1.8 grams.
Perfect Number is a number which can be expressed as the sum of all factors of the numbers excluding itself but including ‘1’. 6, 28, 496 and 8128 are the first four perfect numbers. 6 = 1 + 2 + 3 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 496 = 1…
