There is a massive gap in time zones between Honolulu and Tokyo. Honolulu is 19 hours behind Tokyo. Subtracting the 7 hours and 45 minutes flight time between these two cities gives us a trip difference of 11 hours and 15 minutes. Therefore, you would actually reach Honolulu more than 11 hours before you left Japan.
A robot is a machine that sometimes resembles humans and carries out routine mechanical tasks on command with human-like skill. The word robot has its origins in the Czech word robotnik, which means a serf or a slave. Robots are used mainly in factories and in those activities which a human might find difficult to…
The Zone Improvement Plan code, abbreviated as the ZIP code, is a system of postal codes that was introduced in the USA in 1963 to improve the efficiency of postal services, such as sorting and delivery. It comprises nine digits: the first three digits are assigned to a specific part of the USA, the next…
The owl is believed to possess a wise disposition. Therefore, a group of owls is called a ‘parliament’. The word parliament is used as a collective noun in this case. Another collective noun for a group of owls is ‘wisdom’ – a wisdom of owls.
Derived from the Latin word titulus, meaning inscription or heading, the ‘tittle’ is a dot or diacritic that is used to mark a lowercase ‘i’ or ‘j’. It was initially used to distinguish ‘I’ and ‘J’ from the neighbouring letters. The ‘tittle’ appeared in the Latin alphabets in the 11th century. Originally a larger mark,…
In 1920, Meghnad Saha discovered his ionization formula (Saha Ionization Equation). In 1924, Satyendra Nath Bose found his photon derivation of Planck’s Law (Bose Statistics). In 1928, Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman discovered the Raman Effect. In 1930, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar predicted the Chandrasekhar Limit. Together they contributed to the golden era of Indian physics.
