If 1st is a Sunday, then 8th is also a Sunday because 8 = 1 + 7. Then 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th are respectively Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Hence, 13th is Friday. If one considers ‘Friday, the 13th’ to be a bad omen, one should not be happy with the first day of the month…
The United Nations General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Water Day. It is held annually to focus attention on the importance of freshwater and advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
About two billion years ago a meteorite which was about ten kilometres in diameter hit an area near the town of Vredefort Dome near Johannesburg in South Africa. The impact of that meteorite created a crater that is 380 km across. Among the earth’s 130 meteorite crater sites Vredefort Dome is the top third and is…
In January 1066 at the Battle of Hastings, William, Duke of Normandy, France, conquered England. For the next 300 years, the rulers and nobility of England spoke French, not English.
Chail located 49 km from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, is the world’s highest cricket ground. It is said that Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala was incensed when Lord Kitchener refused him entry to Shimla. The Maharaja built his summer capital at Chail. The cricket loving Maharaja built a cricket ground in 1893 after levelling a hilltop….
To convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply the Celsius value by 9 and divide the product by 5. To this obtained value, add 32. Therefore, –40 Celsius is equal to –40 × 9 = –360; –360 ÷ 5 = –72; –72 + 32 = –40 degrees Fahrenheit.
