24th August 2016
Nobel Prize in Literature: The firsts
The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards at the international level. The award honours academic, cultural and/or scientific advances.
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21st June 2016
Cars that are fuelled by water
A water-powered car is one of the most attempted inventions in the world.Even though hydrogen is regarded as one of the most efficient alternative fuels, the expense that goes behind producing it is excessively high. As a result, there has always been a need for economic alternative fuels – a need that helped in discovering water as a fuel.
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16th March 2016
France’s teacher in winemaking
The French are known to be expert wine-makers. But archaeologists have analysed a stone platform dated to 425 BC to 400 BC from a site in southern France. The traces of tartaric acid on it suggest that people used the platform for stomping on the fruit to make wine. They also analysed the pottery shipping containers used to import wine into France from an old civilization of Etruscan near Rome. These potteries are older than the stone, which suggests that the French used to depend on merchants from Italy to deliver the first batches of wine well before they started making their own. So, France learnt winemaking from Italy.
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14th March 2016
Pathos of Einstein
Einstein had said, ‘If my theory of relativity be proven successful, Germany will call me a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. If my theory be proven unsuccessful, France will call me a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.’
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