5th April 2016
Self-confident Tennyson wasn’t put off by Babbage
The poem ‘Vision of Sin’ (1842) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson has the following lines:
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16th March 2016
What’s in a name? – ‘Benaam’
In the Hindi film Benaam, the name of the character played by Amitabh Bachchan was ‘Amit Srivastava’, which is his real name. ‘Bachchan’ was the title taken by his father, Harivansh Rai, and Srivastava is their original family surname.
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27th January 2016
Lord Byron – An all-round sportsperson
Lord Byron, also known as George Gordon Byron and 6th Baron Byron, was a famous English poet. He was known to enjoy adventure. He was extremely fond of exercise and sports. He loved swimming and once swam from Sestos in Modern Gallipoli in European Turkey to Abydos in Upper Egypt. He mastered a wide variety of sports. In addition to swimming, he fenced, sculled, rode and shot at targets. At Harrow, he was considered a good enough cricketer to play for the first team against Eton. He was also the captain of Harrow in that match.
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