The poem ‘Vision of Sin’ (1842) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson has the following lines: Every moment dies a man Every moment one is born Charles Babbage, the famous mathematician and designer of the first programmable computer, argued that these lines indicate that the world population remains fixed, which is contrary to the reality and advised…
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.
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…
