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Mountaineering 3 Best Essays on ” Mountaineering” Essay No. 01 Mountains have fascinated man since time immemorial. Mountain climbing is a dangerous sport but is filled with a strange romance and adventure which even the climbers cannot explain fully. It needs the highest quality of risk it involves does not deter the climbers to undertake the task of climbing the highest peaks of the world. The most challenging task of modern...
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April 21, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), Languages3 Comments
Growing Cable T.V. Culture in India It is the age of Cable T.V. It has come to stay. Now the T.V. Programmes are full of fun and frolic all the twenty – four hours. All the channels of T.V. are loaded with various programmes like news, views and entertainment. It provides programmes to suit people of all shades and opinions. The youth are mainly glued to T.V. all the time. The...
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April 21, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Facts of The World – 34 991. The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding. 992. The naval rank of ‘Admiral’ is derived from the Arabic phrase ‘amir al bahr’, meaning, ‘Lord of the sea’. 993. Canada is an Indian word meaning ‘Big Village’. 994. The shortest verse in the Bible is ‘Jesus wept’. 995. The word ‘byte’ is a contrition of ‘by eight’. 996. The word ‘pixel’ is...
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April 20, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourGeneral KnowledgeNo Comment
Facts of The World – 33 981. When you use a hair dryer, 20 million electrons pass through the wire every second. 982. The dollar symbol ‘$’ is actually an ‘U’ combined with a ‘S’ (U.S.). 983. It is believed the William Shakespeare was around 46 years old when the King James Version of the Bible was written. In psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is ‘shake’ and...
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April 20, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourGeneral KnowledgeNo Comment
Facts of The World – 32 971. Chocolates can kill a dog. They affect a dog’s heart and nervous system and a few ounces are enough to kill it. 972. The word ‘clock’ comes from the French word ‘cloche’, meaning bell. 973. According to a study by the Economic Research Service, 27 per cent of all food production in the Western nations ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1.2 billion people...
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April 20, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourGeneral KnowledgeNo Comment
Facts of The World – 31 961. ‘I am’ is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 962. ‘Tom Sawyer’ was the first novel to be written on a typewriter. 963. Coca – Cola was originally green in colour. 964. Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. 965. A group of unicorns is called a ‘blessing’ 966. In 300...
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April 20, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourGeneral KnowledgeNo Comment
Facts of The World – 30 951. “Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. 952. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 years old and lived in China in 1910. 953. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. 954. The word ‘ dollar’ ahs its origins in the Roman Empire. 955. If you hit a diamond with a hammer, it will...
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April 20, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourGeneral KnowledgeNo Comment
Facts of The World – 29 941. The fear of marriage is called gamophobia. 942. Men commit suicide three times more frequently than women. But women attempt suicide two to three times more often than men. 943. 93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women. 944. Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal – sized children, even if both parents are midgets or dwarfs. 945. Over 80 per cent of...
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April 20, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourGeneral KnowledgeNo Comment
