Bamboo is grass, although many of the bigger woody bamboo species resemble trees and are commonly referred to as "bamboo trees."
Stockholm, Sweden's capital city, has rich of beautiful architecture. However, one of the most spectacular sites is found underground! Around 90% of the Stockholm metro stations have been decorated, resulting in one of the most unique art galleries in the world. The project, which includes mosaics, paintings, graffiti, installations, sculptures, and more, involved over 150 artists.
Built to restrain the roaring waves of the world's longest river, the Nile, the Aswan high dam is the world's biggest dam.
Ambedkar was unhappy with the document just three years after it was adopted. Why? He strongly argued in favor of more powers for the governors. “Sir, my friends tell me that I have made the Constitution. But I am quite prepared to say that I shall be the first person to burn it out. I do not want it. It does not suit anybody,” he had said in Rajya Sabha in 1953.
Travelers know the confusion when arriving in a country that’s in a different time zone. You tend to either gain or lose a few hours. Myanmar is a little different. Rather than adjusting their clock to correspond with the gain or loss of a whole hour, like most countries, they do it with 30-minute intervals. The official time zone is GMT +6.30. Very few countries in the world do it in this way making Myanmar somewhat unique.
Because they generate sound through lip vibration, instruments like conch shells and shofars (made of hollowed-out animal horns) are still regarded as brass. Since they haven't undergone much modification from their original state and don't have valves or slides to regulate pitch, they are frequently referred to as "natural trumpets." Despite being primarily made of brass, other traditional brass instruments like trumpets and trombones may also contain some copper or other metals.
Your eyes are extremely sensitive, detecting even the smallest photons of light. A small fuzzy patch of light can be seen with the naked eye if you look at the constellation Andromeda on a very clear night. If you can make out that tiny blob, you've seen as far as human vision can go without the aid of technology. Andromeda is the largest galaxy closest to our own Milky Way. However, in intergalactic space, "near" is a relative term; the Andromeda galaxy is 2.5 million light years away. There were no humans when the photons of light that struck your eye started their journey. We still had a lot of growing up to do. You're looking back in time 2.5 million years and seeing an almost incomprehensible
The legendary elite warriors, also known as the Knights Templars, were given authority of the islands by Charles V of Spain in 1530. They are mainly remembered for successfully defending the island from the Ottomans.
A collection of coded writings called as the Beale Ciphers (named after a prospector named Thomas Jefferson Beale in the early 1800s) are believed to indicate the location of a huge treasure worth $43 million in gold, silver, and gems. One of the three manuscripts has been broken, indicating the location of the treasure in Bedford County, Virginia.
Centipedes are skilled hunters due to their incredible speed and venomous forcipules. Smaller species primarily consume mollusks, worms, insects, and spiders. Larger species frequently eat small birds, bats, and frogs as food. Even other centipedes will be eaten by some centipedes! Their meals are somewhat dependent on what is available to them. Some centipedes will scavenge for food in a pinch, but most of the time, they will hunt for it. Centipedes hunt for prey with the help of their antennae and catch it with their speed. Then, after encircling their prey, they wait for their venom to take effect before consuming their meal. Really brutal, no? However, it does the job.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has refused to allow the film adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Despite being universally acclaimed as a major work of literature about the history of the isolated town of Macon and the Buendas family who founded it, no film adaptation of the book has ever been made, as the author declined every offer to sign away the film rights. Love in the Time of Cholera, directed by Mike Newell, was the first film adaptation of one of his novels, released in 2007. Friends claimed Márquez only agreed to the deal because he had cancer and was worried about his family's future. However, the author now considers One Hundred Years of Solitude "unfilmable" unless the film include
This one from Amazing Facts About Hindi tells us about the origins of Hindi films. Raja Harishchandra is the plot of Hindi cinema's future.
There are several subfields, each with its unique emphasis. Clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and social psychology are some of the major subfields of psychology.
We don't even know how many stars there are in the cosmos. We now use our best estimate of the number of stars in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Then we increase that figure by our best estimation for the number of galaxies in the cosmos. After all of that calculation, NASA can confidently state that there are zillions upon zillions of uncountable stars. A billion is an endless number.
Egypt is located in a strategic location between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. The Suez Canal connects the two seas allowing for ships to easily sail between Asia and Europe. Egypt has been a very strategic location for centuries.
Koko is a renowned gorilla that understands sign language. When asked where gorillas go once they die, the gorilla quickly signed "Comfortable hole, bye."
Uncracked codes are shown in a sculpture outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The Kryptos sculpture, created by artist Jim Sanborn, has four inscriptions, three of which have been broken but the fourth remains a mystery.
Kalibangan in Rajasthan is one of the most important sites of the Indus Valley Civilization, which existed for around 450-600 years. This location has provided evidence of the first plowed agricultural field. This site also revealed evidence of the first known earthquake (2600 BC), which might have been the cause of the civilization's demise. The discovery of fire altars at the site suggested that the inhabitants worshipped fire. A visit to this location will give you an idea of how the ancient people lived with limited resources. You may take a train to Bikaner because it is the nearest railway station, around 205 kilometers away from Kalibangan.
The word "sea" refers to the lamprey's native home, the Atlantic Ocean. The word "lamprey" is derived from the Latin words lambere and petra, which mean "to lick" and "stone," respectively. This term relates to the typical mouth of the sea lamprey.
The Universe did not exist indefinitely. It was conceived. All matter, energy, space, and even time exploded in a massive explosion known as the Big Bang 13.82 billion years ago. The explosion continued to expand, and out of the cooling debris formed galaxies - vast islands of stars, of which our Milky Way is one of an estimated two trillion. In a nutshell, this is the Big Bang theory. Whatever way you look at it, the concept that the Universe arose from nothing – that there was a day without a yesterday – is completely insane. But the data suggests otherwise. The obvious question is, what happened before the Big Bang? The unwillingness to confront this unpleasant subject is why most scientists had to be dragged
This lowers your risk of developing acne but also makes it easier for your skin to become dry. Insufficient skin hydration is one of the main causes of fine wrinkles, but fortunately, it's simple to address with a decent moisturizer.
Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, developed Dunbar's number in the 1990s after discovering a relationship between the average size of a social group and the brain size of primates. The suggested cognitive limit for the number of people with whom someone can maintain a stable social relationship is 150. Exceeding this number is extremely rare, because becoming close to new people causes the quality of some older relationships to deteriorate over time
A female chihuahua called Milly measured 9.65 cm (3.8 in) tall on 21 February 2013. She is owned by Vanesa Semler of Dorado, Puerto Rico. Born on 1 Dec 2011, Milly was so small that she could fit in a teaspoon, and had to be fed milk every two hours with an eye-dropper. She loves having her picture taken and often sticks out her tiny tongue for the camera.
The salt-water crocodile grows to 6m or more and has the world's highest jaw pressure: 3,000 pounds per square inch.
The berry is used in a variety of ways by First Nations people. It can be consumed raw or combined with dried meat to make the traditional dish pemmican. In addition to being used to treat coughs, the juice is used to make dye.
Do you know that Egypt is also home to seven of the UNESCO World Heritage sites? That’s right, Egypt has a lot to offer! The 7 sites are Abu Mena, Historic Cairo, Abu Simbel, Saint Catherine, Wadi Al-Hitan, (aka Whale Valley in the western desert of Egypt) and Memphis and its Necropolis, and Ancient Thebes. Have you been to any of them? We have been to all but two. We have yet to visit Abu Mena or Whale Valley.Memphis and its Necropolis are in fact the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur so chances are if you’ve been to Egypt, you have seen this UNESCO SIte. Ancient Thebes is where you’ll find Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, Abu Simbel is on Lake Nasser, Historic Cairo is an obvious destination and
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