Fish and Chips,English national dish is not originally english at all,fried fish is jewish and chips are Irish! Polo was not english,but Persian! Morris dancing came from moorish spain! Cheroot,Cushy,Juggle,Curry,Blightly are from Indian languages!
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Rabindranath Tagores grandfather Dwarakanath Tagore founded Indias first calcutta union bank in 1829
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Wycliffe Tyndale translated Bible into english,for this sin he was hounded and his persecution even years after his death,dug up his body and burnt it...
POST: 2011-05-12T16:30:20+05:30
600 years ago China and india accounted for about 75% of global GDP.Europe was insignificant,America undiscovered-Deng Xiapong in his book To get Rich is Glorious.
POST: 2011-05-12T15:35:42+05:30
Habits should be a stick that we use,not a crutch to lean on.We ought to make them for our convenience or enjoyment and occassionally break them to assert our independence.We ought to be able to employ them,without being discomposed when we cannot employ them.
POST: 2011-05-11T15:10:17+05:30
Foundation Members of Doon School in 1936 are 1)Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar 2)M Ct. Muthiah Chettiar 3)RK Shanmugam Chettiar 4)Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer 5) Dr P Subbarayan-Zamindar of Kumaramangalam Donors for Doon School in 1936 are 1)Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar-Rs 50,000/- 2) Adhinakartha of Tiruvaduthirai Mutt,Tanjore-Rs 6000/-
POST: 2011-05-11T15:05:21+05:30
Charles Dickens signature was like a rolling road,a reeling road,it is like a road made by a man in Drink! Coleridge,Wordsworth,Gibbon were indubitable and intolerable bore in person! A pen is to me what his sword was to D Artagnan or his umbrella was to the Duke of Cambridge!
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General Richard Mathews is recorded in a tamil history of the period as praying to a Hindu deity at a temple in Takkkolam(Near Arakkonam) in order to be cured of some crippling stomach aches and he was cured and gave lot to the temple!James Grant gave a bell to the Durga temple in Benares after the priests,there had prayed for his safety when he and his wife and children were caught in a whirlpool in Ganges,immdly opp the temple.General Stuart was called Hindu Stuart,General Pundit,Pundit Stuar ...
NOTE: 2011-05-10T14:37:01+05:30
General Richard Mathews is recorded in a tamil history of the period as praying to a Hindu deity at a temple in Takkkolam(Near Arakkonam) in order to be cured of some crippling stomach aches and he was cured and gave lot to the temple!James Grant gave a bell to the Durga temple in Benares after the priests,there had prayed for his safety when he and his wife and children were caught in a whirlpool in Ganges,immdly opp the temple.General Stuart was called Hindu Stuart,General Pundit,Pundit Stuart ...
POST: 2011-05-10T14:25:25+05:30
We are creatures of memory and we have to use the apparatus of memory precisely.Everything we do and see and hear is touched with a 1000 influences which we cannot catalogue,but which constitute our veritable selves. Macaulay could recite Paradise lost,American elocutionist could recite 10 of Bard of Avons plays and have displayed the wonderful system of mnemonics by which they acheived the miracle.