The Precise accusation levelled against Socrates by the democratic Athenian government in 399 BC was that he was: An evildoer and a person showing curiosity,searching into things under the earth and above the heaven and teaching all this to others and...
North flourishes,South Perishes-Dr CN Annadurai
Aristotle described Plato in his death: The man whom it is not lawful for bad men even to praise; Here is a man atlast with his feet on the ground,a man whom people would refer for millennia……….
Tap the rich and Pat the poor-Dr CN Annadurai
Alexanders Library had more than 500.000books and was a repository of the whole worlds knowledge.Euclid,Archimedes,Ptolemy studied there….Alexander chose Achilles,Homers Hero from the Iliad as his role model,when he reached the famous fierce Achilles...
Archimedes father pheidias was an astronomer,interested in the size of the Sun,Moon and their distance from Earth.Archimedes was untidy,unkempt,and dishevelled and was killed by a roman legionary because he refused to attend a march as he had to solve...
Narrow passage which links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is called Strait of Magellan,Magellean travelled 13,000 miles in 98 days,wonderful accounts of his voyage was brought by the Italian Chronicler,Antonio Pigafetta….
For Magellan it was leap in the dark and had only his faith and rudimentary calculations: Now Moon in 1969,Best quality materials,greatest resources were invested,constant contact with earth and distances were known in advance and there were even instantaneous...
The first circumnavigation of the globe by Magellan in 1519 might be compared with the first space flight to the moon in 1969(450 years later) there were many differences…Magellan was given third rate vessels,his backers were reluctant to risk top...
Revolution-Not by Bullets but by Ballots-Dr CN Annadurai
Just half way through this journey of our life,I re awoke to find myself inside a dark work,way off course,the right road lost…Dante,author of Inferno,Divine comedy,who wrote in italian,making his native language respectable…
Christoper Columbus(1451-1506) bearer of Christ,dove his the meaning of his name,discovered Spain,Bahamas,Cuba,Haiti and America(but named after Amerigo Vespucci not Columbus)
I,speak english rarely;but that does not mean my english is rare—-Dr CN Annadurai
I have 3 gifts which might hamper the career of a professional politician-An unaccomodating temper,a blistering tongue,and an indecent superfluity of brains-Dante
When Galileo upheld the scientific facts almost a century after Copernicus,he was condemned by the Papal inquisition,infact it was on October 1992,Vatican officially conceded saying Galileo had not offended against Catholic belief..
Study the actions of illustrious men,to see how they have borne themselves,examine the causes of their victories and defeats,so as to imitate the former and avoid the latter—Alexander imitated Achiless and Ceaser imitated Alexander-Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli lived 58 years was a celebrated theorist of Government,State craft and political science.His masterpiece was Prince,example of unparalled precision,wrote 7 books on the art of war and one comedy,Mandragoa,masterpiece of ribald comic...
Elizabeth 1(1533-1603) ruled for 45 years and was a contemporary to Akbar the Great……..
St Peters Cathedral in Rome took 160 years for completion and St Pauls Cathedral took 40 years of completion by Sir Chhristoper Wren,but Istanbul Suleymaniye Mosque took 7 years for completion in 1571,timeline demonstrates both the wealth and the sp...
There was a opera house in cairo built in celebration of Suez canal construction
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