Social Saturdays Recently, Turkish President Erdogan changed the status of a contentious religious structure from a museum to a mosque. Hagia Sophia is a significant historical structure built as a cathedral in Istanbul (then Constantinople) in the 6th century CE (532-537) under the auspices of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. Throughout history, several of its […]
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The world’s largest gold vault
Finance Fridays A few minutes’ walk from the hustle bustle of the Wall Street, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s gold vault rests, where 25% of the world’s gold is kept. Some countries deem it safer than their own gold vaults and hence store a large part of their reserves here; foreign nations own […]
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Organ Printing
Technology Thursdays All of us have printed out material at some point of time, many of us even know about 3-D printing, which is adding another dimension to the usual paper printing. But the applications of three-dimensional printing are fascinating ranging from aerospace, food printing to bioprinting. And one of the most intriguing applications is […]
War Wednesdays All of us have studied the Mughal history and how dominating Mughal kings were when it came to warfare and conquest of land administered by Hindu kings. While most of the rulers of independent kingdoms used to easily accept the suzerainty of the Mughals, two clans in Northern India especially stand out in […]
Trade Tuesdays John Davison Rockefeller was the man responsible behind the first greatest business trust of America- The Standard Oil Company. Even though he started his career dealing in a variety of everyday products like grains, meat etc. but he spotted the potential of the oil business in early 1860’s and built his first oil […]
Mythology Mondays When Lord Krishna asked all the Maharathis of the Mahabharata as to how many days they would individually take to end the war, Bhishma said he would take 20, Karna 24, Dronacharya said 25 and Arjuna said 28. Barbarika said, he would take only one minute to end it all, a claim Krishna […]
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The Enron Scam
Enron was one of the world’s most creative corporations. America’s seventh largest company, over 30,000 employees, and then a scam that led to a share price high of $90.75 fall to $0.26. Finance Fridays Enron was once the seventh largest company in the United States. They were behemoths in the energy and trading markets. Their […]
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ILOVEYOU?
Technology Thursdays ILOVEYOU is the best thing to read sometimes, but not always. ILOVEYOU became a nightmare for the 10 million windows users when the virus ransacked their computers on May 4th, 2000. The ILOVEYOU virus was circulated as an email titled ILOVEYOU with an attachment “LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs”, and this attachment was where the virus was […]
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The Japanese Army’s Cannibalism
War Wednesdays We have all heard of some atrocious war stories and the Nazis feature in a lot of them. But the Japanese weren’t far behind. While there was a lot of propaganda and counter propaganda between the axis and allied powers during the World Wars, one specific incident of cannibalism stands out as a […]
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Bubble Wallpaper?
I was today years old when I found out that our humble popping favourite, the bubble wrap was originally created to be a wallpaper! Trade Tuesdays The original idea was executed by sealing together two shower curtains, in a manner that air bubbles would be trapped between them. The creators of this product thought that […]
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