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Manipur is full of mountains. And one large valley in the middle called the Imphal Valley.
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The story starts all the way around 3000 BC when the ancient Pharaonic Egyptian civilization started. We know the Pyramids & the Sphinx but another major relic from then are the Hieroglyphics - an advanced pictorial script that the Egyptians used in their wall inscriptions!
First the story. 11thC AD. Modern day Gujarat was ruled by the Chaulukya Dynasty with Bhima I as it's king & Udayamati as it's queen. The landscape was part desert & arid like. Water management was a key priority & creating water bodies was a very royal act! 2/n
First the story. In the Chola country, along the banks of the river Vanni in a small village a pious man Yajnadatta is blessed with a son who is named Vicharasarman.
First lets understand how monsoons form due to winds from the pacific ocean. The Pacific covers almost half the surface area of earth & affects global climate
First the story. This is from Jataka Tales which is about Boddhisattvas - noble beings(human or animals) who came before the Buddha & could have become Buddha themselves
The story begins in the late 90s when the Internet was a new phenomenon & people were waking up to its possibilities.
The story starts on May 27th 1964, when Pandit Nehru, India's 1st PM died. A succession battle ensued. A faction wanted Indira Gandhi to be named the PM.
This story starts in the early 1900s when China was under Japanese occupation & in continuous civil war & high rate of poverty & hunger.
Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 into a family of engineers & was an inventor himself. He bought the now infamous 'Bofors' steel mill to develop multiple weapons - most famous of which was the Dynamite.
Union Carbide India Ltd set up a pesticide plant in Bhopal, MP in 1939. It was owned by an US company UCC & produced the pesticide Sevin.
The Concorde was a collaborative effort between the British & the french. It was researched to become the first supersonic flight which could reach 2000+km/hr & reach altitudes of more than 60,000ft
The story starts way back around 3000 BC where the earliest Egyptian kings called Pharaohs came into power. Called the 'Old Kingdom' a series of kings built one of the oldest civilizations known to us in history.
The first Indus Valley major find was the discovery of Harappa in 1829 on the banks of Ravi river in Punjab. It excited the British a bit but the find was still largely academic that they had found an ancient inhabited town that no one knew existed. 2/n
Germany had surrendered by 1945. Hitler was dead. But Japan was still waging war as leader of the Axis powers. USA had a personal vengeance additionally due to the Pearl Harbour attack 4 yrs earlier
Mount Everest was identified as the world's tallest mountain in the 1850s by the British Geographical Survey and was named after Sir George Everest, the Surveyor General of India
The story begins at Carnegie Mellon University in the USA where a doctoral student Feng Hsu began developing a Chess supercomputer called 'ChipTest'.
By 1969, Vikram Sarabhai was the face of Indian space science and rocketry. He had a dream to fabricate an indigenous satellite in India & launch it
The 1910s was a tough decade. First the WW1, where British forced us to fight for them without equal pay & discrimination & the subsequent Spanish flu where the British let millions of Indians die without a care had already led to a lot of unrest & anger across the country
Ancient Egyptians lived very close to the Nile. Just a few kms away, it was the Sahara desert. So only the areas close to the Nile had water & fertility