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Lincoln's speech of dedication 1863 Abraham Lincoln and this group of people moved down Baltimore Street past the Gettysburg Museum of History building to dedicate the new Gettysburg National Cemetery.…

Vibhishan Temple, Dhanushkodi Rameshwaram, Tamilnadu, BHARAT (India) The Kothandaramaswamy Temple at Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu is a shrine dedicated to the Bhagwan Ram. Located at a distance of 13 kilometers from…

An Interesting map of India This is an interesting map of India. It compares the population of various countries with that of the states of India (marginal variation not to…

Robert Campbell This is British Army Captain Robert Campbell, who was captured in 1914 a few weeks after the First World War started and was sent to a prisoner of…

Biju (Bijayananda) Patnaik (1916 - 1997) Biju (Bijayananda) Patnaik (1916 - 1997) is the only person in India on whose death his body was wrapped in the national flag of…

Around the world in 80 days (One flew out of a Cuckoo's nest) The trailblazing American journalist Nellie Bly began her record-breaking 72-day journey around the world this week in…

The great photograph The great photograph is of a British soldier kneeling, as he is lifting up a pet dog in his shrapnel helmet. It was taken on the 22nd…

Punished by Anger One day the Buddha was walking through a village. A very angry and rude young man came up and began insulting him. "You have no right teaching…

 Nicolas Appert “An army marches on its stomach,” Napoleon is supposed to have said. But unfortunately for the armies of his time, the food available to the stomachs of those…