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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Friday, April 29, 2016

Extreme Survival

Earth is certainly a beautiful place and it is the only planet which holds the perfect atmosphere for the humans to live. Lets guess how many days/hours/minutes will you survive on the other knowns planets in this universe? Well you will surely appreciate your planet more when you look at how long you would survive unprotected around the solar system.


There's nowhere beside Earth where you could survive any longer than two minutes. Mercury and Mars are the only planet in the solar system where one can survive as long as you can hold your breath.

On the other planets like Sun and Venus, you will be instantly vaporised, or will be crushed by a pressure of a gas planet.

On Mercury the side facing the sun is super hot and the opposite side is super cold.

The Surface of the Venus is is 900 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than a pizza oven.

Jupiter has no surface to land on, you would descend into its gaseous atmosphere until you are crushed by the pressure.

Feeling lucky? Well you must!

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Genes of Jeans

You open your wardrobe and there you are slapped with those piled up clothes falling on you. You dig your favorite jeans and try it. Umm... not fitting? try the other one.. ummm little okay... dig more and you get your best look jean! You flaunt the brand! slide the belt inside and you are ready to walk!

Everyone is conscious about their fashion and everybody knows how to get the perfect look and Jeans have always been the fashion king for you. What so good about this worn look style jeans?

Jean or Jeans are trousers often made from denim or dungaree cloth. Often the term "jeans" refers to a particular style of pants, called "blue jeans," which were invented by Jacob Davis in 1871.

Jeans were originally designed for Cowboys and Miners and it soon became popular among the teenagers.


Jeans are now available in various fits including skinny, tapered, slim, straight, boot cut, narrow bottom, low waist, anti-fit, and flare.

Research on the trade of jean fabric shows that it emerged in the cities of Genoa, Italy, and Nice. In Nimes, weavers tried to reproduce jean but instead developed a similar twill fabric that became known as denim, from de Nimes, meaning "from Nimes".

Denim is not the only sturdy cotton fabric used for everything from working clothes to fashion items. There is also Dungaree. Dungaree was mentioned for the first time in the 17th century, when it was referred to as cheap, coarse thick cotton cloth, often colored blue but sometimes white, worn by impoverished people in Bombay, India a dockside village called Dongri. Dungri was exported to England and used for manufacturing of cheap, robust working clothes. English began to call “Dungri” cloth a little different and it became “Dungaree”.


Care and Wear of Jeans:

Despite most jeans being “pre-shrunk”, they are still sensitive to slight further shrinkage and loss of color from being washed. The Levi Strauss company recommends avoiding washing jeans as much as possible. The less you wash your jeans, the better your jeans become.

These and other suggestions to avoid washing jeans where possible have encountered criticism.

For those who prefer to refrain from washing their jeans there have been suggestions to freeze them in order to kill the germs that cause odor. However, this advice has been disputed as ineffective and replaced with the suggestion of baking them for ten minutes at 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

Such are the genes of Jeans!! 

Wear it and Flaunt it! 

Regards,
Sujit

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Hey readers! Well I m sure many had seen the movie "Exorcism of Emily Rose." 

The movie is loosely based on the life and story of Anneliese Michel a German Catholic women who was said to be possessed by demons. 

 Anneliese Michel was born on September 21, 1952 in west Germany. When she was sixteen, she suffered a severe convulsion and was diagnosed as having epilepsy. She soon suffered from depression and began to hear voices telling her that she was “damned" and will "rot in hell".

Her treatment in an unnamed psychiatric hospital did not improve Michel’s health. Moreover, her depression began to deepen. She grew increasingly frustrated with medical intervention as it did not help. Anneliese was unable to walk past a crucifix and refused to drink the water of a holy spring, her escort concluded that she was suffering from demonic possession.

Once convinced of her possession, Anneliese, her parents, and the exorcists stopped seeking medical treatment, and put her fate solely into the hands of the exorcism rites. Sixty-seven exorcism sessions, one or two each week, lasting up to four hours, were performed over about ten months.

On 1 July 1976, Anneliese died in her sleep. The autopsy report stated the cause of death as malnutrition and dehydration from almost a year of semi-starvation while the rites of exorcism were performed She weighed 30.91 kilograms.

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Monday, April 2, 2012

Teddy Bears


How many of you know, why these stuffed soft toys with big ears and bulgy stomach are named as teddy bears?

Teddy bears are named after the US President Theodore Roosevelt (teddy).

The story began when the President refused to shoot Bear during his Hunting Trip.

This incident appeared in a Cartoon by Clifford K.Berryman published in the Washington Post.



Soon after Morris Michtome a New York Shop keeper started making stuffed Bears and Advertised them as Teddy's Bear with Roosevelt permission.

Thank You.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Time Pyramid


Hey readers! The temperature here in Mumbai is rising day by day. Well no worry I m here to make you read one cool fact.

During my childhood, Pyramids had always fascinated me, though I knew very little about the fact there are mummy like ghosts who are kept inside with some oils and wax so as not to decay.

It is very interesting to know the unknown facts about the history of human civilisation and the Maya Civilisation is one of them.



The Mayan Pyramid situated at Chichen Itza, Mexico built around 1050 has four stairways each with 91 steps, and one platform.

This makes a total of 365 days, the number of days in a year.

The stairways also divide the nine terraces of each side of the pyramid into 18 segments representing the 18 months of the Mayan calendar.

The Islamic year is about 11 days shorter than a year in the Gregorian calendar. Although the Islamic calendar started 622 years later, it is gaining on the Gregorian calendar. The two will eventually coincide but not until the year 20874.

Well the history has its own mystery!!

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