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• Pacific Palmyra ~ President Obama Has Plans to Make It Marine Protected Area

  

  Heard of MPA (Marine protected area) and would that be of interest … here is what I read recently on that ! Palmyra was an ancient Aramaic city in central Syria. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Germany Drubs Brazil ... Lawlessness at Copacabana Adds to the Insult

  

  Many of you would have seen the match; most would have followed and read the result in various media … one Nation is expressing shock – not only in the loss, bu... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Pie in the Sky .... Pizza Delivery by Drone

  

  In this fast World, pizza is a rage … I had earlier posted on delivery of pizza for a BBC set designer on the train – not only within a limited time but at a... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Judgment in Sedition Case of Great Patriot (VOC) VO Chidambaram Pillai (Kappal...

  

  One of the most prominent landmark of Chennai is of course – Central Railway Station – the road next runs parallel to railway tracks and borders George Town on... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Drone in the Sky - Woman Complains of Peeping Tom...

  

  Peeping Tom is a 1960 film directed by Michael Powell and written by the World War II cryptographer and polymath Leo Marks. The title derives from the slang... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Tour De France ..... 'ewe's' View of the Proceedings !!

  

  Sheep (Ovis aries) are ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Samburu Lion Killer is Killed by Pack of Hyenas !

  

  Hunting animals is a sports – a colonial vestige - killing animals and displaying them as trophies – was a pastime of British – and this practice perhaps existe... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Novak Djokovic Beats Roger Federer; Repeats His Grass Eating Antic

  

  Victory tastes sweet, they say ! ~ Wimbledon is played on a grass court – ‘grass is for cows’ haunted Ivan Lendl throughout his career. Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Poopoova Paranthupogum 'butterfly' Effect and Impact of Rock Salt on Them..

  

  ‘Dhikku theiryatha kattil unnai thedi alainthen’ is one of the many songs of the great Tamil Poet Subrahmanya Bharathiyar. ‘Thikku Theriyatha kattil’ (in a... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Petra Kvitova Thumped Eugenie Bouchard ... Will It Be Djokovic Or Federer

  

  At the famed lawns of Wimbledon, Centre Court was dressed up for the coronation of Eugenie Bouchard. Genie’s Army whooped as the starlet entered stage left... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 SOCIETY

• MCC - Lords Bi-centennary (200); Strauss Gets Trouble - Warne, a Broken Arm

  

  It was founded way back in 1787 - a fact gathered from a poster for a cricket match in 1837 ….. before then, however, aristocrats and noblemen played their... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Nations of the World .... and the Tiniest Amongst Them !!!

  

  Heard of Sealand – is it a Nation, and if so the tiniest one ?? How many countries are there in the world? ~ a good common Q for general Public … yet has... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Prime Minister Naredra Modi Flags off Train at Katra in Jammu

  

  Train No. 22461 22462 are in news … it runs 654 km in 12 hours has only 2 halts… 4 stations in all…. A regular Q on Quiz used to be on ‘Himsagar Express’ –... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Cutting Edge - Cutfast ..... Francis Joseph St in Parrys and ... Saanai...

  

  Cutting edge – may refer to ‘State of the art’, the highest level of development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field… the real cutting edge... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Human Trial of 'super Bananas' Soon to Come .... Vitamin A Rich Ones at That !!

  

  Robusta, Dwarf Cavendish, Rasthali, Poovan, Nendran, Karpooravalli, Monthan, Virupakshi, Sirumalai, Manoranjitham , Kathali ……. – simple – varieties of banana,... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2014 SOCIETY

• RO-RO Vessels of Kerala .... Ninaithale Inikkum and Man from South

  

  Way back in 1979 came this film directed by K Balachandar raising expectations even it hit the silver screen – for it had Kamal and Rajnikant starring together... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Elephants Poaching in Africa; US Marines in Chad

  

  Elephants are very attractive – more so in the wild than in captivity .. sadly its population is plummeting in recent years. Organisations are crying hoarse tha... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Don't Know Sachin ............get Bombarded ... 'Who is Maria Sharapova ?"

  

  In Nov. 2013, he walked back to that 22 yard – bowed down, touched the pitch and paid reverence showing the regard he has had for the game and the way he... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 SOCIETY

• Hippos of Escobar Haunt Colombia...

  

  Something very interesting on not so good looking animal ~ gleaned from various sources on the net. It was in 2007, 14 years after Escobar's death, that people... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 SOCIETY

• MACT - No Fault Liability .................... Fraudulent Claim on Insurers

  

  Every road in every city bustles with traffic - with the increasing no. of vehicles, congested roads, speed, recklessness, urbanization, transport vehicles –... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 SOCIETY