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S ome Uru and Aymara Indians on Lake Titicaca, South America, subsist through traditional agriculture and fishing. Inhabitants of floating totora islands are shown crushing grain with a saddle quern, embroidering wool cloth and other items for purchase by tourists, and finishing a small totora reed boat.

North Atlantic Ocean off North America in which more than 50 ships and 20 airplanes are said to have mysteriously disappeared. The area, whose boundaries are not universally agreed upon, has a vaguely triangular shape marked by the southern U.S. coast, Bermuda, and the Greater Antilles. Reports of unexplained occurrences in the region date to the mid-19th century. Some ships were discovered completely abandoned for no apparent reason; others transmitted no distress signals and were never seen or heard from again. Aircraft have been reported and then vanished, and rescue missions are said to have vanished when flying in the area. However, wreckage has not been found, and some of the theories advanced to explain the repeated mysteries have been fanciful. Scientific searches have revealed nothing to substantiate the storied peril of the r...

Diamond-making techniques have been embraced by Earth scientists in their efforts to simulate conditions in the Earth's deep interior. Of special significance were the high-pressure syntheses of two new forms of silicates. In 1960 Sergei Stishov, while at the Institute of High-Pressure Physics in Moscow, subjected ordinary beach sand (composed of the mineral quartz SiO 2 ) to more than 8 GPa of pressure and high temperatures. The form of silica that he produced was approximately 62 percent denser than quartz and was the first known high-pressure compound to contain silicon in six-coordination rather than the four-coordination found in virtually all crustal minerals. The natural occurrence of this new synthetic material was confirmed within a few weeks by careful examination of shocked material from Meteor Crater, Ariz., U.S. The mineral was named stishovite. In 1974 a second high-pressure discovery revolut...

Alfred Bernhard Nobel born Oct. 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden died Dec. 10, 1896, San Remo, Italy Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist, who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosives and who also founded the Nobel Prizes . Alfred Bernhard Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel and Caroline Nobel. Immanuel was an inventor and engineer who had married Caroline Andrietta Ahlsell in 1827. The couple had eight children, of whom only Alfred and three brothers reached adulthood. Alfred was prone to illness as a child, but he enjoyed a close relationship with his mother and displayed a lively intellectual curiosity from an early age. He was interested in explosives , and he learned the fundamentals of engineering from his father. Immanuel, meanwhile, had failed at various business ventures until moving in 1837 to St. Petersburg in Russia, where he prospered as a manufacturer of explosive mines and machine tools. The Nobel family left Stockholm in 1842 to join the father in...

Mahatma (“Great-Souled”) Gandhi leader of the Indian nationalist movement against British rule, considered to be the father of his country. He is internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest to achieve political and social progress. Gandhi was the youngest child of his father's fourth wife. His father, Karamchand Gandhi, who was the dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar, the capital of a small principality in Gujarāt in western India under British suzerainty, did not have much in the way of a formal education. He was, however, an able administrator who knew how to steer his way between the capricious princes, their long-suffering subjects, and the headstrong British political officers in power. Gandhi's mother, Putlibai, was completely absorbed in religion, did not care much for finery and jewelry, divided her time between her home and the temple, fasted frequently, and wore herself out in days and nights of nursing whenever there was sickness in the f...

AJANTA CAVE NO.1 . This is very beautiful in the group of Ajanta Paintings. One of the portrate belong to man whose body looks-like young handsome & proportional as similar to a prince in his hand lotus flower due to this it is very famous & known as Padmapani. He stands in 3 curve (Neck, Waist, leg are bended) head adorned with various flowers, Bead's beautiful jewelled crown. He has Broad forehead, Arched eyebrows, straight beautiful nose foisted on various colour's clothes Beads the sacred thread hand has bracelate like ornament man looks at. A artist has got extreme success to show neutral mood expression on his face. Next to his a dark complexioned women is there in her hand has lotus flower she may consort of Padmapani. AJANTA CAVE NO.17 . In Balcony of this cave has very beautiful pictures out of these, at the left side wall there is beautiful picture Indra is getting down through the sky gracefully. Indra has a beautiful head gear style on neck garland...

Ellora Caves Ellora Cave 16th - This picture is from Ellora Cave No.16 which show a Marriage Ceremony of Shiva and Parvati in the first picture of the back wall in which Shiv and Parvati have their hand in hand in which Marriage richgval is perform by Brahma. Parvati has leg ring in only one leg.The face of both looks inocnt and exited. This picture is from 16th no of Caves from the back gallary when we come down the stair`s we can see Rawan is Shaking Kalash montain with his frll strength while on the top Shiv is sitting quitely and pressing the mountain with his toes while Parvati is seen to the right clinging to her Lord in fright. While some followers of shiva are throwing stones on Ravana and other followers are singing devotional songs while Many God & Godess are seing this form the sky and a frightended Monkay is climbing higher on the mountain in this way. This scence has been marvallously carved. Ellora Cave No.29 - In this Cave at the right hand side mag...