The huge elephant walks proudly carrying the huge Peepal tree on its huge back.
Two deer in front of the deer.
Two deer behind the deer.
How many deer now?
Both are same.
Mother between two children
I was confused. In the process of taking a selfie.
Are you standing or climbing?
The pleasure seekers would offer the food.
Love doesn't need words.
Would have made my son prepare for UPSC.
You're looking at one of the world's greatest archaeological sites, Sigiriya, believed to be one of Ravana's palaces. Located in Sri Lanka, this amazing site is unlike anything else in the world, which is why it's also known as the 8th Wonder of the World. You might be wondering what's so special about this site. It's actually a huge monolithic rock, about 660 feet tall, and you can see it has a flat top, as if someone cut it with a giant knife. At the top are incredible ruins that are incredibly mysterious.
As you can see, there are many strange brick structures scattered here and there, and this is not only confusing for visitors, but even archaeologists don't fully understand what these structures were used for. They confirm that everything you see is at least 1,500 years old. But the mystery isn't what these structures are, it's how they were built. How did the ancient builders manage to transport all these bricks to the top of the cliff? It's said that at least three million bricks were found here, but building these bricks on top of the cliff would be impossible, as there isn't enough clay available. They had to transport these bricks from the ground.
Now, the truly bizarre thing is that there are no ancient stairs from ground level leading to the top of the rock. See, all these metal stairs were built in the last century. Without these new stairs, climbing this rock would be quite difficult. The entire rock is now covered with various types of stairs, spiral staircases at different levels. The ancient builders built very limited stairs, but these stairs certainly didn't reach the top. This is why even the locals didn't know about Sigiriya until 200 years ago because there were no stairs to the top. During the 1980s, the Sri Lankan government built stairs using metal pillars to make it a tourist destination and declared it a heritage site.
And that's why an Englishman named Jonathan Forbes "discovered" the ruins of Sigiriya in 1831. So how did early humans reach the top of Sigiriya? Let's assume it's possible to climb through these very steep, forested terrain. But to bring 3 million bricks from ground level, you'd need proper stairs. Without them, getting them to the top would be impossible. Even if we claim that the bricks were miraculously formed on the rock itself, the construction would have required hundreds of workers. How did they get their food? And what about tools? How did they carry their massive primitive tools? Where did they rest and sleep?
It's not just bricks, you can also find huge marble blocks. The milky white marble stones aren't native to this area. These blocks are actually very heavy, each stone forming a step weighs about 20-30 kilograms. And we can find thousands of marble blocks here. Experts agree that marble isn't found naturally anywhere nearby, so how were they transported to a height of 660 feet, especially without stairs? It also houses a large water tank. If you ignore the bricks and marble blocks around it, you realize this is the world's largest monolithic tank made of granite. It wasn't built by joining stone blocks; it was created by removing granite, carving tons and tons of granite from solid rock.
The entire tank is 90 feet long, 68 feet wide, and nearly 7 feet deep. This means at least 3,500 tons of granite were removed. So, you might actually want to sit back and think for a minute about whether mainstream archaeologists are right. If humans were using primitive tools like chisels, hammers, and axes on granite, one of the hardest rocks in the world, it would have taken years to remove 3,500 tons. And how did these workers support themselves over all these years when they didn't even have stairs to reach ground level? There's something fundamentally wrong with mainstream history books that talk about ancient people cutting rocks with chisels and hammers. But this isn't just a theory; we have actual evidence right before our eyes.
Lakshmana was a hothead and a extremely intolerant person in Valmiki Ramayana
This is driving me crazy. But which way is he looking?
But is it turning?
Stare at the red dot for 30 seconds. Then look at a white wall and blink.
And this is created by nature.
1. Australia is wider than the moon.
2. Your birthday is shared with approximately 20 million people.
3. A million seconds is less than 11 days.
A billion seconds is more than 31 years.
4. Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste diminishes by about 30% during the flight.
5. Serial killers behave like bees. Scientists have studied bee behavior and developed algorithms that police now use to catch criminals.
6. In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teenagers thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person.
7. High heels were originally for men.
8. The average woman loses 1-2 hours of sleep each night due to overthinking.
9. Psychology says that if you have the power to go to the movies and to a restaurant alone, you can do anything in life.
1. You must have bought a water bottle at some point of time, but do you know that the expiry date written on the water bottle is not of the water but of the bottle.
2. 97% of people in the world write their name first when they buy a new pen.
3. The American flag was designed by high school student Robert G. Heft as a school project.
4. Girls spend more than a year thinking about which dress to wear.
5. There is a 2060 square kilometer area between Egypt and Sudan on which no country claims its rights, this place is no man's land.
She is Sarup Kumari (later Vijay Lakshmi pandit ) sister of Jawaharlal lal Nehru. She served as the 8th President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1953 to 1954.
He is Syed hossain, Oxford-educated and also a fiery nationalist.
It was Hussain's patriotic spirit that first caught Motilal's attention when he was looking for an editor to launch his newspaper. Nehru chose Syed Hussain, a pro-India Englishman and founding editor of the Bombay Chronicle." Syed Hussain, became the sub-editor of the Bombay Chronicle.
Nehru's newspaper office was in Anand Bhavan. After getting the job, he had to live like a bachelor in Allahabad. But due to his delicate upbringing, it became difficult for Syed Hussain to live like this. He started suffering from illness. In such a situation, Motilal Nehru invited him to live in Anand Bhavan itself.
At that time, Nehru's elder daughter Vijayalakshmi Pandit was 19 years old. Living in Anand Bhavan, Syed got a chance to mingle with the Nehru family. During this time, vijay lakshmi pandit was drawn towards him. Syed who was 5 feet 10 inches tall, fond of being clean and well dressed, was 12 years older than her. But the age difference could not become a hindrance in their love.
Different documents confirm that the two secretly got married as per Muslim rituals. By the time Motilal found out what was going on under his own roof, they were already secretly married, as Syed Husain later confessed to his good friend and only sympathiser Sarojini Naidu.
Motilal Nehru took Gandhi's help to separate the two in this hour of 'crisis', with whose help Syed Hussain was out of Allahabad in a few days and out of the country in a few weeks. He was sent abroad as a member of a Congress delegation to Europe, Gandhi took advantage of this opportunity and requested Syed to stay in England till the matter cooled down.
And after some years Nehru get his sister married to Ranjit Sitaram Pandit in 1921. He is Barrister and Sanskrit scholar also associate with Indian National Congress.
Interestingly, Syed Hossain returned to India in 1946 and was later appointed India's ambassador to Egypt by Jawaharlal Nehru.
There are also accounts suggesting that he and Vijayalakshmi met again after her first husband's death, but the details of their later relationship are not firmly established.
This is the oldest exoplanet found to date at 13 billion years old, possibly the oldest ever considering the Universe itself is only a little older at 13.7 billion years old! It was found deep inside the core of what is called a “globular cluster” of stars, which are composed of the very first stars that were formed right after the Big Bang. And based on our knowledge of planet formation planets are born soon after their parent star, so if the exoplanet’s star is really old, then the planet itself must be really old as well.
To send 2016 off properly, Hubble has captured the most detailed image to date of the mysterious galaxy IRAS 16399-0937, which acts as a giant, astronomical laser.
But it's not your standard laser. Instead of blasting out visible light, the galaxy pumps out an intense and constant stream of microwave radiation. "This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most - it hosts a megamaser," explains NASA (microwave + laser = maser). Masers are found throughout the Universe, wherever molecular clouds of dust amplify any microwave radiation that passes through, enhancing and focussing the amount that's emitted on the other side.
There are even some masers in our own galaxy, but megamaser IRAS 16399-0937 is a lot brighter - 100 million times brighter, to be specific, and almost the entire galaxy acts as a maser, rather than just one or two molecular clouds.
The Hubble’s estimated decay date would be somewhere between the year 2030 and 2040. So what happens after that ?
The James Webb Space Telescope
, also called Webb or JWST, is a large, space-based observatory, optimized for infrared wavelengths, which will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. It will cover longer wavelengths of light than Hubble and will have greatly improved sensitivity. It is under construction and scheduled to launch in October 2018.Hubble, one of the highly advanced telescope was launched in the year 1990. Imagine the amount of technical advancements the new JWST would have and it’s impact on astronomical studies.
The view at the bottom of the sea is quite extraordinary in my opinion, it looks like the mouth of a giant fish ready to pounce on anything in front of it, but I didn't expect that the photo above was actually a photo of a shipwreck that sank decades ago.
The view out looks like TV.
A photo of a tree root covered in grass, which looks like a certain animal.
Photo of an object in the Hawaii area when the sun is exactly in the middle of the sky.
The shape of the clouds is quite unique.
It looks like there is a giant creature on earth, but in reality it is just a trick of the eyes.
It looked like there was a fire in the house, but it was just a play of light.
The photo above is a photo of a car door, it looks like a spaceship about to land next to a forest.
In the World of Disney, stories are beautiful and always have a happy ending with “they lived happily ever after.” But there is one artist who wondered what it would be like to contrast these amazing stories of the Disney characters with the reality that we live in today.
1.Simba lives at the zoo now.
2.The Hundred Acre deforestation
3.Lightning McQueen stuck in traffic
4.Even Elsa couldn’t save the polar ice caps from melting.
5.Ariel trying to survive in the polluted waters of the sea
6.Mulan wearing a mask because of air pollution
7.Nani, Lilo, and Stich begging for money in the streets.
8. Pocahontas in the casino
9. The concrete jungle wasn’t quite what Tarzan was expecting.
10. Mowgli faces reality
11. Jumbo ended up in the circus.
12. Sebastian got caught.
13. Esmeralda in hiding
14. Belle wants to be more beautiful.
15.Remy in a cosmetic testing center
16.Bambi became a trophy.
What emotions have these pictures awakened in you? Do you think it was a good way to show the problems of our society? ?
About artist:
Jeff Hong, animation storyboard artist currently living in NYC. Born and raised in Los Angeles. worked as an animation artist on the films Hercules, Mulan, Tarzan and the Emperor's New Groove
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