What are the important events that happened on August 10 in Indian history?

 The Battle of Colachel in 1741 was was the first time a European colonial power( Dutch), would be defeated by an Asian kingdom( Travancore), though Japan would be the first Asian nation to defeat a European power( Russia) at Battle of Port Arthur.

Marthanda Varma on ascending the throne, set out to conquer the spice producing regions of Kochi, annexing Kollam, Attingal, Venad. This threatened the Dutch, and the Governor Gustaaf Van Imhoff wrote to Varma asking him to stop his campaign. The Dutch organized an alliance of Kochi, Kollam, Kayamkulam, while van Imhoff personally met Marthanda Varma to negotiate peace. When Imhoff threatened to wage war, Varma shot back saying he had been thinking about invading Europe some day.

Colachel where the historic battle was fought is currently part of Kanyakumari district, had a Dutch fort. After landing here on November 26, the Dutch bombarded the coast with three sloops and two large ships, attacking other outposts like Midalam, Kadiapattinam, Eraniel.

The Dutch commander, an Gollenesse announced a complete blockade of the Travancore coast around Colachel. The Dutch ship Maarseveen was sent further south on January, 1741, between Thengapattanam and Colachel,however the local fishermen called the mukkuvars, halted their advance temporarily.

However with reinforcements unable to arrive in time as the Dutch East India company was caught up in another war in Java and Batavia, Marthanda Varma took advantage of the situation and rushed to the South, while directing his Dewan Ramayyan Dalawa, to march to Colachel.

Dalawa reached Kalkulam from the north, with a massive unit of infantry, cavalry, artillery, along with a large number of native boats, and a full unit of Mukkuvars who acted as spies to keep watch on the Dutch movements.

He marched his troops stationing them between Nagercoil and Eraniel, while Travancore’s patrol boats cut off supplies to the Dutch garrison from the sea. Marthanda Varma prayed at the Adikesava Perumal Temple, in Thiruvattar, consecrating his sword there.

On the 10th of August 1741, the forces of Travancore and the Dutch met at Colachel, for the historic battle. The Travancore Army aided by the Dalwa’s unit from Malabar, the local fishermen, charged at the Dutch, and broke through their ranks.

The Dutch were utterly routed at Colachel, most of their soldiers were taken prisoner, including their commander Eustachius De Lannoy. By August 14th 1741, all the Dutch fortifications in the region were captured and they had to retreat to Kochi, was a total rout for them. It put an end to the Dutch plans to expand on the West Coast, and in a way helpled in modernization of the Travancore army too.

This Victory Pillar was set up to commemorate the victory at Battle of Colachel. The Pangode Military camp parade ground is named after Colachel too.

What are history's most unexplainable photos ever captured?

 Here are some photos that I found mysterious, likely to shock you.

• This photo was taken in 1941 during the reopening of the South Forks Bridge in Canada. At first glance, it looks like any other picture from that period. But if you examine the details, something is amiss. There appears to be a man in modern clothing among the hats and suit jackets of the 1940s. He also seems to be holding a modern camera, wearing unusual glasses, and sporting a logo that doesn't quite fit the era.

• In 1964, French photographer Robert Serrec spotted and quickly took a picture of what appeared to be a giant, snake-like creature resting on the seabed off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Although some suggested it was a giant tarp, no credible explanation has ever been found for this bizarre photograph.

• Since the 1940s, a strange luminous phenomenon has been observed in the Hessdalen Valley, Norway. The spectacle involves a white or yellow light of unknown origin, either hovering or floating at ground level. Between 1981 and 1984, the lights were observed up to 20 times a week, but their frequency has decreased considerably since then, appearing only about 10 to 20 times a year. Despite ongoing research and numerous hypotheses, there is still no convincing explanation.

• In 2000, two photographs of a "skonke monkey" were taken by an anonymous woman and mailed to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office in Florida. The photos were accompanied by a letter from the woman in which she stated that she had photographed a monkey in her backyard. People claim it's a black bear, but it doesn't look the same.

• Like most families, the Coopers had moved into their new home in Texas and wanted to take a family photo of themselves sitting together. However, when the photo was taken, a body appeared to fall from the ceiling. Since no plausible explanation was ever offered, there is much speculation about what happened.

• This is one of the most famous unexplained images of all time. While the image is centered on Mary, something eerie hovers over her left shoulder. There's an object that appears to be some kind of UFO hovering above the cliffs. Just below, a man and his dog can be seen watching the saucer.

• On March 13, 1997, a series of bright, unidentified lights appeared over Phoenix, Arizona. They remained completely stationary for hours. The Air Force said the lights were flares released for a training exercise. However, the lights reappeared over Phoenix in 2007 and 2008. They remain unexplained.

• There is said to be an ancient, dark object orbiting Earth for 13,000 years called the "Black Knight Satellite." No one knows how it got there, its purpose, or even who started calling it the "Black Knight." The photo above was taken during a U.S. space shuttle mission to the International Space Station in 1998.

What was the loudest sound ever in history?

 Imagine if we in Belgium or the Netherlands were to hear something taking place in New York?

This case is comparable.

Sound is a mechanical wave, so how loud it is depends on the amplitude if you were to plot a sound signal on a graph.
The strength of sound is measured using the decibel scale.
But note: this is a logarithmic scale, so 4 is not double 2; it works in bases of 10: 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000 ….
For example, 20 Decibels is 10 times stronger than 10 Decibels.

So here are examples :
10 Decibels ≈ This is how loud normal breathing is for humans
30 Decibels ≈ Whispering
70 Decibels ≈ Vacuum cleaner
100 Decibels ≈ Lawnmower (if you are standing close to it)
From 110 Decibels, people start to experience pain!
110 Decibels ≈ If you are 1 meter from a car horn
150 Decibels ≈ An airplane taking off when you are standing 25 meters away
This sound can instantly tear your eardrum!!!!!

You might already be wondering if it can get any worse, right....

But the LOUDEST EVER EXPERIENCED :
in the spring of 1883 on the volcanic island of Krakatoa, in Indonesia , an explosion occurred with a force of 200 TNT; the entire island (located between Java and Sumatra ) was completely wiped off the map.
How loud was this?
Well, when "sound" exceeds 194 Decibels, we are not really talking about pure "sound" (sound remains just a wave), because sound beyond the 194 Decibel limit begins to distort into a shock wave rather than truly pure sound.
310 Decibels

were

generated at the epicenter of the explosion.
Everyone within a radius of up to 64 kilometers of the volcano had their eardrums ruptured.
A pressure gauge 161 kilometers away registered 180 Decibels.
And these 180 Decibels were still enough to rupture your eardrums, knock the air out of your lungs (make your lungs explode) , and shatter the glass of buildings. If you were to survive it, you are 99% certain that you will be deaf for the rest of your life.
In reality, the volcanic explosion was heard as far as Perth (Australia); people described it as if it were a gunshot.
Also in Japan, India, parts of China, Korea….

And that is not all: as the sound traveled further, it became weaker and weaker, but the waves continued to travel around the entire world (at a very low frequency that the human ear no longer perceives) three times.
This was established according to our instruments at the time.

The small black cross on this map indicates the location of the volcano; Perth is marked on it.
The red circle represents the extent to which it was heard.
For some places, the pressure waves took several hours to reach that far, but they did eventually arrive.

And the noise was just one of the many problems:
- 120,000 people died.
- Tsunamis were created.
- People on boats also died quickly, and some boats with dead bodies washed ashore on the East African coast even a year later
. - The volcano spewed enormous amounts of ash into the atmosphere; this blocked sunlight and caused global temperatures to drop very rapidly by an average of 1.2°C.
It took 4 years for this to return to normal.
- The ash made the moon appear blue or sometimes green from Earth.

Incidentally, in 1815 there was another major volcanic eruption in Indonesia; it was not as loud, but it caused global temperatures to drop even more sharply. This is called the Year Without Summer; it was snowing in New York during the summer at that very moment.

What was the most epic battle in history?

 September 11th, a day that changed the world.

But this is 1683, not 2001.

I'm talking about the clash of two cultures, two empires, with more than 200,000 soldiers involved in the gigantic Siege of Vienna. The magnificent city of Vienna, Austria, a cultural center of Europe and Western Christianity, was under siege by the forces of the Ottoman Empire.

The siege looked a bit like this:

This was the decisive battle between West and East. The great bastion of Christianity, the capital of the mighty Habsburg Empire, against the most dangerous enemy Europe had ever faced: the Turks.

Facing 200,000 men with a garrison of only 20,000, the Austrians seemed defeated. The siege had cut off all supplies to the city, making the besieged increasingly hungry. The siege lasted two months, from July to September, and only then did a turning point come.

King John Sobieski of Poland arrives to the rescue with a charge of the Winged Hussars, the elite Polish cavalry, routing the Ottomans and ending the siege. This also leads to the decline of the Ottomans for the next 23 decades.

Despite the Poles' bad reputation militarily, this was the time they saved all of Europe. Congratulations to Poland!

And if the miraculous charge of the hussars seems rather familiar to you:

You're right! This battle was essentially the inspiration for the siege of Minas Tirith where the Rohirrim play the part of the Poles.

What is the history behind Rathyatra of Lord Jagannath?

 It all began centuries ago when a tribal chief named Biswabasu secretly worshipped a magnificent sapphire deity named Neelamadhava in a hidden forest cave of Odisha.

Far away in Malwa, King Indradyumna ( a devotee of Lord Vishnu) was desperate to see this form of Vishnu and sent his minister, Vidyapati, to find it.

Vidyapati lived among the tribe, fell in love with Biswabasu’s daughter Lalita and married her.

One day he tried to convince Lalita to ask her father to take him to his place of worship. Biswabasu was hesitant but eventually agreed on a condition that Vidyapati has to be blindfolded all the way to the cave.

But, Vidyapati was clever, he carried mustard seeds along with him and dropped the seeds along the path. When the monsoon rains came, the seeds sprouted into a trail of bright yellow flowers, allowing the king to find the secret spot.

However, by the time the king arrived, the sapphire deity had vanished. Instead, the Lord directed the king in a dream to look for a massive, sacred Neem log floating on the shores of Puri. The king retrieved the divine log, but a new problem arose: no royal artisan could shape it.

Every time a carpenter struck the wood, their iron axes and chisels instantly shattered into pieces. Finally, an old, mysterious sculptor named Ananta Maharana (believed to be Lord Vishwakarma) stepped forward, promising he could carve the wood as long as he was locked inside the sanctuary for 21 days with absolute privacy.

On the 14th day, there was no thud-thud sound, absolute silence. Queen Gundicha was driven by anxiety, thinking the old man might have died, the royal couple opened the doors only to find the old man gone and three abstract, beautifully "unfinished" deities left behind.

Well, the philosophy behind the unfinished deities is, God doesn't need to have a typical physical form to run the universe. He can be both Sakara (with form) and Nirakara (without form).

Once the grand temple in Puri was built, Lord Jagannath was so pleased with the king's devotion that He appeared before him and said,

Ask for any boon you desire, O King, and it shall be granted.

Fearing that his descendants might become arrogant and claim ownership over the Almighty, King Indradyumna made a shocking request, saying,

O Lord, bless me so that I leave behind no children, no descendants, and no lineage, so that no one can ever call this temple their personal property.

Well, Queen Gundicha was utterly broken-hearted over losing the chance to be a mother,

You have given away our future, my King. Who will call me mother? Whose footsteps will echo in our empty palace?

Seeing her tears, Lord Jagannath comforted her with a moving promise, saying, "

Do not weep, Queen Gundicha. If you have no children of your own, then from this day forward, my siblings and I are your children. Every single summer, we will leave our grand temple and come stay with you at your palace for nine days.

And this is the core behind the Rathyatra of Lord Jagannath.

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Beyond this touching family promise, there's another history.

Source: Google

In ancient times, rigid societal rules strictly barred people of lower castes and different faiths from entering the main temple sanctuary.

Remembering His humble beginnings with the tribal chief Biswabasu, Lord Jagannath refused to be locked away only for the privileged.

He decided that if some of His children were not allowed to enter His house, He would step out onto the dusty streets to meet them.

Today, when the three massive wooden chariots roll down the Bada Danda (Grand Road) of Puri, all social barriers completely crumble. It remains a powerful celebration where the Lord becomes fully accessible to every single human being equally, regardless of their caste, creed, or background.

What are the most mysterious photos in history?

 Here are some photos that I found mysterious, likely to shock you.

• This photo was taken in 1941 during the reopening of the South Forks Bridge in Canada. At first glance, it looks like any other picture from that period. But if you examine the details, something is amiss. There appears to be a man in modern clothing among the hats and suit jackets of the 1940s. He also seems to be holding a modern camera, wearing unusual glasses, and sporting a logo that doesn't quite fit the era.

• In 1964, French photographer Robert Serrec spotted and quickly took a picture of what appeared to be a giant, snake-like creature resting on the seabed off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Although some suggested it was a giant tarp, no credible explanation has ever been found for this bizarre photograph.

• Since the 1940s, a strange luminous phenomenon has been observed in the Hessdalen Valley, Norway. The spectacle involves a white or yellow light of unknown origin, either hovering or floating at ground level. Between 1981 and 1984, the lights were observed up to 20 times a week, but their frequency has decreased considerably since then, appearing only about 10 to 20 times a year. Despite ongoing research and numerous hypotheses, there is still no convincing explanation.

• In 2000, two photographs of a "skonke monkey" were taken by an anonymous woman and mailed to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office in Florida. The photos were accompanied by a letter from the woman in which she stated that she had photographed a monkey in her backyard. People claim it's a black bear, but it doesn't look the same.

• Like most families, the Coopers had moved into their new home in Texas and wanted to take a family photo of themselves sitting together. However, when the photo was taken, a body appeared to fall from the ceiling. Since no plausible explanation was ever offered, there is much speculation about what happened.

• This is one of the most famous unexplained images of all time. While the image is centered on Mary, something eerie hovers over her left shoulder. There's an object that appears to be some kind of UFO hovering above the cliffs. Just below, a man and his dog can be seen watching the saucer.

• On March 13, 1997, a series of bright, unidentified lights appeared over Phoenix, Arizona. They remained completely stationary for hours. The Air Force said the lights were flares released for a training exercise. However, the lights reappeared over Phoenix in 2007 and 2008. They remain unexplained.

• There is said to be an ancient, dark object orbiting Earth for 13,000 years called the "Black Knight Satellite." No one knows how it got there, its purpose, or even who started calling it the "Black Knight." The photo above was taken during a U.S. space shuttle mission to the International Space Station in 1998.

What are some strange customs that people had in the past?

 Some customs from the past are the following:

1) Bathroom machines.

When people wanted to bathe in the sea, those in the 18th and 19th centuries couldn't simply wade into the water. They needed a bathing machine, which served as a kind of "hut," preventing them from being seen while bathing. As was typical for the time, the bathing machines used by women needed to be located away from men.

2) Post-mortem photographs.

It may seem strange, but it was common for families in the past to take photos with their loved ones who had passed away. This was a way to preserve memories of people, since they often had few photos taken during their lifetime.

3) The Sangrias.

Bloodletting was a very old treatment method used to "cure" a number of different illnesses. Doctors of the time believed that many diseases could be treated simply by making the patient bleed, and for this purpose, leeches and various devices that produced bleeding were used. Over time, of course, the method proved ineffective and unnecessary, and eventually fell into disuse.

4) Hygiene was not as we know it today.

Many people don't prioritize hygiene as much as they should even today, but things were even worse in the past. Bathing wasn't seen as a daily necessity, and in fact, many people went months without a thorough wash.

We can only imagine how difficult it must be to approach someone in these circumstances, but people at that time didn't care about that.

5) Dresses for children.

Today, dresses are garments typically associated with girls, but that wasn't always the case. From the 16th century until the mid-1920s,This clothing was commonly worn by childrenbecause they lasted a long time and didn't need to be changed as often as they grew.

Who is the most evil person in history?

 Countess Elisabeth Báthory de Echedo

Elizabeth Báthory, known as "Blood Countess" and "Countess Dracula," is considered the most prolific serial killer in history, with over 650 murders directly related to her name.

Báthory's coat of arms

Báthory, who held the title of Count, was born into a highly influential Hungarian noble family. Known as an intellectual and learned woman, she was initially very popular among her subjects. At the age of 15, in 1575, she married Ferenc Nádasdy, the son of a baron. The wedding took place in Vallenno and was attended by over 4,500 guests.

Her husband spent much of his time studying in Vienna, leaving Elisabeth to live alone. She made Čavutice Castle, located in what is now Slovakia, her home.

Years later, as she approached middle age, Elisabeth began to experience tantrums and fits of rage. She would attack her young female servants. Legend has it that she punched a clumsy servant who was brushing her hair, and when she pulled a little too hard, blood dripped from the girl's nose, and she realized that she could maintain her youth with the blood of virgins.

Thus began a 20-year-long ordeal of terror. Hundreds of girls hired to work in Elisabeth's castle disappeared one after another, their whereabouts never to be heard again. The villagers grew suspicious, but because of Elisabeth's position, they could do nothing.

Eventually, suspicions about the disappearance reached the King of Hungary, who demanded an investigation. The king's followers arrived at the castle in Transylvania and demanded to see the secret chamber beneath Elisabeth's residence. What they discovered was horrifying.

Beneath her castle lay a vast and intricate torture chamber run by Elisabeth. With the help of several key accomplices, she imprisoned her female servants and extracted their blood through horrific surgeries.

Báthory's first victims were local peasant girls, many of whom were abducted to Čachtice with offers of lucrative servant jobs at the castle. Later, she began killing daughters of nobles, who were sent by their parents to her palace school to learn court etiquette. Abductions are also said to have taken place. The most consistently described atrocities included brutal beatings, burning hands, biting off flesh from faces and arms, and death by freezing or starvation. Among the testimonies of her accomplices in court were mentions of the use of needles. The longest-lasting accusation is that Elisabeth bathed in the blood of young virgins at court to maintain her youthful appearance, which is the origin of her name.

Some reports claim that Elisabeth was captured while being tortured by inspectors who visited her, but there is little evidence to support this.

Needless to say, the king was not impressed. Elisabeth did not receive a severe punishment because of her position, but she was immediately placed under house arrest. At her trial that followed, more than 300 witnesses testified to the atrocities she had committed, some claiming to have seen her bathing in blood. Numerous bones were discovered, which served as evidence of the crime. Three of her accomplices were sentenced to death, and Báthory was imprisoned in Čachtice Castle, where she was confined in solitude. She died there in 1614.

Today, Elisabeth Báthory is one of the most (infamous) Hungarians in history, and many books, television shows, and films have been made about her twisted life. Because of her ruthlessness and vampire-like tendencies, she is to me the most evil person of all time.