Idi Amin (May 17 1928 – August 16 2003) was an army officer and President of Uganda (1971 to 1979) whose regime was notorious for its brutality.Amin’s tenure witnessed much sectarian violence, including the persecution of the Acholi, Lango, and other tribes in Uganda. Reports of the torture and murder of 300,000 to 500,000 Ugandans […]
Henry Ford, the son of farmer, was born in Greenfield, Michigan on 30th July, 1863. He left school at 15 to work on his father’s farm but in 1879 he moved to Detroit where he became an apprentice in a machine shop. To help him survive on his low wages he spent his evenings repairing
A poor environment is directly responsible for around 25 per cent of all preventable ill health in the world today, and two-thirds of those affected are children.They fall sick for two main reasons. The first is a lack of essential environmental resources—chief among them sufficient and clean water, food, shelter, fuel, and air.People also become
The world’s worst recorded food disaster happened in 1943 in British-ruled India. Known as the Bengal Famine, an estimated four million people died of hunger that year alone in eastern India (that included today’s Bangladesh). The initial theory put forward to ‘explain’ that catastrophe was that there as an acute shortfall in food production in
The warming of the Earth has been the subject of intense debate and concern for many scientists, policy-makers, and citizens.Surface temperature measurements recorded daily at hundreds of locations for more than 100 years indicate that the Earth’s surface has warmed by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century. This warming has been particularly strong
Genghis Khan (more properly known as Changez Khan), is one of history’s more charismatic and dynamic leaders. During his lifetime, he conquered more territory than any other conqueror, and his successors established the largest contiguous empire in history. Even today his legacy continues in Asia, for without Genghis Khan there would not be a Mongolia.Born
Frequency modulation (FM) is a form of modulation which represents information as variations in the instantaneous frequency of a carrier wave. (Contrast this with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier is varied while its frequency remains constant.)In analog applications, the carrier frequency is varied in direct proportion to changes in the amplitude
Florence Nightingale is best remembered for her work as a nurse during the Crimean War and her contribution towards the reform of the sanitary conditions in military field hospitals. However, what is less well known about this amazing woman is her love of mathematics, especially statistics, and how this love played an important part in
Every year, as millions of women marry, they dream of starting a family, of having their homes filled with tiny cries and the happy laughter of gurgling babies. In India however, pregnancy is too often followed by the question of whether the unborn child is a girl or a boy.Marriage in the Hindu fold of
Have you ever been scolded for not covering your mouth while yawning or talking while having your dinner? Since these gestures are natural, a number of times we are not aware of its impact on others.Well, most of these courtesies can be traced back to the Middle Ages to the era of kings and queens,
Electronic mail, sometimes called email, is a computer based method of sending messages from one computer user to another. These messages usually consist of individual pieces of text which you can send to another computer user even if the other user is not logged in (i.e. using the computer) at the time you send your
India is committed to providing basic education to its citizens, the framework of which is defined in the National Policy on Education. Elementary education is now compulsory in India. At the time of Independence only 14% of India’s population was literate. Today, fifty years later, the number of literates have increased by five fold.Emphasis has
There are varying opinions regarding the future of e-commerce. Despite the fact that online sales are growing exponentially, some analysts believe that e-commerce is heading for a fall.For instance, 34 percent of online shoppers describe themselves as comparison shoppers but only 8 percent of traditional shoppers describe themselves as comparison shoppers. Another comparison is that
Did you know that 90% of women dislike the way they look? And it’s all because of the media and their emphasis on the ‘ideal’ figure of a woman. Supermodels and other Barbie-doll-figure-inspired women grace the cover of magazines all over the world promoting a ‘perfect’ shape. Girls of all ages think that this is
Today young generation of our country is in the grip of drug addiction. Drugs doesn’t differenciate between rich and poor. The parents of nearly all young addicts never imagined that their sons or daughters could fall victims to this dangerous vice.We all thought that drug addiction was an evil of the West. It is here