The royal minister who was the Bodhisattva in his previous birth decided to solve the mystery of the missing necklace. He thought, ‘The necklace was lost in the royal garden. Its gates were guarded. No one from outside could have stolen it. Also, the garden is full of monkeys.’ So, he went to the king […]
Moses was born around the 1393 BC in Lower Egypt and passed away in the 1273 BC. Do you know that while Moses was a prophet he was also trained in military tactics and the government? Moses was an Egyptian prince who gave up the life of wealth and comfort and followed God’s will to
Once, King Brahmadatta’s queen went for a swim in the pond of the royal garden. She removed her precious necklace and left it with her maid. A curious she-monkey was attracted by the necklace. It stole it and hid it in a hollow tree-trunk. When the maid realised that the necklace was missing, she raised
The Christ of the Abyss is a bronze statue placed in the Mediterranean Sea, on the Italian Riviera in 1954. This bronze statue is 2.5 metres in height and was placed at a depth of 17 metres at the spot where the first Italian diver to use SCUBA gear died. The statue depicts Jesus Christ
The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) was built in Rome, Italy, in 1651. The fountain represents the four major rivers of the four subcontinents through which the papal authority had spread, namely the Nile, the Danube, the Ganges and the Río de la Plata. The rivers are represented as river gods
Once, a rich man was addicted to gambling. He used to play dice with his friend. However, his friend was a trickster. Whenever he started losing, he would secretly put the dice in his mouth and claim it was lost. Thus, the game would have to be stopped. The honest rich man had noticed his
FAMOUS PERSONALITIES Bob Marley rightly said, “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” Human beings are the only living creatures that have superior intelligence and the ability to act based on their intelligence. From time immemorial,
Once, a monk and his pupil went to a village to preach. On the way back, they had to pass through a forest. The pupil started beating the drum, as he thought it would scare the narakas away. The monk stopped his pupil and said, “Don’t beat the drum continuously. Beat it to look as
Once, there lived a cruel monkey king. He did not want his sons to take over the kingdom, so he bit them to make them weak. One of the king’s wives escaped and gave birth to a strong monkey. When the prince grew up, he went to meet his father. The king hugged him hard
One day, an old man was returning home from a city. He had been travelling since morning. Althoug he travelled so long, he could not reach the destination. On the way, he saw a Buddhist hut. He went there and requested the disciple, “I would like to stay here as it is getting dark and
The Buzludzha Monument was built on a peak in the Central Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria, in 1981. The Bulgarian communist party built the Buzludzha Monument to commemorate the creation of the socialist movement in 1891. Sitting 1441 metres above the sea level, the structure resembles a giant concrete spaceship with a 107-metre tall tower with an
The Lawndale Theatre was built in Chicago, United States, in 1927. The Lawndale theatre is a bone-white mammoth structure on Roosevelt Road in Chicago. The Theatre had a beautiful church like a classically embellished façade. The interiors were a baroque style assortment of heavily ornamented plaster. World War-II brought about a demographic change in the
Once, a rich man in Kapilavastu buried his gold in a rice field, to protect it from robbers. However, the rich man soon died and the rice field was abandoned. Many years later, a poor farmer decided to plough the rice field. While ploughing, he found the long-forgotten gold. The farmer tried to lift the
Once, a man opened a juice bar. He had a helper who was very hard-working. One day, the owner went out leaving his helper in charge. The helper wondered, ‘Why do people ask for salt to be served with their juice? Instead, if we add salt to the juice before serving, it would taste good
The Valley of the Mill is an abandoned mill built in Sorrento, Italy, in the 900s. The Valley of the mill comprises a mill complex that consisted of a flourmill that was adjacent to a sawmill and a public washhouse. However, in 1866, with the creation of Tasso Square, the mill area was cut off