Chapter 2 The Curator would have detained him: they are few in the world that still have the secret of the conventional brush-pen Buddhist pictures which are, as it were, half written and half drawn. But the lama strode out, head high in air, and pausing an instant before the great statue of a Bodhisat […]
Once, there were a goat and an ass. They were best friends and lived on the hill. They both grazed together on the green pasture of the hill. One day, a farmer was ploughing his field; meanwhile he saw both the goat and the ass grazing there. The farmer took both the animals and brought
Once, there was a tiger who lived in his den. He was so selfish that nobody wanted to be his friend. One day he was eating bony flesh, but unfortunately while eating, a bone stuck in his teeth. He tried hard to remove the bone. He cried of excruciating pain, but nobody came to help
Once, a couple lived in a village. Due to the curse of a hermit, they had no child. After praying a lot to the hermit, the hermit made them free of the curse. A few years later the woman gave birth to a baby but unfortunately instead of a normal human child, it was a
Chapter 1 He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher—the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ‘fire-breathing dragon’, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot. There was some
Chapter 10 The next day it was agreed, that Alan should do for himself until sunset, but as soon as it began to grow dark, he should lie in the fields by the roadside and stay there until he heard me whistling. For our signal, he taught me a little bit of a Highland tune,
Chapter 9 For long, we said nothing. We marched along. I was angry and proud. Alan was angry and ashamed. He was ashamed that he had lost my money and angry that I should be so upset about it. I thought of leaving him, but I could not turn to a friend who certainly loved
Chapter 8 We came to a valley in a great mountain, with water running down the middle and a shallow cave in the rock on one side. It was here Alan had been headed. We slept in the cave, making our bed of heather bushes and covering ourselves with Alan’s greatcoat. There was a place
Chapter 7 “Well,” said he, “that was a hot chase, David.” I said nothing. I had seen murder done and a great, ruddy, jovial gentleman struck out of life in moment. Here the man that Alan heated was murdered. Here was Alan skulking in the tree and running from the troops. The way saw it
Invented by Gideon Sundback and named by the B.F. Goodrich Company, the modern zipper came into existence in the year 1917. The history of the zipper dates back to 1851 when Elias Howe created the Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure, which he did not market. So in 1893, Whitcomb actually invented the zipper that looked like
No doubt, ‘zero’ means none but still it is one of the most important numbers in maths because without it calculation can be done but not so easy as it is done now. There is a controversy regarding the invention of zero. According to a few people before Aryabhatta, zero was in existence in Babylonian
Xerography is also termed as electrophotography. It is a process where dry photocopying is done using the attractive forces of electric charges in order to transfer the image. An American patent lawyer named Chester Carlson born in Seattle, Washington, had a deep desire to invent something great. He invented xerography in the late 1930s. As
Chapter 6 On the land, rugged and trackless, I had no better guide than my own nose. I came upon a house and old gentleman who sat smoking his pipe in the sun. In broken English, he hold me my shipmates had got safely ashore and had eaten in this same house the day before.
X-rays are basically a form of electromagnetic radiation that allows to look inside a body without cutting open. Wilhelm Rontgen, a German physicist, is generally given the credit for having invented X-rays. He was the first person to have studied the details of X-rays minutely and also observed the effects of them. In fact, he
The first kind of water heater was said to have been incepted by British painter Benjamin Waddy Maughan, who in 1868 invented the first instantaneous domestic water heater, which did not make use of solid fuel. The invention worked via means of hot gases originating from a burner at the bottom, which heated the cold