Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Netaji and Members of Azad Hind Fauz
.None except Subhash Chandra Bose and Rash Bihari Bose could think to create an army to free India from British Rule. Today India has specialized in defence and army. If India would take the way of Gandhi's non-violence what would have happened ? Did Subhash take a wrong way to build India on a brave backbone ??
WORLD'S FIRST PHOTOGRAPH WITH HUMAN.
First photo with a human in it, in Paris, 1838. It took 10 minutes to expose. The man on the bend is having his shoes polished at 8am
The World's first Engine driven train, "Rocket".
The World's first Engine driven train, "Rocket".
The year was 1830 and it was the first passenger train in Britain running between Liverpool and Manchester.(Before this the coaches were pulled by horses!!!)
It was called the "The Rocket" and was driven by George Stephenson(who made its engine).
It could travel at the speed of 29km per hour.
The first Indian Railway train was started in 1853 between Bombay and Thane. This train had a speed of 32km per hour.
At the start of the railways only first class passengers travelled in fully enclosed coaches with oil lamps and padded seats. Second class passengers rode in open coaches with no roof.
Quit India Movement
The Quit India Movement (Hindi: भारत छोड़ो आन्दोलन Bhārat Chodo Āndolan), or the August Movement (August Kranti) was a civil disobedience movement launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for immediate independence. The All-India Congress Committee proclaimed a mass protest demanding what Gandhi called "an orderly British withdrawal" from India. The call for determined, but passive resistance appears in his call to Do or Die, issued on 8 August at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Mumbai on year 1942.
Guillotine
The guillotine is a device designed for carrying out executions by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame in which a weighted and angled blade is raised to the top and suspended. The condemned person is secured at the bottom of the frame, with his or her neck held directly below the blade. The blade is then released, to fall swiftly and sever the head from the body. The device is best known for its use in France, in particular during the French Revolution, when it "became a part of popular culture, celebrated as the people's avenger by supporters of the Revolution and vilified as the pre-eminent symbol of the Reign of Terror by opponents." However, it continued to be used long after the Revolution and remained France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment with the backing of President François Mitterrand in 1981. The last person guillotined in France was Hamida Djandoubi, on 10 September 1977.
Ajanta Cave
Ajanta Cave...
The Ajanta Caves (Ajiṇṭhā leni; Marathi: अजिंठा लेणी) in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE. The caves include paintings and sculptures described by the government Archaeological Survey of India as "the finest surviving examples of Indian art, particularly painting", which are masterpieces of Buddhist religious art, with figures of the Buddha and depictions of the Jataka tales. The caves were built in two phases starting around the 2nd century BCE, with the second group of caves built around 400–650 CE according to older accounts, or all in a brief period between 460 to 480 according to the recent proposals of Walter M. Spink. The site is a protected monument in the care of the Archaeological Survey of India, and since 1983, the Ajanta Caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Mahen-jo-daro civilization
Ruins of Mahen-jo-daro civilization...
Mohenjo-daro is an archeological site in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Built around 2600 BCE, it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization , and one of the world's earliest major urban settlements, existing at the same time as the civilizations
of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Crete. Mohenjo-daro was abandoned in the 19th
century BCE, and was not rediscovered until
1922. Significant excavation has since been
conducted at the site of the city, which was
designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980. However, the site is currently threatened by erosion and improper restoration.
World's first photograph
Centuries of advances in chemistry and optics, including the invention of the camera obscura, set the stage for the world’s first photograph. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras, at his family’s country home. Niépce produced his photo—a view of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill.
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