Jeff Skoll (Jeffrey Skoll) Order of Canada (born January 16, 1965) is a Canadian born engineer and internet entrepreneur who lives in Los Angeles, California. With an estimated net worth of $US 3.2 billion (as of March 2011), Skoll was ranked by Forbes as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and 347th in the world. He was the first employee and also …

Jeev Milkha Singh (born 15 December 1971) is the first Indian golfer to become a member of the European Tour. He is the highest ranked Indian golfer in the world and first broke into the top 100 in October 2006. Early life Singh was born in Chandigarh, India, the son of the Indian Olympic athlete Milkha Singh. His mother is …

Jayanta Talukdar is an Indian Archer, and one of the most promising players of the sport in the nation. He picked up the game not much ago, still with his sharp skills and in-born talent for Archery, he’s rose on to become on of the most bright stars of Archery, and generates a lot of hopes in the eyes of …

Javed Abidi is the director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India, and the founder of the Disability Rights Group. He received an education in journalism and communication at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He set up the disability wing of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation in India, after being invited to do …

Jatin Das was an Indian painter and sculptor. Jatin Das was born in December 1941 in Mayurbhanj, Orissa, India. He studied at the Sir JJ School of Art, Bombay, under Professor S.B. Palsikar. His term at the school lasted for a period of five years, from 1957 to 1962. Thereafter, he started participating in the art exhibitions, both at the national as well …

शामलाल बेहद संत स्वभाव और धार्मिक वृत्ति का व्यक्ति था। पेशे से वह नाई था। सामाजिक व्यवस्था में तब नाई छोटी जाति के माने जानते थे। शामलाल मानता था कि नीची जाति में जन्म होना, लोगों के पूर्व जन्म में किए गए दुष्कर्मों का फल है। और यह भी कि जैसे पारसमणि के छूते ही लोहा भी सोना हो जाता …

Vanilla flavouring is something we are all familiar with. But did you know that we get vanilla from the vanilla orchid, which grows in Madagascar and other islands in the Indian Ocean? What is more, the vanilla orchid is the only orchid which produces a useful product.

The largest single block of stone in the world is in Mount Olga National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. It is Ayers Rock. This huge monolith is over 2.5 km long and rises 348 m above the sand and gravel plains of the Great Plateau. It is oval-shaped and is built of water-worn pebbles of granite cemented by finer sands. Aboriginal …

Long ago, only the very wealthiest people could afford a proper chair to sit in. Poorer folk used rough benches, stools or the floor. At meals, therefore, the lord or lady of the manor used the chair, while the less important people used the benches. At meetings today, the person who is in charge of keeping order is said to …

The lead in exhaust fumes come from the petrol used to drive internal-combustion engines. Crude oil straight from the wells is thick, black and sticky. It has to go through a complicated refining process before it can be used as fuel for the engines of cars, lorries, buses and aircraft. During refining, various substances are added to improve the petrol …