4to40.com

Why is Norway called Land of the Midnight Sun?

The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon occurring in summer months at latitudes north and nearby to the south of the Arctic Circle, and south and nearby to the north of the Antarctic Circle where the sun remains visible at the local midnight. Given fair weather, the sun is visible for a continuous 24 hours, mostly north of the Arctic …

Read More »

Why is Nagpur called the zero mile centre?

Nagpur is a city in the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in the central India and the third largest city by population in the state of Maharashtra.Nagpur lies precisely at the center of the country with the Zero Mile Marker which indicates the geographical center of India. Nagpur is also a major commercial and political center of the Vidarbha …

Read More »

शिव के नाम में छिपे रहस्य

शिव के नाम में छिपे रहस्य

भारतीय संस्कृति में बहुदेववाद की प्रतिष्ठा है, यह सत्य है किंतु भगवान शिव को ही भोले बाबा के रूप में माना गया है। इनकी अनेक नामों से पूजा की जाती है और प्रत्येक नाम इनके गुणों को प्रकाशित करता है। अपने भक्तों के दुख दारिद्रय को दूर करने के लिए बहुत जल्दी प्रसन्न होने के कारण इन्हें आशुतोष कहा जाता …

Read More »

She Was A Phantom of Delight – William Wordsworth

She Was A Phantom of Delight - William Wordsworth

She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment’s ornament: Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight’s, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. …

Read More »

Shall I Compare Thee – William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? Thou are more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing …

Read More »