Most know hobbits as the fictional dwarf-like creatures from J R R Tolkein’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. But scientists discovered the fossilized remains of hobbitlike creatures in Indonesia. They believed them to be a separate species and called them Homo florsiensis or Man of Flores. But some anthropologists refuted that they were a separate species and said the …

In about the tenth century, groups of people began to leave northern India and to travel all over Europe. Being very independent, they kept their original language to a great extent – this is what we now call Romany, and it is a descendant of a form of Sanskrit. Gipdies’ beliefs are basically Christian, but they also have a very …

When Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic in 1942, he thought that the Earth was much smaller than it actually is. As a result, he believed that he had reached India and that the people in the Caribbean islands were Indians. In fact, the ancestors of these people came from north-eastern Asia, perhaps 40,000 years ago. They spread southwards and …

The druids were the priests of the Celtic people who lived in Britain before the Romans came. It is thought that these people arrived in Britain in 500 B.C., when Stonehenge was itself a thousand years old. The druids worshipped trees such as oak and the rowan, and especially the mistletoe, which was supposed to hold the life of the …

The Zodiac killer was a serial killer in California, supposedly responsible for five murders and two failed attempts that took place from 1968 to 1969. He created a sensation and a scare by publishing letters in newspapers with Zodiac as his pen name. In his letters, he used to claim responsibility for murders that had taken place and would disclose …

Father’s Day most influential promoter was Mrs. John Bruce Dodd of Spokane, Washington. The idea of a Father’s Day celebration came to her first while listening to a sermon on Mother’s Day in 1909. Her own father, William Jackson Smart, had accomplished the amazing task of raising six children – Mrs. Dodd and her five brothers – after his wife …

जन्म कुण्डली में कुछ ऐसे अशुभ योग होते हैं जिनके कारण व्यक्ति को जीवन में बार-बार असफलताओं का सामना करना पड़ता है। जिन राशियों में राहु-केतु अशुभ हैं, वह जातक इनका उपाय करें। इससे राहु केतु के अशुभ प्रभाव में कमी आती है। नाग देवता की पूजा करें। किचन में बैठकर खाना खाएं। नाग मंदिर में दूध, इत्र और सफेद …

जिला कांगड़ा के बैजनाथ में स्थित प्राचीन शिव मंदिर उत्तरी भारत का आदिकाल से एक तीर्थ स्थल माना जाता है। इस मंदिर में स्थित अर्धनारीश्वर शिवलिंग देश के विख्यात एवं प्राचीन ज्योती लिंग में से एक है। जिसका इतिहास लंकाधिपति रावण से जुड़ा है यूं तो वर्ष भर प्रदेश के देश-विदेश से हजारों की संख्या में पर्यटक इस प्राचीन मंदिर …

Mothers are women who inhabit or perform the role of bearing some relation to their children, who may or may not be their biological offspring. Thus, dependent on the context, women can be considered mothers by virtue of having given birth, by raising their child(ren), supplying their ovum for fertilization, or some combination thereof. Such conditions provide a way of …

हिमाचल के मंडी जिले में एक ऐसा मंदिर है जहां पर नि:संतान महिलाओं को संतान की प्राप्ति होती है। दरअसल नवरात्रों में हिमाचल के पड़ोसी राज्यों पंजाब, हरियाणा और चंडीगढ़ से ऐसी सैकड़ों महिलाएं इस मंदिर में आती हैं जिनकी संतान नहीं होती है। जानकारी के अनुसार लड़-भड़ोल तहसील के सिमस नामक खूबसूरत स्थान पर स्थित माता सिमसा मंदिर दूर-दूर …