It’s a breed of chicken developed in Bangalore that can be used to produce both meat and eggs. Typically, poultry is reared specifically for one of these purposes. Animal-welfare experts believe that using this breed will be more humane, since the birds won�t develop health problems because of intensive breeding. Also, male laying birds needn’t be slaughtered since this breed …

The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. The …

The story of the Trojan Wars was told in a poem by the Greek poet Homer, the Iliad. The Greeks and Trojans were at war for some years. In about 1200 BC the Greeks stopped besieging the city of Troy and apparently disappeared, leaving behind them a huge wooden horse. At night, while the Trojans slept, Greek soldiers who had …

The Panj Piare, name given to the five Sikhs, Bhai Daya Singh, Bhai Dharam Singh, Bhai Himmat Singh, Bhai Mohkam Singh and Bhai Sahib Singh, who were so designated by Guru Gobind Singh at the historic divan at Anandpur Sahib on 30 March 1699 and who formed the nucleus of the Khalsa as the first batch to receive at his …

Mothering Sunday is a Christian festival celebrated throughout Europe that falls on the 4th Sunday in Lent. Secularly it became a celebration of motherhood. It is increasingly being called Mother’s Day, although in countries other than the UK and Ireland that holiday has other origins. In the UK it is considered synonymous with Mother’s Day as celebrated in other countries. …

From 1924 to 1938 and between 1945 to 1999, Austria’s currency was the schilling, which was divided into 100 groschen. Thereafter, the euro replaced the schilling.

You’ve probably heard of the six famous Noble prizes, awarded every year to the people who have made outstanding contributions to medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics and peace. Alfred Noble was made famous because he invented dynamite in 1867. It seems a little odd, doesn’t it? A peace prize bearing the name of the inventor of dynamite!

Try to identify the snake and seek medical attention. Even if you are not bitten by a venomous snake the bite may become infected. You should never suck on the wound! By the time you start sucking, the venom has entered the bloodstream, so your effect on the situation will be minimal. If you can, wrap from the wound toward …

The grisly spray is the skunk’s best defense. No Creature, human or animal, can stand being near a skunk with that odour. It comes from a fluid called musk which is produced and stored in a pair of glands under the animal’s tail. A skunk can propel the spray about 10 feet.

Jumping beans are made to jump by the action of little insects inside them. The beans are the long seed of certain Maxican shrubs and contain the larvae or caterpillars of a small species of moth with the large scientific name of Bats. The second of these two Latin words means jumping. The larvae are stirred into movement by warmth, …