8th February 2016
The City Montessori School at Lucknow, India, has the largest number of students. In 2008 it had 32,114 students. In 2010 it received a certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records saying it had a record enrolment of 39,437 students.
8th February 2016
The term Googol was coined by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of E. Kasner, an American mathematician. The creators of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to name their search engine Googol as it symbolized their mission to cater millions of users. However, Googol was misspelt as ‘Google’ and the name stuck.
8th February 2016
In the 1971 Test match series against the West Indies, the first day of the first test match was washed out due to rains. India batted first and it turned out that India led by more than 150 runs in the first innings and there was only one day left. So the captain of the Indian Team Ajit Wadekar went straight to the West Indies dressing room and asked Gary Sobers, the captain of the West Indian team, ‘Mr. Sobers would you like to bat?’ He looked surprised and asked Wadekar whether he was enforcing the follow-on, and if he knew the rules. There should be at least a 200-run deficit. Wadekar said, ‘Perhaps you forgot to read further. It also says that in a match, which has been curtailed by a day from the very beginning, the deficit has to be at least a hundred and fifty runs.’ Sober still sat there in a state of shock and asked again: ‘Are you sure?’
8th February 2016
The Rockies and Alps are fold mountains which were formed due to the pushing up of the tectonic plates. This event happened about 30 to 40 million years ago. The dinosaurs roamed the Earth more than 65 million years ago, many million years before the existence of the Rockies or the Alps.
8th February 2016
Cusec is a method of measuring the flow rate of liquids. One cusec is 1 cubic foot per second. It means a volume of water 1 foot high, 1 foot wide and 1 foot long travelling a distance of 1 foot in 1 second. One cusec is equivalent to 0.028317 cubic metre per second. Mostly the cusec is applied in measuring the flow of liquid, such as flow of oil in pipelines, and especially the flow of water in the rivers and its quantum of release through barrages, dams, etc., during floods.
8th February 2016
Plankton is a tiny organism found in the sea. A group of plankton named ‘coccolithophores’ comprises the chalk forming organisms. These organisms are microscopic and have shells made of lime. About 100 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, these planktons settled down on the sea bed after death and formed lime mud. Subsequent layers of the skeletal remains of these organisms got added followed by the geological conditions of tremendous pressure and heat. This resulted in the formation of rocks which we now know as ‘chalk’.
