16th February 2016
Alaska, the largest state in the United States by area, was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867 for $7.2 million. It has a tidal shoreline of 54270 km. It is not divided into counties, but into 16 boroughs.
16th February 2016
Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of the 100 m gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics after testing positive for banned steroids. Just after Johnson winning the race, the International Olympic Committee Medical Commission informed the Canadian officials that Johnson’s urine samples contained stanozolol, a banned anabolic steroid. Carl Lewis, who originally won the silver medal, was awarded the gold medal and Linford Christie the silver.
16th February 2016
23rd January is the birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, 30th January is Martyr’s Day, 1st May is the World Labourer’s Day, 2nd October is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi and 25th December is Christmas. In every year (not a leap year), they will fall on the same day as the difference between any two of them is always a multiple of ‘7’, the number of days in a week. It is easy to see that between the given five days these are progressively 7, 91, 154 and 84.
16th February 2016
The song Vande-Mataram first appeared in Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Anandamath. Tagore composed the tune of the song and sang at the 12th session of the Indian National Congress in 1896. In 1904, the first gramophone record of the song in Tagore’s voice came in the market.
16th February 2016
The trio of Indian nationalists was Lal, Bal and Pal. In about 1905 they became active in the Swadeshi Movement appealing the public to denounce British goods. Lal was the name of Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal was Balgangadhar Tilak and Pal was Bipin Chandra Pal.
16th February 2016
When an object moves very fast, it gains mass, but this effect is appreciable when the object moves at a speed very close to the speed of light, which is very very fast. In fact, the mass increases so much that it appears to be infinitely heavy. This is not observed in daily life but has been proven in the laboratory. Similarly, its length gets shortened when it moves with a very high speed.
