Sobriquets; Nick names of Various places in India and the World

Sobriquet
'Sobriquet' is a French word means 'Nick Name', which is used in place of real name (as it is very popular) with out the need of explanation.Sobriquets are found in music, sports and politics.Some people use 'Soubriquet' instead of 'Sobriquet'. The modern French spelling is Sobriquet.Sobriquets of various Places in the World are given below.

Gift of Nile- Egypt
Land of Rising Sun- Japan
Land of Midnight Sun- Norway
Land of Morning Calm- Korea
Land of White Elephants- Thailand
Land of Thousand Lakes- Finland
Land of Thunderbolt- Bhutan
Land of Golden Fleece- Australia
Land of Kangaroo- Australia
Land of  Seven Seas- Arabia
Land of Maple Leaf- Canada
Land of Lilies- Canada
Land of Cakes- Scotland
Land of Humming Bird- Trinidad
Land of  Golden Pagoda- Myanmar (Burma)
Land of Windmills- Netherlands
Land of the Canals- Netherlands
City of Light- Paris
City of Dreaming Spires- Oxford
City of Golden Gate- Sanfrancisco, U.S.A
City of  Brotherly Love- Philadelphia
Quaker City- Philadelphia
City of Seven Hills- Rome
White City- Belgrade
Empire City- New York
Forbidden City- Lhasa (Tibet) Garden City- Chicago
The Windy City- Chicago
The Federal City- Washington DC
The Eternal City- Rome
The Britain of South- New Zealand
Cockpit of Europe- Belgium
Dragon Kingdom- Bhutan
Dark Continent- Africa
Great white way- Broadway
Holy Land- Palestine
Paradise on the Earth- Seychelles
The Herring Pond- Atlantic Ocean
The Island of Cloves- Zanzibar
The white man's grave- Guinea Coast
The World's loneliest Island- Tristan da Cunha
The Emerald Island- Ireland
The Gateway of Tears- Bab el Mendab
The key of Mediterranean- Gibralter
The key of the Pacific- Singapore
The port of five seas- Moscow
The queen of the Adriatic- Venice
The Manchester of Japan- Osaka
The mother-in-law of Europe- Denmark
The garden of England- Kent
The Hermit Kingdom- Korea
The Island of Pearls- Beharin
The Paris of the West- San Francisco (U.S.A)
The play ground of Europe- Switzerland
The sea of Mountains- British Columbia
The Sick man of Europe- Turkey
Power key of Europe- Balkans
Pearl of the Antilles- Cuba
Roof of the World- Pamirs (Central Asia)
Sugar bowl of the World- Cuba
Sorrow of China- Huang Ho river
Yellow River- Huang Ho
Venice of the North- Stockholm
Bengals Sorrow- Damodar River
Blue Mountains- Nilgiri Hills
Bread basket of India- Punjab
City of Palaces- Kolkotta
City of Lakes- Udaipur
City of Seven Islands- Mumbai
City of Joy- Kolkotta
City of Golden temple- Amritsar
Diamond City in India- Surat, Gujrat
Garden city of India- Bangalore
Gateway of India- Mumbai
Land of five rivers- Punjab
Manchester of India- Ahamedabad
Manchester of South India- Coimbatore
Pearl of the Orient- Goa
Queen of Himalayas- Darjeeling
Scotland of the East- Shillong
Sugar Bowl of India- Uttar Pradesh
Tea garden of India- Assam
The Pink and Rose city- Jaipur
The spice garden of India- Kerala
Venice of the East- Alappuzha

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Important National Parks in India; a study

 The national parks are protected areas.They offer a fascinating diversity of terrain, flora, and fauna.International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and its World Commission on Protected Areas, has defined National Parks as its category II type of protected areas.The first national park in India was established in 1921 as Hailey National Park which is now known as Jim Corbett National Park.The important National parks in India are


Wandur national Park
(Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park)
[Situated 29 km. from Port Blair]
State- Andaman Nicobar Islands
Started- 1983
Area- 281.50
Attractions- Crocodiles, Coconut Crab

Namdapha National Park
State- Arunachal Pradesh
(Located in Changlang district of the Northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh)
Started- 1974
Area- 1985.23
Attractions-Snow Leopard, Gaur,Asiatic Black Bear

Sundarbans National Park
State- West Bengal
(Located in the Sundarbans delta)
Started- 1984
Area- 1330.12 Square km
Attractions- Mangrove trees (Mangrove forest is the only one of its kind in the world),Tiger reserve

Kaziranga National Park
State- Assam
(Located in Golaghat, Nagaon districts)
Started- 1974
Area- 430 square Km
Attractions-One-horned Rhino,Elephant Safari,Tigers, Leopards

Ranthambore National Park
State- Rajastan
(Located in Sawai Madhopur district)
Started- 1980
Area- 392 Square km
Attractions-Tiger

Valmiki National Park
State- Bihar
(Located in West Champaran district)
Started- Early 1990s
Area-
Attractions-Indian tiger reserve

Gir Forest National Park
(Sasan-Gir)
State- Gujarat
(Located in Junagadh district and Amreli district)
Started- 1965
Area- 258.71 Square km
Attractions- Asiatic Lions

Great Himalayan National Park
State- Himachal Pradesh
(Located in Kullu region)
Started- 1984
Area- 754.40 Square km
Attractions-Black and Red bears, Blue Sheep,Snow Leopard

Bandipur National Park
State- Karnataka
(Located in the Chamarajanagar district of southern Karnataka)
Started- 1974
Area- 874.20 Square km
Attractions- Bengal tigers,Indian elephants

Silent Valley National Park
State- Kerala
(Located in the Nilgiri Hills, Palakkad District)
Started- 1980
Area- 237. 52 Square km
Attractions- Lion Tailed Macaque and Nilgiri Langur

Eravikulam National Park
State- Kerala
(Located along the Western Ghats in the Idukki district)
Started- 1978
Area- 97 Square km
Attractions- Nilagiri Tahr

Kanha National Park
State- Madhya Pradesh
(Located in the two districts Mandla and Balaghat)
Started- 1955
Area- 940 Square km
Attractions- Royal Bengal Tiger, leopards, the sloth bear, Barasingha and Indian wild dog

Indravati National Park
State- Chhattisgarh
(Located in the Dantewada district)
Started- 1981
Area- 2799.08 Square km
Attractions- Tiger, Leopard

Gugamal National Park
State- Maharashtra
(Located in Chikhaldara and Dharni Tehsils of Amravati District)
Started- 1974
Area- 1673.93 Square km
Attractions- Tiger, Panther, Sloth Bear, Wild Dog

Desert National Park
State- Rajasthan
(Situated near the town of Jaisalmer)
Started- 1992
Area- 3162 Square km
Attractions- Eagles, Harriers, Falcons, Buzzards

Indira Gandhi National Park
State- Tamil Nadu
(Located in the Anaimalai Hills of Pollachi, Valparai and Udumalpet taluks of Coimbatore District)
Started- 1976
Area- 108 Square km
Attractions- Indian Elephant, Tiger

Jim Corbett National Park
(Jim Corbett National Park was established in 1921 as Hailey National Park)
State- Uttarakhand
(Situated in Nainital district)
Started- 1921
Area- 520 Square km
Attractions- Tiger reserve

Bandhavgarh National Park
State- Madhya Pradesh
(Located in the Umaria district)
Started- 1968
Area- 105 Square km
Attractions- Tiger (Highest concentration of tigers than any park in India),Leopards, and various species of deer

Nagarhole National Park
(Rajiv Gandhi National Park)
State- Karnataka
(Located 94 kilometers from Mysore)
Started- 1988
Area- 643 Square km
Attractions-Tiger, Indian bison, Elephant,Spotted deer and Gaur

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Who invented this?

Invention                       Inventors

Computer                      Charles Babbage
Personal Computer        MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems)
Super Computer            Seymour Cray
Ipod                               Apple Computer
Mobile Phone               Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
Camcorder                    Sony
Digital Camera             Steven Sasson/ Kodak
Walkman                      Akio Morita
Digital Watch               George Theiss/ Willy Crabtree
Pocket Calculator         Sharp
Video tape                     A.M.Poniatoff
GPS                               I.Getting/ B.Parkinson
LISP                              John Mc Carthy
ENIAC                          John..Mavchly/ J. Presper Eckrett
EMAIL                          Ray Tomlinson
World Wide Web           Tim Berness Lee
Post-it Notes                  Spencer Silver/ 3M
Uranium                        E.M.Peligot
Electron                         J.J.Thomson
Neutron                         James Chadwick
 Proton                           Earnest Rutherford
Radio Activity              Henry Baqueral
Titanium                       E.W.George
Radium                         Pierre Curie and Mary Curie
Polonium                      Madam Curie
Neutron Bomb             Samuel Cohen
Hydrogen Bomb          Edward Teller 

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Prefixes used in Metric System

Hi readers,
Here are some prefixes used in metric system to describe weight, distance and other measurements.Many of us have heard such words but not familiar with them.Let us by heart them using this table.Say thanks to maths teacher.

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Aristotle, the Greek Philosapher and Scientist (384 BC- 322 BC)

Aristotle was born in Stageira in Macedonia.He was a great Greek philosapher, thinker and a Scientist.He was a disciple of Plato,the famous thinker and teacher of Alexander the Great.He believed in visual Universe.In 335 BC he established his own school at the Lyceum.He spent his life there for research,teaching and writing.His writings includes Physics, Metaphysics, Logic, Philosaphy, Biology, Linguistics, Rhetoric, Poetry, Poetics, Politics, Ethics etc.His work are collected in the 'Corpus Aristotelicum'.He died in Euboea in 322 BC at the age of 62.Theophrastus was his successor as the head of Lyceum.

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Numerals; Indian and International Systems

Numerals	Indian system	International system
1	One or Unit	One or Unit
10	Ten	Ten
100	Hundred	Hundred
1000	Thousand	Thousand
10000	Ten Thousand	Ten Thousand
100000	Lakh	Hundred Thousand
1000000	Ten Lakhs	Million
10000000	Crore	Ten Million
100000000	Ten Crores	Hundred Million
1000000000	Arab	Billion
10000000000	Ten Arab	Ten Billion
100000000000	Kharab	Hundred Billion
1000000000000	Ten Kharab	Trillion

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Months of the year with days; Including rhyme

 "Thirty days hath September,

 April, June, and November;

 All the rest have thirty-one,

Save February, with twenty-eight days clear,

 And twenty-nine each leap year."

 Remember this traditional English rhyme to easily by heart months and days.

Months                                Days

January                                31

February                              28 or 29

March                                  31

April                                    30

May                                     31

June                                     30

July                                      31

August                                 31

September                           30

October                               31

November                           30

December                           31

In leap years February has 29 days.A leap year comes after every four years.

There are many variants of the above said rhyme.One of them is
    "30 days hath September,
    April, June and November,
    All the rest have 31,
    Except February alone
    Which has 28 days clear,
    and 29 in each leap year."

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Alexander the Great (356- 323 BC)

The name Alexander is derived from the Greek word "Alexandros" means "protector of men".King Alexander III of Macedon is commonly known to us as "Alexander the great".Alexander was one of the greatest military generals and conqueror of the Persian Empire.He was born in Pella, Macedonia in 356 BC as the son of the Greek king (Macedonian) Philip II.
In 336 BC Philip II was assassinated and Alexander ascended the throne of Macedonia as his successor.He had created one of the largest empires of the ancient World.His empire was streching from Ionian sea to the Himalayas.He is considered as one of the most successful commanders of the world.Nobody defeated him in battle.He executed every one who comes to his path.Alexander invaded India in 326 BC, but he was forced to turn back by the demand of his troops.
He died in Babylon in 323 BC at the age of 32.Alexander IV of Macedon succeeded him.

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Union Territories in India and their Capitals

       Union Territories                                Capital

1. Andaman and Nicobar Islands           Portblair
2. Chandigarh                                        Chandigarh
3. Dadra and Nagar Haveli                    Silvassa
4. Daman and Diu                                 Daman
5. Delhi                                                 Delhi
6. Lakshadweep                                    Kavarathi
7. Pondicherry                                       Pondicherry

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States in India and their Capitals

           States                                     Capital

1. Andhra Pradesh                    Hyderabad
2. Arunachal Pradesh               Itanagar
3. Assam                                   Dispur
4. Bihar                                     Patna
5. Chathisgarh                          Raipur
6. Goa                                       Panaji
7. Gujarat                                 Gandhi Nagar
8. Haryana                               Chandigarh
9. Himachal Pradesh                Simla
10. Jammu and Kashmir            Srinagar
11. Jharkhand                            Ranji
12. Karnataka                            Banglore
13. Kerala                                  Thiruvananthapuram
14. Madhya Pradesh                 Bhopal
15. Maharashtra                        Mumbai
16. Manipur                                Imphal
17. Meghalaya                           Shillong
18. Mizoram                               Aizwal
19. Nagaland                              Kohima
20. Orissa                                   Bhubaneswar
21. Punjab                                   Chandigarh
22. Rajastan                               Jaipur
23. Sikkim                                  Gangtok
24. Tamil Nadu                          Chennai
25. Tripura                                 Agarthala
26. Utharanjal                            Derhadoon
27. Uttarpradesh                        Lucknow
28. West Bengal                        Culcutta

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