French national Maria Emmanuel and her sons Amos, Mark-Paul and Janklin, who planned for 10 years, converted to Hinduism and changed her name as Sai Radha and her son Arnos name as Sai Krishna in order for their maiden visit to Guruvayur temple in Kerala, India, as only Hindus are allowed to enter there. Dedicating…
Indonesia was engulfed in darkness by a 23, 000-foot ash cloud after Mount Sinabung erupted on 19th February 2018, Monday morning. North Sumatra was plunged into darkness as the stratovolcano, Mount Sinabung in the Karo Plateau of Karo Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia, 25 miles from the Lake Toba, spewing plumes of smoke and ashes across…
American Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, received first of his then-record 2,332 patents including 1093 US patents, for an “Electrographic Vote-Recorder”, at the age of 21, which was never used. When presented to the Congress Committee, its chairman said: ” If there are any invention on earth that we don’t want down here that is it…
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 shook Taiwan’s east coast. The worst hit building was the Marshal Hotel in the port city of Hualien, which partly crumpled and was left slanting on its side. Rescuers on cranes attempted to free people from its upper floors. Over 200 others have been injured. Four other buildings…
Afua Hirsch, the writer, and Broadcaster, created a national identity crisis in Britain’s failure to come to terms with its colonial past. “The past is past, You can’t rewrite history” former V&A Director Sir Roy Strong said. Hirsch attempted to fill crucial gaps in British recollection of the colonial story, Born in Norway to a…
There was a lunar eclipse, as the Earth passed between the Sun and the Moon, for Australia, Asia and some parts of the US and Eastern Europe on Wednesday 31 January 2018. It is the second full Moon of the month, called a Blue Moon. The eclipse began at 10:51GMT and ended at 16:08 GMT.…