General Knowledge

P.G. Wodehouse: He was born in Guildford, England. He became an American Citizen in 1956. He wrote more than 90 books and his work has been appreciated all over the world. William Lawrence Bragg: At 25, became the youngest recipient of Nobel Prize in 1915. He shared the prestigious Nobel Prize ...

Lesson in Life by: M. K. Ramakrishnan Oscar Wilde, master of sparkling prose and ever lasting witty poems and ever lasting witty poems once said that Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. The man who boasts of having the richest experience might be the one who has made ...

Generous (Meaning): giving, big-hearted Generous (Synonym): acceptable, altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, big, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, considerate, easy, equitable, excellent, fair, free, good, greathearted, helpful, high-minded, honest, honorable, hospitable, just, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lavish, liberal, lofty, loose, magnanimous, moderate, munificent, noble, open-handed, philanthropic, prodigal, profuse, reasonable, soft-touch, thoughtful, tolerant, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinting, ...

- Moths do not eat clothes. It is their larvae that do the damage. - Deep-sea fish are known to rise to the surface of water when there is an approaching calamity – storm, volcanic eruption and earthquake. - In Japan some households keep fish which start dashing our about the aquarium ...

Cobwebs are suggestive of age and disuse. We often hear people say, ‘get rid of the cobwebs of the mind’. ‘Cobwebs’ stand for old-fashioned ideas and prejudices that prevent progress. This saying calls one to shed old fashioned and outdated ideas and practices that hamper progress. To do things as ...

They can kill your relationships and your career. Pride, because it takes you down a one-way street. Covetousness, because it makes you unhappy, with what you have. Lust, because few people are able to escape the consequences. Anger, because it can destroy your competitive edge, making you lose to the fellow who keeps his ...

1) Hawaiian Missionaries and Inverted jenny are two of the rarest and most expensive…? 2) Which Country, entirely in Asia, has the second longest coastline after Indonesia? 3) In what sport was Don Bradman famous? 4) In Which Province of China did a severe earthquake wreak havoc in 2008? 5) Name the cyclone which ...

Have you even wondered how bees take nectar and make in into honey. How trees are made into paper, and paper into money. How the Sun is so far away, yet we feel the heat. How the tongue is what allows us to talk. How a little bird knows how to fly when it ...

Bees collect honey with great trouble, but a hunter comes and takes the honey easily. Even so people hoard wealth and other things with great difficulty, but they have to leave them all at once and depart when the Lord of Death takes hold of them. Doing abundant, spontaneous and ...

Compared to the other sensations our taste sense (in particular smell) is not very sensitive. It is estimated that a person needs 25,000 times as much of a substance in the mouth of taste it as is needed by the smell receptors to smell it. However, inspite of this, the ...