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Indian Rupee Symbol

The jury has given its verdict: the rupee will retain its Indian character with an international flavour. The five-member panel has chosen IIT post-graduate D Udaya Kumar’s design from among five shortlisted symbols and recommended it for Cabinet approval.


Kumar’s symbol (on the left) is an amalgam of the Devanagari ‘Ra’ and the Roman capital ‘R’ without the stem, very much in line with what Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had envisioned. “We intend to formalise a symbol for the Indian rupee which reflects and captures Indian ethos and culture,” Mukherjee said in his Budget speech this year.

The chosen symbol has the Finance Minister’s approval, said a Ministry official.
The Ministry had organised a symbol design competition with a prize money of Rs 2.5 lakh with the condition that it should be applicable to the standard keyboard, be in the national language script or a visual representation and should represent the historical and cultural ethos of the country.

Refer: indianexpress.com/news/iit-postgraduate-gives-rupee-its-symbol/646761/

Twenty20

Twenty20 is a form of cricket, originally introduced in the United Kingdom for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), in 2003. A Twenty20 game involves two teams, each has a single innings, batting for a maximum of 20 overs. Twenty20 cricket is also known as T20 cricket.

A Twenty20 game is completed in about three and half hours, with each innings lasting around 75 minutes, thus bringing the game closer to the time span of other popular team sports. It was introduced to create a lively form of the game which would be attractive to spectators at the ground and viewers on television and as such it has been very successful. The ECB did not intend that Twenty20 would replace other forms of cricket and these have continued alongside it.

Since its inception the game has spread around the cricket world. On most international tours there is at least one Twenty20 match and most Test-playing nations have a domestic cup competition. The inaugural World Twenty20 was played in South Africa in 2007 with India defeating Pakistan in the final by five runs. Pakistan again featured in the final of the 2009 World Twenty20, this time against Sri Lanka, winning by eight wickets.

Dissolution of the Long Parliament

This is the famous speech of Oliver Cromwell delivered to the house of commons in 20th April 1653.

Dissolution of the Long Parliament

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?

Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German born Swiss-American theoretical physicist, philosopher and author born on 14th march 1879. He is one of the best known scientist and most influential intellectuals of all the times. He is also known as the father of modern science.

For his service to the theoretical physics and for the discovery of the photoelectric effect he won the Nobel Prize in 1921.

His contributions to physics include

Theories of relativity
Founding of relativistic cosmology
First post-Newtonian expansion
Explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury
Prediction of the deflection of light by gravity and gravitational lensing
First fluctuation dissipation theorem which explained the Brownian movement of molecules
Photon theory
Wave-particle duality
Quantum theory of atomic motion in solids
Zero-point energy concept
Semiclassical version of the Schrödinger equation
Quantum theory of a monatomic gas
Einstein condensation.

Einstein has published more than 300 scientific works and over 150 non-scientific works.

His non-scientific works include:

About Zionism: Speeches and Lectures by Professor Albert Einstein (1930)? Why War?? (1933, co-authored by Sigmund Freud)
The World As I See It (1934), Out of My Later Years (1950)
A book on science for the general reader
The Evolution of Physics (1938, co-authored by Leopold Infeld)
Einstein additionally wrote and commentated prolifically on numerous philosophical and political issues.

What is Vedic Palmistry?

Palmistry or chiromancy (also spelled cheiromancy, Greek cheir (χειρ), “hand”; manteia (μαντεία), “divination”), is the art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palm reading, or chirology. Palmistry is also known as the art and science of self-discovery. Fundamental to Vedic palmistry is that as we continuously change and evolve, so do the hand lines on our palms.

By studying both hands – the non-dominant hand (past) and dominant hand (present) – we can recognize the traceable link between our past behavioral patterns and our present personality, thoughts and experiences. With this understanding, we can shape our future in a constructive, fulfilling way, making positive choices regarding our work, our dealings with people around us, and many other important aspects of life.

Vedic palmistry known as Hast Jyotish traces its roots back to Vedic Astrology, its sister science.

Homeschool Quotes

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
~ Gandhi

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was always at the foot of the class.
~ Thomas Edison

Never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
~ Albert Einstein

n the first place God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
~ Mark Twain

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
~ John Maynard Keyes

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
~ Albert Edward Wiggam

By bells and many other similar techniques [schools] teach that nothing is worth finishing. The gross error of this is progressive: if nothing is worth finishing then by extension nothing is worth starting either. Few children are so thick-skulled they miss the point.
~ John Taylor Gatto

The greatest enemy of the excellent is the good.
~ American Proverb

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.
~ Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

A totalitarian state will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.
~ Adolf Hitler

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.
~ Melinda Harmon

Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.
~ Wendy Priesnitz