The Uparkot fort in Junagadh, Gujarat, is one of the most unique forts in India. And it has its reasons. The Uparkot fort was built by Chandragupta Maurya in the year 319 BCE. The Mauryan Empire declined in 184 BCE, and the fort changed hands. It remained under possession till 6th century CE, and was lost into oblivion for the next …
The people of the Sindh province of current-day Pakistan were the ones who coined the name ‘Mohenjo-daro’. The name, in Sindhi, means ‘the mound of the dead’. Mohenjo-daro, the 5000-year-old ‘modern’ city, of the Indus Valley Civilization, was discovered by Indian archaeologist Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, better known as R.D. Banerji. While working in the Sindh province, …
The year was 1940. Germany had made its way into France and occupied almost half the country. Paris, the capital city and the home of the Eiffel Tower, too, was now under Germany’s control. Hoping to put the German tyrant through misery, the French cut the cables to the Eiffel Tower. They believed Hitler would want to reach …
World’s first recorded women’s test match was played in 1745 in Surrey, England, between Bramley and Hambledon villages. The Bramley team sported white dress and blue ribbons while the Hambledon team wore white dress and red ribbons. This report appeared in The Reading Mercury on July 26, 1745.
There are coincidences that one cannot easily believe in. It makes one wonder if it’s even natural. One such event concerns the wreck of Titanic, the biggest of Britain’s royal mail ships. 109 years ago, RMS Titanic sank on the 14th of April on her very first voyage! American writer Morgan Robertson’s short novel The Wreck of the Titan released …
