Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was a famous American writer and a humourist. He was born on November 30, 1835, when Halley’s Comet passed by the earth. He predicted that he would ‘go out with it’ and sure enough he passed away the next morning of April 21, after the Halley’s Comet passed …
Dolly the sheep was the first cloned sheep. It was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in Scotland. An adult cell from the mammary gland of a sheep was used to clone Dolly.
In his life, Walt Disney experienced a lot of failures. He was rejected by the Army, struggled to find work after World War I, and worked for newspapers and movie theatres. He also struggled to start his own business before finally becoming one of the most successful entertainment entrepreneurs in the world.
The sea is rough in Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America and the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa. This is probably because of the difference in the depth of waters. The waters near the shores are a few hundred metres deep while the waters in the sea …
The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) constitute a major event in the Americas featuring summer and formerly winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. It is held at a gap of every four years in the year before the summer Olympic Games. There …
Tycho Brahe, a 16th century astronomer, lost the bridge of his nose in a duel with one of his friends over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver, gold and copper replacement nose for the rest of his life!
