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IAF Chopper Crashed CDS Bipin Rawat Amongst the Dead
CDS Bipin Rawat Death News: Key Points An IAF Chopper Mi-17 V5 met with an accident today in Tamil Nadu. Chopper carrying CDS General Bipin Rawat along with his wife and 11 other army personnel lost their lives. Only Captain Varun Singh was found alive and was brutally injured and is now under further treatment. Many people including PM Modi expressed their grief from their social media twitter accounts. Life is uncertain here, the only place to attain immortality is Satlok. True Worship of Supreme God Kabir can land us there.
By SA News Channel4 years ago in FYI
Iceland Mandates Successful Offline Self-Discovery Programs to Solve Teens’ Problems
Sometimes, I’m sure we may still wonder how we ever survived the hazards of being a teenager ourselves. Even without the internet, how many of our own stories can tell about growing up, tolerating high risks, following our own rules to discover our brand of independence. It’s the nature of the adolescent brain to function more with emotional reactions until more logical thinking patterns develop in the neocortex by the age of 20 plus.
By Annemarie Berukoff4 years ago in FYI
THE VICTORIAN TWO-PENNY HANGOVER
The term ‘hangover’ is assumed to mean the suffering of a night on the beer. But where does the term come from? One explanation is from the Victorian age. In the Victorian era, paying for a ‘two-penny hangover’ was widespread among the homeless population, especially in London. A two-penny hangover is not the description of a very cheap night out. It’s somewhere you could go to sleep if you were one of the many thousands of homeless living in the country’s major cities.
By Paul Asling4 years ago in FYI
History of the Christmas Tree
December 8 is National Christmas Tree Day. It is generally believed that the first Christmas tree was of German origin dating from the time of St. Boniface, an English missionary to Germany in the 8th century. He replaced the sacrifices to the Norse god Odin’s sacred oak — some say it was Thor's Thunder Oak — with a fir tree adorned in tribute to the Christ Child.
By Bill Petro4 years ago in FYI
First Decorated Christmas Tree
The first Christmas Tree was prepared for the holidays in Northern Europe. What we also found out was that the children in Europe believed there was a Santa Clause in Lapland in Finland while the children in North America looked forward to a visit from the Santa Clause who lived in the North Pole. Time ventured on and things changed and now the children in both Europe and North America dream of a jolly fat man dressed in red with a white beard laughing loudly ho, ho, ho.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in FYI
The World War Two Ship that Could Destroy my Home. Top Story - December 2021.
Twenty-one miles from my house, just off the coast, lies a shipwreck. Not unusual, you might think, as I live near the beach, but what is uncommon about this wreck is it could destroy the area I live in, in a matter of moments. This is because the SS Richard Montgomery, Monty for short, contains 1400 tonnes of explosives.
By Sam H Arnold4 years ago in FYI
STREET FOOD IN VICTORIAN LONDON
Chewy and a bony, the customers would suck the meat and fat off the bones! When Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837, family life in England was transformed through her 63-year reign, and so did the food. Victorian food was sometimes bizarre, depending on a person’s status and income. During Victorian times, London’s population boomed at an unprecedented rate. In 1801, the population was around 860,000 people. By 1871, it was over three million. The new Londoners were mainly industrial workers, and they needed to be fed.
By Paul Asling4 years ago in FYI
