The scientists who discovered it in the highlands of northern Greece named it Adonis, for the Greek god of beauty and desire. It’s more than 1,000 years old.
Source: This is Europe’s oldest living tree
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Image of the Day…See the horse in this lightning?
Pareidolia is seeing familiar objects or patterns in otherwise random or unrelated objects or patterns … like seeing a horse in lightning.
Source: See the horse in this lightning?
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Paralympics Gold Medallist Mariyappan Thangavelu’s Story Is A Lesson In Grit…
In May this year, Mariyappan Thangavelu said during an interview, “It’s not beyond me.” India’s rising star in para-athletics had just cleared a distance of 1.78m in the men’s high jump T42 event at the IPC Grand Prix in Tunisia. So what was not beyond him? A gold at the Paralympics, he said.
Three months later Thangavelu has showed the country what walking the talk is supposed to look like.
Not only is he the first athlete to bag a gold in this year’s Paralympics, he is also the first Indian high jumper to win a gold in the history of Paralympics.
According to NDTV, ‘T-42 is a disability sport classification for differently-abled track and field athletes with single ‘above the knee’ amputations or a disability that is comparable’.
Born in a small village of Periavadagampatti, 50km from Salem, in Tamil Nadu, Mariyappan’s brush with unpredictability of life, occurred at a tender age of five. Fifteen years ago, Mariyappan was on his way to school in his village, when he met with a terrifying accident. A bus took a wrong turn, spun out of control and hit the five-year-old, running over his right leg and crushing it in process.
Later, when he was old enough to comprehend the tragedy that had hit him, he was told that the driver of the bus was drunk. However, that information did nothing to comfort him or ease the difficult road that lay ahead of him. In an interview to The Hindu, Mariyappan said, “It doesn’t matter. My right leg is now stunted — it is still a five-year-old’s leg; it has never grown or healed.”
A report on Sportskeeda states that Mariyappan’s mother had then taken a loan of Rs 3 lakh to pay for his treatment. Years later, the vegetable vendor is still repaying the money.
The same article traces Mariyappan’s interest in sports back to his physical education teacher, who encouraged him to take up athletics and nurtured his interest in high jump. He also played volleyball.
“His coach Satyanarayana spotted him at the National Para-Athletics Championship when he was just 18. After rigorous training in Bengaluru, he became the World Number 1 in 2015, his first year of senior-level competition,” Sportskeeda reports.
His first competitive event was when he was 14 years old and participated in an athletics meet with other able-bodied students. He finished second.
“At first, my classmates didn’t believe I could do it. But once I made that first jump, they were all excited. After that day, a lot of people came to support me whenever I competed in the district,” he told The Hindu.
Source…..www.huffingtonpost.com
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Watch this Chennai guy slay Karnataka and TN over Cauvery issue (Tamil)…
Watch this and share pl….
Source….In the video produced by Put Chutney, Raj Mohan talks about Karnataka’s contempt towards courts and environmental concerns in TN….YOU TUBE
and, www. thenewsminute.com
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Message for the Day…”Keep your mind pure and accept truth and honesty as your foundational life principles. Our own conduct is responsible for the decay or the ageing of our body.”
Message for the Day…”The essence of all religions, the root of all scriptures, the goal of all virtues, is the experience of spiritual oneness and unity (Sarvatmika Bhavam).”
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The Telescope That Was Too Big To Use ….!
Message for the Day…” Young people should have purity of mind. They should take great care to protect truth and honesty.”
Why the word ” May Day ” in distress calls ….?
Why People on Planes and Ships Use the Word Mayday When in Distress and What SOS Really Stands For
The problem had arisen as voice radio communication slowly became more common, so an equivalent to the Morse code “SOS” distress signal was needed. Obvious a word like “help” wasn’t a good choice for English speakers because it could be commonly used in normal conversations where no one was in distress. At the time Mockford was considering the request, much of the traffic he was dealing with was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, France. With both the French and English languages in mind, he came up with the somewhat unique word “Mayday,” the Anglicized spelling of the French pronunciation of the word “m’aider,” which means “help me.” Four years later, in 1927, the International Radiotelegraph Convention of Washington made “Mayday” the official voice distress call used only to communicate the most serious level of distress, such as with life-threatening emergencies. When using Mayday in a distress call, it is traditional to repeat it three times in a row, “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday.” This is to make sure it is easily distinguishable from a message about a Mayday call and from any similar sounding phrases in noisy conditions or garbled transmissions. In situations where a vessel merely requires assistance, but is not in grave and imminent danger, a distress call of “pan-pan” can be used instead. Essentially, it means you need aid, but you don’t need support personnel to necessarily drop what they’re doing right that instant and come help you, as with a Mayday. Like Mayday, pan-pan is the Anglicized spelling of a French word, in this case “panne,” which means “broken / failure / breakdown.” Also, as with Mayday, one should state it three consecutive times: “pan-pan pan-pan pan-pan,” followed by which station(s) you are addressing and your last known location, nature of your emergency, etc. If there is no reply to a Mayday or pan-pan call by the Coast Guard or other emergency agency, and a couple minutes have passed since the last call, some other radio source, such as another ship or plane that received the call, should transmit their own Mayday call, but on behalf of the ship or plane that first made the call, repeating the pertinent information they heard when they received the Mayday message. Source……www.today i foundout .com Natarajan |
In 1923, a senior radio officer, Frederick Stanley Mockford, in Croydon Airport in London, England, was asked to think of one word that would be easy to understand for all pilots and ground staff in the event of an emergency.
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