| Some days, a good dose of fiction will blow your mind, but today your mind can be blown with a good old dose of truth, brought to you by science. These fascinating facts lend credence to the saying that truth is stranger than fiction. Here are 16 strange tidbits that even a master writer couldn’t think up on his or her own.
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Starting in early September, a huge mass makes its way towards the high Alpine pastures in Austria. This is a mass of more than 100,000 heads of cattle, and they have come to eat.
This huge herd of cows comes to spend all summer, about 4 months, grazing in the lush green high Alpine pastures. From September to early October, the huge herds come down to the town of Tyrol for a beautiful cattle drive, the air is filled with the sound of cow bells and brass bands, with many of the cows wearing traditional head gear that makes them look very festive indeed, decked with ribbons and garlands of flowers in over 40 cattle drives.
 Crowds of all ages gather in the valley, tourists mingling with locals as they celebrate this unique event – the homecoming of the animals, as well as thousands of Alpine herdsmen and dairymen who have spent their time in the highlands with the herds.
 On the day of the grand cattle drive, stalls are set up in the street, selling all sorts of authentic Tyrolean specialties and refreshments. Brass bands are out in force as well and the streets become full of people in traditional Tyrolean lederhosen and dirndl costumes. A perfect opportunity to enjoy authentic Tyrolean customs!
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Susannah Mushatt Jones, 116, from Brooklyn took the title from Jeralean Talley.
A woman in the United States who celebrated her 116th birthday on Monday has officially been recognised as the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records.
Guinness World Records has confirmed that Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn, New York, born on July 6, 1899, is now the world’s oldest living person.
In addition to the early present from Guinness World Records, Jones is celebrating this milestone year with two birthday parties — an intimate gathering of family on Monday and a larger celebration with her housing community, friends and local officials in attendance on Tuesday.
Jones became the record holder at the age of 115 years and 346 days, as of June 17, 2015.
Jones took the title of the world’s oldest living person from Jeralean Talley who died, just 26 days after her 116th birthday at her home in Inkster, a Detroit suburb, on June 17.
Asked for the secret of her longevity, Jones said “sleep!” While she has lost her eyesight and is hard of hearing, Jones is not bed-bound and only takes two medications a day.
Jones, known as ‘T’ to her 100 nieces and nephews, will also become the oldest living female, Guinness said.
Jones was born in Lowndes County, Alabama, to Mary and Callie Mushatt. Her father was a sharecropper who picked cotton to support his wife and ten children.
In 1922, Jones left Alabama for New Jersey before moving to New York City in 1923, finding employment as a live-in housekeeper and childcare provider.
Image: Susannah Mushatt Jones will also become the oldest living female. Photograph: Guinnessworldrecords.com
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People crave worldly happiness; this craving itself is the disease, and sufferings are but the drugs we take. In the midst of these, one rarely entertains the desire to attain the Lord. However, it is necessary to analyse and discriminate, for the spirit of renunciation is born out of such analysis. Without enquiry, detachment cannot be obtained. Miserliness is like the behavior of a dog; it must be transformed. Anger is the first enemy of a spiritual aspirant. Untruth is even worse – it destroys all the vital powers. Theft ruins life; it makes the priceless human life cheaper than rotten food. Moderate food, moderate sleep, selfless love, and fortitude will help in the upkeep of the health of both your body and the mind. Whoever you are, in whatever condition you may be, do not give room for dispiritedness! Be fearless and remember the Lord with unshaken faith and without any ulterior motive, all suffering and sorrow will fall away.
கட்டுரையாளர்-கணேச சர்மா
தட்டச்சு-வரகூரான் நாராயணன்.
30-03-2012ல் போஸ்ட் ஆனது.
கபில முனிவர் இருந்த இடம் அது. இவர் தவம் பண்ணிக்
கொண்டிருக்கையில் இக்ஷ்வாகு வம்சத்து சகரர் என்னும் அரசர்
அச்வமேத யாகம் செய்தார்.
இந்த யாகத்தைச் செய்ய வேண்டுமென்றால்,
முதலில் ஒரு குதிரையை எல்லா தேசங்களுக்கும் அனுப்புவார்கள்.
அதை எந்த அரசனாவது பிடித்துக் கட்டிப் போட்டால் அவனுடன்
யுத்தம் செய்து வென்று, பிறகு எல்லோரும் பாராட்ட இந்த யாகம் செய்யப்படும். பொதுவாக எல்லா அரசர்களும் வம்பு செய்யாமல் அந்தக் குதிரைக்குரிய கப்பம் செலுத்திவிட்டு அரசனைச் சக்ரவர்த்திஎன்று ஒப்புக்கொண்டு விடுவார்கள்.. ஆனால் இந்த யாகத்துக்கு முதலில் இந்திரன்தான் தடங்கல் செய்வான்.
ஏனெனில் நூறு அஸ்வமேத யாகம் செய்து விட்டால் இந்திர பதவி ஒருவனுக்குக் கிடைத்துவிடும்.
தனது பதவி பறி போகாமல் இருக்கும்படிப்
பார்த்துக் கொள்வது இந்திரன் வழக்கம். எனவே அவன் சகரர் விட்டகுதிரையைப் பிடித்துக் கொண்டு போய் பாதாள உலகில்
கபிலர் தவம் செய்யும் ஆஸ்ரமத்தில் கொண்டு யாருக்கும் தெரியாமல்கட்டிவிட்டான். அதைத் தேடிக்கொண்டு வர சகரன் தன் நூறுபிள்ளைகளையும் அனுப்பவே, அவர்களும் எப்படியோ கபிலாச்ரமம்வந்து சேர்ந்து, கபிலர்தான் பிடித்துக் கட்டிவிட்டதாக நினைத்துஅவரிடம் சண்டைக்குப் போனார்கள். அதனால் கோபங்கொண்ட கபிலர் ஒரு முறை முறைத்தார். அவ்வளவுதான்! அங்கு வந்தநூறு பேரும் சாம்பலாகிப் போனார்கள். இது சகரனுக்குத் தெரிந்துஅவன் சென்று கபிலரிடம் மன்னிப்பு கேட்டுக்கொண்டு அசுவமேத யாகம் செய்து முடித்தானென்பது ராமாயண முன்கதையில்
தெரிகிறது.
அந்தக் கபிலாரண்யம்தான் “கலிஃபோர்னியா” என்று திரிந்து விட்டது.
சாட்சியாக அந்தக் குதிரை கட்டின இடம் இன்றும் HORSE ISLANDஎன்று அழைக்கப்படுகிறது. நூறுபேரும் சாம்பலான இடம் ASH ISLANDஎனப்படுகிறது. இப்படியாகப் பெயர் காரணங்ளை அலசி ஆராய்ந்து
பெரியவா சொன்னால் திகைப்பு அடங்கவே அடங்காது
Read more: http://periva.proboards.com/thread/9584/horse-island-ash#ixzz3eiUQzJd7
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The spiritual aspirant should note the distinction between the conduct of the ordinary (sahaja) person and the spiritual aspirant. Rice in its natural state and boiled rice —can these two be the same? The hardness of natural rice is absent in the boiled one. The boiled grain is soft, harmless, and sweet. The unboiled grain is hard, conceited, and full of delusion. Similarly both types of individuals are souls (jivis) and humans, no doubt, but those immersed in external or multiplicity based illusions (avidya-maya)are ‘people’, while those immersed in internal or knowledge based illusions (vidya-maya) are ‘spiritual aspirants’. Though the Lord is situated in every heart, spiritual practice is necessary so that they may discover it for themselves, right? It isn’t possible for us to see our own face! We need a mirror! So too, a basic path, a spiritual practice, is necessary.
Farmers in Shenyang, China, created these dazzling rice paddy images to pray for blessings, according to Imagine China. The locals inLiaoning province, members of the Xibo ethnic group, create a 3D effect with different varieties of rice saplings. The finished works span about 25 acres.
While leap seconds in previous years have caused some distress, Twitter seems rather excited about the extra second today.
If you’ve been complaining that the 24 hours in a day are not enough, today is your gift. You may not get an entire hour extra but the usual 86,400 seconds in the day will be increased by one since this year, June 30 has a leap second.
For those who don’t understand how this interesting phenomenon works, here’s NASA’s explanation for it.
“The Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing down a bit, so leap seconds are a way to account for that,” Daniel MacMillan, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland told IANS. And hence, an extra second has been added to June 30 this year.
So, while the clock normally moves from 23:59:59 to 00:00:00, today it will go from 23:59:59 to 23:59:60, and then to 00:00:00, which will then be July 1.
While leap seconds in previous years have caused some distress, Twitter seems rather excited about the extra second today.
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Why travel overseas when you can travel in India?
The latest in our series on #India-Photos!
We start with this picture of River Narmada at Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh
Photograph: Palanki Narayana
This unnamed but stunning landscape
Photograph: Sudeep Chakraverty
An Indian Army Post in Kashmir at Mahagunus Top 14500 feet above sea level.
Photograph: Parmod Sharma
The beautiful Nohkalikai Falls in Shillong
Photograph: Kishan Shah
Kalimpong under a cloud cover
Photograph: Bijit Bhusan
And Darjeeling in rain-drenched June
Photograph: Bijit Bhusan
Humayun’s Tomb, New Delhi
Photograph: Nitin Chavan
And this view of Dhauladhar range from Sidbari, Himachal Pradesh
Photograph: Nitin Chavan
This is the Patalpani waterfall, located some 36 km from Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
Photograph: Vaibhav Rege
breathtaking view of Tsongo Lake in Sikkim.
Photograph: Madhusudan Reddy
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