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December 4, 2016 at 10:33 pm

1. Rubber is a product of Latex, which is also called vegetation milk and Laticiferous in nature.

2. All India Kisan Sabha was formed in 1936 in Lucknow by freedom fighter N.G.Ranga and Sahjanand.

3. Forge Your Future has been authored by former President of India, Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam. It is the first book in India, the title of which was decided by online voting. He is also referred to as the missile man of India.

4. Ultraviolet radiation is  found in the region between approximately 200 – 280 nm and is called germicidal UV because of its proven effectiveness in killing single-cell organism.

5. Easel is a frame to support pictures, blackboards, etc. It was borrowed into English in the seventeenth century from the Dutch ezel, whose literal sense is donkey. The allusion is to a beast carrying a load. Other languages derive their words for easel in the same way.

6. When Hitler launched Germany into open conflict in 1939, he did so with confidence, believing that he held superiority both on land and in the air. His key strategy, which proved very effective in Poland, was the Blitzkrieg or ‘lightning war’ ( from Blitz, lightning and Krieg, war). A sudden sharp attack that would swiftly overwhelm the enemy. This word entered the English language.

7. Wood, gobar gas and coal are the sources of bio-mass energy which are used in large quantities in India and all South Asian Countries.

8. The ‘Rashtriya Gokul Mission’ announced by the Union Government of India on 28 July 2014 aims at protecting the indigenous breed of cows.

9. Yakshagana is a theatrical form of presenting mythological and historical stories. It is a folk are mostly performed in the coastal districts of the State of Karnataka.

10. Piezoelectric effect is the property of some crystals like quartz to generate a voltage when pressure is applied across their opposite faces. In fact, the  word ‘Piezo’ means ‘Press’ in Greek. In these crystals, ions are so arranged that they form positive-negative pairs called ‘dipoles’. When they get distorted the negative and positive pairs get separated and build up an electric field across the faces which is known at the piezoelectric effect.

Hope you found the facts interesting.