Storyteller, Quizzer, Marcom Pro.
Storyteller, Quizzer, Marcom Pro.
The month of July is named after Julius Caesar. In the original Roman calendar, it was called Quintilis, meaning the fifth month, since the year began in March. In 44 BCE, after Caesar’s assassination, the Roman Senate officially renamed Quintilis…
The term “bootstrapping” comes from the old phrase “pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps.” A bootstrap is the small loop or strap at the back of a boot, used to pull it on. In the 19th century, this phrase was…
The term “blue blood” refers to someone of noble birth or aristocratic lineage and has a well-documented origin. Although commonly associated with British royalty, it first emerged in medieval Spain, where it was used to describe the pure-blooded nobility, especially…
Adi Keshav Ghat is believed to be the place where Lord Vishnu first stepped into Kashi. Located on the northern edge of Varanasi, where the river Varuna meets the Ganga, the name Adi Keshava means “First Vishnu.” Keshava, literally “the…
Panchaganga Ghat in Varanasi holds a unique place among the city’s revered riverfronts. Its name derives from the belief that five holy rivers—Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Kirana, and Dhutapapa—once converged here, sanctifying it as a spiritual confluence even though only the Ganga flows physically through Varanasi…
Did you know the name of the film Pather Panchali, directed by the legendary Satyajit Ray, translates from Bengali as “Song of the Little Road“? Based on Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s 1929 novel of the same name, the film marked Ray’s directorial…
A story often shared in customer service and engineering circles tells of a man who wrote to Pontiac to report a strange problem: his new car wouldn’t start, but only on nights when he bought vanilla ice cream from his…
In 1957, Swiss inventor Marc Chavannes and American engineer Alfred Fielding tried to revolutionize interior décor with a new kind of textured plastic wallpaper. They used a heat-sealing technique to trap air between two plastic shower curtains, producing sheets of…
One Sunday in 1974, Art Fry, a 3M engineer and choir singer, grew frustrated when the bookmarks kept falling out of his hymn book. That minor inconvenience sparked a major innovation. Fry recalled a low-tack adhesive developed by his colleague,…