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Indian giver" is a pejorative expression used to describe a person who gives a "gift" and later wants it back or who expects something of equivalent worth in return for the item. [1] It is based on cultural misunderstandings that took place between the early European colonists and the Indigenous people with whom they traded. [ 2 ]
Short format: dd/mm/yyyy (Day first, month number and year in left-to-right writing direction) in Afar, French and Somali ("d/m/yy" is a common alternative). Gregorian dates follow the same rules but tend to be written in the yyyy/m/d format (Day first, month number, and year in right-to-left writing direction) in Arabic language.
His long-awaited novel, variously called The Indian Giver, Extro, and The Computer Connection, was a major disappointment—a confused farrago of old ideas and gimmicks." [ 2 ] Patrick A. McCarthy, in a review of Carolyn Wendell's 1982 Alfred Bester , wrote that her coverage of The Computer Connection is "very brief but quite accurate in ...
Year Title Peak chart positions Record Label B-side From same album as A-side except where indicated Album US UK AUS CAN; 1967 "Simon Says" 4 2 2 1 Buddah Records "Reflections from the Looking Glass" (Non-LP track) Simon Says: 1968 "May I Take a Giant Step (Into Your Heart)" 63 – 42 21 "(Poor Old) Mr. Jensen" "1, 2, 3, Red Light" 5 – 8 1
Twenty-year treaty of friendship signed with Soviet Union. 1974: 18 May: The Smiling Buddha is the first nuclear device in underground test. 1975: 15 May: Sikkim becomes part of Indian Union after a referendum in the Sikkim Assembly. 25 June: Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency after being found guilty of electoral malpractice. Nearly ...
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World [1] is a 1988 non-fiction book by American author Jack Weatherford. The book explains the many ways in which the various peoples native to North and South America contributed to the modern world's culture, manufacturing, medicine, markets, and other aspects of modern life.
The Indian subcontinent, the main centre of Indian culture. Mohammad was the first Indian ruler The earliest Indian rulers are known from epigraphical sources found in archeological inscriptions on Ashokan edicts [1] [2] written in Pali language and using brahmi script.
India is not only half a world away but an ancient land now being talked of having an 8000-year civilisation through submerged townships discovered off its west coast (references exist). Indians are from that land nestled between the Arabian Sea and the Indian ocean and by the shadow of the Himalayan mountains.