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View of Himalayas from the top of Mukteshwar. Some of the edifices of this town are the IVRI laboratories (experiments on tiny rats, gold-plated books, cattle-sheds), orchards of the Central Institutes of Temperate Horticulture-Regional Station, an expansive deodar forest (Himalayan cedar) measuring 15 square miles, 22 pristine snow-peak views, and the adventure of living among wildlife such ...
Palampore – पालमपोर् (Hindi language) of Indian origin [70] was imported to the western world—notable England and Colonial America—from India. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] In 17th-century England these hand painted cotton fabrics influenced native crewel work design. [ 71 ]
It stands, with precipitous surroundings, at a height of 2,855 ft. above sea-level, and between 1,300 and 1,400 ft. above the valley at its base; and it is partially enclosed by a wall some 20 feet thick and as many high, built of huge blocks of stone, cut and squared and are about two miles (3 km) in circumference.
Haryana (/ h ʌr i ˈ ɑː n ə /; Hindi: [ɦəɾɪˈjɑːɳɑː]; ISO: Hariyāṇā) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab on 1 November 1966.
Stone Age fossils and tools unearthed in the region indicate that Chittagong has been inhabited since Neolithic times. [24] It is an ancient port city, with a recorded history dating back to the 4th century BC. [25] Its harbour was mentioned in Ptolemy's world map in the 2nd century as one of the most impressive ports in the East. [12]
A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle in which one full rotation is 360 degrees. [4] It is not an SI unit —the SI unit of angular measure is the radian —but it is mentioned in the SI brochure as an accepted unit. [5]
Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, India.Its businesses include energy, petrochemicals, natural gas, retail, entertainment, telecommunications, mass media, and textiles.
Yellowstone National Park is a national park of the United States located in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho.It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.