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Curiosity (from Latin cūriōsitās, from cūriōsus "careful, diligent, curious", akin to cura "care") is a quality related to inquisitive thinking, such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident in humans and other animals.
William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 – May 4, 1873) was an American college professor and president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of elementary school-level textbooks.
Book Subject Area Topic Collection Language Author Date Reign of Reign Age Geographic Region Modern Name of Geographic Region Notes Rig Veda: Hindu hymns about various gods, scientific revelations and references to historic events. Part 1 of the four part Hindu canon. Veda/Samhita: Sanskrit: No concrete information available, but attributed to ...
The Hindi Wikipedia (Hindi: हिन्दी विकिपीडिया) is Modern Standard Hindi edition of Wikipedia. It was launched in July 2003. It was launched in July 2003. As of January 2025, it has 164,188 articles , and ranks 10th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
In the second century BC, Pingala included an enumeration problem in the Chanda Sutra (also Chandahsutra) which asked how many ways a six-syllable metre could be made from short and long notes. [ 210 ] [ 211 ] Pingala found the number of metres that had n {\displaystyle n} long notes and k {\displaystyle k} short notes; this is equivalent to ...
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A controversy in the US state of California concerning the portrayal of Hinduism in history textbooks began in 2005. The Texas-based Vedic Foundation (VF) [1] and the Hindu Education Foundation (HEF), [2] complained to California's Curriculum Commission, arguing that the coverage in sixth grade history textbooks of Indian history and Hinduism was biased against Hinduism; [1] points of ...
Mahadevi Verma (26 March 1906 – 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer and an eminent personality of Hindi literature. She is considered one of the four major pillars [a] of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. [1] She has also been addressed as the modern Meera. [2]