Ghulam Azam, the former Chief of Bangladesh’s Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami, was sentenced to 90 years in jail in 2013 for crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 war of independence. He died a year later.
Founder of Kindergarten System
In 1837, Friedrich Froebel established the ‘Play and Activity Institute’ based on his tested method of activity based learning. He renamed the institute ‘Kindergarten’ in 1840. The word kindergarten means the garden for the children (kind or ‘child’ and garten or ‘Garden’), a place where they can observe nature and interact with it. It also means the garden of children, where …
Edison’s dream of a world of concrete
Thomas Edison is known for his discoveries of several devices, famous among them being the light bulb and the phonograph. What is not so well known is that he once owned the largest cement plant in the world. It is said that he dreamt of a future in which millions of Americans would not only …
Inventors of the ‘year-clock’
Archaeologists have found evidence that Scotland’s prehistoric hunter-gatherers or tribes built a giant ‘year-clock’ capable of tracking the passing of lunar months. No wonder, the British are known for their punctuality.
The mystery whirling the invention of wheels
The introduction of wheel is a landmark in the process of human civilization. The wheel came into use simultaneously in Mesopotamia, Central Europe and India, and so which culture actually invented it remains a mystery. The wheeled vehicles have been discovered dating back to the 4th century BC.
Tracking the origin of the human race
Scientists believe that humans originated about 200,000 years ago in the Middle Paleolithic period in southern Africa. One of the oldest human settlements dating back to 160,000 years ago has been found at Middle Awash in Ethiopia. About 70,000 years ago, humans migrated out of Africa. They spread to Eurasia and Oceania 40,000 years ago, …