Marion Jones was the first woman to win five track and field medals at a single Olympic Games in Sydney (2000). After years of denial, she was compelled to confess of being a drug cheat and was jailed for lying to the investigators.
Swinging back in history
Charles Wicksteed was an engineer by trade. He initially made swings and slides for his park, then went on to sell them around the world. In 1926 he made the first modern swing and installed it in a park in Kettering. This is a 12 feet high swing which was painted green with a wooden …
The journal named ‘Vande Mataram’ was run by freedom fighters
Both the freedom fighters Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai started journals in 1906 by the same name Vande Mataram independently at two different parts of the country. Pal started the Bengali journal in Bengal while Lala Lajpat Rai started it in Urdu in Lahore.
India’s first telefilm for the national network
Sadgati is a story written by Munshi Premchand. It is essentially based on the banes of the caste system. Satyajit Ray made it into a film in 1981, mainly for the TV audience. The main actors of the film were Om Puri, Smita Patil and Mohan Agashe.
A Governor General of India received Burke’s impeachment
Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman in the British Parliament. He is known for the impeachment of Warren Hastings, the Governor General of India during his time. In his famous speech of May 5, 1788 he said, ‘The first step to empire is revolution, by which power is conferred; the next is good laws, good …
Pathos of Einstein
Einstein had said, ‘If my theory of relativity be proven successful, Germany will call me a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. If my theory be proven unsuccessful, France will call me a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.’