CULTURAL QA 09-2022-28 BEING ACOMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Where are air conditioners typicallymounted? A1 Gopala Krishnan,Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004)Just now I think the question is about installing outdoor unit ofsplit air-conditioner. Stand is available to keep theoutdoor unit. Every where window shade need not be the convenient point. If the parapet wall is having height above 2.5 feet, it wouldbe difficult to get down from parapetwall. Nowadays inTamilnadu, India, AC installation engineers bring stand to fit to convenient position and height tostand/sit and work during repairs. Q2 Is there a way to get around Londonwithout using their underground/subway system? A2 Nicholas Stone,Lives in London(1993–present)Sun Personally, I encourage visitors to Londonto travel by other means without using the London underground, otherwise knownas the Tube. The tube is a network of 11 lines offering highfrequencies metro services - with much of thecentral service in tunnels. Where possible, Irecommend using the London Overground. Coloured orange on the famous Londonpublic transport map, almost all London Overground services operate aboveground with modern air-conditioned rolling stock. You have mobile internetaccess through most of your trip and the rolling stock has walk throughcarriages offering easier access and improved security. From experience, the LondonOverground is less busy than the London Underground, so you are sure to find aseat. A modern class 710train used on several of the London Overground routes. This new rolling stockfeatures charging points for electronic devices, energy efficient airconditioning, wi-fi, live passenger displays and welcoming open walk-through interiors. For a scenic tour on elevated track through easternLondon, take a ride on the Docklands Light Railway.Trains are usual driverless allowing you to sit right at the front forexcellent forward view. Mastering at least some bus routesopens up even more possibilities - with a ride on the top deck of the famousred vehicle. You’ll be in company. More peopleuse London’s buses than all other forms London public transport combined. Andhalf of all bus journeys in England are made in London. Q3 How did the British treat the lastMughal emperor, and why? A3 Hasham Beyg, Independent EconomicsEnthusiast Sep 11 - This is Queen Zeenat Mahal, the wife to King BahadurShah Zafar, the last Mughal Emperor. She is the sameMughal Queen whosestolen wedding jewelry is worn by Queen Elizabeth II who died in September2022. And Queen ElizabethII is a descendant of Queen Victoria. Victoria was awoman who ordered the killing of Zeenat Mahals husband and son before her veryeyes. And passed on special instructions to steal Zeenats weddingjewelry so that it could be used for the glorification of the blood ladenBritish Empire. While the King wasbeing taken away by the British Raj for torture in the dungeons of Rangoon, Zeenat Mahal refused to part ways from the King and is quoted saying'Life and death with The King’. She was only 34when the royal Mughal couple was exiled and their son Bakht Mirza brutallymurdered by the British Raj. A torture of unseenproportions was carried out on the Mughal King for almost 10 years by theBritish Raj in the dungeons of Rangoon. The extent of the torture was such thatthe British Commissioner Davis refused the access ofmuch needed medicine to the Royal Mughal Couple. At the age of 87,Mughal King Bahadur Shah Zafar died out of torture and was disrespectfullyburied by British Soldiers in Rangoon, Burma. Whilst all this,the Mughal wealth was stolen during the Raid of Lal Qilla, 1857 and shipped offto todays Britain. The heirs to the wealth received nothing and spread out todifferent corners of the empire. Some reportedly fled to Burma. However, the Mughals took the grieving Mughal QueenZeenat Mahal under their care and provided for her till she died out of griefat the age of 63. All this inhumanetorture was ordered by the British Queen Victoria who used to boast off thestolen wedding jewelry of Mughal Queen Zeenat Mahal. And this same jewelry wasthen passed on to Queen Elizabeth II who died in September 2022. - It is sad to seehow the world is paying its respect to a woman who proudly wears blood ladenJewelry of another woman’s wedding. A woman who ordered the murder of anotherwoman’s son and husband. My note- I justadded this QA for the information about last Mugal Queen. Nothing more. Notfor discussions. Q4 Why don't businessmen fly economy classto save their company money? A4 Shaunak Bhattacharjeee, SoftwareEngineer | Traveller | FoodieSun Here's what happenswhen you travel by Economy Class: You wait at the boarding gate for a long time in thosechairs which aren't comfortable at all. As the boardingprocess starts, you wait for at least 5–10 minutes in the queue before gettinga chance to get onto the aircraft. The seats have limited leg space and your body getscramped. On long-distance flights, it gets really uncomfortable to stay in thesame place. Once the flight lands, you wait for at least 5–10 minutesbefore you get a chance to deboard the aircraft. You wait for atleast another 5–10 minutes in front of the baggage claim belt waiting for yourbag to arrive. So you see, youstand in the queue before and after your flight. You wait at the baggage belt,plus, after a long flight, you feel tired and exhausted. Here's what happens when you travel in business class: You get complimentary access to the airport lounge. You eatwell, get a place to relax before boarding starts. At the boardinggate, you get priority check-in. You don't have to wait in the queue for othersto board. The leg space is decent enough. The seats are wider. So itis comfortable. Once the flight lands, you are the first ones to de-boardthe aircraft. Youhardly wait at the baggage belt since your checked-in bags have the highestpriority. So the journeyisn't exhausting and it saves a lot of time. The companies send their employees to attend a businessmeeting on that very day within a couple of hours after the flight lands.If the person is exhausted, they will never be able to carry it well, sincethey will be tired and that would affect the meeting proceedings and thecompany, as a result. So,in an attempt to save some thousand rupees, business deals worth lakhs andcrores of rupees might be at stake. There is a saying,if you look after your employees well, your employees will look after your company. Q5 Which is the most overrated andunderrated Indian city? A5 Prayank Kulshrestha, MBA from NIITUniversity, Neemrana Sep 16 I have lived citieslike Bangalore, Mysore, Hyderabad, gurgaon, Lucknow, Noida, Agra, Chennai,Pune. Also I visited many cities. Based on my experience **Most Overrated city** : Gurgaon Extremely costlyand high living expenses Forget about goodwater, air & Food only thing you will get alcohol Dust and Dust everywhere, poor road condition Rude people and unsafe City Now a days due to climate change, Horribleweather **Most underrated city** : Mysore Awesome weatherthroughout year Beautiful, cleanand managed city Safe and culturedcity Good people andfood Q6 What was living in England during the50s and 60s like? A6 Ernest W. Adams, Lives in England Sep22 Chilly and rather grim. The warwas over, but rationingof some things went on until the mid 1950s. Almost nobody hadcentral heating. They heated individual rooms with gas or electric heaters, anda good many people still burned coal in their fireplaces. There was still a lot of visiblebomb damage, although it was slowly being cleared up. Things beganto look up in the 1960s, when the Beatles came along and Carnaby Streetfashions were all the rage. The Queen was a breath of fresh air; she wascrowned in 1953, and she was young, pretty, and had a growing family. Q7 How did babies survive when there wereno vaccines a long time ago? A7 Mats Andersson, Common or GardenArmchair Historian Sep 12 Theydidn’t. It was basically anumbers game. Up tohalf of all children died before turning 5. In some ages and places,it was a lot worse, though: in London circa 1800, 90% of all children diedbefore their fifth birthday. For most of human history, if a family had a dozenchildren, two or three would probably reach adulthood. If you ask thisquestion, you simply have no idea how horrible most of human history was. Q8 Why can't gasoline be used as rocketfuel? A8 Steve Baker, Senior Software Engineer(2013–present)Sep 21 Gasolineand kerosene are very close cousins, chemically speaking - andprobably the most popular rocket fuel in the world is called“RP-1” (Rocket Propellant 1) - and is basically just highlyrefined kerosene. But back in the1920’s, some of Robert Goddard’s very early experimental rockets were fuelledby actual gasoline. But it’s all about the tinydetails. Gasoline produces quite a bit of smoke - and that can actually coatparts of the rocket and make it less efficient. Kerosene does that too - but toa much lesser extent. RP-1’s energydensity is a little high than Gasoline (but not by much). Q9 Can a washing machine's spin cyclecompletely dry clothes, even if they are not dried in the drier afterwards? A9 Arthur Seiple, Former Retired21h No they don't spin fast enough.Used to go to a laundromat that had a machine that was called a waterextractor. It was a high speed drum that spun clothes extremely fast to extractalmost all water, clotheswere left almost dry. They were close to dry. My YMCA also has one to get bathing suitsalmost dry. Q10 Do trains come from Switzerland? A10 Nicholas Stone, Life long interest intrains. Sun Many trains are manufactured in Switzerland. Many individual train services can originateSwitzerland. A Class 745 passenger train provided by Greater Angliaand which operates the service between London Liverpool Street and Norwich,in the east of the UK. These trains were manufactured by Stadler Rail, at theirBussnang factory in north east Switzerland. The SBB Swiss Federal Railway Giruno train which operatesbetween Zürich (Switzerland) and Milan (Italy).These new trains have a top speed of 250 km/h and travel through the GotthardBase Tunnel with a journey time of 3 hrs 20 mins between the two cities. I have travelled onboth Swiss manufactured trains and trains which started their journeys inSwitzerland. Q11 If grapes are geneticallyengineered/alter to be seedless, how do they grow more of them? A11 Franklin Veaux, Professional Writer Fri Grapes are not genetically engineered to be seedless.Thereare no GMO grapes on the market. There are GM grapes being developed to resist disease and use fewerpesticides, but you can’t get them yet. Seedless grapes are just ordinarygrapes with a mutation that prevents seeds from forming. All the seedless grapes on the market arepropagated by cloning; they’re all clones of that original mutation. Q12 What are joints made up of: bonesor cartilage? A12 Ken Saladin,Former professor ofhistology (microscopic anatomy)Sun For anyone whomight actually be interested (the OP isn’t): Some are made of nothing but bone; some arebone + tough fibrous connective tissue; some are made of bone + fibrocartilage;and the freely movable ones (diarthroses) are made of bone + fibrous connectivetissue + hyaline cartilage + lubricating fluid. But since this is aQPG question and nobody really asked it, I’m not going into further detail. All the above QA are from Quora website on 27-09- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled andposted by R. 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