CULTURAL QA 01-2023-05 BEING ACOMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Whywas the Murugan Temple built? A1 Atul Kumar, B.S in Mathematics, IndianInstitute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata (IISER-K) (Graduated2019)Updated Sat The Murugan Temple,also known as the PalaniMurugan Temple, is a Hindu temple located in the town of Palani inTamil Nadu, India. It is dedicated to the deity Murugan, who is the son ofShiva and Parvati and is consideredto be the god of war, knowledge, and wisdom. The Six Abodes ofMurugan are six temples situated in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India. The temple wasbuilt to honour Murugan and to provide a place for devotees to worship and paytheir respects to the deity. Murugan is an important figure in Hinduism and is widely revered inSouth India, where the temple is located. The temple is an importantcenter of pilgrimage for devotees of Murugan and is visited by thousands ofpeople each year. The temple is alsoknown for its beautiful architecture and is considered a significant culturaland historical site. It is an important part of Tamil Nadu's rich culturalheritage and is an important center of religious and spiritual activity in theregion. Q2 Whydo British people live in small crappy brick houses? A2 Claire Jordan, Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Jan 2 The whole ofBritain and Ireland is north of the whole of the US, except for the bulk ofAlaska. London is onthe same latitude as Labrador, and Edinburgh is on the same latitude as KodiakIsland. Consequently our houses are designed for draught exclusion, notventilation. Myhouse, which is about 30 miles west of Edinburgh, has 18″-thick stone walls,and at around 140 years old it nearly counts as modern. Q3 Whatare some things every Indian should know about Indian history? A3 Ankit Kumar Singh,an IT professional,trapped in a concrete jungle.8mo Today, Sri Lanka isalmost bankrupt; however, did you know that Indiawas once in a worse state than Sri Lanka is now? India hada closed economy in the 1990s. The governmentowned the majority of the companies in India, and foreign direct investment wasrestricted. Policies of previous congress government was weakening indianeconomy day by day. Oil prices were atan all-time high in August 1990 as a result of the Gulf War. Non-resident Indians were unable to send money to theirloved ones in India. As a result,India's forex reserves were reduced to 600 million dollars. Indian reserveswere only enough to keep the country running for a few weeks. Then came Manmohan Singh, India's finance minister at thetime who took some unpopular but critical decision. He immediately obtained a 2.2 billion dollar loan fromthe IMF and sold 600 million dollars of India's gold to international banks.To make Indian exports more competitive he devalued Indian rupee by 20%. Healso took some long term step. He brought new Industrial Policy and opened Indian market for foreigninvestors. He Ended hisParliament Speech for the budget session with the statement : “No power can now stop the growth of India”. The rise of Indiabegan. The foundations foran economic powerhouse was already laid. By 2009, India had been able to repurchase the gold it hadsold in 1990, as well as absorb the shocks of USsanctions against India in 1998, the Kargil war in 1999, and the 2009 globaleconomic crisis. In the decades thatfollowed India was one of the fastest growing ecconomy in the world givingtough competition to china. Peace. Credits:-Labour Law Advisor. Q4 AreBritish rail tracks curved like on other railways? A4 Nicholas Stone, Life long interest intrains. Sun Britishrail tracks are often curved like on other railways. A cant is used to allow trains to take curves at higher speeds.On a cant, one rail is raised about the level of the other on a curved track. The effect is to cause the train tolean into curve, allowing for higher speed. If the train were stationary on a curve with a cant,passengers would notice the carriage slightly leaning to one side.Slower freight trains can be impeded by cant. This is because the heavy freighttrain’s wheels are pushed against the lower track, causing the familiarscraping sound of metal wheel on metal track. For these reasons, a cant is usually deployed on curvedtrack used by higher speed passenger trains. Among the mostraised cant on Britain’s railways are the reverse curves immediately south ofCollumpton in Devon. The line was originally built to Brunel’s 2,140 mm broadgauge. When converted to the standard 1,435 mm gauge, there was extra spacebetween the parallel tracks. In turn, the tracks could be slewed and canted,without the risk of passing trains on these reverse curves making contact. When approaching the Collumpton reverse curves, I alwaysmake sure I can observe the train taking the cant and tight bends at the line’sruling speed of 100 mph (160 km/h). It can be quitethrilling for the rail enthusiast, like me. Q5 Isit necessary to replace bathroom fixtures like faucets and toilets on a regularbasis? A5 Foster MacKenzie,B.A., B.E.D.S.,B.Arch in Architecture (college major) & The Environment, DalhousieUniversity-Halifax (Graduated 1979)56m >From a functional perspective, unless they are notworking properly, no reason >to replace them. You canobtain most parts to repair defective ones and >maintain the fixtures you have. The main reason toreplace such items is to “upgrade”your bath - improve or modernize your aesthetic. My note- In India faucets becomes leaking on continued use-say 2 years maximum. Probably due to problems in productionoften colour toilets some times break, some times change colour toclay and though function OK for aesthetic look most change them. Q6 Whatare you ashamed of as an Indian? A6 Premjeet Yadav, Dec 17 10 days back, I wasat one of Hyderabad Metro Railway station. As soon as train had arrivedeveryone rushed towards it.Luckily I got the seat. In that coach one side seats are occupied by Ladies andanother side by gents . As soon as train had started, everyone arebusy at looking their mobiles. Unfortunately, a lady who is pregnant was standing beside the Gentsseating facing other side, so no men can see her. After some time alady who is sitting in front of us got up and came near to us and said “ Can't you see that pregnantwomen who is standing. Can't you give the seat” she said. By hearing tothat words, three men got upand offered their seats. Here the thing is,the lady who asked the men to get up was seeing that pregnant women since 10minutes. Here I don't understand a thing that, if sherealizes that pregnant women was standing since 10 minutes. why can't she offerher seat, instead she reacted on the situation. Q7 Whichanimal is the most cruel? A7 Abhishek Ambad, Growth Marketer |Digital marketing | SEO Dec 24 It's a badge. From the class of otters and mongooses, butserious. It is found especially in Africa and India,where it is not afraidto encounter lions, cheetahs, hyenas, and even bulls (even if the bijju weighsonly 10 kg). Biju's skin is thick, due to which it does not have mucheffect on sting and pointed things. But it's verytraumatizing, and it bounces back when someone bites on its neck. Lion, cheetah,reindeer, no one moves.Arrows are in the body, but Bijju is in his fun! The scorpion eats snakes, scorpions, hives, rabbits, andsometimes even chikaras. It also attacks the beehive.But the zealous snake? Bijjualso metabolizes poison. If the cobra bites it at the time of the attack, thenperhaps after sleeping for two hours, Bijju will wake up and bite the remainingcobra. If you do notrealize Biju's terror even after hearing all this, then also know that in order to kill an opponent, Bijju first tries to bite his scrotum sothat the opponent gets shoved. After humans, the biju is the only mammal that can runupside down. This is the Rajinikanth of hisworld! Q8 What"scourges" of humanity are still present today as they were inancient times or the Middle Ages? A8 Luise, Worked at Own Business Tue (Lice comb, 19th century, China).Headlice. You don't hearabout it that often because people seem to be ashamed.But head lice are the mostwidespread disease among children. They are not ascommon in industrialized countries as in developing countries (60%) or even inslums (80%), but stillup to 20% of children in Central and Northern Europe get head lice. Girls are more often affected than boys,but this is not biologically conditioned, but rather has to do with theirsocial behavior. They cuddle together and comb more often with the samebrushes. My daughter hadthem too.She always brought them from kindergarten. Again and again. Surprisingly, Ididn't get them even though I slept in the same bed with her, and she keptgetting them as soon as she went back to kindergarten. Finally, out of desperation, we cut off her hair becauseshe got toxic flushing so often that we preferred the radical solution. Male (left) andfemale head louse If there are lice in the kindergarten, often 30% or more ofthe children are affected. In Germany alone,it is estimated that there are up to 1000 new cases (on 10000 children ) peryear .This means that 10percent of the children get lice per year. And for this youhear about it extremely little and I think most people do not broach it.But itis not something to be ashamed of. It has nothing to do with "dirt", but rather withhow closely people live together. The habitat ofthe head louse is our scalp. With their pointed"upper head" they scratch our skin, open a capillary and then drink ourblood. In doing so, theyinject a substance into the wound that stops our blood from clotting. Something about itis recognized by our immune system as foreign and so it reacts and itches. In the picture youcan see the claws of the louse, which is very good at holding on to our hair. Female head lice stick their eggs to our hair . Here isan empty egg case. And we can seethese eggs with the naked eye more easily than the lice themselves, which arealmost transparent. Once we have discovered the eggs, then it starts. We have to removethe lice and their eggs, mostly with a lice comb that looks no different todaythan it did hundreds of years ago. Here you can seethe procedure around 1490.It has not really gotten easier. Althoughthere are substances that kill the lice, you still can't get around the patientdelousing. Also, you have toclean so many items and clothes and blankets, etc. that it gets extremelyannoying when it happens over and over again.It's just so easy for them totransmit over and over again. This is alsobecause in Europe most children have very few lice (often only 10) and they aresimply not detected. Head licehave existed since humans have existed. And I suspectthey will exist until the end of mankind. Q9 Coalis made from the dead remains of trees buried in the earth but we still call ita nonrenewable resource. Why? A9 Steven Haddock,LL.B. degree, 25 yearsin litigation, administrative law, collections, bankrupty and professionalregulation Mon Because conditions have entirely changed. Back in the Carboniferous and Permian periods,dead trees and other similar plants eventually formed coal after they were putunder pressure for millions of years. However, if a tree dies today , the chances are it willdecay long before it’s completely buried. That’s becauseof lignin. Lignin is the carbohydrate substance that gives trees bothflexibility and strength.Itallowed plants to grow to tens of meters high without falling over. But what made lignin very special was, at the time, therewas no biological organism that could eat it. Ligninwould burn of course, but it couldn’t be decomposed by fungi, bacteria orinsects. In other words,when a tree did die and fall over, it wouldn’t rot. Almost all of the world’s coal was formed during thisperiod as trees fell on top of each other and stayed almost entirely intact.Eventually, the hydrogen andoxygen were forced out of the lignin by pressure and heat, forming coal. This is the resultof perfect coal forming conditions - anthracite. It’s over 95% carbon with almost no water. It’s hard andshiny. That’s not what gets formed nowadays This is peat. Itforms in wet areas with a lot of vegetation where low oxygen levels discouragebacteria and fungal growth. Left alone, it will form coal, but not anthracite. This is lignite. It’s only about 75% carbon, with most ofthe rest being water. It’s soft to the touch. It doesn’t burn very well. The thing is thattens of millions of years ago, some fungi and bacteria finally evolved to breakdown lignite into compounds from which it could extract energy. One fungi thatcracked the code is the highly desirable shitaki mushroom. It’s so effective atbreaking down logs that eventually the logs become unable to support the fungi. Termites contain a bacteria that can break down lignintoo. Even some mammalshave learned the trick. Inaddition to beavers, moose and deer can also eat twigs. As such,most trees will most likely become someone’s meal before they get close toforming coal. My note- Informative answer Q10 Whydid the Romans not wear silk? A10 Matt Riggsby, MA Archaeological Studies,Boston University Fri They did, if they could afford it. Which most peoplecouldn’t. Silk came from twosources. One was arguably not real silk. There was a small industry in theAegean making threadand fabric from fibers derived from insect cocoons. However, itrelied on a wild species of moths so production couldn’t scale up and thequality of products wasn’t as good as it might otherwise be because Mediterranean methods of tuningthe cocoons into fiber produce relatively coarse thread. The restwas true silk which was purchased through Persia and India but ultimately camefrom China, about which the Romans knew next to nothing. Up until around the reign ofJustinian, China was the sole producer of silk, and the farther awayfrom China one got, the less common and more expensive it was. Wealthy Romans did love their silk, but it was hard toget and very expensive. Some would have silk fabricunraveled and re-woven into larger pieces of sheer fabric. There were plenty of boringmoralists on hand decrying the whole thing, both the expense and the prospectof proper Roman matrons wearing see-through garments. But those whocould afford it ignored them and wore it anyway.So, then, the Romans did wear silk. Just not much of it. 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