CULTURALQA 07-2023-10A Q1 What ancient technology helped a lotof people?
A1 RI Shohag,19h CANATE This is a hydraulic system made more than 3000 years ago,and it is located in the city of Gonabad. (Contemporary Iran),this water collection and transport system is known as kanate, it is a watermanagement system used to ensure a stable supply of water in human populationcenters and provide irrigation in regions located in arid, semi-arid climates.arid or hot, being considered one of the greatest inventions of its time. This system has the ability to collect water fromunderground sources and deliver it to cities and irrigation canals. In this way, Persia could exist and develop even in an aridand dry climate. The hydraulic system includes amain well that receives water from an underground source, a tunnel systemthrough which the water is transported to a specific location and verticalaeration wells that allow the condensation of moisture along the entire route. In addition to all this, theunderground water channel reduces water evaporation. The length of the Gonabad khanate is 33,113 meters, it includes427 water depressions, being the largest of all suchstructures in antiquity. The structures were built using onlyempirical knowledge, but respecting the laws of physics, geology andhydraulics, Since 2007, gyugonabad qanat has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Q2 How were big reservoirs built beforemodern plumbing technology was invented? A2 Stefan Johansson, Lives in Sweden(1963–present) Fri Well, They used….Aqueduct. Led the water from amountain lake to towns. Q3 I heard that the actual mummifiedbody of Ramanujacharya is preserved in one of the 108 temples. Is this true? A3 S D Hindu, I'm a proud Hindu anddevotee of Lord Venkateshwara Jun 30 Om NamoVenkatesaaya .Yes. It is true. It is in Sri Rangam. Om Namo Venkatesaaya 🙏 Q4 What was the strangest thing found ona human body? A4 RI Shohag, Sat The human bodyoften surprises us with some anomalies and deformities, however, some rareconditions occur in adulthood. One such unexpected situation occurs in an 87-year-oldChinese woman who has a horn on her head approximately 13 cm long, they callher "Unicorn Woman". Liang Xiuzhen'sdeformity is a case of cutaneous horn, as it is known tobuild up keratin, the same protein that forms nails and hair. At her age, it'shard to get that "keratin horn" she has, so the doctors havedetermined it's best to leave her that way. My note- In my native there was a variarcommunity lady having two swellings inher head to the size of neiappam in my middle school days. However it could beremoved by operation, one by one. Q5 What is the best-preserved human bodyever found belonging to a person from thousands of years ago? A5 RI Shohag,Jun 26 More commonlycalled ''Similaun Man'' , it is the mummy of a human being over 5,300 yearsold, and was only found in1991 on the Similaun Glacier in the Ötztal Alps. His body, very wellpreserved by ice, has been the subject of many studies. One thing you might notknow though is that Otzi was the first known person to have tattoos. There are61 of them, and they had no aesthetic purpose: it was a kind of ''therapy'' toalleviate the pain of arthritis, a kind of primitive acupuncture. They werebasically small incisions covered with charcoal to fix the mole. Q6 How old is the "juggad"science in India? A6 Rohit Virmani, I Love India Sat Inflated Bullock Skin Boats: Before the constructionof bridges and the availability of better boats, floats were indispensable forcrossing unfordable mountain rivers in India. In spite of its apparent primitivism and crudeness, thesefloats worked wonderfully. InflatingBullock-Skin Boats for crossing the swift Himalayan River, Sutlej, India - Twoof the men you notice, are still at work blowing their “boats” full of air;they have cords there already to tie up the end of the skin when it issufficiently distended. Inflated bullock skins for ferry boats on Sutlej River inthe Punjab, India.: If several passengers are to betaken over, it is customary for two “boats” to start out side by side, thepassengers on the different floats taking hold of each other to help balancethe queer craft. Crossing the Sutlej near Shimla upon inflated animalskins. Locals use bullock skins to cross a river in Kashmir. Locals carry inflated animal skins for river crossing,India, circa 1860 A technique(juggad) that worked wonderfully!! Q7 What are some mind-blowing factsabout the oceans? A7 Amit Shriqui, Updated Fri Here are a fewmind-blowing facts about the oceans: 1. The oceanscontain about 97% of Earth's water. 2. The Great Barrier Reef, located in Australia, is thelargest living structure on Earth. 3. The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is the deepestpoint on Earth, reaching over 36,000 feet. 4. The oceans arehome to an estimated 80% of all life on the planet. Icon for Info Orb Q8 What is the strangest story of theMiddle Ages? A8 RI Shohag, Sun The financial crisis in the fourteenth century. In the 13thcentury, the Republic of Venice began a clandestine operation. They started to buy all the goldthey could. All of Europe and the Mongol Empire used the gold coinage standard,except Venice which used the silver one. In 1348, after a century, Venice flooded the market withgold.The price of gold dropped to such an extent that silver becamemore valuable than gold. With the exceptionof Venice, all countries in Europe defaulted and the mighty Mongol Empire wasforced to adopt Venetian currency as its standard. Veniceeffectively controlled trade from the Atlantic to the Pacific, not bad for acity-state. Of course, theBlack Death overshadowed this event and is little known these days. Q9 What animal is way bigger than whatthe average person thinks it is? A9 Michael Bross, Jul 4 A Goldfish in a river or pond, it can be surprise if youcatch one. If an unwanted pet goldfish gets released intothe wild it grows and grows until it becomes a supersized large version of itsformer self. Fisheries and Oceans Canada posted photos to Facebook that showsome of the humongous, large-belliedgoldfish that were found in Ontario’s Hamilton Harbour. Q10 Why did Albert Einstein believe in Godbut Stephen Hawking didn't even though both weregeniuses? A10 Andre Lieven,13h -It was, of course,a LIE (Emphasis added) what you read about my religious convictions, a liewhich is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in apersonal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for thestructure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.- - Albert Einstein, letter to an atheist (1954), quotedin Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas & Banesh Hoffman All the above QA are from Quora websiteon 10 -07-2023. Quora answers neednot be 100% correct answers. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan, 79, on 10-10-2023. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/2100472648.1338081.1688998213534%40mail.yahoo.com.
