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Dibyendu Banerjee
21/03/2020
Regarded as one of the modern Fountains of Paris, the Stravinsky Fountain was inaugurated on 16 March 1983, at the Place Igor Stravinsky.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
20/03/2020
Min the Egyptian god of the desert and fertility, rain and harvest was one of the strange gods and goddesses worshipped by the Ancient Egyptians.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/03/2020
The Venus of Urbino, painted by the Italian painter Titian, is one of the greatest Renaissance painting of a mythological nature and the iconic version of a ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
18/03/2020
Esplanade Mansion, owned by David Joseph Ezra, is located at the crossing of Esplanade Row (East) and Old Court House Street.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
17/03/2020
Musee Nissim de Camondo, an elegant house museum in Paris, has a tragic story behind it. Located in the Hotel Camondo, 63, rue de Monceau, near Parc Monceau.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
16/03/2020
The red and white building located at 8 Council House Street, once housed the Alliance Bank of Simla. Reserve Bank of India inscribed on it, once housed the ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
15/03/2020
Located at 113 Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Road, near Maniktala and occupying a huge area of 2,000 square feet, the Police Museum.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
14/03/2020
Griselda Blanco Restrepo, the notorious drug trafficker, was born on 15 February 1943, in Cartagena, on the north coast of Colombia. Apart from nicknamed as ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
13/03/2020
Echidnas are egg-laying mammals from Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, evolved between 20 and 50 million years ago. But is still considered quite enigmati ...
Popularly known for her stunning explosive sexual charisma on the silver screen, American film bombshell Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino on ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
11/03/2020
The composition of the sculpture Diane d’Anet or Diana with a Stag, depicting a semi-reclining Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, accompanied by her tw ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
10/03/2020
The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, popularly known as Saint Mark’s Basilica, is located at the eastern end of the Piazza San Marco.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
09/03/2020
Born in Uxbridge, Middlesex on 22 February 1942, Christine Margaret Keeler was born to Julie Ellen Payne and her husband Colin Keeler, who abandoned the fam ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
08/03/2020
Located on the Mediterranean island of Malta, the desolate megalithic temple complex of the Hagar Qim temple stands on a deserted hilltop overlooking the bl ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
07/03/2020
The Grand Cascade, located at the Peterhof Palace in St Petersburg, Russia, was modelled on a complex of fountains constructed for the French King Louis XIV ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
06/03/2020
Worshipped throughout Mesopotamia during 3000 BC, Ereshkigal, the Great Goddess of the Underworld, is the only Mesopotamian god who could pass judgment.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
05/03/2020
With its curved facade, Graham Building is the only building on NS Road, which faces the south. Standing on the left of Gillander House and in the middle of ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
04/03/2020
The Sleeping Venus, depicting the reclining Venus in a calm slumber, is said to be one of the last incomplete works by Giorgione. It, depicting the reclinin ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
03/03/2020
The term Sweater Girl was originally coined by the reporters of the Hollywood movie world to describe a Young Lana Turner, as she appeared in a tight sweater.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
02/03/2020
Palmer’s House was demolished in 1914 for the construction of the present Lalbazar building complex, located at 18 Lalbazar Street.This area was known as ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
01/03/2020
A red and white building on Blackburn Lane houses the Toong On Church, which is not really a church, a Chinese temple, dedicated to the warrior God Kwan-Ti.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
29/02/2020
Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish actress, who won three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a BAFTA Award, was born on 29 Aug ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee & Sudipta Banerjee
28/02/2020
Air pressure is measured with the help of a Barometer, which contains a glass tube with a column of mercury, which rises or falls as the weight of the atmos ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/02/2020
Myra Hindley was born on 23 July 1942, in Crumpsall and raised in Gorton, which was a working class area at that time. Her parents, Nellie and Bob Hindley, ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
26/02/2020
Pangolins, also known as scaly anteaters, are solitary and primarily nocturnal mammals, uniquely covered with tough and sharp scales that look like pine cones.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
25/02/2020
La Toilette d’Atlanta, created by Jean-Jacques Pradier, is rated by some art critics as the most complete work of art of the entire 1850-1851.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
24/02/2020
Violette Szabo, the second child of five and the only daughter of Charles George Bushell and Reine Blanche Leroy, was born as Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushe ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
23/02/2020
Located on Ludgate Hill, at the highest point of the City of London, St Paul’s Cathedral, which is one of the most famous and most recognizable sights of ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
22/02/2020
The Senegambia Stone Circles, consisting of four large groups of stone circles, found in the West African modern countries of Gambia and Senegal.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
21/02/2020
The monumental Cibeles Fountain, better known as La Cibeles, was originally stood outside the Prado Museum, facing the Fountain of Neptune and provided wate ...
