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Puri-Jagannath temple

1 year ago

Puri pronunciation (help·info) is a city in the east Indian state of Orissa. The city is famous for its Jagannath temple. The temple was built in the late eleventh century. Puri is one of the oldest cities in the eastern part of the country. It is si

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Texas

1 year ago

Texas (IPA: /'t?k.s?s/) is a state located in the southern and southwestern regions of the United States of America. With an area of 261,797 square miles (678,051 km²) and a population of 23.5 million in 254 counties, the state is second-largest in b

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Ootacamund

1 year ago

Ooty pronunciation (help·info), short for Ootacamund pronunciation (help·info) (the official name is Udhagamandalam (Tamil: ??????????), sometimes abbreviated to Udhagai (Tamil: ????), is a city, a municipality and the district capital of the Nilgiri

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Srisailam

1 year ago

Srisailam is a holy town and Mandal, situated in Nallamala hills of Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is 232 km south of Hyderabad, on the banks of River Krishna. A famous temple dedicated to Lord Mallikarjuna Swamy and Bhramaramba is loca

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Bodh Gaya

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Bodh Gaya or Bodhgaya(24° 41' 60N, 84° 58' 60E) is a city in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is famous for being the place of Buddha's attainment of Enlightenment. Historically, it was known as the Bodhimanda (ground round the Bodhi

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Varanasi

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Vara?asi (pronunciation (info), Hindi: ???????, IPA: [ß?r???si?]), also known as Benares, Banaras, or Benaras (pronunciation (info), Hindi: ?????, Banaras, IPA: [b?n?r?s]), or Kashi or Kasi (pronunciation (info), Hindi: ????, Kasi), is a famous Hindu

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Konark Sun Temple

1 year ago

The 13th-century Sun Temple (also known as the Black Pagoda), built in Orissa red sandstone (Khandolite) and black granite by King Narasimhadeva I (AD 1236-1264) of the Ganga dynasty. The temple is one of the most well renowned temples in India and i

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Srirangam

1 year ago

Srirangam (Tamil: ??????????), also known as Thiruvarangam, is an island town in the district of Tiruchirapalli ( also known shortly as Trichy or Tiruchi) in South India. Srirangam is bounded by the Kaveri River (also known as Cauvery river) on one s

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Thiruthani Murugan Temple

1 year ago

Tiruthani Murugan temple is one of the famous Hindu temples dedicated to Lord Muruga. It is one of the Arupadaiveedu, the six holy abodes of Lord Muruga, the others being Palani (100 km west of Madurai), Swamimalai (150 km east of Madurai), Tiruppara

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Tirumala - Tirupati

1 year ago

Tirupati (Telugu: ???????) pronunciation (help·info) is a temple town in Chittoor District in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located at the foot hills of Tirumala. The town owes its existence to the sacred temple situated on the Tirum

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Rameswaram

1 year ago

Rameswaram is a town in Ramanathapuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on an island separated from the mainland by the Pamban channel. Together with Kashi, it is considered one of the holiest places in India to Hindus. Henc

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Kanyakumari

1 year ago

Kanyakumari pronunciation (help·info) (Tamil: ????????????) is a town in Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu state, India. Located at the southernmost tip of the Indian Peninsula, it is geographically a cape and during British rule in India, it was kn

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Kanchipuram

1 year ago

Kanchipuram, Kanchi, or Kancheepuram (also sometimes Conjeevaram) is a city and a municipality in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a temple town and the headquarters of Kanchipuram district. In ancient times it was calle

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Andhra Pradesh

1 year ago

Andhra Pradesh (Telugu: ????? ???????, Urdu: ?????? ????? [a?nd??r? pr?de??] (help·info)), the "Rice Bowl of India", is a state in southern India. It lies between 12°41' and 22°N latitude and 77° and 84°40'E longitude, and is bordered by Maharashtra

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Telugu language

1 year ago

Telugu (??????) is a Dravidian language primarily spoken in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, where it is the official language. It is the Dravidian language with the largest number of speakers (including non-native speakers), the second most spoke

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Vijayanagara Empire

1 year ago

The Vijayanagara Empire (Kannada: ??????? ?????????, Telugu: ??????? ???????????) was a South Indian empire based in the Deccan. Established in 1336 by Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I, it lasted until 1646 although its power declined after a

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Makar Sankranti

1 year ago

Makara Sankranti is a mid-winter Hindu festival of India and Nepal. The festival is celebrated to mark the transition of the Sun from Sagittarius to Capricorn during the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere (or the beginning of Uttarayana). The

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Diwali Safety

1 year ago

Diwali Safety Although the chance of you having a serious accident may seem remote, hospitals and clinics are filled with people suffering from burn marks caused by firecrackers. Here are a few tips to help you have a safe Diwali.

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Ireland

1 year ago

Ireland is situated in the Atlantic Ocean and separated from Great Britain by the Irish Sea. Half the size of Arkansas, it occupies the entire island except for the six counties that make up Northern Ireland. Ireland resembles a basin—a central plain

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Greenland

1 year ago

Location: Northern North America, island between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada

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CULTURE OF INDIA

1 year ago

The term culture refers to a state of intellectual development or manners. The social and political forces that influence the growth of a human being is defined as culture. Indian culture is rich and diverse and as a result unique in its very own

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Taj Mahal

1 year ago

The Taj Mahal (Hindi: ??? ???, Urdu: ??? ???) is a mausoleum located in Agra, India. The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned it as a mausoleum for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Construction began in 1632 and was completed in approximately 1648.

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Culture of India

1 year ago

The culture of India had history, all the while absorbing customs, traditions, and ideas from both invaders and immigrants. Many cultural practices, languages, customs, and monuments are examples of this co-mingling over centuries. In modern India

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Capability Maturity Model

1 year ago

Capability Maturity Model (CMM) broadly refers to a process improvement approach that is based on a process model. CMM also refers specifically to the first such model, developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in the mid-1980s, as well a

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Yoga and its Benefits

1 year ago

Yoga – Introduction Quite a self contradictory statement it is: "Yoga - the new age fitness mantra", because Yoga is not new age at all. It's just that the benefits of the same are being discovered again. An ancient Indian philosophy, the principles

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Holosync Makes Learning Meditation Easy

1 year ago

Holosync, a product of Centerpointe Research Institute, is a sophisticated form of neuro-audio technology that produces many desirable cognitive, emotional, and spiritual states — states usually only available to experienced and dedicated practitione

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Meenakshi-Sundareswarar temple

1 year ago

Madurai boasts of a cultural heritage that goes back 2500 years and has functioned as an important commercial center as early as 550 AD. Madurai was the capital city of the Pandya kings of South India. Today the city of Madurai is the administrative

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Wiki

1 year ago

A wiki is a web application designed to allow multiple authors to add, remove, and edit content.[1] The multiple author capability of wikis makes them effective tools for mass collaborative authoring.[2] Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, is one of t

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Blog

1 year ago

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog

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Service-oriented architecture

1 year ago

There is no widely-agreed upon definition of service-oriented architecture other than its literal translation that it is an architecture that relies on service-orientation as its fundamental design principle. Service-orientation describes an architec

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