ABU SIMBEL, Egypt – In the 1960s, rising waters from a new dam threatened to submerge the temples and monuments of Nubia, the ancient home of black pharaohs in Egypt's far south. To preserve them, the antiquities were dismantled, moved and reconstructed. Today, most of the surviving monuments can only be seen from the lake created by the waters that n
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George Washington slept here. Among the hundreds of markers that make that claim, the most curious is here on Barbados, the easternmost Caribbean island, off the coast of Venezuela, which Washington visited in 1751. He apparently enjoyed his stay, despite a bout of smallpox, writing in his diary, "In the cool of the evening we rode in
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While travel bliss can throw up different things to different people, designer AD Singh who spent his honeymoon just an hour away from Colombo amidst the Indian Ocean, found his there. "Busy work, social obligations and moreover a big fat wedding that really can take a toll on many, wasn’t much different for my wife Puneet and me,” he says. "We needed
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 Jaipur: Hot air balloons will be among other attractions in the annual Pushkar fair which will begin from November 14, officials said today. "With an aim to attract more and more visitors with different kinds of activities, apart from traditional ones, we are offering a four-day International Hot Air Ballooning event in the Pushk
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 Few places bear such rich testimony to India’s cultural and natural heritage as Karnataka. A perfect blend of ancient ruins, historical cities and picturesque landscape, Karnataka is a sheer delight. An ideal start to exploring the state would be from the capital Bangalore, that showcases the perfect blend of cutting edge technology
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 Haflong (Assam),The tranquillity of Jatinga, a scenic village nestling among the Borail Hills range, is shattered every night by a disturbing occurrence - the 'mass suicide' of hundreds of birds. Locals have been witnessing the eerie phenomenon from September to November for the last couple of years. As the sun sets, hundreds of birds de
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They may not be forever emailing, facebooking or tweeting; but they are grateful to the internet. A whole generation that grew up on radio is rediscovering their lost pastime, of listening to faraway radio stations. Thanks to live online streaming, shortwave radio freaks are smiling again. They are bookmarking stations on web browsers and listening in while working on their laptops. The hobby is called DXing: D for distance and X for the distant radio station. The fun was in tuning i
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Cisco is in networking what Intel is in PC processors and Microsoft is in PC operating systems. So dominant that you don't often hear about its rivals. One company though that has successfully challenged Cisco in core areas of networking, such as routers and switches, is Juniper Networks. It was founded in 1996 by Pradeep Sindhu, a graduate from IIT, Kanpur, and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, US. Wikipedia describes him as "a technical visionary in the field of high performance and netwo
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As your read this blog post, residents of the tiny hamlet of Tembhali in northern Maharashtra's Nandurbar district are creating history by getting their Unique ID Numbers. The UIDAI or Unique ID Authority of India's "Aadhar” project has been officially flagged off by the Prime Minister and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the world's largest IT project is all set to roll. For those interested in the geekier aspects of the project, the tech can broadly be divided into three areas
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