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The character Atticus Finch from the novel 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' was inspired by author Harper Lee's father Amasa ... Read More

Uganda known in Swahili as "Buganda" was a British protectorate since 1894. Buganda was the kingdom of the 52 clans ... Read More

The story of Adam's Rib, a 1949 Hollywood movie was inspired by the real-life story of husband-and-wife lawyers William Dwight ... Read More

In the Northeast of India, the seven states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura form the ... Read More

The Diomedes are a pair of islands in the Bering Strait. Little Diomede hosts the American city of Diomede, with ... Read More

Maud Adams has appeared in three Bond movies and till date the only Bond Girl to do so. She starred ... Read More

Early in 16th century, Count Hieronymus Schlick of Bohemia began to mint coins which were known as Joachimstalers, named after ... Read More

Bharatiya Jnanpith (translates to knowledge seat), founded in 1944 by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain is a literary and research organisation ... Read More

Edward Bellamy, one of the famous American authors of the 19th century has the distinction of first proposing the idea ... Read More

The origin of the name October comes the from the Latin 'octo' meaning "eight" as October represented the eighth month ... Read More

The story of Lavazza coffee began in the late 19th century. Luigi Lavazza in 1895 purchased a grocery store, Pasissa ... Read More

Aqua Fortis, more popularly known as concentrated nitric acid is the old name derived from Latin which means "strong water" ... Read More

Euglossa bazinga is a species of bee found in Brazil. It was named in 2012 by the biologists André Nemésio ... Read More

Charles Rolland Douglass invented the 'Laugh Track' in 1950 for the "Howard McCune Show", using samples from the recordings of ... Read More

Jonathan Swift, the famed Irish author known for 'Gulliver's Travels' wrote his own epitaph. The literal translation of which is: ... Read More