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Air Quality Inside Your House - Don't Take it for Granted

Many of us think that the internal spaces of our houses are protected from pollution and we are safe. Recent researches show that it is not always correct. Internal air can be more hazardous to health than the...

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Man-made Islands of UAE

Recent fast track development initiatives in Dubai resulted in meny imaginative projects of unprecedented scale. construction of several man-made islands inside the sea also was among them. Three such projects...

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Victim of an Uncivilized Act - Jaffna Public Library

Jaffna Public Library is situated in the town of Jaffna the Capital of Nothern Province of Sri Lanka. This was the place which introduced to me non-textbook knowledge from variety of fields. In late 70s it was...

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Water Features

There are evidences that the water features had been used in ancient Egypt in third millenium B.C. Mesopotamians also used water features in 2000 B.C. Persians used water features in their garden designs....

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Stories in Stone - Sculptures in Mamallapuram, Tamilnadu, India.

Writing has been invented very late. Spoken language and the stories originated well before they were put in writing. Most of the stories of ancient origins were related to religion or about heros and heroic...

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World Languages

We all know now, language is very important medium of communication. It is one of the most important inventions that accelerated the development of human race to the present level. Almost all the communities...

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Valluvar Kottam - A Monument for Ancient Tamil Poet in Tamil Nadu, India.

Czech Professor Dr. Kamil Zvelebil noted in an article a few decades ago about 2000 years old book named Thirukkural in Tamil language. He said, "The Thirukkural, one of the great books of the world, one of...

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Dravidian Architecture

Dravidian Architecture is an Architectural style of South India, which evolved around 6th century A.D. and developed for about 10 centuries. This style has produced number of magnificient buildings. This...

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A Church at Mallakam in Jaffna Peninsula.71

Churches of Jaffna

Christianity has been introduced into Jaffna, the capital of Northern Province of Sri Lanka, in mid 16th century. Then Jaffna was the capital of a separate political entity called the Kingdom of Jaffna....

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Frescos of Sigiriya, Sri Lanka.

Sigiriya is a well known archaeological site in Sri Lanka. This consists of a large rock rising almost vertically to about 600 feet. The top of the rock is has a flat area of nearly 3 acres in extent. This...

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