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tobacco
some historical trivia about tobacco The word nicotiana (as well as nicotine) was named in honor of Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal, who in 1559 sent it as a medicine to the court of Catherine de Medici North American tribes would ca…

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Two Chola period inscriptions found
Hi tobacco came from spanish invasions of south america and slowly spread. two of the worlds greatest addictions cigarette and chochlate spread as a result of that. if people smoked something earlier it must have been marijuana or opium. we nee…

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Two Chola period inscriptions found
Hi if smoking is true then its a very late sculpture. tobacco came very late to india. perhaps 17th century? venketesh

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How have names changed?
-Hi My mother grew up in palani inthe 40s. thereused to be a story there of a couple who were childless for a long period and then were blessd with a girl. for years the lady used to play with the children of the road who must have given her gr…

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How have names changed?
Hi there seems to be a dearth of names based on village gods. vedic gods seem to have the mainstay in the middle. venketesh

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Casting
Kalki was one of the earliest to recognize the genius of narayan they both were under the employ of vasan . rkn in gemini and kalki in ananda vikadan. tamil versions of rkns books were published , during kalki's tenure as editor i guess. and …

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Blogsite on sculpture
Hi Vijay your turnover is prolific( olungaa office poringalaa?) have i missed the article in your blog on a cambodian statue of natarja with karaikal ammaiyar? karaikal ammaiyar is strictly a local phenomenon and I dont think we can find traces …

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How have names changed?
> Everytime I read articles on old inscriptions that indicate land grants by > person x or y, I am fascinated by the fact that the names seem to be so much > different now, than they were then. It would be very interesting if people >…

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Cometh the moment cometh the man
> This is probably a very stupid question, but as a westerner > raised as a Protestant Christian, with a very simple severe > code of faith: no images, only Jesus & God to be revered: > since you're very articulate, can you desc…

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ponniyinselvan on silver screen
Hi vijay talking about bond trivia- a favourite for quiz goers james bond was the name of an ornithologist. ian fleming lifted it. what was bond's wife's name. theresa how long was he married? one hour. she was shot on the steps of the …

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Hi vijay could you please explain whi it isnt a light house and something else? venketesh

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Blogsite on sculpture
-Hi vijay next time you go to coimbatore visit avinashi where this sundarar and the croc incident took place. behind the main temple there is an accesory shrine for sundarar. the vahanam is a huge crocodile of stone venketesh

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What is in a name?
Hi kaviri mainthan is surely another version of the name ponniyin selvan. of course the name was thought of ahead of the book. ponniyin selvan itself is a take off of 'ponnu iyerin magan' as kalki was referred to in his village became po…

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most warlike of kalki's heroes.
Hi thats a violent scene. and yet when we take a list of those who die in PS it must be less than 20? in SS it must be a hundred thousand and in Parthiban kanavu a few thousands( the ebntire chola army) venketesh

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most warlike of kalki's heroes.
Hi even a lifelike description of vijayalayas fight in pS in parthiban kanavu a description of the battle field after the chola pallava war. i got memories of it watching 'asoka' venketesh

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direction sensing machine

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direction sensing machine
h; > Ive always belived that the CHinese civilisation based most of its early > stage studies on Technology like magnets, etc. > We on the other hand based our studies on astronomy. the chinese were incredibly curious people. a lot of the…

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direction sensing machine
HI Rahul whereas the original indian vastu sastra was based on the sun and its movement, chinese feng shui was based on a magnet based compass loupan. but of recent its beleived the south americans may have used magenetic compasses earlier. ve…

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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZn5hVXImoM this is the saffron programme I guess

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my new blog
> > expect many more interesting tit bits and also more on thillaiyil oru > kollaikaran - pl, i love swathi vijay i would surely write about a guy in the airport who nearly missed his flight while reading the draft of thillai- okayvaa?

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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
> > Things are changing now I think.. The demand for agri scientists is growing! Hi I joined agriculture mainly because i was intereted in rural energy. and i think right now the demand for historical novelists is higher..... anyway went…

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ponniyinselvan on silver screen
-enna interesting??? imagine anirutha bramarayar spouting one line in tamil and its translation in english immidietly like major sundar rajan. venketesh

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Pot containing gold coins found
ridiculous. stone age men are those who hadnt mastered metal working for basic needs. why did he need coins? and the coins are so round must be arcot coins. somebody must write to reader's editor of hindu. but even then its worth less. i on…

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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
. Most of the diseases we suffer are traced to man > made interventions. of course yes and most of our survivals can be traced to human interventions, lets look at it this way. if there wasnt so much health care or sufficient food the huma…

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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers

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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
hiarun i finished agriculture degree in late eighties. it was a terrible time. scientists like ms swaminathan who spear headed the green revolution dumped tonnes of urea and dap into the field had made a round about. they got awards for fertilise…

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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
> > Also read somewhere that, it was Robert Clive who, understood this > Indian system and cleverly created 1000's of cow butchering centers > (with capacity of killing 10000 cows per day) and started killing cows > in huge nu…

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thiruvidaikkazhi

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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers
> In one programme, she wandered through the kitchen of the Udupi Sri > Krishna Temple, stirring dal and throwing coriander in sambar - and in > the next segment she was cooking and tasting fish; highly incongruous > and inappropriate…

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pride does go before a fall - man the Lehman Brothers

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