Alberto Contador Biography
Spaniard Alberto Contador won his first ever Tour de France title in 2007. There is a lot common between Contador and seven time Tour winner Lance Armstrong. Only three years before winning his maiden...
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Blogs to turn 20 in 2017
Blogs or web logs will turn 20 in 2017. As per blog-tracker Technorati there were 152 million blogs worldwide in 2013 as compared to 1,00,000 in March 2003. In India, blogging is the most...
Careers in hospitality
A booming economy and a sizeable population with disposable income have led to tremendous growth in the hospitality sector. Today this sector offers a wide array of job opportunities from flying managers, directors and...
How to gain confidence?
Confidence is the feeling that you can indeed complete a difficult or even dangerous task. You ask yourself, ‘Can I do it?’ and then answer, ‘I sure can.’ Feeling confident means you are sure...
The talkative turtle
Once upon a time, there lived a turtle and a pair of swans in a lake. They were great friends. The turtle was a chatter box. She always had something to say. One year,...
The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered
At 2:45 in the morning of August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber flew north from Tinian Island in the Marianas toward Japan. Three and a half hours later, over the city of Hiroshima,...
Perseid meteor showers
If you searched the skies from August 10-12, 2016, you couldn’t probably have missed the Perseid meteor showers. A meteor shower is an increase in the number of meteors observed in a particular part...
Phoenix Mars Lander
After years of planning and past failed attempts, NASA spacecraft Phoenix Mars Lander finally descended on Mars on May 25, 2008 after completing a 422 million-mile journey. It took off on August 4, 2007. The...
Monsoon ailments
Monsoon is very much here. Along with the rainfall there is also a sudden increase in the occurrence of a number of ailments peculiar to this season. Chief among them are typhoid fever, cholera,...
Sports Quiz 1
Choose the correct answer. 1. Who is the first Tour de France winner to fail a drugs test? a) Roberto Heras b) Floyd Landis c) Armstrong d) None of these 2. Who won the...