Friday, October 26, 2007

Ghost

A ghost tour is an motion themed around the telepathic providing an entertaining and often educational way to present history. Tours are repeatedly lead on foot around sites with a reputation for abnormal occurrences. They are typically conducted at night and will unite a mix of factual history, folklore and stories. Tours themes around the paranormal can introduce historic, social and scientific topics to a wider audience than might not otherwise be addressed.

Stories centered on ghosts and mysteries are for more eye-catching to many people to whom leisure time is valuable, than purely academic pursuits. A well obtainable thematic tour should create the interest for further examination into the stories behind the topics. Presentations use drama, humor and analogies to weave stories in an interesting way. Tours may be conducted on foot, vehicle or even a self led tour finding clues along a pre-determined route.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Escalator

An escalator is a conveyor transport device for transporting people, consisting of a staircase whose steps move up or down on tracks that keep the surfaces of the individual ladder horizontal. As a power-driven, continuous moving stairway planned to transport passengers up and down short vertical distances, escalators are used around the world to move pedestrian traffic in places where elevators would be impractical. Principal areas of usage include shopping centers, airports, transit systems, convention centers, hotels, and public buildings.

They have the capacity to move large numbers of people, and they can be placed in the same physical space as set of steps. They have no waiting interval, except during very heavy traffic, they can be used to guide people towards main exits and they may be weather-proofed for outdoor use.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Kamaraj

Kumara swami Kamaraj,better known as K. Kamaraj (15 July 1903 – 3 October 1975) was an Indian politician widely measured to be a kingmaker in Indian politics, and known for his truthfulness, integrity and simplicity.He was involved in the Indian independence association and was a close ally of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. He was involved in bringing to power two Prime Ministers, Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1964 and Indira Gandhi in 1966. He was affectionately known as the Gandhi of the South, the Black Gandhi, and in Tamil Nadu, his home state he is still hail for facilitating the spread of education to millions of the countryside poor by introducing free education and free mid-day meals sheme in shools for the first time in the whole world during his chiefministership in 1957. He was awarded India's maximum civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, posthumously in 1976.
Well impressed by the achievements and sharpness of Kamraj, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru felt that his services were required more at the national level. In a swift move he brought Kamaraj to Delhi as the President of the Indian National Congress.Nehru realised that if he had wide culture and vision, Kamaraj possessed enormous common wisdom and pragmatism.