London Olympics 2012 will be the first time when there will be a female entrant from every participating nation. Female athletes from Qatar, Brunei Darussalam and Saudi Arabia will be taking part in the games for the first time. Saudi Arabia was the most rigid in its stance. It was only after a long … Read more
Born: 30 July 1938 Country: Great Britain Decathlon is an event in athletics that is contested over two days and consists of ten track and field events. The winner is determined by points given according to the athlete’s performance in the ten events. When Jim Thorpe won the decathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, … Read more
The Olympic flame is an important symbol of the Olympic games. Know about the origin, history and relevance of the Olympic flame as well as the tradition of the flame in modern Olympics through these 5 interesting facts. #1 Ancient Olympics The modern Olympic Games are a revival of the ancient Olympic Games … Read more
Batman is widely considered as one of the greatest comic characters of all time. In comics, The Dark Knight Returns is considered the greatest Batman series and it was chosen as one of the 10 best English language graphic novels ever. In television, the mid-1960s Batman television series became so popular that it has been … Read more
I am sure if Fernando Alonso ever came to Manipal he would drown himself at Malpe. No, not because of the food! The reason would be self doubt which would creep in when he would observe the skilled autowallas of Manipal speed through its narrow tracks. The way they maneuver their auto through a … Read more
All parents of the 80s and 90s wanted their child to become a doctor or an engineer. Since you are inclined to learn something if you opt for medical sciences most people decided to take the latter option. As a result every second person in India is a qualified engineer. Qualified as in he … Read more
Rahul Dravid once said in an interview that if he tried to play like Sachin Tendulkar then he would be making a fool of himself. If only dogs paid attention to news rather than waiting for the cooking shows and Scooby Doo then they could perhaps tell their friends on the street that they … Read more
Learnodo Newtonic will help you expand your vocabulary quickly by introducing you to root words. A root word is a word from which other words are derived by adding suffixes and prefixes. For example ‘Verto’ is a Latin root which means ‘to turn’. We get words like invert, revert, convert, introvert, extrovert from that root. … Read more
Apart from other things, Learnodo Newtonic will unravel the mystery of how to learn words easily and remember them too. I see you! Neytiri on her way to collecting herbs in the morning crosses two guys. She wishes both of them a good morning. Tsutey’s reply to her is the usual – “Good morning … Read more
Everyone was puzzled when Chiathon refused to play football in the lunch break. After some speculation one of my classmates came up with a possible reason. It was probably because Chiathon had brought new Reebok shoes and he didn’t want to spoil them playing football in the dusty field of our school. Our suspicion … Read more