May 31, 2011

Edmond Halley - Astronomer




Edmond Halley FRS (Nov 1656 – Jan 1742) was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain following John Flamsteed. 

He spent most of his lifetime in lunar observation. “Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion”  theory attract his attention and he met Sir Issac Newton in Cambridge to discuss Kepler’s theory to solve a problem in it. He was well known for computing the orbit of Halley’s Comet.

He was also known as an English astronomer, mathematician. physicist, meteorologist, and Geophysicist. 

Mohenja Daro - Indus Valley Civilization



During 2600 BC, People built a new and well planned city called “Mohenja-Daro” one of the largest urban settlements of the “Indus Valley Civilization” and it situated in Sindh, Pakistan. The city layout is well planned on Street-grid of rectilinear buildings and it’s built with mud-bricks and wooden superstructures. 

There is merely 3500 residence, public buildings and social organization buildings. UNESCO World Heritage Site recognized this city as ancient archeological site.

May 1, 2011

Timur


Timur (1336-1405) founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty. He ruled 35 years from 1370. He is known as "Tamerlane". He was born in Turkic (Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan).  He was also a great-grandson of Babur, Founder of Mughal Dynasty.

While he captured the city of Aleppo, he told: "I am not a man of blood, and God is my witness that in all my wars I have never been the aggressor and that my enemies have always been the authors of their own calamity."

In 1398 he invaded Delhi, India. He faced 120 war elephants were the tasks put poison. He used fire sticks and place fire bag which tied with camel and they sent the camels towards the elephants to made panic. Then he captured the city and 100,000 captivities were prisoned.

In 1400 he invaded the Christians in Georgia and Armenia. He captured 60,000 local people as slaves and most of the people were relocated. In 1401 he captured Baghdad and he killed 20,000 people.