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The First Battle of Panipat
The First Battle of Panipat, on 21 April 1526, was fought between the invading forces of Babur and the Lodi dynasty. It took place in North India and marked the beginning of the Mughal Empire and the end of the Delhi Sultanate. This was one of the earliest battles involving gunpowder firearms and field artillery in the Indian subcontinent which were introduced by Mughals in this battle.[5]
Egyptian Royalty And Odd Things They Did
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Jessica BuggPublished 6 months ago in 01Steve Jobs Biography
Born: February 24, 1955 San Francisco, California American business executive, computer programmer, and entrepreneur
Start-up Stories: NR Narayana Murthy, Infosys
It is a habit instilled by his father. "We have a caste system in India where the so-called lowest class… is a set of people who clean the toilets," he explains.
Success Story of Ratan Tata, meet India’s Charismatic Leader
The success story of Ratan Tata – Ratan Tata’s father, Naval Tata, was Ratanji and Navajbai Tata’s adopted child. Naval Tata grew up at the J.N. Petit Parsi Orphanage. Ratan Tata’s grandmother, Navajbai Tata, was a major admirer of him. Ratan Tata’s parents divorced when he was ten years old in 1940, and he was raised by his grandmother.
From 2014 to 2019: How the Adani Group funded its expansion
Over the past five years, the Adani Group has expanded its presence across India. Not only is it the country’s largest private port operator, coal importer, coal miner, private power producer, city gas distributor and importer of edible oils, it has also expanded into airports, urban water management, small and medium sector lending, power transmission and distribution, data centres, aerospace and defence.
Periodic whitewashing of Tipu Sultan can’t undo his unflattering history
To be sure, the ground for this had already been set years ago by a coterie of seasoned, hardcore Marxist intellectuals, novelists, and writers among others who were substantially rewarded after he became chief minister. Chief among these was the late Girish Karnad’s drama, Dreams of Tipu Sultan (originally in Kannada titled Tipuvina Kanasugalu). The play can be considered as The Sword of Tipu Sultan 2.0 in play form. As chief minister, Siddaramaiah kept his promise such as it was, and unleashed Tipu Jayanti on the state at taxpayer expense. Expectedly, it led to avoidable conflagrations and violence and death each year spread over at least three years. We can let that matter rest at that for now.
Bill Gates
William (Bill) Henry Gates III became the most famous businessman in recent history. His supreme accomplishment was to design and develop innovative software for the personal computer, making PCs universally popular machines. In user-friendly language, communicating with computers is a matter of "translating" a person's native language into the codes that a computer understands. The easier this translation is to make, the easier it is to work with the computer and the more accessible and widely used the computer becomes. Gates' gift for software design, as well as his skills in business, made Microsoft, the company he co-founded with a high school friend in Richmond, Washington, a multi-billion-dollar empire.
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos was born in 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His biological father, was Ted Jorgenson, he was one of top unicyclists of Albuquerque. And Jeff's mother, Jacklyn Bezos, was still in her teens when she married Ted. But this marriage couldn't last more than one year. Then, Jacklyn remarried Mike Bezos, a Cuban immigrant when Bezos was 4 years old.
As the stethoscope turns 200, is the iconic device becoming obsolete?
Stethoscopes have competition from smartphone plug-in devices Canadian doctor makes stethoscope with 3D printer to deal with Gaza shortage
CDC 6600, the first supercomputer
It is often regarded as the first successful supercomputer, surpassing the fastest machines at that time by about three to one. It is often regarded as the first successful supercomputer, selling three times more than its previous record holder in the industry, the IBM 7030 Stretch. With 400,000 transistors, over 100 miles of cables, and Freon cooling, the CDC 6600 reaches a maximum speed of 40 MHz or performance of 3 million floating points per second (megaflops).
Bernard Arnault Biography
After completing high school he enrolled at the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique and received a degree in engineering. Upon his graduation the young man joined his father’s civil engineering business as an engineer and also started planning for the company’s growth and expansion. He convinced his father to change the focus of their business to the booming real estate sector, and found significant success in the field. He eventually started acquiring other companies and became the owner of the prestigious Christian Dior brand and Le Bon Marché department store. When LVMH was created as a result of a merger between two companies, Arnault invested millions in the shares of the new company and became LVMH's first shareholder. Eventually he was selected chairman of the executive management board and in this position he led an extensive expansion plan and transformed the company into one of the largest luxury groups in the worldHe joined his father’s company after graduating from college. He started planning for the company’s expansion and growth and in 1976 he was successful in convincing his father to liquidate the construction division of the company and invest the proceeds in a more lucrative business.