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The submarine has a chamber in which water can be filled in or pumped out as required.

The pyramids were built as tombs for the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. The early kings, or pharaohs, were buried in tombs inside roughly built stepped pyramids.

It is situated in Tibet (now under occupation by China) and is about 900 km north of Delhi. Mount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar are two of the most beautiful spots in the world.

Celsius scale is a temperature scale in which the fixed points are the temperatures at standard pressure of ice in equilibrium with water (o° C) and water in equilibrium with steam (100° C).

Upanishad literally means sitting near devotedly, and brings to mind the picture of a sincere devotee learning from his guru or spiritual master.

The Giraffe found in the dry savannah and open woodland areas of Africa, south of the Sahara, is said to be the tallest mammal in the world, according to The Guinness Book of World Records, 2009.

Modern Indian painting is a neat blending of diverse influences, indigenous and exotic, and its exponents include Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906), Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951),

At the very time when oil was beginning to form, an enormous shift took place in the Earth’s crust, which slowly resulted in the formation of the present continents.

Ancient astronomers thought that all the stars were positioned at the same distance from the Earth in a large hollow sphere.

Since Pakistan was formed on August 14, 1947, it is quite probable that its Independence Day is celebrated on August 14 every year.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), a distant cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, was elected President four times, in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944.

The fourth nuclear power reactor of the Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS-4) in Maharashtra, that began commercial operation from September 12, 2004, is India’s largest nuclear power reactor with a capacity of 540 MW.

Many of the written Constitutions of modern Europe came into being during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

MP3, a popular format for storing digital audio that is increasingly used to distribute music online, gets its name from MPEG-1 Layer 3, which outlines audio compression standards.

Deserts are formed by natural processes interacting over long intervals of time. Paleodeserts, large sand seas, now inactive because they are stabilized by vegetation, extend well beyond the present margins of core deserts, such as the Sahara desert in Africa.

Cryptography is writing is a disguised way using a secret code. Sometime the word ‘cipher’ is used instead of code.