A beautiful and attractive painting of Mona Lisa is kept in Louvre museum of Paris. Separate room is built, humidity and temperature is maintained so that the painting is not spoiled and this painting is placed behind the bullet proof glass. Leonardo da Vinci Born in 1452 in vinci town Tuscany. Leonardo was the illegitimate son of his father that's why his name was Leonardo da Vinci. He started working in Verrocchio studio at age of 14. His teacher Verrocchio trained him and he started making paintings. He was a nature lover as his paintings contains nature's depiction and illustrations. Vinci used to say that science and art is complementary, he used to show the science behind his art. Vinci was such an amazing visionary that he merged to different departments together. The Mona Lisa or La gioconda is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Vinci that has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung a...
Lonar lake also known as lonar crater, is a notified National Geo-heritage monument located in Buldhana district, Maharashtra. It was created by an asteroid collision with earth impact during the pleistocene E-poch. The water in the lake is both saline and alkaline. The lake was first mentioned in ancient scriptures such as the skanda purana and the Padma purana. The Ain-i-akbari, a document written about 1600 CE. The first European to visit the lake was a British officer, J.E. Alexander in 1823. Lonar lake has a mean diameter of 1.2 millimeters. The lake is a heaven for a wide range of plants and animal life. Resident and migrator birds such as black-winged stilts, brahminy ducks, grebes, shelducks(European migrant), swallows, etc. are found on the lake. Among reptiles, the monitor lizard is reported to be prominent. Lonar crater become a geo-heritage site in 1979. The area of 3.83 square kilometre was declared as lonar wildlife sanctuary by the government on 20 November 2015. In case...
Meteorite-like object fall from sky in Rajasthan, leaves residents confound. On the morning of 19th June 2020, meteorite-like object weighing around 2.78 kilogram fall from the sky on Friday morning in Sanchore town in Jalore district of Rajasthan. The object fall with such force and heat that it resulted in the formation of one-foot deep pit in the ground. According to the local administration, an explosion was heard up to the range of 2 kilometres. Even 3-4 hours after it hit the ground the object was emiting heat. The local officials got it tested in a private lab located at a jeweller's shop in Sanchore. This object contains - 10.23% of Nickel 85.56% of Iron 0.5% of Platinum Traces of Germanium, Antimony, Niobium and others. Geologist at geographical survey of India will examine it further. It is important to know the difference between asteroid, meteorite, meteor and meteoride - Asteroid - An asteroid is a relatively small body (that is not a comet), usually Rocky or me...
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