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"Car of Juggernaut" (1851) (Source: The Illustrated London Reading Book)
Did you know that the word Juggernaut has its roots in Odisha?
Nanda Parbat (Source: Wikia (Nanda Parbat))
Nanda Parbat? Rama Kushna? Batman? What in the world is going on?!
Braham Chopp (Source: lessmiths (Chopp Brahma, Brazil))
What connects a Brazilian alcoholic beverage to the Hindu Trinity?
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 (Source: Wikipedia (Nagasaki Bomb))
What links the Bhagavad Gita and the Atomic Bomb?
Kubera. Northern India. 10th century. Sandstone. (Source: Wikipedia (Kubera))
Kubera, Gandharva, Shakuntala, Garuda and .. South Korea. What gives?
Marilyn Monroe in the trailer for the film The Prince and the Showgirl (Source: Wikipedia)
Edgar Allan Poe, Marilyn Monroe, Sigmund Freud, and a Babaji are inexplicably linked. How?

Quotable quotes

Akbar never denied his mother anything but this …

Ecbar Shaugh [Emperor Akbar] … never denyed [his mother] any thing but this, that shee demanded of him, that our Bible might be hanged about an asses necke and beaten about the towne of Agra, for that the Portugals … tyed [the Quran] about the necke of a dogge and beat the same dogge about the towne of Ormuz. But hee denyed her request, saying that, if it were ill in the Portugals to doe so to the Alcoran, being it became not a King to requite ill with ill, for that the contempt of any religion was the contempt of God.

Did you know?

Holy Cow

Until around the 20th century, the cow was considered sacred (and beef taboo) in Japan, China, and other parts of South East Asia. It was also similarly considered in Ancient Egypt.