Friday, October 22, 2010

Bulgaria Missing Polar year

Bulgaria Polar year

Seals belongs to order “pinipedia”, it came from the Latin word “pinna” means wing/foot and “ped” means foot. They have four feet. There are three different  families in pinnipeds. They have a slender body and capable of gliding through water. Since they live in marine environment they belong to marine mammal’s category.

 Polar bears also belongs to class Mammalia. They are large carnivorous bears and they spend their most time in sea water in search of food. Even they are very close to land bears they have adapted themselves to stay in the cold weather of Arctic Circle. They also hunt for seals to feed. Polar bear sometimes also regarded as marine mammals. 



Argentina Missing Polar year

Argentina Polar year

Monday, October 18, 2010

Calcutta High Court


Calcutta High Court is the oldest high courts in India ,was established on 1st July, 1862 and  has jurisdiction over the state of W.B. , the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and has a judge strength of 58. The High Court building was designed on the model of the ‘Stadt-Haus’ or Cloth Hall at  Ypres(Ieper),Belgium.It was designed by Mr. Walter Granville (the government architect).

The Calcutta High Court
In the cloth Hall wool and cloth (other fabrics) and many other goods were traded. The building was started around 1200 and was completed in next 100 years.

This Cloth hall was destroyed by fire in World War 1 .Then again it was reconstructed in 1967.Now inside this, there is the Flanders Fields Museum.
The Belfry Tower was one of the oldest part of this hall. It had a watchtower and it had bells for warning, in time of dangers.

From the belfry tower, black cats were thrown out ceremonially to remove "black magic" .In the city of Ypres, Belgium once every three years they have a "Cat festival" (second Sunday in May) and stuffed toy cats are thrown out.
 
        
     Other names of Cloth Hall :
·         Lakenhal
·         Lakenhalle
·         Clothmakers' Hall 
·         Stadt-Haus


 

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Sherlock Holmes

 
Guernsey Post issued a set of Sherlock Holmes stamps on the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Underneath the illustration of each stamps of the set, there are an image in each stamp which can be visible only through special lens.



Friday, October 8, 2010

Learning

I have lot to learn about blogging.Still trying to link post to specific pages. "WordPress" is a good software,but I need to know how to install it.

~butterfly

Thursday, October 7, 2010

The start

Hello my friends,family,neighbours, finally I have created to express my feelings,my passions.Visit my blog if you like.

Thanks Very much

~ Butterfly .