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Abanindranath Tagore Abanindranath Tagore (Bengali: অবণীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর) (August 7, 1871 - December 5, 1951), was the principal artist of the Bengal school and the first major exponent of swadeshi values in Indian art.&nb [...]

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An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes exper [...]

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Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms.  In the atmospheric electrical discharge, a leader of a bolt of lightnin [...]

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Early History The early history of electronics is closely tied to experimentation with the Crookes tube, a type of vacuum tube developed by Sir William Crookes, an English physicist and chemist. While performing experiments with a Crookes tube, Wilhelm K [...]

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