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What is plotted in the graph??

Gmail Space with time..

2.The text is derived from sections 1.10.32-33 of Cicero’s De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Ends of Goods and Evils, or alternatively [About]

The Purposes of Good and Evil ). The original passage began: Neque porro quisquam est qui

do___ _____ quia sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit (Translation: "Neither is there anyone who loves

grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it").

It is not known exactly when the text acquired its current standard form; it may have been as late as

the 1960s.

Lorem Ipsum --a standard placeholder text in publishing and graphic design. It is often used to fill gaps in the page when text has not been put in.

3.Born in 24 Parganas district, his father was a temple priest, and his real name was Narendranath Bhattacharya. He believed

that knowledge is freedom and the urge for freedom was inherent in every man. Influenced by the writings of Swami

Vivekananda, the Gita he took an active part in the anti Partition agitations that rocked Bengal. He fled to Batavia and later Palo Alto, where he changed his name to evade the British

intelligence. In New York, he began to take an interest in Marxism, and in 1917, he fled to Mexico, along with Evelyn

Trent, his future wife, to escape from the British spies. He later founded the Communist Party of Mexico, and later came in touch with Lenin. And in 1920, he founded the Communist

Party of India. Disillusioned later with both bourgeois democracy and radical communism, he formulated an

alternative philosophy of Radical Humanism.

ANSWER IS :)

M N ROY

4.This Temple is known as ‘Hemambika Temple’, also as Sri Emoor Bhagavathi Temple in Palakkad.Connect it to

indian politics.

Hand symbol of Congress

Indra Gandhi visited this temple after the Congress split.She was impressed by the goddess and made the palm of the goddess as her election symbol.

5.Who holds the patent rights for these products?

ANSWER IS

MARK TWAIN :)

For improvement in adjustable and detachable straps for garments,Improvement in scrap-books and a Game apparatus

6.The term "X" was first used in connection with Y by the Boston Globe magazine

editor Bill Cardoso in 1970.He described Y's "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" which was written for the june 1970 scanlan's Monthly as pure "X

journalism".Cardoso claimed that "X" was South Boston Irish slang describing the last man standing after an all-night drinking marathon.He also claimes that it was a corruption of the French Canadian word which means

"shining path" although this is disputed.ID X

X-GONZO JOURNALISM

Y-HUNTER S THOMPSON

7.The idea of X is very simple, and it is probable that it has been invented and reinvented numerous

times. The word X dates to 1784, and may have derived by combining the words tongue and slap.

The first references to X in its modern context date to the 1920s. Alternatively it may be a word of

Roman origin being related to the Roman tradition of selling red apples.

LOLLIPOP :)

8.The act, which may be inflected with emotions ranging from sincerity to remorse, is called Ojigi in Japan. The informal version is called Eshaku, and involves an angle of about 15 degrees. The more

formal version is Keirei, and might require employing a 45 degree angle. Saikeirei, an extreme version involving some disrespect to gravity, is also known to exist. Pekopeko is the term applied to the repeated, energetic performance of the act. What

act?

BOWING

9.While visiting the Museu de la Ciència de Barcelona in 1988, he told its director that the

Salvador Dali painting The Face of War (The Visage of War) had given him “the intuition about the transcendence of the ____ ____ when making

intelligible the omnipresent similitude in the forms of nature”. Either tell us who this is or fill the

blanks?

X- FRACTALS

Y- Benoît Mandelbrot

10.In march 1941 who travelled to the soviet border in a diplomatic car,took a

train to moscow and then flew into berlin on an italian passport under the name orlando mazzotto?

SUBASH CHANDRABOSE

11.Believed to have originated in Tamil Nadu, this one’s got many names including Sadugudu, Gudugudu,

Palinjadugudu and Sadugoodatthi. It’s most famous name is a derivation of Tamil forms for ‘hand’ and ‘catch’.Some

of the forms are Amar, Surjeevani and Gamini with Surjeevani being the official form.Id what's referred to

here.

KABADI

12.This is Manora fort situated 65-km away from Thanjavur built by Maratha ruler Serfoji II .Why

was this built?

To commemorate the success of Britain in Waterloo

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FIRE FOX CODENAMES...

14.Identify this guy and the movie inspired from his life

ELON MUSK – CO FOUNDER OF PAYPAL

INSPIRATION FOR TONY STARK IN IRON MAN MOVIES

15.X was launched in 1993 by a British researcher at the University of Minnesota with help from

students and researchers at universities. It initially operated as a volunteer-based collective, and

started life as a simple IRC bot. It was soon made available via Gopher as well, and with the advent of the Mosaic web browser in April 1993 became one

of the earliest content web sites on the Internet.

CRICINFO.