GoodBye, Alvida

This is the end of "Incredible India's" blog journey!

Hope you learned alot and enjoyed even more!
Be sure to travel India for it's places, food and culture!

ALVIDA GUYS!

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Interesting Facts

Let's finish out with the

TOP  INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT INDIA!

 

 

• India is about 1/3 the size of the United States,India is the seventh largest country in the world, at 1.27 million square miles

• India is the largest democracy in the world.

• Many Indians find toilet paper repellent and consider it cleaner to splash water with the left hand in the appropriate direction. Consequently, the left hand is considered unclean and is never used for eating.

• To avoid polluting the elements (fire, earth, water, air), followers of Zoroastrianism in India don’t bury their dead, but instead leave bodies in buildings called “Towers of Silence” for the vultures to pick clean. After the bones dry, they are swept into a central well.

• It is illegal to take Indian currency (rupees) out of India

• India leads the world with the most murders (32,719), with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year

• India has one of the world’s highest rates of abortion.

• More than a million Indians are millionaires, yet most Indians live on less than two dollars a day. An estimated 35% of India’s population lives below the poverty line.

• Cows can be found freely wandering the streets of India’s cities. They are considered sacred and will often wear a tilak, a Hindu symbol of good fortune. Cows are considered one of humankind’s seven mothers because they offer milk as does one’s natural mother.

 

info from: http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/07/21_india.html

"Zero"

 

Zero; if removed you can become nothing, if added, you can become known!

http://theosophical.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/is-zero-a-number/

Where was Zero originated?

• The number zero was invented independently in India and by the Maya. In India a decimal system was used, like ours, but they used an empty space for zero up to 3rd Century BC. This was confusing for an empty space was also used to separate numbers, and so they invented the dot for a zero.
• The first evidence for the use of the symbol that we now know as zero stems from the 7th century AD. The Maya invented the number zero for their calendars in the 3rd century AD.
• The number zero reached European civilization through the Arabs after 800 AD. The Greek and Roman did not need the number zero for they did their calculations on an abacus.
• The name 'zero' comes from the Arabic language.

Info from: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_invented_the_number_name_zero