Literary awards- WorldMan Booker International PrizeIt is an international literary award given every two years to a living author of any nationality. It is given for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation. It was awarded for the 1st time in June, 2004. It is awarded for an author’s … [Read more...] about Literary Awards :For the Love of Literature

Blue Book Any official report of the British GovernmentGreen Book Italian and Iranian Government official publications.Grey Book Japanese and Belgian Government official reports.Orange Book Official publication of the Netherlands Government.White book Official publication of Germany, china and PortugalYellow … [Read more...] about Official Books

There has not been any source till now which has mentioned an exact number of languages spoken in the world. But it is presumed that the figure lies somewhere between 6000 and 8000.The Ethnologue contains statistics for 7,105 languages. It is perplexing to note that India alone is home to 455 … [Read more...] about Languages

CountryCapitalLanguageAfghanistan Kabul PashtoDari (Persian)Algeria Algiers ArabicAntigua and Barbuda St. John'sArgentina Buenos … [Read more...] about Country, Capital & Conversation

Battle Conflict YearBattle of Thymbra War between Croesus of the Lydian Empire and Cyrus the Great. Lydia was conquered by the Persians. 547 BCBattle of Megiddo Josiah of Judah and Necho of Egypt. Egyptian defeated Josiahs. 508 BCBattle of Marathon Athenians fought against Persians. Athenians emerged victorious. 490 … [Read more...] about Famous Battles in the World History

COMPANIES CEOAccenture Pierre NantermeAdidas Herbert HainerADP (Automatic Data Processing) Carlos A. RodriguezAmazon Jeff BezosAmerican Express Ken ChenaultApple Tim CookBMW Norbert ReithoferCanon Fujio MitaraiCitrix Systems Mark TempletonCognizant,  CEO Francisco … [Read more...] about Companies and their CEOs