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Gol Gumbaz or Gol Gumbadh, from
Persian Gol Gombadh meaning "round
dome", is the mausoleum of Mohammed
Adil Shah Sultan of Bijapur. The tomb,
located in Bijapur, Karnataka in India, was
completed in 1656 by the architect Yaqut
of Dabul.
Agrasen ki Baoli (also known as Agar Sain ki Baoli or Ugrasen ki Baoli), designated a protected monument by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) under the Ancient Monuments and Archeological Sites and Remains Act of 1958, is a 60-meter long and 15-meter wide historical step well on Hailey Road near Connaught Place, a short walk from Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, India.
Fatehpur Sikri is a city and a municipal
board in Agra district in the state of Uttar
Pradesh, India. The city was founded in
1569 by the Mughal emperor Akbar, and
served as the capital of the Mughal
Empire from 1571 to 1585.
The Jantar Mantar is located in the
modern city of New Delhi. It consists of
13 architectural astronomy instruments.
The site is one of five built by Maharaja
Jai Singh II of Jaipur, from 1724 onwards,
as he was given by Mughal Emperor
Muhammad Shah the task of revising the
calendar and astronomical tables.
Arvind Subramanian ; a native of Tamil
Nadu is an Indian economist and the
current Chief Economic Adviser to the
Government of India, having taken
charge of the position on 16 October
2014 succeeding Raghuram Rajan.
Sushil Kumar : The wrestler from
Najafgarh on the outskirts of Delhi
created history by becoming the only
Indian to win two individual Olympic
medals.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-
Churchill was a British politician and
Nobel Laureate who was the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom from
1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to
1955.
Thomas Alva Edison was an American
inventor and businessman. He developed
many devices that greatly influenced life
around the world, including the
phonograph, the motion picture camera,
and a long-lasting, practical electric light
bulb.
Malala Yousafzai born 12 July 1997 is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize recipient. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school.
Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. At an early age, Hawking showed a passion for science and the sky. At age 21, while studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge, he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Despite his debilitating illness, he has done ground-breaking work in physics and cosmology, and his several books have helped to make science accessible to everyone.
Albert Einstein was a German-born
theoretical physicist and philosopher of
science. He is best known in popular
culture for his mass-energy
equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has
been dubbed "the world's most famous
equation").