It is a traditional American festival celebrated on February 2. The legend of Groundhog Day is based on an old Scottish couplet: “If Candlemas Day is bright and clear, there’ll be two winters in the year.” It is said that if the groundhog pops out from its electrically-heated burrow, sees his shadow, and then disappears again, it will mean that …

Fat Tuesday is Mardi Gras, where ‘Gras’ is French for ‘fat’ and ‘Mardi’ is French for ‘Tuesday’. The name comes from the tradition of slaughtering and feasting on a fattened calf on the last day of a carnival. The annual festivities start on January 6, the Twelfth Night Feast of the Epiphany, when the three kings are supposed to have …

The original Roman calendar had 10 named months from March to December and two unnamed months during winter. These two months were named January and February by Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome circa 700 BC. January is named after Janus, the Roman ‘god of gates, doors and the beginnings’.

Two days after Utsav Sharma, 30, attacked Dr Rajesh Talwar, social networking sites have received sharp reactions over the act with many users calling him a ‘hero’ and others denouncing his act. Sharma had attacked former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore in a similar fashion in February 2010. One user, Himanshu Agarwal, on Facebook community page ‘Utsav Sharma – Hero or …

Celebrating New Year’s Day is one of the oldest and most-exciting customs around the world. Ringing church bells, tooting horns and ear-piercing shrieks echo throughout the world on this festive day. Whether visiting relatives or watching New Year’s Day parades at home on the TV, welcoming the New Year is always a time of entertainment, celebration and resolution. Since this …

Winston Churchill — Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also …

Wafa Sultan was born on June 14, 1958, Baniyas, Syria. She is an American author and critic of Muslim society and Islam. She is trained as a psychiatrist in Syria. Life and Career Sultan was born into a large traditional Muslim family in Baniyas, Syria. She immigrated to the United States in 1989, and is a naturalized citizen and resides …

Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe — Early Life of Thomas “Tom” Anderson and Chris DeWolfe Thomas “Tom” Anderson (born November 8, 1970) is an American entrepreneur. He co-founded the social networking website MySpace in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe. Anderson was previously president of MySpace, and is now a strategic adviser for the company. Because newly created MySpace accounts previously included …

Tiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri — In 1927 a young Indian started research under Robert Robinson, who later won the Noble prize, at Manchester University. Within a few a months he had his first test. He was asked to prepare in the laboratory some chemical compounds found in the rose and another flower. Seeing that he was not familiar with such work, …

The Flickr Founders — Tom Sawyer got it right. Why paint a fence when you can get your friends to do it for you for free? He would have been the perfect new-media mogul. Spending time and money creating content on the Internet is so hopelessly dated, so dotcom, so very, very 1.0. The secret of today’s successful Web 2.0 …