somnath temple facts

1. The Somnath Temple (Gujarati: સોમનાથ મંદિર Sanskrit: सोमनाथ मन्दिर) located in the Prabhas Kshetra near Veraval in Saurashtra, on the western coast of Gujarat, India, is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of the God Shiva.
2. Somnath means "The Protector of (the) Moon God".
3. According to somnath temple facts, it has been said to be created by the Moon God.
4. Mahmud of Ghazni attacked the temple in 1026 and plundered it.
5. In 1296 CE, the temple was once again destroyed by Sultan Allauddin Khilji's army
6. Most recently it was rebuilt in November 1947, when Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel visited the area for the integration of Junagadh and mooted a plan for restoration.
7. Statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in front of the templeAfter Patel's death, the rebuilding continued under K. M. Munshi, who was the Minister for Food and Civil Supplies in the Nehru Government.
8. The ruins were pulled down in October 1950 and the mosque present at that site was shifted few miles away.^[22]
   In May 1951, Rajendra Prasad, the first President of the Republic of
   India, invited by K M Munshi, performed the installation ceremony for
   the temple.
9. This episode created a serious rift between the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru,
   who saw the movement for reconstruction of the temple as an attempt at
   Hindu revivalism and the President Rajendra Prasad and Union Minister K.
   M. Munshi, who saw in its reconstruction, the fruits of freedom and the
   reversal of past injustice done to Hindus.
10. The present day somnath temple is built in the Chalukya style where
    contributions of the Sompara Saluts who are the chief masons of Gujarat
    have been immense.
11. The present temple is built in the Chalukya style of temple architecture or Kailash Mahameru Prasad Style^[12] and reflects the skill of the Sompura Salats, Gujarat's master masons.
    
    The temple is situated at such a place that there is no land in straight-line between Somnath seashore till Antarctica, such an inscription in Sanskrit is found on the Arrow-Pillar called Baan-Stambh erected on the sea-protection wall at the Somnath Temple. This Baan-Stambh mentions that it stands at a point on the Indian landmass, which happens to be the first point on land in the north to the south-pole on that particular longitude.^[26]
12. 
    Arrow Pillar or Baan-Stambh

Nuclear Research Centres in India

 

Research Center	Place
Atomic Energy Commission	Bombay
Bhabha Atomic Research Center	Trombay (Bombay)
Electronics Corporation of India	Hyderabad
High Altitude Research Laboratory	Gulmarg (Kashmir)
Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute	Durgapur (West Bengal)
Central Mining Research Institution	Dhanbad (Bihar)
Indian Rare Earths, Ltd.,	Alwaye
Radio Astronomy Center	Ootacamund
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics	Calcutta
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research	Bombay
Tata Memorial Center	Bombay
Uranium Corporation of India	Jaduguda(Bihar)

 

Inventions and Inventors

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Inventions & Their Inventors

The following table gives the name of inventors and their inventions in short and concise form .Please memorize these for any future KBC (Kaun Banega Crorepati) episode or any other exams or test based on GK

Inventions	Inventor
Air Conditioning	Willis Carrier
Air brakes	George Westinghouse
concept of ambulance	Knights of St. John
anemometer (measures wind speed)	Leon Battista Alberti
first artificial heart first artificial kidney dialysis machine	Willem Kolff
Aspirin	Hippocrates
Astroturf : synthetic grass-like playing surfaces	Wright and Faria of Monsanto Industries
magnetic recording Audio Tape Recording	Marvin Camra
electrified monorail system	Ronald Riley
safety air bags: first offered in the 1973 model Chevrolet	General Motors research team
the first true plastic Bakelite	Leo Hendrik Baekeland
Ball Point Pens	Ladislo Biro
first rubber balloons	Michael Faraday
Band-Aid	Earle Dickson
Bar Codes	Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver , 1952
Barbie Doll	Ruth Handler , 1959
modern baseball	Alexander Cartwright
BASIC (Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)	John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz ,  in 1964
Basketball	James Naismith