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Interesting Facts - Page 78
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Louis Daguerre was a French inventor whose daguerreotype process was a huge step forward in photography. The French government purchased his invention in 1839, then gave it away for free as a "gift to the world".
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Prior to the 1800s, it was not uncommon for widows in India to be burned on their husband's funeral pyre. This practice was known as "suttee". Even today, widows in India face severe discrimination.
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Noah Webster popularized many of the spellings commonly used in American English such as color, traveler, and center. But some of his spellings didn't catch on. These include masheen, tung, dawter, iland, thum, wimmen, and beleev.
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The Lake of Menteith is the only "lake" in Scotland. All the other lakes in Scotland are generally referred to as "lochs".
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The reason that conjoined twins were once called "Siamese twins" is because of Chang and Eng Bunker, born in Siam (modern-day Thailand) in 1811. In 1829, the twins traveled to the United States and toured the country, becoming rich and famous in the process. After a decade of touring, they settled in North Carolina, where they became American citizens, bought slaves, married local sisters, and fathered 21 children.
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He remained me a character from a novel (or nívola, as its author, Miguel de Unamuno, called it) named "Niebla" ("Fog"): this character (Uncle Fermín) called himself a "literary anarchist", that is, he believed words should be written differently as they were commonly written. He would often claim that some letters were bound to die (whether by disuse or because they were "intrinsically evil"), and thus, should be removed from all spelling.
Though not fully, it is believed that the britishers brought such practices with them where in the UK at that time, a lot of women were burnt alive considering them witches.
The practice of sati was found in few antique books, manuscripts and such and all such were recorded from West India especially Rajasthan.
But the practice of Sati as mentioned by the westerners says that it's done in Bengal which is absolutely false. This is because the britishers first came to Bengal and they wanted to make money and they didn't allowed the Christian missionaries to interfere in their work, when the missionaries were found they were sent back in the next ship. So then, the missionaries made up the sati practice that India has a lot of evil customs which we want to abolish so let us built churches and stuffs.
And I'm from India, Bengal in particular so I know this
IK they did ban it. But it was already banned by the rulers who ruled India before them. In the gap between the times they conquered and the time when they banned the Sati ritual, thousands (if not millions) would have died.
Truth about Sati- YouTube"
Distorted History of India in Hindi- YouTube"
Today, unfortunately even most Indians believe that Sati is an Indian practice and the Britishers abolished it. That's because we are taught that and we are taught such bullshits because our education system was framed by the britishers. And the government doesn't changes the education system because they know if we get educated then we will change the government.
Sati over the years was evolved to be associated with husband's death, Mahabharta has three instances of Sati which were all voluntary and the Rig Veda reported one Sati over a period of 700 years.
The British records mostly show that Sati happened in West Bengal but Ramayana (which is based in Eastern India) has no witness or mention of Sati.
The same goes for Love-Jihad as Wikipedia lists it as "propaganda" even though there are hundreds of instances of it in common sight.
BTW, the govt did not abduct the Bajrang Dal. It was mainly the minorities. The govt only imprisoned them when they did something stupid.
Also, The Sati ritual was kinda voluntary. The women did not want to get captured, enslaved or raped by the invaders who murdered their husbands. Hence, they killed themselves. As seen in the Jauhars.
IK the Sati thing should not be blamed on the Britishers. But neither should its abolition be credited to them..