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Person who recognized as Father/Mother of a subject

Father of Microscopy - Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek
Father of Western Medicine - Hippocrates
Father of Internet - Vint Cerf
Father of the American Constitution - James Madison
Father of the Indian Constitution - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Father of Humanism - Francesco Petrarca
Father of Geometry - Euclid of Alexandria
Father of New France - Samuel de Champlain
Father of Genetics - Gregor Mendel
Father of the Green Revolution - Norman Ernest Borlaug
Father of the Green Revolution in India - M.S Swaminathan
Father of Scientific Management -Frederick Winslow Taylor
Father of Biology - Aristotle
Father of Evolution - Charles Darwin
Father of Microbiology - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Father of Nuclear Chemistry - Otto Hahn
Father of Periodic Table - Dmitri Mendeleev
Father of modern Medicine - Hippocrates
Father of Modern Physics - Galileo Galilei
Father of Modern Astronomy - Nicolaus Copernicus
Father of Nuclear Physics - Ernest Rutherford
Father of Nuclear Science - Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
Father of Computer Science -George Boole and Alan Turing
Father of American Football - Walter Camp
Father of Walter Camp - Geoffrey Chaucer
Father of modern Olympic - Pierre De Coubertin
Father of Numbers - Pythagoras
Father of Botany - Theophrastus
Father of Electricity - Benjamin Franklin
Father of Electronics - Michael Faraday
Father of Television - Vladimir K. Zworykin
Father of Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell
Father of Mobile Phone - Martin Cooper
Father of Laptop - Bill Moggridge
Father of Psychology - Sigmund Freud
Father of Surgery - Sushruta
Father of Plastic Surgery - Sir Harold Gillies
Father of Ayurveda Dhanwantari




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Father of Nations

1. Afghanistan Ahmad Shah Durrani
2. ArgentinaDon Jos de San Martn
3. Australia Sir Henry Parkes
4. Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling
5. Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
6. Bolivia Simn Bolvar
7. Brazil Dom Pedro I and Jos Bonifcio de Andrada e Silva
8. Burma Aung San
9. Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk
10. Chile Bernardo O'Higgins
11. Republic of China Sun Yat-sen
12. Colombia Simn Bolvar
13. Sweden Gustav I of Sweden
14. Croatia Ante Starevi
15. Cuba Carlos Manuel de Cspedes
16. Dominican Republic Juan Pablo Duarte
17. Ecuador Simn Bolvar
18. Ghana Kwame Nkrumah
19. Guyana Cheddi Jagan
20. Haiti Jean-Jacques Dessalines
21. India Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
22. Indonesia Sukarno
23. Iran Cyrus the Great
24. Israel Theodor Herzl
25. Italy Victor Emmanuel II
26. Kenya Jomo Kenyatta
27. Republic of Korea Kim Gu
28. Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova
29. Lithuania Jonas Basanaviius
30. Macedonia Krste Misirkov
31. MalaysiaTunku Abdul Rahman
32. Mauritius Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
33. Mexico Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
34. Mongolia Genghis Khan
35. Namibia Sam Nujoma
36. Netherlands William the Silent
37. Norway Einar Gerhardsen
38. Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah
39. Panama Simn Bolvar
40. Peru Don Jos de San Martn
41. Portugal Dom Afonso Henriques
42. Russia Peter I of Russia
43. Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia
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44. Scotland Donald Dewar
45. Serbia Dobrica osi
46. Singapore Lee Kuan Yew
47. Slovenia Primo Trubar
48. South Africa Nelson Mandela
49. Spain Fernando el Catlico
50. Sri Lanka Don Stephen Senanayake
51. Suriname Johan Ferrier
52. Tanzania Julius Nyerere
53. Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatrk
54. United Arab Emirates Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
55. United States George Washington
56. Uruguay Jos Gervasio Artigas
57. Venezuela Simn Bolvar
58. Vietnam Ho Chi Minh

Largest Deserts on the Planet (Subtropical)

1. Sahara, North Africa 3,320,000 sq. miles
2. Arabian, Middle East 900,000 sq. miles
3. Kalahari, Southern Africa 360,000 sq. miles
4. Great Victoria, Australia 250,000 sq. miles
5. Syrian, Syria, Jordan, Iraq 200,000 sq. miles
6. Chihuahuan, Mexico, U.S. 175,000 sq. miles
7. Great Sandy, Australia 150,000 sq. miles
8. Sonoran, Mexico, U,S, 120,000 sq. miles
9. Thar, India, Pakistan 77,000 sq. miles
10. Gibson, Australia 60,000 sq. miles
11. Simpson, Australia 56,000 sq. miles
12. Mohave, S,W, USA 25,000 sq. miles

FIFA World Cup FootballAll time Winners (YearHost CountryWinnerScore)

2010South Africa Spain Spain 1-0 Netherlands
2006GermanyItalyItaly 1-1 (5-3) France
2002Japan / S. Korea BrazilBrazil 2-0 Germany
1998France FranceFrance 3-0 Brazil
1994USBrazilBrazil 3-2 Italy
1990ItalyGermanyGermany 1-0 Argentina
1986MexicoArgentinaArgentina 3-2 Germany
1982SpainItalyItaly 3-1 Germany
1978ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina 3-1 Holland
1974GermanyGermanyGermany 2-1 Holland
1970MexicoBrazilBrazil 4-1 Italy
1966EnglandEnglandEngland 4-2 Germany
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1962ChileBrazilBrazil 3-1 Czechoslovakia
1958SwedenBrazilBrazil 5-2 Sweden
1954SwitzerlandGermanyGermany 3-2 Hungary
1950BrazilUruguayUruguay 2-1 Brazil
1946 not held
1942 not held
1938FranceItalyItaly 4-2 Hungary
1934ItalyItalyItaly 2-1 Czechoslovakia
1930UruguayUruguayUruguay 4-2 Argentina

Man Booker Prize for Fiction Books & winners (All- time)

2012- Bring Up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel)
2011 - The Sense of an Ending (Barnes)
2010 - The Finkler Question (Jacobson)
2009 - Wolf Hall (Mantel)
2008 - The White Tiger (Adiga)
2007 - The Gathering (Enright)
2006 - The Inheritance of Loss (Desai)
2005 - The Sea (Banville)
2004 - The Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst)
2003 - Vernon God Little (Pierre)
2002 - Life of Pi (Martel)
2001 - True History of the Kelly Gang (Carey)
2000 - The Blind Assassin (Atwood)
1999 - Disgrace (Coetzee)
1998 - Amsterdam: A Novel (McEwan)
1997 - The God of Small Things (Roy)
1996 - Last Orders (Swift)
1995 - The Ghost Road (Barker)
1994 - How Late It Was, How Late (Kelman)
1993 - Paddy Clarke Ha HaHa (Doyle)
1992 - The English Patient (Ondaatje)
1992 - Sacred Hunger (Unsworth)
1991 - The Famished Road (Okri)
1990 - Possession: A Romance (Byatt)
1989 - The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
1988 - Oscar and Lucinda (Carey)
1987 - Moon Tiger (Lively)
1986 - The Old Devils (Amis)
1985 - The Bone People (Hulme)
1984 - Hotel Du Lac (Brookner)
1983 - Life & Times of Michael K (Coetzee)
1982 - Schindler's Ark (Keneally)
1981 - Midnight's Children (Rushdie)
1980 - Rites of Passage (Golding)
1979 - Offshore (Fitzgerald)
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1978 - The Sea, the Sea (Murdoch)
1977 - Staying on (Scott)
1976 - Saville (Storey)
1975 - Heat and Dust (Jhabvala)
1974 - The Conservationist (Gordimer)
1974 - Holiday (Middleton)
1973 - The Siege of Krishnapur (Farrell)
1972 - G. (Berger)
1971 - In a Free State (V. S. Naipaul )
1970 - The Elected Member (Bernice Rubens)
1969 - Something to Answer For (P.H.Newby)
Indias All-Time Olympic Medalists

1. K. D. Jadhav Bronze 1952 (Helsinki)Wrestling Men's freestyle Bantamweight
2.Leander Paes Bronze 1996 (Atlanta)TennisMen's singles
3.Karnam Malleswari Bronze 2000 (Sydney)WeightliftingWomen's 69 kg
4.Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Silver 2004 (Athens)ShootingMen's double trap
5.Abhinav Bindra Gold 2008 (Beijing) ShootingMen's 10m Air Rifle
6. Vijender Singh Bronze 2008 BeijingBoxingMen's 75 kg
7. Sushil Kumar Bronze 2008 Beijing WrestlingMen's 66 kg Freestyle
8.Gagan Narang Bronze 2012 LondonShootingMen's 10m Air Rifle
9.Vijay Kumar Silver2012 LondonShootingMen's 25 Rapid Fire Pistol
10.Saina Nehwal Bronze2012 LondonBadmintonWomen's singles
11.Mary Kom Bronze 2012 London BoxingWomen's flyweight
12.Yogeshwar Dutt Bronze 2012 LondonWrestlingMen's 60 kg Freestyle
13.Sushil Kumar Silver 2012 LondonWrestlingMen's 66 kg Freestyle