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Stone Of The Month
TOURMALINE
Tourmaline has become a favorite gemstone among jewelry designer, and gem collectors the world over. Since it is available in a wide variety of colors, it is ideally suited to almost anyone's taste. Tourmaline also is known for displaying several colors in the same gemstone. These bi-color or tricolor gems are formed in many combinations; gemstones with clear color distinctions are highly prized. One multicolor variety is known as watermelon tourmaline, and features green, pink, and white colors bands; to resemble its namesake, the gemstone is cut into thin slices having a pink center, white ring, and green edge. Tourmaline is found in many localities including Brazil, Afghanistan, East Africa, and the USA.
TOURMALINE
Tourmaline has become a favorite gemstone among jewelry designer, and gem collectors the world over. Since it is available in a wide variety of colors, it is ideally suited to almost anyone's taste. Tourmaline also is known for displaying several colors in the same gemstone. These bi-color or tricolor gems are formed in many combinations; gemstones with clear color distinctions are highly prized. One multicolor variety is known as watermelon tourmaline, and features green, pink, and white colors bands; to resemble its namesake, the gemstone is cut into thin slices having a pink center, white ring, and green edge. Tourmaline is found in many localities including Brazil, Afghanistan, East Africa, and the USA.
Festival Of The Month
Navratri
Navaratri is a nine day festival that celebrates the Mother Goddess in all her manifestations, including Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati. Worship and fasting take place in the daytime, while the nights are reserved for feasting and dancing. The festival culminates with Dussehra, the victory of good over evil, on the tenth day. In Delhi, the feature of Navaratri celebrations are the Ramlila plays that take place all over the city.
Navratri
Navaratri is a nine day festival that celebrates the Mother Goddess in all her manifestations, including Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati. Worship and fasting take place in the daytime, while the nights are reserved for feasting and dancing. The festival culminates with Dussehra, the victory of good over evil, on the tenth day. In Delhi, the feature of Navaratri celebrations are the Ramlila plays that take place all over the city.
- When: October 5-13, 2013.
- Where: All across India, but particularly in Gujarat, Mumbai, Varanasi, Mysore, and Manali.
Jokes
Riddles
UNIVERSE UMBRELLA
#Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) and Mars
R.A.:10h 51m 42.6s Dec.:8° 59' 44.4" (J2000)
Leo Constellation
Magnitude: 8.91
Distance from Sun: 165,017,517 km [39.9 km/s]
Distance from Earth: 203,235,013 km [50.5 km/s]
Perihelion: 28 Nov 2013 [-31d 17h 59m 33s]
# There has only been one satellite destroyed by meteor. it was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
#The Universe may have neither a centre nor an edge, because according to Einstein's theory of relativity, gravity bends all of space time around into an endless curve.
# The spinning neutron star at the heart of the Crab nebula is just 10 kilometer wide, and 50 trillion times denser than lead.
#The star Lucy in constellation Centaurus is actually a huge cosmic diamond of 10 billion trillion trillion carates.
#Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) and Mars
R.A.:10h 51m 42.6s Dec.:8° 59' 44.4" (J2000)
Leo Constellation
Magnitude: 8.91
Distance from Sun: 165,017,517 km [39.9 km/s]
Distance from Earth: 203,235,013 km [50.5 km/s]
Perihelion: 28 Nov 2013 [-31d 17h 59m 33s]
# There has only been one satellite destroyed by meteor. it was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
#The Universe may have neither a centre nor an edge, because according to Einstein's theory of relativity, gravity bends all of space time around into an endless curve.
# The spinning neutron star at the heart of the Crab nebula is just 10 kilometer wide, and 50 trillion times denser than lead.
#The star Lucy in constellation Centaurus is actually a huge cosmic diamond of 10 billion trillion trillion carates.