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Oak was born in a Marathi Brahmin Family [5] in 1917 in Indore in the erstwhile Princely State of Indore, British India. [6] [7] According to his own account, he completed an M.A. and a law degree (LL.B. Mumbai), before being inducted as a Class I Gazetted officer in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting wherein he wrote various journalistic pieces. [8]
The Taj Mahal was commissioned by Shah Jahan in 1631, to be built in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died on 17 June that year while giving birth to their 14th child, Gauhara Begum. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Construction started in 1632, and the mausoleum was completed in 1648, while the surrounding buildings and garden were finished five years later.
A view of the Tagus River from the castle, showing the granite outcropping and its 18-metre rise over the waterway.. It is believed that the castle was constructed on the site of a primitive Lusitanian castro that was later conquered by the Romans during the 1st century B.C.E. [1] It was later remodeled by successive invading forces, including the Alans, Visigoths and the Arabs, although it is ...
The bridge is made of large, heavy limestone blocks, some of which span 4.2 feet (1.3 meters) across, and it remains unclear what mechanisms enabled ancient humans to build the bridge.
The real name of taj mahal is derived from "tejo mahalaya". and we can find thrishul at the top of taj. It was built 300 years before shahajahan. taj mahal is built by rajpooth king Jai Sing.( ref . Badshahanama page 403 vol_1 written by shahajahan).
Request update in form of addition in Myth Section as the case filed to declare Taj Mahal as Tejo Mahalaya. The district court in India (Agra) has admitted a plea filed by six lawyers stating that the Taj Mahal is a Lord Shiva temple (Tejo Mahalaya) and Hindu devotees should be allowed to offer prayers there.
It is also commonly called the Tagus River Bridge (in Portuguese: Ponte sobre o Tejo, lit. "bridge over the Tagus"). [4] [5] Later changes had to be made due to the rapid increase in population. In the 1990s, a fifth car lane was added, and in 1999, a lower deck, used as a railway track, which was planned since the beginning, was finally built. [6]
The bridge is part of a federal highway project to connect Iquitos, in Peru's northeast, to the El Estrecho district on the Colombian border, in total some 188 kilometers (117 miles). It faces ...