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  2. Request for Comments - Wikipedia

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    Although written by Steve Crocker, the RFC had emerged from an early working group discussion between Steve Crocker, Steve Carr, and Jeff Rulifson. In RFC 3, which first defined the RFC series, Crocker started attributing the RFC series to the Network Working Group. Rather than being a formal committee, it was a loose association of researchers ...

  3. Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia

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    Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar [a] (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician.Often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then ...

  4. Prem Behari Narain Raizada - Wikipedia

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    The original constitution was written by him in a flowing italic style. The Calligraphy of the Hindi version of the Original Constitution was done by Vasant Krishan Vaidya. [ 1 ] Working in a room in Constitution Hall (now known as the Constitution Club of India ), he rendered the document - consisting of 395 articles, 8 schedules, and a ...

  5. Names for India - Wikipedia

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    The name India originally comes from the Sanskrit word Sindhu. Which is another name for the Indus River and the lower Indus basin (Sindh, Pakistan). The Old Persian word for Síndhu became Hindu or Hindūš (𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁) because the Arabs and the Persians spoke the letter /h/ instead of /s/.

  6. Postage stamps and postal history of India - Wikipedia

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    The October 1952 series of six values on the theme of Saints and Poets was the first to be so produced. However, these were not the first photogravure stamps of India, having been preceded by the first Gandhi series of 1948, which were printed by Courvoisier of Geneva using the photogravure technique. Since then, photogravure has been used to ...

  7. Francis Whyte Ellis - Wikipedia

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    Ellis is the first scholar who classified the Dravidian languages as a separate language family. [3] [4] Robert Caldwell, who is often credited as the first scholar to propose a separate language family for South Indian languages, acknowledges Ellis's contribution in his preface to the first edition of A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South Indian Family of Languages: [5]

  8. Bhagavad Gita - Wikipedia

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    The Bhagavad Gita (/ ˈ b ʌ ɡ ə v ə d ˈ ɡ iː t ɑː /; [1] Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd ˈɡiːtɑː], romanized: bhagavad-gītā, lit. 'God's song'), [a] often referred to as the Gita (IAST: gītā), is a Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, [7] which forms part of the epic Mahabharata.

  9. S. R. Ranganathan - Wikipedia

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    The first few years of Ranganathan's tenure at Madras were years of deliberation and analysis as he addressed the problems of library administration and classification. [10] It was during this period that he produced what have come to be known as his two greatest legacies: his five laws of library science (1931) and the colon classification ...