Cabral pedro alvarez biography of mahatma
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About a decade ago, my wife and I were on a group tour to Europe with one of the famous tour operators of India. Before entering Italy, we were touring Austria. One bright morning, our coach rolled on the highway from Engelberg, Switzerland.
One of the major attractions of our itinerary before reaching Innsbruck, Austria, was a visit to the famous Swarovski Crystal World at Watten.
The location of the Crystal World was superb, just below the lush green Alpine meadow of the Austrian Alps. The tour manager granted us two hours to venture into the museum. A good friend and co-tourist, Mr Mittal, wanted to have a taste of cappuccino. He was accompanied by his wife. So, we moved on to a quiet corner of a restaurant inside the crystal world. We had a hectic tour schedule throughout. Suddenly, Mr.Mittal asked me, “Duttajiye coffee kahan se aya India me.”
It is an intriguing query and needs an explanation. According to history, the mention of coffee could be traced back to the Ethiopian Plateau, where according to a legend around 800 A.D. goat herder Kaldi first discovered the quality of this amazing beverage. According to a legend, one day Kaldi from Kaffa was herding his goats on a highland near a monastery in Abyssinia. He observed some strange behaviour among the herd. Goat
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by Simon Winchester
in "Smithsonian" (April 1991, pp. 84-95)
It was only a generation after Columbus that Magellan's tiny fleet
sailed west, via his strait, then on around the world.
Balboa found the ocean. Then, in their droves, explorers
emerged to circle and probe and colonize it, but first, in that
most daring of all endeavors, to cross it.
No one could be sure how wide it was. No one could be sure
where lay the Terra Australis Incognita, which Ptolemy had
postulated and which Mercator would argue was a necessary balance
for a spherical world--without it the whole planet might simply
topple over, to be lost among the stars. No one knew the weather
or the currents or the winds. But one small certainty spurred the
would-be circumnavigators onward. It was that the Spice Islands,
the Moluccas, lay at the farthest side of whatever might lie beyond
the waters, pacific or unpacific, that Balboa had discovered.
Traders buying nutmegs and cloves from Arabian merchants had
known about the Spice Islands for centuries; in the 1200s Marco
Polo k