How did the city of Montreal get its name?
Montreal is an island city on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada. The city was first named by European settlers...
European
Looks like an apple and tastes like a pear
The papple is a hybrid of European and Asian pear varieties known as Pyrus communis and Pyrus pynfolia respectively. It...
The naming of Los Angeles
In 1769, a Franciscan priest Father Juan Crespí accompanied a group of Spanish soldiers on the first European land expedition...
How the great scientist J.C. Bose fought discrimination and won
Jagadish Chandra Bose as a professor of Physics at Presidency College, Kolkata, was offered a salary substantially lower than his...
