The length of the pool shall be 50 meters. Additional 1 cm length shall be provided where removable electronic system for recording time is provided. The width of the pool shall be 21 meters. Along the width, the pool shall be 21 meters. Along the ...

(The Courts) The playing surface shall be 18 m long by 9 m wide including outer edge of lines. The clearance. above the court shall be 7 m or more and free from obstruction. The court shall be banded by lines 5 m wide which shall be at least 2m ...

The net shall be 1 m deep and 9.50 m long. The mesh shall be 10 cm with a double thickness of 5 cm wide canvas or line shall be stitched across the top; a flexible cable stretches the upper edge of the net and passes inside the band of canvas. Flexible...

Noting down messages letters, lectures etc. requires very fast speed of writing. The usual script or the longhand is not suitable for this. To overcome this difficulty short­hand is commonly used everywhere. Short­hand is a system of writing rapidly by using symb...

The ancient practice of training birds to kill other birds or animals is called falconry. Originally men must have used this for obtain­ing meat. But when this attracted the rich and the royal’s falconry developed into a sport for kings and queens and the rich.

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Many thousands of years ago men, women and children lived in caves. May be even before they de­veloped a language to talk to each other, they drew pictures on the walls of these caves. The first artists on earth were these cavemen. On the walls of some anci...

Even before painting pictures people may have been making sculptures from clay or stone or metal. Archeologists have found figures of men, women and animals in differ­ent excavations.

Around 2500 B.C. the Indus Valley Civilizations flourished in I...

Ballet is a kind of stage performance which includes music, dance, drama (story) and stage design to give a beauti­ful show. Some items of ballets depict only an idea or a mood instead of a complete story. The movements of hands, legs and other parts of the dancers' bod...

In 1895, when cars were a new discovery, and not many people could own a car, a news­paper in Chicago sponsored a car-race from Chicago to a nearby city.

Eighty car-owners decided to take part in the race. But when the race began, o...

Greeks and Romans were very fond of sports and games even in ancient times. They had big arenas built around race-tracks and sports gings. Greeks thought that a distance of 600 Greek feet was perfect for a race. This distance was a unit of measurement called `stadion'. The...