Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

Long ago, before 45 BC , the Roman calendar was a bit of a mess. The year started in March and only had 10 months, which made it only 304 days long. Then, a Roman king Numa Pompilius added two more months, February and January , which made the year longer, about 354 or 355 days. Pic: Amazing Planet But there was still a problem. In 450 BC , they moved February to where it is now, between January and March. They also had to add an extra month sometimes to make up for the missing days. This extra month was called Intercalaris or Mercedonius , and it had either 22 or 23 days. Later on, they realized that the years were too long. So, every eight years, they dropped seven days from the calendar to make it better. This made each year about 365.375 days long. To fix all these issues, a calendar reform was needed. In 45 BC, Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar , which is the basis for the calendar we use today. But before they could start using it, they had to fix the old calenda...

From chennaivision Sikkim has a unique electoral college for Sangha (monasteries) seat whereby only Buddihst Lamas and Nuns have the right to elect one representative in the 32-member Assembly. The Lamas and Nuns can cast ballot from their respective Assembly segments in general booth but have a separate ballot box for Sangha seat. -X- Women take pride in Sikkim’s elections in electing the 8th Assembly as some 1,43,154 electors of the total 3,00,584 are females. Of them a record 56 are nuns, which showed women are not far from taking lead role in propagating Buddhism in this erstwhile Chogyal kingdom. -X- Chujachen constituency in east Sikkim has the highest number of voters in a constituency at 12,902. The lowest is at Lachen-Mangan, a tribal Bhutia seat north Sikkim with 5699 voters. -X- The polling station with the largest number of voters is Arithang-Old Secretariat room No 1 with 1206 voters in east Sikkim. The lowest number of voters is in 127 polling station at Poklok-Kamr...

XciteFun.net is one of the nice sites that we have, today i received a mail from it regarding some of the wonderful and interesting facts which i felt was worth knowing . So how much did you know about these stuffs:- 1. Turtles have no teeth. 2. Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds. 3. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching. 4. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they're crying. 5. Helium is a colourless, odourless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe. 6. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top. 7. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend...

For a change i am sharing some English language facts which i found in one of the pages of Download Softwares games (cracked) n, hope each one will enjoy it as i did. Myself being a school teacher i firmly believe these are for every school going students and for teacher also. The shortest complete sentence in the English language is “I am.” The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used! Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language. Goddessship is the only word in the English language with a triple letter. The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet! The sentence “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs” uses every letter of the alphabet and uses the least letters to do so! The world’s l...