Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, often running the gamut between being the best friend or arch-rival of Bugs Bunny.Daffy first appeared on April 17, 1937, in Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery and animated by Bob Clampett. The cartoon is a standard hunter/prey pairing for which Leon Schlesinger's studio was famous, but Daffy represented something new to moviegoers: an assertive, combative protagonist, completely unrestrainable.Daffy established his status by jumping into the water, hopping around, and yelling, "Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Hoo-hoo! Woo-hoo!"....

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Aghori

The Aghori or Aghora are a Hindu sect believed to have split off from the Kapalika order (which dates from 1000 AD) in the fourteenth century AD. Many Hindus condemn them as non-Hindu because of their tabooistic rituals. Aghoris or Aughads command extreme reverence from rural populations as they are supposed to possess powers to heal and relieve pain gained due to their intense practices. Aghori are denizens of the charnel ground.Aghori ascetics, while being devotees of the Hindu God Shiva in Shiva's form as Lord Bhairava, are monists who adhere to the common Hindu belief in liberation (moksha) from the cycle of reincarnation (samsara). This...

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Charlie Chaplin - The LEGEND

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He became one of the most famous film stars in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and...

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Full Names Of Famous People

M S Subbulakshmi - Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi A P J Abdul Kalam - Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam J R D Tata - Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata B R Ambedkar - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar M G Ramachandran - Marudur Gopalan Ramchandran C V Raman - Chandrashekhara Venkata Ra...

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Speechless Thought

"It Takes Around 2 yrs to Learn to Speak. But, "IT TAKES A LIFETIME TO LEARN WHAT NOT TO SPEAK.!"-Forwarded Unbeatable Thou...

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Ugadi

Ugadi is the New Year's Day for the people of the Deccan region of India.It falls on the different day every year because the Hindu calendar is a lunisolar calendar. The Saka calendar begins with the month of Chaitra (March–April) and Ugadi marks the first day of the new year. Chaitra is the first month in Panchanga which is the Indian calendar.While the people of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh use the term Yugadi/Ugadi for this festival.The people of Maharashtra term the same festival, observed on the same day, Gudi Padwa.Sindhis, people from Sindh, celebrate the same day as their New Year day Cheti Chand.Manipuris also celebrate their New Year (Sajibu Cheiraoba) on the same day. While it is observed as Baisakhi in Punjab and Puthandu in Tamil Nadu. However, it is not celebrated on the same...

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Shakti Peethas

The Shakti Peethas (holy places of cosmic power) are places of worship consecrated to the goddess Sati, the female principal of Hinduism and the main deity of the Shakta sect. They are sprinkled throughout the Indian subcontinent. This goddess Sati is the incarnation of Gowri / Parvati, the benevolent goddess of harmony, marital felicity and longevity, with Durga, goddess of strength and valour, and with Mahakali, goddess of destruction of the evil. According to legend, at some time in the Satya Yuga, Daksha performed a yagna (named Vrihaspati) with a desire to take revenge on Lord Shiva. Daksha was angry because his daughter Dakshayani also...

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