Why, What, How, When, Where, Who.Ask anything and find the answer.

The name obviously belongs to Japanese. He was the famous historical novelist and he is the proud winner of Cultural Order of Merit in 1960 and the Mainichi Art Award.

It is reported that Japanese have no real interest in History and they surely would like to forget their past and move on. Eiji’s writings are reported to have renewing Japan’s interest in its history.

He wrote his first book ‘The Tale of Enoshima’  in 1914.

There is no image of him in Wikipedia but the image below is taken from Google Images.

It seems to have been created in 1892.

I came across the name name Rumi preceded by the title Sufi poet, several times while the books of Dr.Wayne Dyer, Joe Vitale and a few other spirituality writers.

I must confess my sparse taste for poetry. But when they are transalated or explained, I don’t hide my admiration.

Well, this Sufi poet Rumi-I presumed it to be a female for long time because of the sound of the name. Rumi, who is also known as Malwana Jala ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, is one of the most influential poets of the 13th century.He belonged to Persia which in now the Iran.

India has long associations with Persian rulers and the history of India took a big turn because of Persian rulers.

The major work of Rumi is the Masnavi-ye Manavi. It is also sometimes called the Qur’an-e Parsi. The first title translates to Rhyming Couplets of Profound Spiritual Meaning, and the second means The Persian Qur’an. Under either title, it is considered by both religious leaders and scholars to be one of the finest works of mystical poetry ever produced. 

Born in Bhalk, Persia, in 1207 from an aristocratic family, Rumi died in 1273. People say that he played about 70.000 verses. Many of them, are included in his masterpiece “Masnavi-yi Manari” (Spiritual Couplets).

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The great Bismarck is called the Iron Chancellor. Do you his full name?

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck also called as Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, Prince of Bismarck. His period was April 1, 1815 – July 30, 1898.

My husband is a post graduate in History and he gave me the following information. He might have compiled from his own memory or from various online sources.

A hundred years ago, Germany was divided into many small states, or countries. In one of these states, Prussia, the chancellor, or chief minister to the king, was Otto von Bismarck. A strong and ruthless man, Bismarck made Prussia the strongest of all German states and its army feared throughout Europe.

When the states were gathered into one empire in 1871, Bismarck, then a prince, and his king, then an emperor, were at its helm. Prince Bismarck continued to make the new empire stronger until he was dismissed by a new emperor in 1890. He got his nickname, The Iron Chancellor’, when he said that Germany could only become a great power through blood and iron.

Over 345,000 people will answer anything you ask!

I know this blog blog will take years to catch up with yahoo! Answers and Wikianswers; so in order to feed your hunger for knowledge, I will blog about websites of questions and answers type.

Answer Bag is one such type where 345,000 people are waiting to answer your query. Oh, their community has grown to 376,000 as of date!

Get the best answers where there are no duplicate questions and questions are always open.

These are the categories one can ask question and find answers:

* Arts
* Autos
* Business
* Computers
* Electronics
* Entertainment
* Finance
* Food & Dining
* Games
* Health & Fitness
* Hobbies
* Home & Garden
* Kids
* Legal
* Life & Society
* Real Estate
* Recreation & Sports
* Relationships
* Science
* Social Sciences
* Travel
* Outside the Bag
Alas, I don’t find my favorite Spirituality subject among the categories. I can answer them with fair amount of authority.

Vikings-don’t you think the name itself sounds dangerous. It evokes fear in me whenever I read the word.

As per history, the Viking belong to Norse peopleswho are known as the best sea fareres and exploreres but later indulged in pirate activities. These Norsemen used their famed long ships to travel as far east as Constantinople and the Volga River in Russia, and as far west as Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland. This period of Viking expansion is known as the Viking Age, and forms a major part of Scandinavian history, with a minor, yet significant part in European history. Source-Wikipedia

The first Viking attack:

It happened in the year 817, on the coast of Ireland and the culprits attacked a monastery
wearing masks and iron helmets. They were dreadful. They slaughtered monks and nuns.

No, please, don’t tell your children about Vikings. The fear once instilled might take years to clean from the subconscious mind.

Do you know that Mother’s Day is not celebrated in India though the day is used by children and husbands to honor mothers and grandmothers for all that they do in raising children?

How sad that many of western holidays that are created to honor or appreciate the humanity have not reached the whole world?

Mother’s Day began in the 1600s in England and earmarked on the fourth Sunday of Lent.

Surprisingly, the U.S. followed suit only after 172 years. The credit should go to Julia Ward Howe who was never a mother herself who led the campaign for national recognition of Mother’s Day.

Wait! There is more interesting news! It was only in 1910, that West Virginia became the first state to recognize the new holiday, and the nation followed in 1914 when President Wilson declared the second Sunday in May to be Mother’s Day.

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Dr Martin Fisher has reportedly helped 300,000 farmers arise out of poverty because they used his invention-money maker pump. This pump is used for irrigation purposes.

 Fisher, through his non-profit organization KickStart, has taken an active role in helping to spread his technology to farmer/entrepreneurs in Tanzania, Mali and Kenya.

 This pump is manual treadle pump that will direct water to where it is needed, pulling water from a depth of seven meters and lifting it up fourteen meters above the water source. No fuel or electricity is required to operate the pump.

 Martin’s co-designers are Robert Hyde, Mark Butcher, and Adblikadir Musa.

He is awarded the Wins Lemelson-MIT Sustainability Award. The award money is $100,000.

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