Thai Pongal celebrates a bountiful harvest
After the Christmas and New Year festivities, the
focus is now on the Pongal harvest festival, popularly known as Thai
Pongal, celebrated in the first four days of the month of Thai in
the Tamil-Hindu calendar. Traditionally, it is the festival of
farmers who depend on Mother Earth, the sun, rain, other natural
elements and cows and buffaloes for a bountiful harvest of their
staple food,
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Soma, the devout Bhikkhuni
The thought of meritorious acts that cross your
mind in the trial moments of death, the Buddhists believe, help one
to be born in the celestial worlds, or in comfort on earth. The
story of one of the Bhikkhunis, - Soma – during the Buddha's, time
clearly shows that her meritorious deeds in previous birth helped
her,
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The main problem for a manned Mars mission? Sleep deprivation
Getting sleep will be one of the biggest
challenges facing astronauts in any future manned mission to Mars,
according to a study of six men who spent 520 days and nights in a
confined “spacecraft” during a simulated trip to the planet.
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