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   BY Pragyan Sharma Polavarapu   TID BITS -1 Computer can do in just one second  a million calculations like 2+3,  4x2,   5-3,  9/3 etc . This is because electric current makes the calculations. The speed of current is about 300,000 kilometres, yes,300,000 kilometres  in just one second. There is an interesting fact. Whereas we get current in our homes (in India) at 220 volts, the currents which are used by computer/laptop/tab/cell phone are only like 2volts,3 volts,5 volts. (Voltage of flowing electric current is like depth of flowing water in a neat cement canal of uniform rectangular cross section). TID BITS-2 Only once or twice in a second we  can operate   the electric switches on the walls in rooms of our house. But inside the computer, the current is switched on/off a million times in just one second Silicon semiconductor molecules (atom sized particles) do such switching. The silicon chip in computer is o...

  BY PRAGYAN SHARMA POLAVARAPU   1 My   writing in this part of my blog   is out of   my interest   in   old classical English dramas, poems ,novels etc that possess such   indescribable beauty of style. My writing   is thus   focused   on   the ancient history of English language . The quest to know history of the language led to curiosity about the people who speak it and about their philosophic   and spiritual orientation. So, examined here is a very ancient period in history of Europe. There is a well known saying of some historians that   though England (i.e. total Britain ) is not   geographically in Europe it is of Europe. It is culturally part   of Europe and is a leading player.   The old   Greek culture and philosophic tradition   and the later Roman philosophic tradition   dominated   Europe since around    2500 years   .   The ancient   cultur...

 BY  PRAGYANSHARMA POLAVARAPU   (1)NORMAN CONQUEST OF ENGLAND In a long period of 500-600 years   after the historic Norman conquest, England   --living under   Anglo-Saxon kings    in a   rural oriented   old world rural atmosphere-- underwent a great   change . Though separated by the sea from the continent   it was now becoming fully a part of European cultural, religious and political changes . England   was linked to European royal families by marriage alliances. England was growing agriculturally prosperous and was becoming one of the central players in   west European politics   .   England right from Anglo-Saxon times was an active seafaring nation with its ships protecting the coasts from Viking and Norwegian pirates. The Celtic people dominated areas of Ireland   Scotland and Wales and were somewhat aloof and backward. The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 was a great ...

  BY PRAGYAN SHARMA POLAVARAPU (A) INTRODUCTION In some  old classical English books we  see  a strict serious  style (Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden  etc ) and in some an entirely different  flowing simple styles  ( Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats,R.L.stevenson,Jane Austen etc) . There are surely  thousands of  outstanding writers during  last 300-400 years.  To understand the big transformations  that occurred perhaps  over a period of 1000 years to create modern English, we should take again a quick look at history. (a) From times of  Norman Conquest (1066) of England  large number of French words crept into  English language.  The political landscape of the British Isles transformed in a big way. William the Conqueror (1028-1087) replaced the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy with Norman-French aristocracy  and  redistributed  most land to the  Norman warlords .  A new French-Norman...

BY    PRAGYANSHARMA POLAVARAPU ·           EXT9-OLD ENCLAND-ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY-KING ALFRED THE GREAT January 04, 2026 BY    PRAGYANSHARMA POLAVARAPU  (1) The life  of people of British isles  since  ancient times  had always been  influenced  by  oceanic climate,  the land being at the eastern edge of the vast Atlantic ocean which spreads 3000 miles up to shores of USA.  The weather is influenced by the warm oceanic currents. The often rainy drizzling type weather and the greenery (forests and  low hills  in the south, forests and mountains and foggy weather in north) appear to make British Isles quite a picturesque place. A genuine love for nature—clearly visible in the descriptions of the greenery and forests, low hills  and valleys and the once quiet and once gusty  the seaside environment –pervade English literature from old to new times . “What is this...