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It's not too late, but the future looks bleak for these species as they are on the verge of extinction. 1.Black Rhino Location:Namibia,Coastal East Africa Bit by bit, the black rhino is disappearing from the world. Most recently, the western black rhino was declared extinct in 2011. Only one subspecies ,the south-western black rhinoceros is managing to hold on beyond the threat of being considered endangered. (The International Union for Conservation of Nature considers it “near threatened.”) The entire wider species has fallen in population by 96 percent in just the last 60 years. Poaching represents one of the biggest threats to the survival of the rhino, as its horn is used in traditional folk medicine in China. Only 5,500 rhinos remain on the African continent, though there are concerted efforts to boost those numbers. 2.Amur Leopard Location: Russian Far East and North East China The subspecie s ,which is also known as the Fast East Leop

Maha Shivaratri is a festival celebrated all across India. While people in some parts of the nation pay their respects to Shiva by fasting, in other areas, devotees flock to temples dedicated to Shiva. We explore Mandi’s seven-day Shivaratri fair and why it is celebrated. Among the variety of Hindu fasts and days fixed for the worship of a specific god, Maha Shivaratri is one of the most important. Observed across the country, this celebration is more meditative than festive, with people beginning their fast a day prior to the festival, chanting mantras and praying to the venerated Shiva. However, in Mandi, a small town in Himachal Pradesh, jubilation and gaiety manifest in the form of the seven-day Shivaratri Mela. Most of temples are dedicated to Shiva, with the Trilok Nath Temple, Pachvaktra Temple and the Bhootnath Temple being the most important ones. The Bhootnath Temple is where the centuries-old Shivaratri Mela is held. Historian and Indologist Elisabet

1.Logo of the Apple computers designed in 1977 has a bite in it because the designer thought that without the bite mark people might confuse it with a tomato or cherry.Also, because bite creatively means byte. 2.In1977, we received a signal from space which lasted for 72 seconds. https://futurism.com/the-40-year-old-mystery-of-the-wow-signal-was-just-solved 3. If the statue of a person in a park on a horse has both the front legs in air then that means the person died in the battle. If one leg in the air then that means person died of wounds received in a battle and if the horse has all the four legs on the ground that means person died of natural causes. 4. The Empire State Building gets hit by lightening 23 times a year. 5.   Concorde  001, prototype of the supersonic  aircraft, chased the total solar eclipse  on june 30 1973 over the   Sahara Desert at  a speed of Mach 2 (over 2,200 km/h or 1,370 mph) and at an altitude  of 17,000 meters (56,000 ft).Conc

1.HE SUFFERED FROM OCD He had obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD) , he became obsessed with the number 3, walking around a building three times before entering it. And at each meal, he would use exactly 18 napkins to polish the utensils until they sparkled. 2.HE WAS BORN DURING A LIGHTNING STORM Nikola Tesla was born around midnight, between July 9 and July 10, 1856 during a fierce lightning storm. According to family legend, midway through the birth, the midwife wrung her hands and declared the lightning a bad omen. This child will be a child of darkness, she said, to which his mother replied: “No. He will be a child of light.” 3.HE HAD GERMAPHOBIA He was a germaphobe (having a fear of germs) refusing to  touch anything even the slightest bit dirty, hair, pearl earrings or anything round .To avoid shaking hands with people he met,he lied that he had injured his hands in a laboratory accident.   4.PEARLS  DROVE HIM CRAZY Tesla could not stand the sight of