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This mysterious iron pillar in India has been exposed to the elements for over 1,600 years. So why hasn’t it ever rusted?
Scientists both in India and abroad began studying the iron pillar in Delhi in 1912 to try to figure out why it hadn’t corroded. It wasn’t until 2003 that experts at the Indian Institute of ...
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Episode 4: Ages of Gold
Episode Four is the story of India in the Middle Ages ... They mastered the world's first large scale wrought iron technology—the Delhi iron pillar, and their courtly culture was the setting ...
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India vandals forced to fix Hampi monument pillar
who were earlier arrested for vandalising a Unesco World Heritage site in the southern Indian town of Hampi, have been made to fix the pillar that they pulled down. In a video clip that went viral ...
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Moneyball: Sameer Nath of Iron Pillar On Being Low Key And ‘Really’ Getting Back Into The Market
according to the Inc42 Datalabs’ Indian Tech Startup Funding Report H1 2018 Talking about this, Nath admits that getting valuations right is the number one concern for Iron Pillar and says the ...
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Indian envoy lays foundation stone of Ashoka Pillar in Sri Lanka
India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Santosh Jha has laid the foundation stone of an Ashoka Pillar in the sacred Waskaduwa temple in the island nation's Western province. Jha, who took over as ...