What is an ASP.NET Web API in Simple Terms?

An ASP.NET Web API is an application programming interface that exposes or gives data to other resources without that resource talking to the database directly. Simply put, a Web API's purpose is to speak to (interface with) a different application. The Web API can interact with a person/user&nb Read More

One Day is Not Enough at Grand Canyon National Park (Facts and Photos)

The Grand Canyon, located in northern Arizona, is the second most-visited national park in the United States: trailing only the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. On average, it receives almost 6 million visitors a year and is embraced by various forms of natural beauty, including mountains, p Read More

The Ancient Yosemite Glaciers: How the Valley Was Formed

All California has been glaciated, the low plains and valleys as well as the mountains. Traces of an ice-sheet, thousands of feet in thickness, beneath whose heavy folds the present landscapes have been molded, may be found everywhere, though glaciers now exist only among the peaks of the High Sierr Read More

Shimla: Favorite Tourist Destination of Himachal Pradesh

The diesel locomotives of narrow-gauge Kalka-Shimla Railway takes its passengers to the capital of the Himachal Pradesh, to the charming town named Shimla. The term ‘Shimla’ brings the smell of the fresh Himalayan mountains, the sight of amazing British architecture. The introductio Read More

The Untold History and Love Story of the Taj Mahal

"Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever." These great words of Rabindranath Tagore evoke two magical words that are related to Taj Mahal, ‘Eternal Love.’ The name of this wonder of the world carries the we Read More

Charming Stein am Rhein and its Magnificent Stories

How do you start painting a place which you have never seen previously? That was the question I was asked when painting my first work: “The Swallow’s Nest”  (a castle on the cliffs of Crimea), which I had never seen in my life. Nevertheless, it seemed as if I had been ther Read More

Africa Of My Dream

Africa is the home to the black race. It has 54 countries and majority of her citizens rely on Agriculture for a livelihood. Nature blessed Africa with resources capable of liberating the continent from her present state of non-industrialization but our insistence on doing things the crude way has r Read More

Projecting Nigeria value as a great Nation through film

Films have existed for several decades, and it has acted as a vital tool that has shaped the world positively and negatively Africa as a continent was able to get rid of some of her fetish practices like human sacrifices, killing of twins, religion and a host of others through the influence Read More

My Fractal Life

        It always seemed a likely dream that reality would make sense by my seventies; well it happened. A childhood dream came true when an understanding from a long distant past blossomed like a butterfly effect. As a light Read More

NATIONAL SPORTS DAY – How to make it special!

    In India August 29th every year is celebrated as National sports day and is the birthday of Major Dhyan Chand Singh who is the captain of Hockey team which won gold in Olympics.   For his contribution towards the sport and bringing home great laurels to the country, hi Read More

Is Technology Our Friend?

Who is a friend?  A friend according to the Oxford Advanced learners’ dictionary is a person who has the same interests and opinions as yourself, and who will help and support you. This is someone we run to in bad and good times, someone to whom we pour our hearts to, someone who knows th Read More

Everything Is Going To Be Alright

INT.LIVING ROOM - DAY Small table next to couch. We see a half bottle of beer sitting on table. LARRY is sitting on the couch in a daze looking at the TV. He has a pistol resting on his lap. LARRY What am I going to do? What am I going to do? He glances down at the gun. A little girl with a p Read More