Saturday December 24, 2005

Swimming Among Tribes And Peoples Around the beginning of the Christian era, the Northern and Central Europe, which has many lakes and rivers, was inhabited by numerous Germanic tribes and peoples, which were in a process of transition from primitive to feudal society and which were subjects to a certain amount of influence from the declining Roman slave holding society. Owing to the fact their settlements were situated near lakes and rivers and to the necessity of crossing streams and rivers wen hunting or in times of wars, swimming was a very popular sport of practical value. Both men and women went in for swimming. Judging from old myths and sagas, there is reason to believe that there were also swimming competitions. The East European regions were inhabited mainly by Slavic tribes in those times. They too preferred to build their settlements near lakes and rivers and they too regarded swimming as a useful art. No conclusive evidence or myths exist at present about the techniques of locomotion in water or about swimming contests being held by them. But one thing is clear that swimming is as old as our society. ( Dec 24 2005, 07:43:15 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [106]

Wednesday December 14, 2005

Page rank calculation Information on the algorithm, how to increase PageRank, what diminishes it and how to distribute PageRank within a website. ( Dec 14 2005, 03:47:37 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [1]