From its early days, salsa was a very popular dance that combined styles and rhythms from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean s and had a strong influence from Africa.

Rakhi is a festival that celebrates the beautiful bond of love between brothers and sisters. The festival is celebrated by the tying of a rakhi a colourful and decorated band by a sister on her brothers wrist. It is celebrated on the full moon of the month of Shraavana and in 2007 it falls on August 28.

The Black Death is the most famous pandemic to have spread across Europe. It is also credited with having caused social and political reforms. It also arguably changed the course of European, and therefore global, history.

Among the figures found in military history, very few inspire the same awe as Alexander the Great. Commanders that followed, from the ancient Romans to the Nazis, are said to have felt inadequate in the face of the Macedonian's achievements.