1) " Goa" -- As it applies to Goa Flights For other uses, see Goo (disambiguation). Goa Two letter code GA Country India Capital — Administrative — Judicial 1 — Panaji — Mumbai Location — Latitude — Longitude — 15° N — 73° E Governor SC Jamir Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar State language Konkani Liberation Day December 19, 1961 Statehood Day May 30, 1987 Population 1.4 million Area 3702 kmē Goa (गोवा) is India 's smallest state in terms of area andthe second smallest in terms of population. Goo is internationally renowned for its fabled tropical beaches and world heritage architecture. A former colony of Portugal, parts of it were ruled by the Portuguese for about 450 years, from 1510 until December 1961. Contents 1 Origin of name 2 History 3 Geography 4 Economy 5 Government and Law 6 Demographics 7 People and culture 8 Flora and Fauna 9 Transportation 9.1 External 9.2 Internal 10 Tourism 11 Sport Origin of name The Indian epic Mahabharata refers to oa by the appellationGoparashtra — a nation of cowherds. The southern Konkan region was called Govarashtra. In ancient Indian texts in Sanskrit, Gua was also known as Gopakapuri or Gapakapattana. These names were also mentioned in the sacred Hindu texts such as the Harivansa and the Skanda. Gao is also known as Gomanchala in the latter. In the Puranas and certain inscriptions, the name of the place appears as Gove, Govapuri, Gopakpattan, and Gomant. Ptolemy referred to Goi as Gouba around 200 CE. It has also been known as Aprant. The medieval Arabian geographers knew the port city of Chandor (or Chandrapur) as Sindabur, or Sandabur. The placethat the Portuguese named <...
2) " Flights" -- As it applies to Goa Flights This article concerns the process of flying. For other meanings see Flight (disambig). Flight is the process of flying: either movement through the air by aerodynamically generating lift or aerostatically using buoyancy, or movement beyond earth's atmosphere by spacecraft. Animal flight Animal flight: Herring Gull The most successful groups of living things that fly are insects, birds, and bats. Each of these groups' wings evolved separately from different structures. Pterosaurs were a group of flying vertebrates contemporaneous with the dinosaurs. Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight. However, there are several gliding mammals which areable to glide from tree to tree using fleshy membranes between their limbs: some can travel hundreds of metres in this way with very little loss of height. Flying tree frogs use greatlyenlarged webbed feet for a similar purpose, and there are flying lizards which employ their unusually wide, flattened rib-cages to the same end. Flying snakesalso use a flattened rib-cage to fly, with a back and forth motion much the same as used on the ground. Flying fish can glide using enlarged wing-like fins, and have beenobserved soaring for hundreds of metres using the updraft on the leading edges of waves. It is thought that they evolved thisability to help them escape from underwater predators. Most birds fly, with some exceptions. The largest birds, the ostrich and the emu, are earthbound, as were the now-extinct dodos,while the non-flying penguins have adapted their wings for use under water. Mostsmall flightless birds are native to small islands, and lead a lifestyle where flight confers little advantage. The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest animal in the world; its terminal velocity exceeds 320 km/h while diving down on its prey. Among living animals that fly, the wandering albatross hasthe greatest...
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