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On heritage run, world's oldest locomotive puts up a better show
The 157-year-old steam engine, the world's oldest locomotive, remained true to form during a heritage run organised by Southern Railway here to mark the Republic Day on Thursday.
Cheered on by scores of heritage enthusiasts, children and curious onlookers, the EIR 21 with a 60-seater coach in tow, chugged away from Chennai Egmore to turn back the history pages.
The old wonder shrugged off a near 20-minute delay in departure and made good time
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during the course of the run to Guindy - clocking a mean speed of 41 kmph and completing the trip in just 27 minutes flat.
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The four main components of a graphics card are connections for the motherboard and monitor, a processor, and memory.
A graphics card works along the same principles. The CPU, working in conjunction with software applications, sends information about the image to the graphics card. The graphics card decides how to use the pixels on the screen to create the image. It then sends that information to the monitor through a cable. Read More |
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The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single mass of ice on Earth.It covers an area of almost 14 million square km and contains 30 million cubic km of ice. Around 90 percent of the fresh water on the Earth's surface is held in the ice sheet,an amount equivalent to 70 m of water in the world's oceans. In East Antarctica, the ice sheet rests on a major land mass, but in West Antarctica the bed can extend to more than Read More |
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