Toronto's CN Tower

Toronto's CN Tower offers lobster cocktail and torched Hokkaido scallops from its 360 restaurant.

Neues Rathaus

The Neues Rathaus (New Town Hall) in Munich. It is built in neo Gothic style contrasting it with buildings of the royal family. It was designed by George von Hauberrisser following an ideas competition when he was just 25 years old! He had studied in Munich, Berlin and Vienna. The clock has 43 bells, the lightest 10kg, the heaviest 1300kg. The clock is known as Rathaus-Glockenspiel. The tower can be climbed between 10am and 8pm.

Temple of Apollo and Significance of Apollo in the Greek Pantheon

The Temple of Apollo is the oldest Doric temple in Sicily.

Doric refers to the so-called Doric "architectural order" the other canonical orders being Ionic and Corinthian. Fluted columns are quintessential to the Doric style.

The original structure consisted of 6 columns on the short side and 17 on the long side. It is located in Ortygia in Syracuse.

Apollo is associated with music, truth, prophecy, knowledge and healing. His abode is Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece. Wild boar live in the foothills of Mount Olympus.

Russell Square

Russell Square is a London attraction in the area known as Bloomsbury.

Bloomsbury is in the London Borough of Camden.  The name originates from the Norman landowner William de Blemond. Bloomsbury is mentioned in 1086 in the Domesday Book.

Russell Square is home to the Hotel Russell.

Residents of Bloomsbury Square included Edwin Lutyens.

Russell Square is on London's Piccadilly Line, between Holborn and Kings Cross St. Pancras. It is five stops from Green Park (a triangular park just South of Mayfair).

IIT Kharagpur - The First of the IITs

The first Indian Institute of Technology was IIT Kharagpur, founded in 1951, at which Nehru gave the first convocation address in 1956.

He called it "India's future in the making". It was declared an Institute of National Importance by the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) Act.

Kharagpur is in West Bengal, in the Eastern part of India (state capital Calcutta, or Kolkata).

The second IIT to be founded was IIT Bombay in 1958. Campuses were scattered throughout India to prevent regional imbalance.

Entrance to IITs is by Joint Entrance Exam (JEE). Exams must be taken in:

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Mathematics 

plus an additional aptitude test for Architecture candidates (where knowledge of famous monuments and their architects is tested).

In mathematics, some of the more tricky or unusual requirements include the following.

e.g. knowledge of harmonic series. In the harmonic series, each term is inverse of a term in an arithmetic progression. e.g. 1,2,3,4,5.. becomes 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5.  Each term of the harmonic series is the harmonic mean of neighbouring terms (2(x1)(x2) / (x1+x2)).

Also analytic geometry skills must be extremely good. e.g. do you know the equation of a circle? For a circle with centre (a,b) the easiest way is to think of it in terms of its "standard form" (x-a)^2 + (y-b)^2 = r^2. The equation x^2 + y^2 = 1 is the unit circle centre (0,0).

In chemistry, some of the basic concepts you will need include kinetic theory of gases (the idea of gases as collections of atoms and molecules moving randomly in space).

Physical chemistry topics are required (where we apply physics to chemistry), covering how matter behaves at the molecular and atomic level, and explaining how reactions occur. John Dalton's premise that all matter is composed of atoms is assumed.