Boryeong Mud Festival

The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival which takes place during the summer in Boryeong, a town around 200 km south of Seoul, South Korea. The first Mud Festival was staged in 1998 and, by 2007, the festival attracted 2.2 million visitors to Boryeong.

The mud is taken from the Boryeong mud flats, and trucked to the Daecheon beach area, where it is used as the centrepiece of the 'Mud Experience Land'. The mud is considered rich in minerals and used to manufacture cosmetics. The festival was originally conceived as a marketing vehicle for Boryeong mud cosmetics

Stranavigli Water Race

People attend the Stranavigli Water Race held at the Naviglio Grande on July 16, 2011 in Milan, Italy. Stranavigli Water Race is an annual creative contest on the water.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft becomes first probe to enter orbit around object in asteroid belt

On Saturday, NASA'a Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta, becoming the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study Vesta for a year before heading for the dwarf planet Ceres. With previous multi-target missions, such as the Voyager program, considered rapid planetary flybys, Dawn is also set to become the first spacecraft to enter orbit around one extraterrestrial body before continuing under powered flight to a second.

Dawn launched on September 27, 2007, and belongs to NASA's Discovery Program founded in 1992 to develop technologies to enable "faster, better, cheaper" planetary missions. Its study of two large bodies in the asteroid belt is aimed at providing information on the dawn of the solar system - hence its name. Data collected on the Dawn mission will also be crucial for future missions aimed at sending astronauts to an asteroid - something President Obama has directed NASA to do by 2025.

Flashback Tata Crucible Quiz Part 23

• The corporation’s emblem tend to project the firm’s determination to become a world leader, it’s bluish color suggests stability in an intimate feeling of warmth. The elliptic shape symbolizes movement through space combining an image of innovation and change. The partial letter S and letter G break out the oval to connect the interior with the exterior, showing desire to become a world leader. Whose logo is this?

• DG Khan, Dewan, Lucky, Fauji and Maple Leaf are some of the major brands in Pakistan in this product range. What is the product?

Forever Marilyn

People watch as workers put some finishing touches on ''Forever Marilyn'', a sculpture by Seward Johnson, on July 14, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The stainless steel and aluminum sculpture which stands 26 feet tall and weighs 34,000 pounds will be unveiled tomorrow and remain on display in Chicago through the spring of 2012. The sculpture was inspired by Marilyn Monroe's iconic scene in the 1955 movie Seven Year Itch.

Flashback Tata Crucible Quiz Part 22

• Hallmark was named for its founder Joyce C Hall. The company would have probably been as also-ran and the greeting-card industry itself would have been a fringe industry but for an innovation that Hallmark brought to the industry. The innovation has to do with the way greeting cards are sold. What is the innovation?

• Ernest Mahler developed it, of 1918 Kotex fame, from cellucotton, and was introduced under the name Celluwipes. How do we know it now?

Brand Ambassador - Prachi Desai : SOFY Side Walls

Bollywood actress Prachi Desai has been roped in as the brand ambassador for SOFY Side Walls, Japan’s leading sanitary napkin brand.

Groupon Is Now Selling Boob Jobs

Groupon's deal of the day in Paris this morning is... a breast augmentation.
"New! Finally treat yourself to the chest of your dreams for 2,499 euros instead of 5,430 in a private plastic surgery clinic; pay in two installments," the copy beckons. (In Europe, Groupon's famously whimsical style is nowhere to be found.)

Zappos uses nude models to sell you clothes

IF sex sells, then nudity cannot be far behind. At least that is what Zappos, the online retailer, hopes with its new advertising campaign featuring naked models doing everyday things like jogging, hailing a cab and playing Frisbee in public.

The campaign was created by Mullen, the company’s agency of record and part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, and is intended to highlight the company’s apparel. “Zappos has a quirky culture,” said Tim Vaccarino, group creative director at Mullen. “Doing something typical is not really them.”

Flashback Tata Crucible Quiz Part 21

1. Made in Britain in the early part of the 19th century, the name is derived from its similarity to a building stone that was quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. It is considered to originate from Joseph Aspdin, a British bricklayer from Leeds. It was one of his employees - Isaac Johnson, who developed the production technique, which resulted in a product with a higher compressive strength. This process was patented in 1824.

2. Which fashion designer named her most famous design after her favourite brand of car? She predicted that pubic hair would be a great fashion accessory.

3. Connect- bhagvad gita cover, Rabindranath tagore, sri lanka and Nepal flags and sangam movie song.