150. Rising from the Grassroots?

The two flowers, locally called 'flower from grass', stand for the famous Bengali poets Rabindra Nath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam and the grass for the mass. The green stem and the grass symbolizes peaceful means for awakening masses through movement and participation.The three petals are representatives of Hindu, Muslim and “Other” communities and the three colours adorning them are the principles of Socialism, Secularism and Democracy.

What is being described and who is the designer?

149. What be X?

A fairly old and widely-used word, it refers to a community social gathering at which friends and neighbors join together in a single activity (sewing, quilting, barn raising, etc.), usually to help one person or family. The earliest known example in print is a spinning X, in 1769. Other early occurrences are husking X(1816), apple X (1827), and logging X (1836).

Today the most well known usage is associated with an annual competitive activity taken up by US teenagers.

So what be X?

148. Men of Honour?

What is common to the following: Kitchener, Nietzsche, Einstein, Dali, Chaplin, and Fu Manchu?

147. The Last Testament of Leon Trotsky?

Leon Trotsky's last testament. While in exile in Mexico, knowing he was soon to be assassinated by Stalin's agents, he saw his wife in the garden and wrote:

Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. ____ __ _________. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

Which movie derives it title from whatever fills up the blanks in the above passage?

146. Singh is King?!!!

The one real-life religion that bears close resemblance to the _____ is that of Sikhism. Sikhism also advocates the presence of one 'God' who is ever-present and binds the universe and all its entities. Like the _____, the Sikhs use a Kirpan that they carry with them at all times. Like a _____, a Sikh may never use his sword or other combat skills to attack anyone out of selfish desire and must use it only to protect others. The Sikh philosophy is merely one of peaceful co-existence, but at the same time to never accept any form of tyrannical rule and to protect others from such evils.

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