Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha (born 27 June 1964), popularly

known as P. T. Usha, is an Indian track and field athlete from the state of
Kerala. P. T. Usha has been associated with Indian athletics since 1979. She
is regarded as one of the greatest athletes India has ever produced and is
often called the "queen of Indian track and field". She is nicknamed the
Payyoli Express. Currently she runs the Usha School of Athletics at
Koyilandy in Kerala. P. T. Usha was born in the village of Payyoli,
Kozhikode District, Kerala. In 1976 the Kerala State Government started a
Sports School for women, and Usha was chosen to represent her district.
Dhanraj Pillay (born 16 July 1968 in Pune) is an Indian field hockey player
and former captain of the Indian hockey team. He is currently the manager
of the Indian hockey team. Also he is a member of the ad hoc committee of
Indian Hockey Federation, formed after the suspension of Kanwar Pal Singh
Gill.
Dhanraj Pillay was born at Khadki near Pune in Maharashtra. He is the
fourth son of Tamil parents Nagalingam Pillay and Andalamma. As a
bachelor, he lived in Powai, Mumbai, while his parents continued to live in
Khadki. He is fluent in Tamil ( his Mother tongue), Hindi, English and
Marathi.
Anjali Bhagwat
Anjali Bhagwat (born December 5, 1969) is a professional Indian shooter.
She became the World Number One in 10m Air Rifle in 2002. She also won
her first World Cup Final in Milan, in 2003, with a score of 399/400.

Bhagwat won the ISSF Champion of Champions award and is the only
Indian to win the ISSF Champions' Trophy in Air Rifle Men & Women
mixed event at Munich in 2002. She has represented India in three
consecutive Olympics, and was a finalist in the 2000 Sydney Olympics,
again a first for any Indian women shooter. She has won 12 gold and 4 silver
medals in the Commonwealth Games. She is a Commonwealth record
holder in 10m Air Rifle and Sports Rifle 3P. In the 2003 Afro-Asian Games,
Bhagwat created history by becoming the first Indian woman shooter to get
gold and a silver medal in the Sports 3P and Air Rifle events respectively.
To date, she has won 31 Gold, 23 Silver and 7 Bronze medals. She has set 13
new records in International competitions and has won 55 Gold, 35 Silver
and 16 Bronze medals, with 8 new records in national competitions in India.
Igloo
An igloo, (Inuit language: iglu, Inuktitut syllabics [ilu] (plural: igluit
[iluit])), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of
shelter built of snow, typically built when the snow can be easily compacted.
Although igloos are stereotypically associated with all Inuit, they were
traditionally associated with people of Canada's Central Arctic and
Greenland's Thule area. Other Inuit people tended to use snow to insulate
their houses, which were constructed from whalebone and hides. Snow is
used because the air pockets trapped in it make it an insulator. On the
outside, temperatures may be as low as 45 C (49 F), but on the inside
the temperature may range from 7 C (19 F) to 16 C (61 F) when
warmed by body heat alone.
Log house

A log house (or log home) is structurally identical to a log cabin (a house
typically made from logs that have not been milled into conventional
lumber). The term "log cabin" is not preferred by most contemporary
builders, as it generally refers to a smaller, more rustic log house such as a
hunting cabin in the woods, or a summer cottage.
Log construction was the most common building technique in large regions
of Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Baltic states and Russia, where straight and
tall coniferous trees, such as pine and spruce, are readily available. It was
also widely used for vernacular buildings in Eastern Central Europe, the
Alps, the Balkans and parts of Asia, where similar climatic conditions
prevail. In warmer and more westerly regions of Europe, where deciduous
trees predominate, timber framing was favoured instead.
Japanese House
Traditional Japanese houses are built by erecting wooden columns on top of
a flat foundation made of packed earth or stones. Wooden houses exist all
over the world. What are the particular characteristics of houses in Japan,
where there are four distinct seasons, including a hot and humid summer and
a cold winter?
In order to avoid moisture from the ground, the floor is elevated several tens
of centimeters and is laid across horizontal wooden floor beams. Areas like
the kitchen and hallways have wooden flooring, but rooms in which people
sit, such as the living room, are covered with mats called tatami that are
made from woven rush grass. Japanese generally don't use chairs on top of
tatami, so people either sit directly on the tatami or on flat cushions called
zabuton. This is why people take off their shoes when entering a Japanese
house.

Pueblo
Pueblos are modern and old communities of Native Americans in the
Southwestern United States. The first Spanish explorers of the Southwest
used this term to describe the communities housed in apartment-like
structures built of stone, adobe mud, and other local material. These
structures were usually multi-storied buildings surrounding an open plaza.
The rooms were accessible only through ladders lowered by the inhabitants,
thus protecting them from break-ins and unwanted guests. They were
occupied by hundreds to thousands of Pueblo people in the larger ones.
Several different federally recognized tribes have traditionally resided in
pueblos of such design.
Houseboat
A houseboat (different from boathouse, which is a shed for storing boats) is
a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily as a home.
Some houseboats are not motorized, because they are usually moored, kept
stationary at a fixed point and often tethered to land to provide utilities.
However, many are capable of operation under their own power. Float house
is a Canadian and U.S. term for a house on a float (raft), a rough house may
be called a shanty boat.
In India, houseboats are common on the backwaters of Kerala, and on the
Dal Lake near Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir.