The Lady, or the Tiger? an old hag. Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp released a recording of "The Lady, or the Tiger?" and "The Discourager of Hesitancy" with Willcox reading the stories to electric guitar accompaniment by Fripp. "The Lady, or the Tiger?" is one of three short stories that were adapted into the musical comedy "The Apple Tree". The story was the inspiration for Raymond Smullyan's puzzle book by the same title, "The Lady, or the Tiger?". The first set of logic puzzles in the book had a similar scenario to the short story in which a king gives each prisoner a choice between
State Emblem of India Mundaka Upanishad, the concluding part of the sacred Hindu Vedas. State Emblem of India The State Emblem of India, as the national emblem of India is called, is an adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath, preserved in the Sarnath Museum near Varanasi, India. A representation of Lion Capital of Ashoka was initially adopted as the emblem of the Dominion of India in December 1947. The current version of the emblem was officially adopted on 26 January 1950, the day that India became a republic. In 1947, as the date of independence for India and Pakistan approached, Jawaharlal