copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Sudha Murty was helped by a lecturer named Usha Bhattacharya when she was travelling without ticket On train from Bombay to Bangalore in her childhood.... (Social Media Users, 2022-10-28)
Evidence (2016-09-27): Why Sudha Murty will be an inspiration to generations of women to come
Claim: Sudha Murty was helped by a lecturer named Usha Bhattacharya when she was travelling without ticket On train from Bombay to Bangalore in her childhood.... (Social Media Users, 2022-10-28)
Evidence (2024-05-01): Sudha Murty writes for children and adults in various formats – novels, short-stories, and travelogues. Her stories are inspired by her travels, life experiences, and the people she meets. She often draws from mythology, helping young readers access values and principles in an easy and engaging way. Sudha Murty grew up with her maternal grandparents listening to stories from their life and mythology. She believes this gave her a rich perspective to life. Unfortunately most children today don’t grow up with their grandparents. Her writing aims to bridge this gap. She brings life lessons alive through simple stories which are relevant and catch their attention. Gratitude, hard work, compassion and empathy are recurring themes communicated in her simple and heartwarming style. Her stories have a fable-like quality attracting people across all ages.
Claim: Sudha Murty was helped by a lecturer named Usha Bhattacharya when she was travelling without ticket On train from Bombay to Bangalore in her childhood.... (Social Media Users, 2022-10-28)
Evidence (2022-11-05): <strong>Viral Message About Sudha Murty Travelling Without Ticket on Train Is Fabricated!</strong> [...] In brief, the story in the message follows: A 13-years-old girl Chitra was travelling without a ticket on Bombay-Bangalore Train. The ticket checker threatened to throw her out when a kind-hearted Prof., Usha Bhattacharya, paid for her ticket. Upon learning Chitra had no relatives or family, Prof. Usha put her up with an NGO in Bangalore and helped with her education. Later, Prof Usha shifted to Delhi and lost contact with Chitra. After 20 years, Prof. Usha went to the US for a lecture. There she had a meal in a restaurant. She learned that somebody had already paid her dinner bill. She asked who, and Chitra came forward to meet her. They both cried, reminiscing about the train journey. Chitra said that her name is now Sudha, and she married a man called Narayan Murty. [...] Title:Viral Message About Sudha Murty Travelling Without Ticket on Train Is Fabricated!
Claim: Sudha Murty was helped by a lecturer named Usha Bhattacharya when she was travelling without ticket On train from Bombay to Bangalore in her childhood.... (Social Media Users, 2022-10-28)
Evidence (2022-08-09): A viral forward claiming to be the life story of Infosys chairperson Sudha Murty is being widely shared online. It is claimed that a stranger named Mrs. Usha Bhattacharya paid for the train ticket of a runaway girl named Chitra while travelling from Bombay to Bangalore and took the girl to an NGO so she could be taken care of. It goes on to state that the little girl grew up to be the Infosys chairperson Sudha Murty and wife of co-founder of Infosys, Narayana Murthy. [...] Newschecker also found a video on the popular YouTube channel BeerBiceps in which Sudha Murty recollects her childhood. In the video, Sudha Murty can be heard thanking her parents and teachers for all their support, and also describes her growing up years in Karnataka. She also describes her engineering education in Karnataka, where she was the only woman in her batch. She does not mention any stint in Bombay or about relocating to Delhi, proving that the story is not autobiographical.
Claim: Sudha Murty was helped by a lecturer named Usha Bhattacharya when she was travelling without ticket On train from Bombay to Bangalore in her childhood.... (Social Media Users, 2022-10-28)
Evidence (2011-01-01): Mrs.Shashi Deshpande Dr.Roma Chaudhri Prema Nandakumar 287 295 300 [...] By D. P. SUDHA
Claim: Sudha Murty was helped by a lecturer named Usha Bhattacharya when she was travelling without ticket On train from Bombay to Bangalore in her childhood.... (Social Media Users, 2022-10-28)
Evidence (2005-05-10): Name: Anusua Bhattacharya (20 years) [...] Name: SETHURAMAN BHARATH (18 years) [...] Name: R. SUBHASHINI (9 years)
Claim: Sudha Murty was helped by a lecturer named Usha Bhattacharya when she was travelling without ticket On train from Bombay to Bangalore in her childhood.... (Social Media Users, 2022-10-28)
Evidence (2022-11-03): Viral Message About Sudha Murthy Travelling Without Ticket in Train is False [...] In brief, the story in the message follows: A 13-years-old girl Chitra was traveling without a ticket on Bombay-Bangalore Train. The ticket checker threatened her to throw out when a kind-hearted Prof. Usha Bhattacharya paid for her ticket. Upon learning Chitra had no relatives or family, Prof. Usha put her up with an NGO in Bangalore and helped with her education. Later Prof Usha shifted to Delhi and lost contact with Chitra. After 20 years, Prof. Usha went to the US for a lecture. There she had a meal in a restaurant. She learned that somebody had already paid her dinner bill. She asked who and Chitra came forward to meet her. They both cried reminiscing about the train journey. Chitra told that her name is now Sudha and she married a man called Narayan Murthy. [...] Title:Viral Message About Sudha Murthy Travelling Without Ticket in Train is False
Claim: Sudha Murty was helped by a lecturer named Usha Bhattacharya when she was travelling without ticket On train from Bombay to Bangalore in her childhood.... (Social Media Users, 2022-10-28)
Evidence (2021-01-07): T. PADMANABHAN TRAN: MADHUKAR PUTTY - THE KIND DOCTOR - SUDHA MURTY P.K.NANAVATI - MY MAGIC SCHOOL - DR. ABHAY BANG WONDERFUL SCHOOL EXPERIENCE - ARVIND GUPTA TOYS - COLLATED BY PRAKASH SCIENCE ACTIVITIES RESOURCE - DIVASWAPNA - GIJUBHAI BADHEKA EDUCATIONAL CLASSIC - HOW YOU BEGAN - A. W. ELLIS STORY OF EVOLUTION - SCIENCE SKILLS AND THRILLS - ARVIND GUPTA SCIENCE ACTIVITY BOOK - STORY OF SOLAR ENERGY - ARVIND GUPTA - SCIENCE FROM SCRAP - ARVIND GUPTA SCIENCE ACTIVITY BOOK - MATCHSTICK MODELS AND OTHER SCIENCE EXPTS - ARVIND GUPTA SCIENCE ACTIVITIES - TOY BAG - ARVIND GUPTA SCIENCE ACTIVITY BOOK - TEN LITTLE FINGERS - ARVIND GUPTA PUBLISHED BY THE NBT - BRIGHT SPARKS - ARVIND GUPTA PUBLISHER - NAVKARNATAKA - STORY OF ASTRONOMY - ARVIND GUPTA PUBLISHER - NAVKARNATAKA - MY DREAM SCHOOL - DR. ABHAY BANG TRANSLATION - P.K.NANAVATI - STORY OF ASTRONOMY - UDAY PATIL TRANSLATION - PROF. VISHWANATH (NAVKARNATAKA)
Claim: Sudha Murty was helped by a lecturer named Usha Bhattacharya when she was travelling without ticket On train from Bombay to Bangalore in her childhood.... (Social Media Users, 2022-10-28)
Evidence (2020-10-05): H.Srinivasa Murthy, S.Phanikumar,Sudarson Jena 18091 - 18102 [...] M.Packiasudha, S.Suja 22078 - 22100 [...] SAJAD MUHIL, SUAD SHATTI AZEEZ, ABEER ABDULSALAM ABDULKAREM 23459 - 23475
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2020-06-27): Our investigation reveals that the social media post claiming that the word "Hello” term had origins as it was the surname of Alexander Graham Bell's girlfriend is misleading.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2022-12-09): Social media posts are being spread virally stating that the beginning of the term "hello" can be traced back to Graham Bell's time and his girlfriend's name was "Margaret Hello". [...] Our investigation reveals that the social media post claiming that the word "Hello" term had origins as it was the surname of Alexander Graham Bell's girlfriend is misleading. [...] Title:The Origins of "Hello" was NOT linked to Graham Bell's Girl Friend! Find Out the Truth…
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2023-03-06): Fast-forward to the late 19th century: "hello" began to gain traction as a telephone greeting in America. It was first used by Alexander Graham Bell due to its warm and inviting sound. By the early 20th century, it had become so prevalent that dictionaries included it as a regular salutation. [...] A salutation that is known far and wide, but its beginnings aren’t as straightforward as one may think. Tracing it back to the mid-1800s when it first appeared in print, "hello" was seen as an informal substitute for the more formal "how do you do?". This all changed with Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, who proposed that his assistant Thomas Watson answer calls with a "hello" instead of "ahoy". From there, this phrase quickly gained traction and became a universal greeting. [...] An oft-uttered word, yet with a hidden past. ‘Hello’ – an interjection first popularized by Thomas Carlyle in his 1827 work Sartor Resartus, and later embraced by Alexander Graham Bell as the telephone greeting of choice. Yet its emergence did not stop there. Across the globe, cultures have developed their own variations – Guten Tag in Germany, Konnichiwa in Japan, Namaste in India and Salaam Alaikum in Pakistan.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2015-01-08): The US entrepreneur Edison, who boosted telephone microphone levels, chose the word ‘Hello’ to begin a call whereas the original Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell preferred ‘Ahoy’. ‘Hello’ and ‘Hi’ gradually made their way into general, non-shouty use as a greeting. The more modern ‘Hey’ seems to have made a similar journey.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2019-11-08): The widespread use of "hello" as a greeting is thanks to Thomas Edison. After Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in the late 1800s, people needed a way to answer the new device, and Edison took it upon himself to come up with a salutation. When he did, The New York Times recalls that he wrote an enthusiastic letter to a friend named Mr. David on August 15, 1877, explaining his solution. [...] Graham Bell did not like Edison's idea one bit. He preferred the word "ahoy," which came from the Dutch greeting word "hoi." (Yes, it was mostly a nautical term back then, too.) And yet, when the first telephone exchanges equipped by Edison were set up all across the United States, the operating manuals that came with them included two greeting options: "Hello" or "What is wanted?" Likely because "What is wanted?" is quite lengthy, by the 1880s, "hello" was the common and preferred greeting. Next time someone asks you about the origin of "hello," you can explain to them that it goes all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison (and that "ahoy" almost ended up being the de facto greeting—yikes).
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2024-06-19): The Origin of "Hello" in Telephone Conversations [...] Edison's suggestion of "hello" eventually gained popularity over Bell's "ahoy." One reason for this could be the simplicity and ease of saying "hello." It was a short, clear, and easily recognizable word, making it ideal for the new and sometimes unclear audio transmissions of early telephones. Additionally, as the telephone became more widely used, the word "hello" began to appear in telephone directories and instructional manuals, further cementing its place as the standard greeting. [...] The story of why we say "hello" when we pick up a call is a fascinating example of how language adapts to new technologies. From Alexander Graham Bell's initial preference for "ahoy" to Thomas Edison's successful promotion of "hello," this simple greeting encapsulates the innovative spirit of the late 19th century and the enduring impact of the telephone on our daily lives.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2014-01-24): Similar to Graham Bell’s reason for liking "ahoy hoy", Edison liked "hello" as a telephone greeting because it was easily heard and distinguished from other words, even over long distance transmissions (for the time). As Edison stated, "hello" could be heard clearly on a transmission "ten to twenty feet away". Edison originally tested this using a prototype of Graham Bell’s telephone system. The word "hello" also has somewhat obscure origins, though many etymologists think it came from the English "hullo" or "hallo", which derive from "hollo", which was an exclamation to draw attention to something. This word, in turn, is thought to derive from "holla", which meant "stop or cease". Another slightly less popular theory is that "hello" ultimately derives from the Old English "hál béo þu", meaning "Hale be thou", which was more or less just a way to wish someone good health. [...] - Because "hello" quickly usurped "ahoy hoy", by 1889, telephone operators became known as "hello-girls".
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2018-10-19): Bell and Gray submitted documents to the Patent Office in Washington DC on the same day, 14 February 1876. Exactly what went on between Bell’s lawyers and the patent officers on that day will never be known.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2024-09-27): Thomas Edison is credited with popularizing hullo as a telephone greeting. In previous decades, hullo had been used as an exclamation of surprise (used early on by Charles Dickens in 1850)[12] and halloo was shouted at ferry boat operators by people who wanted to catch a ride.[13] According to one account, halloo was the first word Edison yelled into his strip phonograph when he discovered recorded sound in 1877.[12] Shortly after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he answered calls by saying "ahoy ahoy", borrowing the term used on ships.[13][14] There is no evidence the greeting caught on.[13] Edison suggested Hello! on August 15, 1877 in a letter to the president of Pittsburgh's Central District and Printing Telegraph Company, T. B. A. David: [...] The first name tags to include Hello may have 1880 at Niagara Falls, which was the site of the first telephone operators convention. By 1889, central telephone exchange operators were known as "hello-girls" because of the association between the greeting and the telephone.[14][15] [...] Hello is alternatively thought to come from the word hallo (1840) via hollo (also holla, holloa, halloo, halloa).[23] The definition of hollo is to shout or an exclamation originally shouted in a hunt when the quarry was spotted:[24][25]
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2024-08-05): Hello is first recorded in the early 1800s, but was originally used to attract attention or express surprise ("Well, hello! What do we have here?"). But the true breakthrough for this now-common word was when it was employed in the service of brand-new technology: the telephone. Thomas Edison himself claimed to have initiated the use of hello upon receiving a phone call—which required people to address an unseen and unknown person. It was simpler and more efficient than some other greetings used in the early days of the telephone, such as "Do I get you?" and "Are you there?" Hello obviously caught on, and spread along with the telephone. But had the actual inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, had his way, our greetings might be very different today. For his entire life, he preferred to answer the phone with "Ahoy."
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2018-09-14): Hello is a greeting that is understood almost everywhere in the world, but it hasn’t always been so. In fact, hello is a relatively young word, dating only back to 1827 according to the Oxford English Dictionary. [...] Hello began catching on as a greeting through the 19th century, but it wasn’t until the telephone was invented that its future was sealed. A mythology even developed around the connection between phones and hello. One story says that Thomas Edison, whose exploits are often exaggerated, invented the word hello from whole cloth. (He didn’t.) Stranger is the story that telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell chose hello as a phone greeting because it was the name of his girlfriend, one Margaret Hello. (She never existed — Bell developed the telephone while he was engaged to Mabel Hubbard, and she would be his wife until his death in 1922.) [...] Hello had become such a widespread lexical innovation that it caught the notice of Mark Twain, who used it as a symbol of the distance between Washington politicians and the common man in the following article, which appeared in the Post on February 9, 1868 — a decade before the ahoy/hello controversy:
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2022-04-22): It was only a matter of time before inventive spellers landed on hello, which first appeared in print in an 1826 issue of Connecticut’s Norwich Courier: "Hello, Jim! I’ll tell you what: I’ve a sharp knife and feel as if I’d like to cut up something or other." In that and other instances from the era, hello was either used to flag someone down—much like you might yell "Hey!" today—or convey surprise. It wasn’t until a few decades later that people began to utter it (and its British versions, hullo and hulloa) in greeting. By the late 19th century, the word was experiencing a boom in popularity that may never have happened without one Thomas Edison. As NPR reports, Edison is credited with encouraging hello as the go-to greeting for anyone answering a telephone call. He recommended it for callers, too. [...] The fact that hello remains the favored way to start a phone conversation would likely rankle Alexander Graham Bell if he were still alive today: He wanted people to answer the telephone with "Ahoy."
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2024-06-11): Is The Origin Of "Hello" Related To Graham Bell's Girlfriend? Here's The Truth. [...] It is '#Margaret Hello,' the fiancée of the #telephone inventor '#Graham #Bell.' [...] Title:Is The Origin Of "Hello" Related To Graham Bell's Girlfriend? Here's The Truth.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2022-10-27): "A nice information: When you lift the phone you say Hello..? Do you know what is the Real meaning of Hello..? It is the name of a Girl..! YES & Do U know who is that girl..? "Margaret Hello" She was the girlfriend of Graham Bell who invented the telephone.. Graham Bell’s first word on his phone after his invention was "Hello". That practice of starting the call with Hello still continues. One can forget the name of Graham Bell But not his girlfriend, that is Love.! 4:58 AM." [...] Then the team did a reverse image search of the entire picture. We got the title, "Is ‘Hello’ the Surname of Alexander Graham Bell’s Girlfriend?" (Found in a blog published under the surname ‘Hello’ for Alexander Graham Bell’s girlfriend?) This blog post states that "This story about the surname of Alexander Graham Bell’s girlfriend Margaret Hello is false and nothing more. The lady in this photo purported to be ‘Margaret Hello’ was, in fact, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard who in 1876 was engaged to him; a woman whom he married the following year and who remained his wife until he died in 1922."
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2020-07-31): I came across a post on Facebook corroborating this claim with an old black and white photo of Graham Bell with a lady, that purports to explain the origin of the word "Hello." This story about the surname of Alexander Graham Bell’s girlfriend Margaret Hello is false and nothing more. The lady in this photo purported to be ‘Margaret Hello’ was, in fact, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard who in 1876 was engaged to him; a woman whom he married the following year and who remained his wife until he died in 1922. [...] - No, ‘Margaret Hello’ was not phone inventor Alexander Graham Bell’s girlfriend (africacheck.org)
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2024-08-19): A post claiming that "Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, used ‘Hello’ as the first word during his initial test of the device. ‘Hello’ was the name of his fiancé, Margaret Hello. This word quickly became the standard greeting for phone calls worldwide and is still used today" is being shared on social media (here, here, and here). Let’s verify the claim made in the post. Claim: Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, introduced the word ‘hello’ as a common telephone greeting, naming it after his fiancé, Margaret Hello. [...] To sum up, the origin of the word "hello" is not linked to Alexander Graham Bell’s fiancée.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2024-10-05): Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847.[14] The family home was at South Charlotte Street, and has a stone inscription marking it as Bell's birthplace. He had two brothers: Melville James Bell (1845–1870) and Edward Charles Bell (1848–1867), both of whom died of tuberculosis.[15] His father was Alexander Melville Bell, a phonetician, and his mother was Eliza Grace Bell (née Symonds).[16] Born as just "Alexander Bell", at age 10 he made a plea to his father to have a middle name like his two brothers.[17][N 4] For his 11th birthday, his father acquiesced and allowed him to adopt the name "Graham", chosen out of respect for Alexander Graham, a Canadian being treated by his father who had become a family friend.[18] To close relatives and friends he remained "Aleck".[19] Bell and his siblings attended a Presbyterian Church in their youth.[20] [...] - ^ "Mrs. A.G. Bell Dies. Inspired Telephone. Deaf Girl's Romance With Distinguished Inventor Was Due to Her Affliction". The New York Times. January 4, 1923.
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2024-01-01): However, Thomas Edison insisted "Hello!" was the way to grab someone's attention. People at the time agreed. The new telephone's first public exchange in New Haven, Connecticut, on January 28, 1878, began with "Hello," followed by "What is wanted?"
Claim: The Origins Of “Hello” Was Linked To Graham Bell`s Girl Friend! (Social Media Users, 2020-06-27)
Evidence (2022-05-31): First, let’s rid ourselves of myths we may have picked up over the internet. Rumor has it that the standard greeting came about because it was the name of Alexander Graham Bell’s girlfriend at the time of patenting the invention. The story goes that she later married the inventor. Would this mean that his wife’s proper name was Hello Bell? Surely not! Others suggest that it was a girlfriend that Alexander Graham Bell was honouring when choosing the go-to phrase for answering a call on the telephone. This girlfriend is said to have been named Margaret Hello. Supposedly, a declaration of love is why we say hello when answering the phone. [...] So the next time someone asks you about the origin of "hello," you can explain to them that it goes all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison (and that "ahoy" almost ended up being the de facto greeting).