The nearest railway station to Anchalummodu is Perinad railway station which is about 2.5 km from the town. All passenger trains stop at this railway station. Kollam Junction Railway Station, one of the biggest junction and busiest railway stations in Kerala is 9 km away from Anchalumoodu. Kundara railway station is 9 km away from Anchalumoodu town.
Anchalumoodu is connected well with roads. The town is 8 km away from Kollam city centre Chinnakada and 8 km from Kundara town. Regular city services and transport buses are there to Kollam city from Anchalumoodu.
Bus services are available to important places in Kerala which include Trivandrum, Ernakulam, etc.
Anchalummodu has its fair share of privately owned and state owned educational institutions. Institutions of education are affiliated to either the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), or the Kerala State Education Board. Most private schools use English as the medium of instruction whereas government run schools offer both English and Malayalam as a medium of instruction. The Government Higher Secondary School at Anchalumoodu is one of the biggest and reputed government schools in Kollam district. The main higher education centre near to Anchalumoodu is the College of Engineering, Perumon.
Anchalumoodu has a mix of different religious community. Main temples in and around Anchalumoodu town include Kadavoor Siva temple, Ashtamudi Virabhadra Swamy temple, Panayam Durga Temple, Sastholi Temple, Kuppana Velayudha Mangalam Temple, kolleril Siva Temple,Karuva Temple, Perumon devi temple
Mosques include Kureepuzha Mosque, Karuva Mosque and Chiraiyil Mosque.
Important churches are St.Thomas Orthodox Church, Inchavila and the Church at Kureepuzha.
Tiger snake
"Not to be confused with the tiger keelback snake"
The tiger snake ("Notechis scutatus") is a venomous species of snake inhabiting Australia and its coastal islands, Tasmania included.
Tiger snakes generally situate themselves near a source of water, such as a creek or wetland. They live from Western Australia to South Australia, and also in its coastal islands, such as Tasmania.
It eats mainly frogs and tadpoles, but also small rodents, bats, insects, lizards, fish, birds, and they might also eat each other.
Tiger snake venom has myotixons, coagulants, haemolysins, and neurotoxins, all of which are dangerous to people.
Jasmine Thompson
Jasmine Ying Thompson (born 8 November 2000 in London) is an English singer and songwriter.
At the age of ten, Thompson started a YouTube-channel. After only one year, she met Robin Schultz, he saw that Jasmine Thompson can become a good singer and asked Thompson to sing with him. So in 2013, when she was 13 years old, her first song was published. She didn't become internationally popular until her song "Ain't Nobody," with that song she got on place one in the German singlecharts. In England she got place 4. She became popular although she is still 17 years old. She lives near London.
Thompson is the daughter of a Chinese mother and an English father.
Eduard Mudrik
Eduard Nikolayevich Mudrik (; July 18, 1939 in Starobilsk – March 27, 2017 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian footballer.
He earned 8 caps for the USSR national football team.
Northern water snake
The Northern water snake, or "Nerodia sipedon", is a species of non-venomous snake found throughout North America.
The Northern water snake is true to its name and is often found swimming in bodies of water including bogs, marshes, lakes, rivers, ponds and streams. They are also sometimes found basking, since like all snakes they're cold-blooded, and they're sometimes found under logs or rocks near a water source.
The Northern water snake eats mostly small fishes, reptiles, amphibians, small mammals and insects.
The Northern water snake, if threatened, will bite even though its bite isn't venomous, and musk on you. Their form of defense is very similar to that of Garter snakes.
Battle of Blair Mountain
The battle for Blair Mountain lasted four days. It was a bloody battle, and it was very deadly to fight or be in. The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and one of the largest, best-organized, and most well-armed uprisings since the American Civil War.
Dates: Aug 25, 1921 – Sep 2, 1921
Location: Logan County, West Virginia, U.S.
Result: Victory for law enforcement and military
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the result of years of bitter labor disputes between the miners and coal companies of southern West Virginia. Since the late 1800s, the coalfields of the state's Mingo, Logan and McDowell Counties had operated under a repressive company town system.
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among some U.S. states and the District of Columbia. It changes how the Electoral College chooses the president of the United States. The states agree to give all their votes in the Electoral College to the person with the most votes from regular people in the whole country. The agreement makes sure that person will become president. When that result is guaranteed, the agreement will become active.
Now, eleven states and the District of Columbia are in the agreement. Together, they have 172 votes in the Electoral College, which are called "electoral votes". When the agreement has 270 electoral votes, it will become active.
The NPVIC is an interstate compact. It will become active when its members control most of the Electoral College. Before that happens, the members will give their electoral votes the way they do now. After that, they will give all their electoral votes to the person with the most votes from Americans in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (That person wins the "popular vote".) This way, that person will become president.
The U.S. Constitution lets state legislatures decide how to give their votes in the Electoral College. It says this in . The Constitution does not say how the states must do this. (However, the 14th Amendment says that states cannot discriminate against some groups of people.) In the past, states used different ways. Today, most states give all their electoral votes to the person with the most votes in that state. Maine and Nebraska separate their electoral votes between areas called "districts". The NPVIC changes how its members give out their electoral votes.
In the past, some people who did not get the most votes became president anyway. Most Americans want the person with the most votes to be president despite the fact that two States, California and New York would essentially cancel out the votes of 43 other States and limit the amount of personal exposure those States receive from potential presidential candidates. In 2007, 72% of surveyed Americans said they wanted to change the Electoral College to a direct vote. This included 78% of Democrats, 60% of Republicans, and 73% of independent voters. Surveys since 1944 show most Americans want a direct vote, except in 2016. Reasons for the NPVIC include:
Several newspapers support the NPVIC. They include "The New York Times", the "Chicago Sun-Times", the "Los Angeles Times", "The Boston Globe", and the "Minneapolis Star Tribune". These newspapers say that the current system makes people not want to vote. They say the current system gives too much attention to a few states and their problems. Other newspapers are against the agreement, including the "Honolulu Star-Bulletin" and "The Wall Street Journal". The former governor of Delaware, Pierre S. du Pont IV, said the agreement gives too much power to cities and states with many people. He said it would make politics be about only city problems, and it would let worse people run for office. The League of Women Voters made a list of documents that argue for and against the agreement.
Some of the biggest arguments are given below: