seenu's

“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”

May 24, 2009

APSRTC e-ticketing

APSRTC e-ticketing facility made available through www.apsrtc.in from 25-May-2009.

September 30, 2006

riddle

A RIDDLE THAT'LL KILL YOUR BRAIN! This is going to make you so MAD! There are three words in the English language that end in "gry". ONE is angry and the other is hungry.EveryONE knows what the third ONE means and what it stands for. EveryONE uses them everyday, and if you listened very carefully, I've given you the third word. What is it? _______gry?

February 26, 2006

Tension

The moment you are in TENSION

You will lose your ATTENTION

Then you are in total CONFUSION

and you'll feel IRRITATION

This may spoil your personal RELATIONS
Ultimately, you won't get COOPERATION

And get things into COMPLICATION

Then you may raise CAUTION.

And you have to take MEDICATION
Why not try understanding the SITUATION

And try to think about the SOLUTION

Many problems will be solved by DISCUSSION
Which will work out better in your PROFESSION

Don't think this is a free SUGGESTION

It is only for your PREVENTION

If you understand my INTENTION
You'll never come again into TENSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and remember onething , this poem is my INVENTION

February 21, 2006

Santa singh in KBC

*** Kaun Banega Crorepati ***
We have our famous friend Santa Singh qualifying for the hot seat.( He pressed the buttons by accident and managed to qualify).
Amitabh Bachchan : OK Santa I congratulate you for this opportunity here with us.Santa : Oh ji Wahe guru da khalsa wahe guru di fateh. Chak denge phatte aaj. Tusi start karo ji.
AB : OK Santa this is your first question for 1000Rs. - 'Which state has the largest sikh population ?' and your options are :A. PunjabB. PunjabC. PunjabD. PunjabSanta : Oh ji how much time do I've to answer this question
AB : Samay ki koi pabandhi nahi hai Santa ji, you can t! ake your timeSanta (giggles) : Sir ji tricky sawaal puchha hai aapne. I would like to use my lifeline.
AB : I'm not surprised on this , which one wud U like to use.Santa : Audience poll
AB : OK audience please be ready with your voting pads, and your time starts now.After a minute we have a graphic presentation on the board.A. 25%B. 25%C. 25%D. 25%
AB : Santa ji, this is a no good situation for you, I can share your disgust here.Santa : Yeh mere saath hi kyon hota hai. Fasa diya Sirji aapki audience ne. I think I've to use my second lifeline - 50 50.
AB : Very good ! 50 50 ka istemal karna chahenge. OKcomputer ji do galat jawab mita diye jayen.Computer displays A. Punjab and C. PunjabSanta : Badi chalu machine hai aapki sar ji. Mein chodoonga nahi aaj isko.Wahe guru de kasam mereko third life line bhi chahiye.
AB : Kamal hai Santa ji, I must congratulate you, You have record of using all the lifelines in the very first question.This is great OK phone a friend - kisko phone karna chahen ge aap.Santa : My one and only one... mera langotiya yaar., Banta Singh.
AB : OK Banta ko phone lagaya jaye.Phone rings. Banta picks it 'Hulloooooo, kon hai oye adi raati,???'
AB : Hello Banta ji , mein Amitabh Bachhan bol raha hoon Star Plus ke Kaun Banega Crorepati se.Banta : OOOOOOOOOO Bachan ji Sasriyakal, koi hor hota to uski to mein.... #_^_%_#_%_%_&. Ki hal chal he sar ji.
AB : Mein thik hoon Banta ji, par ye ek family show hai is liye aap apshabdon ka prayog na karen to behtar hoga. Aapke dost yahaan bethe hain mere saath aur.................Banta (Interrupts) : Aur wo sala pehle hi question pe atak gayahoga, khota hai sala. Sawal pucho ji.
AB : Aapko sirf tees second .,.............chaliye mein aapko special case karte hue 1 minute doonga. Aur aapka samay shuru hota hai aab.Santa : Oye bante ke ho raya hai yaar ??Banta : Oye ullu de dum, saale bahar se taala laga gaya khote. Sawere dud wala aaya si, paise mang raya si, aur khotya tu meri kameez pehen gaya. Sale chakki se aata lana tha, tera baap layega kya ??.
AB: Santa ji kya kar rahe hain samay khatam ho raha hai.Santa : Yes Yes. Oye chod use yaar question hai ..... (he tells him the question).Banta : Saalesari zindagi tere nakal mar ke fail hota raha hoon, par iska answer mujhe aata hai. Kalank hai tu Punjab ke naam pe. Iska answer Punjab hai lallu.Santa : oye par ......... (and the clock stops).
AB : Samay khatam, aapke mitr ne jawab de diya hai , ab to mujhe pakka confidence hai ke aap kam se kam 1000 to le ke jayenge hi aaj.Santa : Ullu ka patha hai ji, ye to mujhe bhi pata hai par sale ne yeh to batya nahin ke A hai ya C hai.
And this was the last episode of KBC as most of the audience died laughing...

Smart answer

A Project Manager working in a MNC, as usual after lunch goes to the cafeteria for coffee.
He relaxes in canteen. He sees a canteen boy cleaning tables there. so he decides to have fun with him. He calls him.
Project Manager - (Asks canteen boy) : How much do you earn?
Canteen boy smiles...
Project Manager - what are your future plans?
Canteen boy keeps quiet...
Project Manager - where do you see yourself 10 years down the line?
Canteen boy gives a cold stare.
Project Manager - Jab mai Bangalore aaya tha tab mere paas bhi kuch nahi tha.... Aaj mere paas kya nahin hai... naam hai, shohrat hai, paisa hai.... tumhare paas kya hai?

Canteen boy - Sa'ab mere paas kaam hai....

January 19, 2006

Beware of s/w engineer

A software engineer was smoking in office.
Girl says, Cant you see the warning? "smoking is injurious to health"
to this the engineer says...........

Any guesses !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

................................We bother only about Errors not Warnings !!!!

January 11, 2006

Typical students

> > Once four MBA students were boozing till late night> and didn't study for> the test which was scheduled for the next day. In> the morning they> thought of a plan. They made themselves look as> dirty and weird as they> could with grease and dirt.> > Then they went up to the dean and said that they had> gone to a wedding> last night and on their return the tyre of their car> burst and they had> to push the car all the way back and that they were> in no condition to> appear for the test. The Dean was a just person so> he said that they> could have a retest after three days. They said they> were ready.> > On the third day they appeared before the dean. The> Dean said that as> this was a special condition all four were required> to be in separate> rooms for the test. They all agreed as they had> prepared well in last> three days.> > > > > > > > > > The test consisted of two questions for total marks> of 100.> > Q1. Write down your names. (2 marks)> Q2. Which tyre burst? (98 marks>

October 15, 2005

Engineers

One day, a Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Chemical Engineerand Computer Engineer were driving down the street in the same car.The car broke down. The Mechanical Engineer said, "I think a rod broke. We can check therods." The Chemical Engineer said, "The way it sputtered at the end, I don'tthink it's getting gas. We shall check the gas tank."The Electrical Engineer said, "I think there was a spark and somethingis wrong with the electrical system. We shall check the circuitry."All three turned to the computer engineer and said, "What do youthink?"The Computer Engineer said, "We shall get out of the car and get inagain .".

September 07, 2005

How to catch a lion?

Ø Newton's Method:Let, the lion catch you.For every action there is equal and opposite reaction.
Implies you caught lion.
Ø Einstein Method:Run in the direction opposite to that of the lion.Due to higher relative velocity, the lion will alsorun faster and will get tired soon.Now you can trap it easily.
Ø Software Engineer Method:Catch a cat and claim that your testing has proventhat its a Lion.If anyone comes back with issues tell that you willupgrade it to Lion.
Ø Indian Police Method:catch any animal and interrogate it & torture it toaccept that its a lion.
Ø Rajnikanth Method :Keep warning the lion that u may come and attackanytime.The lion will live in fear and die soon in fearitself.
Ø Jayalalitha Method:Send Police commissioner Muthukaruppan around 2AM andkill it, while it's sleeping !
Ø Manirathnam Method (director):Make sure the lion does not get sun light and put thelion in a dark room with a single candle lighted.Keep murmuring something in its ears.The lion will be highly irritated and commit suicide.
Ø Karan Johar Method (director):Send a lioness into the forest.Our lion and lioness fall in love with each other.Send another lioness in to the forest, followed byanother lion.First lion loves the first lioness and the second lionloves the 2nd lioness.But 2nd lioness loves both lions.Now send another lioness(third) into the forest.You don't understand right... ok....read it after 15yrs, then also u wont !
Ø Yash Chopra method (director):Take the lion to Australia or US.. and kill it in agood scenic location.
Ø Govinda method:Continuously dance before the lion for 5 or 6 days.
Ø Menaka Gandhi method:save the lion from a danger and feed him with somevegetables continuously.
Ø George bush method:Link the lion with osama bin laden and shoot him!!!
Ø Rahul Dravid method:Ask the lion to bowl at u.U bat for 200 balls and score 1 run

August 28, 2005

Fun Quiz

A quiz for people who know everything...
1. There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
4. Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?
5. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
6. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
7. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw". They are all common. Name two of them.
8. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?
9. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers?"
10. There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls-a walk-is one way. Name the other six.
11. It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?
12. Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet that begin with the letter "S".
(Scroll down for the answers. Don't cheat!)

1. Boxing.
2. Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.
3. Asparagus and rhubarb.
4. Baseball.
5. Strawberry.
6. The pear grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the whole growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
7. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
8. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
9. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers and kept the name when they moved west.
10. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.
11. Lettuce.
12. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings.
...Well, now you know! Feel any smarter?

MY RESEARCH

Don't skip this just because it looks weird. Believe it or not you can read it.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid!
Aoccdrnig to seenu's rscheearch , it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorant.

July 29, 2005

Loloo in Heaven

Laloo died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of yamraj , he saw a huge wall of clocks behind. he asked, "What are all those clocks?"Yamraj answered, "Those are Lie Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie Clock. Every time you lie, the hands on your clock will move.""Oh," said Laloo, "Who's clock is that?" That's Gautam Buddha's. The hands have never moved indicating that he never told a lie."And whose clock is that?"That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have only moved twice, telling us that Abraham only told 2 lies in his entire life."Laloo asked, "Where's my clock?" Your clock is in my office", replied yamraj, "I'm using it as a ceiling fan"

Laloo Prasad Yadav jokes

Laloo Prasad Inside the Class :

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1) Open the doors of the window. Let the atmosphere come in.

2) Open the windows of the doors. Let the Air Force come in.

3) Cut an apple into two halves - take the bigger half.

4) Shhh...Quiet, boys...the principal just passed away in the corridor

5) You, meet me behind the class. (meaning AFTER the class ..)

6) Both of u three, get out of the class.

7) Close the doors of the windows please. I have winter in my nose today.

8) Take Copper Wire of any metal especially of Silver.....

9) Take 5 cm wire of any length....

About his family :

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1) I have two daughters. Both of them are girls..
At the ground :

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1) All of you, stand in a straight circle.2) There is no wind in the balloon.
To a boy, angrily :

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1) I talk, he talk, why you middle middle talk ?
Giving a punishment :

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1) You, rotate the ground four times...

2) You, go and under-stand the tree...

3) You three of you, stand together separately.

4) Why are you late - say YES or NO ....(?)

July 28, 2005

Runs in the family!

One day Laloo appeared on KBC(Kaun Banega
Crorepathy) with him he brought his entire family.
First question : One plus One?Laloo thinking : uses all lifelines and answers
threeAmitji : Sorry Laloo wrong jawaabgroans from laloo`s family : give him one more
chance give him one more chance
Amitji feeling sorry for distraught laloo, decides to
give him another goso he asks Laloo : three plus two?Lalloo answers :sixAmitji cannot believe it, but because Laloo`s family
begs for him to give Laloo another chance, he does
Amitji : Laloo last chance, three plus three?Lalloo sweating answers sixAmitji is silent, suddenly there is a roar from
laloo`s family: give him one more chance, give him
one more chance...

May 09, 2005

101 Amazing Facts

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say no evil ). "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. A snail can sleep for 3 years. ( wow, lucky chap eh ? ) A hippopotamus can run faster than a man. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they star All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise. 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! Slugs have 4 noses. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet! The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old! It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open Dolphins sleep with one eye open! You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. Earth is the only planet not named after a god. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland! You can't kill yourself by holding your breath Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. There is a city called Rome on every continent. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe! Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren't added to it. Honey is the only food that does not spoil.

April 04, 2005

M A T H / W O R D F A C T S

>> Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
>> Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number
>> The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.
>> Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
>> If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111, you get 12,345,678,987,654,321.
>> The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.
>> "Zorro" means "fox" in Spanish.
>> Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
>> The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "finger-lickin' good" came out as "eat your fingers off" in Chinese.
>> "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
>> There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
>> "Floccinaucinihilipilification" which means "the act of estimating as worthless" is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it's 29 letters long.
>> Pogonophobia: The fear of beards.
>> If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
>> In Chinese, the words "crisis" and "opportunity" are the same.
>> "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
>> "So long" came from the Arabic "salaam" and the Hebrew "shalom."
>> The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
>> The word "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
>> The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it.
>> "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
>> There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver, orange, or month.
>> The letter "I" is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
>> There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
>> "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed.
>> The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
>> The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
>> In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
>> "Q" is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
>> The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.
>> "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using only the top row on the keyboard.
>> The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means, "the king is dead."
>> The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the English language.
>> The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
>> Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
>> "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
>> The most common name in the world is "Mohammed."

RECORDS

>> The first person to ever survive the fall over Niagara Falls was in 1901 when Annie Edson Taylor, a 43 year-old widowed school teacher from Bay City, Michigan, survived the fall in a 260 pound oak barrel.
>> The deepest point in the deepest ocean is the Marianas Trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,837 feet (10,923 m) according to a recent hydrographic survey. This is close to 7 miles (11 km) down, 29 times the height of the Empire State Building.
>> According to the Guiness Book, the fastest restaurant in the world serves the client's food within 13 seconds after the order is made. The name of the restaurant is Karne Garibaldi and is located in Guadalajara, Mexico.
>> World's tallest freestanding indoor climbing structure is the Game Works climbing wall standing at 75 feet (23 m).
>> The fastest Pony Express ride was 7 days, 17 hours and was carrying Lincoln's inaugural address.
>> The fastest tectonic movement on Earth, 9.4 inches (24 cm) per year, is at the Tonga microplate near Samoa.
>> Pioneer 11's speed going past Jupiter was over 107,000 miles (172,163 km) per hour, the fastest speed ever traveled by a human-made object.
>> The fastest moving landmass on the planet, the Tongan Island of Niuatoputapu in the South Pacific, has recently been clocked at almost 10 inches (25.4 cm) per year.
>> The Bureau of Standards says that the electron is the fastest thing in the world.
>> The Steel Phantom in West Millen, Pennsylvania, is the fastest roller coaster in America, reaching speeds of 80 miles (129 km) per hour.
>> The fastest typist can type at 211 words per minute.
>> The world's fastest ship weighs 112 tons and travels at 102 miles (164 km) per hour.
>> President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
>> Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American to have plumbing installed in his house, in 1840.
>> The first female monster to appear on the big screen was Bride of Frankenstein.
>> The first ever TV commercial in the U.S. was for Bulova watches. It aired in 1941 on WNBT, New York, and cost Bulova 9 dollars.
>> Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.
>> The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen.
>> Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to be televised, on April 1939 at opening of the New York World's Fair.
>> The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 1811.
>> New Zealand was the first place in the world to allow women to vote.
>> The first television shows to have the characters take bathroom breaks were "All in the family" and "Married with children."
>> The first music video was aired on August 1, 1981 "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Bugles on MTV.
>> Most people have an IQ in the 90 - 109 range. You're considered a genius if your IQ is 132 or above. Chris Langan has an IQ of 195, the highest known IQ in the US. He started talking at 6 months and by age 4 could read and comprehend books. His IQ puts him in the same class as Sir Isaac Newton and Michelangelo. He's in his mid-forties, and he works as a part-time bouncer at a bar and lives in a one-room house on $6,000 a year.
>> William James Sidis had the highest ever known IQ estimated at between 250 and 300. At eighteen months he could read The New York Times, at two he taught himself Latin, at three he learned Greek. By the time he was an adult, he could speak more than 40 languages and dialects. He spent most of his life wandering from one menial job to another.
>> La Paz, the capital city of Bolivia, is the highest capital in the world at over 17,000 feet (5,181 m).
>> Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall, at 3,212 feet (979 m).
>> The highest tide in the world is in the Bay of Fundy, Canada, where there is a rise of 53 feet (16 m).
>> The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.
>> The largest flower in the world, the Rufflesia, grows to over 10 feet (3 m) in diameter.
>> The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.
>> The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived, reaching 100 feet (30.4 m) in length and weighing 150 tons. The largest dinosaur, Argentinosaurus, was estimated to weigh 110 tons.
>> The largest living thing on earth is a tree named "The General Sherman Tree" in Sequoia National Park. It is 275 feet (84 m) tall and 37 feet (11 m) wide at the widest part of the base.
>> The largest ketchup bottle is a 170 feet (52 m) tall water tower.
>> The world's largest collection of preserved human brains is maintained in a WWII era bomb shelter beneath the Runwell Psychiatric Hospital in Essex, England. 8,000 brains collected over the past 40 years are available for researchers to study.
>> Olympus Mons, a volcano found on Mars, is the largest volcano found in solar system. It is 370 miles (595 km) across and rises 15 miles (24 km).
>> The largest known butterfly is Queen Alexandra's Birdwing from New Guinea, which has a wingspan of approximately 11 inches (28 cm).
>> The smallest butterfly, the Dwarf Blue from Africa, has a wingspan of only one-half inch.
>> Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the largest planet in the solar system, twice as big as all the other planets combined.
>> The largest mountain in the Solar System is Olympus Mons on Mars. At 372 miles (600 km) across and a height of over 16 miles (26 km), it is nearly 3 times taller than Mt. Everest.
>> The largest canyon system in the Solar System is Valles Marineris on Mars. It is more than 3,000 miles (4,827 km) long, reaches 3 miles (5 km) in depth, 200 miles (322 km) in width, and would stretch from California to New York.
>> The Boeing Commercial Airplane factory in Everett, Washington is the largest building in the world. The entire Disneyland amusement park, including its parking lots, could fit inside of it.
>> The largest painting on earth is a 116,000-square-foot (35,356 m) whale mural, 11 stories tall, and 1,028 feet (313 m) in circumference encircling the outside of the Long Beach Convention Center painted by Robert Wyland.
>> The largest turtle ever found weighed 2,016 pounds.
>> The largest insects that ever lived on the earth were giant dragonflies with wingspans of over 3 feet (1 m).
>> The largest object that was ever found in the Los Angeles sewer system was a motorcycle.
>> The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
>> The longest official city name in the world, made up of 164 letters, is "Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit" a.k.a. Bangkok, Thailand.
>> The longest film ever released was "****" by Andy Warhol in 1967, which lasted 25 hours. After its utter failure, it was withdrawn and re-released in a 90-minute form as "The Loves of Ondine."
>> The song with the longest title is "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues" written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1943.
>> Top of Form
>> "The Simpsons" is the longest running animated series on TV.
>> The longest word in the English language is 1,913 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

>> The longest fence in the world is in Australia and it runs for over 3,436 miles (5,530 km).
>> The woman who has the longest legs, Nadja Auerman, has legs that are 3 feet 8.8 inches (1.14m) long.
>> The world's longest hair, grown by Mr. Hook, is 17 feet 2.3 inches (5.24 m) long. Now in his late 80's, Mr. Hook has not had a hair cut since his late teens because he became ill after a trim and a dream warned him against further snips. He washes it once a year.
>> The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
>> Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
>> "Stewardesses" and "reverberated" are the two longest words - 12 letters each - that can be typed using only the left hand.
>> The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is "lollipop" - 8 letters.
>> "Skepticism" - 10 letters - is the longest typed word that alternates hands.
>> The longest word in the English language that has only one vowel is "strengths" - nine letters.
>> "Racecar" is the longest single-word palindrome in the English language.
>> The world's longest name officially used by a person is "Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Senior" which is composed of 28 words or 192 letters.
>> The longest banana split was 288,288 inches (732,251 cm) long.
>> World's longest moustache is 133 1/2 inches (339 cm) grown by Kalyan Ramji Sain.
>> The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours.
>> The longest animal ever recorded is the ribbon worm also known as Lineus longissimus. This creature measured at 180 feet (55 m) when it washed ashore in Scotland in the late 1800's.
>> "ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for "Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command."

More movies are produced in India than in Hollywood

Each year, more movies are produced in India than in Hollywood. About 800 movies are released annually in India, about twice the output of Hollywood.
The first movie screened publicly was "La Sortie des Ouvriers de l'Usine Lumière" which was presented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere in Paris in 1895. The first movie to use sound was "The Jazz Singer," released in 1927: the first words, spoken by Al Jolson, were: "Wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet."
According to the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), in 1996 the average Hollywood film cost $35.3 million to make and another $17.7 million to market. Disney's "The Lion King" cost $45 million to make and employed a total of 800 animators.
The most expensive film ever made, was James Cameron's "Titanic." It cost $200 million, but also was the most successful, in the sense that it won 11 Academy Awards, equalling "Ben Hur" of 1959.
The top five moneymaking films of all time are: "Titanic" [$1,835m], Jurassic Park" [$920m], Independence Day" [$810m], "Star Wars" [$780m], "The Lion King" [$767m]. Notice that they all are family-type movies. In fact, movies with strong sexual or violence content usually bomb at the box office. According to the American Family Association, the average cost to produce a movie in 1996 was $40 million. Sex films grossed on average only $700 000. Movies with strong Christian or family content each grossed over $37 million.
"Frankly my dear...""Gone With The Wind has been the best-attended film since its release in 1939. Without a doubt the most famous line in the movie is when Rhett Butler tells Scarlet O'Hara, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." According to "Curse Control", a book by James O'Connor, director David Selznick was fined heavy for that curse word: $5,000. A lot of money in those days. The movie is based on the book by Margaret Mitchell. It was the only book she wrote.

There are more than 20,000 brands of beer

Worldwide, 20,000 brands of beer are brewed brewed in 180 styles, from ales, lagers, pilsner and stouts to bitters, cream ales and iced beers.
Beer has been a popular beverage for a long time. Babylonian clay tablets show detailed recipes of beer making in 4300 BC. Beer was also brewed by the ancient Chinese, Assyrians and Incas.
An Egyptian text of 1600 BC gives 100 medical prescriptions using beer. A few years ago, the New Castle Brewery in England brewed 1,000 bottles Tutankhamun Ale from a 3,200-year old recipe found in the sun temple of Queen Nefertiti.
Commercial beer making was established in 1200 AD in present-day Germany. In 1506, the German Purity Law is issued, specifying that beer ingredients must only be water, barley, wheat and hops. Bottling of beer started in 1605.
Making beer:Brewing is the process of changing water and grain into beer through a yeast catalyst. The quality of the water is extremely important. Hard water produce a bitter ale, soft water produce bitter lager. Barley or hops, or a combination of them, is used for the grain.
Getting dry grain ready for fermentation is called malting. The grain is steeped in water until it sprouts. The sprouting or germination is not allowed to end naturally but is interrupted either by drying or roasting in kilns.
Barley:Barley has been a grain of choice for thousands of years. The longer the roasting of the malted barley, the darker the beer. Barley, or wheat beers have a sweet taste.
Hops:Hops are herbaceous climbing vines and look like a cross between pine cores and artichokes. The bitter, dry flavour of hops counterbalance the sweetness of malt.
Yeast:Sugars in the malted grains are converted into alcohol by yeast. Different yeast ferment sugars into different flavours. For ales, top fermentation yeast is used, while bottom fermentation yeast is used for lagers.
The beer making process starts by germinating the grain, then steeping the resulting malt in hot water to get the wort. Base wort contents means the percentage of wort in the beer before fermentation. The alcohol contents is roughly one third of the base wort contents.The wort is boiled (brewed) and hops are added. After brewing, fermentation starts by adding yeast. After fermentation, the wort is drown into tanks where it is allowed to condition or age. Yeast and hops are sometimes added in a secondary fermentation process.
Ales and Lagers:Ales, stouts and several other types of brews, like porter, are top-fermented. The top-fermentation yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, usually produces stronger alcohol contents than the bottom-fermentation yeast, Saccharomyces carlsbergi, but the latter produces more quality-consistent brew. Lagers are bottom-fermented.
Ales usually are heavily hopped, and include bitters, brown ales, cream ales, mild ale, pale ale, India pale ale, barley wine and several other types. There are two types of the aboriginal ale still brewed in Europe. They are Belgian "lambic" and Finnish "sahti", which is brewed from rye malt. They are brewed on wild yeast and spontaneous fermentation. Both have very distinct tastes.
The word "lager" is German and means "storage", which refers to the lager (storage) fermentation. The main fermentation of both ales and lager are done on the similar temperature for 7-14 days. After that time the ale, depending on the type, may be ready for bottling. With lagers, this is only the start. After the main fermentation the beer is pumped into lager (storage) tanks with temperature some 10 deg C lower than room temperature. It is then let to mature and ferment for several weeks, usually 6-10 weeks. At 270 days, the longest lager fermentation is for that of Budejovicky Budvar brewery's Bud Strong.
Best taste:The best taste usually is acquired at an alcohol contents of 4.7% ethanol per volume. Less than that results in a beer with a bland taste. More than that and the higher alcohols (butanol, pentanol etc) become overpowering and spoils the taste.
The strongest beer type by alcohol content is doppelbock, which is usually 8%-10% ethanol by its volume content. The strongest beer brand in production is German "Eisbock", with some 14% ethanol by volume.

Witty Quotes

Quotes of the Day for April 3, 2005
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Lee Simonson
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
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Some read the Bible to learn and some read the Bible to hear from heaven. - Andrew Murray
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Islam is a religion in which Allah demands you send your son to die for him; Christianity is the faith in which God sent his son to die for you.- John Ashcroft
The beginning is the most important part of the work.- Plato
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.- Geri Weitzman
Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.- Winston Churchill
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.- George Bernard Shaw
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.- Phyllis Diller
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.- Slovenian proverb
Imagination is more important than knowledge.- Albert Einstein
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.- Elias Schwartz
Everything you can imagine is real.- Picasso
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.- W. Edwards Deming
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.- Winston Churchill
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.- Abraham Lincoln
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.- Malcolm S. Forbes
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.- Anonymous
What does not kill me makes me stronger.- Goethe
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.- Ann Landers
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.- Georges Guynemer
If you choose not to decide - you still have made a choice!- Neil Peart
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?- Kelvin Throop
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.- Anonymous
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.- Oscar Wilde
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.- Woody Allen
If you can't convince them, confuse them.- Harry S Truman
It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.- Anonymous
Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.- Anonymous
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.- Appius Claudius
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
There are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.- Thomas A. Edison
To prophesy is extremely difficult - especially with regard to the future.- Chinese proverb
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.- Shakespeare
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.- Henry Kissinger
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.- Russian proverb
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.- George Burns
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.- Samuel Butler
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.- Bob Wells
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.- Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.- Bob Edwards
If you think education is expensive, try Ignorance.- Andy McIntyre
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.- Will Rogers
It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.- Albert Einstein
The more you know, the less you need to show.- Anonymous
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.- Bob Wells
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.- Anonymous
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.- Henry Ford
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.- Anonymous
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.- Anonymous
Democracy is the worst system devised by with of man, except for all the others.- Winston Churchill
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.- Anonymous
If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.- Anonymous
Use soft words and hard arguments.- Anonymous
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits- Anonymous
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.- Harold R. McAlindon
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.- Will Durant
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.- William Saroyan
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.- Friedrich von Schiller
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.- John Locke
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.- Paul Erlich
Wine is bottled poetry.- Robert Louis Stevenson
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.- Chinese proverb
"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.- Anonymous
I think; therefore I am.- Rene Descartes
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.- Greek proverb
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.- Voltaire
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.- Casey Stengal
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.- W. C. Fields
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee.Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.
Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk!Churchill: And Madam, you are ugly. And tomorrow, I'll be sober, and you will still be ugly.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.- H. L. Mencken
My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.- Henny Youngman
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.- Leo Buscaglia
God does not play dice with the universe.- Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.- Albert Einstein
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.- James Klass
Not all those who wonder are lost.- Anonymous
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.- Lao-Tsu
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.- Gilbert Highet
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.- Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.- E. F. Schumacher
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.-Tom Lehrer
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!-Calvin
No pressure, no diamonds.- Mary Case
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.- Rita Mae Brown
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.- Rita Mae Brown
Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.- Anonymous
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.- Anonymous
If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.- Anonymous
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.- Anonymous
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.- Anonymous
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.- Dorothy Parker
Nothing endures but change.- Heraclitus
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.- Socrates
All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them.- Holt's Law
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.- Chinese proverb
A picture is worth a thousand wordsis not an old proverb- 1921 ad copy by Fred R Barnard
Wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.- Lucius Accius
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.- Samuel Johnson
Necessity is the mother of invention.- Plato
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.- Adlai Stevenson
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.- Ovid
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.- Tom Stoppard

March 31, 2005

The third millennium

The third millennium started at about 21h00 on 31 December 2000. Basically, the year 2000 is celebrated one year earlier because the year 0 was not calculated. It is the THIRD millennium, of course, because the Gregorian calendar has already observed two thousand years after Christ. See the History of the Calendar.
ZERO HUNDRED HOURS All time and space on earth is measured by two reference lines: Longitude based on the Greenwich Meridian (0° Longitude) and the Equator (0° Latitude). To simplify timekeeping, modern nations divide earth into 24 north-south zones of standard time.
The position of the Greenwich Meridian was agreed to at an international conference in Washington, DC, USA in 1884 where it was also decided that a Universal Day begins at 00h00 at that longitude. This imaginary line runs from North Pole to South Pole as established through the primary transit instrument (telescope) at the Royal Observatory Greenwich at that time. In 1928, the International Astronomical Union recommended that the time known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) be referred to as Universal Time (UT). (Prior to 1925, in astronomical and nautical almanacs, a day of Greenwich Mean Time began at noon.)
WELCOME TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM At 00h00 1 January 2000 UT the sun rose along a line that runs from about 650km (404 miles) east of Kerguelen Island in the Indian Ocean to about 640km (398 miles) east of Amsterdam Island, through the Nicobar Islands, up along the Burma-Thailand border, through China, along the China-Outer Mongolia border, along the China-Russia border, through Siberia and out into the Arctic Ocean just north of the Poluostrov peninsula. At this time of the year, earth is tilted so that the North Pole is continually in darkness and Antarctica is almost continually in daylight.
It was also determined at the Washington Prime Meridian conference in 1884 that the International Date Line be drawn at 180 degrees - 12 hours ahead of GMT. So, when the new millennium was welcomed at midnight in Greenwich, England, many other nations were already dancing away well into the third millennium.

HERE COMES THE SUN The place that was first reached by the sun in local time 1 January 2000 is Young Island in New Zealand's Antarctica Balleny Islands, at 00h08 (12:08am). Balleny Islands are proclaimed by Greenwich Observatory as the first land to have sunrise each day. Next in line was the Dibble Glacier, close to the French Dumont D'Urville base. Sunrise will occurred there at 00h22. But, as with Young Island, it is uninhabited, so we'll head a little further north to find the first inhabited land to have witnessed the first sunrise of the new millennium.
Millennium IslandThe Republic of Kiribati (pronounced Kiribas) is made up of 33 South Pacific coral atolls which straddle the International Date Line. It is subdivided into three main groups known as the Gilbert Islands, the Phoenix and the Line Islands. From north to south, Kiribati covers a distance of 800km (497 miles); the distance east to west is 3218km (1999 miles). In 1993 Kiribati decided to consolidate all three island groups under a single time zone and selected the Gilbert Islands, west of the International Date Line, as the standard. Kiribati's capital, Tarawa, is located in the Gilberts.
Kiribati was the first country to meet the new millennium. They even renamed its easternmost point, Caroline Island, to Millennium Island (even though it is as inaccessible as Antarctica). However, Kiribati was not the first to greet the new millennium sunrise, which rose over Millennium Island at 05h43 local time.
NEW ZEALAND Pitt Island was the first inhabited land to be touched by the first millennium sunlight. Pitt Island is part of New Zealand's Chatham Islands, 850km (528 miles) east from the mainland. Sunlight reached Mount Hakepa at Kahuitara Point (situated 44° 16' S 176° 9' W) on Pitt Island at 04h49 (4:49am).
The sun reached New Zealand’s mainland at Mt Hikurangi on the East Coast at 05h43. Gisborne, New Zealand was the first major city to welcome the new millennium sun.
The last place where the sun set on 31 December 1999 was Falealupo, Samoa at 19h02 local time

Did you know that many kings were mad?

Caligula of Rome had his father, mother and two brothers killed to become emperor. Nero had his mother and first wife killed. These two emperors were hated so much by the people that all references to them were deleted from official Roman documentation.
The first French king, Clovis II, went mad after steeling the arm of a martyr. His great-grandson, Childeric III was known as "the idiot". The mother of Louis IX complained that he was "not sound of mind". And his younger son, Robert of Clermont went mad after being hit on the head with a sledge hammer.
Charles VI, called Charles the mad, ruled France from 1380 to 1415. At stages, he believed that he was made of glass and inserted iron rods into his clothing to prevent him from breaking.
The Habsburg Kings of Spain descended from Queen Juana The Mad of Castile, who was mentally unstable. Her ancestors increased her inheritance by inbreeding. These incestuous marriages resulted in the mentally and physically handicapped King Carlos II of Spain, who had an enormous, misshapen head, and a chin exaggerated to almost caricature-like proportions rendering him unable to chew and barely able to speak.
Several British kings went mad as a result of a blood disorder that causes gout and mental derangement. The most famous was Mad George III, who ruled England in the 18th Century. George was afflicted with porphyria, a maddening disease which disrupted his reign as early as 1765. Several attacks strained his grip on reality and debilitated him in the last years of his reign. He died blind, deaf and mad at Windsor Castle on 29 January 29 1820. In those years, the British Princess Caroline Mathilda married, at age 15, the deranged Christian VII of Denmark.
The United States briefly enjoyed the services of a monarch, Emperor Norton I, who proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico in 1859. He had all his "state proclamations" published in San Francisco's newspapers and wrote letters that were seriously considered by Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria.

There is a bird that barks instead of sings!

The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog. The bird was discovered by ornithologist Robert S. Ridgley in the Andes in Ecuador in June 1998. Thirty of these long-legged, black-and-white barking birds were found. It apparently had gone undetected because it lives in remote parts and, of course, doesn't sing. The size of a duck, it is one of the largest birds discovered in the last 50 years.
There also are dogs that do not bark! The basenji, smallish dog with a silky copper coat, does not bark. Instead, it yodels when it get excited. Wild dogs like the African Wild Dog also do not bark.

March 27, 2005

Cheeky

NIIT : Not Interested in IT 2. WIPRO : Weak Input, Poor & Rubbish Output 3. HCL : Hidden Costs & Losses 4. TCS : Totally Confusing Solutions 5. INFOSYS : INFerior Offline SYStems 6. SAPIENT : Silly And Puzzled Idiots Exploring Network Technology 7. IBM : Implicitly Boring Machines 8. SATYAM : Sad And Tired Yelling Away Madly 9. PARAM : Puzzled And Ridiculous Array of Microprocessors 10. C-DOT : Coffee During Office Timings 11. AT&T : All Troubles & Terrible 12. CMC : Coffee, Meals and Comfort

March 26, 2005

If you hit a diamond with a hammer, it will break!

A diamond is the hardest natural substance on earth, but if it is placed in an oven and the temperature is raised to about 763 degrees Celsius (1405 degrees Fahrenheit), it will simply vanish, without even ash remaining. Only a little carbon dioxide will have been released.
Diamonds are formed over a period of a billion or more years deep within earth's crust - about 150km (90 miles) deep - and is pushed to the surface by volcanoes. Most diamonds are found in volcanic rock, called Kimberlite, or in the sea after having been carried away by rivers when they were pushed to the surface.
A diamond is 58 times harder than the next hardest mineral on earth, corundum, from which rubies and sapphires are formed. It was only during the 15th century that it was discovered that the only way to cut diamonds was with other diamonds. Yet, diamonds are brittle. If you hit one hard with a hammer, it will shatter.
The largest diamond:

The world's largest diamond was the Cullinan, found in South Africa in 1905. It weighed 3,106.75 carats uncut. It was cut into the Great Star of Africa, weighing 530.2 carats, the Lesser Star of Africa, which weighs 317.40 carats, and 104 other diamonds of nearly flawless colour and clarity. They now form part of the British crown jewels.
The Cullinan was three times the size of the next largest diamond, the Excelsior, which was also found in South Africa. The world's largest documented polished diamond - unearthed in 1986, also in South Africa - is called Unnamed Brown. It weighs 545 carats and was cut down from a 700 carat rough diamond. It took an international team of expert cutters 3 years to complete the masterpiece. Another impressive diamond that also took 3 years to cut, and also is part of the British crown jewels, is the Centenary Diamond. It weighs 273.85 carats and is the world's largest flawless diamond.
Not all diamonds are white. Impurities lend diamonds a shade of blue, red, orange, yellow, green and even black. A green diamond is the rarest. It is not the rarest gemstone, however. That title goes to a pure red ruby. Diamonds actually are found in fair abundance; thousands are mined every year. 80% of them are not suitable for jewellery - they are used in industry. Only diamonds of higher clarity are sourced to the jewellery stores.
Synthetic diamonds:

Late in the 19th century, Scottish scientist James Ballantyne mixed lithium with bone oil and paraffin, sealed it in iron tubes and heated it to red hot. He claimed the resultant stones were diamonds. They were stored away and only many years later they were found to be diamonds, although synthetic.
Weighing diamonds:

A diamond carat differs from a gold carat. The gold carat indicates purity - pure gold being 24 carats. One diamond carat is 200 milligrams (0.007055 oz). The word carat derives from the carob bean. Gem dealers used to balance their scales with carob beans because these beans all have same weight

Huh?

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?

116 years, from 1337 to 1453.
2) Which country makes Panama hats?

Ecuador.
3) From which animal do we get catgut?

From sheep and horses.
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?

November. The Russian calendar was 13 days behind ours.
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?

Squirrel fur.
6) The Canary Islands are named after what animal?

Dog. The Latin name was Insularia Canaria - Island of the Dogs.
7) What was King George VI's first name?

Albert. When he came to the throne in 1936 he respected the wish of Queen Victoria that no future king should ever be called Albert.
8) What colour is a purple finch?

Crimson.
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?

New Zealand.
10) How long did the Thirty Years War last?

Thirty years, of course. From 1618 to 1648.

March 25, 2005

Award winning joke

This particular joke won an award for the best joke in
a competition organized in Britain and this joke was sent by an
Indian......

A MBA and an Engineer go on a camping trip, set up

their tent, and fall asleep. Some hours later, the

Engineer wakes his MBA friend.

"Look up at the sky and tell me what you see

The MBA replies, "I see millions of stars."

The Engineer asks "What does that tell you?"

The MBA ponders for a minute:

"Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there are

millions of galaxies and potentially billions of

planets.

Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo.

Time wise, it appears to be approximately a quarter

past three.

Theologically, it's evident the Lord is all-powerful

and we are small and insignificant.

Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful

day tomorrow.

What does it tell you?"

The Engineer friend is silent for a moment, and then

speaks.

"Practically...Someone has stolen our tent".

Seenu's car

March 23, 2005

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never really been straight

Soon after building started in 1173, the foundation of the Pisa tower settled unevenly. Construction was stopped, and was continued only a 100 year later. It then became visibly clear that the Tower of Pisa is leaning, tilting to the south.
Since regular measuring of the tower began in 1911, the top of the tower has moved 1,2 millimetres (0,05 inch) per year. Today the top of the Tower of Pisa is some 5,3m (17,4 ft) off-centre.
After the bell tower of the Cathedral of Pavia collapsed in 1989, the Consorzio Progetto Torre di Pisa (Tower of Pisa Project Consortium) commissioned engineers to stabilise the Leaning Tower. Because the Tower tilted in different directions in its first years, it is slightly curved, like a banana. Engineers are working on the footing of the Tower rather than the structure, hoping to ease the top back about 20 cm (about 8 inches). But it means that the 800-year old tower will remain leaning.

There are more than 2 700 languages spoken in the world

The "invention" of language is not known except for references in the Bible. It is not known what language Adam and Eve spoke. The first mention of different languages is the reference to the tower of Babel when different tongues were bestowed.
The invention of writing, however, is credited to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC. Their descendants, the Sumero-Babylonians, developed the time system that we use today: an hour divided into 60 minutes, which are divided into 60 seconds.
Today, there are more than 2 700 different languages spoken in the world, with more than 7 000 dialects. In Indonesia alone, 365 different languages are spoken. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken in Africa. The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in north-western Spain and south-western France. It is not related to any other language in the world. Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world, followed by English. But as home language, Spanish is the second most spoken in the world.
The youngest language in the world is Afrikaans, spoken by South Africans. Dutch and German Protestants fled persecution from the Roman Catholic Church in the 17th and 18th century to settle in the Dutch colony of Cape of Good Hope on the southern point of Africa. By the early-20th century Afrikaans had developed from Dutch, German and other influences into a fully fledged language with its own dictionary. After a mere 90 years, it is the second most spoken language in South Africa (Zulu being the most spoken, the Zulu people being the largest ethnic group there).
New languages develop as different cultures meet and mix. For instance, about 700 different languages are spoken in London. In some suburbs of the London, English is now a second language. The same is happening - or has taken place - in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Singapore. Already the Internet and mobile phone texting are influencing the development of languages as people communicate freely across cultural and regional borders.

The human head contains 22 bones

The human head contains 22 bones, consisting the cranium and the facial bones. The cranium is formed by 8 bones: the frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, the occipital bone in the back, the ethmoid bone behind the nose, and the sphenoid bone. The face consists of 14 bones including the maxilla (upper jaw) and mandible (lower jaw).
The cranium protects the brain, which, for an average adult male weighs 1375 gram (49oz). The brain of Russian novelist Turgenev, weighed 2021g (71oz), Bismarck's brain weighed 1807g (64oz), while that of famous French statesman Gambetta was only 1294g (46oz). Women's brains are slightly smaller than men's. The largest woman's brain recorded weighed 1742g (6oz). Einstein's brain was of average size.
An elephant's brain weighs 5000g (176oz or 11 lb), a whale's 10000g (352oz or 22lb). In proportion to the body, the whale has a much smaller brain than man. This seem to give man the edge, until it was discovered that the dwarf monkey has 1g of brain per 27g (0.95oz) of body, and the capuchin monkey has 1g of brain per 17,5g body, whereas man has 1 gram of brain to 44g of body.
Brain powerThe human brains consists of more than 100 billion neurons (nerve cells) through which the brain's commands are sent in the form of electric pulses. These pulses travel at more than 400 km/h (250 mph), creating enough electricity to power a lightbulb. The brain consumes more energy than any other organ, burning up a whopping one-fifth of the food we take in.
It is estimated that the mental capacity of a 100-year old human with perfect memory could be represented by computer with 10 to the power of 15 bits (one petabit). At the current rate of computer chip development, that figure can be reached in about 35 years. However, that represents just memory capacity, not the extremely complex processes of thought creation and emotions.
But consider this: for all the complexity of the brain, you still have only one thought at a time. Make it a positive thought.

Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that still survives. Can you name the other six?
They are:
1) The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which were built on the banks of the Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II.
2) The gigantic gold statue of Zeus was built by the sculptor Pheidias at Olympia.
3) The temple of Artemis was erected in the Asia Minor city of Ephesus in honour of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature.
4) The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was a huge tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria.
5) The Colossus of Rhodes was a massive statue erected by the Greeks in honour of Helios the sun-god.
6) The Lighthouse of Alexandria was built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos.
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built near the ancient city of Memphis for Pharaoh Khufu.
Modern WondersA list of the seven wonders of the modern world was compiled after World War One (after 1918). The motorcar was omitted from the list, instead naming: (1) the radio; (2) the telephone; (3) the aeroplane; (4) radium; (5) anaesthetics and antitoxins; (6) spectrum analysis; and (7) X rays. An updated list undoubtedly will include the car, television, computer, nuclear energy and nanotechnology

The world's highest bridge is in the Himalayans

The highest bridge in the world can be found in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. The valley lies at an altitude of about 5 602 m (18,379 ft) above sea level on the India side of Kashmir. Called the Baily Bridge, it is only 30 metres (98 ft) long, and was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
If you were thinking of the bridge that stands highest over water, then the Royal Gorge Bridge over the Arkansas River in Colorado, US is your answer. Built in 1929 for $350,000, it spans 321 m (1,053 ft) above the water.
The highest road in the world runs along the Himalayan ridge in Kashmir.
The largest bridge in the world is the 13,27 km (8,25 miles) long Trans Bay Bridge which links San Francisco to Oakland. It was built in 1936 at a cost of $77 million. The longest bridge in the world is the Pontchartrain bridge in New Orleans, USA with a total length of 38,6 km (24 miles). It was completed in 1956. The most expensive bridge is the Seto-Ohashi-Kojima bridge in Japan. At 13,22 km (8,21 miles) long, it was built in 1988 at a cost of $8.3 billion.
The world's largest natural bridge is the Rainbow Bridge, tucked away among the rugged, isolated canyons at the base of Navajo Mountain, Utah, USA. It is a natural wonder. From its base to the top of the arch, it reaches 88,4 m (290 ft) - nearly the height of the Statue of Liberty - and spans 83,8 m (275 ft) across the river. The top of the arch is 12,8 m (42 ft) thick and 10 m (33 ft) wide.

Mercedes cars are named after an Austrian girl

In 1897, Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek, travelled from his home in Nice, France to purchase a car from the Daimler factory in Cannstatt, Germany. On his return to the French Riviera, his sporting Daimler Phoenix caused such a sensation that he decided to enter it into a local touring competition, under the name of "Mercedes" after his favourite 9 year old daughter. Realising the business potential for the new car, he not only placed an order for 36 more, but also secured the franchise for selling them in several countries. Gottlieb Daimler also agreed to having them sold under the name of "Mercedes."
The Mercedes trade name was registered after Daimler's death in 1900 and the 3-pointed star became the trade mark. Daimler had once drawn the emblem on a postcard to his wife, the star symbolising the growth of the business into transport on land, sea and air.
For Karl Benz, a name for his automobile was simple: he enclosed his name in a cogwheel to exemplify the solidness of his engineering works at Mannheim. The cogwheel later became a laurel wreath.
After the First World War the Daimler and Benz companies worked closer together, generally advertising on the same posters. They amalgamated in 1926, combining the laurel wreath and 3-pointed star as their trade mark.
Interestingly, although Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz were two of the major pioneers in the automotive industry, they probably never met, even though they lived only 100km (60 miles) from each other in Germany. Daimler passed away in 1900. Daimler-Benz amalgamated in 1926.

Nobody knows who invented spectacles

Roman tragedian Seneca is said to have read "all the books in Rome" by peering through a glass globe of water. A thousand years later, presbyopic monks used segments of glass spheres that could be laid against reading material to magnify the letters, basically a magnifying glass, called a "reading stone." Venetian glass blowers, who had learned how to produce glass for reading stones, later constructed lenses that could be held in a frame in front of the eyes instead of directly on the reading material.
The first mention of actual glasses is found in a 1289 manuscript when a member of the Popozo family wrote: "I am so debilitated by age that without the glasses known as spectacles, I would no longer be able to read or write." In 1306, a monk of Pisa mentioned in a sermon: "It is not yet 20 years since the art of making spectacles, one of the most useful arts on earth, was discovered." But nobody mentioned the inventor... except those who claimed to have invented it, putting the time to around 1285 (although some sources claim the date to be 1269).
The patron saint of spectacle makers is the religious teacher Sofronius Eusebius Hieronymus, who lived from 340 to 420 AD. On numerous paintings he is portrayed with a lion, a skull and a pair of glasses.
It actually is true that eating carrots can help you see better. Carrots contain Vitamin A, which feeds the chemicals that the eye shafts and cones are made of. The shafts capture black and white vision. The cones capture colour images.
The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colours. There currently is no machine that can achieve this remarkable feat.

March 22, 2005

God

Difficult to analyse

Why women cannot work in IT field

Seenu's B I K E

Vajpayee made fools all the three

Vajpayee, Musharraf, Madhuri Dixit and Margaret Thatcher are traveling
in a train. The train suddenly goes thru a tunnel and it gets
completely dark. Suddenly there is a kissing sound and then a slap!
The train comes out of the tunnel. Thatcher and Vajpayee are sitting
there looking perplexed. Musharraf is bent over holding his face,
which is red from an apparent slap. All of them remain diplomatic and
nobody says anything.

Thatcher is thinking: "These Pakistanis are all crazy after Madhuri.
Musharraf must have tried to kiss her in the tunnel. Very proper that
she slapped him.

Madhuri is thinking: "Musharraf must have moved to kiss me,and kissed
Margaret instead and got slapped."

Musharraf is thinking: "Damn it, Vajpayee must have tried to kiss
Madhuri, she thought it was me and slapped me."

Vajpayee is thinking: "If this train goes through another tunnel, I
could make another kissing sound and slap Musharraf again".

March 21, 2005

www and HTTP

One of the most commonly used services on the Internet is the World Wide Web (WWW). The application protocol that makes the web work is Hypertext Transfer Protocol or HTTP. Do not confuse this with the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML is the language used to write web pages. HTTP is the protocol that web browsers and web servers use to communicate with each other over the Internet. It is an application level protocol because it sits on top of the TCP layer in the protocol stack and is used by specific applications to talk to one another. In this case the applications are web browsers and web servers.
HTTP is a connectionless text based protocol. Clients (web browsers) send requests to web servers for web elements such as web pages and images. After the request is serviced by a server, the connection between client and server across the Internet is disconnected. A new connection must be made for each request. Most protocols are connection oriented. This means that the two computers communicating with each other keep the connection open over the Internet. HTTP does not however. Before an HTTP request can be made by a client, a new connection must be made to the server.
When you type a URL into a web browser, this is what happens:
If the URL contains a domain name, the browser first connects to a domain name server and retrieves the corresponding IP address for the web server.
The web browser connects to the web server and sends an HTTP request (via the protocol stack) for the desired web page.
The web server receives the request and checks for the desired page. If the page exists, the web server sends it. If the server cannot find the requested page, it will send an HTTP 404 error message. (404 means 'Page Not Found' as anyone who has surfed the web probably knows.)
The web browser receives the page back and the connection is closed.
The browser then parses through the page and looks for other page elements it needs to complete the web page. These usually include images, applets, etc.
For each element needed, the browser makes additional connections and HTTP requests to the server for each element.
When the browser has finished loading all images, applets, etc. the page will be completely loaded in the browser window.

March 18, 2005

Know some Facts

1.A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12,345,678,987, 654,321
2.Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves.
3. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
4. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
5."Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
6. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
7.It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
8. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental". 9.There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

March 12, 2005

Planets

Planet Facts
Read some really neat facts about the planets in our solar system!

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Mercury takes 59 days to make a rotation but only 88 days to circle the Sun. That means that there are fewer than 2 days in a year!

Venus is the brightest planet in our sky and can sometimes be seen with the naked eye if you know where to look Earth has more exposed water than land. Three quarters of the Earth is covered by water!

On-Line Jigsaw Puzzles: Planet Earth View of Earth from the Moon

Mars is the home of "Olympus Mons", the largest volcano found in the solar system. It stands about 27 kilometers high with a crater 81 kilometers wide.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, but it spins very quickly on its axis. A day on Jupiter lasts only 9 hours and 55 minutes. Ack, I get dizzy just thinking about it! more about Jupiter >(including actual photos)

Saturn is the second biggest planet, but it’s also the lightest planet. If there was a bathtub big enough to hold Saturn, it would float in the water!
more about Saturn >(including actual photos)

Uranus’ axis is at a 97 degree angle, meaning that it orbits lying on its side! Talk about a lazy planet.

Neptune was discovered in 1846 (over 150 years ago). Since that time it has still yet to make a complete orbit around the sun, because one Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years!

Pluto’s orbit sometimes brings it closer to the Sun than Neptune. It jumped ahead of Neptune on September 5, 1989 and remained there until February, 1999 when it went back to being the farthest.

March 10, 2005

Great facts

When sea water freezes, most of the salt is contained in pockets of liquid that does not freeze. Sea ice thus contains between a tenth and a hundredth as much salt as sea water, and it can be melted and drunk like fresh water.
If the reactions in the Sun's core were to be "switched" off now, it would be 10 million years before the solar surface started to cool-and before the Earth felt the effects.
Tornadoes usually spin anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Only two flowering plants grow in Antarctica. One is grass and the other a relative of the carnation.
The deepest point in the oceans is 11 022m below sea level. lt lies in the Marianas Trench, southwest of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.
There is enough salt in the oceans to cover all the continents with a layer 150 m thick.
The leaves of the Raphia palm, found in tropical forests in the Americas and Africa, can be 22 m long.
Lord Rutherford, the New Zealand-born physicist who discovered the protons inside the nucleus of the atom, and so opened the way to nuclear weapons and power stations, said in 1933, "The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who looks for a source of power in the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine."
99 % of Antarctica's land mass is covered in ice and that represents nine-tenths of all the ice in the world.
The coldest place in the Earth's lower atmosphere is usually not over the North or South Poles, as you might expect, but over the Equator. The tropopause(the boundary between the two lowest layers of the Atmosphere) varies in height from an average of only 9 km above the two poles to 18 km above the Equator. Air temperature steadily decreases right up to the top of the tropopause. Thus, temperatures often fall as low as -80 degrees Celsius above the Equator, whereas over the North and South Poles they rarely fall below -55 degrees Celsius.
Air is made of gasses, oxygen, nitrogen and argon.
Glass is made from sand, lime and soda.
Water consists out of hydrogen and oxygen.
The first solar system was discovered by the Egyptians.
When common eels lay their eggs, they die.
Tiny plants, that live in the sea, called plankton, produce nearly three quarters of the earth’s oxygen.
Glass is not a solid, but a liquid.
The largest animal in the world is the blue whale.
In clear sky, About 1500 stars are visible at night with the naked eye.
The brain accounts ± 3% of body weight but it uses about 15% of the body's blood supply.
The fastest boat was the Blue Bird driven at 328 mph by Donald Campbell in 1967.It reached this speed on the run in which it crashed-killing its driver.
Animals show a wide difference in the speed at which they can travel. Snail: 1 mm per second Cheetah: 26 m per second Race horse: 18 m per second Man: 11,8 m per second
The planet Mercury and Venus pass in front of the sun and therefore block out the sun's light.This is called a transit, a very rare occurrence.
Some seaweed has a bright colour to warn animals of its nasty taste.
A comet consists mostly of ice mixed with dust.
The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park come from elephants, geese and horses slowed down.
If someone whispers up against the wall in one part of a gallery the sound is reflected around the wall and can be heard on the other side of the gallery.
A caterpillar has twelve eyes.
The colour of a lobster's blood is blue.
And owl can turn his head 180°.
Flamingoes can swim.
A large kangaroo can jump up to 9 metres at a single bound.
It is very good to eat seaweed because of its high iodine content.
The maximum speed of a human heart is 220 beats per minute.
One ostrich egg is the equivalent of 24 chicken eggs.
Goldfish lose their colour in running water.
Plants do not necessarily look like their parent but they always resemble their grandparents.
Sound moves faster in water then air.
Lightning can have temperatures up to 30 000°C.
A starfish has no head or brain.
Most colour-blind people have difficulty distinguishing between red and green.
Many Egyptians buried mummified mice which their mummified cats.
The Milky Way is in the local cluster of about 30 galaxies. All but one of these is much smaller than the Milky Way; Andromeda is half as big.
If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.
The American astronomer, Edwin Hubble, was the first to discover that the galaxies are moving apart and the universe is getting bigger al the time.
Light travels at nearly 300,000 km (186,000 miles) every second. To get an idea of how big the universe is, light takes one day to cross our Solar System, but it takes about 100,000 years to cross our galaxy, and over 10,000 million years to reach us from the furthest galaxy.
By back tracking from its present calculated size, the Universe is now estimated to be 15,000 million years old.
Galileo was the first scientist to advance science and make new discoveries.
The earth’s atmosphere blurs our view from the Universe. But the Hubble space telescope looks from outside our atmosphere.
The biggest magnet , 10-GEV, in the institute for nuclear research at Dubna near Moscow ,Russia, weights 36,000 tonnes.
Things that you see drifting in the blue sky, known as floaters, are caused by bits of junk drifting in the liquid near your eyes' retina.
In a storage battery, ion flow is created by the immersion of the positive and negative electrode plates in the acid solution.
After Ludwig van Beethoven went deaf, he could still hear his music by resting one end of a stick on the piano and holding the other end in his teeth.
Ancient Egyptians made a puffy white treat out of a honey and the dried, carrot-shaped root of the marsh mallow plant,wich grows in fields and swamps.
The largest existing nugget is known as the Ural Giant and weighs 7,860.5 g it is in custody of the Diamond Foundation in Kremlin, Moscow, Russia.
The greatest power failure on record struck seven north-eastern US states and Ontario Canada 9-10 Nov. 1965 about 30 million people over an area of 207,200km were plunged into darkness only 2 people died.
The average mean temperature recorded at Dallol, Ethiopia between 1960 and 1966 was 34 degrees Celsius
The most active volcano the Kilavea, in Hawaii, USA has erupted continuously since 1983 Lava is discharged at a rate of 5m (7 yd ) per second.
The smallest stars are neutron stars, which may have a mass up to three times that of the sun have a diameter of only 10-30 km (6-19miles)
The tallest bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge which connects San Francisco and Marin Country California, USA, rises to a height of 227m above the water . Completed in 1937 the suspension bridge has an overall length of 2,733m (8, 966ft)
Most earthquakes happen under the sea.
Moles have poor sight but strong senses of hearing, smelling and touching.
A comet consists mostly of ice mixed with dust.
A hen calls her chicks with two different signals, when she clucks the chicks follow her and when she finds food she makes kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk.
Ants are divided into three classes males, workers and queens.
Male ants develop from unfertilized eggs. Queen and worker ants are developed from fertilized eggs.
When a human baby is crawling, he balances on three feet.
There are 600 million bacteria in and out the human body.
Plankton is made up of small zooplankton and plants.
Male birds sing to keep other males away from territory chosen as nest site and to attract females.
Dinosaurs were the largest animals lived on land.
The first pocket television is invented by Japanese firm Matsushita.
The Imax projection system was first demonstrated in Japan in 1970.
In 1969 the first man landed on the moon.
In 1954 the first transistor radio appears in the USA
In 1928 sound is recorded onto the film itself.
In 1643 air pressure discovered and measure by Italian Galileo Evangelista.
In1960 the first laser built by American Theodore Miaman.
In1950 colour televisions system is develop by the American company CBS
In1960-61 all transistor televisions appeared for the first time in the USA
In 1895 X rays was discovered.
Did you know ? A baby giraffe falls about two metres before it lands on the ground.
The average person takes about two and a half million steps a year.
A mosquito has 47 teeth.
The bells in a marriage are bad luck.
The horse's sweat is white.
The biggest shark is the whale shark.
A python is not poisonous.
The average persons’ skin weighs about 27kg.
A whisper has an intensity of 20 decibels.
The planet Pluto orbits the sun every 165 years.
The largest forest, occurring in Northern Russia, is 1.1 billion ha.
60 000 species of bugs disappear every year as result of the destruction of rain forests. Seven species a day. If the same rate were applied to mammals, all would be extinct by 24 days.
By seven months, a female aphid would have 100,000,000,000,000 living descendants. Laid end to end, they would reach to the sun and back.
An octopus can do quite complex puzzles and even undo the top of a screw-top jar.
The largest telescope mirror is 10m. The Keck telescope on Hawaii.
A giant squid has eyes the size of footballs, weighs 1 ton, is 18 metres long and is the biggest bug in the world.
A termite produces 400,000,000 babies in her life.
Without insects, there would be no flowers.
A cat has three eyelids to each eye.
The tallest tree is a Mandioca Tree, found in Montgomery State Park, California, USA It is 112,061 metres high.
A hippopotamus's teeth can be 60 cm long and can weigh up to 4 kg.
When a hippopotamus yawn will a small man be able to fit in his mouth.
A dwarf hippopotamus is as big as a pig.
A swan female carry's her baby's like a boot it's passenger's
All sharks lager than 2m can be danger to swimmers.
Leonardo was the inventor of the diving suit and the flippers.
It takes about 7 years for a real pearl to form.
The first pocket television set was invented by Japanese firm Matsushia. It is no bigger than a video cassette.
Many people consider that the first modern scientist was Galileo who lived in Italy from 1564 to 1642.
The Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli invented the first barometer.
The first working pendulum clock was made by Christiaan Huygens in Holland in 1657.
No single person invented the kind of microscope we use today, which has two or more lenses.It was developed by several scientists in Holland.
People realized long ago that rainbows form when rain is lit up by sun.The raindrops change the sunlight into colours.Isaac Newton proved this by putting a glass prism in a beam of sunlight.It produced a rainbow pattern of colours.
The first battery was invented by an Italian scientist.
The first successful colour film for cameras was introduced in 1935.
The mineral that the human body has in the greatest abundance, is calcium.
Giraffes in Africa have the same number of vertebrae in their neck as human beings - seven.
Giraffes sleep standing up and they never kneel.
Desert snacks swallow their prey whole because they get all the water they need from their food.
The water opossum live in burrows by the water edge. Its long tail and webbed back help him to swim though the water.
A supersonic aircraft can fly faster than the speed op sound.
Sound is a form of energy.
Crystals are substances like salt and sugar.
Spectacles were first worn in Italy in about 1285
Usually a bird's feathers weight more than its skeleton.
The Bream, a fresh water fish, hatches its eggs in its mouth.
The extinct elephant bird’s egg had a volume of about 8 litres.
The bird that builds the biggest nest is the eagle.
There are more than 800 bird species in South Africa.
There are more than 208 bones in humans body.
A group of rhinos are called a crash.
The left drumstick of a chicken is softer than its right drumstick.
The most biggest animal is about 6,5 t.
The smallest animal on earth weighs 0kg.
Whenever you wash your hands after going to the toilet, bacteria take a drive down the plug hole.
Bacteria rejoice at being launched by a sneeze -until they find themselves netted in a handkerchief.
When placed in the fridge to chill out, bacteria hiding in fresh and cooked have to put plans for increasing their numbers on hold.
Cooking at the right temperature for the correct length of time kills off any harmful bacteria in your food.
The only way to get rid of bacteria on your teeth is by brushing regularly.
Bacteria are grouped into four basic shapes - spirilla, comma-like vibrios, ball-shaped cocci, rod-like bacilli.
In 1995 scientists got down to 170 billionths of a degree above absolute zero. A hundred years ago they had only just managed to liquefy nitrogen at 77 Kelvin.
Frozen carbon dioxide is called dry ice and is used for portable refrigeration and to creat swirling fog on theatre stages or movie sets.
Molten salt conducts electricity.
Hard water can be either temporary or permanent.
Hydrogen gas burns with a colourless flame and at a high temperature, and tends to melt the glass around the end of the tude as it burns.
Tin-plating is not the ideal way of protecting food.
Chromium was used as a decorative finish in many of the world's older classic car's.
A calcium hydroxide is a strong base and can be used to neutralise acids.
The smallest bird in the world is the bee hummingbird of Cuba, witch is only 6,3cm from bill tip to tail tip.
The surface temperature on Venus is the hottest of all planets, nearly 477°C.
Jupiter is the largest of the planets?
That the American Ice bear can swim for days on the cold see far away from the land.
The owl is family to the Babonidae and there is more than 12 kinds in South Africa.
The night owl is not family to the owls.
The Japanese salamander can produce oxygen through his lungs and can go 1,5 metres under water.
There are earth worms that can show blue-green light when you dig them out at night.
The smallest dog is as big as a match box.
The lion can run as fast as 50 miles per hour.
A pig can run as fast as 10 to 12 miles per hour.
Ski`s were first used for military mobility in Norway.
The first academy awards were awarded in 1928.
The index finger is the most sensitive finger on a person’s hand.
The Christmas tree was first used in Germany.
A person that walks in his sleep, is called a SOMNAMBULIST.
A Doberman dog gets his name from a German tax collector.
The first person to walk in space, was Alexei Leonov.
A parrot can live up to 80 years.
That a red tree frog is only as big as a 20c piece.
The Marmezet ape specie only have one partner in a lifetime.
The South African record for the longest Steenbokhoorn is six and a half inches.
The heart beats once from the left and once from the right-hand side in separate beat motions.
The spinal cord is an extension of the brain.
A human being can live without a spleen but not a liver.
The patterns on the fur of the Cape Hunting dogs differ from one another.
There are one way to find how old is a fish, by counting its scales.
Sound moves through air, water and many other substances. Air travels 1km in 3sek.
Before the snail's hatches they have a round shell that coils around itself. It grows until the snail is adult.
At any given moment, there are about 1800 thunder storms raging around the world
There are about 67 500 kinds of bugs in the world.
A Hippopotamus can weigh up to 5000kg.
An animal that eat nuts is called a nucivorous animal.
Some spiders can make hiss and ticking sounds.
The plant, called Venis Flycatcher, eat insects. The plant catches them and then digest them.
A large ant-eater can eat up to 30 000 ants a day.
An insect doesn't close its eyes when sleeping.
The average person's skin weighs about 2,7kg.
The only land mammal with more than 44 teeth is the Opossum.
Some scorpions can squirt their venom like snakes.
The fear of a feather is called Pteronophobia.
Dinosaurs dominated the earth for 140 million years.
Women have shorter vocal chords than a man.
A clam has 35 eyes and they are all blue.
The tailless Manx cat specie can produce a litter which includes kittens with tails.
Tuna may grow up to weigh 200 kg.
The largest seabird is the Albatross.
The first people to write music where the Greeks .
Sir Edmund Hillary who climbed Mount Everest first was a bee-farmer .
The male sea-horse looks after the eggs before they hatch .
The earliest known alphabet is from Palestine, about 1700 BC .
The average bulb lasts for 750-to 1000hours .
The largest land animal is the African bush elephant weighs up to 5,6t .
The fastest land animal over short distance is the cheetah - 101km /h
The hottest planet is Venus with a surface temp. of 462 C .
The largest of all antelope is the rave giant eland -907 kg .
The longest sausage ever made was 8.91 km .
The longest pizza pie ever baked was 80 ft .
The largest meat pie ever baked weight 5,75t
The longest traffic jam ever reported was 176km long .
The heaviest Easter egg made was 3430 km .
Inside a cell is a jelly-like substance called cytoplasm.
Green plants make their own food by process called photosynthesis.
Some kinds of fungi are parasites. Fungi can grow on both plants and animals and can cause serious diseases.
Among the thousand of different kinds of vertebrates, there are some which look strange and others which behave in unusaul ways.
The long-nosed bandicoot has a backward facing pouch.
There are about 67 500 kinds of bugs in the world.
All animals produce electrical waves from their brain.
If the animal is dreaming the pattern changes again.
Alexander Graham Bell did not only invent the telephone, but also the microphone.
That the planet Pluto sees the sun every 48 years.
The average person takes about two and a half million steps in a year.
It is very good to eat seaweed because of its high iodine content.
A hagfish has four ears, no stomach and three eyes out of which he can't see.
The brain accounts for 3% of body weight but it uses about 15% of the body's blood supply.
Animal diseases caught by man are called a zoonosis.
A caterpillar has twelve eyes.
The colour of a lobster's blood is blue.
The planet Venus is also known as both the morning star and the evening star.
The blue whale's heart is as big as a small car.
Of the five senses, smell normally dims first.
Red iron oxide is more commonly known as rust.
The average person takes about 7 minutes to fall asleep.
The maximum speed of the human heart is 220 beats per minute.
A hedgehog is relatively immune to snake bites.
A cow has no upper front teeth.
When the female spider dies, she is eaten by her babies.
The male duck-billed platypus has an extra claw which can discharge poison.
When light enters a block of glass it is bent as it goes in.
A white light is actually made up out of different colours.
Bees dance to communicate.
A rocket works by shooting hot gasses out of the tail by using an explosive powder or liquid oxygen to lift it right away from earth against the force of gravity.
Marsupials are mammals which have a pouch, eg. kangaroo.
There are nearly 1000 different types of bats in the world.
A light is the distance travelled by a ray of light in one year at the speed of 300 000 km/sec.
The human tongue has about 3000 taste buds?
Steel is made by adding just the right amount of carbon to iron?
The earliest life forms were plants in the ocean.They released oxygen as a waste product.
Aluminium alloys are commonly used for racing bicycles to give strength and light weight?
Gasses and dusts are collected in special hoods attached to each electrolytic cell.
Gas masks contain filter pads of activated carbon.These absorb the tear or poison gas.
Ice has an open structure that makes it less dense than liquid water?
Spider webs are held together by hydrogen bonding?
Citrus fruits contain citric acid, a weak acid which give these fruits their sour taste.
Helium almost has the same lifting power as hydrogen, but it cannot catch fire.
A spider has eight legs.
A bat is sometimes referred to as a flying dog.
A cat sleeps up to 14 hours a day.
The earliest forms of Jazz were called Dixieland and swing.
Today the demand for water, is 35 times more than 300 years ago.
A shoal of piranhas can reduce a 45kg animal to a skeleton in less than 60 seconds.
A right -handed persons left thumb nail Grows the slowest of all his nails and vice versa.
An average cow produces 5000 litres of milk in a year.
No matter how tall you are in the morning, by evening you will be about 1 cm shorter. You regain your original height while sleeping.
The Romans called the hours before noon Ante Meridiem and the hours after noon is called Post Meridiem.
A piece of buttered toast contains about 315 kilojoules: With that energy you could run a car for 1 min at the speed of 60 km/h.
When you run only about 25% of chemical energy in your muscles changes into Kinetic energy. The rest changes into Heat energy.
It has taken millions of years for the seas to become salty. The water from rain and melting snow. That has gradually dissolved salt from rocks, and the salt has build up in the seas.
The seas rise and fall at regular intervals called tides. They are caused by the Moons gravity which pulls the seas directly below it.
When pilots, loop the loop, the centripetal force turning them can be so strong that they feel about 4 times heavier than normal.
In the dead sea the water is so salty that people can float in it without swimming. They can even sit in the water and read a book.
Atoms and molecules are so tiny that there are about as many atoms in a grain of sand as there are grains of sand on the beach.
The largest hailstone ever found was in Kansas, USA. It was 19 cm wide and weighed 758 g the size of a melon.
The world’s most powerful power station is on the Parana river in South America. It’s 18 turbines produce 12,600 million watts.
10 of the highest volcanoes are in the Andes mountains.
An ostrich is the biggest bird
Kangaroos can jump up to 2 metres.
Giraffes have the longest neck between animals.
The silk that spiders produce to weave webs, is the strongest known natural fibre.
A rat that leaves a ship before it sails it consider it dangerous.
The lightest adult dog alive is 780 g.
The tallest red male kangaroo is 7 ft. tall.
The smallest monkey is the Pygmy Marmoset and lives in the Amazon forest.
The oldest bat is about 30 years old.
The blue wale is the biggest wale in the sea.
A horse can eat 6 boils per day.
A giraffe has the longest neck in the world. Yet, it only has nine vertebrae in its neck.
A snake can eat one goat per day.
An springbok can jump 1 m.
A donkey is stronger than a horse.
A horse can run faster than a donkey .
If different spacecrafts go into space, their times are different.
Acid is one of a class of sour-tasting chemicals which react with a Base to form salt.
Fungi are ancient organisms, dating back more than 1,000 million years.
Monotremes all live in Australia or on a nearby island. There are three species - one specie is the duck-billed platypus.
Monotremes are mammals that aren’t born like mammals - they hatch out of eggs.
A sundew plant uses the sticky liquid on its leaves to trap insects. It uses the hairs on its leaves to hold the insect.
There are more than a hundred acupuncture points on each ear.
That breathing and respiration are not the same.
Artificial hearts are made of class fibre.
That herb the one type of plant that can cure some diseases.
The first stethoscopes enabled doctors to listen closely to the human heart.
That oranges, lemons and limes can prevent the illness scurvy.
That artificial skin was invented to treat very bad burns.
No one realised that microscopic parasites carry disease.
Most lizards replace their tails within a month after losing them.
A waterbuck live in troops of 10-20 near water.
The human vertebra-column rest on the basin and carry the head.
A normal vertebra-column is not a straight bar, but a trio bend.
The wild-dog hunts in groups of 5-20 dogs.
A fly beat its wings 200 times a second.
That the greatest scientist was an English man Sir Izaac Newton.
That a Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
That Zacharias Janssen a was Hollander who invented the microscope .
That a Frenchman Louis Braille invented Braille in 1829.
That Ernest Rutherford split the first atom in 1919 .
That LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation .
That an electron microscope can enlarge an object up to a million times .
That Joseph Niepce, a French inventor took the first photo in 1826 .
Giraffes are very shy, quiet and harmless animals .
When seahorses want to stay in one place, they wrap their tails around some seaweed .
The Australian moloch, or thorny devil, has a body completely covered from head to tail in short, thorn-like spines .
When the prickly puffer fish is frightened, it can blow itself up to twice its normal size .
A dormouse can sleep in its nest for almost six months.
The tiger’s stripes help it to blend with the tall grass of its hunting ground.
The first transatlantic live broadcast was in 1962.
A blonde beard grows faster than any other colour beard.
The world’s largest lake, lake Volta, Ghana, had filled an area of square 8,482 km.
Americans watch the most TV in the world, they watch about 9 years worth in 65 years.
The worst air crash killed 583 people when 2 Boeing 747`s collided.
The most deaths on 1 ship killed 7700 people.
The world’s tallest tree was measured at 112,014 m.
The world’s largest litter of pigs was 37 piglets.
The world’s oldest duck was 25 years old.
At least 75% of all the freshwater on Earth is deep-frozen inside glaciers.
The Amazon discharges an average of 200 000 to 340 000 cubic metres of water into the Atlantic Ocean.
The aorta, largest of the body’s arteries, has a diameter of 3 centimetre where it leaves the heart.
The humans nerve cells, motor neurons, are 1.3m long.
The human eye is so sensitive that it can see a lighted candle positioned 1.6km away in the dark.
There are nearly 6 x 1024 atoms in a gram of hydrogen.
The sun’s light lifetime is only 109 years.
To escape from elephants, tigers hide in the water.
When starlight passes a heavy planet, the star appears to be in a different position than is really the case.
It takes an entire forest - more than half a million trees - to supply Americans with their Sunday newspapers every week.
Periodically, a crab’s outer shell is cast to allow for growth.
Armadillos feed on insects, snakes and fruit carron.
Layer of the earth, the crust, has an average depth of 24 km.
A hedgehog is relatively immune to snake bites.
Raindrops fall in the form of hamburger rolls.
A typical chicken will lay +- 19 dozen eggs a year.
There's no difference between a Guinea-Fowl and a Guinea-Hen.
The Pekinese, a Chinese breed of dog, was bred to look like a lion.
Bees do not have ears.
One tree snake tries to swallow another when it’s fighting.
Some scorpions can squirt their venom like snakes.
You can hear a rock concert on the radio a split second before the audience, because the signals reach your radio by the speed of light and them by the speed of sound.
The nearest a human has ever been to the centre of the Earth is 3,5km down leaving another 6 374,5km to go.
The estimated temperature at the centre of the Earth is around 4 100°C.
Forces acting on your hip joints can reach four to six times your body weight during activities such as running, jumping and hopping.
The greatest height an unmanned balloon has ever reached was 51,8m
Carbon melts at a high temperature of 3 550°C.
The smallest flowering plant is one seventy-millionth of the size of the largest.
An anaconda can swallow a pig.
You can find an insect, known as the Ceylonese, that looks exactly like a leaf.
Did you know calor therapist use different colors for the treatment for stress.
The Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean, is three times bigger than Asia, the largest continent.
There is enough water in the atmosphere, that if it all fell at the same time as rain, it will cover the entire surface of the earth with 2,5cm (1in).
Slow motion in a movie is obtained by letting the camera run faster.

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