JOKES OF THE DAY
A man runs into the vet's office carrying his dog, screaming for help. The vet rushes him back to an examination room and has him put his dog down on the examination table. The vet examines the still, limp body and after a few moments, tells the man that his dog, regrettably, is dead. The man, clearly agitated and not willing to accept this, demands a second opinion. The vet goes into the back room and comes out with a cat and puts the cat down next to the dog's body. The cat sniffs the body, walks from head to tail, poking and sniffing the dog's body and finally looks at the vet and meows. The vet looks at the man and says, "I'm sorry, but the cat thinks that your dog is dead, too," The man is still unwilling to accept that his dog is dead. So the vet brings in a black labrodour retriever. The lab sniffs the body, walks from head to tail, and finally looks at the vet and barks. The vet looks at the man and says, "I'm sorry, but the lab thinks your dog is dead too." The man, finally resigned to the diagnosis, thanks the vet and asks how much he owes. The vet answers, "$650." "$650 to tell me my dog is dead?" exclaims the man. "Well," the vet replies, "I would only have charged you $50 for my initial diagnosis. The additional $600 was for the cat scan and lab tests."
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A housewife, an accountant and a lawyer were asked "How much is 2+2?! The housewife replies: "Four!". The accountant says: "I think it's either 3 or 4. Let me run those figures through my spreadsheet one more time.! The lawyer pulls the drapes, dims the lights and asks in a hushed voice, "How much do you want it to be?"
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THE POST
Lawyers, journalists mark anti-Pemra Black Day
Amir Nafees, Imran Ali Teepu and Qaiser Khan Afridi
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD/PES-HAWAR: The protest rallies taken out by the journalist and lawyer community across the country in support of Black Day call given by the central leaders of the journalist bodies and the legal fraternity in support of Chief Justice of Pakistan.
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Intelligence chiefs file affidavits denying Justice Iftikhar was held against his will CJP wanted NA dissolved
MI chief says CJP wished to head caretaker govt, sought info on judges President’s COS cites ‘harassment of judges’
Agencies
ISLAMABAD: The 'suspended' Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, wanted President Pervez Musharraf to dissolve the National Assembly and let him oversee the election months before he was suspended from office, the head of military intelligence said Thursday.
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Lal Masjid head talks with Imam-e-Ka’aba
Cleric to issue fatwa against multinational food outlet ‘Anti-Islam slogans will be resisted’
Online/Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Imam of Holy Ka’aba Dr Abdul Rehman Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Sudais Thursday in a telephonic conservation with the administrative of Lal Masjid Maulana Abdul Aziz discussed the issues of mosque, children library and Jamia Hafsa.
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LAHORE: Journalists protest media restrictions during a rally.
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Bush reassures Putin before G8 face-to-face
N Korea test-fires short-range missiles
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Dozens protest for independent media
Government to remove apprehension of Pemra Ordinance, says Aziz
::Lahore
US helping to preserve City heritage
Lawrence Gardens facing acute shortage of sweepers
City
Business
Sports
Showbiz
Some PML members behaving like Opp: PM
President seeks PML parliamentarians’ role in changing public opinion
The Post Monitoring and Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: While President General Pervez Musharraf asked the PML parliamentarians to support him openly, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Thursday said some members of Pakistan Muslim League (PML) have joined opposition or they are acting as silent spectators, a private TV channel reported.
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Tax-free federal budget likely tomorrow
Rs 724 billion to be earmarked for uplift projects, Rs 520 billion for PSDP Salaries to be raised by 15-20 percent Import/export duty to be cut
Jawwad Rizvi
LAHORE: Umar Ayub Khan, state minister for finance, will present the federal budget with total outlay of Rs 1.874 trillion for fiscal year 2007-08 in the National Assembly tomorrow (Saturday).
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President can be made a party: SC
Muhammad Bilal
ISLAMABAD: Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, who is heading a 13-member full court bench of the Supreme Court, has said that if the president is accused of mala fide intention, quorum-non-judice and actions without jurisdiction then he can be made a party.
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Karachi: Traders chant slogans during a protest against power breakdowns.
Gwadar: Fishermen move their boats ashore in the deep-sea-port.
Pemra Ord suspended
Journalists barred from entering NA
Two more held in Hammad murder case
Urdu papers in New York threatened
Hundreds flee cyclone in Balochistan
US to reward Pak officials for anti-terror info
7 injured as rocket hits Bannu hotel
President sets up secret media monitoring cell
G-8 declaration says global economy faring well
Pakistanis work 44.4 hours a week
Pak migrants held in Greece
No water shortage for Kharif
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British firm denies payments to Saudi prince
Over 300 Tamil Tigers evicted
Sanctions on Sudan will harm peace efforts: China
72 journalists attacked in south Nepal this year
Venezuela calls for joint leftist defence bloc
Saudi Arabia detains 11 suspected militants
India, China to hold first army exercises
India, US likely to continue N-talks
Taiwan cuts ties with Costa Rica
One killed as rival factions clash
Bangladesh tycoon jailed by graft court
Islamists seek militants’ surrender
15 killed in attacks on Iraqi forces
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People ready for sacrifice: Jamaat-e-Islami
Lawyers, Opp, journalists observe Black Day Journalists term Pemra Ordinance ‘black law’
Lawyers, Opp, journalists observe Black Day Opp parties join lawyers’ rally against Pemra Ordinance
Committee holds talks with teachers
Muslim Town underpass inauguration soon: Aamer
PA to meet for budget session on 11th
Health budget will be Rs 6.5b: Maqbool
Lack of funds delays WDD’s search for buildings
BC seminar on ‘UK qualifications, Scholarships and Visa policies’
Seth Abid’s son’s killer gets death
Professor Jamil new dean of PU Faculty of Science
University of Health Sciences holds 26th grand round
Faces in the crowd Paramedics too have families to provide for
Accountability Diary
Courts
Another man killed by stone-hits
FIA tips off Interpol about 20 human smugglers
President’s re-election unconstitutional: JI
Rape suspects still at large
Police declares 51 points sensitive
Robbers have a field day
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Bell fights off improved Windies
Pakistan still keen on Whatmore
Mali becomes ICC acting president
Henin, Ivanovic set Paris final date
French Open repeat beckons for Federer and Nadal
New twist in Woolmer case
Federer ‘a night-owl’
Davids revive campaigns of Euro football Goliaths
Soccer Olympic qualifiers Qatar thrash Pakistan 7-0
Flintoff dismisses talk of Vaughan rift
‘I have no personal differences with PFF President’
PFF asks Lodhi to explain code of conduct breach
Wajid Ali to chair Athletics Commission
Asian volleyball preparations completed
SAP to promote basketball
Three Pakistanis to attend anti-doping conference
Wapda honours National Games’ medallists
Hamza guides Ravi Gymkhana to victory
CJP’s affidavit not according to his post, says Qayyum
‘Privatisation and East-India Company processes identical’
RIUJ files petition against amended Pemra Ord
PPP invites applications for ticket
EU concerned over curbs on electronic media
CMCP condemns amends to Pemra Ord
Chilling out Cutting the cooling cost
Lal Masjid standoff harms business at Melody Park
Gwadar symbol of Sino-Pak friendship: Chinese envoy
Circumcision protects against Aids
Two killed over petty disputes
Musharraf not angry with PML: Elahi
CITY BLOGS
City diary Urbanisation depriving country of migratory birds
Convocation held at NDU
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Punjab lawyers, journalists hold demos
Steps on to bring about green revolution: Akhtar
CM to visit Faisalabad today
Black Day observed
NOC must for lofty buildings
PSC chief’s election on 13th
‘Cell phone business rising’
BZU LLB, Mathematics results
DPSC head elected unopposed
POs, court absconders held
Workers losing jobs
CJP to visit Karachi on July 3
Officers asked to recover arrears
Govt slammed for curbs on media
More PIA flights for Balochistan soon
Transporters seek security on highways
CS pays surprise visits to Central Jail, zoo
MUET admission policy
Mango show from 23rd
Crime on the rise in Pindi
Journalists observe Black Day against Pemra curbs
Govt accused of pursuing flawed policy in Fata
NWFP to export fortified flour to Afghanistan
VTS operational in NWFP
Warsak Dam property of NWFP not Fata: jirga chief
ANP urges SC to take suo motu action on media gagging
Doctors from Held Kashmir inducted in DHQ Mirpur
Irrigation system to be improved: Azam
Haqqani orders probe into paper leakage
Condolence
Balochistan PA adjourned after journalists protest
President’s address cancelled
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Generous budget hope jacks up KSE by 25 points
LSE index sheds 26.95 pts
Bearish trend dips ISE by 3.75 points
Asian stocks close lower on Wall Street, rate fears
US urges India to lift wheat ban
Global award for Islamabad Marriott Hotel
Nissan recalls 92,000 cars
Proton, Volkswagen close to tie-up
MoU signed for survey of gems
Toyota hybrid sales top 1m mark
Oil prices move higher
Nigeria’s forex rises to $43.48b
Tomato, onion and mango prices decrease
New crop expectations keep millers on sidelines
Gold stable in local markets
EXCHANGE RATES Dollar unchanged vs rupee in currency market
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Initiatives to bridge academia, industry gap
General Sales Tax exemption on computer equipment assured
IT sector showing excellent growth: PSEB MD
My Karachi expo success again makes it alive
DSL facility to help AJK industrialists: Attique
UK firm granted validation work of KCR
Mobilink sets up customer centre in Sargodha
Bosan for Minfal’s capacity building
Pakistan to host ICCI moot next year
Incentives for exports
Customs Act amendments to check smuggling
SCCI members to attend WFSGI moot
Passco procures 1.26mmt wheat so far
Etihad non-stop flights to Brussels, Toronto
AUDI launches Q7 in Pakistan
Aeroflot may sign deal for 22 Boeings
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Paris Hilton is free once again
H’wood hottest stars poll
Kangana’s woes
Whiz again!
Bruce loves taking risks
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom in Koffee
History repeats itself
Stars dazzle in International Indian Film Academy Awards
New beau is lookalike of ex-hubby
Dharmendra to get Lifetime Achievement Award
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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
The model ape used in the 1933 movie ' King Kong ' was 18 inches tall.Dorris Day began her career as a dancer, and only began singing when she broke her leg.The statue ' The thinker ' by Rodin is actually a portrait of the Italian poet Dante.Lord Byron had a club foot.There are over 30 000 verses in the Bible.The Eskimo language has over twenty words to describe different kinds of snow.William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway on 27 November 1582, he was 18 at the time.Samuel Clemens was not the only writer to use the pen-name ' Mark Twain '. It was used several years earlier by Isiah Sellers. Both men were river pilots on the Mississippi, where ' Mark Twain ' was a common technical term.Donald Duck lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota.The Brothers Grimm compiled 211 fairy/folk tales. The brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm did not write their tales as original stories, but from folk stories handed down through the generations. Their interest was in the early nineteenth century effort to create a German nation as at that time, modern Germany was divided into dozens of sovereign states.
Their efforts also included the creation of a German dictionary that brought together the many dialects in an effort to establish a single German language.Foghorn Leghorn's favourite song is ' Camptown Races '.The tablecloth in da Vinci's Last supper was white.The Marque de Sade wrote ' The 120 days of Sodom ' on a 120 metre roll of paper while imprisoned in the Bastille.Snow White's coffin was made of glass.Bilbo and Frodo (from 'Lord of the Rings') share the same birthday, September 22.The uncut version of the movie 'The longest day' was 179 minutes long. The natural substance the violin bows are strung with is horse hair.X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.James Bond smokes 'Morland Balkan' cigarettes.The movie ' Wanda whips Wall Street ' was the first to be billed as being backed by Wall Street.Composer Johann Sebastian Bach once walked 230 miles to hear the organist at Lubeck in Germany.Pope Paul IV, who was elected on 23 May 1555, was so outraged when he saw the naked bodies on the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel that he ordered Michelangelo to paint garments on to them.World heavyweight boxing champion, Gene Tunney also lectured on Shakespeare at Yale University later in his life.William Shakespeare's father's first name was John.
Elzie Crisler Segar created the comic strip character Popeye in 1919The 'Thing', from the movie of the same name, had green blood.The fictional highwayman Dick Turpin's horse was called Black Bess.Maxwell Klinger (from the TV series M*A*S*H) wore a '36B Miss Highrise' bra.The Beatles song 'A day in the life' ends with a note sustained for 40 seconds.Yul Brynner stared in the play 'The king and I' more than 4000 times.Superman's hair grows ' incredibly long' when exposed to red kryptonite.( additional storylines include other random effects )Miss Piggy's measurements are 27-20-32.Roger Ramjet's American Eagle Squadron consists of Yank, Doodle, Dan and Dee.Daffy Duck made his debut in 1937 in ' Porky's Duck Hunt '.John Cage composed 'Imaginary Landscaper No.4', which was scored for twelve radios tuned at random.Charles Dickens was an insomniac, who believed his best chance of sleeping was in the centre of a bed facing directly north.Although starring in many gangster films, James Cagney started his career as a chorus girl.Michelangelo died at the age of 88.The writer, Rudyard Kipling, only ever used black ink.John Lennon's middle name was Winston.In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing .
The leading part in Shakespeare's play 'The Merchant of Venice' is Shylock the Jew, though the play was written during a time when Jews were banned from living in Britain.Handel wrote the score of his Messiah in just over 3 weeks.The 'Mona Lisa' was once brought by Francis I of France in 1517 to hang in a bathroom.'Cocksucker Blues' was a 1976 film about The Rolling Stones.The movie 'Cleopatra', starring Elizabeth Taylor, was banned from Egypt in 1963 because she was a Jewish convert.Over two hundred different languages are spoken throughout the Soviet Union.Virginia Woolf wrote most of her work standing up.Betty Grable's legs were insured for one million dollars.The 'Over the rainbow' scene from 'The Wizard of Oz' was originally cut from the film because it was 'slow' and added nothing to the plot. It was added again at the last moment.The 3 largest newspaper circulations are Russian.Before Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat was the most popular cartoon character.Salvador Dali once arrived to an art exhibition in a limousine filled with turnips.The B'52's, were named after a Fifties Hairdo.During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.Over 400 films has been made, based on the plays of Shakespeare.Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary' was Mary, Queen of Scots.There are 256 semihemidemisemiquavers in a breve.Frank Sinatra was once quoted as saying rock 'n' roll was only played by 'cretinous goons'.
The vegetarian composer Richard Wagner, once published a diatribe against 'the abominable practice of flesh eating'.The juke-box derives from the old English word for dancing - juke.The Marx Brothers (Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo) were actually named respectively Leonard, Adolph, Julius, and Hebert.When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.'I am a Walrus', by John Lenon, was inspired by a police two tone siren.Charles Baudelaire, preferred to Wagners music, the sounds ' of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws'.The subject of the first printed book in England was Chess.Tiny Tim called his daughter Tulip after his 1968 hit 'Tiptoe through the Tulips'.One of Britain's most famous composers, Sir Michael Tippett, composed pieces notoriously difficult to play, At the premiere of his 'Symphony No. 2', the orchestra got lost in the middle of the piece and the conductor had to start again.The canine filmstar Rin Tin Tin is buried in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.B.B. King's guitar, 'Lucille' is a Gibson guitar.Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected thirty-five Oscars.
The French equivalent of 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog', a sentence which contains every letter of the alphabet (useful when learning to type), is 'Allez porter ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume un Havane', which translates to 'Go and take this old whisky to the fair-haired judge smoking the Havana cigar'.In the famous line 'Wherefore art thou Romeo', wherefore means why, not where.In the story of Cinderella, her slippers were originally fur, but they became glass because of an error in translation.Enid Blyton, writer of the 'Famous Five' had 59 stories published in 1959.Pablo Picasso was abandoned by the midwife just after his birth because she though he was stillborn. He was saved by an uncle.Nineteenth-century artist, Cesar Ducornet, drew with his feet - he had no arms.Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was once arrested for vagrancy.Mickey mouse's Latin name is Michael Musculus.About half the piano's in England are thought to be out of tune.The phrase ' The 3 R's ' ( standing for 'reading, writing and arithmetic' ) was created by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate.To romanticise his image, Warner Brothers claimed that Humphrey Bogart was born on Christmas day, he was born 23 January 1899.With 1477 stops, 33,112 pipes and a 365 horse-power engine, the Auditorium Organ in Atlantic City is the largest in the world.Monaco's national orchestra is bigger than its army.
Larry Hagman didn't allow smoking on the set of Dallas.It is the Doppler Effect, that causes trains and helicopters to change pitch as it passes by.Giacomo Puccina, who composed many famous opera's such as "La Boheme" and "Madam Butterfly" also composed " La Fanciulla del West" set in the Wild West at the time of the Californian Gold Rush.Rice - Lloyd Webber contemplated a show based on the Cuban missile crisis.The balls of purring fluff in the Star Trek series were 'Tribbles'.The first Academy Awards (or Oscar's) were presented on 16 May 1929.In the original Star Wars movie, there are only two named female characters.About two-thirds of the world's population have no regular contact with newspapers, television, radio or telephones.The theme music of the original Lone Ranger was The William tell Overture.Richard Strauss wrote a 'gay Viennese ballet' on the subject of Whipped Cream.Colonel Potter, from the TV series M*A*S*H, was allergic to tomato juice.
During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50 000 in Germany 'in case the little bastard wins'.The French composer J.B. Lully, while conducting a concert, pierced his foot with a pointed baton, and died from the resulting gangrene.The Stone's album 'Sticky Finger's has a zip on its sleeve.The most commonly sung song in the world - Happy birthday to you - is under copyright, the copyright runs out in 2010.Of the two chipmunks, Chip and Dale, Chip has the black nose.Colour televisions are capable of producing only 3 colours, red, green and blue.Fred Astaire's first screen notes read: 'Can't act, Can't Sing, Can Dance a little'.The Nazi-sympathist song 'Don't Let's Be Beastly to the German's', was sung seven times in one evening by Noel Coward, at the request of Winston Churchill.Issur Danielovitch Demsky was born on 9 December 1916, but most people know him as Kirk Douglas.On the same day as he completed his masterpiece "The Divine Comedy", the Italian poet Dante died.Elizabeth I, thought it was ill bred to make music in public.The Boomtown Rats, who made a hit single, were inspired by a female random killer whose excuse was 'I don't like Mondays.Charlie Chaplain's cane was made of bamboo.Judy Garland's false eyelashes were sold at auction in 1979 for US $125.The poet Coleridge drank about 2 litres of laudanum (tincture of opium) each week at the height of his addiction.
The Turkish War inspired the song' We Don't Want To Fight But By Jingo If We Do'.According to Genesis 7:2, God told Noah to take 14 of each kind of 'clean' animal into the ark.Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.Bambi was originally published in 1929 in German.According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.Marlene Dietrich was born 27 December 1901. She was one of the most popular film actresses of her day, and was considered an expert on men. She was said "Most women set out to try to change a man and when they have changed him they do not like him"The opera singer Enrico Caruso practised in the bath, while accompanied by a pianist in a nearby room.Colophony is a bow resin.In the first 2 years after 'talkies' appeared, US cinema's have attracted over 100 million people a week.Bob Dylan turned The Beatles on to marijuana.The name of the 'Love Boat' was the 'Pacific Princess'.
The first crime mentioned in the first episode of 'Hill Street Blues' was armed robbery.A Penny whistle has six finger holes.Ghosts appear in 4 Shakespearian plays; Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.George Bernard Shaw refused an Oscar in 1938, for the screenplay Pygmalion.Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.Sergei Prokofiev composed an opera called 'The Giant' when he was only seven years old.Actress Sarah Bernhardt played the part of Juliet (13 years old) when she was 70 years old.Beethoven's Fifth, was the first symphony to include trombones.The original title for the best seller 'Gone with the wind' was 'Ba! Ba! Black sheep'.The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from British Public Libraries.Sophia Loren's sister was once married to the son of the Italian dictator, Mussolini.In Papua New Guinea there are villages within five miles of each other which speak different languages.The band, Buffalo Springfield, was named after an American Tractor.Steve Martin's first movie was 'The Jerk'.Irving Berlin, who was born on 11 May 1888 and who composed three thousand songs in his lifetime, couldn't read music.
Turkey has a ban on kissing in films.The Pearl Harbour air raid inspired the song 'Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition'.West Side Story is based on Shakespear's play, Romeo and Juilet. The great film comedian, W.C. Fields, died on Christmas Day in 1946. His tombstone bore the following epitaph: " On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia".Mae West was once dubbed 'The statue of Libido'.EMI stands for ' Electrical and Musical Instruments'.The Green Hornet is the Lone Ranger's grandnephew.A Flemish artist is responsible for one of the smallest paintings in history. It is a picture of a miller and his mill, and it was painted on to a grain of corn.Maurice Ravel, the French composer, died on 28 December 1937. He suffered from a debilitating brain disease late in his life, which left him unable to speak or even sign his name.Leonardo da Vinci played the viola.Some hotels in Las Vegas have gambling tables floating in their swimming pools.Two of the greatest writers who ever lives, William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes (who wrote Don Quixote), both died on 23 April 1616.The French critic, Saint-Beuve, was born on 23 December 1804.
On one occasion in his life he was unfortunate enough to get involved in a duel. When asked to choose his weapons, he replied " I choose spelling, You're dead".Composer Johann Sebastian Bach once walked 230 miles to hear the organist at Lubeck in Germany.Beethoven incorporated the tune of 'God Save the King' into his 'Battle' Symphony.Only one western film has even been directed by a woman.The longest Hollywood kiss was from the 1941 film 'You're in the Army now', it lasted 3 minutes and 3 seconds.Each episode of 'Dr. Kildare' contained 3 suffering patients.The first ever musical recording was to the tune of Yankee Doodle.A hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica is a variety of musical glasses.In 1976 Rodrigo's 'Guitar Concierto de Aranjuez' was No I in the UK for only three hours because of a computer error.The music hall entertainer Nosmo King derived his stage name from a 'No Smoking' sign.Walt Disney originally supplied the voice for his character 'Mickey Mouse'.
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HUMAN WORLD
The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish.The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in 1927.St. John was the only one of the 12 Apostles to die a natural death.Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer (more commonly known as Satan) are the only 3 angels to be named in the bible.According to Genesis all demons are angels who were cast out of heaven after Lucifer tried to take God's throne and several of the other angels bowed down and worshiped him.
Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died.Some very Orthodox Jew refuse to speak Hebrew, believing it to be a language reserved only for the Prophets.A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.Born 4 January 1838, General Tom Thumb's growth slowed at the age of 6 months, at 5 years he was signed to the circus by P.T. Barnum, and at adulthood reached a height of only 1 metre.Because they had no proper rubbish disposal system, the streets of ancient Mesopotamia became literally knee-deep in rubbish.The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies.China banned the pigtail in 1911 as it was seen as a symbol of feudalism.The Amayra guides of Bolivia are said to be able to keep pace with a trotting horse for a distance of 100 kilometres.Sliced bread was patented by a jeweller, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912. Before it was stopped by the British, it was the not uncommon for women in some area's of India to choose to be burnt alive on their husband's funeral pyre.
Ivan the terrible claimed to have 'deflowered thousands of virgins and butchered a similar number of resulting offspring'.Before the Second World War, it was considered a sacrilege to even touch an Emperor of Japan.An American aircraft in Vietnam shot itself down with one of its own missiles.The Anglo-Saxons believed Friday to be such an unlucky day that they ritually slaughtered any child unfortunate enough to be born on that day.During the eighteenth century, laws had to be brought in to curb the seemingly insatiable appetite for gin amongst the poor. Their annual intake was as much as five million gallons.Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cupsThe Nobel Prize resulted form a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.The cost of the first pay-toilets installed in England was tuppence.Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
In 1647 the English Parliament abolished Christmas.Mao Rse-Tang, the first chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, was born 26 December 1893. Before his rise to power, he occupied the humble position of Assistant Librarian at the University of Peking.Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the world. The largest is petrol.King George III was declared violently insane in 1811, 9 years before he died.In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.For Roman Catholics, 5 January is St Simeon Stylites' Day. He was a fifth-century hermit who showed his devotion to God by spending literally years sitting on top of a huge flagpole.When George I became King of England in 1714, his wife did not become Queen. He placed her under house arrest for 32 years.The richest 10 per cent of the French people are approximately fifty times better off than the poorest 10 per cent.Henry VII was the only British King to be crowned on the field of battleDuring World War One, the future Pope John XXIII was a sergeant in the Italian Army.Richard II died aged 33 in 1400. A hole was left in the side of his tomb so people could touch his royal head, but 376 years later some took advantage of this and stole his jawbone.
The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.The Puritans forbade the singing of Christmas Carols, judging them to be out of keeping with the true spirit of Christmas.Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.Uri Geller, the professional psychic was born on December 20 1946. As to the origin of his alleged powers, Mr Geller maintains that they come from the distant planet of Hoova.Ralph and Carolyn Cummins had 5 children between 1952 and 1966, all were born on the 20 February.John D. Rockefeller gave away over US$ 500,000,000 during his lifetime.Only 1 child in 20 are born on the day predicted by the doctor.In the 1970's, the Rhode Island Legislature in the US entertained a proposal that there be a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse in the State.Widows in equatorial Africa actually wear sackcloth and ashes when attending a funeral.The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.The British did not release the body of Napoleon Bonaparte to the French until twenty days after his death.Admiral Lord Nelson was less than 1.6 metres tall.John Glenn, the American who first orbited the Earth, was showered with 3,529 tonnes of ticker tape when he got back.Native American Indians used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees subsequent to the birth.
Hence such strange names as Sitting Bull and Running Water.Catherine the First of Russia, made a rule that no man was allowed to get drunk at one of her parties before nine o'clock.Queen Elizabeth I passed a law which forced everyone except for the rich to wear a flat cap on Sundays.In 1969 the shares of the Australian company 'Poseidon' were worth $1, one year later they were worth $280 each.Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to cover the onset of baldness.Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour during World War II, left school at the age of eleven.At the age of 12, Martin Luther King became so depressed he tried committing suicide twice, by jumping out of his bedroom window.It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.The Turk's consider it considered unlucky to step on a piece of bread.The authorities do not allow tourists to take pictures of Pygmies in Zambia.The Dutch in general prefer their french fries with mayonnaise.
Upon the death of F.D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman became the President of America on 12 April 1945. The initial S in the middle of his name doesn't in fact mean anything. Both his grandfathers had names beginning with 'S', and so Truman's mother didn't want to disappoint either of them.Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with the occult and the supernatural.One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was a 3 metre diameter, half tonne cheese.Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother, they were both deaf.It was considered unfashionable for Venetian women, during the Renaissance to have anything but silvery-blonde hair.Queen Victoria was one of the first women ever to use chloroform to combat pain during childbirth.Peter the Great had the head of his wife's lover cut off and put into a jar of preserving alcohol, which he then ordered to be placed by her bed.The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler's Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle. Henry Ford was the inventor of the assembly line, and Hitler used this knowledge of the assembly line to speed up production, and to create better and interchangeable products. Atilla the Hun is thought to have been a dwarf.The warriors tribes of Ethiopia used to hang the testicles of those they killed in battle on the ends of their spears.
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.There are over 200 religious denominations in the United States.Eau de Cologne was originally marketed as a way of protecting yourself against the plague.Charles the Simple was the grandson of Charles the Bald, both were rulers of France.Theodor Herzi, the Zionist leader who was born on May 2 1860, once had the astonishing idea of converting Jews to Christianity as a way of combating anti-Semitism.The women of an African tribe make themselves more attractive by permanently scaring their faces.Augustus II, the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland seemed to have a prodigious sexual appetite, and fathered hundreds of illegitimate children during his lifetime.Some moral purists in the Middle Ages believed that women's ears ought to be covered up because the Virgin May had conceived a child through them.Hindus don't like dying in bed, they prefer to die beside a river.
While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.The Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random.The Ecuadorian poet, José Olmedo, has a statue in his honour in his home country. But, unable to commission a sculptor, due to limited funds, the government brought a second-hand statue .. Of the English poet Lord Byron.In 1726, at only 7 years old, Charles Sauson inherited the post of official executioner.Sir Winston Churchill rationed himself to 15 cigars a day.On 7 January 1904 the distress call 'CQD' was introduced. 'CQ' stood for 'Seek You' and 'D' for 'Danger'. This lasted only until 1906 when it was replaced with 'SOS'.Though it is forbidden by the Government, many Indians still adhere to the caste system which says that it is a defilement for even the shadow of a person from a lowly caste to fall on a Braham ( a member of the highest priestly caste).In parts of Malaya, the women keep harems of men.
The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.The word 'denim' comes from 'de Nimes', Nimes being the town the fabric was originally produced.During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax put on men's beards.Idi Amin, one of the most ruthless tyrants in the world, before coming to power, served in the British Army.Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.It is illegal to play tennis in the streets of Cambridge.Custer was the youngest General in US history, he was promoted at the age of 23.It costs more to send someone to reform school than it does to send them to Eton.The American pilot Charles Lindbergh received the Service Cross of the German Eagle form Hermann Goering in 1938.The active ingredient in Chinese Bird's nest soup is saliva.Marie Currie, who twice won the Nobel Prize, and discovered radium, was not allowed to become a member of the prestigious French Academy because she was a woman.It was quite common for the men of Ancient Greece to exercise in public .. naked.John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his mansion.Iceland is the world's oldest functioning democracy.Adolf Eichmann (responsible for countless Jewish deaths during World war II), was originally a travelling salesman for the Vacuum Oil Co. of Austria.The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Matami Tribe of West Africa play a version of football, the only difference being that they use a human skull instead of a more normal ball.John Winthrop introduced the fork to the American dinner table for the first time on 25 June 1630.Elizabeth Blackwell, born in Bristol, England on 3 February 1821, was the first woman in America to gain an M.D. degree.Abraham Lincoln was shot with a Derringer.The great Russian leader, Lenin died 21 January 1924, suffering from a degenerative brain disorder. At the time of his death his brain was a quarter of its normal size.When shipped to the US, the London bridge ( thought by the new owner to be the more famous Tower Bridge ) was classified by US customs to be a 'large antique'.Sir Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' cloakroom after his mother went into labour during a dance at Blenheim Palace.In 1849, David Atchison became President of the United States for just one day, and he spent most of the day sleeping.Between the two World War's, France was controlled by forty different governments.The 'Crystal Palace' at the Great Exhibition of 1851, contained 92 900 square metres of glass.It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term 'testimony' is derived from this tradition.Sir Winston Churchill's mother was descended from a Red Indian.The study of stupidity is called 'monology'.Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marring a tree first.
The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.More money is spent each year on alcohol and cigarettes than on Life insurance.In 1911 3 men were hung for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenbury Hill, their last names were Green, Berry , and Hill.A firm in Britain sold fall-out shelters for pets.During the seventeen century , the Sultan of Turkey ordered his entire harem of women drowned, and replace with a new one.Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply …' if you were my wife, I would drink it ! '.There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.The Great Pyramid of Giza consists of 2,300,000 blocks each weighing 2.5 tons.On 9 February 1942, soap rationing began in Britain.Paul Revere was a dentist.The Budget speech on April 17 1956 saw the introduction of Premium Savings Bonds into Britain. The machine which picks the winning numbers is called "Ernie", an abbreviation, which stands for' electronic random number indicator equipment'.Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
The Russian mystic, Rasputin, was the victim of a series of murder attempts on this day in 1916. The assassins poisoned, shot and stabbed him in quick succession, but they found they were unable to finish him off. Rasputin finally succumbed to the ice-cold waters of a river.Bonnie Prince Charlie, the leader of the Jacobite rebellion to depose of George II of England, was born 31 December 1720. Considered a great Scottish hero, he spent his final years as a drunkard in Rome.The Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, was born of the 29th December 1809. Apparently, as a result of his strong Puritan impulses, Gladstone kept a selection of whips in his cellar with which he regularly chastised himself.A parthenophobic has a fear of virgins.South American gauchos were known to put raw steak under their saddles before starting a day's riding, in order to tenderise the meat.There are 240 white dots in a Pacman arcade game.In 1939 the US political party 'The American Nazi Party' had 200,000 members.King Solomon of Israel had about 700 wives as well as hundreds of mistresses.Urine was once used to wash clothes.North American Indian, Sitting Bull, died on 15 December 1890.
His bones were laid to rest in North Dakota, but a business group wanted him moved to a 'more natural' site in South Dakota. Their campaign was rejected so they stole the bones, and they now reside in Sitting Bull Park, South Dakota.St Nicholas, the original Father Christmas, is the patron saint of thieves, virgins and communist Russia.Dublin is home of the Fairy Investigation Society.Fourteen million people were killed in World War I, twenty million died in a flu epidemic in the years that followed.People in Siberia often buy milk frozen on a stick.Princess Ann was the only competitor at the 1976 Montreal Olympics that did not have to undergo a sex test.Ethelred the Unready, King of England in the Tenth-century, spent his wedding night in bed with his wife and his mother-in-law.Coffins which are due for cremation are usually made with plastic handles.Blackbird, who was the chief of Omaha Indians, was buried sitting on his favourite horse.The two highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women.The Tory Prime Minister, Benjamin Disreali, was born 21 December 1804. He was noted for his oratory and had a number of memorable exchanges in the House with his great rival William Gladstone. Asked what the difference between a calamity and a misfortune was Disreali replied: 'If Gladstone fell into the Thames it would be a misfortune, but if someone pulled him out again, it would be a calamity'.The Imperial Throne of Japan has been occupied by the same family for the last thirteen hundred years.In the seventeenth-century a Boston man was sentenced to two hours in the stocks for obscene behaviour, his crime, kissing his wife in a public place on a Sunday.President Kaunda of Zambia once threatened to resign if his fellow countrymen didn't stop drinking so much alcohol.Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 US dollar.Gorgias of Epirus was born during preparation of his mothers funeral.The city of New York contains a district called 'Hell's Kitchen'.
The city of Hiroshima left the Industrial Promotion Centre standing as a monument the atomic bombing.During the Medieval Crusades, transporting bodies off the battlefield for burial was a major problem, this was solved by carrying a huge cauldron into the Holy wars, boiling down the bodies, and taking only the bones with them.A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
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SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY
Joseph and Etienne Montigolfier, inventers of the hot air balloon, first believed that their balloon didn't rise due to hot air but an invisible gas given off by fire. They named it Montigolfier Gas.Pedals were added to the bicycle in 1839.The early personal computer, the Sinclair ZX80, had 1 kilobyte of internal memory.Joseph Swan invented a light bulb in 1879, one year before Thomas Edison. But Swan didn't patent his idea and was accused of copying by Edison ( who did patent the idea and is therefore recognised as the inventor ) until it was shown both bulbs were produced in different processes.
They then formed a joint company using the best of both technologies.Allied bombers were issued with Biro pens as fountain pens leaked at high altitude.The bicycle was first introduced to British roads in 1888, but the rider had to ring a bell continuously to warn others of their approach.The first computer was built in 1823. The steam driven calculating machine, built by Charles Babbage, failed to work due to poor workmanship in the intricate parts. When rebuilt by the Science Museum of London in 1991 it worked.The Dotmatrix printer was developed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games by the Japanese company Seiko.Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878.The worlds longest escalator is in Leningrad Metro, 120 metres long.The fluorescent tube uses 20% of the power to produce an equal amount of light as a tungsten filament bulb.Edison tried to invent a gun-powder powered engine for a helicopter . . . he blew up his lab, and decided to stop work on that project.Laser means Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
The tip of a rotary mower travels at over 200 km/hr.The first xerographic copy (prelude to photocopy) was ' 10.22.38 Astoria 'John Dunlop invented the Pneumatic tyre from a section of garden hose, (for his sons tricycle)The first public radio broadcast was on the 23 February 1920, in June 1920 Dame Nellie Melba sang on the radio, immediately the Post Office banned 'Entertainment'. Broadcasting lifted the ban in 1921 for 15minutes per week.In an atom, the electron weighs 1/2000 th of the weight of the proton.The world's oldest man-made alloy is Bronze.IBM started as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corporation.Rainfall is measured with a Ombrometer.The 'Screwdriver' was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink.Polytetrafluoroethylene is more commonly known as 'Teflon'.Magnesium was used in early flash photography because it burns with a brilliant light.Ammonia is the active ingredient in smelling salts.When hydrogen burns in the air, water is formed.Near-sighted model, Grace Robin was the first to show off contact lenses in 1930.The diameter of wool is measured in micronsGunpowder is formed after mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur.Plutonium was developed by deuteron bombardment of uranium-238 in a cyclotron.
Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.The revolving door was invented in 1888.Alcohol is added to soap to make it clear.The drinking straw was invented in 1886 by hand rolling paraffined Manila paper.The metre was originally defined as one 10-millionth of the distance from the equator to the Pole.Cars were first started with ignition keys in 1949.Instant coffee has been around since the 18th century.The three primary colours are red, yellow and blue. The three secondary colours are green, orange and purple.The first washing machine was marketed by Hurley Machine Co in 1907.Pearls melt in vinegar.Twenty two carat gold has 916 parts per thousand pure gold.A shadow of a four-dimensional object would have three dimensions.Red light has the greatest wavelength.Brimstone, referred to in the Bible and some Alchemy text, is sulphur.George de Mestral invented velcro, after getting burrs stuck to his pants.Turquoise was once called 'Turkey stone'.The decimal system is based on the number 10 while the sexagesimal system is based on the number 60.Nicotinic acid is listed on breakfast cereal boxes as Niacin.The month May was once known to Anglo-Saxons as Thrimilce, because during this month cows could be milked 3 times a day.The hottest flame known is produced with carbon subnitride (C4N2), which can generate a temperature of 4988°C.Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.Marble is metamorphic.Calcium sulphate hemihydrate is more commonly known as Plaster of Paris.The ship 'QE2' requires 25 litres to move 1 metre.The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering a hundred square feet.To 'crack' a whip, the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound.Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 . . . by a dentist ( William Semple)Since 1959, more than 6,000 pieces of 'space junk' (abandoned rocket and satellite parts) have fallen out of orbit - many of these have hit the earth's surface.
Paper was invented early in the second century by a Chinese eunuch.Tomato ketchup was once sold as a medicine.Waves"break" when their height is more that seven-tenths of the depth of the water.The power of the first hydrogen bomb tested in 1952 was equal to the combined power of all the bombs dropped on Germany and Japan in World War Two - including the atomic ones.A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.75% of the chemical energy contained in petrol is wasted by a combustion engine.Paper money was first used in China.Some soft drinks are made sweeter by adding coal.Albert Einstein was thought to be suffering from dyslexia, as he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700.Sir Isaac Newton was only twenty three years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.Just after the first moon walk, Pan-American Airlines announced that they were willing to take enquires about future commercial flights to the moon.
They received 80,000 requests almost immediately.When cutting a diamond with a laser, graphite dust is formed.The metal Gallium will melt in the heat of your hands.According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of petrol in its take-off climb.Jacques Cousteau invented the aqualung while in the French resistance during World War II.Sterling silver contains 7.5% copper.Mummies, are so called because of the wax (or 'mum' ) which is smeared on to the bandages for waterproofing.The first flight of the Wright Brothers was a distance less than the wing span of a Jumbo Jet.The study of soil is paedology.A large meteorite fell in Leicestershire on 24 December 1965. Weighing over 100 pounds it is probably the largest to have fallen in Britain in modern times.Its harder to reach the speed of sound at sea level than at high altitude.Water freezes faster if cooled quickly from a warm temperature, than it does from a cooler one.(Warm water freezes faster than cold water due to a lower oxygen content - but the cooling must occur quickly before the warm water naturally re-oxygenates)For reasons of security, only people who were illiterate were considered for more routine jobs at the first atomic bomb construction centre in New Mexico.A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it used to take to travel the length of England by stagecoach.
The Lie Detector was invented by John Augustus Larson in 1921.The Electric chair was invented by Dr. Alphonse Rockwell, and first used on 6 August 1890 to execute William Kemmler.Another term for pure china clay is KaolinA car travelling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.The red dye 'cochineal' comes from the dried bodies of the scale insects.Soap was originally made by boiling fat and adding lye to it.The first hot air balloon was invented on 5 June 1783, it was made of paper and not entirely successful.The mathematician Cardano was imprisoned for doing the horoscope of Jesus Christ.Knowledge is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty years time, will be discovered in those fifty years.Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two.Light is electro-magnetic radiation.The sound energy in a pin drop it one quadrillionth of a watt, and moves the ear drum less than the diameter of a hydrogen molecule.Each increase of five decibels will half the amount of time requires for a sound to cause permanent hearing loss.
Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by rubbing their feet.The Biro pen was invented by George and Lazlo Biro.Soda water does not contain soda.Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died on 4 July 1934 of radiation poisoning.Minus forty degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus forty degrees Fahrenheit.The screwdriver was invented before the screw.Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.The energy released in the ten minutes of a normal hurricane is roughly equivalent to the energy contained in all the nuclear stockpiles of the world.The typewriter was invented in 1829, and the automatic dishwasher in 1889.The first taxi with metered fares were operational in 1907.
Rubber is an impertinent ingredient in the manufacture of bubble gum.There is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive an average car four times around the world.Pierre and Marie Currie's notebooks were sold in auction in 1984, after their radiation levels were checked.The zeppelin 'The Hindenburg' which exploded in a huge fireball, was filled with hydrogen.The United States consumes 25% of all the worlds energy.Speleology is the study of Caves.The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.The stratosphere is higher than the troposphere.The search for the existence of ghosts is Eidology
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SPORTS AND RECREATION
The first recorded reference to cricket dates back to 1272.The highjump method of jumping head first and landing on their back is called the Fosbury Flop.Clay pigeon shooting was once known as Inanimate bird shooting.The American dart game 'Cricket' is known in Britain as 'Mickey Mouse'.Australian Ron Clarke set 18 World Records as a long distance runner but never won an Olympic title.The motto for the Olympic Games is Citius - Altius - Fortius (Faster - Higher - Stronger).The 180m sprint of the776 BC Olympics (the earliest recorded) was won by Coroebus .Cricketer Dennis Lillee once tried to use an Aluminium bat of his own design called 'The Combat'.The large disk used in Tiddlywinks is called a Squidger.
A racehorse which has never won a race is refereed to as a Maiden.Orienteering originated in Sweden.Snooker originated in India.The first reference to a money prise in a horse race is a prise offered by Richard I in 1195. Darts is the most popular sport played in Britain.The word 'love' meaning 'no score' comes from the word ' L`oeuf ' which means 'egg'.A soccer ball has 32 panels.Draughts is older than chess.To a yachtsman, a fresh breeze is about 20 knots.The first automobile racetrack in America was the 'Indianapolis Motor Speedway', which consisted of 3 million cobblestones.There are only 7 possible opening moves in draughts.The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.When driven from a tee, a golf ball travels at over 270 km/h.Harry Drake fired an arrow 1871.8 metres, from a crossbow, on 30 July 1988In August 1985, Thelma Pitt-Turner set a womens record by completing a marathon at Hastings, New Zealand, in 7 hours 58 minutes. She was 82 at the time.The first perfect nine innings baseball game (pitcher pitches 27 out, no hits, no runs) was achieved by John Lee Richmond on 12 June 1880.The largest crowd for a basketball game was 800,000 people at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece on 4 April 1968.The odds on dealing 13 cards of one suit are 158,753,389,899 to 1. The odds on dealing the perfect hand (13 cards of one suit) to a particular player is 635,013,559,559 to 1 and the odds on dealing a perfect game (4 players receiving a perfect hand) are 2,235,197,406,895,366,368,301,599,999 to 1.Garry Chapman scored 17 runs off a single delivery (all run with no overthrow) in a game of cricket on 13 October 1990. (he hit the ball into a patch of 10 inch high grass)The most expensive commercial boardgame is the Deluxe version of Outrage!, which retails at £3995.The world's largest gambling win was US $111,240,463.10 in the Powerball lottery on 7 July 1993Grabatology is the collecting of ties.The highest paid odds on a horserace are 3,072,887 to 1. For a 5p accumulator bet on 5 horses, an unnamed woman won £153,644.40 (which was paid out by Ladbrokes, the world's largest bookmaker).On the 24 April 1993, Charles Servizio completed 46,001 push-ups (press-ups) in 24 hours, at Fontana, California, USA.When new, a regulation cricket ball weighs 5.5 ounces.
Trevor Francis was the first soccer player to be transferred for £1 000 000 ( Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest 1979 )The flights on a dart are made from turkey feathers.The first major car rally won by a woman was in Rome, 1960. (Pat Moss)The minimum number of darts required to finish a single in, double out game of 501 is 9.The Roman Emperor Nero killed his wife after she 'scalded' him for going to the races.The Australian term for extras in cricket are 'sundries'.In the 1950's the hula hoop was banned in Tokyo due to the large number of traffic accidents it caused.Max Baer once shouted out in the middle of a world title boxing fight 'Ma, he's killing me!'.The yo-yo originated in the Philippines, where it was used as a weapon in hunting.Boules, or Petanque, is France's second most played sport.In 1935 Jesse Owens broke 4 world records in 45 minutes.On 15th May 1948, the Australian touring team scored a world record total of runs in one day. In just under six hours they made 721 all out against Essex, at Southchurch Park, Southend.The most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb.
Mick Jaggers favourite game is cricket.Round arm bowling in cricket was invented by Christina Wells.Baseball star Babe Ruth was born George Herman Ruth. During his sporting career he played in 2503 games and had a lifetime batting average of .342.English batsman, Arthur Shrewbury, shot himself believing he was afflicted with an incurable disease.Shrove Tuesday is the day the Pancake races are run on.The first rugby club was formed in 1843.In charades, pushing away means you're cold.The Ancient Greek name for a racecourse is the Hippodrome.What is black, frozen and measures 3 inches by 1 inches? An ice-hockey puck.When kicked in the groin, a soccer player has been 'banjoed'.US President, Richard Nixon, tried to offer tactics to an American Football team.Johnny Weissmuller, the Hollywood Tarzan won swimming gold medals in the Olympics in 1924.Marcellus, is the middle name of Cassius Clay.
The 1970 World cup football match between El Savador and Honduras was so highly charged that it resulted in the two countries embarking on a 3 day war.Karate, often considered Japan's national sport, didn't come to Japan until 1916.The nickname of the New Zealand Rugby team is 'The All Blacks',which came about through a newspaper printing error.Joe Davis, former world Snooker champion, only had one good eye.In Thailand, kite-flying is a major sport with teams of up to twenty people competing against each other.John L. Sullivan, a famous bareknuckle boxer, once took 75 rounds to knock out his opponent, Jake KilrainPistols were first used in the Olympic games shooting events in 1984.There are over 10 000 golf courses in the United States.Australian meteorologist Nils Lied, while in Antartica, drove a golf ball 2414 metres.Cystallite is the material snooker balls are made from.At Darts, a score of 26 is called 'bed and breakfast'.If you were at the Brickyard you would be playing Motor racing (it’s the nickname for the Indianapolis circuit).Ferdie Adoboe set a world record on 28 July 1983 by running 100 yards in 12.8 seconds … backwards.The average age of a female Olympic competitor is 20.A golf green hole in a minimum of 4 inches.
The bar used for weightlifting weighs 20 kilograms.It is forbidden for an Olympic wrestler to twist his opponents toes.The board game Monopoly was originally rejected by Parker Brothers, who claimed it had 52 fundamental errors.Formula One Driver, Jackie Stewart, who won three motor racing world championships, also has been the British clay pigeon shooter five times.Rugby was discovered by accident. A student during a game of football decided to pick up the ball and run to the opposition goal - thus the formation of rugby.Ray Ewry, the American athlete, won three gold medals at the 1900 Olympic Games had been paralysed and confined to a wheelchair as a child.The first man to swim the English Channel without a life jacket was Captain Matthew Webb, who died trying to swim the rapids above Niagara Falls.Football was played in the twelfth century, though without any rules.
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LIVING WORLD
A Cicada passes eggs through its ovipositor.Cats are feline, dogs are canine, and sheep are ovine.A pigs snout is called a gruntle.When they mate, a yak and a cow produce a dzo.A cat's whiskers are called vibrissae.Goats produce cashmere.The common term for a member of the bee genus 'Bombus' is the bumblebeeA 'bitch' is more likely to bite you than a male dog.A turkey's furcula better known as a wishbone.A 'geep' is the resulting offspring of a sheep and a goat.The typical housefly cruses at 8 km/hr.The chemical pectin, found in ripe fruit, causes jam to set when cooling.In 1876, Sir Henery Wickham transported 70 000 Rubber tree seeds from Brazil to Kew Gardens in London.The compound carotene gives the carrot its colour.Bananas grow pointing upwards.Giraffes can not swim.Kiwi eggs, when not completely white, are tinged with green.The cucumber is a fruit, not a vegetable.Cows have 4 stomachs.The flying fish has been known to glide up to 90 metres.A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.Sea otters have 2 coats of fur.Hummingbirds can't walk.A moth has no stomach.Lobsters have blue blood.Despite the hump, a camels spine is straight.1 kg of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.90% of the Vitamin C present in Brussel Sprouts are lost in cooking.Oranges cease to ripen after picking.More people are killed each year from bees than snakes.The Siberian larch accounts for more than 20% of all the worlds trees.A zebra is white with black stripes.Midges beat their wings about 1000 time every second.A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.A mole can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night.The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.Sharks are immune to cancer.When food is short a ribbon worm can eat 95% of its own body weight, and still survive.The blood of a grasshopper is not red, but white.Golden toads are so rare that a biological reserve has been specifically created for them.The walking catfish can live on land.The white of an egg is the albumen.96% of a cucumber is water.The daisy got its name from the corruption of the words ' Day's eye'.Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.When a rabbit scratches its dowsets, it has itchy testicles.Mexican jumping beans jump because of a moth larva inside the bean.A 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000 eggs in a single minute.In 1978 the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation estimated that 'all the tea in China' amounted to approx. 356,000 tonnes.The Bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.Only the male nightingale sings.A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty 'mates' in a single day.A woodchuck breathes only 10 times during hibernation.Goldfish can suffer motion sickness.When young, Black sea basses are mostly female, but at the age of 5 years many switch sexes to male.A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.The Barbary Apes in Gibraltar are well protected by the resident British. The tradition is, when the apes leave the rock, the British will not be far behind.Gorillas often sleep for up to fourteen hours a day.Giraffes are unable to cough.A 2 year old horse has 6 incisors.The last of a cat's senses to develop is sight.The Ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait at their tables.According to the United Nations F.A.O. yearbook 1991, Australia had a population of 17,800,000 people compared to 162,774,000 sheep [ 9.25 : 1 ], and New Zealand had 3,400,000 people compared to 57,000,000 sheep [16.75 : 1].In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight time faster than an Olympic sprinter.A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.Sloths spend 75% of their lives asleep.During its lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be its country of origin.About 70% of all living organisms in the world are bacteria.Camels are born without humps.Many male fish blow bubbles when they want to copulate.Crocodiles are colour blind.Snails mate only once in their lifetime, but it can take up to 12 hours.Dogs are colour-blind.Anteaters prefer termites to ants.Baby eels are elvers.Worms are hermaphroditic, they have both sets of sexual organs on their bodies.Whales increase in weight 30,000,000,000 times in their first two years.There are more insects in the world than all other animals together.On average, Elephants sleep for about 2 hours per day.A giraffe's neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.An electric eel produces an average of 400 volts.Spiders' webs are a traditional natural clotting agent, when applied to a cut they quickly stop the flow of blood.The orang-utan's warning signal to would be aggressors is a loud belch.About a quarter of the people bitten by dogs seem to be bitten by German Shepherd dogs.The Emu gets its name from the Portuguese word for ostrich.Squid can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 2 seconds.Although Cleopatra was meant to have died after a bite from an asp, the species does not exist in Egypt.The 'Alligator Pear' is better known as the avocado.Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.An Elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water.The largest shark ever caught with a rod was just less than seventeen feet long.Cyanide is present in apple pips, but only in small doses.Dolphins sleep with one eye open.Bees have 5 eyes.A species of earthworm in Australia grow up to 3 metres in length.The mullet fish only turns red after death.The Goliath frog of West Africa is nearly three feet long.To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers.Vampire Bats can hear sound frequencies which are over eight times higher than any picked up by the human ear.The male Californian sea-otter grips the nose of the female with his teeth during mating.The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.The smallest trees in the world are Greenland dwarf willows.A myrmecologist studies ants.The original source of the dye 'sepia' was the cuttlefish.Dogs sweat through the pads of their feet.Only male canaries can sing.The Kiwi is the only bird with nostrils at the end of its bill.When Europeans first came across a giraffe, they called it a 'Camelopard', believing it to be a cross between a camel and a leopard.Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.The only wild camels in the world are found in Australia.At full tilt, Pumas can leap a distance of about sixty feet.Crocodiles carry their young in their mouths.Tarantula's can survive 2.5 years without food.It has been estimated that there are something like twenty-three million cats in the U.S.A sloth can move twice as fast in water as it can on land.India has a Bill of Rights for cows.Bulls can run faster uphill than they can (or want to) downhill, because of the bone structure of their legs.99% of all life forms to exist on Earth are now extinct.The sperm of a mouse is longer than the sperm of an elephant.A dog has elbows.Whales can't swim backwards.Penguins can jump over 6 feet.Lions have been exported to Africa by Windsor Safari Park in England.An Elephant has the world's largest penis, weighing about 27 kgCrocodiles are responsible for over a thousand deaths a year by the Banks of the Nile.The aquatic animal, the Red Sponge, can be broken into a thousand pieces and still reconstitute itself.The Moa bird of New Zealand, which became extinct four hundred years ago, was over ten feet tall.Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.The hippopotamus is born under water.Catgut comes from sheep not cats.Male cats have barbs on their genitals, which cause the females to cry out in pain on withdrawal.St. Bernards, famous for their role as alpine rescue dogs, do NOT wear casks of brandy round their necks.The average porcupine has about 30,000 quills.Cats have no facility for tasting sugar.Only female mosquitoes bite.It takes 4 hours to hardboil an ostrich egg.The nerve fibres in the squid are 500 times thicker than a humans'.A shark must keep moving forward to stay alive.Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber birds.Some snakes can take as long as twenty-four hours to copulate.Polar bears can run as fast as 40 km/h.A python is capable of devouring a pig whole. The ordinary house-fly beats its wings nearly two hundred times a second.Japan's pampered Kobe cattle regularly get to drink beer.Cats were a sacred animal in Ancient Egypt, and when they died,people shaved off their eyebrows as a sign of respect.Rhinoceros horn, when powered, is believed in some countries to increase a persons sexual potency.A mosquito has 47 teeth.An Anencephalous creature has no brain.Within a pride of lions, 90% of the hunting is done by the females.A large whale needs more than 2 tonnes of food a day.Whales must move their entire body to change their line of sight.
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EARTH AND SPACE
Uranus is visible to the naked eye.Benjamin Franklin was first to suggest daylight saving.The most abundant metal in the Earths crust is aluminium.It snowed in the Sahara desert on 18 February 1979.On average, an iceberg weighs 20 million tons.The far side of the moon was first photographed by a Russian satellite in 1959.Captain Cook was the first man to set foot on all continents except Antarctica.The diameter of the Moon is 3 476 km.The pressure at the Earths inner core is 3 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure.200 million years ago Earth contained 1 land mass called PangaeaAt the deepest point, an iron ball would take more than an hour to sink to the ocean floor. ( 11.034 km )The largest wave ever recorded was near the Japanese Island of Ishigaki in 1971. It was recorded at 85 metres high.Antarctic means ' opposite the Artic '.
The largest iceberg recorded ( in 1956 ) was 200 miles long and 60 miles wide, larger that the country of Belgium.The surface of the Dead Sea is 400 metres below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, which is only 75 km away.The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.The country of Benin changed its name from Dahomey in 1975.The Nova Zemlya Glacier in the (former) USSR is over 400 km long.Canada ( 9 970 610 sq km) is larger than China ( 9 596 961 sq km) which is larger than the USA ( 9 363 130 sq km).The coldest temperature ever recorded was -70 deg Celsius, in Siberia.The second largest US state in the 1950's was California.The US state Maryland was named after Queen Henrietta Maria.The only country to register zero births in 1983 was the 'Vatican City'.The US state of Florida first saw the cultivation of oranges in 1539.The world's largest National park is 'Wood Buffalo National Park' in Canada.The world's largest exporter of sugar is Cuba.There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.England's Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome's Colosseum.In 1896, Britain and Zanzibar were at war for 38 minutes.The Eskimo language has over twenty words to describe different kinds of snow.Numbering houses in London streets only began in 1764.More than 75% of all the countries in the world are north of the equator.Less than 1% of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited.
On average, an iceberg weighs 20 million tons.Fulgurite is formed when lightning strikes sand.Mountains are formed by a process called orogeny.Obsidian, used by American Indians for tools, weapons and ornaments, is dark volcanic glass.It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.82% of the workers on the Panama Canal suffered from malaria.In May 1948, Mt Ruapehu and Mt Ngauruhoe, both in New Zealand, erupted simultaneously.The Incas and the Aztecs were able to function without the wheel.The tree dictated on the Lebanese flag is a Cedar.Tokyo was once called Edo.
The Atlantic Ocean covers the world's longest mountain range.In 1825 Upper Peru became Bolivia.New York City contains 920 kilometres of shoreline.There are 3 Great pyramids at Giza.The southwestern tip of the Isle of Man is called 'The Calf of Man'.The world's largest Delta was created by the river Ganges.The Scottish city Edinburgh is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie' meaning 'Old Smoky'The inhabitants of Papa New Guinea speak about 700 languages, approx. 15% of the world's total. ( including localised dialects, which are known to change from village to village )The world's first National Park was Yellowstone National Park60% of all US potato products originate in Idaho.The northern most country claiming part of Antarctica is Norway.The D.C. in Washington D.C. stands for District of Columbia.The inhabitants of Monaco are known as 'Monegasques'.The East Alligator River in Australia's Northern Territory, was misnamed. It contains crocodiles not alligators.New York's Central Park opened in 1876.France contains the greatest length of paved roads.The city of Istanbul straddles two separate continents, Europe and Asia.At the nearest point , Russia and America are less than 4 km apart.99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.Rio de Janeiro translates to ' River of January'.
The furthest point from any ocean would be in China.The Tibetan Mountain people use yak's milk as their form of currency.Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.Underneath the great icy plains of the Antarctic can sometimes be found little pools of unfrozen water.Ten per cent of the salt mined in the world each year is used to de-ice the roads in America.The Spanish Inquisition once condemned the entire Netherlands to death for heresy.The Sun's mass decreases by 4 000 000 tonnes per second due to conversion of Hydrogen to Helium by thermonuclear reaction, this conversion will continue for another 5000 million years before the Sun's energy supply is exhausted. The River Nile has frozen over only twice in living memory - once in the ninth century, and then again in the eleventh century.Earth is the only planet not named after a God.The Angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara falls.The Scandinavian capital, Stockholm, is build on nine islands connected by bridges.La Paz in Bolivia is so high above sea level that there is barely enough oxygen in the air to support a fire.The Forth railway bridge in Scotland is a metre longer in summer than in winter, due to thermal expansion.
The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimetres each year.In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.On a clear night over 2 000 stars are visible to the naked eye.Until the 18th century India produced almost all the worlds diamonds.On 30 March 1867, Alaska was officially purchased from Russia for about 2 cents an acre. At the time many politicians believed this purchase of ' wasteland to be a costly folly '.During winter, the skating rinks in Moscow cover more than 250 000 square metres of land.As the Pacific plate moves under its coast, the North Island of New Zealand is getting larger.Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.If you travel from east to west across the Soviet Union, you will cross seven time zones.Sahara means 'desert' in Arabic.On the 15 January 1867, there was a severe frost in London, and over 40 people died in Regent's Park when the ice broke on the main lake.The water in the Dead Seas is so salty that it far easier to float than to drown.
The State flag of Alaska was designed by a 13 year old boy.Every litre of water taken from the Red Sea would contain about 200 grams of salt.Lighting strikes the Earth about 200 times a second.Very hard rain would pour down at the rate of about twenty miles per hour.Discounting Australia , which is generally regarded as a continental land mass, the world's largest island is Greenland.No rain has ever been recorded falling in the Atacama desert in Chile.The background radiation in Aberdeen is twice that of the rest of Great Britain.About 2 million hydrogen atoms would be required to cover the full stop at the end of this sentence.The southern most tip of Africa is not the 'Cape of Good Hope' but 'Cape Agulhas'.Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.The tower of London, during its lifetime has served many purposes, including a zoo.There is a village near the Somme in France which is simply called Y.The planet Uranus was only discovered 215 years ago, by Sir William Herschel on 13 March 1781.Two minor earthquakes occur every minute somewhere in the world.In the north of Norway, the sun shines constantly for about 14 weeks each summer.
The Polynesian country of Niue is a 170 square kilometre limestone rock emerging 60 metres from the Pacific.Sahara means 'desert' in Arabic.The United States, which accounts for six per cent of the population of the world, consumes nearly sixty per cent of the world's resources.The temperature of the planet Mars can go as high as eighty degrees Fahrenheit during the day, and as low as minus one hundred and ninety degrees at night.The world's longest fresh water beach is located in Canada.Over the years the Niagara Falls have moved more than 11 kilometres from its original site.The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.Yugoslavia is bordered by seven other countries.Greenland, named this to attract settlers, was discovered by Eric the Red in the 10th century.The Milky Way galaxy contains 5 billion stars larger than our sun.Within a few years of Columbus' discovery of America, the Spaniards had killed one and a half million Indians.Hawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14, 1900.Hawaii's Mt Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains about ninety per cent of the time, about 480 inches per annum.If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Our galaxy is 75 000 light years in diameter and our sun is 26 100 light years from the centre.Based on various cosmological techniques the universe is estimated at 10 - 18 gigayears old.(1 gigayear = 1 000 000 000 000 years)The smallest star found to date is a neutron star with a diameter of 59 km but a mass of 10 times that of our sun. This star is more commonly known as a black hole,The earth's average velocity orbiting the sun is 107 220 km per hour.The sun has a core temperature of 154 000 000 Kelvin A day on Jupiter is about 9 hours, 50 minutes, 30 seconds at the equator.Because of a large orbital eccentricity, Pluto is closer to the sun than Neptune between January 1979 and March 1999.Mars has a volcano (Olympus Mons) which is 310-370 miles in diameter and 16 miles high.The Future's Museum in Sweden contains a scale model of the solar system. The sun is 105 meters in diameter and the planets range from 3.5 mm to 6 km from the 'sun'.
This particular model also contains the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, still to scale situated in the Museum of Victoria ... in Australia.The maximum possible duration of an eclipse is 7 minuets and 31 seconds (when the observer is land based and stationary)Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered 32 comets and approximately 800 asteroids.The Earth is pear shaped, the North Pole radius being 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.. Scientists at Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions where traced to a microwave oven in the building.In 1908 the Moskva River in Russia rose nine meters, flooding 100 streets and 2,500 houses.'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu'is the name of a hill in New Zealand.The book by Copernicus, which suggested that the Sun and not the Earth was the centre of the solar system, was banned officially banned by the Papacy until 1835.There is about 200 time more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.A quarter of Russia is covered by forest.
There is a Rocking Stone in Cornwall which, though it weighs many tonnes, can be rocked with ease.South Africa produces two-thirds of the world's gold.The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined.The Earth is the densest planet in the solar system.There is no point in England more than 75 miles from the ocean.The Red sea is not mentioned in the Bible.England is smaller than New England Nearly a quarter of the population of Poland was killed in World War II.The number of UFO sightings constantly increase when Mars is nearest the Earth.The first city in the world to have a population of over one million was London.Our own galaxy is minute compared to the radio galaxies being discovered at the edge of the universe.There is a town in West Virginia USA called LooneyvilleSo far in the twentieth century, two objects have hit the earth's surface with enough force to destroy a medium size city. By pure luck both have landed in sparsely populated Siberia.
One of the greatest natural disasters of recent centuries occurred when an earthquake hit Tangshan, China killing three quarters of a million people.New York was once New Amsterdam.On Picarn Island, it is a criminal offence it shout ' ship ohoy' when there is in fact no ship in sight.The Dead Sea is in fact an inland lake.Icelandic phone books are listed by the given name not the surname.Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow.It is illegal to swim in Central Park.The fastest tectonic movement on earth is 240 mm per year, at the Tonga micro-plate near Samoa.The earth's magnetic field is not permanent, There are six million trees in The Forest of Martyrs near Jerusalem, symbolising the Jewish death toll in World War Two.In 1980 Rhodesia became independent Zimbabwe.
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VERY FUNNY
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Lovers aren't always best of friends:
Too much, sometimes, lies between their sheets.
In fact they need a friend to share the sweets
And sorrows of a love that always ends.
Love that lasts is love that's more than passion:
A wedding of true friendship and desire.
Some might fear a certain loss of fire,
But pleasure is ignited by compassion.
You're the one in whom I most confide,
The inner ear I talk to through the day,
The flesh I need when I must have my way,
The world where I am home when I'm inside.
And even more, I find my pleasure, too,
From seeing the delight you take in me,
The comfort, quiet joy, and ecstasy
That it is my gift to give to you.
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Here's a message for you:
Let me be the bandage for your bleeding;
Let me be the ocean for your tears.
Let me be the secret of your healing;
Let me be the song to still your fears.
Love isn't love that cannot love in darkness,
Nor is it love that turns away from pain;
Nor would I love would I not hold your sadness
And with my love your love of life sustain.
So do not think your malady a burden,
And do not think my willingness deceit.
Just let your sorrow flow into my garden,
And I will share with you the harvest sweet.
Have a great day
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Achievement
* Press on- nothing can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
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* The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come. C.S. Lewis
* Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. Conrad Hilton
* There are no shortcuts to life's greatest achievements. Anonymous
* Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish. Brian Tracy
* Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up." Alfred North Whitehead
* You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson
* You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. Robert Collier
* Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have. Jean-Paul Sartre
* There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. Dr. Theodor Reik
* Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. General George Smith Patton, Jr.
* Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage. Frederick Pierce
* The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. Napolean Hill
* A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. William Sharp
* Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand
* We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. Eric Hoffer
* Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit. Hugh Nibley
* Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement. Leo J. Muir
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A GLIMPSE OF YOU
Author: Joyce Hemsley
Although the sun is shining
And the skies above are blue,
Even though I'm young and beautiful
Every day I pine for you.
Although you said you loved me
And I said I loved you too,
Even though our love seemed wonderful
You left with someone new.
Although the world keeps turning
There is nothing I can do
But to search the streets of London
Perchance to catch a glimpse of you.
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Thursday, June 7, 2007
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- I am a studious person from my childhood.Have done a lot of study on every subject. I have done translation of holy Quran in urdu language in a unique way.No body has done the translation in this way in the history of the world! I have done great research on internet ,especially on pakistan internet officials sitting in main server. These bl.... officers are real terrorists of cyberworld as well as real world. All terrorist activities are done with their help. They are really deserved to be put in GUANTANAMO Bay's notorious jail. Their behavior is so nasty that I would love to become suicide- bomber in the main server of pakistan internet!!!
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