Matter Of Fact .......

1. The word "SET" has more definitions than any other word in the English language .
2. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched" .
3. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "Uncopyrightable" .
4. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous" - tremendous , horrendous , stupendous and hazardous .
5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called tittle .
6. Ever visited "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaunga horonukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu ?" That's a hill in New Zealand with the longest place - name .

Money , money , money .......

Hello friends , today I have collected some good facts about MONEY .................

1. If a million dollars were stacked in US$ 1 bills , the stack would be 110 m high .
2. Money sounds good but good sounds makes money. Music sales all across the globe total more than US$ 40 billion .
3. Well .... there are over 7 million millionaires all across the globe .
4. Countries around the world spend about US $ 80 billion on education in a single year .
5. What makes money notes ? Not paper , but mostly a blend of cotton and linen fibres .
6. Americans and Europeans spend US $ 17 billion per year on food for their pests .

KNOW THE UNKNOWN - 2

Q 1. Why is Sky blue ? .........

A 1. Sunlight , which appears white to the human eyes , is a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow . When the sunlight passes through the atmosphere , it scatters and spreads into all the directions . The blue component of sunlight is scattered more strongly than any other component . That is why the sky appears blue .

Q 2 . What is Cosmic Light ?. ...

A 2. The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation , or CMB for short , is the faint glow of light that fills the universe . It is the afterglow of the big bang streaming through space these last 14 billion years . It is the oldest light we can see . The light is important in the study of cosmology because it carries the fingerprint of the universe as it was at the time of the birth .

Q 3 . Why can't you tickle yourself ? .....

A 3. The answer lies at the back of the brain in the area called the cerebellum , which is involved in monitoring movements . When you try to tickle yourself , the cerebellum predicts the sensation and this prediction is used to cancel the response of other brain areas to the tickle .

Q 4. What is SENSEX ? ......

A 4 . The commonly used name for the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index - an index composed of 30 of the largest and most actively traded stocks on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) .

The Colosseum

The Colosseum or Coliseum , originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium , Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo) , is a giant amphitheatre in the centre of the city Rome , Italy.
Originally capable of seating around 50,000 spectators , it was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles .
It was built on a site just east of the Roman Forum, with construction starting between 70 and 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian.
The amphitheatre , the largest ever built in the Roman Empire , was completed in 80 AD under Titus , with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign.

The Colosseum remained in use for nearly 500 years with the last recorded games being held there as the 6th century ---- well after the traditional date of the fall of Rome in 476 .
As well as the traditional gladiatorial games , many other public spectacles were held there , such as mock sea battles , animal hunts , executions , re-enactments of famous battles , and dramas based on Classical mythology.

Although it is now in a severely ruined condition due to damage caused by earthquakes and stone-robbers , the Colosseum has long been seen as an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome and is one of the finest surviving examples of Roman architecture.
It is in the list of New Seven Wonders Of The World .................

KNOW THE UNKNOWN - 1

Q 1. What makes tsunami such a deadly wave ?......

A 1. What makes tsunamis so deadly is the amount of water they move and the speed they travel . A normal wave , usually created by the wind , only affects the top 30 feet of the ocean and moves slowly . In a tsunami , the entire section of ocean from top to bottom rushes away from the quake site at nearly 800 kilometres an hour . Furthermore , it travels so stealthily that if you were sitting on a boat on the open ocean and it passed under you , you might not even notice it .

Q 2. What is famous American SETI project ?......

A 2. SETI is the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence group , located in Berkeley , CA . They have been searching for other life for more than 40 years . The project is dedicated to the search for radio signals from space indicating the existence of life beyond that of Earth's .

Q 3. What is Deja vu ? .........

A 3. Deja vu is the peculiar feeling that a place , situation , person , action , or conversation is familiar and has already been experienced . Ocassionally deja vu is accompanied with precognition . Some theorists believe deja vu is information that is received in dream state and recognized or retrieved again when coming upon the actual person , place or event .

Parliaments of various countries

Here is the list of some countries and the name of their parliament.......

COUNTRY ----------------------------- NAME OF PARLIAMENT

1. Austria - Hungary ------------------- Reichslath
2. Bulgaria ----------------------------- Sobranje
3. Denmark ---------------------------- Rigsdag
4. Eire --------------------------------- Dail Eireann
5. England ----------------------------- Parliament
6. France ------------------------------ National Assembly
7. Germany ---------------------------- Reichstag
8. Iceland ------------------------------ Althing
9. India -------------------------------- Parliament (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha)
10. Israel -------------------------------- Knesset
11. Italy --------------------------------- Senate
12. Japan -------------------------------- Diet
13. Netherlands -------------------------- States General
14. Norway ------------------------------- Storting
15. Persia --------------------------------- Majlis
16. Poland --------------------------------- Sejm
17. Portugal -------------------------------- Cortes
18. Spain ----------------------------------- Cortes
19. Sweden --------------------------------- Riksdag
20. Switzerland ----------------------------- Federal Assembly
21. Syria ------------------------------------ Grand National Assembly
22. Turkey ---------------------------------- Congress
23. U.S.A. ----------------------------------- Soviets of Union and Soviet-Nationalities
24. West Germany -------------------------- Bendestag
25. Yugoslavia ------------------------------- Skupshtina
    

Some "Did You Know "

Hello friends , Today I have collected some of the interesting facts which you might know or you don't , some of it are as follows...........

1. An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1.7 million years.

2. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first e-mail in 1976.

3. On every continent there is city called Rome.

4. There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.

5. Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

6. To make 1 kilo of honey , bees have to visit 4 million flowers , travelling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth .

7. Neil Armsrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first .

8. The first ice-cream soda was sold in 1874 in the US.

9. There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.

10. An onion , apple and potato have the same taste ? The differences in flavour are caused by their smell .

11. China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year and for that 25 million trees are chopped down .

12. The Chinese first discovered tea . Actually it was a Chinese Emperor who first tasted the brew in 2737 B.C. when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water .

World's Highest Mountain Peaks

Here is the list of some of the Highest Mountain peaks in the World . These peaks are widely spread over the Himalayas , Alaska ,Russia etc . The list goes like this :

1. Mt. Everest (Himalaya - Nepal/Tibet) --------- 8848 in metres
2. K2 (India) ------------------------------------ 8611 in metres
3. Kanchenjunga (Himalaya - Nepal/India) ------ 8597 in metres
4. Lhotse (Nepal /China) ------------------------ 8501 in metres
5. Makalu (Himalaya - Nepal) ------------------- 8470 in metres
6. Dhaulagiri (Himalaya - Nepal) ---------------- 8172 in metres
7. Nanga Parbat (Himalaya - Nepal) ------------- 8126 in metres
8. Gasherbrum (India) -------------------------- 8068 in metres
9. Gosainthan (Tibet) --------------------------- 8013 in metres
10. Nanda Devi (India) -------------------------- 7817 in metres
11. Aconcagua (Andes-Argentina)---------------- 6959 in metres
12. Mount McKinley (USA) ---------------------- 6194 in metres
13. Kilimanjaro (Kenya-Tanzania) --------------- 5895 in metres
14. Mount Elbrus (Russia) ----------------------- 5642 in metres
15. Vinson Massif (Ellis worth Mountains) ------- 5140 in metres
16. Caetenisz (New Guinea) --------------------- 5000 in metres
17. Mount Blanc (Alps - France) ----------------- 4087 in metres

Some Facts On Discovery World

Hello friends , Today I have brought for you some of the cool facts about Discovery World. As I am reading the book called as "Great Inventions and Discoveries" I came across some of the great sailors of all time , who have discovered the land on Earth. Some of them are :

VASCO DA GAMA
Vasco Da Gama is one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery , and was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India . He not only came to India for sake of discovery but also for having trade with India and far East. Vasco Da Gama's initial journey led directly to a several hundred year era of European domination through sea power and commerce , and 450 years of Portuguese colonialism in India that brought wealth and power to the Portuguese throne .

CAPTION JAMES COOK
The powerful British navigator and sailor James Cook , was famous for his three voyages to the pacific. He was hungry for the wealth , knowledge and discovering new lands. He went to many places in his life , some of which were Polynesia , New Zealand , Australia. His trade with these countries made him more like a voyager to business men .

SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN
In 1593 , a Frenchman , Samuel De Champlain, joined an expedition to Canada and explored the St. Lawrence as far as the Lachine rapids. Returning to France , he persuaded the king, Henry fourth, to fund an expedition to colonize along the St. Lawrence. He founded Quebec as the trading station of Canada. He remained then in Canada for the rest of his life.

FERDINAND MAGELLAN
Three ships from the Spanish round the world expedition led by the Portuguese navigator, Ferdinand Magellan , succeeded in navigating the vast Pacific Ocean. They passed two small Polynesian islands of Pukapuka . Finally with a somewhat depleted crew , Magellan reached Guam the largest of the Mariana Island group.

SOME COOL FACTS IN PETROLEUM REFINING

Petroleum products such as gasoline , kerosene , home heating oil , lubricating oil , residual fuel oil come from one source- crude oil found below the earth's surface , as well as under large bodies of water , from a few hundred feet below the surface to as deep as 25000 feet into earth's interior .

Some times crude oil is been secured by drilling a hole into earth's interior . Either pressure at the source or the pumping forces the crude oil to the surface .

Petroleum products vary say in physical apperance as thin , thick ,transparent, opaque , but as I have studied there chemical composition is made of hydrogen and carbon , forming hydrocarbons. Other elements are found in trace quantity and generally, they are disregarded.

The various petroleum products are refined by heating crude oil and then condensing vapours. These products are the so called light oils , such as gasoline , kerosene and distillate oil. The residual remaining after the light oils are distilled is known as heavy or residual fuel oil and mostly used as for burning in the boilers.

Various other methods are applied to get good quality of petroleum products such as condensation , polymerization , crystallization etc.......

SOME COOL FACTS ABOUT BIRDS .

Do birds know how to come back after a long flight ?.

Birds scientists , known as ornithologists , say that birds know exactly where they are and where their nests are . Even the young ones can fly hundreds of nautical miles without losing their way.
How do they do it ?.

God has given them tremendous sense of direction; possibly they have a compass of sorts in their brain . Every year we can see birds from north India fly to south.

In India we have several birds sanctuaries where birds from both parts of the globe come , spend a few months and return when climatic condition in their homeland are more favourable.

When it is winter in the northern hemisphere , it is summer in the southern hemisphere.
The birds which cannot stand the cold climate fly to the warmer regions . They are called migratory birds .

They can fly non-stop up to twenty hours or so in just one stretch and cover a few hundred miles in one stop. These birds generally fly in groups ....