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Proud To Be An INDIAN

2012-01-31T21:08:00.000+05:30

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India enters Guinness Book of World Records; over 15000 sing 'Jana Gana Mana' in unison
With a tally of 15243, India has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for ‘the most people singing a national anthem simultaneously'. The previous record was held by Pakistan for 5800 individuals.

Leading the crowd in the chorus on stage were singers Shankar Mahadevan, Roopkumar and Sonali Rathod, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Tushar Gandhi, Prashant Damle, Vaishali Samant, Swapnil Bandodkar, Pramod Sarkate, Mrs Salaskar (widow of 26/11 martyr Vijay Salaskar) and others, who rendered live with Aurangabadkars to create the world record for the maximum number of people in any country singing their National Anthem in unison.

Shankar Madhavan said, “Our National Anthem is a wonderfully inspiring composition, and is a part of everyone’s psyche,” adding, “I am truly excited to have been a small part of this gigantic experience.”

Roopkumar Rathod said, “The National Anthem is greatly inspiring to all Indians from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean and from Gujarat to Assam. It truly brings all Indians together as it has done in Aurangabad today. Sonali and I feel privileged to have been able to celebrate the spirit of Jana Gana Mana with thousands of Aurangabadkars.”

The Fictitious Group, winners of talent reality show India’s Got Talent also performed with their power packed acrobatic dance routines. Vernon from Fictitious said, “It’s exciting to dance in the service of our Nation! We salute those who laid down their lives for the country.

ART GUYS MAKE HIS OWN IPAD

2012-01-31T17:03:00.000+05:30

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What’s the best way to show a girl you love her? Sure, you could always buy her an iPad, but why not build her one?

Chinese art student, Wei Xinlong wanted to show his commitment to his long distance girlfriend by building her a touchscreen tablet PC for their daily video chat dates. This way when he leaves for Shenzhen to work, they’ll be able to keep in touch easier.

As a student in Northeas Normal University in Changchun, Jilin, Wei was familiar with electronics and engineering and found most answers to questions he had online. He bought most of the parts of the device in second-hand market and salvaged them from dismantled laptops. He even built some of the parts himself, such as a heat conductor made from an aluminum soda can and a chopstick. Wei dedicated himself to the device for 10 days before it was completed, and even managed to place an Apple logo with rhinestones on it.

The features on his “iPad” include a touchscreen, built in webcam, a microphone, four USB slots, LAN socket and runs on a lithium battery. It may be a step down from Apple’s top-selling product, but it still can read e-books, watch movies, listen to music and even play video games. And it only cost Wei 800 yuan ($126) to build compared to Apple’s iPad price of around $500.

Wei’s remarkable final product is truly a representation of his hard work and dedication. It will certainly reinforce his long-distance relationship as well as put boyfriends around the world to shame.

Longest Snake Living In Captivity

2012-01-31T11:56:00.001+05:30

‎:: longest snakes living in captivity ::

Reticulated pythons are the longest snakes in the world. Native to Southeast Asia, these snakes constrict their prey to kill them This photo shows Fluffy, a reticulated python at the zoo, posing with zoo staff. The 18-year-old snake was 24-feet-long and 300-pounds and held the title of longest snake living in captivity by Guinness World Records.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_reticulatus

Girls Plays With 6 King Kobras

2012-01-31T06:56:00.000+05:30

India has long been known as the land of the snake charmers. But here’s something very unusual. An 8-year-old Indian girl who plays all day not with other girls, but with her pet King Cobras.

Kajol Khan lives in the village of Ghatampur in Uttar Pradesh, with her parents, six sisters, two brothers and six pet Cobras, her best friends. She comes from a family of snake catchers and hopes to carry on in her father’s footsteps someday. Her father, 55-year-old Taj Mohammad has been working as a snake catcher in Ghatampur for the past 45 years. While he has already passed on his skills to his son, he’s unexpectedly found himself a mentor to his daughter Kajol. The little girl has been used to snakes crawling around her since she was a baby, and hence feels nothing out of the ordinary in their presence. In fact, she prefers hanging out with her slithering buddies rather than go to school. She has been bitten – on her stomach, cheeks and hands – but this is hardly of any concern to her. Kajol has always been able to make a full recovery, thanks to her father’s herbal medicine, which has been a family secret for generations. “I have a lot of fun with the cobras. It hurts when they bite me but sometimes it’s my own fault because I tease them. It’s quite funny.”

Buffalo Body-Painting at Unique Traditional Festival

2012-01-30T16:12:00.000+05:30

What started as a means to ward off intruders, is now a full-blown festival. The people of Jiangcheng County, China’s Yunnan Province, have their bulls painted and decorated by artists for a major event every year. The bulls are displayed in a riot of colors, painted with a variety of themes.

Traditionally, the bulls were painted by the Hani people of China in the belief that the practice would protect their village, mainly by preventing tigers from wandering into their homes. Of course, the threat of tigers and other man-eaters has reduced drastically in modern times, but the festival continues to be celebrated with much enthusiasm. The China-Laos-Vietnam Bull Painting Festival, as it is called, had 48 participating teams this year. The paraded bulls were hardly recognizable, covered in colors like bright blue, gold, yellow and red. But the paintings were far from abstract. The bulls served as a canvas for some real artistic talent, landscapes, portraits, and intricate patterns adorned their otherwise brown or white skin. Even the horns were covered with paint.

Guy Spends Six Years Making the World’s Largest Gumball

2012-01-30T12:06:00.001+05:30

This is one of the grossest world records I have ever covered, but it’s just so unusual I couldn’t resist sharing it with you guys. A man has kept the around 95,200 pieces of nicotine gum he has chewed over the last six years and put them all together in what is considered the world’s largest gumball.
50-year-old Barry Chappell, from California’s Palos Verdes Estates, has been busy over the last few years, building a 175-pound chewy monstrosity with a diameter of 62 inches, out of the tens of thousands of nicotine gum pieces he’s chewed. Barry is completely aware of the fact that most people who hear about his hobby are more or less disgusted, but that doesn’t make him less proud of his achievement. After all he did stick to the task for six long years, using every one of the approximately 95,200 pieces of nicotine gum he has used to help him stay away from cigarettes. Now his efforts are about to be rewarded, as Ripley’s Believe It or Not decided to acquire his giant gumball and present it as the largest medicated gumball in the world.

Did You KNow

2012-01-14T10:50:00.002+05:30

All About Frog

2012-01-08T19:13:00.000+05:30

There are around 2,600 known species of frogs, which live on every continent, except Antarctica.

The most venomous frog is the poison dart frog. This one is a strawberry poison dart frog due to its bright characteristic coloration.

These amphibians are often called "dart frogs" due to the Amerindians' indigenous use of their toxic secretions to poison the tips of blow-darts.

The venom of a poison dart frog can kill approximately 2,200 people.

SAN BOLDO PASS:

2011-12-22T12:14:00.000+05:30

The San Boldo Pass is a small mountain pass in the Italian Veneto region between the towns Trichiana (329 m) and Tovena in the Cison di Valmarino region (272 m) over a distance of 17 km (11 mi).

PINK DOLPHINS :-

2011-12-22T10:13:00.000+05:30

1. Pink dolphins are not the same dolphins that you would see in the ocean; they have special adaptations to their habitat. In fact, river dolphins are only distantly related to sea dolphins.

2. Among the five species of river dolphins, Amazon pink dolphins are considered the most intelligent of them, with a brain capacity 40% larger than that of humans.

3. The Amazon River pink dolphins conform the largest population of river dolphins in existence as the other four species are functionally extinct or close to extinction.

4. The raise in contaminant levels of mercury have caused and increased number of deaths among pink dolphins, especially near gold mines where mercury is used as part of the gold mining process.

5. Pink dolphins can be found in pink, light gray or brown colors but there is not conclusive evidence of the reason why pink dolphins are pink.

CARNATIONS

2011-12-22T08:21:00.000+05:30

1. In Christian lore, the Carnation was first seen to bloom in the exact spot where Mary wept after watching Jesus carrying his cross through the streets of Jerusalem.

2. Carnations include over 300 different species, and the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid and the Imperial College London are studying the flower to determine how it accomplished such wide species diversity in such a short period of time.

3. The carnation is the state flower of Ohio, and is the official emblem of Mother's Day in the U.S. and Canada

4. The scientific name for the carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus, means "flower of the gods"

5. The single flowers of the Carnations species have 5 petals and vary from white to pink to purple in color. Border Carnation cultivars may have double flowers with as many as 40 petals.

MAMMATUS CLOUDS - AMAZING CLOUDS

2011-12-22T08:13:00.000+05:30

Mammatus clouds, is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. These odd-shaped clouds are often associated with a storm front, especially one involving a thunderstorm. Mammatus clouds may appear as smooth, ragged or lumpy lobes and may be opaque or translucent.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SHEEP:

2011-12-15T06:07:00.000+05:30

1. Female sheep are called ewes, baby sheep are called lambs, and male sheep are called rams (they have prominent horns on their head). A group of sheep is called a flock.

2. Sheep are defenseless against predators like coyotes and wild dogs, as they are timid, nervous, and easily frightened.

3. Though the name sheep can be used for over 200 distinct species, its everyday usage mostly refers to Ovis Aries.

4. Sheep are ruminants, with four chambers in their stomach. The first chamber is used to store quickly digested food. It can be brought back into their mouths for chewing again, before it is fully digested. Nearly one-third of sheep’s life is spent ruminating.

5. Sheep see in color. An average sheep possesses a field vision ranging to 270 degrees. However, the amount of wool on their face can have an impact on their visual field.

BRAIN

2011-12-14T19:04:00.000+05:30

Jell-O hooked up to an electroencephalograph (EEG) can display readings similar to human brain function.

The Jell-O can pick up misleading signals that prevent the acquisition of a proper flatline reading. These signals can be things such as electrical circuits in the room, an IV drip, or a phone ringing!

OSTRICH

2011-12-14T16:02:00.000+05:30

The average adult male ostrich, the world’s largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

KICK BOXING

2011-12-14T12:01:00.000+05:30

Kickboxing is an effective way for loosing some extra flab and weight. By combining both Cardiovascular kickboxing and aerobic kickboxing and consistently following the routine people can achieve great results in less time. The craze of weight loss is found more in women and various fitness centers have taken a note of it and have introduced kickboxing in gyms

"I'm A PC" Program by MICROSOFT

2011-12-14T10:00:00.002+05:30

Microsofts "I'm a PC" Ads were created on a Mac!
This campaign was a response to the highly successful Apple campaign that featured Justin Long and John Hodgman that (favorably) compared Macs to PCs. However, in a struck of irony, clever internet users figured out that the campaign had actually been created in Macs!

What they did is they looked at the 'metadata' or information that is embedded in the media files. When they looked into this metadata, they found that the files had been created on Macs using Adobe Creative Suite 3.

The explanation is quite simple; advertising is still a Mac dominated industry, and it makes sense that whatever agency Microsoft employed would use Macs. However, that did not stop Microsoft from scrubbing all metadata from those files completely

HUMAN CHROMOSOMES

2011-12-11T20:32:00.000+05:30

About 1 in 180 babies is born with a chromosome abnormality. The most common is Down syndrome, followed by Fragile-X syndrome. Collectively, the next most common are the syndromes of chromosome 18.

HUMAN DNA

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Only about 3% of the DNA actually codes for genes; the rest is often called "non-coding DNA" because its function is unknown.

HUMAN DNA

2011-12-11T13:29:00.000+05:30

If the total DNA in one person were laid in a straight line, it would stretch to the sun and back over 30 times (it’s 93 million miles from here to the sun).

HUMAN SPERM

2011-12-11T10:27:00.000+05:30

A mans testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day – enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!

LOST IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

2011-12-11T07:27:00.000+05:30

Four different presidential candidates in U.S. history won the popular vote and still lost the election.

1)The first record of this happening was in 1824. This was also the first election in which records of the popular vote were kept. Strangely enough, Andrew Jackson received the most popular votes in the election AND the most electoral votes in the Electoral College, and he STILL lost the presidency.

2)In 1824, there were 4 major candidates (Jackson, Adams, William Crawford and Henry Clay), and while Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes, he fell short of a true majority of the votes

3)The most recent was Al Gore, who lost the 2000 election to George Bush. The other 2 were in 1876 and 1888. You can read more about the unusual circumstances surrounding these elections.

The Millau Viaduct

2011-12-11T00:46:00.000+05:30

Spanning almost 2.5km across the River Tarn in the South of France, the Millau Viaduct is set to become the world’s highest bridge. Designed by the architect Lord Norman Foster, the six-lane cable-stay bridge is 19m taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Supported by two anchorage points at either side and seven piers supporting the carriageway, the bridge will soar across the Tarn valley at a central height of 245m. The project has consumed 19,000 tons of concrete-reinforcing steel, 5,000 tons of reinforcing steel for cables and 85,000 cubic meters of concrete - enough to fill London’s Albert Hall.

Amazing Equation

2011-12-10T19:39:00.001+05:30

(sqrt(cos(x))*cos(200 x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5

copy paste this code in google.com and weight for few second you can see the magic

DOG BECOME AN CAUSE FOR WAR

2011-12-09T15:04:00.000+05:30

A war between Greece and Bulgaria began because a dog crossed their border.

In 1925 during what would later be known as the Incident at Petrich, a Greek invasion of Bulgaria allegedly began with a Greek soldier chasing a runaway across the Bulgarian border. Bulgarian sentries shot the soldier, prompting a response from the Greek army. Greek forces invaded, and occupied the Bulgarian town of Petrich near the border.

Bulgaria appealed to the League of Nations to end the occupation. The Leage of Nations admonished Greece for the invasion, and ordered them to withdraw their troops and pay a fine. The conflict ended up taking the lives of over 50 people. This incident is also sometimes referred to as the "War of the Stray Dog".