HUMOUR BOOK

Hollywood Youngest Celebrity Brides

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:53:26 PST

Marriage for hollywood celebrities is like an olympic sport. Here's the list of youngest celebrity brides.

Megan Fox

Married At The Age Of : 24 years
Married to : Brian Austin Green

Britney Spears

Married At The Age Of : 24 yrs
To : Kevin Federline

Reese Witherspoon

Married At The Age Of : 24
To : Ryan Phillippe

Jessica Simpson

Married At The Age Of : 22
To : Nick Lachey

Hilary Duff

Married At The Age Of : 22 years
To : Mike Comrie (hockey player)

Kate Hudson

Married At The Age Of : 21
To : Chris Robinson (Black Crowes rocker)

Avril Lavigne

Married At The Age Of : 21
To : Deryck Whibley (lead singer and guitarist for the band Sum 41)

Drew Barrymore
Married At The Age Of : 19
To : Jeremy Thomas

Rachel Miner
Married At The Age Of : 17 years

To : Macauley Culkin

English Language At Its Best - 1

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:55:45 PST

Oh mY gOD...

An employee applied for leave as follows.

"Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife, please give me one-week leave."

A Job application from a non-english speaking country.

"This has reference to your advertisement calling for a ' Typist and an Accountant - Male or Female'... As I am both(!!? )for the past several years and I can handle both with good experience, I am applying for the post."

Another great man.

"Dear Sir: with reference to the above, please refer to my below..."

Laundry, India.

"Lady's, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time."

Hotel, Moscow (opposite Russian Orthodox monastery).

"You are welcome to visit cemetery where famous russian and soviet composer, artist and writers are buried daily except Thrusday."

From H.A.L. Administration Dept.

"As my mother-in-law has expired and I am only one responsible for it, please grant me 10 days leave."

Hotel, India.

"Women's are requested not to have childrens in bar."

An extraordinary leave letter.

"I am suffering from fever, please declare one-day holiday."

Letter written for application of leave.

"My wife is suffering from sickness and as I am her only husband at home I may be granted leave".

Letter writing.

"I am well here and hope you are also in the same well."

Best Covering note.

"I am enclosed herewith..."

Restaurant, India.

Open seven days a week, And weekends too.

Restaurant menu, Germany.

Our food leaves you nothing to hope for.

Tribute to the Professors.
* Open the doors of the window. Let the Air Force come in.

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

* shhh... quite, the principal is rotating in the school.

Top 10 Quotes of Evil Leaders - Bad people's Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:15:39 PST

Here's the top ten list of famous quotes by bad peoples :

1 . “Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.”

Said By : Joseph Stalin

2 . “The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.”

Said By : Robert Mugabe

3 . “Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.”

Said By : Oliver Cromwell

4 . “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.”

Said By : Josef Stalin

5 . “Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.”

Said By : Adolf Hitler

6 . “You cannot run faster than a bullet.”

Said By : Idi Amin

7 . “Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.”

Said By : Ayatollah Khomeini

8 . “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”

Said By : Josef Stalin

9 . “Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.”

Said by : Slobodan Milosevic

10 . "To read too many books is harmful."

“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”

Said By : Mao Zedong

Top 10 Movie Taglines - Hollywood Movies

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:17:55 PST

Here's the list of top ten movie taglines :

10. House

Year : 1986
" Ding dong. You're dead "

9. Jaws: The Revenge

Year : 1987

" This time, it's personal " 

8. The Royal Tenenbaums

Year : 2001

" Family isn't a word. It's a sentence "

7. Wall Street

Year : 1987

" Every dream has a price " 

6. Jason X

Year : 2001

" Evil has an upgrade "

5. The 40 Year Old Virgin

Year : 2005

" The longer you wait, the harder it gets "

4. Forest Gump

Year : 1994

" Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get " 

3. Club Vampire

Year : 1998

" Check your soul at the door "

2. No Country for Old Men

Year : 2007

" There Are No Clean Getaways "

1. The Hurt Locker
Year : 2008

" You'll know when you're in it "

Top 10 Humor Books List | Books For Humour

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:09:23 PST

Here's the list of top 10 most humorous books

1 . The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Author : Douglas Adams

“Lively, sharphly satirical, brilliantly written . . . Ranks with the best set pieces in Mark Twain.”
–The Atlantic

It's safe to say that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the funniest science fiction novels ever written. Adams spoofs many core science fiction tropes: space travel, aliens, interstellar war--stripping away all sense of wonder and repainting them as commonplace, even silly.
This omnibus edition begins with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction. Then in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Arthur and his new friends travel to the end of time and discover the true reason for Earth's existence. In Life, the Universe, and Everything, the gang goes on a mission to save the entire universe. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish recounts how Arthur finds true love and "God's Final Message to His Creation." Finally, Mostly Harmless is the story of Arthur's continuing search for home, in which he instead encounters his estranged daughter, who is on her own quest. There's also a bonus short story, "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe," more of a vignette than a full story, which wraps up this completist's package of the Don't Panic chronicles. As the series progresses, its wackier elements diminish, but the satire of human life and foibles is ever present.

2 . Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Author : Hunter S. Thompson

'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a scorching epochal sensation. There are only two adjectives writers care about any more! "brilliant" and "outrageous"! and Hunter Thompson has a freehold on both of them.' New York Times

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.

3 . Catch-22
Author : Joseph Heller

"Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary"- Amazon Review

At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn't even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions that he is committed to flying, he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes the necssarey formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.
Catch-22 is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to some one dangerously sane - a masterpiece of our time.

4 . Our Dumb Century
Author : The Onion

Definitely not for the easily offended, Our Dumb Century was a New York Times #1 bestseller chronicling 100 years of American history with dry humour and cynicism. This Miniature Edition™ distills the brilliant wit and satire of the original from "America's Finest News Source."

The Onion, a weekly newspaper out of Madison, WI, has established a hugely popular presence online with its laugh-out-loud mixture of sophomoric irreverence and savage satire. This book continues the Onion's missionAfrom 1900 to 2000Awith mock front pages twisting each year's signal events. 1906: "Should U.S. Set Limits on Indian Slaughter?" 1915: "Henry Ford Unveils New Line of Anti-Semitic Autos." 1933: "Stalin Announces Five-Year `Everybody Dies' Plan." 1942: "Ladies, Negroes Momentarily Useful." 1956: "U.S. Sexual Repression Reaches Boiling Point." 1976: "Cambodia to Switch to Skull-Based Economy." 1998: "Drugs Win Drug War." Though some articles will offend the delicate and a few fail to fulfill the promise of the headlines, this is terrific stuff. Even the graphics and asides have bite, like the "Countries Overthrown by the CIA Today" list from a 1964 issue. For all public libraries and academic libraries concerned with political humor.

5 . A Confederacy of Dunces
Author : John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole’s hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, “huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, and a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original character, denizens of New Orleans’ lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures” (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun Times)

"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."

Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life.

6 . Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
Author : Kurt Vonnegut

“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times

In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

7 . Me Talk Pretty One Day
Author : David Sedaris

From Publishers Weekly
Sedaris is Garrison Keillor's evil twin: like the Minnesota humorist, Sedaris (Naked) focuses on the icy patches that mar life's sidewalk, though the ice in his work is much more slippery and the falls much more spectacularly funny than in Keillor's. Many of the 27 short essays collected here (which appeared originally in the New Yorker, Esquire and elsewhere) deal with his father, Lou, to whom the book is dedicated. Lou is a micromanager who tries to get his uninterested children to form a jazz combo and, when that fails, insists on boosting David's career as a performance artist by heckling him from the audience. Sedaris suggests that his father's punishment for being overly involved in his kids' artistic lives is David's brother Paul, otherwise known as "The Rooster," a half-literate miscreant whose language is outrageously profane. Sedaris also writes here about the time he spent in France and the difficulty of learning another language. After several extended stays in a little Norman village and in Paris, Sedaris had progressed, he observes, "from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. 'Is thems the thoughts of cows?' I'd ask the butcher, pointing to the calves' brains displayed in the front window." But in English, Sedaris is nothing if not nimble: in one essay he goes from his cat's cremation to his mother's in a way that somehow manages to remain reverent to both of the departed. "Reliable sources" have told Sedaris that he has "tended to exhaust people," and true to form, he will exhaust readers of this new book, tooDwith helpless laughter.

8 . A Dirty Job: A Novel

Author : Christopher Moore

"improbable humor" (New York Times) and courage in "embracing what we fear" (Washington Post)

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.
It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it.

9 . Wonder Boys: A Novel

Author : Michael Chabon

"Chabon's long-awaited follow-up to The Mysteries of Pittsburgh concerns the antics of a self-destructive middle-aged novelist who is suffering from a sustained case of writer's block"
From Publishers Weekly

Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry Crabtree and another student, Hannah Green, come together in his wildly comic, moving, and finally profound search for an ending to his book and a purpose to his life.

10 Naked Pictures of Famous People

Author : Jon Stewart

"Terrific night table reading for lovers of intelligent satire... smart... refreshingly offensive... unapologetically un-PC... a gift for just about anyone." -- Austin Chronicle

Sometimes it seems like every standup comedian worth his or her salt just has to do the book thing, and you might feel that yet another warmed-over stage routine is the last thing you need taking up valuable bookshelf space. Jon Stewart's book will come as an extremely pleasant surprise. He eschews the standard standup patter and instead gives us 18 short comic essays in a variety of styles that recall the prose work of Woody Allen, only with a few more references to genitals. Stewart proves himself a remarkably nimble humorist with a sharp eye for parody, whether he's writing "A Very Hanson Christmas" or "Adolf Hitler: The Larry King Interview."

HITLER: ...Larry, look, I was a bad guy. No question. I hate that Hitler. The yelling, the finger pointing, I don't know ... I was a very angry guy.

KING: And this ... new Hitler?

HITLER: I get up at seven, have half a melon, do the jumble in the morning paper and then let the day take me where it will.... Me!! The inventor of the Blitzkrieg... When you stop having to control everything it's very freeing.

Stewart is not afraid to flirt with bad taste, in fact, some of the pieces in this collection do for "flirting with bad taste" what Bill Clinton did for "not having sexual relations." But it's wonderful to see an edgy comedian taking on the traditionally cozy genre of the humorous essay, creating work that combines the wit of Robert Benchley with the energy and attitude of the best modern standup. Naked Pictures of Famous People proves that Jon Stewart is as comfortable, and accomplished, in front of a word processor as he is in front of an audience.

Top 8 Less Known Useful Websites List

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:39:44 PST

8. Is it Down for Everyone, or Just Me?

Nothing’s worse than clicking on a website and waiting for it to load. But when it’s a bigger site that’s giving you problems, the questions in your mind are - would this be fixed with a quick router reset? Is it the problem on my end? Well, simply go to this website, type in the site that’s giving you problems, and get the answer quickly. Who knows, maybe it’s down for everyone too.
downforeveryoneorjustme.com

7. Valebrity

For every celebrity Twitter page that goes online,dozen's fake celebrity Twitters are created. Nothing is worse than following GBusey on Twitter only to wonder, say, are these weird random thoughts really from the mind of Gary Busey, or some completely wacko nutjob?Well wonder no more, as you type in either the Twitter username or the actual celebrity name on Valebrity and pull up their official Twitter page for your stalking pleasure. And for the record, GBusey is sadly fake.
Valebrity

6. Umbrella Today

Weather is easy enough to obtain online, but what about rain? Decipher the 20% chance of rain with Umbrella Today, which instantly tells you whether or not it’s umbrella carrying weather with a simple input of your zip code. Also available as an iPhone app.
Umbrella Today

5. Memorari

There are certainly many easy ways to remember something- set a reminder in your cell phone, tie a ribbon in your finger, maybe write a note to yourself and stick it in your wallet.Well strain no more with Memorari, which will remember what you need and remind you at the specified time, date, and communication method via phone, IM, email, etc.
Memorari

4. Pic Resize

Yes mom, I did get those pictures from Florida. Yes, the 3200×2400 10mb attachment, I got that. Uh…say mom, maybe next time you can use Pic Resize, which can resize a photo quickly via upload and saves it to your computer or keeps it online for you to link to.
Pic Resize

3. HelloTxt

You probably have multiple accounts in social networking sites. With HelloTxt, you can post a status update instantly with a number of sites at the same time. While you do have to register first, the amount of time saved is pretty huge.
HelloTxt

2. What Does the Internet Think?

Before getting into any debates, see if you can have the weight of the Internet to support you with What Does the Internet Think? It uses search engines to pull up data on whether or not your keyword is positive, negative, or maybe a bit of both. Fun to use...
What Does the Internet Think?

1. HowJSay

Get a heads up on your big fancy vocabulary words with HowJSay, which says over 100,000 words aloud for you to hear. Just type in the word and listen to its pronunciation.
HowJSay

Top 10 Most Strange Places In the World

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:03:50 PST

Ever wanted to visit very strange places ? Here's the top 10 strange places list to follow.

1. PAMUKKALE

LOCATION : TURKEY

Thousands of years ago earthquakes, which are common in Turkey, created fractures that allowed powerful hot springs to bring water rich in calcium carbonate to the surface. As the water evaporated the chalky thing condensed and formed layer-upon-layer of Travertine and thus slowly built up the walls over time in the same way that a stalactite forms in a cave.

2. NINE HELLS
LOCATION : BEPPU

Beppu, located on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, is the second largest producer of geothermal water in the world. Located in the same area are the “Nine Hells” or ponds that each has its own remarkable character and colour thanks to the variety of minerals in the outflows. These “Hells” are a popular tourist attraction in Japan but are little known outside of the country.

3. MOERAKI

LOCATION : NEW ZEALAND

These large, spherical, alien and strangely beautiful boulders are mainly located on Koekohe Beach, part of the Otago coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Known as “Moeraki Boulders” they were originally formed on the sea floor from sedimentary deposits that accreted around a core in the same way that a pearl will form around a particle of sand.

4. LAS CAÑADAS
LOCATION : TENERIFE

The crater, which is an enourmous sixteen kilometres across, is a picture of what Hell might look like if it cooled a little. Sheer walls that formed when the caldera first collapsed encircle this dry and alien place. And, with an arrogance than can only be accepted as typical, humanity has built roads and observatories across this no mans land that is little more than a plug over a sleeping yet still active and very large volcano.

5. GREAT BLUE HOLE
LOCATION : BELIZE

Found on both land and in the ocean throughout the Bahamas and the national waters of Belize are deep circular cavities known as Blue Holes which are often the entrances to cave networks, some of them up to 14 kilometres in length. Divers have reported a vast number of aquatic creatures some of which are still new to science. In addition, they’ve recorded chambers filled with stalactites and stalagmites which only form in dry caves.

6. SANQINGSHAN
LOCATION : CHINA

Sanqingshan is a relatively small National Park near the city of Shangrao in the Jiangxi province of China. What it lacks in size it makes up for in shear natural beauty. It is officially the 7th World Heritage Site designated in China. The key mystique of this remarkable place is the combination of extraordinary granite geology in the form of weird outcrops and pillars combined with seasonal climate variations than often cause mists, fogs and striking sunsets. Those that have visited this place describe a feeling of overwhelming peace and tranquility.

7. HELL'S DOOR
LOCATION : TURKMENISTAN

Located in the Kara-Kum desert of Turkmenistan is the village of Darvaza (Derweze) near to where, in 1971, a team of Soviet prospectors allegedly drilled into a large chamber filled with natural gas. The roof of the cavern collapsed leaving a crater-like sinkhole some 25 metres deep with a diameter of approximately 60 - 70 metres. It soon became evident that natural gas was still rising into the crater from even deeper sources and the story goes that the decision was made to ignite the emissions rather than risk either a concentrated build-up of gas or local poisoning.

8. THE STRANGE EYE
LOCATION : MAURITANIA - AFRICA

The image to the left is the "pupil" but a visit to Google Earth zoomed out a little will reveal the cliffs that make up the rest of the eye. This natural phenomenon is actually a richat structure caused by the dome shaped symmetrical uplifting of underlying geology now made visible by millennia of erosion. Please note that this explanation is not wholly accepted by the scientific community. There still remain academics that believe it is the sight of a meteor impact.

9. SUQATRA ISLAND
LOCATION : YEMEN

This enchanting and little known island also known as Socotra is located off the coast of Yemen in the Middle East. Isolated from the rest of the world its plants have evolved into many bizarre shapes and forms that are unknown in other parts of the world. One of the most famous of these is the Dragon's Blood Tree the sap of which is used to make crystals that can be used as a dye or as an alleged aphrodisiac. The plant depicted on the right is the strange Desert Rose.

10. RACETRACK PLAYA
LOCATION : USA

Located in one of the flattest places on the face of this planet are the strange and unexplained Sailing Stones of Racetrack Playa - Death Valley - California - USA. Once a year the "Playa" or flat desert pan experiences short winter rains and becomes slippery as the hexagonal desert floor turns back to mud. During this time the boulders and rocks move leaving clearly visible tracks behind them.

Top 10 Greatest Speech List

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:47:39 PST

10. Socrates “Apology”
399 BC - Athens, Greece

One of the finest teachers in history, Socrates would wander throughout the streets of Athens talking to his fellow citizens about discovering the truths. Socrates gained a following of young men, whom he taught to question everything, including the Athenian military. For this he was arrested on the charges of corrupting the youth, not believing in the gods and creating new deities. This speech acted as his defense as he attempted to persuade his jury with reason. Despite this, he lost and was sentenced to death by hemlock, dying as a martyr for free thinking.

Excerpt:
“Someone will say: Yes, Socrates, but cannot you hold your tongue, and then you may go into a foreign city, and no one will interfere with you? Now I have great difficulty in making you understand my answer to this. For if I tell you that to do as you say would be a disobedience to the God, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if I say again that daily to discourse about virtue, and of those other things about which you hear me examining myself and others, is the greatest good of man, and that the unexamined life is not worth living, you are still less likely to believe me.”

9. Mahatma Gandhi “Quit India”
August 8, 1942 - Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay, India

When India had been under the direct rule of Britain , Mahatma Gandhi and the National Indian Congress began a movement to push the Brits out of India by nonviolent means. On August 8, 1942, Gandhi passed the Quit India Resolution that demanded independence from the British

Excerpt:
“I believe that in the history of the world, there has not been a more genuinely democratic struggle for freedom than ours. I read Carlyle’s French Resolution while I was in prison, and Pandit Jawaharlal has told me something about the Russian revolution. But it is my conviction that inasmuch as these struggles were fought with the weapon of violence they failed to realize the democratic ideal. In the democracy which I have envisaged, a democracy established by non-violence, there will be equal freedom for all. Everybody will be his own master. It is to join a struggle for such democracy that I invite you today. Once you realize this you will forget the differences between the Hindus and Muslims, and think of yourselves as Indians only, engaged in the common struggle for independence.”

8. John F. Kennedy “Inaugural Address”
January 20, 1961 - Washington, D.C.

One of the greatest inaugural addresses in history, by the youngest ever U.S. President to be elected. Kennedy was young, dapper and incredibly intelligent, which made him one of the top man of his time, but many of his critics believed he was too inexperienced to be the President of the United States. His speech addressed these issues and called the American people to act as one and uphold their duty to society.

Excerpt:
“Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”

7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt “Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation”
December 8, 1941 - Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C

The Pearl Harbor attack completely stunned all of America, a nation that was trying desperately to avoid any significant contribution to the Second World War.The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a speech that shook every American family and in a few more hours it became official : "America was going to war".

Excerpt:
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan….
…but always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.
With confidence in our armed forces-with the unbounding determination of our people-we will gain the inevitable triumph-so help us God.”

6. Queen Elizabeth I “Against the Spanish Armada”
August 8, 1588 - Tilsbury, Essex, England

In 1500s there was a battle between Britain and Spain .Elizabeth had been mistreating Catholics within her borders, she had had Mary Queen of Scots (Philip’s ally) beheaded and she had aided William of Orange’s 1572 revolt. Philip and the entire Spanish Armada sailed for England, reaching the southeastern shore on July 12, 1588. Due to a combination of misfortune, miscalculation and an attack of English fire ships, the Spanish Armada was obliterated. From there, Elizabeth made her way to Tilsbury to inspect her army and it was there that she made her famous speech.

Excerpt:
“My loving people, we have been persuaded by some, that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear; I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects. And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honor and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realms: to which, rather than any dishonor should grow by me, I myself will take up arms; I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already, by your forwardness, that you have deserved rewards and crowns; and we do assure you, on the word of a prince, they shall be duly paid you. In the mean my lieutenant general shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble and worthy subject; not doubting by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and by your valor in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over the enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.”

5. Winston Churchill “Their Finest Hour”
June 18, 1940 - The House of Commons, London, England

At the time of Battle of France in World War II, Winston Churchill made three famous speeches. one of which was the “Their Finest Hour” speech. This speech came four days after Paris fell into Nazi hands and the day after the French requested an armistice. The British were now alone in the fight against the Nazi war machine and Churchill tried to bring hope in one of Britain’s darkest hours.

Excerpt:
“What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour'.

4. Nelson Mandela “I am Prepared to Die”
April 20, 1964 - Pretoria Supreme Court, South Africa

Son of Tembu tribal chieftain, Nelson Mandela became a lawyer and in 1944 he joined the African National Congress. On August 5, 1962, he was arrested and along with twelve other members of the ANC they were charged with the capital crimes of sabotage and crimes that were equivalent to treason, as well as for plotting a foreign invasion of South Africa. At his trial, Mandela represented himself and in his statement from the dock at the opening of the defence he made this speech. Despite this he was found guilty and spent the next twenty-seven years between Robben Island and Pollsmoor Prison.

Excerpt:
“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

3. Abraham Lincoln “The Gettysburg Address” – read by Gregory Peck
November 19, 1863 - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Despite being only three minutes long, the Gettysburg Address, along with the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence is the cornerstone of American freedom. Four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg, enough money was raised to properly bury the 8,000 corpses that were left behind. On November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, Lincoln gave his famous speech. He had been invited to speak almost as an afterthought and that day he followed a 2-hour speech by Edward Everett as well as music and a prayer by Reverend T.H. Stockton.

Excerpt:
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate – we cannot consecrate – we cannot hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

2. Jesus Christ “Sermon on the Mount”
33 AD - An unknown hill in Galilee

No matter what you believe about Jesus Christ, there is no denial that he was a great teacher. Set down in the Gospel of St. Matthew, the Sermon on the Mount is the central tenets of Christianity. It contains both the Lord’s Prayer and the Golden Rule and is widely considered to be a commentary on the Ten Commandments.

Excerpt:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

1. Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream”
August 28, 1963 - The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C

After a century of supposed freedom and equality, America was still a dangerous place for African Americans, segregation ran rampant and black men, women and children were still treated like second class citizens. From this tumultuous time in history emerged a great leader and hero, Dr. Martin Luther King, who led the African American people into an era of peace and equality between blacks and whites. While most men would resort to violence, Dr. King chose to get his message across peacefully, by arranging boycotts and peaceful protests and making speeches that inspired hope for a new era in American history. The most well known of these speeches is the “I Have a Dream” speech.

Excerpt:
“I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification – one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”
“We will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.”

Top 10 Failed End of World Theories

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:05:32 PST

Now ,as 11.11.11 has passed and we are still living ,look at the list of top 10 failed theories of the end of the world.

The 11.11.11 Prophecy

Despite a lack of solid evidence, or at times even common sense, a number of groups have issued reports suggesting the world will end on 11 Nov., 2011.One of the prominent "theories" circling the cyber-highways suggests that the Mayan calender prophesied the world's end on the 11 Nov. 2011.

Luckily the exact reason for the 11.11.11 date's link to the ancient calender is questionable at best. The long-count Mayan calender is reported to end soon, though the common date given for its end is actually 21 Dec. 2012.

Mormon Armageddon

The Mormon church's founder Joseph Smith originally made his doomsday prediction all the way back in February 1835. In his famous meeting with church leaders Smith claimed that he had spoken to God "recently" who had revealed to him that Jesus would return within the next 56 years and that the End Times would soon follow.

Pope Innocent's Number Of The Beast

One of the most "colourful" of all the Pope's, Innocent III did away with all modesty, redefining his role as Pope to making him more akin to a demigod than a man. Proclaiming himself as a Biblical priest-king, Innocent housed a profound hatred of Islam.
In his writings he went so far as to claim that the prophet Muhammad was actually "the beast" referred to in the book of Revelation. Continuing his hatred of the religion Innocent III went on to predict the world would end in 1284. He made the prediction by adding together the number of beast 666, to 618, the year he calculated Islam as being founded.

Harold Camping

In 2011 California preacher and former radio personality Harold Camping predicted that the world would end 21 October.
Now defunct -- by merit of the fact we're still here -- the theory followed Camping's previous failed prediction that the rapture would occur on 21 May, when God would take 200 million good Christians, meaning people who followed Camping, to Heaven.
After swinging two misses, 90-year-old Camping resigned from his post at Family Radion and apologised to his followers admitting that he found the whole thing a bit "embarrassing" -- well at least he was a polite fake prophet.

Jehovah's Witness Predictions

While the Jehovah's Witnesses can't necessarily be listed as a "failed" prophecy as they are still putting out new dates, they certainly have had their fair share of failed doomsdays.
Since popping up in 1870s the Witnesses have predicted the world will end on 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994. Luckily for members, given the groups tendency to just add a new date a few years down the line they're bound to get it right sooner or later -- it just may take while.

Joanna Southcott

Self-proclaimed English mystic Joanna Southcott was born 1750. Well balanced person that she was, at some unknown point in her life she became convinced she had supernatural powers and proclaimed that she was the woman spoken of in Revaluations 12:1-6.
"And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars," read the exact passage.
Following her bold claim-to-fame Joanna predicted that she would give birth to the Messiah and that the world would end on 19 October, 1814.As you would guess the world didn't end and Joana herself died two months later.

Edgar C. Whisenant

Despite apparently being a man of science, working as a NASA engineer, Edgar C. Whisenant not only offered his own doomsday prediction, he gave 88 "reasons" why it would.
In his book "88 Reasons Why the Rapture is in 1988," Whisenant unsurprisingly predicted that the rapture would occur between 11-13 September 1988. While some would call him a fool, the book did sell 4.5 million copies and he managed to get a nice career re-releasing doomsday predictions right up to the day he died on 16 May, 2001.

Y2K

The lead up to the millennium saw one of the largest and most widespread doomsday theories ever constructed sweep across the globe.
The most prominent theory revolved around the theorised "millennium bug." According to a slew of "experts" the world's computers would be unable to deal with the "rollover" from 99 to 00. The biggest fear-mongers even went so far as to suggest that the bug would effect military computers, potentially "accidentally" launching nuclear missiles.
For better or worse, come the actual turn of the millennium all people really had to worry about was the inevitable 1 January, 2000 hangover.

Nostradamus

One of the most famous hit-and-miss foreseers of the future, Nostradamus predicted that the end of the world would occur in July 1999.
Specifically, Nostradamus wrote: "The year 1999, seventh month, From the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign by good luck."
Lucky for us, come July 1999 the martians failed to appear, leaving them safely housed next to Scientology's Xenu in the realm of things that -- probably -- don't exist.

The Prophet Hen of Leeds, 1806

One of the most bizarre failed doomsday predictions, arose in 1806 when a hen allegedly laid an egg with the words "Christ is coming" written on it.
The prophetic hen was from Leeds, England. After the eggs began to emerge many of the local populace became convinced that the end of the world was at hand. Luckily, one unnamed sensible chap decided to actually watch the magic hen lay eggs and soon learned that the hen was just a hen.
As it turned out, the hoaxster had etched the "Christ is coming" message into the eggs before reinserting them back into the hen.

Top 10 Most spoken language In The World

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:20:41 PST

The development of spoken languages is probably the most significant development in communications . Since mankind first developed language, languages have developed into a multitude of varieties, a diversity which endures to this day. Here is the list of top 10 most spoken languages on Earth .

10. German (90+ million Greman Language speakers)

German is a member of the West Germanic language family, alongside English. German is primarily spoken in Germany, where it is the official language. However, it is also the official language of Luxembourg,Austria and Liechtenstein , and is one of three official languages of Belgium (other two are Dutch and French) and one of four official languages of Switzerland (other three are French, Italian, and Romansch) and is the official language of Italian province of Bolzano-Bozen. In addition, it is recognized as a minority language in several countires, including Poland,Hungary and Czech Republic.

Most Spoken German language phrases are : Guten tag (Good day)
Sprechen sie Deutsch? (Do you speak German?)
Auf wiedersehen (Goodbye)

9. Japanese (Around 132 million Japanese Language speakers)

The Japanese language is a member of the Japonic language family (which also includes the Ryukyuan language spoken on the island of Okinawa). Most Japanese native speakers live in Japan, but native Japanese speakers also live in Korea, the United States and Europe. Japanese is the official language of Japan, and it is also official language in Palau.

Most Spoken Japanese language phrases are : konichiwa (hello)
Arigato (Thank you)
Sayonara (goodbye)

8. Russian (Around 144 million russian language speakers)

The Russian language is a member of the East Slavic family of languages, a family which also has Belarusian, Rusyn and Ukrainian languages. Most of Russian speakers live in Russia, where it is the official language. Other countries with large Russian-speaking populations include Ukraine,Belarus and Kazakhstan. Russian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet.

Most Spoken Russian language phrases are : (ZDRAHST-vooy-tyeh; hello)
Dah (yes)
Spuh-SEE-buh (thank you)

7. Portuguese (Around 178 million Portuguese language speakers)

The Portuguese language is a member of the Italo-Western branch of the Romance language family. Like the other Romance languages, it is a descendant of Latin (“Romance” standing for Rome). It is the official language of both Brazil and Portugal , where most native speakers live.It is also the official language of Angola, Cape Verde,Guinea-Bissau, East Timor , Mozambique São Tomé and Príncipe, and is a mandatory subject of study in schools in Argentina and Uruguay . It is currently the fourth most learned language in the world, with 30 million learners.

Most Spoken Portuguese language phrases are : Bom dia (Good day)
Como está? (how are you?)
Não (No)

6. Bengali (Around 181 million Bengali language speakers)

Bengali is a member of the Indo-Aryan language family, which also includes languages such as Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. Most of its speakers live in the country of Bangladesh, where it is the official language. Speakers also live in the Indian states of Tripura ,West Bengal and Assam. Speakers also live in Europe, the United States, and Saudi Arabia. Bengali has a rich literary tradition and is a focal point of Bengali nationalism. Bengali is written in the Bengali script, which is related to the Sanskrit and Hindi scripts.

Most Spoken Bengali language phrases are : Nômoshkar (Hello)
Apnar nam ki? (What is your name?)
Ektu (please)

5. Arabic (Around 221 million Arabic language speakers)

Arabic is a member of the Semitic language family, which also includes Hebrew Neo-Aramaic languages such as Neo-Chaldean and Syriac. Arabic is most often identified with the Middle East and North Africa, and is the official language of 26 countries.Arabic and Hebrew are the official languages of Israel, and has large populations of speakers in both Europe and North America. Additional, its classical variant is the language of the Qu’ran. Arabic is written in the Arabic script.

Most Spoken Arabic language phrases are : As-salaamu ‘alaikum (Peace be with you, a formal greeting)
Na’am (yes)
IsmaHli (excuse me)

4. Hindi-Urdu (Around 242 million speakers for both languages)

Hindi-Urdu is a member of the Indo-Aryan family, alongside Bengali. It is a pluricentric language and has two official forms, Standard Urdu and Standard Hindi . Tthse two forms are nearly indistinguishable from each other. Hindi is the official language of India, while Urdu is the official language of Pakistan. Urdu and Hindi are also spoken in parts of North America and Europe with heavy Indian and Pakistani immigrant populations. It is written in both the Hindi alphabet and the Arabic alphabet (for Urdu due to Islamic influence).

3. English (Around 328 Million English language speakers)

English is a member of the West Germanic language family. It originally came from the Anglo-Saxon language (Old English) and borrowed heavily from French and Latin due to the Norman conquest of England. Though it developed in the British isles, the largest population of English speakers lives in United States, with about 309 million speakers. English is the official language of 53 countries including Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Jamaica and is the de facto language of the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. It also has large speaking populations in several African and Oceanian countries, and is a “subsidiary official language” in India.
English is also an official language of several organizations, including the UN, NATO, and the European Union.

2. Spanish (Around 329 million spanish language speakers)

Spanish is a member of the West Iberian branch of the Romance languages. Spanish is one of the most widely distributed languages in the world.It is the official language of over 20 countries, and is the official language of nearly every state in Latin America, excepting Brazil, Belize, etc.It is closely related to Portuguese.Additionally, large populations of native speakers have immigrated to Spanish and United States, and is now one of the most common languages in the American southwest. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

Most Spoken Spanish language phrases are : hola (hello)
Que pase un buen día (Have a good day)
¿Cómo te llamas? (What is your name?)

1. Mandarin (more than 845 million Mandarin language speakers)

Mandarin is often called Chinese by non-speakers, but it is in fact only one of many Chinese languages, which include Xiang and Cantonese.It is the member of Sino-Tibetan language family. Mandarin is the largest of the Chinese languages, and is the official language of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. It is also one of four official languages of Singapore (the others are English, Malay and Tamil). In addition, large scale immigration from both Taiwan and mainland China have brought large populations of Mandarin speakers to Europe and United States. Mandarin has two writing systems; Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

Spoken Mandarin language phrases are : N? h?o! (Hello!)
W? míngzi jiào… (My name is…)
Hu?nyíng! (You’re welcome!)

Top 10 Most Disturbing Novels - Books List

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:31:52 PST

This list of top 10 disturbing novels will help to introduce you to the darker side of novels – the disturbing, macabre, and oftentimes downright sick.All the books mentioned are work of fiction.

Justine

Written by : Marquis de Sade

Upon anonymous publication, this book so scandalized France that Napoleon ordered the arrest of the author, stating that book was “the most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved imagination”. The plot concerns Justine, who is presented with vice and abuse everywhere she turns. For example, she seeks refuge and confession in a monastery, but is forced to become a sex-slave to the monks, who subject her to countless orgies, rapes and other kind of abuses. This is a must-read for anyone interested in French literature, the history of sadism, or disturbing literature.
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Perfume

Written by : Patrick Suskind

In 18th century France, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with no scent of his own, but with with a supernatural ability to detect the scent of others is driven to murder in order to create the perfect perfume. The book is a bizarre tale, but it is also hypnotic and lyrical –almost a fairy tale of terror. The ending is utterly vile and if you like disturbing literature, that alone makes this book worth a read. You won’t be disappointed, I bet you.
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Misery

Written by : Stephen King

Anyone who has read this book will appreciate its inclusion here; if for no other reason than the axe scene
( the protagonist chops off one of his feet with an axe – this is the hobbling scene in the movie). That scene aside, the pages upon pages of descriptions of the pain suffered by the bedridden main character, coupled with the psychological torment as he tries to move through the house unnoticed, make this a much deserved entry.
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American Psycho

Writtenby : Brett Easton Ellis

This is one of the only books that I have not finished reading. I was so horrified by a scene early in the book (involving a dog, a bum, and a very sharp knife) that I could not go on. It was my first introduction to truly disturbing writing. I have since learnt to cope better and will, eventually, give this book another go. In this novel, people are sawed in half, gutted, sliced, diced and quartered in every imaginable form. What is striking about this novel’s violence is how emotionally unattached the protagonist is to all of it , he has lost all feeling for anything but the thrill of the taboo. This book will make a great impact on you !
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The Painted Bird

Written by : Jerzy Kosiński

The ‘Painted Bird’ is a holocaust novel that mentions the concentration camps only in passing, and rarely details the Nazis and their terrible work. This is the story of a young boy who gets separated from his parents when they send him to the (perceived) safety of the countryside when World War II breaks out in Eastern Europe. What happens to the boy – the things that are done to him, the things he sees and endures – is staggering. It’s a shocking description of hell on Earth. This book is a carnival of torture.
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5
Geek Love

Written by : Katherine Dunn

Straddling the borderlands between realism, fantasy and horror,this novel deals with the remarkable Binewski carnival family: Arturo the Aqua-Boy, born with flippers but no limbs; the musical Siamese twins Electra and Iphigenia; the telekinetic boy-wonder Chick; and the long-suffering Olympia, our narrator, who is a bald hump-backed dwarf. The story progresses through the family’s relatively innocent conception into much darker territory, primarily concerning Oly’s megalomaniac brother, Arty, and eventually culminates in a catastrophic event which claims the lives of all but a few Binewskis.
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The Wasp Factory

Written by : Iain Banks

The book is told entirely by Frank, a 17 year old who manages to sound perfectly sane and rational as he explains how he killed 3 people while he was still just a child or as he performs the rituals of the Wasp Factory (bizarre rituals that need to be read to be believed). The casualnes with which violent and unpleasant events are described is possibly more horrible than the events themselves and the irony that Frank considers himself the sanest person he knows is understated throughout. “I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped. I already knew something was going to happen; the Factory told me.”
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We Need To Talk About Kevin

Written By : Lionel Shriver

Kevin is a 15 year old mass murderer; a child who’s been emotionally unstable throughout his life. This book is written from the perspective of his mother, Eva. She, too, is emotionally very disturbed. Shriver does do a creepily good job of highlighting all of the real school shootings that have taken place in America in the last few years, making We Need to Talk About Kevin not just disturbing in the far-off sense, but in the sense that although this particular story isn’t real, Eva could be any number of mothers in this country whose children have done the unthinkable.
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Glamorama

Written by : Brett Easton Ellis

I normally restrict these lists to one book per author. Today I am breaking that rule. Glamorama definitely needs to be on this list (along with the other Easton Ellis book, American Psycho) because of the gut churning violence depicted throughout the entire second half of the novel. There is a poisoning scene which you will reman in your mind forever, a scene involving dismemberment (and described in every detail as is always the case with this author), and a plane crash. This book does have many elements of humor (for example, the main character, a male model, thinks that Global Warming is a type of shampoo) and I found it to be an enjoyable read, but it is definitely up there as one of the most disturbing books I have ever read.
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Haunted

Written By : Chuck Palahniuk

Haunted is truly a disturbing but entertaining book of short stories. The first story is about a guy who loses some of his organs – it is the perfect example of “disturbing” literature. This is possibly the most blatantly twisted of Palahniuk’s novels; Haunted pushes the borders of what is considered socially acceptable. The book tells the story of 18 or so struggling writers who sign up for a “workshop” that involves being locked inside a dilapidated mansion for several days to develop story ideas. The chapters are the consequences of their brainstorming. One review sums up the gruesomeness of this book : “I thought that if I made it through story #1 (eating your way through your own prolapsed rectum) that I could get through anything, but I was wrong.”
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Top 5 Most Famous Erotic Novels

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:31:59 PST

5 . My secret garden
           Nancy Friday
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"Inventive, sophisticated . . . highly elegant        naughtiness."-Cosmopolitan

In Delta of Venus Anais Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes
with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. This is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.
Anais Nin (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer. An influential artist and thinker, she was the author of several novels, short stories, critical studies, a collection of essays, two volumes of erotica, and nine published volumes of her Diary.

4 . The claiming of sleeping beauty
A.N Roquelauri

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"Something very special . . . at once so light and yet so haunting."

The AdvocateIn the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. Now Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him . . . as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience."Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." -Playboy

3 . The story of O
Pauline Reage
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“And, what is more, we know how an all-consuming passion for freedom in the world never fails to lead to conflicts and wars which are no less consuming. ”

O is a young, beautiful fashion photographer in Paris. One day her lover, Rene, takes her to a chateau, where she is enslaved, with Rene's approval, and systematically sexually assaulted by various other men. Later, Rene turns O over to Sir Stephen, an English friend who intensifies the brutality. But the final humiliation is yet to come.

2 . Lolita
           Vladimir Nabokov
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"The only convincing love story of our century." —Vanity Fair

When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

1 . Delta of venus
           Anaïs Nin
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"A joyous display of the erotic imagination."-The New York Times Book Review

In Delta of Venus Anais Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes
with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. This is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.
Anais Nin (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer. An influential artist and thinker, she was the author of several novels, short stories, critical studies, a collection of essays, two volumes of erotica, and nine published volumes of her Diary.

10 Crazy Things Fallen From Sky

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:06:14 PST

1. Cow that fell from the sky in Japan

In 1997 a Japanese fishing trawler was rescued in the Sea of Japan. They claimed that a cow fell from the sky and struck the boat, causing the boat to sink. The crew members were immediately put in jail. About two weeks later the Russian Air Force informed the Japanese authorities that the crew of one of its cargo planes had stolen a cow thinking they would have beef for some time. The cow was not fond of its close surroundings and began to thrash about. To save the aircraft and themselves, at about 30,000 feet, the crew shoved the animal out of the cargo hold as they were flying over the sea of Japan.

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2. Rain of spiders in Argentina

On April 6, 2007, a rain of spiders started falling from the sky in Salta Province, Argentina. Christian Oneto Gaona and his friends decided to take a trip to Salta Province during their Easter vacation. They started to hike into the San Bernardo Mountain and after two hours , they found the ground around them was blanketed with abou four inch spiders of many colors. They found more and more spiders along their way up themountain. They looked upthe sky, and saw that numerous spiders were falling from the sky. Christian became probably the first person in the world who caught this weird rain on camera.

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3. Rain of blood in Colombia

A red rain that was certified by a local bacteriologist to be blood fell on a small community of La Sierra, Chocó in 2008. A sample was collected and taken to the nearest town, Bagadó, where it was analyzed. The priest of the hamlet said that it's a sign from God that people will have to change their sinful ways.

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4. Star jelly rain in Scotland

In Scotland a jelly rain fell in 2009. Scientists commissioned by National Geographic carried out tests on, but they have failed to find any DNA in it so far. Theories for the origins of “star jelly” abound, one of the most plausible theories is that star jelly is regurgitated frog or toad ovaries, vomited by buzzards or herons as it is indigestible. (Link | Photo)

5. Rain of fish in a desert town in Australia

In 2004, locals reported fishfalling from the sky, and in this opportunity the freak phenomena happened not once, but two times in February 2010. “Hundreds and hundreds of small white fish had fallen alive from the sky everywhere”, a witness said.

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6. Rain of worms falls from the sky in the USA

Jennings Police Department employee, Eleanor Beal said that she saw worms with large tangled falling from the sky. Where they came from is a mystery, but some believe that a water spout spotted less than five miles away at that same time near Lacassine Bayou could be a reason (Link)

7. Multi-coloured snow fell over Siberia

In the Omsk about 1400 miles from Moscow, smelly orange, yellow and green snow fell in 2007. (Link | Photo)

8. Rain of money in Germany

German motorist saw money flying through the air in her rear view mirror in 2007. She tried to collect all the notes, unsuccessfully. When police went with her to the scene they could not find any more cash. The money's origin is unknown. (Link)

9. Fresh meat rain in USA

On March 9, 1876, a shower of meat fell near Olympian Springs, covering a strip of ground about one hundred yards in length and fifty wide. The sky was perfectly clear at the time, and she said it fell like large snowflakes, the pieces as a general thing not being much larger. Two gentlemen, who tasted the meat, express the opinion that it was a either venison or mutton.

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10. Starlings' rain in England

In the Somerset village of Coxley, over a hundred starlings dropped dead from the skies over Julie Knight's garden in March 2010. (Link)

Top 6 Impossible Escapes

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:13:01 PST

Here's the tales of men who found themselves in hostile territory with no chance of escape . but fucking escaped anyway.

Bernd Boettger Rides a Torpedo Across the Sea

It turns out building insane vehicles from scratch was a hugely popular method of defecting communist regimes back in the late 60s. Bernd Boettger who was an engineer living in East Germany.. Boettger was an excellent swimmer, but he knew he couldn't just jump into the Baltic Sea and swim his way to freedom, because that would be nuts. So he built himself a machine to do it for him. Basically it was a little motor and propeller that he could hang onto while it dragged him along the surface of the water.

In 1967 , the first trial run was an epic failure: A patrol boat picked up Boettger and his gadget and he was jailed for several months. After being let go because he was an indispensable professional , he again planned but the new machine had to be quieter than the old one, pull him not above the surface but under the water and carry enough fuel for a 15-mile trip. In other words, a silent long-distance torpedo.

Boettger spent a year building his personal torpedo, using a motor scooter's engine, a fiberglass tank, snorkeling gadgetry and a propeller.

In September 1968, Boettger went into the Baltic again, diving right past the patrol boats and into the open sea. After five hours of trying not to get his nose cut off by the propeller whirring right in front of him or letting the thing break away and disappear into the darkness, he reached the Danish lightship he'd set his mind on more than a year earlier.

His escape gained worldwide acclaim, ending up in such esteemed publications as Sports Illustrated and Soldier of Fortune. All this recognition ultimately led Boettger to work on a lighter, prettier commercial version of his water scooter. You might recognize the final product as the creatively named AquaScooter.

Eugeniusz Pieniazek Builds an Airplane in His Living Room

Eugeniusz Pieniazek was an aircraft designer in Communist Poland. In early 70s, he was persecuted by the Secret Service for palling around with Swedish pilots. One day, Pieniazek had enough and decided to escape Poland .. by secretly building his own airplane. All by himself. In his apartment.

There could have been no way Pieniazek was going to get a passport, so building a plane from scratch seemed like the most reasonable option for him. Presumably he could have stolen one from his flying club , but didn't do so because he wasn't comfortable with the idea.

His self-made aircraft (appropriately named the "Cuckoo") was built from the discarded parts of four different gliders and planes. In lieu of a workshop, he used his 8-square-meter living room and then lowered the larger parts out through his apartment's window to assemble them on the airfield. We wonder what he told his neighbors all that time.

Pieniazek hid his home made creation in plain sight - And finally, in 1971, on a day with the worst possible weather for the trip, Pieniazek took off in the middle of a thunderhead. Polish authorities logged him as missing. Besides evading subsequent Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Yugoslav radar systems, Pieniazek and his massive balls also managed to slip right past Zeus.

The plane landed in Yugoslavia, where Pieniazek was finally able to enjoy his freedom ... for a few seconds anyway, before the Yugoslavs threw him in jail for seven months. Eventually they allowed him to sneak across the Austrian border.

From there, Pieniazek made his way to Sweden and settled there.Two years after his escape, he returned to Yugoslavia to retrieve his damn plane. Not only did he have to tow it back to Sweden by himself, but he was also forced to pay a dubious "parking fee" that amounted to $1,200. This was a sound investment, though, because Pieniazek was still flying the Cuckoo as recently as 2005.

Jumpin' Joe Beyrle Kicks Ass Through Europe

Getting the nickname "Jumpin" when you're in the 101st Airborne's Screaming Eagles division and everyone's job is to jump out of planes has to be an achievement in itself. Not satisfied with that, Jumpin' Joe Beyrle also went on to become the only American soldier to serve in both the U.S. Army and the Soviet Army in World War II ..

In June 1944, Beyrle was supposed to take part in D-Day, but his plane burst into flames with him still in it. He was forced to jump off the plane before it crashed, landing on the roof of a church. Despite being all alone and slightly singed from the explosion, he still managed to evade capture for 24 hours, in which time he kept busy by blowing up a power station and a few German soldiers as well before being captured and dragged into the heart of the Reich.

After being beaten, starved , Beyrle found himself as a POW in what is now Western Poland, less than 100 miles from the Russian Front. He would later find out that the American government had pronounced him dead months ago and a funeral mass had been held in his hometown. No one was coming to get him.

And so, in January 1945, despite various wounds, Beyrle attempted the last of several escapes. Fleeing in a hail of bullets , he headed east, hoping to run into the Red Army.

After three days of wading through icy streams by night and hiding in barns by day, Beyrle made it to the Russian Front, where the American waved down a T-34 shouting, "Amerikansky tovarishch!" He convinced the female tank commander that he, in his own words, "wanted to join them and go to Berlin with them and kill Nazis." They handed him a paybook and a machine gun and, that was it: This member of the 101st Airborne was now in the Red Army.

Several days of constant fighting later, he went back to his old POW camp and helped liberate his friends. Taking three suitcases full of liberated currency and his own POW record file as a souvenir, he rejoined the Soviets and kept on fighting ... until a German bomber blew him up. He woke up in a Russian hospital, where he met with the most decorated military leader in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union: Georgy Zhukov.

When they shook hands, four people caught on fire.

With the Field Marshal's help, Beyrle traveled to the American Embassy in the Soviet Capital ... where he was arrested because he misplaced all his identification on the Moscow subway. Beyrle was held under armed guard until his identity was confirmed, attacking a guard for no reason in the meantime, and he was returned to America. He came back to his hometown of Muskegon, Michigan, in 1946, where he got married in the same church and with the same priest that had held his funeral two years earlier.

Lone Navy Seal Vs Taliban

In 2005, four Navy SEALs were in the middle of a recon mission in Afghanistan when they were discovered by three goat herders. Rather than killing them, the SEALs decided to let them go. The goat herders then repaid the SEALs' kindness by giving away their position to the Talibani's, which in military terms is known as "a dick move."

The SEALs were encircled by somewhere between 50 to 200 Taliban fighters and had to decide whether to fight or surrender. After some careful consideration the leader of the patrol, Lt. Murphy, announced their decision: "Fuck surrender." During the ensuing battle, one Marcus Luttrell was knocked out by an RPG and fell down a ravine.All the other SEALs were killed.

His nose was broken, three vertebrae were cracked and he had been shot in the leg. Luttrell couldn't even call a rescue chopper on the radio, because that would have involved showing himself in the middle of hostile territory. Not so big on the idea of dying in a ditch, Luttrell started crawling through the mountains. At this point he was attacked by six Al Qaeda assassins, and because he was so wounded, he surrendered ?

Oh no! he killed them all.

Luttrell made it seven miles through the mountains and was dehydrated to the extent that he was licking his own sweat. He later fell off a ridge and was discovered by Afghan villagers, who took him in and cleaned his wounds. They also protected him from the Taliban -- by some incredible strike of luck, Luttrell had fallen into the lap of a village that was bound by tribal custom to defend their visitors to the death. When word got out that the villagers were openly sheltering an American soldier, the Taliban was forced to respect the age-old custom.

The villagers moved Luttrell back and forth to keep him away from the Taliban, who were lurking in the mountains. And then, after six hellish days of fighting the Taliban and dragging himself through the mountains, Luttrell was rescued by American forces. When Army Rangers found him, the first thing he did was apologize for dragging them out into the cold.

After returning stateside, Luttrell left the Navy and wrote Lone Survivor. He now lives in Texas, where he runs the Lone Survivor Foundation. He recently appeared in a country music video.

Slava Kurilov Jumps Off a Cruise Ship, Swims for Three Days

Unfortunately, not everyone who wants to flee an oppressive regime by sea is lucky enough to know how to build an AquaScooter. Some have to make do with their arms. Like Slava Kurilov, an oceanographer living in the USSR who, in 1974, jumped into the Pacific Ocean and became the only person insane enough to escape from behind the Iron Curtain by swimming.

Kurilov had been denied a visa to make research trips outside the Soviet Union several times, the official reason being that Russians are dicks. In 1974, he saw an ad for a cruise ship sailing into the Pacific. The trip required no visa because it wasn't going to sail into a foreign harbor, or even go near one. It was the perfect opportunity for Kurilov to finally get to know some of the places he had been studying. But the party was cut short when about a 100 kilometers from shore, he fell overboard.

His planned to swim night and day until he reached the Philippines , so he jumped.

We should note here that he had no clue where he was. The ship's course had been kept secret for security reasons, and he'd been given a chance to peek at a map exactly once.

Since Kurilov's plan was pretty much improvised, he had no raft, no lifesaver and not even a piece of wood to hang on to, let alone luxuries like a compass or knife.

Kurilov says he possessed the mental power to keep swimming for three straight days thanks to the fact that he was also an advanced yogi. He studied the ocean for years, knew how to guide himself by looking at the stars and learned meditation techniques: It's like he was literally the only person on the planet who could pull off this plan.

Eventually he reached the Philippines ... where he was, of course, jailed for a few weeks, possibly after being mistaken for some sort of sea mutant. After all that, he still loved the sea. In his journal he reflects upon what he felt during his time drifting in the ocean -- honestly, it reads like three days of making sweet, albeit painful and demanding, love with the Pacific.

The Bethke Brothers Soar Over the Berlin Wall

The Bethke brothers hated being in East Germany. It all started with Ingo, the eldest brother, who in 1975 sneaked past minefields and watchtowers to cross the 650-foot-wide Elbe River in an inflatable mattress. Ingo's brothers back in East Germany were eager to be reunited with him.

The second brother, Holger, got his turn in 1983, but he and his friend decided to take a more direct route: they jumped over the Berlin Wall with ropes, hooks and arrows.

That task is actually even harder than it sounds. First, an arrow fired by Holger from the top of a five-story building brought a piece of rope to a roof on the other side of the wall, where Ingo was waiting. This rope was then used to string a length of steel wire across the two buildings. The plan was for Holger to travel across the wire using a pulley wheel, but at one point the pulley got stuck ... so he crossed the final stretch by holding on to it with his hands and feet while below the searchlights gleamed.

He made it. Two down, one to go.

If Ingo was the low-budget original and Holger was the critically acclaimed sequel, Egbert, the youngest brother, was the high-profile third act with the implausible plot and spectacular visuals. In order to finance his brother's rescue, Ingo sold his pub in 1989 and bought two ultralight planes to fly right across the border and back. Why two? One to pick up Egbert, and another just so their brother could follow them with a camera rolling.

Of course, neither of them knew how to fly a plane, so Ingo took a crash course in aviation and taught Holger himself. On the day of the rescue they dressed in military uniforms, painted the planes and stuck Russian stars on them, figuring that the guards would think twice before attacking what looked like Russian planes.

The plan was crossing the border in the small hours, touch down in a park and grab Egbert . However, on approaching the pickup zone, they found that someone had pitched a fucking circus tent on their prospective landing ground. There was just enough space left next to it, so one plane landed anyway. So , they flew along the border for a few extra miles just to enjoy the view, and also because fuck those AK-47s.

Later they quipped, "if we'd known that the wall would fall that same year we'd have done it anyway." Of course, that doesn't take into consideration the strong possibility that the Soviets called it quits purely out of shame for not being able to contain the Bethke brothers.

Murphy's Law - Best Explanation And Examples

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:32:58 PST

"If anything can go wrong, it will"

Murphy's Original Law

If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Murphy's Law

If anything can go wrong -- it will.

Murphy's Law First Corollary

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

Murphy's Law Second Corollary

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

The Murphy Law Philosophy

Smile... tomorrow will be worse.

Conclusions

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the first one to go wrong.
Corollary - If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
If anything can't go wrong, it will anyway.
If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Everything takes longer than you think.
You never find a lost article until you replace it.
If nobody uses it, there's a reason.
You get the most of what you need the least.
Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
Mother nature is a bitch.

EXPLANATION OF EXAMPLES

A slice of buttered toast, when dropped from a height, will always land butter side down This, the most famous of Murphy's paradoxes, is undeniably true. There is a full chance of the toast landing butter-side down. There is a reason why every piece of toast ever dropped lands butter side down. Most people deny this fact, and 'prove' to you that it isn't true by throwing pieces of toast into the air. The result is boring; 50% of the pieces landed butter-side up, while the other 50% landed butter-side down. However, this is not a true test of Murphy's law. It is not bad luck which caused the toast to fall; it's the stupidity of the person who threw them. The real importance of Murphy's law resides in the fact that it was bad luck that made the toast fall. If one was to sit at a table and push pieces of toast off your plate onto the floor, the results would be a phenomenal 100% butter-side down. The laws of rotational inertia state that the mass of an object determines the speed at which it rotates; the mass of an average piece of buttered toast is such that it will complete only one-half of one rotation if it falls any distance from approximately 0.5to 1.8m. m. This means that when a piece of buttered falls off your plate, it will always land with its butter side down.
Winning the lottery happens to everyone else To really experience exactly how improbable it is, you need to have a sense of probability . Think of all the smokers out there; when they go and purchase a lottery ticket, they're thinking, 'It's one chance in fifty million--- it could be me.' As they puff away, are they thinking, 'The chances of getting cancer from this cigar are one in a thousand... it won't be me?' Because the lottery jackpot is often associated with wealth, exotic holidays and happiness, people buy the tickets, even though their chance of getting six winners are next to nothing. To quote Richard Robinson, "I've done the calculation, and your chances of winning the lottery are equal whether you play or not.'

Who was Murphy ? Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of the engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the U.S. Air Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances (USAF project MX981). One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted to different parts of the subject's body. There were two ways each sensor could be glued to its mount, and somebody methodically installed all 16 the wrong way around. Murphy then made the original form of his pronouncement, which the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp) quoted at a news conference a few days later. Within months `Murphy's Law' had spread to various technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering. Before too many years had gone by variants had passed into the popular imagination, changing as they went. Most of these are variants on "Anything that can go wrong, will"; this is sometimes referred to as Finagle's Law. The memetic drift apparent in these mutants clearly demonstrates Murphy's Law acting on itself

Top 10 Craziest People On Earth ! Oh My God

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:45:43 PST

1 - Bhagat - had his twin brother in his stomach

Sanju Bhagat's stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months pregnant . Living in the city of Nagpur, India, Bhagat said he'd felt self-conscious his whole life about his big belly. But one night in June 1999, his problem erupted into something much larger than cosmetic worry. Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat's stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out — and then something extraordinary happened. "First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair."
At first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth. Actually, Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat's twin brother from his stomach.

2 . Ngoc - three decades without sleep

Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, he has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights. "I don't know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I'm still healthy and can farm normally like others," Ngoc said. Proving his health, the elderly resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day. His wife said,

"My husband used to sleep well, but these days, even liquor cannot put him down." She added that when Ngoc went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function.

3. Nakamatsu - photographed and analyzed every meal since 34 years

Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born June 26, 1928), a.k.a. Dr. NakaMats, is the Japanese inventor claiming to hold the world record for number of inventions with over 3,000, including the floppy disk and "PyonPyon" spring shoes. He has being photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting). The goal of Nakamatsu is to live over 140 years old.

4 . Yokoi - spent 28 years hidden after WWII

Shoichi Yokoi was a soldier, conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army in 1941 and then sent to guam. In 1944, as American forces reconquered the island, Yokoi hide himself.

On January 24, 1972, Yokoi was discovered in a remote section of Guam by two of the island's inhabitants. For 28 years he had been hiding in an underground jungle cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World War II had ended. "It is with much embarrassment that I have returned alive," he said upon his return to Japan.

5 . Mehran - living at the Airport since 1988

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, is an Iranian refugee who has been living in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport since August 8, 1988. After he was later imprisoned, tortured and expelled from his country, he applied for asylum in many European countries without luck.

When he decided to go to the United Kingdom, he claimed that he was mugged, and his shoulder bag stolen . Nasseri managed to board the plane, but when he arrived at Heathrow without the necessary documentation, Heathrow officials sent him back to Charles de Gaulle. Nasseri was unable to prove his identity or his refugee status to the French officials and so he was moved to the Waiting zone, a holding area for travellers without papers.

Nasseri was reportedly the inspiration behind the 2004 movie The Terminal. Unlike Tom Hanks' character in the movie, Nasseri does not live in the duty-free transit area but simply in the departure hall, in the circular boutiques and restaurants passage on the lowest floor. He does not seem to speak with anyone normally. With his cart and bags, he almost looks like a traveler, so people either do not notice him or ignore him as if he were a homeless person.

6 . Mitsuo - a japanese Jesus Christ

Matayoshi Mitsuo is an eccentric Japanese politician with the conviction that he is Christ.According to his program, he will do the Last Judgement as the Christ but the way to do this is totally within the current political system and its legitimacy. His first step as the Savior is to be appointed the prime minister of Japan. Then he will reform Japanese society and then the United Nations should offer him the honor of its General Secretary. Then Matayoshi Jesus will reign over the whole world with two legitimate authorities, not only religious but also political.
He has become well-known for his eccentric campaigns where he urges opponents to commit suicide by hara-kiri.

7 . Bihari - most officially dead person

Lal Bihari is a farmer from Uttar Pradesh, India who was officially dead from 1976 to 1994. He founded Mritak Sangh or the Association of the Dead in Uttar Pradesh, India. He fought Indian government bureaucracy for 18 years to prove that he is alive.

When Lal Bihari tried to apply for a bank loan in 1976, he found out that he was officially dead. His uncle had bribed a government official to register him as dead so he would get the ownership of Bihari's land.

Bihari discovered at least 100 other people in a similar situation, being officially dead. He formed Mritak Sangh in the Azamgarh district. By 2004 they had managed to declare four of their members alive.

8 . Icke: our salvation from Reptilian Humanoids

David Icke, is a former professional football player, BBC television sports presenter, and British Green Party national spokesperson. Since 1990, he has been what he calls a "full-time investigator into who and what is really controlling the world.".

He dresses only in turquoise and sustains that the world was ruled by a secret group called "The Elite": a race of reptilian humanoids, known in ancient times as the Babylonian Brotherhood, and that many prominent people are descended from them, including George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, and Kris Kristofferson. After a five-hour speech to students, he received a standing ovation at the University of Toronto in 1999.

9 . Lotito - mister eat-it-all

Michel Lotito (June 15, 1950) is a French entertainer. Lotito, who was born in Grenoble, is famous as the consumer of undigestables, and is known as Mister Eat-it-all. Lotito's performances are the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150, and smaller items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed. The aircraft took roughly two years to be 'eaten' from 1978 to 1980.
Lotito does not often suffer from ill-effects due to his diet, even after the consumption of materials usually considered poisonous. When performing he consumes around a kilogram of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water during the 'meal'.

10 . Bawden: the self-elected Pope Michael I

David Allen Bawden (born 1959), is an American citizen who was elected "Pope Michael I" by a group of six Conclavist, arguing that the elections of the last 6 popes were invalid because they are all modernists.
Sedevacantists argue that if the College of Cardinals cannot elect a valid pope, ordinary Catholics can do so, under the principle of "Epikeia" (Equity). Acting on the basis of this, David Bawden was elected Pope by six people on 1990 . He is still on the job to this day.

Top Non American Actress In Hollywood

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:35:36 PST

Kate Beckinsale, England

Kate Beckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in England, and has resided in London for most of her life. Her mother is Judy Loe, who has appeared in a number of British dramas and sitcoms and continues to work as an actress, predominantly in British television productions.

Penelope Cruz, Spain

Known outside her native country as the "Spanish enchantress", Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo (a retailer) and Encarna (a hairdresser).

Charlize Theron, South Africa

Charlize Theron grew up on a farm outside Benoni, South Africa, as the only child. She got an education as a ballet dancer and has danced both the "Swan Lake" and the "Nutcracker Suite".

Kate Winslet, England

The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume; that runs the gamut from Shakespearean tragedy to modern-day mysticism and erotica.

Salma Hayek, Mexico

The amazing Salma Hayek was born on September 2, 1966, in the oil boomtown of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Salma Hayek is one of the most prominent Mexican figures in Hollywood

Monica Bellucci, Italy

Born in 1964 in the Italian village of Città di Castello, Umbria, Bellucci originally pursued a career in the legal profession.

Cate Blanchett, Australia

Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Australia to an American father and an Australian mother. She has an older brother and an younger sister.
“The Aviator” brought Cate Blanchett the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Sienna Miller, England

Sienna was born in New York but raised in England. Her father, Ed, was from Pennsylvania, USA. He was an investment banker, then a Chinese art dealer, joined a cult and wrote a spiritual self-help book. Her mother, Josephine, is from South Africa. She was a model and a personal assistant to David Bowie
Sienna Miller is best known for her roles in “Alfie”, “Factory Girl”, and “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”

Marion Cotillard, France

In 2010, Marion Cotillard received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in “Nine”

Helen Mirren, England

Helen Mirren has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festivals during her career

Top 10 Bizarre Torture Methods

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:37:44 PST

In Medieval times, instead of letting the criminals sit in a jail, they used different torture devices. Let’s check these weird torture methods..

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The Brazen Bull

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The Breaking Wheel

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The Rack

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Judas Cradle

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Coffin Torture

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Iron Maiden

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The Knee Splitter

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Heretic’s Fork

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Saw Torture

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Top 10 Unusual Guinness World Records

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:14:29 PST

We have all heard about Eye-Popping Man or Lee Redmond and her 28 ft and 4.5 in long nails. So , here’s a list of top10 list of other unusual Guinness World Records.

10. Heaviest pumpkin

October 09, 2010 a new Guinness World Records was set for a gigantic pumpkin grown in Wisconsin was officially the world’s heaviest. It weighed 1,810 lb 8 oz and was unveiled by Chris Stevens at the Stillwater Harvest Fest in Minnesota. The proud farmer said his secret is a precise mixture of rain, cow manure, good soil, seaweed and fish emulsion.

9. Most T-shirts worn at once

Krunoslav Budiseli? set a new world record on May 22, 2010 for wearing 245 T-shirts at the same time. This man from croatia was officially recognized as the new record holder by Guinness World of Records after he managed to put on 245 different T-shirts in less than two hours. The T-shirts weighted 68 kg. He dethroned the Swedish Guinness record holder who wore 238 T-shirts.

8. Most living generations

Did you ever wonder what is the Guinness World Record for most living generations in one family? The anser is Seven.
The ultimate authority on record- breaking mentions on the website that the youngest great-great-great-great-grandparent of this family was Augusta Bung “aged 109 years 97 days, followed by her daughter aged 89, her grand-daughter 70, her great-grand-daughter 52, her great-great grand-daughter 33 and her great-great-great grand-daughter aged 15 on the birth of her great-great-great-great grandson on 21 January 1989.” OMG

7. Longest ears on a dog

A bloodhound from Illinois has the longest ears ever measured on a dog. The right ear is 13.75 inches long and the left one 13.5 inches. The dog named Tigger earned this title in 2004 and is owned by Christina and Bryan Flessner.

6. Most body piercings in one session

In May 2010, Chris Elliot and Tyson Turk (USA) set the world record for most body piercings in one session: 3100 in 6 hours and 15 minutes. It all happened at the Tyson Turk Tattoo Studio, Bedford, Texas.

5. Most people inside a soap bubble

The Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana, California celebrated this year the 15^th anniversary of the BubbleFest. A bubble’s math principles and science were presented and demonstrated at the three-weeks long exhibition.The Yang family collaborated with the Discovery Science Center to set a new Guinness World Record for most people inside a soap bubble and they succeeded.
The family that has been working for soap bubbles since 27 years created a huge soap bubble and got 118 people inside it. The record was set on April 4, 2011.

4. Fastest individual 1 mile run wearing swim fins

Ashrita Furman, nicknamed Mr. Versatility ,an american citizen, is no stranger to Guinness World of Records. He set more than 340 official Guinness records since 1979 and currently holds 113, including the record for fastest mile run in swim fins: 7 min 56 sec. Ashrita achieved this record in 2010 at the Marswiese Sportzentrum in Vienna, Austria.
Marco Frigatti, head of the global records management team for GWR, declared that Ashrita won “the official record for The most current Guinness world records held at the same time by an individual.”

3. Largest horn circumference – steer

Now , this is amazing ! Lurch was the record holder of the world’s largest horn circumference, 37.5 inches. He was an African Watusi steer born October 11, 1995 on a ranch in Missouri. Janice Wolf adopted Lurch when he was only 5 weeks old.

2. Fastest 100m running on all fours

The 2008 Guinness World Records Day was, according to GWR, their biggest day of record-breaking ever, with more than 290000 people taking part in record attempts in 15 different countries. Kenichi Ito’s record attempt was part of this special day. He is just another example of Japanese with ‘super powers’. His ‘super power’ is to run with great speed on all fours. Kenichi Ito run 100m on all fours in 18.58 seconds.

1. Heaviest weight pulled with eye sockets

Believe it or not, the heaviest weight pulled with eye sockets is 907 pounds (411.65 kilograms). This extreme record was set by Chayne Hultgren, also known as The Space Cowboy. The Australian achieved the record in Milano on the set of “Lo Show Dei Record” in 2009.
One of the many acts that brought him large media coverage is when he swallowed 27 swords decorated with the flags of all European Union’s members. The record was set on the day when Ireland rejected the Lisbon Treaty on European Union reform.

Scandalous Fact About 10 Great Peoples

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:19:39 PST

History tends to hide the ufortunate facts relating to people that become heroic or famous. Here's the list of ten little known (scandalous) facts about historic figures.

10.

Winston Churchill

Fact: Churchill was racist

In 2002 BBC Voted him as Britian's Greatest individual regarding his skills as an orator and statesman . But many people don’t know is that he also had a dark side. The once said :
“I do not admit… that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia… by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race… has come in and taken its place.” -Churchill to Palestine Royal Commission, 1937
“I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes” – Writing as president of the Air Council.

Gandhi

Fact: Gandhi was a dirty old man

At the age of 36, whilst married, Gandhi decided to become celibate in order to achieve a state of enlightenment (through Hindu religion). As he got older and older, he became more and more fascinated with sex to the point that, second only to non-violence, it was the subject he most talked about. In order to “perfect” his celibate state, Gandhi sleeped naked with young naked women. One of the women was the 16 year old wife of his grand-nephew Kanu Gandhi.Ghandhi wrote to the father of her grandniece Manu Gandhi(19) that he want to share bed with her daughter in order to“correct her sleeping posture”. When his stenographer R. P. Parasuram found him sleeping naked with Manu, he resigned in disgust.

George Washington

Fact: Washington cleverly tricked congress into paying him obscene amounts of money

The most important reason George was asked to be president was that he was very honest, and people both trusted and admired him. He was the most trusted, admired, and respected man in the whole country.”
Unfortunately what they miss entirely is the fact that he turned down a salary of what would have amounted to a little over 1,000 per month, but said: “Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to have accepted this arduous employment, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those I doubt not they will discharge, and that is all I desire.”
And then the shopping began:
- To sundry Exp.’s paid by myself at different times and places… on the Retreat of the Army thro’ the Jerseys into Pennsylvania & while there… $3,776
- To cash paid for Sadlery, a Letter Case, Maps, Glasses, &c &c &c. for the use of my Command… $831.45
- From September 1775 to March 1776, Washington spent over six thousand dollars on liquor
In eight years, by turning down a salary and taking an expense account, instead of being paid around $12,000, he was paid $449,261.51 in 1780 dollars (around $4,250,000.00 in today’s money).

Washington, being a clever man, tried the same ploy when he was elected President but he was turned down and given a set salary of $25,000 per year. You can view scans of Washington’s expense account at the Library of Congress.

7.
Adolf Hitler

Fact: Hitler was a tax evader

Recent research into papers relating to Hitler has uncovered the fact that in 1934 , when he became chancellor of Germany he had evaded paying 405,500 million Reichsmarks in tax (6.3 million USD). He was forgiven his tax debts when he was elected.The official who forgave Hitler’s tax debt was “rewarded” with a 2,000 Reichsmarks per month tax free allowance when teachers were paid only 4,800 per annum.

Martin Luther

Fact: Martin Luther was an anti-semite

Martin Luther, the famous Monk who started the protestant reformation, is often touted as a hero for standing up against excesses in the Catholic Church at the time, but what most people don’t know is that he was violently anti-Jewish and he made no secret of it. In 1543, he wrote “On The Jews And Their Lies”, in which he recommends that Jews be deprived of money, civil rights, religious teaching, and education, and that they be forced to labor on the land, or else be expelled from Germany and possibly killed . He referred to the Jews as a “base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth.” He said that Jews were “full of the devil’s feces … which they wallow in like swine,” and the synagogue is an “incorrigible whore and an evil slut …” [Source]

He also put together an eight point plan to get rid of the Jews:
- “I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them. …”

- “Set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. …”
- “I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. …”
- “I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb. …”
- “I advise that usury be prohibited to them, and that all cash and treasure of silver and gold be taken from them. … Such money should now be used in … the following [way]… Whenever a Jew is sincerely converted, he should be handed [a certain amount]…”
- “I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews. …”
- “I commend putting a flail, an ax, a hoe, a spade, a distaff, or a spindle into the hands of young, strong Jews and Jewesses and letting them earn their bread in the sweat of their brow… For it is not fitting that they should let us accursed Goyim toil in the sweat of our faces while they, the holy people, idle away their time behind the stove, feasting and farting, and on top of all, boasting blasphemously of their lordship over the Christians by means of our sweat. No, one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants.”
- “If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews’ blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country” and “we must drive them out like mad dogs.” [Source: Luther, On the Jews, 47:268-288, 292.]

Thomas Jefferson

Fact: Jefferson preached against whites having children with blacks, whilst doing that very thing and denying his offspring

Jefferson said “the amalgamation of whites with blacks produces a degradation to which no lover of his country, no lover of the excellence in the human character, can innocently consent.” Whilst preaching this rubbish, he had several children with his slave Sally Hemings who happened to be the illegitimate half-sister sister of his wife. While the rumours were around during their lifetime , it was not until recent times that DNA testing proved that at least one of Hemings’ children was indeed fathered by Jefferson.

4.
Andrew Johnson

Fact: Vice-President Andrew Johnson took his presidential oath whilst completely drunk

Andrew Johnson was the Vice-President during Lincoln’s reign. He had a strong disliking for the aristocracy whom he thought were there by the labor of the poor such as his own family. “Glassy-eyed and smelling of whiskey, he reminded Congress, the Supreme Court, the Cabinet, and pretty much everyone within hearing distance that they owed their positions to “plebeians” such as himself, then kissed the Bible and staggered away”. In response, the New York Times said “To think that one frail life stands between this insolent, clownish creature and the presidency! May God bless and spare Abraham Lincoln!” His presidency was such a disaster that congress tried to impeach him twice , successfully on the second attempt.

Albert Einstein

Fact: Einstein was a philanderer

Einstein is perhaps the greatest mind of the 20th century and he and his most famous formular E=MC^2 are known by nearly everyone. What most people don’t know, is that he cheated on both of his wives repeatedly. After splitting up with his first wife (because of his infidelity), he married his cousin Elsa. Shortly after that he had an affair with his secretary Betty Neumann. In a new volume of letters held by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Einstein described about six women with whom he spent time and from whom he received gifts while being married to Elsa.

Elvis Presley

Fact: Elvis was unhealthily obsessed with James Dean

Elvis exhibited many compulsive/obsessive qualities throughout his life which both helped and hindered his life. One of the areas that Elvis wanted to excel in was acting. He wanted to be the next James Dean. He anguished over the fact that the roles he was given in movies were not (in his mind) substantial. Elvis knew all the words to “Rebel Without A Cause” that featured James Dean and Natalie Wood. Elvis sought out Wood because of her connection to James Dean. The obsession with Dean led Elvis to intentionally befriend Nick Adams – a very close friend of Dean’s before he died and since his death rumors abound that Adams had a sexual relationship with both Dean and Elvis.

Pope Pius IX

Fact: Pope Pius IX Kidnapped a Jewish child and had him raised as a Catholic

On the evening of 23 June 1858, in Bologna, police arrived at the home of a Jewish couple, Salomone and Marianna Padovani Mortara, to seize one of their eight children, Edgardo (6), and transport him to Rome to be raised as a ward of the state. The police had orders from Holy Office authorities in Rome, authorized by Pope Pius IX. Church officials had been told that a 14-year-old Catholic servant girl of the Mortaras, Anna Morisi, had baptized Edgardo while he was ill because she feared that he would otherwise die and go to Hell. Acorrding to Catholic Church doctrine, Edgardo’s baptism, even if illegal under canon law, was valid and made him a Christian. Under the canon law, non-Christians could not raise a Christian child, even their own. Edgardo was taken to a house for Catholic converts in Rome. Pius IX took a personal interest in the case, and all appeals to the Church were rebuffed. Church authorities told the Mortaras that they could have Edgardo back if they abandoned their faith and converted to Catholicism, but they refused.

Despite international protests (including those from the United States government), Pope Pius IX did not relinquish Edgardo who eventually went on to become a priest. He was also a vehement supporter of the Vatican taking the first steps towards making Pius IX a saint.

Celebrity Secret Sex Talks

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:36:34 PST

Here's the list of the famous celebrities sex talk.

Angelique Jerome - Colin Farrell:

Angelique Jerome said : “He comes across as a tiger on screen, but behind closed doors he’s as wild as Mickey Mouse. Maybe he has lots of women because he’s not that good in bed. Maybe they don’t want to stay.”

Adam Levine Denies - Maria Sharapova:

Adam Said : “I can’t tell you how disappointed I was. I really thought, like a lot of guys, that she’d be the loud screaming type. It was so disillusioning that I went on Paxil for a month afterwards.”

A “Pal” - John Mayer:

He said : “John is good in bed. Not just good, but sensational. Every girl I know who has slept with John says it was the best sex of their life. I’m not sure what exactly he does in bed, but after girls sleep with him, they’re ruined. They get totally hung up on him and want more! Whatever John’s secret is, he should market it. He could retire from the music industry.”

A former lover - Robert Pattinson:

He said : “We just had this chemistry between us that made our kisses amazing. I felt electricity go between us! I’m really passionate, as is he. That’s why, no matter how much we fought, it was always amazing in bed! We’d glance at each other throughout the night because it made it more exciting when we got home. The tension was so strong, we couldn’t control ourselves. It was amazing!”

Nick Carter - Paris Hilton:

Nick Carter said : “She was a drunken prude who as far as I can see did not really like sex. She relied on drugs and drink to give her confidence in the bedroom and was more often than not too wasted to even perform. I lost count of the nights I had to pick her off the floor and drag her to bed passed out.”

Kristen Cavallari - Brody Jenner:

Kristen Cavallari said : “It was very…vanilla.”

Georgina Baillie - Russell Brand:

Georgina Baillie said : “A disappointment.”

Byron Raphael - Elvis:

“He didn’t know how to screw.”

Sophie Monk - Sophie Monk:

She said : “I think I am a dud honestly.”

10 Incredibly Bizzare Mental Disorders

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:27:42 PST

10.Oniomania

Oniomania is a compulsive craving to shop, usually labelled as compulsive shopping, compulsive buying, shopping addiction or shopaholism. Victims often experience moods of satisfaction should they be when in a process of procuring, which may seem to give their life meaning while allowing them to underestimate their sorrows. Once leaving the planet where the purchasing occurred, those feelings of a personal reward has recently gone. To compensate, the addicted person goes shopping again. Eventually feeling of suppression will overcome the partner. One example is, cases have proved which the bought goods may possibly be hidden or destroyed, for the reason that person concerned feels ashamed of their addiction and tries to conceal it.

9. Synaesthesia

Unlike almost all of items for this list, synaesthesia is not entirely negative. Synaesthesia is a neurologically phenomenon wherein stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway results in automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway, in other words, numbers might be perceived as having color, or words (typically the weekdays) can be perceived as having personalities. Lots of people with synesthesia use their experiences to back up inside their creative process, and a lot of non-synesthetes have attempted to create pieces of art that could capture the world pertaining to be having synesthesia. Here's a description of the disorder by one synaesthete: “I realized that to generate an R all I'd to complete were first create a P and draw a line reduced from its loop. And I was so surprised which i could turn a yellow letter into an orange letter by simply adding a line.” The image above shows the way in which a synaesthete might perceive numbers and letters (which could appear all black to normalcy people). Within a more unusual twist, sufferers might mix sound and taste to make sure different noises may need an appreciation. This can be wise for synaesthetes in order to prevent the brown sound.

8. Piblokto

Piblokto, Pibloktoq or Arctic hysteria is usually a condition exclusively appearing in Eskimo societies living within the Arctic Circle. Appearing most prevalently in winter, it is considered being a type of a culture-bound syndrome and that is a problem (usually both mental and physical) which occurs in a selected culture or community. Symptoms may incorporate intense hysteria (screaming, uncontrolled wild behavior), depression, coprophagia (poo eating), insensitivity to extreme cold (for example running around within the snow naked), echolalia (senseless repetition of overheard words) and even more. This condition is frequently witnessed in Eskimo women. This syndrome is possibly connected to vitamin A toxicity due to the native Eskimo diet provides rich causes of vit a. Similar symptoms have already been seen in Westerners with a vitamin toxicity.

7. Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dissociative identity disorder will be the disease formerly known as multiple personality Syndrome. This is actually a condition by which a single individual displays multiple distinct identities or personalities (named alter egos or alters), each having its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with mother earth. The diagnosis requires that not less than two personalities routinely effect of a typical individual’s behavior having associated memory loss that goes beyond normal forgetfulness. There is a great deal of controversy surrounding the topic, with some more therapists considering it to not exist in the slightest degree, even if 40,000 cases were diagnosed from 1985 to 1995. The most famous example of a sufferer is Sybil – after whom the well-known 1970s film was named.

6. Trichotillomania

Trichotillomania or “trich” since this is commonly known, is definitely an impulse control disorder or form of self-injury characterized by way of the repeated urge to drag out scalp hair, eyelashes, facial hair, nose hair, crotch hair, eyebrows or other body hair, sometimes causing noticeable bald patches. It may seem, now and then, to resemble a habit, a dependency, a tic disorder or maybe an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Trichotillomania often begins during the individual’s teenage years. Depression or stress will trigger the trich. Some people with TTM wear hats, wigs, wear false eyelashes, frame, or style their hair that allows you to avoid such attention.

5. Nymphomania

It is amazing until this, our most-liked disorder, was absent from our previous two lists! Nymphomania is an uncontrollable urge in women to have sex. Sex addicts simply can't control their sexual impulses, that may involve comprehensive spectrum of sexual fantasy or behavior. Eventually, the need for sexual intercourse increases, along with the person’s behavior is motivated solely by way of the persistent desire to witness the sex act along with the history usually reveals a long-standing pattern with this particular behavior, which the person repeatedly has made an attempt to stop, but without success. Eventually, the sexuality interferes with all the person’s social, vocational, or marriage, which begins to deteriorate. Whenever a man also has an uncontrollable urge to have sex, it is called adolescence. Just kidding, that's called satyriasis.

4. Coprolalia
Coprolalia is involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks (this should not be confused with Tourette Syndrome which is usually signified by physical and vocal tics – not only coprolalia). Involuntary outbursts, such as racial or ethnic slurs in the company of those most offended by such remarks, could possibly be particularly embarrassing into the sufferer of coprolalia; the phrases never necessarily reflect the ideas or opinions of the person. Surprisingly, this disorder often proves to be treated with botox close to the vocal chords which helps to to scale back the quantity (although not extent) of outbursts. Related disorders are copropraxia, performing obscene or forbidden gestures, and coprographia, making obscene writings or drawings.

3. Depersonalization

Depersonalization is known as a strange disorder in which the sufferer feels that they are residing in a fantasy world; it's the feeling of watching oneself act, having intercourse no control over a state of affairs. It could be considered desirable, such as within a use of recreational drugs, however it usually refers to the severe form present in anxiety and, in the most intense cases, anxiety attacks. Often a one that has experienced depersonalization claims that life “feels like a movie” or things seem unreal or hazy. Also a recognition of self reduces (hence the name). Depersonalization can lead to huge anxiety levels, which further increases these perceptions – a snowball effect. One approach to explain the physical manifestation of the feeling should be to comtrast it into a film technique called the vertigo shot or dolly zoom. In this technique, your subject of the picture stays fixed in shot although surrounding background is pulled away, providing a sense of vertigo or detachment.

2. Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

This one should probably win the award for not simply being a bizarre disorder, except for owning a bizarre name! Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is really a rare disorder first described in 1878. A person using this disorder uses a genetic mutation that stops “exciting” signals in the deep nerves it lurks in away from being regulated, which causes a number of bizarre irregularities inside their startle response. Most notably, an event that may startle a traditional person will end in an in depth, grossly exaggerated response using a “jumper,” including praying, flailing limbs, twitching, adn even convulsions. Just because a jumper is almost immediately defenseless another jump just after an issue ends, there have been reports that sufferers are sometimes teased mercilessly by people who find the reaction amusing, and trigger it repeatedly. Another curious abnormality caused by this disorder is a sufferer’s automatic reflex to obey any order that could be delivered suddenly. One example is, if one uses a sharp, quick voice to order a jumper to throw the object with their hands, these will throw it without hesitation; if they are similarly told to strike a person, they will strike that person, though this is actually a loved one.

1. Wendigo Psychosis

Wendigo Psychosis is a mental disorder wherein any individual intensely craves human flesh and thinks they may be turning into a cannibal (despite an abundance of well balanced meals available). The commonest response with aboriginal communities by which wendigo psychosis was most prevalent, was curing attempts by traditional native healers or Western doctors. Inside the unusual cases when these attempts failed, and also the Wendigo sufferer began either to threaten those generally or to act violently or anti-socially, they were then generally executed. While other have denied the existence in this disorder, there are a number of credible eyewitness accounts, both by aboriginal communities and by Westerners, that give proof that Wendigo psychosis is really a factual historical phenomenon.

Top 10 Bizzare Disappearances

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:15:40 PST

History is full with tales of people who, for all intents and purposes, inexplicably vanish from the face of the earth without any trace. Here's the list of top ten strange disappearances :

10. The Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers
In December 1900, three lighthouse keepers vanished from their duty stations, leaving behind equipment important to surviving the hostile conditions at that location and time of year. The official explanation for the disappearances is that the men were swept out to sea by a big freak wave.

9. The Vanished Cripple

Owen Parfitt had been paralyzed by a massive stroke. In June, 1763 in Shepton Mallet, England, Parfitt sat outside his sister’s home, as was often his habit on warm evenings. Across the road was a farm where people were doing their work. At about 7 p.m., Parfitt’s sister, Susannah, went outside with a neighbor to help Parfitt move back into the house, as a storm was approaching. But he was gone. Only his folded greatcoat upon which he sat remained. Investigations of this mysterious disappearance were carried out as late as 1933, but no trace or clues were found.

8. The Bennington Triangle

Between 1920 - 1950, Bennington, Vermont was the site of several unexplained disappearances:

On December 1, 1949, Mr. Tetford vanished from a crowded bus. Tetford was on his way home to Bennington from a trip to St. Albans, Vermont. Tetford, an ex-soldier who lived in the Soldier’s Home in Bennington, was sitting on the bus with 14 other passengers. They all testified to seeing him there, sleeping in his seat. When the bus reached its destination, however, Tetford was gone, although his belongings were still on the luggage rack and a bus timetable lay open on his empty seat. Tetford has never been found.

In mid-October, 1950, 8-year old Paul Jepson disappeared from a farm. Paul’s mother, who earned a living as an animal caretaker, left her small son happily playing near a pig sty while she tended to the animals. A short time later, she returned to find him missing.

7. The Disappearing Diplomat

British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst vanished into thin air in 1809. Bathurst was returning to Hamburg with a companion after a mission. Along the way, they had stopped for dinner at an inn in the town of Perelberg. After finishing the meal, they returned to their waiting horse-drawn coach. Bathurst’s companion watched as the diplomat stepped over to the front of the coach to examine to horses – and simply vanishedfrom there.

6. The disappearance of Oliver Larch

According to his narrative, Larch was on his way to collect water from a well one winter when he disappeared; leaving no trails of footprints in the snow which terminated abruptly, and a series of cries for help that appeared to come from above. One particular recurring citation of this variant was as Oliver Thomas of Rhayader, Radnorshire, mid-Wales and the date is given specifically as 1909.

5. The Norfolk Regiment

Three soldiers claimed to be witnesses to the bizarre disappearance of an entire battalion in 1915. They finally came forward with the strange story 50 years after the infamous Gallipoli campaign of WWI. The three members of a New Zealand field company said they watched a battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment marched up a hillside in Suvla Bay, Turkey. The hill was shrouded in a low-lying cloud that the English soldiers marched straight into without hesitation. They never came out. After the last of the battalion had entered the cloud, it slowly lifted off the hillside to join other clouds in the sky. When the war was over, figuring the battalion had been captured and held prisoner, the British government asked Turkey to return them. The Turks insisted that it had not captured these English soldiers.

4. The Stonehenge Disappearance

The mysterious standing stones of Stonehenge in England was the site of an amazing disappearance in August, 1971.One night, a group of “hippies” decided to pitch tents in the center of the circle and spend the night. They built a campfire, lit several joints of pot and sat around smoking and signing. Their campout was abruptly interrupted at about 2 a.m. by a severe thunder storm. Bright bolts of lightning crashed down on the area, striking area trees and the standing stones. Two witnesses, a farmer and a policeman, said that the stones of the ancient monument lit up with an eerie blue light that was so intense that they had to avert their eyes. They heard screams from the campers and the two witnesses rushed to the scene. To their surprise, they found no one. All that remained within the circle of stones were several smoldering tent pegs and the drowned remains of a campfire. The hippies too were gone without a trace.

3. Time Tunnel

In 1975, a man named Jackson Wright was driving with his wife from New Jersey to New York City. This required them to travel through the Lincoln Tunnel. According to Jackson Wright, once through the tunnel he pulled the car over to wipe the windshield of condensation. His wife Martha volunteered to clean off the back window. When Wright turned around, his wife was gone. He neither heard nor saw anything unusual take place, and a subsequent investigation could find no evidence.

2. The Legend of David Lang

This famous case allegedly took place in September, 1880 on a farm near Gallatin, Tennessee in full view of several witnesses. The two Lang children, George and Sarah, were playing in the front yard of the family home. Their parents, David and Emma, came out the front door, and David headed off across a pasture toward his horses. At this time, a buggy carrying family friend Judge August Peck was approaching. David turned to walk back to the house, saw the buggy and waved to the judge as he strode across the field. A few seconds later, David Lang , in clear view of his wife, his children and the judge disappeared.A thorough search by the family, friends and neighbors turned up nothing. A few months after the unexplained disappearance, the Lang children noticed that the grass on the spot where their father vanished had turned yellow and wilted in a circle measuring about 15 feet in diameter.

1. The Village That Disappeared

An individual that vanishes is one thing, but how about an entire village of 2,000 people? In November, 1930, a fur trapper named Joe Labelle made his way on snow shoes to an Eskimo village on the shores of Lake Anjikuni in northern Canada. Labelle was familiar with the village, which he knew as a thriving fishing community of about 2,000 residents. When he arrived, however, the village was deserted. All of the huts and storehouses were vacant.Labelle notified the authorities and an investigation was begun, which turned up some bizarre findings: no footprints of any of the residents were found, if they had vacated the village; all of the Eskimos’ sled dogs were found buried under a 12-foot-high snow drift – they had all starved to death. And there was one last unnerving discovery: the Eskimos’ ancestral graves had been emptied.

Top 10 Fantastic Fountains - Most Beautiful Fountains

noreply@blogger.com (salman) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:38:36 PST

Fountains have been used since history to add beauty and ambience to outdoor spaces.So , here's the list of top ten fantastic fountains :

1 .

Banpo Bridge
Han River, Seoul, Korea

The Banpo Bridge fountain at 1140 meters long is the worlds longest fountain. It has 380 nozzles that pump out 190 tons of water a minute.

2 .
Big Wild Goose Pagoda Music Fountain
Xian City, China
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is the back drop of what claims to be the largest musical fountain in Asia with the longest light bar.Fire can also be seen at times shooting out of the holes.

3 .
La Joute Fountain
Montreal, Canada
Created by artist Jean Paul Riopelle in 1969, La Joute fountain is a kinetic sculpture fountain.

4 .

King Fahd’s Fountain
Coast of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

This is the tallest fountain in the world. Shooting water measures taller than the Eiffel tower minus the antennae. Water shoots out at 233 mph and reaches 1024 into the sky.

5 .

Castle Square Fountain
Swansea, Wales
There is nothing too remarkable about this fountain except during St. David’s Day when the Castle Square Fountain and the waterfall are dyed a deep red.Also Known as Blood Fountain.

6 .

Fontaine Des Innocents
Paris, France
Named for the cemetery site it was built on the Fontaine Des innocents was created by renaissance architect Pierre Lescot and sculpted by Jean Goujon. The fountain is decorated with plump little boys with wings common to the period.

7 .

Mercury Fountain
Barcelona, Spain
Created by Alexander Calder for the Spanish Republican government to memorialize the siege of Almaden. Not knowing the effects of mercury, it was open to everyone. But now it can be viewed behind the glass.

8 .

Charybdis Fountain
Seaham Hall, Sunderland, UK
The Charybdis Fountain is a vortex fountain created by water artist William Pye. Encased in a clear plastic type polymer with an air-core vortex that rises every 15 minutes gives this fountain look of the water standing alone.

9 .

Fontana de Trevi
Rome, Italy
The Trevi Fountain is the considered the largest baroque style fountain. The fountain resided at the end of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct -which was built in 19 B.C. The fountain was designed to represent the many fluctuating moods of the sea. Neptune is the center of the fountain and he is flanked by tritons.

10 .

The Fountain of Wealth
Suntec City, Singapore
Located in the Suntec City Mall the fountain of wealth was created for luck using Feng Shui . The base is 16,831 sq. meters(approx. 55,219 sq. ft.) and stands about 30meters(1181 ft.) high.

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