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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Defination Of Indian City's,

Delhi for Majesty.
Banglore for Beauty.
Chennai for Cooking.
Kashmir for Looking.
Gujrat for Wealth.
Madhya Pradesh for Health.
Bangal for Writing.
Punjab for Fighting.
Kerala for Education.
Uttar Pradesh for Population.
Nagaland for Hills.
Ahmadabad for Mills.
Maharashtra for Learning.
Andhra Pradesh for Hard Working.
Bihar for Mines.
Himachal for Wines.
Written By- Niweesh Bansal (Kheragarh)

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Biggest Rubbish Producers

Today I tell about the biggest rubbish producers in the world, how much rubbish they produce in a year....all weighs in Kilograms per Person.

And also how much time some things take to mix in Soil.


Biggest Rubbish Producers

















Country*
Household waste per person per year (kg)
Ireland
760
USA
740
Iceland
730
Norway
700
Australia
690
Denmark
670
Switzerland
660
Germany, Luxembourg, Spain
650
UK
610
The Netherlands
600
*OECD countries only





Do you know?

Every person in the UK produces approximately half a tonne of household rubbish every year, which means that the UK as a whole produces 30 million tonnes. That's enough to fill dustbins stretching from the Earth to the Moon. But that's not all. Household rubbish makes up only 7 percent of the yearly total. The rest comes from mining and quarrying (114 million tonnes), agriculture (86 million), demolition and construction - bricks, soil, etc (80 Million), industrial waste (55 million), dredged spoils from rivers and harbours (34 million), commercial waste (25 million), and sewage (4 million)






How Long to rot













Cotton rags
1-5 months
Paper
2-5 months
Orange peel
Up to 6 months
Wool socks
1-5 years
Cigarette ends
1-12 years
Plastic-coated drink cartons
5 years
Plastic bags
10-20 years
Photo film
20-30 years
Leather shoes
25-50 years
Artificial fibre clothes (nylon, etc.)
30-40 years
Tin cans
50-100 years

Friday, August 8, 2008

List Of Major International Organizations



A number of international organizations have been set up to deal with issues that concern the world in general, rather than the interests of individual countries. These organizations are not linked to political parties but often become involved in political matters.


Amnesty International (AI)
Amnesty International is a charitable organization set up in 1961. It campaigns for human rights throughout the world and against the detention of political prisoners.


International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The IMF was established in 1944 and promotes world trade. It has 184 member countries.
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
These organizations help the victims of such event as warfare and natural disasters.



Organizations for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The OECD was formed in 1961. It aims to encourage economic and social development in industrialized countries and provide aid to developing countries.


United Nations
The UN was founded in 1945. Most countries of the world a total of 191 – are members. The General Assembly of the UN makes decisions about peacekeeping and human rights.


United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF was set up in 1947. It works to improve the health and welfare of children and mothers in developing countries.


United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UNESCO was set in 1946. It encourages countries to get together on matters such as education, culture and science.


World Bank
The World Bank was founded in 1944 and has 184 member countries. It helps developing countries by giving loans.


World Heath Organizations (WHO)
The WHO is the part of UN. It promotes heath matters worldwide and aims to raise medical standards and monitor diseases.


World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
The WWF was set up in 1961 and is the world’s largest conversation organization. Its main aims are to protect endangered animals and the places where they live.


World Trade Organization (WTO)
The Swiss Based WTO encourages international trade by establishing trade agreements between countries.



NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded in 1949, in Washington, USA. The foreign ministers of 10 countries signed a defence treaty that committed them to helping each other in event of attack. There are 26 country members, and the NATO headquarters are based in Belgium.



G8
The Group of 8 (G8) is made up of the world’s leading industrial countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The UK, The USA, and Russian Federation). The heads of the G8 countries meet each year to discuss global issues such as world poverty and security.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

A Amezing Character Of Superman

Actors Who Have Played Superman
Kirk Alyn (1910-99)
The Adventures of Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs Superman (1950), both made as cinema serials



George Reeves (1914-59)

Superman and the Mole Men (1951) and the Superman TV series (1953-57)

Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)

Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), Superman III (1983) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)


Brandon Routh (1979-)
Superman Returns (2006)


Dean Cain (1966-)

Lois & Clar: The New Adventures of Superman Tv Series, (1993-97)


Tom Welling (1977-)
Smallville : Superman the Early Years TV series, (2001-) about Superman as a teenager



..............Supergirl

Helen Slater (1963-)

Supergirl (1984)

Monday, August 4, 2008

Radio Milestones

1896
2 June, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi applies for first British "wireless" patent

1906
24 December, first radio programme (music and speech) broadcast by Professor Reginald Fessenden from the US coast and received by ships. The first radios were crystal sets, operated by adjusting metal wires known as cat's whiskers

1920
15 June, Marconi broadcasts a concert by opera singer Dame Nellie Melba

1922
18 October, BBC (British Broadcasting Company) founded

14 November, first BBC broadcast made - the six o'clock news read by Arthur Burrows

1923
26 April, first daily weather forecast by the BBC

1926
24 January, launch of The Weeks's Good Cause, the BBC's longest running programme

1933
28 August, first BBC woman announcer, Shiela Borrett

1939-45
During world War II the BBC provides information and stirring speeches from Winston Churchill and other wartime leaders

1951
1 January, launch od The Archers, longest running BBC radio serial

1964

Pirate radio stations broadcast from ships to UK, encouraging the BBC to launch a pop music station (Radio 1, 30 September 1967)

1970
24 Febraury, National Public Radio launched in the USA

1993
First Internet radio broadcasts

1995
First experimental DAB (digital audio broadcasting) in UK. DAB gives listeners better quality reception, easy tuning and text

2002
BBC launches fice new DAB channels

2004
Sales of DAB digital radios top 1 million

2005
BBC radio begins to make programmes available as podcasts that can be downloaded to computers, MP3 and DAB players

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Unusual Deaths

Aeschylus
Aeschylus was a famous Greek dramatist who died in 456 BC.
A prediction that he would be killed by a blow from heaven
came true when an eagle carrying a tortoise dropped it on his
head.


King Alexander of Greece
He died after being bitten by his pet monkey in 1920.


Francis Bacon
This Elizabethan philosopher caught a chill while trying to deep-freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow. He died in 1626.


Hilaire Belloc
Although bornin France, Hilaire Balloc was an English writer and member of parliament. He died in 1953 after a burning coal fell out of his fire and set him ablaze.



Jerome Carden
Carden was an Italian Physician, mathematician and astrologer. He starved himself to death in 1576 that his own prediction of his death would come true.


Madeleine-Sophie Blanchard
Madame Blanchard was the widow of pioneer balloonist jean-Pierre Blanchard. She was killed in Paris in 1989, when fireworks set fire to her balloon.

Lord Carnarvon
Carnarvon was an amateur Egyptologist who financed the excavation of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922. Several months after opening the tomb, Carnarvon died suddenly from a mosquito bite. This began the legend of the curse of Tutankhamen.


Isadora Duncan
This American dancer was strangled in 1927 by her scarf. It became caught in the wheel of a Bugatti sports car in which she was a passenger.

Anton Dvorak
The Czech composer died in 1904 of a chill which he caught while train-spotting.

Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss)
Houdini was a famous escapologist who claimed he could withstand being punched in the stomach. He died in 1926 – after being punched in the stomach.



William Huskisson
Huskisson was a British member of parliament. He was run down by a train during the opening of the first railway in 1830.


Frederick, Prince of Wales
Frederick was the son of George II and heir to the British throne. He died in 1751 after being hit by a cricket ball.


Jean-Baptiste Lully
This Italian – French composer died in 1687 after accidentally stabbing his foot with a stick while beating time. The short conductor’s baton came into use soon afterwards.


Thomas Midgley
Midgley was an American inventor who was strangled in 1944 by a machine he had invented to help him move after contracting polio. He invented three products that have since been found to be environmentally harmful: lead in petrol, CFCs in fridges and aerosols, and the insecticide DDT.


Prince Philippe
Prince Philippe, heir to the Frensh throne, was killed when his horse tripped over a pig in the streets of Paris in 1131.


Pliny the Elder
Roman writer Pliny was choked by the fumes of the erupting volcano Vesuvius in AD 79.


Sir Thomas Urquhart
Urquhart was the Scottish author of books with extraordinary titles such as Logopandecteision. He died laughing when told of the Restoration of Charles II in 1660.
William III
This British king died in 1701, after a fall when his horse stumbled over a molehill. His opponents drank a toast to the mole, calling it “The little gentlemen in black velvet”.
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