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.

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)

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

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”.

Funny Jokes!

Monday Blues

Monday must be the most horrible of days.

The reasons it's horrible are too horrible to say.

But with that said, I'll try to explain

Why Monday must bring us oh so much pain.

You see on Monday, you work with a frown.

The full work week ahead has gotten you down.

The weekend has come, and the weekend has passed,

And like all weekends it just didn't last.

But Monday sure lasts, it lasts so long.

You keep checking your watch to see what's wrong.

But against your wishes your watch is just fine.

Against your wishes you can't speed up time.

So you sit and you wait and you pretend to work.

You dream of a boss that isn't a jerk.

But then you wake up and you almost cry.

You wish and you wish that the day would just die.

But wait, please listen, don't worry my friend.

For one thing is certain, all Mondays must end.

Now that it's been said, I'll say it again.

More Mondays will come and more Mondays will end.

The Yoga Help

A young woman who was worried about her habit of biting her fingernails

down to the quick was advised by a friend to take up yoga to ease her nervousness. She did, and soon her fingernails were growing normally.

One day her friend stopped her and noticing her long, groomed nails asked her if yoga had totally cured her nervousness.

"No," she replied, "but now I can reach my toe-nails so I bite them instead."

New Style Love Letter

My dear FAIR and LOVELY (ek chand ka tukda) , after WIPRO (Applying Thought) so much ,I dare to say that You are my TVS SCOOTY (First love) and my AIWA (Pure passion). I always BPL (Believe in the best) and you are SANSUI (Better than the best). You are DOMINO'S PIZZA (Delivering a million smiles) for me. This is a COLGATE ENERGY GEL (Seriously fresh) feeling for me.

I want you to be my life partner but I think you are worried about your father who is KAWASAKI BAJAJ CALIBER (The Unshakable) and my father who is CEAT (Born Tough) but don't worry as I am also FORD ICON (The Josh Machine) and rest of our family members are KELVINATORS (The Coolest ones).

If they say no, we will run away and marry and PHILIPS (Let's Make Things Better). They will feel MIRINDA (Zor ka jhatka dhire se lage) but I believe in COCA COLA (Jo chahe ho jaye). For our marriage SAMSUNG DIGITALL (Everyone's Invited) and after marriage we'll become WHIRLPOOL (U and ME - The World's best homemakers)

Trust in God who's always NOKIA (Connecting people) who love each other. And we are WILLS (Made for each other) . Now that HYUNDAI (we are listening) the song of love, you must know that love is DAIRY MILK (Real taste of life), SATYAM ONLINE (Fun, Fast, Easy) and PARX (Always Comfortable). So never forget me. Ok bye!

I wrote little but PEPSI (Yeh dil mange more).

LG (Digitally Yours) !!!!!

bye bye

The Suspecting Wife

A farmer's wife was terribly jealous. Evening after evening, she subjected her husband to a searching inspection. When she would find even a single hair on his coat, there would be a terrible scene!

One night, she found nothing."So" she screamed, "Now it's a bald-headed woman!"

Truth About 6 Weeks, 6 Months, 6 years,

Dating process:6 weeks : I love U, I love U, I love U.

6 months : Of course I love U.

6 years : GOD, if I didn't love U, then why the hell did I propose?

Back from Work:

6 weeks : Honey, I'm home.

6 months : BACK!!

6 years : What did your mom cook for us today?

Gifts:

6 weeks : Honey, I really hope you liked the ring.

6 months : I bought you a painting, it would in the living room.

6 years : Here's the money. Buy yourself something

Phone Ringing:

6 weeks : Baby, somebody wants you on the phone.

6 months : Here, for you.

6 years : PHONE RINGING.

Cooking:

6 weeks : I never knew food could taste so good!

6 months : What are we having for dinner tonight?

6 years : AGAIN!