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.......................................................................................................................... TITBITS Ramoji Film CityLocated about 25 km Ramoji Film City (RFC) is the world's largest integrated film studio complex at over 2000 acres of land. It is also a popular tourism and recreation centre, containing both natural and artificial attraction including amusement park. Maharashtra now plan's a 8-acre bollywood theme park at Aarey Centre to foot 70% cost of desalination plant in MumbaiSince there is no land available in the island city the proposed desalination plant will be situated in the suburb. Trombay is one of the locations being considered. A company will be formed to be set up the desalination plant. World's largest familyThe 167-member family lives together in the picturesque Baktawng village in Mizoram. They cook 30 kg pork and 50 kg rice everyday. The head of the family and the leader of Chana sect, Ziona, 66 has 38 wives and 94 children with some of his sons having married and having children of their own living together in a building named Chhuan That Run or the House of the New Generation. The tiniest mini horse everHe was just 14 inches tall and weighed only 6 pounds(2.7 kg). when he was born, making even a four-year-old child look like a giant. Einstein, a pinto stallion, can stake claim to the Guinness record for the smallest horse in the world. The current title holder, Thumbelina, was 9 pounds when she was born. But unlike the other titleholders, says owner Dr Rachel Wagnes, Einstein does not appear to show any signs of dwarfism 'Smart' roof reflects heat in summer, absorbs it in winterScientists have developed a 'smart' roof coating, made from waste cooking oil from fast food restaurants which they claim could read a thermometer and save energy in summer and winter. A team in the US has successfully developed the coating which automatically switches roles, reflecting or transmitting solar heat, when the outdoor temperature crosses a pre-set point that can be tuned to the local climate. Roofs coated with the material would reflect scorching summer sunlight and reduce sticker-shock air-conditioning bill. Kepler space telescope finds 5 new planets outside our solar systemThe new planets are known as 'hot Jupiters' because of their large masses and high temperature, which range from 1,201-1649 degrees celsius - hotter than molten lava. Their orbit, last between three and five days, meaning they follow paths close to their stars which are hotter and larger than our sun. The smallest of the planets is roughly the size of Neptune, the fourth largest in our solar system, and the biggest is the size of Jupiter, the largest planet here. ISRO in the process of choosing astronauts for its manned space missionISRO is now in the process of choosing four Vyomanauts (derived from the Sanskrit for space 'Vyouma') from a pool of 200 fighter pilots. India's first crewed space mission is scheduled for 2015, designs for which were unveiled last year. The three-person vehicle will initially carry two Vyomanauts into 275-kilometer Low-Earth orbit. Before this flight, ISRO will launch is second moon mission in 2013. 39 days to MarsBreakthrough in plasma rocket engine technology drastically cuts transit time to the Red Planet from 6 months to less than 6 weeks. The super balloon in spaceA new pumpkin-shaped balloon could study near-space environments at a much cheaper cost than satellites; scientists plan to use it in the future to carry out research on Mars. NASA and US National Science Foundation (NSF) have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly launched and demonstrated a newly designed "super pressure balloon" prototype over Antartica, which may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research. When development ends, NASA will have a 22 million-cubic-foot balloon that can carry a one-ton instrument to an altitude of more than 1,10,000 feet - 3 to 4 times higher than passenger planes fly. Spiderman arrested'Spiderman' who scaled 20 storey tower was arrested in London. 45 year old Alain Robert scaled the 20 storey building near a shopping centre in London recently. Youngest Saint6 year old Italian girl is the world's youngest saint. Pope Benedict XVI signed papers confirming the heroic virtues' of Automelta Meo, who was born in Rome in 1930. Mother kept baby's body for 50 yearsIn London, Brit Gladys Mary Briggs who gave birth out of wedlock in 1957, locked the baby boy's body in a suitcase and lived with it in her flat for 50 years. Port Blair moves 1.15 meters awayAndaman & Nicobar capital Port Blair had shifted by over 1 meter in a south eastern direction after the killer earthquake and Tsunami of December 26. A seven member team of the survey body studying the latitude, longitude and height would compile the final data. The tallest building in IndiaThe tallest building in India is the MVRDC World Trade Centre 1. Located at Cuffe Parade in Mumbai, it is 156 meters high and has 35 floors. The building was developed by Shapoorji Pallonji and Pheroze Kudianawala was the Architect. It is a commercial and shopping complex. The Shreepati Arcade at Nana Chowk, Mumbai is 45 storeys tall. At 152.5 meters, it is considered the second tallest building in India. Story of PhilipsFounded in 1891 in the Netherlands, Philips was primarily a manufacturer of light bulbs. In 1939, it introduced its first electric razor, the Philipshave. Then in 1963, Philips went on to introduce the audio cassette tape, which was widely successful. Its attempt to set a standard for video cassette recorders, however, was unsuccessful in the face of competition from Sony's Betamax and the VHS Standard. Ham, the AstrochimpHam, the Astrochimp, was the first primate launched into outer space. His name is an acronym for the lab - the Holloman Aerospace Medical Centre- that trained him for his historic mission on Jan 31, 1961, Ham was sent into space in the MR-2 capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, USA. His mission was to demonstrate that simple task like pushing buttons could be perform in the space. .......................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................ Tea trivia
3 Billion Cups of tea drunk over the world everyday ................................................................................................ Hitler was voted Time magazine's man of the year in1938. ........................................................................................................................ This following extract is taken
from an American who moved to Dubai last spring... Courtesy: Rita Rao, UAE ................................................................................................ Did
you Know? First person to visit both polesDr Albert
Paddock Crary (US) reached the North Pole in a Dakota aircraft, on May 3,
1952. On February 12, 1961, he arrived at the South Pole on a scientific
traverse party from the McMurdo Station. First person to walk around the worldThe
first person reputed to have walked around the world is George Schilling
(US), in 1904. The first verified walker was David Kunst who, from June
20, 1970, to October 5, 1974, walked 23, 250 km (14,450 miles) over four
continents. Since completing the walk, Dave has been telling his World
Walk Adventure Story at schools and clubs across the US and Australia. Most
traveled couple
The
most traveled couple are Dr Robert and Carmen Becker of Pompano Beach,
Florida, US, both of whom have visited all of the sovereign countries and
all but six of the non-sovereign or other territories. ................................................................................................ Bible was written four centuries earlier than thought. Tale of Newton's apple encounter now goes online. The Falkland falcon is
called the Flying Devil. It has a
fighting instinct that combines brawn with an intelligent sense of
survival. They are known to be revered predators of the albatross, prion,
rock hopper penguin, king comorant, sea lion, and elephant seal. Japanese supercomputer fastestUS Supercomputers have been the world’s most powerful since the first high-performance machines analyzed virtual nuclear blasts, climate change and the makeup of the universe. Now, one built in Japan with an “old” design runs five times faster than the previous record holder, a machine that simulates nuclear tests at Lawrence Livermore national laboratory. Japan’s earth simulator supercomputer hasn’t quite rattled the United States like the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik in 1957. But it does highlight some drawbacks of recent US machines, and it has made more than a few scientists envious. “This machine is powerful enough that a researcher who uses it can do in one day what it takes a researcher in the US to do in one month,” said Jack Donngarra, a university of Tennessee professor who tracks the world’s 500 speediest computers. More than national pride is at issue. Certain research is better suited to machines like the earth simulator, whose design was abandoned by most US Manufacturers in favour of one that melds better with the rest of their computing businesses. Supercomputers are built with thousands of processors that work in tandem to analyze the most complex issues, including nuclear test simulations, aircraft designs, drug creation and others, for governments, research centres and corporations. Livermore’s ASCI white supercomputer, like most recent US-built machines, used off-the shelf processors rather than custom parts specifically geared for high-performance scientific jobs. The trend took off in the 1990s, as such processors grew increasingly powerful, making it difficult to justify the cost of developing chips just for the small scientific supercomputer market. Now, supercomputers like ASCI white use the same chips, but thousands more of them, as do servers sold to businesses. Such machines now make up nearly 92 percent of the top 500 supercomputers worldwide. The bikini returns to its roots in Sao PauloAfter flirting with the heights of sophistication in the last years, the Brazilian bikini has returned to its roots. Indigenous imagery,
palm studded beaches and bright carnival scenes dominated the 2002 beachwear collections at Sao Paulo Fashion Week, the biggest fashion event in the southern hemisphere which ended on Saturday. Although the bikini is Brazil’s premier fashion export, designers said they had the Brazilian girl on their mind this year rather than the growing legions of foreign clients. “Today, all over the world, people are looking more at their own countries,” said Amir Slama of the Rosa
Chalabel, who saw his show in New York cancelled last September after the attack on the World Trade
Centre. “Although this collection is very Brazilian, with images like parrots and seafood, people in other places will get into it,” said
Slama, chosen as Brazil’s top designer in 2002. Mammoth tooth, jaw discovered Denver: Crews unearthed a fist-sized Wooly Mammoth tooth and a piece of jaw bone in the same housing development where an 18-foot-long tusk was found three days earlier. “We’re just striking gold here,” said Bart Weis, a researcher with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The tusk, tooth and jaw bone are probably from the same animal and are at least 10,000 years old, Weis, said. The jaw bone is about three feet by two feet. They were discovered near a creek bed about 15 miles south of Denver. Museum officials believe the fossils belonged to a fully grown male Colombian mammoth, 7-ton Pleistocene era animals that roamed the Colorado plateau and disappeared about 10,000 years ago. Their closest modern relative is the elephant. The fossils will be covered in preservatives, Burlap and Plaster, then excavated and taken to the museum for dating. Weis said researchers will continue to dig around the mandible and could find another tooth or piece of bone. A full-grown mammoth had only four teeth. The tusk, discovered on Monday, is on display at the museum. Surrounding sediment will help date the fossils, which could be as much as 50,000 years old. The search is a turning point in the research going on as the find is extremely valuable.
Quotes of
P.G Wodehouse
‘Every
author really wants to have letters printed
in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the
ladder and writes novels.’ ......................................................................................................................... Dollar
The
word dollar originated in what is now the Czech Republic. In 1519, a
silver mine near the town of Joachimstal began minting a silver coin
called the Joachimstaler. The coin became better known by its clipped
form, the later, and in Dutch and Low German, the daler. English adopted
this form, and changed its spelling to ‘dollar’. In the American
colonies, the Spanish Peso, known also as “pieces of eight” was in
common use. The English informally assigned the name dollar to this coin.
In 1785, when the Continental Congress established U.S. currency, they
adopted dollar as name for the standard unit of currency. Should
kids witness a birth? A true story: It was late at night and Heidi, who was expecting her second child was home alone with her 3-year old daughter Katelyn. When Heidi started going into labour, she called "911". Due to a power outage at the time, only one paramedic responded to the call. The house was very, very dark, so the paramedic asked Katelyn to hold a flashlight high over her mommy so he could see while he helped deliver the baby. Very diligently, Katelyn did as she was asked. Heidi pushed and pushed, and after a little while Connor was born. The paramedic lifted him by his little feet and spanked him on his bottom. Connor began to cry. The paramedic then thanked Katelyn for her help and asked the wide-eyed 3-year old what she thought about what she had just witnessed. Katelyn quickly responded, "He shouldn't have crawled in there in the first place. Spank him again!" Courtesy : Rita Rao, UAE ....................................................................................................................... Facts
Facts
from India
Source: NCAER and Platinum 2001, ORG-Marg ....................................................................... ........................................................................................................................ Did you know ? In the last hundred years Venice has lost almost a foot of foundations to the sea. The tide continues to rise and scientists and residents alike are racing to protect what remains to keep the city from becoming a modern Atlantis. Lost for more than 70 years in the North Atlantic, the Titanic was finally discovered in 1985 after years of research and exploration by Dr. Robert Ballard, National Geographic Explorer – in – Residence. He became one of the first people to see and photograph the ill fated ship since it hit an iceberg and sunk on its maiden voyage in 1912.
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