100 Years Ago America [3rd Edition Photos]
The winner of the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama, is the 44th U.S. president. All previous presidents were men of solely European descent. The 2008 elections also saw the Democratic Party strengthen its control of both the House and the Senate. In the 111th United States Congress, the Senate comprises 57 Democrats, two independents who caucus with the Democrats, and 41 Republicans; the House comprises 255 Democrats and 178 Republicans (two seats are vacant). There are 26 Democratic and 24 Republican state governors.
Top 10 Earning Dead Celebrities
A year after his death at the age of 51, Michael Jackson records are still selling as strongly as ever, and a survey by Forbes magazine has ranked him as the top earning dead celebrity in the world.Not only is Michael Jackson the top earning dead celebrity in the world, his earnings are more than the next eleven in line combined, with a huge $275 million earnings.
The top ten dead celebrities with the most earnings follow Michael Jackson with Elvis Presley ($60 million), author of "The Hobbit" and "Lord Of The Rings" J.R.R. Tolkien ($50 million), Charles Schultz the creator of "Peanuts" ($33 million) and John Lennon ($17 million).
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| 10. Richard Rodgers |
Windows 7 - The Fastest Selling OS Ever
Microsoft sold nearly 10 copies of Windows 7 every second over the last month, according to numbers the company released Thursday.Yesterday, Peter Klein, Microsoft's chief financial officer, told Wall Street analysts of the latest Windows 7 milestone. "With 175 million licenses sold to date, it is the fastest selling operating system ever, and now runs on over 15% of all PCs worldwide," Klein said during an afternoon earnings call.
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| Microsoft Windows 7 |
100 Years Ago America [2nd Edition Photos]
The short form the United States is also standard. Other common forms include the U.S., the USA, and America. Colloquial names include the U.S. of A. and the States. Columbia, a once popular name for the United States, was derived from Christopher Columbus; it appears in the name "District of Columbia".The standard way to refer to a citizen of the United States is as an American. Though United States is the formal appositional term, American and U.S. are more commonly used to refer to the country adjectivally ("American values," "U.S. forces"). American is rarely used in English to refer to people not connected to the United States.
Microsoft Wants To Buy Adobe
Here's an interesting piece of news before we end this week: word on internet has it Microsoft is thinking about acquiring Adobe. Stunned? Well, according to NYT, chief executives of both companies met recently to discuss "how the two companies could team up in the battle against Apple." Another point in their agenda was possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft. It has also emerged that Microsoft had a talk with Adobe regarding this several years ago as well, but at that time the deal never moved past informal talks as Microsoft feared antitrust watch-dogs will do their best to jeopardize the deal.
Bluetooth 4.0 Coming Soon
Though Bluetooth 3.0 is yet to hit market is a big way, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today announced the formal adoption of Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0. The group reports that the hallmark feature of the newest Bluetooth version is low energy technology. The hallmark feature enhancement to the Specification, Bluetooth low energy technology opens entirely new markets for devices requiring low cost and low power wireless connectivity, creating an evolution in Bluetooth wireless technology that will enable a plethora of new applications – some not even possible or imagined today.
100 Years Ago America [1st Edition Photos]
In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national economy was the world's largest. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a military power. It emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons and a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
World's Top 10 Richest man
The Forbes Billionaires list for 2010 has witnessed Mexican Carlo Slim surpassing Bill Gates and Warrant Buffett to be the richest man on the earth. Slim's total worth rose $18.5 billion during the year to an estimated $53.5 billion, the Forbes Magazine said. Gates remained second with a fortune of $53 billion.Apart from Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Head of ArcelorMittal L N Mittal, there were four other Indian tycoons in the top 50 list and 49 others in the complete list of 1,011 billionaires.
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| 10. Karl Albrecht [ $ 23.0 Billion ] |
World's Largest Seed
The Coco de Mer belongs to the Coryphoidae subfamily and tribe Borasseae. Borasseae is represented by four genera in Madagascar and one in Seychelles out of the seven worldwide. They are distributed on the coastlands surrounding the Indian ocean and the existing islands within. Borassus, the genus closest to Lodoicea, has about five species in the “old world,” one species in Africa, one in India, South-East Asia and Malaysia, one in New Guinea and two species in Madagascar.
2010 Most Famous Persons
The 2010 "most famous" would be the new President of the United States, Barack Obama. However, this is usually true of contemporary politicians in the media. Other famous people are Bill Gates, Queen Elizabeth of England, Warren Buffet and the Michael Jackson.
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| Barack Obama |
20 Monuth Baby Eating Chillies
20-month-old Naaman Amer, from the city of Nablus, West Bank enjoys eating hot peppers and is considered the world’s youngest pepper eater. The young Palestinian boy has been gobbling down green peppers since he was just 14 months old, and his parents are quite proud of his appetite for the throat-burning veggies. Naaman eats them at every meal, and so far he hasn’t had any health issues, but I still think it’s pretty weird for a boy this young to eat so many hot peppers.
New Technology Staircase
Anyone wanting or already in the process of redesigning their multi-level home should take a look at these cool staircases, which break away from the standard design and add some creative flair.Continue reading to see them all.
Top 5 Believable Conspiracy Theories
Every major event prompts a conspiracy theory and over the years people have come up with some far out stories and cover ups. But are they all that far fetched? Or have many of these conspiracy theories been guided by those behind the original plot?
Let’s take a look at 15 of the most famous conspiracies that just might be closer to the truth than we think.
Let’s take a look at 15 of the most famous conspiracies that just might be closer to the truth than we think.
5.Aids virus was created in a laboratory:
Based on the theories of Dr William Campbell Douglass, many believe that that HIV was genetically engineered in 1974 by the World Health Organisation. Dr Douglass believed that it was a cold-blooded attempt to create a killer virus which was then used in a successful experiment in Africa. Others have claimed that it was created by the CIA or the KGB as a means to reduce world population.
4.Pearl Harbor was allowed to happen:
Theorists believe that President Franklin Roosevelt provoked the Japanese attack on the US naval base in Hawaii in December 1941, knew about it in advance and covered up his failure to warn his fleet commanders.
He apparently needed the attack to provoke Hitler into declaring war on the US because the American public and Congress were overwhelmingly against entering the war in Europe.
Theorists believe that the US was warned by the governments of Britain, the Netherlands, Australia, Peru, Korea and the Soviet Union that a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was coming and that, furthermore, the Americans had intercepted and broken all the important Japanese codes in the run up to the attack.
Mrs. Sakshi Dhoni Smoking [Dhoni Wife]
Dhoni Marriage PhotosThe Indian Cricketer and Captain of Indian Team Mahendra Singh Dhoni Marriage photos hit the internet. MS Dhoni weds his childhood girlfriend Sakshi Rawat. The marriage ceremony is held at Almora in Uttarakhand, India. Wedding ceremony was held about 4pm on Sunday.
I have evidence of Photos to Prove the Mrs.Sakshi Dhoni have addict of Cigarette Smoking. Click Read More to View the Proof.
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| Dhoni with his Wife Sakshi |
The 28 year old wicket keeper batsman got engaged to Sakshi, a 23-year old hotel management student, at a private ceremony last night. This Wedding was reserved so private even close up relatives were not told about the wedding in advance. Dhoni’s uncle Ghanpath Dhoni had no idea his nephew was receiving married.
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Commonwealth - Closing Ceremony
In the end, patriotic fervour managed to grab eyeballs for the Games. The outstanding performance of India managed to notch up a high viewership of 16 million people across the country, for the closing ceremony of the CWG 2010 on Thursday.This compares well with the reach numbers of 17 million who watched the closing of Beijing Olympics in 2008. The interest was actually higher than IPL's both opening and closing ceremonies at 11 million and 14 million respectively.
Though the reach figures were lower than the opening ceremony (29 million), industry experts attribute it to the fact that October 14 was a week day, while both the opening ceremony of the Games (October 3) as well as the Beijing Olympics (September 24) were on Sundays. So for most people, barring Delhiites, it was a working day.
Though the reach figures were lower than the opening ceremony (29 million), industry experts attribute it to the fact that October 14 was a week day, while both the opening ceremony of the Games (October 3) as well as the Beijing Olympics (September 24) were on Sundays. So for most people, barring Delhiites, it was a working day.
Top 5 Super Computer's
5. ASCI White:
ASCI White, an IBM system, replaced ASCI-Red as the fastest supercomputer in 2000. ASCI White held the spot for world’s fastest supercomputer for two years from 2000-2002. It was capable of computing 12.3 trillion operations per second.
ASCI White, an IBM system, replaced ASCI-Red as the fastest supercomputer in 2000. ASCI White held the spot for world’s fastest supercomputer for two years from 2000-2002. It was capable of computing 12.3 trillion operations per second.
World's 5 Strangest Restaurants
5.Marton Theme, Taiwan
How would you feel eating while sitting on a toilet seat? At Marton Theme Restaurant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan you can have the opportunity of enjoying a delicious meal on colorful toilet seats used as chairs. The toilet-shaped restaurant doesn't lack clients. They sit around a bathtub table covered with glass, and eat from plates and bowls shaped like Japanese “squat” toilets, with faucets transformed in lamps. Also, rice and noodles are served in bowls having bathtub shape. The restaurant was named after “Matong”, Chinese word for toilet. The young owner of the restaurant, Eric Wang, says : “We not only sell food but also laughter. The food is just as good as any restaurant but we offer additional fun”. As for the prices, for a meal set, you pay from 150 to 250 Taiwanese dollars, meaning $6-$10.
How would you feel eating while sitting on a toilet seat? At Marton Theme Restaurant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan you can have the opportunity of enjoying a delicious meal on colorful toilet seats used as chairs. The toilet-shaped restaurant doesn't lack clients. They sit around a bathtub table covered with glass, and eat from plates and bowls shaped like Japanese “squat” toilets, with faucets transformed in lamps. Also, rice and noodles are served in bowls having bathtub shape. The restaurant was named after “Matong”, Chinese word for toilet. The young owner of the restaurant, Eric Wang, says : “We not only sell food but also laughter. The food is just as good as any restaurant but we offer additional fun”. As for the prices, for a meal set, you pay from 150 to 250 Taiwanese dollars, meaning $6-$10.
Rambler Socket
Rambler Socket maybe the solution most of us are looking for as far as extension cords are concerned. I mean if you hit “Extension Cord” on YD, for most of the posts you will see readers nitpicking and finding fault with the design. Here’s why Rambler Socket will knock your socks off. It’s this 1.5 meters cord that unfurls from a cavity behind its socket. When you don’t need extensions, it’s neatly tucked away. When you need it, simply pinch the sides and wind it out.
Future Concept Playstation 4
Going futuristic has never gone out of style and this is quite clear from what we have over here: a PS4 console concept design that seems slimmer than the new PS3 Slim and raises hopes. Crafted, or rather, designed by Tai Chiem, this 3D model will surely make all the gizmo freaks drooling spit all over the place.As the designer expects, the Playstation 4 will sport a high end touch screen rather than glossy body that the current generation gaming console sports.
History of Company Names
Intel:
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Top 10 Addictive Facebook Games
Facebook is the best social networking site in the world. We all know what Facebook is and one of the reasons that make it such a blast today is due to its addictive mini games.
10. Pet Society:
It is a very interesting game where you can create your virtual pet and raise it. These pets are more like humans and they can go fishing or do shopping. For More Click Read More........
A legend chinese statue took 90 years to carve
This statue begun in the year 713 in the Tang Dynasty, and finished in the year 803,the statue took people more than 90 years to carve. During these years, thousands of workers had expended their efforts and wisdom on the project. As the biggest carved stone Buddha in the world, Leshan Giant Buddha is featured in poetry, song and story. Facing the river, the Buddha has symmetrical posture and looks which have been beautifully captured in its solemn stillness. It is 71 meters (about 233 feet) high, and has three-meter-long (about 11 feet) fingers. The eight-meter-long (about 27 feet) instep is big enough for one hundred people to sit on and the 28-meter-wide (about 92 feet) shoulder is large enough to be a basketball playground.
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