Timeline | Anna’s fast politics - Economy and Politics - livemint.com

Timeline | Anna’s fast politics - Economy and Politics - livemint.com: "On Wednesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh criticized the “totally misconceived” fast by civil society activist Anna Hazare, whose arrest has sparked nation-wide protests. On Tuesday night, Hazare had refused to leave Tihar jail after the police withdrew the case against him and seven aides."

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How can Email Marketing Software Prove Advantageous to Your Business? - Internet Marketing Video Coach: "The marketers promote the business of an enterprise through several trips and tricks. One of such techniques or methods is to promote the business through email campaign. This is one of the most effective techniques used for establishing as well as strengthening the relationship of the marketer and target customer."

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Half of our MPs anpadh, ganwaar: some gems from very civil society - Indian Express

Half of our MPs anpadh, ganwaar: some gems from very civil society - Indian Express: "A day after demanding that Parliament immediately discuss the Jan Lokpal Bill for activist Anna Hazare to consider withdrawal of his hunger strike, Team Anna used the Ramlila Maidan platform to launch a vitriolic attack on politicians, saying they hid behind “ghunghats (veils)”, that most were “anpadh (illiterate)... ganwaar (rustic)” and “looted” the country."

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Steve Jobs, The Man At Apple's Core : NPR

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The Life and Career of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs: From rebel icon to merchant of cool | Firstpost

Steve Jobs: From rebel icon to merchant of cool | Firstpost: "Farewell, Steve Jobs, ye of black turtlenecks, blue jeans and sneakers. The man adored by legions of Apple fanboys and iTards. Over the past decade, Jobs has been celebrated as a marketing guru, corporate whiz, and above all, a technology god. The Mac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad, each a testament to his prophetic vision."

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The Man Who Seems to Know What's Next

TIME's Steve Jobs Covers
The Man Who Seems to Know What's Next


Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. - Malcolm Forbes

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs founded Apple, left it to start NEXT, and returned to catapult Apple into superstardom with the iMac, iBook, iPod and iPhone. Jobs will always be best remembered visually for making his historic announcements about the next Apple milestone at Macworld conferences

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs


Steve Jobs
First of all, thanks for singling me out as the one human being who has done more than anyone else to shape life on our planet over the past decade. I definitely deserve it. I’ve done many amazing things in the last 10 years, but I think the best single thing I’ve done is to get people to stop thinking about computers and the Internet as weird, complicated things for techies. Thanks to me, computers and the Web are omnipresent in our lives and easy to use. You no longer “go online”—you’re always online. And you’re no longer chained to a clunky box while using the Web. Instead, you have a skinny glass-and-metal slice of magic called the iPhone. (Unless you use a BlackBerry or a Palm Pre, in which case I will pray for your soul.) Of course, I’ve also dramatically changed the music industry. Music used to be sold in quaint little places called “music stores,” shipped on discs, and controlled by record labels. Now it’s sold by a software company (Apple), shipped as digital bits, and controlled by me. Movies are headed that way, too, and soon I’ll be running that business as well. Publishing: you’re next. In our brave new world, whoever controls the devices and the distribution is king. That’s why millions of fanboys see me not as a mere CEO, but as a Silicon Jesus who has come to Earth to restore a sense of childlike wonder to their lives. I can’t say I disagree.

source: newsweek

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower - Steve Jobs

"We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on - Steve Jobs


'Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.” - Steve Jobs

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.

The flops among the pops: 7 products Steve Jobs got wrong - The Washington Post

The flops among the pops: 7 products Steve Jobs got wrong - The Washington Post:

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Steve Jobs: How to live before you die | Video on TED.com

Steve Jobs: How to live before you die | Video on TED.com

Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Steve Jobs Resigns: What They're Saying | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

Steve Jobs Resigns: What They're Saying | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: "When a tech and business icon of Steve Jobs' stature steps down as he did in resigning from his CEO position at Apple late Wednesday, the reactions start pouring in, fast and furious. Here's a sampling of what folks were saying about Jobs, Apple, and his successor Tim Cook in the first few hours following the bombshell announcement."

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Hero MotoCorp Brand TVC - The Official Video ( A. R. Rahman )

give your best

“Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time” ~Chinese Proverb



Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie

Kerry: Newspapers Face Extinction

Kerry: Newspapers Face Extinction (fox)

Hours before a Senate hearing on struggling newspapers, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said steps must be taken so the news media can stay diverse and independent.

How to Find Easy Money

How to Find Easy Money

1. Be prepared! Money can be anywhere.
2. Keep an eye out where people handle money a lot e.g. supermarkets, school cafeterias, soda machines, etc.
3. Look down side alleyways and most used footpaths people may drop their spare change, etc.
4. Walk or even look in bushes and trees. Some people climb them & drop their money or loose change.
5. Check around parking lots of night clubs and bars in the morning hours before traffic starts moving. It is amazing what people will drop when they are drunk, tired, and distracted!
6. Inspect under bleachers at sporting events, fairs, and other venues with open-bottomed bleachers.
7. Check the coin return slots in vending machines! Look behind them for change that has rolled out of sight when it is accessible.
8. Find empty aluminum cans around garbage cans and recycle bins. Look out for beer bottles! They cost more than pop cans. Collect a good amount and cash out at a local recycle depot.



Tips

You can find lots of change in a washer/dryer. Your family will forget to take their money out of their pockets, but if the amount is over $5.00, give it back to your relative!

Dig really deep into the cushioning and support system of living room upholstered furniture all the way to floor level. On bulk trash garbage night the curbside discarded furniture will yield hidden coins with your utility razor blade knife used to open the bottom covers.

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Warren Buffett’s 7 Secrets for Living a Happy and Simple Life

Warren Buffett’s 7 Secrets for Living a Happy and Simple Life


http://www.successsoul.com/2008/07/15/warren-buffetts-7-secrets-for-living-a-happy-and-simple-life/


Secret # 1 : Happiness comes from within.
Secret # 2 Find happiness in simple pleasures.
Secret # 3 Live a simple life.
Secret # 4 Think Simply.
Secret # 5 Invest Simply.
Secret # 6 Have a mentor in life.
Secret # 7 Making money isn’t the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose.


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Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. MARK TWAIN

My Story: Inspiring Journey of an Entrepreneur...Featuring Anand Rajaram...

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Datawocky: "Two weeks ago, I announced the exciting news that Kosmix had agreed to be acquired by Walmart, the world’s largest retailer. At that point, the deal was signed but subject to customary closing conditions. Today, I’m delighted to announce that the closing conditions have been fulfilled and that the deal is officially closed."

My Story: Inspiring Journey of an Entrepreneur...Featuring Anand Rajaraman | TiE Silicon Valley

My Story: Inspiring Journey of an Entrepreneur...Featuring Anand Rajaraman | TiE Silicon Valley: "Anand Rajaraman (@anand_raj) co-founded Kosmix with Venky Harinarayan with the vision of connecting people to information that makes a difference in their lives. Upon the acquisition of Kosmix by Walmart, Anand serves as SVP Walmart Global eCommerce and Head of @WalmartLabs. Together with Venky, Anand is a founding partner at Cambrian Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm whose investments include Aster Data (Teradata), Neoteris (Juniper Networks), Kaltix (Google), Transformic (Google), Gradiance and Efficient Frontier. Anand serves on the board of directors at Aster Data and Gradiance. Anand and Venky are active angel investors and are among the handful of preferred angel investors in Facebook in 2005."

Jennifer Lopez named most beautiful woman in the world by People - pictures

Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez named most beautiful woman in the world by People - pictures

Kaun Banega Crorepati : General Awareness

16-million-pound temple opens in London: It's the new tourist attraction in Wembley in London: a Hindu temple that has been set up after 16 million pounds and 14 years.
June 1, 1956 – First international flight (to Montreal YUL) from the Atlanta Municipal Airport (ATL; now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and currently the world's busiest airport)
India elects first woman Speaker (bbc)
India's parliament has elected its first woman Speaker after a sweeping victory for the Congress party in recent general elections.
Meira Kumar, 64, was elected unopposed by a voice vote in parliament. She belongs to the low-caste Dalit - formerly untouchable - community.

General Awareness

Kaun Banega Crorepati: General Knowledge refresher (http://pigmediacraft.weebly.com)

The 2012 Olympic mascot Wenlock (L) and Paralympic mascot Mandeville pose for photographers in the playground at St. Paul's primary school in London
Mascoto means "piece of witchcraft, amulet", and is thought to come from the Medieval Latin word masca, meaning witch or spectre. "Mascotte", however, means charm or amulet.

steve jobs
iPad Already Changing the Way Web Sites Are Built
hi5 web sites for civil services aspirants:-
1. civilserviceindia.com
2. upsc.gov.in
3. onestopias.com
4. civilservice.in
5. indiacareer.com/competitiveexams/civil-service-ias.html

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What is inflation?


"Inflation is the most regressive form of taxation because it hits the poor the most." --Narendra Jadhav, Vice Chancellor, University of Pune.
Inflation is a rise in the prices of a specific set of goods or services. In either case, it is measured as the percentage rate of change of a price index.

Food prices are soaring. . . all essential items like vegetables, oil, milk, sugar are getting costlier. Rentals and real estate rates have almost doubled in just a few months in most cities. The real estate prices are at record highs making life miserable, especially for people who have migrated to cities for jobs.

Inflation based on wholesale prices during the period January 1998-January 1999 was 4.6 percent, one of the lowest in the world. Today, India's inflation is rising at a fast pace and is set to cross 7%.
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1st April, 1936Formation of the Indian state of Orissa, formerly known as UTKAL.


April 1, 1973 - Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.

April 1, 2001 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it.
April 1, 2002 - The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.

April 1, 1960 The first weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral.


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Friesland, Limburg and Zeeland are provinces in which European country?

Netherlands

A booming economy has given which European country the nickname the Celtic Tiger?
Ireland

Which of the Earth's four oceans is the smallest?
Arctic Ocean

Which island country of the Greater Antilles uses English as its official language?
Jamaica

Which city, home to the Johns Hopkins University, is located near the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay
Baltimore


Which state has a large area of temperate rain forest - Nevada or Washington

Washington

Because the interior of an island country in the North Atlantic is covered by glaciers and volcanic features, most people live along the coast. Name this country.
Iceland

Straw floor mats called tatami are part of the cultural tradition in which Asian country that occupies archipelago?
Japan

Antwerp,Belgium,hasbeen acenterforwhichgenstoneindsutry for centuries?
diamonds


Which country has ahigher lifeexpectancy- ChileorAfghanistan?
Chile


Theworld'slongestsuspension brdigespanstheInland Sea,linking Shikoku towhich other major Japanese island?
Honshu

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quiz
1. Why was the “Druk Phuensum Tshogpa” party in the news on March 24?

2. Which legendary sportsperson wrote the following: My Cricketing Life (1938), Farewell to Cricket (1950) and The Art of Cricket (1958)?

3. Which Biblical patriarch was also known as Israel?

4. As of 2006-2007, which club holds the record for the most wins in an EPL season?

5. What was the nationality of the famous painter Jan Vermeer?

6. What is the biggest operational difference between a tortoise and a turtle?

7. Which telecom giant gets its name from a river in Finland?

8. How many stars on a table tennis ball indicate that it is of the highest quality?

9. Which famous cartoon ‘pair’ have had the Latin names Birdus Tastius and Poultrius Devourius?

10. In the Mauryan empire, who succeeded Ashoka the Great?

11. Which Indian actress’ paternal grandfather played cricket for two countries?

12. What is dvimudrakaara in Carnatic music?

13. How is red kidney beans referred to in Indian cooking?

14. Which dance form is performed in front of the Kalivilakku?

15. What was the subject of the world’s first jigsaw puzzles?

Answers

1. It won the first democratic

elections held in Bhutan

2. Sir Donald Bradman;
3. Jacob

4. Chelsea (38 wins);
5. Dutch

6. The former cannot swim or

float on water;
7. Nokia

8. Three;
9. Road Runner and

Wile E. Coyote;
10. Dasaratha

Maurya (after half-brother Kunala became blind); 11. Soha Ali Khan; 12. A composer who has used two kinds of ‘mudras’ in his

compositions;
13. ‘Rajma’

14. Kathakali;
15. Maps.

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Simran Kaur Mundi of Mumbai was crowned Miss India Universe 2008

machu Picchu is to Peri as Tikal is to what?
Guatemala
Which continent is the world's largest producer of Gold?
Africa
What northern California city was reduced to ruins following a strong earthquake and disastrous fire in 1906
San Francisco
Malawi, Mozambique, and what other country border Lake Malawi?
Tanzania

The snake river and Sawtooth Mountains are located in which state - Ohio or Idaho
Idaho

The economy of Brueni, a small country on the island of Borneo, is based on offshore oil and natural gas fields that lie beneath the waters of which ocean?
Pacific

Which country, one of Africa's most densely populated, is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Rwanda

Which state is closer to the Pacific Ocean - Georgia or Kklahoma?
Oklahoma

What is the term for the process by which ice sheets expand and reshape the physical landscape?
Glaciation

In February 2005, heavy rains caused dam breaks and floods that wiped out villages in Baluchistan, a province bordering the Arabian Sea. Baluchistan province is on the southwest coast of which country?
Pakistan


The Yenisey-Angara river system is the second longest river system on which continent?
Asia

One of the world's most densely populated countries includes one of asia's busiest ports. Name this small island country at the edge of south china sea
singapore

What term is used for the often triangular-shaped deposit of sediment sometimes found at the mouth of a river?
delta

What is the term for process by which ice sheets expand and reshape the physical landscape?
Glaciation.

Quiz:


1. An Indian soldier of the 34th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry, synonymous with the 1857 War of Independence, was executed on this date in 1857. Name him.

2. What culinary term associated with pig also means an amateur radio operator?

3. Where is the ‘fibrous tunic’ on the human face?

4. In literary fiction, Phileas Fogg’s manservant is…?

5. Which famous war began on June 5, 1967, and ended in less than a week?

6. How many locks does the Suez Canal have?

7. How would Rafael Nadal refer to a sauce in his native tongue?

8. Quantity-wise, how many teaspoons make up two tablespoons in the U.K. and the U.S.?

9. As part of his 12 labours, whose girdle was Hercules asked to get?

10. What do formicivore animals feed on?

11. Harald V is the present king of…?

12. If Salt Lake City was your capital, of which U.S. State would you be a resident?

13. Who is playing Dr. Bruce Banner in the upcoming flick “The Incredible Hulk”?

14. Which was the first planet found by mathematical prediction rather than regular observation?

15. What is a ‘Baumé scale’ used to measure?

1. Mangal Pandey
2. Ham
3. Also known as the tunica fibrosa oculi, it’s the outer layer of the eyeball consisting of the cornea and sclera
4. Passepartout
5. The Six-Day War
6. No locks
7. Salsa
8. Six
9. Hippolyte or Hippolyta, the Amazonian queen
10. Ants and termites
11. Norway
12. Utah
13. Edward Norton
14. Neptune
15. Density of liquids.


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Chapultepec Park, which was once the site of a residence for Aztec rulers, in what capital city?
Mexico City

Oil production in the United Arab Emirates is centered on the country's capital city. Name this city
Abu Dhabi

Which country, once a region of nomadic tribes unified under Genghis Khan, has an economy dependent on animal producs such as cashmere and wool
Mongolia

Which country is bordered by Denmark and the Netherlands?
Germany

Which state is known as the Ocean State because of its 400 miles o coastline -
Rhode Island

The Jaffna, a region inhabited primarily by Tamils, forms the northern tip of what island country?
Sri Lanka

Oasis farming and livestock raising are common in the Xinjiang Autonomous region in the arid western part of which Asian country
China

Which agent of erosion creates V-shaped valleys?
water

Transylvania is a region that was made famous by a fictional character, Count Dracula. This region is located in which European country
Romania
What city, the most populous in Namibia, lies on a plateau between the Namib and Kalahari Deserts>
Windhoek





What term is used for the imaginary line on Earth that marks the boundary where one day ends and the next begins?
International Date Line

China and which Southeast Asian country border the Gulf of Tonkin?
Vietnam

The inland sea borders three of the four major islands that make up which country in Asia
Japan

The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, one of the world's largest churches, was built during the 1980's in the French-speaking country on Ghana's western border. Name this country
Cote d'lvoire

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Charles Darwin works include:
Voyage of the Beagle, Zoology, Descent of Man




Quiz (Dated April 15, 2008)



1. In the world of animated TV series, how is Herschel Krustofski better known?

2. Name the most famous Italian Renaissance polymath - scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor - born on this date in 1452.

3. The birthplace of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, is.?

4. Which recurring character does Thomas Andrew Felton play in the Harry Potter movies?

5. What is `biosonar'?

6. In a famous poem of his, what did William Wordsworth refer to as: "Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way."

7. What would one do with a `cummerbund'?

8. In the Mahabharata, who was the sister of Shalya?

9. Which is the most abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust?

10. If one was flying the `Fighting Falcon' the aircraft would be an F-14, F-16 or F-18?

11. Which luxury car maker, founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company, is now part of Tata Motors?

12. Which Royal and minister is the Congress MP from Guna?

13. The longest and largest nerve in the human body is the...?

14. In its normal natural surroundings, why would a polar bear never attack a penguin from behind?

15. What is the biggest contribution of Kirkpatrick Macmillan to the world of locomotion?


Answers:

1. Krusty the Clown (of The Simpsons fame)
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. Nankana Sahib
4. Draco Malfoy
5. The biological sound navigating system used by animals like bats to locate objects
6. A host of golden daffodils
7. Wear it. It's a broad waist sash often worn with single-breasted dinner jackets
8. Madri, the mother of Nakula and Sahadeva
9. Quartz
10. F-16
11. Jaguar Cars Limited
12. Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
13. Sciatic
14. Polar bears live north of equator while all but one species of penguin live south of equator
15. The bicycle.

1. Name the only male tennis player in the Open era to have won all the four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold celebrating his birthday on this date.

2. Which comedian and actor gave the voice for Barry Bee Benson in the ‘Bee Movie’?

3. According to the nursery rhyme, what five things did Old King Cole call for?

4. How many players to a polo team on the field?

5. In geometry, angles between 181 and 360 are called…?

6. James Earl Ray is considered the assassin of which Nobel Peace Prize winner?

7. In chess, what is ‘fool’s mate’?

8. In which country is Balaklava, made famous in a Tennyson poem?

9. Whose schoolmates were Harry Wharton, Bob Cherry and Frank Nugent?

10. In America, how is a lawyer commonly referred to?

11. In Greek myth, where do the Gods live?

12. Which of Batman’s enemies has Jim Carrey portrayed on screen?

13. Who is ‘Moochu Singh’?

14. According to the Bible, how long was Noah’s Ark?

15. A vegetarian should not have ‘lachanophobia’. What is it a fear of?


1. Name the only male tennis player in the Open era to have won all the four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold celebrating his birthday on this date.

2. Which comedian and actor gave the voice for Barry Bee Benson in the ‘Bee Movie’?

3. According to the nursery rhyme, what five things did Old King Cole call for?

4. How many players to a polo team on the field?

5. In geometry, angles between 181 and 360 are called…?

6. James Earl Ray is considered the assassin of which Nobel Peace Prize winner?

7. In chess, what is ‘fool’s mate’?

8. In which country is Balaklava, made famous in a Tennyson poem?

9. Whose schoolmates were Harry Wharton, Bob Cherry and Frank Nugent?

10. In America, how is a lawyer commonly referred to?

11. In Greek myth, where do the Gods live?

12. Which of Batman’s enemies has Jim Carrey portrayed on screen?

13. Who is ‘Moochu Singh’?

14. According to the Bible, how long was Noah’s Ark?

15. A vegetarian should not have ‘lachanophobia’. What is it a fear of?


Answers
1. Andre Agassi
2. Jerry Seinfeld
3. Pipe, Bowl and Fiddlers 3
4. Four
5. Reflex angles
6. Martin Luther King Jr.
7. It’s the quickest possible checkmate in the game
8. Ukraine
9. Billy Bunter
10. Attorney
11. Mt. Olympus
12. ‘The Riddler’
13. The mascot of the Rajasthan Royals IPL team
14. 300 cubits
15. Vegetables

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What you MUST know about inflation
http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/mar/26infla1.htm

"Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price." -- Robert Orben.

The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." -- Ernest Hemingway.

"Inflation is taxation without legislation." Milton Friedman.

# There are different types of inflation: Deflation: It refers to a general falling level of prices.
# Disinflation: This is a decrease in the rate of inflation.
# Hyperinflation: When prices zoom and inflation goes out-of-control, it is called hyperinflation.
# Stagflation: It is a combination of inflation, rising unemployment and stagnation in the economy.
# Reflation: This refers to move to hike prices to fight deflationary pressures.

quiz: Kaun Banega Crorepati

James Cameron uses Earth Day release of 'Avatar' DVD to promote environmental crusade


Shakira & Nadal
BBC quiz: reddy2007.blogspot.com 3rd anniversary special
Tutankhamun was the product of an incestuous relationship, which may have caused him to suffer from several disorders including Kohler disease, new research claims. What does the rare disorder, Kohler, affect?
Bones

Twelve French wine producers and traders have been found guilty of fraud in France, after passing off millions of bottles of an inferior grape as a more expensive variety in order to get a better price. What grape variety did they claim to be selling?
Pinot Noir

President Obama has given his backing to the construction of the first civilian nuclear reactors in the US in three decades. In a speech, he referred to 56 nuclear reactors being built around the world. Which of the following country is building the most?
China

A woman in Saudi Arabia hit the headlines after starting up a Facebook protest against men selling what to women in the Kingdom?
Lingerie

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has met President Obama in Washington, despite strong protests from China. Which of the following did he not meet while they were in office?
Jimmy Carter

Authorities in Berlin have ammended the city's strict laws on noise pollution. Who has won the right to be noisy - along with church bells, emergency service sirens and snow ploughs?
Children

We reported last Friday that Walter Frederick Morrison - the man who invented the Frisbee - had died. When it was developed into an aerodynamic plastic toy in the 1950s, what was the Frisbee initially known as?
The Pluto Platter

Ryan Reynolds' Mystery Woman Revealed

Ryan Reynolds' Mystery Woman Revealed: "Rodney King still can't catch a break. Back in March, King was pulled over just ONE DAY before the 20th anniversary of the infamous beating.
He was cited for driving with an expired license and then released. This time however, it seems he's gotten himself into a bit more trouble.
King is currently being held for suspicion of DUI. Police are currently investigating exactly what Rodney King was under the influence of.
This guy better hope they don't find anything in his system, considering the multiple previous run-ins with the law."

Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony together again -- in Hamptons - CNN.com

Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony together again -- in Hamptons - CNN.com: "The backseat of a red Mustang convertible cushioned the reunion of the recently split couple Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, who on Wednesday were seen together in the snazzy vehicle near Sagg Main Beach in Southampton, New York."

Veer-Zaara - Aisa Des Hai Mera (HD 720p)

Kaun Banega Crorepati :General Knowledge Master (http://pigmediacraft.weebly.com)

Happy Independence Day

Portugal becomes the eighth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriages nationwide

For students, Sehwag's second triple ton shows that destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice; it's not a thing to be waited for, it's a thing to be achieved. Today a man, down on his luck just three tests ago, proved that determination and perseverance can move the world and demolish the roadblocks that come in the way
What is the subprime effect?
Subprime lending, also called ‘B-Paper’, ‘near-prime’ or ‘second chance’ lending, refers to the practice of giving loans to borrowers at interest rates above the prevailing market rates because of their low credit status and increased risk due to either a limited credit history, or histories of payment delinquencies, charge-offs or bankruptcies. Subprime lending includes mortgages, credit cards and car loans. It is risky for both the lender and the borrower. It helps those consumers who otherwise would not have access to credit market. But on the flip side the borrowers do not have the resources to meet the long-term loan obligations. But the crisis began in 2006, when in the US, thousands of borrowers defaulted in payments; as a result many lenders had to file for bankruptcy leading to a direct impact on the US housing market and economy as a whole.
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APPSC Examination held on 9.3.2008 General Studies random questions (APRO Paper)

1. Jean Paul Satre was famous for:
2. Panchayat Raj System was introduced in the year :
3. Which amendment of the Constitution gave priority to Directive Principles over Fundamental Rights?
4. What is the main objective of the Rural Development Programmes?
5. Identical twins are born when:
6. 6. What are the primary colours?
7. Khalsa was founded by:
8. Blue colour of sky is due to:
9. Today Mal was associated with:
10. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award is given for outstanding performance in:



11. Tripitakas are the sacred books of the
12. Mohini Attam is a dance form which originated in:
13. Red blood corpuscles are produced in:
14. Mountain is to the Himalayas as ocean is to:
15. Protestant reformation was directed against:
16. Khasis are an important tribe in India. Where most of them live?
17. The famous Kanha Wild Life Sanctuary is located in the state of:
18. Planning does not entail:
19. A bat is a/an:
20. Genetic engineering is a branch of:



21. Material most commonly used in nuclear power plants is
22. Which of the following is not an infectious disease?
23. The capital of the Kushanas was:
24. Rajatarangini is a historical book of the
25. The Golden temple at Amritsar has built at the site where:
26. The world famous painting ‘Mona Lisa’ is the work of
27. The President’s rule can be imposed in a state for a maximum period of:
28. Judicial review signifies that the Supreme Court :
29. The structure of the Indian Constitution is:
30. Which one of the following writs literally means ‘we command’?

31. Money bill can originate in
32. Parliament of India is a
33. Which of the following is the chief source of political power in India?
34. The cabinet secretariat functions under the direct control of the :
35. Which writ is sought to be issued to prohibit action?
36. Which nation has adopted the system of Administrative Law
37. The constituents of India’s Parliament are Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and
38. Who decides whether a bill is Money Bill or not?
39. The special status of Jammu and Kashmir implies that it has:
40. The Preamble can also be amended under:

41. The cause of inflation is:
42. Which of the following is not a bar to public service
43. Which of the following is called the Magna Carta of Indian liberties?
44. Appellate Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court does not involve?
45. What is the most remarkable aspect of Indian industry since independence?
46. The community development programme was launched in:
47. Globalisation of Indian economy means:
48. Devaluation of currency leads to
49. A growing country is one with
50. Which is not the main source of state revenue?



51. What are the grass-lands of South America called?
52. Ecitement in human body is caused by:
53. Goitre is caused by the deficiency of
54. Kautilya’s Arthashastra is a great treatise on
55. By whose efforts, Buddhism became the global religion?
56. Tides in the Ocean are caused due to:
57. Light year is the
58. Which organ is associated with the production of insulin in the human body?
59. Buddhism disappeared from the land of its birth primarily because of
60. Article VI of GATT (WTO) is related with:


General Knowledge
Kilimanjaro with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawensi, and Shira, is an inactive stratovolcano in north-eastern Tanzania. Although it does not have the highest elevation, Kilimanjaro is the tallest free-standing mountain rise[1] in the world,[2] rising 4,600 m (15,100 ft) from its base, and includes the highest peak in Africa at 5,895 meters (19,340 ft), providing a dramatic view from the surrounding plains.

McKinley, Mt- Norht Pk 20,320 feet (North America)

South America, the planet's 4th largest continent, includes (12) countries and (3) major territories. It contains the massive Amazon River and surrounding basin - the largest tropical rain forest in the world; the toothy-edged Andes Mountains, that stretch the entire length of the continent, and some of the most diverse and spectacular landforms on the planet.

Argentina's Aconcagua (22,835'/6960m) is famous as the highest peak in the western hemisphere, but Andean peaks rise to over 20,000'/6100m in Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador as well, and Colombia (18865'/5750m) and Venzuela (16427'/5007m) are not far behind. Make no mistake, these are big, glaciated, and serious mountains for almost their entire length.


The tallest Mountain in Antarctica is Vinson Massif rising 4,892 metres (16,050 feet) above sea level

The lowest point in Antarctica is within the Bentley Subglacial Trench, which reaches 2,555 meters below sea level. This is also the lowest place on earth not covered by ocean (although it is covered by ice)

Extreme point of Europe: Northernmost point — Cape Fligely, Rudolf Island, Franz Josef Land, Russia (81° 48′ 24″ N)

The geography of Australia encompasses a wide variety of biogeographic regions being the world's smallest continent but the sixth-largest country in the world. The population of Australia is concentrated along the eastern and southeastern coasts. The geography of the country is extremely diverse, ranging from the snow capped mountains of Tasmania to large deserts, tropical and temperate forests.

Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the French dependency of New Caledonia to the northeast, and New Zealand to the southeast. Highest point is Mount Kosciuszko



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A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one or more extra days (or, in case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year. For example, February would have 29 days in a leap year instead of the usual 28. Seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of full days, so a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would over time drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year which is not a leap year is called a common year.

Today is Leap day (29.2.2008)

quote of the day:
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point : This can be done. - Abraham Maslow

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March 2, 1953 - The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.

March 2, # 1949 - Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.

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March 3, 1575 - Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi

March 3, 1971 - Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and India's official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War in support of Mukti Bahini

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March 4, 1774 - First sighting of Orion Nebula by William Herschel.


MArch 4, 1789 - In New York City, the first United States Congress meets, putting the Constitution of the United States into effect.

March 5, 1968 - U.S. launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.


March 5, 1912 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.


March 7, 1926 The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.

March 7, # 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465).

International Women's Day (IWD) is marked on March 8 every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.

Started as a political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries (primarily Russia and the countries of former Soviet bloc).
In some celebrations, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love to the women around them in a way somewhat similar to Mother's Day and St Valentine's Day mixed together. In others, however, the political and human rights theme as designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.

The IWD is also celebrated as the first spring holiday, as in the listed countries the first day of March is considered the first day of the spring season.


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Tiger Trivia
The tiger population in India is moving towards extinction faster than we can say Tiger! Soon school excursions to tiger parks, adventure holidays to tiger sanctuaries or even a visit to the zoo to see the big cat will be a thing of the past!

Human encroachment of the natural habitat and poaching are the main causes for this travesty. We all need to wake up to this stark reality before we lose the national animal forever! Did you know.

* The earliest known portrayal of the Royal Bengal Tiger in India comes to us from the Indus Valley Civilization where a 2500 BC seal featuring a tiger was found.

* At the current rate of poaching and habitat loss, it is estimated that tigers in the wild could completely disappear within the next ten years

* Bengal Tigers are native to India, Nepal and Bangladesh.Tigers are fully grown at 3-4 years of age. Male Bengal tigers reach up to 230 kilograms and three metres in length, while the female Bengal tigers are 130-170 kilograms and up to 2.5 metres long

* Tiger stripes are like fingerprints. No two are the same. The stripes are not only in the tiger's fur, but are a pigmentation of the skin.

* At full running speed tigers reach up to 60 kilometres per hour.

* Tigers have a white spot on the back of both ears, which looks like eyes. This tricks predators into thinking the tiger is looking at them. This is why they are called 'eye spots

* A group of tigers is called a 'streak'.

* Tigers have two noses! Well, not literally of course. A secondary scent gland called 'Jacobson's organ' is located in the tigers mouth and is used in assisting the animals in identifying other scents.

* All tigers have a similar marking on their forehead, which resembles the Chinese symbol Wang, (King).

* The tail gives the tiger extra balance when running and is also used to communicate to other tigers.

* The tendons in a tiger's leg are so strong that it has been known to remain standing after it has been shot dead.

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Timeline:-





Anything with a question mark in the date is probable, but not known for definite. A tilde (~) indicates that the date is approximate.

Only relatively few episodes have specific dates attached to them, but dates for the rest of them can be guessed at with a fair degree of certainty. For this purpose, I have made the simple assumption that the chronological order in which episodes occur is the same as the order of production code. There were four production seasons of roughly 18 episodes apiece. Space Pilot 3000 (1ACV01) is the first, The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings (4ACV18) is the last. This system enables all the episodes to be placed on the timeline, with only a little uncertainty and only one episode (Roswell That Ends Well) definitely out of sequence.

A slight anomaly is that this results in about 20 episodes taking place between January 1 and February 14, 3002. Hey ho. There are a few other interesting notes which you'll find as you read.

17 years before the Big Bang: Nibblonian civilisation is born
~28,997,001 BC or earlier: Emperor Nimbala rules Zuben 5. He will be seen in the year 3000 as a mummy in a tiny sarcophagus
1410 AD: Origins of banking industry regulations
1776: The United States of America are founded
1788: Steamboat invented
1793: Cotton gin invented
19th century: Light bulb, steamboat and cotton gin invented, according to Leela. Note that she's wrong on two of the three counts; the steamboat and the cotton gin are both from the 18th century. See above.
1820 to 1887: Golden Age Of Muttonchops
1874: Light bulb invented
1900s: Gwen's family starts making candy hearts from bone meal and earwig honey
20th century?: The Stupid Ages? Fry's era is referred to as the Stupid Ages more than once in the series. No dates are given, but the 20th century seems stupid enough to me.
July 9, 1947: Emerging from a time-warp, the Planet Express ship crash-lands near Roswell, New Mexico
July 10, 1947: Planet Express returns through the time-warp, leaving behind Bender's head
1951: Pete's TVs: "letting people watch news reports in our window since 1951"
August 9, 1960: David Duchovny is supposedly born; Duchovny is in fact the individual who will later be known as Calculon; his birth date might be a lie.
1960: The 1960 Presidential elections are fixed by John F. Kennedy, according to Richard Nixon
September 8, 1966: The first episode of the original series of Star Trek is aired
1969: The New York Mets win the World Championship.
July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin land on the Moon. The original landing site will have been lost for centuries by the year 3000.
1973: Computers will double in speed between now and 3000, according to Richard Nixon in 3000 - probably something of an understatement
1973: Muhammed Ali faces an 80ft-tall mechanical Joe Frazier. The entire Earth is destroyed, according to George Foreman, whose memory is not, apparently, what it was
1974: birth of Philip J. Fry
1975: In Leela's dream, the Yellow Brick Road is renamed Martin Luther King Boulevard
1984 or later: Stricken with incurable boneitis, "that guy" (Steve Castle) is frozen. We know he's from the 1980s, but he has also certainly seen Apple's "1984" advert
1985: The New York Mets win the World Championship. Shea Stadium has a banner proclaiming: "Home of the 1969 & 1985 World Champion Mets". Note: This obliquely suggests that the Mets won't win the World Championship again for over a thousand years!
1988: What Hermes Conrad will later describe as a "legendary Jamaican bobsled team" first competes in the Winter Olympics
between 1990 and 1996: Applied Cryogenics experiences their penultimate power failure
1994 or 1995: Fry scrawls a picture of himself on a rocket
1995 to 1998?: Fry goes roughly three years without getting time off
1997: Fry's dog, Seymour, is born.
1997: Applied Cryogenics experiences their most recent power failure.
circa 1997: date on the last existing can of anchovies ("Angry Norwegian Anchovies" brand)
August 1997: Fry meets his dog, "Seymour Asses"
July 1998: The summer from "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer". Seymour swims in toppings.
1999 or earlier: The evil brainspawn begin constructing the Infosphere. The Nibblonians forsee its completion and realise their need to cryogenically freeze Fry so that he can ultimately defeat them.
March 28, 1999: In real life, the first episode of Futurama is aired
1999: Fry spills a can of beer, disrupting the transmission of the series finale of Single Female Lawyer
Evening of December 31, 1999: Nibbler orders a pizza to be delivered to Applied Cryogenics, using the pseudonym I. C. Weiner.
11:35pm, December 31, 1999: Fry leaves on his last pizza delivery.
At this point the time-stream diverges. As is well recorded, Nibbler is hidden underneath the desk that Fry will sit at as the new millennium rolls in, intending to deliberately make Fry fall in the cryogenics tube, so that in the future (specifically, the episode "The Why Of Fry") he can defeat the brainspawn on behalf of all intelligent life.

In one timeline (timeline A) this goes ahead as planned. In timeline B, a Fry arrives from the future, sent back in time by the brains, just in time to deliver to Nibbler the dire warning, "Scootie-Puff Junior sucks!" This will have significant consequences, as we shall see in the year 3002 or so. Either way, Nibbler's plan proceeds as envisaged:

12:00:0?am, January 1, 2000: Philip J. Fry falls backwards into a cryogenic chamber, which automatically freezes him for a thousand years
lunchtime, January 1, 2000: Fry's father calls him, wondering where he is.
2000: The year Past-O-Rama is supposed to emulate
2000: Great Garbage Crisis in New York City. Garbage is put on a barge which is then pushed out to circle the world's seas for the next 50 years.
21st century: Cyborgs enslave humanity
2001?: Jury Duty II: Trouble On The Hubble is released
2003: Lucy Liu is named People Magazine's sexiest woman of the year
August 10, 2003: In real life, the final episode of Futurama airs
2007: Charlie's Angels III: The Legend Of Charlie's Gold is released in cinemas
2008: Stop 'n' Drop becomes America's favourite suicide booth
2012: War of 2012. Conan O'Brien loses his freakishly long legs.
2012 or 2013: Seymour dies.
2019: Calculon is a robot arm working on Project Satan, the world's evilest car.
2038: Petroleum reserves run dry
2052: New York City obtains a rocket with which to launch the garbage into outer space.
2063: Lucy Liu is named People Magazine's sexiest woman of the year for the second time
2063: Humanity starts dropping ice cubes into the ocean to counteract global warming
2158: Central Bureacracy is established
~2200: Pine trees become extinct
2200s: The anchovy becomes extinct; also, the Decapodians arrive on Earth
2200s: The Star Trek cast do some musical reunions, but the guy who plays Scotty has trouble yodelling so he is replaced by Welshy.
23rd century: By this time, Star Trek has become a religion
~2202?: Lucy Liu is captured and held prisoner by kidnappster.com
2208: To get around relativity, scientists increase the speed of light. Note that all existing light continues to move at its original slow pace.
2256: date of a spear seen in a museum of weaponry
2265 to 2270: Time period of the original Star Trek five-year mission
2275: The Fairness In Hell Act is passed, requiring the Robot Devil to release a soul (and a solid gold fiddle) from Robot Hell if someone can beat him in a fiddle contest
24th century?: A medieval civilisation arises on the site of old New York. It will later be destroyed by aliens. (During the 1000-year sleep montage, you can see castles being built and then destroyed. No date is explicitly given, but a cop later in the episode suggests "going 24th century" on somebody's "ass". The connection is clear. Note that New New York City was hence built after this time.)
~2302?: Dashuba (sp?) monks begin searching for God
2354: Kwanzaabot begins giving out "What the hell is Kwanzaa?" books
~2400: American Express ceases to exist
2443: Second coming of Jesus. Most 20th century-era videotapes are damaged.
2475: Washington DC is rededicated to Washington the Sweathog
~2500: Visa ceases to exist
~2500?: New New York City becomes garbage-free. Note that New New York City was hence built before this.
2600s: New Yorkers elect a supervillain governor, who steals most of the world's monuments and puts them on Monument Beach
2620: To end that stupid joke once and for all, Uranus is renamed.
2636: Mars University is founded
~2702: The original cast of Star Trek leaves Earth behind
2790: Bender's Uncle Vladimir is constructed
2790: Ava Porter is born.
2800 or earlier: Voter turnout in world presidential elections dips below 6%, and will stay that low until 3000
2801 or earlier: The last ghost at Bender's Uncle Vladimir's castle dies
2801: Creation of Robotic Santa
April 9, 2841: Professor Hubert Farnsworth is *actually* born
April 9, 2851: Professor Hubert Farnsworth claims to have been born
2856: Eloise Porter is born.
2880?: Wernstrom is born
~2881?: Farnsworth begins working for Momcorp.
2890: establishment of Staadgi & Staadgi auctioneers
~2900?: Wernstrom is Farnsworth's most promising student
2922: Date on Farnsworth's old Harold Zoid hologram
2923 or 2924?: Bigfoot is born.
2927: The Yankees are put in a jar (?)
1:54pm, October 17, ~2927?: While 14 geese fly outside the window, Farnsworth invents the pollutant robot
~2931?: Farnsworth walks out on Mom
~2952: The invention of Smellovision coincides with the beginning of Harold Zoid's decline from stardom
~2960?: Slurms MacKenzie's babes join him
2962: The Bigfoot video is made
2967 or 2968: Melllvar is born
2972?: Sheldon and Gwen get married, also start running Romanticorp
2973 or 2974: Calculon claims to have been born
2974 or 2975?: Leela claims to have been born
2975?: RobotMania is held for the first time. (Assumes RobotMania is a yearly event like Wrestlemania.)
2976?: RobotMania II is held
2977?: RobotMania III is held
2978?: RobotMania IV is held
2979?: RobotMania V is held
2980: At the 2980 Summer Olympic Games, Hermes Conrad witnesses a kid die while attempting to imitate him in the limbo event. Hermes will never limbo again.
2980?: RobotMania VI is held
2981?: RobotMania VII is held
2982?: RobotMania VIII is held
2983?: The tradition of Claw-plakh is instituted on Decapod 10.
2983?: RobotMania IX is held
2984: Future teen singer Wendy is born.
2984: Hermes is beaten in every Olympic limbo event by Barbados Slim.
2984?: RobotMania X is held
2984 or earlier?: Fry's Holophonor teacher, Mrs. Mellinger, starts taking the joy out of music
2985?: RobotMania XI is held
2986?: RobotMania XII is held
2987: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives, as it will every year from now until at least 3003
2987?: RobotMania XIII is held
2988: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
2988?: RobotMania XIV is held
2989: Cubert Farnsworth is cloned from a growth on Farnsworth's back
2989: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
2989?: RobotMania XV is held
2990: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
2990?: RobotMania XVI is held
2991: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
2991?: RobotMania XVII is held
2991 or 2992?: Leela gets her green jacket
2992: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
2992?: RobotMania XVIII is held
2992?: Zoidberg joins Planet Express.
2993: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
2993?: RobotMania XIX is held
2994: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
2994?: RobotMania XX is held
2995: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
2995?: Nibbler is presumed to have been born. Note that Nibbler is in fact at least a thousand years old; his race lacks the ability to time-travel, and he was seen alive in the year 1999.
2995?: RobotMania XXI is held
2996: Some coin with a picture of a guy with dreadlocks is made (?)
2996: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
2996?: RobotMania XXII is held
2996 or 2997 or 2998?: Bender is constructed in Tijuana.
2997: Fronty's Meat Market: "Not a front since 2997"
2997: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
2997?: RobotMania XXIII is held
2998: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
2998?: RobotMania XXIV is held
2999: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
2999?: Farnsworth presents his Death Clock at the science symposium
2999?: Farnsworth builds the smelloscope
2999?: RobotMania XXV is held
2999?: Farnsworth declares himself dead as a tax dodge
Tuesday, December 31, 2999: Fry is unfrozen. (Bender correctly notes later in the episode that it is a Tuesday.) Note: Fry was not frozen for a full thousand years. He was woken up roughly twelve hours early, during daylight hours. There are a number of possible explanations for this: a slightly fast timer on the cryogenics chamber or a slight change in the length of the Earth's day due to events similar to those in "Crimes Of The Hot" are the two most obvious that spring to mind.
12:00:00am, January 1, 3000: Planet Express ship escapes the police
3000?: Events of "The Series Has Landed"
During Superbowl MXXIV?: Planet Express ad airs (on another channel)
Stardate 3000.3: Events of "Love's Labor's Lost In Space"
April 13th.2, 3000: Further events of "Love's Labor's Lost In Space"
3000?: Events of "Fear Of A Bot Planet"
3000: Events of "A Fishful Of Dollars"
3000?: Events of "My Three Suns"
after April 9, 3000?: Events of "A Big Piece Of Garbage". Farnsworth is aged 149 in this episode.
3000?: Events of "Hell Is Other Robots"
3000?: Events of "A Flight To Remember"
3000?: Events of "Mars University"
3000?: Events of "When Aliens Attack"
3000?: Events of "Fry & The Slurm Factory"
3000?: Events of "I Second That Emotion"
3000?: Events of "Brannigan Begin Again"
3000: Events of "A Head In The Polls". Note: The 3000 world presidential elections take place in this episode. Richard Nixon wins. This is, according to a reporter, Nixon's third term as president, which technically violates the Constitution. This in turn means that the whole of Earth is now using the same constitution that America started out with in 1776, which in turn means that (in the Futurama universe), sometime between 2000 and 3000, America attacked and conquered the entire world!
3000: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
3000?: RobotMania XXVI is held
December 24, 3000: Events of "Xmas Story"
January 3, 3001: Trash pickup resumes outside the Planet Express building
3001?: Events of "Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love?" Decapodian mating season on Decapod 10.
3001?: Events of "Lesser Of Two Evils"
February 14, 3001: Events of "Put Your Head On My Shoulder"
3001?: Events of "Raging Bender". RobotMania XXVII is held.
3001?: Events of "A Bicyclops Built For Two"
April 9, 3001: Events of "A Clone Of My Own"
3001?: Events of "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back"
3001?: Events of "The Deep South"
3001?: Events of "Bender Gets Made"
Mother's Day, 3001?: Events of "Mother's Day"
3001?: Events of "Anthology Of Interest"
3001?: Events of "War Is The H-Word"
3001?: Events of "The Problem With Popplers". Note: This is probably the same event as below.
June 12, 3001? (exactly 247 days prior to "Love & Rocket"): Omicron Persei 8 invades Earth. This is probably the same event as above.
3001: Events of "The Honking"
3001: At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
3001?: Events of "The Cryonic Woman"
3001?: Events of "Amazon Women In The Mood"
3001?: Events of "Parasites Lost"
Xmas 3001: Events of "A Tale Of Two Santas"
3001 or 3002?: Events of "Luck Of The Fryrish"
3001 or 3002?: Events of "The Birdbot Of Ice-Catraz"
3001 or 3002?: Events of "Bendless Love"
3001 or 3002?: Events of "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid"
3002: Events of "That's Lobstertainment!"
3002?: Events of "The Cyber House Rules"
3002?: Events of "Where The Buggalo Roam"
3002?: Events of "Insane In The Mainframe"
3002?: Events of "The Route Of All Evil"
3002?: Events of "Bendin' In The Wind"
3002: Events of "Time Keeps On Slippin'". Note: Major temporal kerjiggers go on in this episode, but since the universe seems to be approximately back to normal at the end of it, we can place a year on it.
3002?: Events of "I Dated A Robot"
3002: Events of "A Leela Of Her Own"
3002?: Events of "A Pharaoh To Remember"
3002?: Events of "Anthology Of Interest 2"
September 21, 3002: Events of "Roswell That Ends Well" begin. The Planet Express ship enters a time warp. Note: If we assume the episodes take place in order of production code, this is the only episode which is out of sequence. You can mentally shift it down below "Love & Rocket" if you like.
September 22, 3002?: Bender's head is dug up again
3002?: Events of "Godfellas"
3002?: Events of "Futurestock"
3002?: Events of "30% Iron Chef"
3002?: Events of "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch"
3002?: Events of "Leela's Homeworld"
February 14, 3002?: Events of "Love & Rocket"
3002?: Events of "Less Than Hero"
3002?: Events of "A Taste Of Freedom"
3002?: Events of "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV"
3002?: Events of "Jurassic Bark"
3002?: Events of "Crimes Of The Hot". Note that Earth's orbit is increased in radius slightly in this episode, simultaneously easing the effects of global warming and lengthening the year by one week - namely, Robot Party Week.
3002?: Events of "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles"
3002?: Events of "The Why Of Fry".
It is here that the split caused in 1999 becomes significant. Fry is sent by the Nibblonians into the brains' InfoSphere so that he can destroy it. In timeline A, Fry's vehicle - a Scootie-Puff Junior - shatters in his hands, and he is sucked along with the InfoSphere into an empty universe. The brains then send him back in time to 1999, timeline B: see above.

In timeline B, thanks to Fry's warning in 1999, the Nibblonians provide Fry with a Scootie-Puff Senior with which he escapes the InfoSphere in time.

3002: Events of "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
3002: Roboticon 3002 is held. At Momcorp, the future of robotics arrives.
3002 or 3003?: Events of "The Sting"
3002 or 3003?: Events of "Bend Her"
3003: Events of "Obsoletely Fabulous"
3003 or 3004?: Events of "The Farnsworth Parabox"
February 14, 3004: Kif Kroker gives Amy Wong a watch for Valentine's Day
Summer 3004: Events of "Three Hundred Big Boys"
3004?: Events of "Spanish Fry"
3004?: Events of "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
3021?: Time when Leela could expect to receive Bender's brain back from Central Bureacracy, if she filed a request during "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back"
3022?: Kif's babies sprout legs and crawl back onto land as children
~3300: Trapped robots on the universe's last titanium mine on Titan are expected to all be dead by now
4001?: The year Fry and his girlfriend would have woken up if they'd stayed frozen for another thousand years
~1,000,000,000,002,000: Al Gore, Fry, Deep Blue, Stephen Hawking, Nichelle Nicholls and Gary Gygax finish playing Dungeons & Dragons (not that this is canon, of course]
Conclusions
Futurama has a pretty rich timeline which is much more complete and consistent than most people would imagine. Whether the writers are aware of this and have a definite plot of future history written, or they just got lucky, is unknown, but there is only one definite contradiction in the whole series' run (look up Hermes' Olympic exploits in 2980, then in 2984), which in fact is very impressive. One can only hope that if (and when) further Futurama episodes are made, Futurama's writers have the sense to respect and work within the continuity they have created for themselves
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March 12, 1993 - Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
March 12,1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.

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March 16, 1872 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
March16, 1926 - History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
March 16, 1966 - Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.

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March 17 , # 1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
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Chinese race past Americans to top of world internet league

China has more internet users than any other country in the world, according to researchers at the Beijing-based analysts BDA. The research group said China had leapfrogged the US to become the world's most powerful nation online.

At the end of 2007, figures from China's internet network information centre said the country had 210 million internet users, putting it just a few million people behind the US. According to BDA, growth rates indicated that China had now taken the top spot.

"Based on these sources, we can conclude that China has by now comfortably surpassed the United States as the world's largest internet population," said Bin Liu, an analyst with the company.

China's number of internet users is increasing by around 200,000 a day, and the dotcom business sector is expanding rapidly.

But concerns have been raised about Beijing's repressive approach - using the so-called "Great Firewall" to block sites it deems politically dangerous.

The press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières, which this week staged an international day of protest against internet censorship, said in a report that China had imprisoned a number of political dissidents, and blamed western corporations for helping.

The report said: "The hunting down of independent thinkers online is all the more effective as several major western companies have colluded with governments in pinpointing 'troublemakers'."

Last year the founder of the internet company Yahoo! apologised to the family of the journalist Shi Tao - who is serving 10 years in jail - for passing information to the Chinese government that led to his arrest and imprisonment.

Tao had received government instructions on how to report the anniversary of Tiananmen Square and his crime was to forward an email to a human rights organisation.

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March 18, 1909 - Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter, becoming the first radio broadcaster

March 18, 1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

March 18, 2005 - The first-ever Muslim Friday prayer led by a woman in a mixed-gender congregation is held in New York City, marking a break with a 1426-year Islamic tradition.


March 20, 1602 - The Dutch East India Company is established.
March 20, 1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
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Quiz
1. Name the Senator who is assured of the Republican nomination for the Presidency of the U.S.

2. Name the Roman leader who was assassinated during the "Ides of March" in 44 B.C.

3. Which batsman had the most runs in the recently concluded Commonwealth Bank Series?

4. Farmer Grey was the first owner of which literary equine?

5. The "last human on the moon" celebrates his birthday on this date. Name him.

6. The only ballroom dance written in 3/4 time and performed primarily in closed position is called..?

7. The migration of Prophet Muhammad and his followers to the city of Medina in 622 (Common Era) is called?

8. Which celebrated Nobel Laureate was born on March 14 in 1879 at Ulm, W�rttemberg, Germany?

9. In scrabble, how many letters have a value of 2?

10. Name the painter of such works as "The Potato Eaters", "Sunflowers" and "The Starry Night".

11. The branches of which tree appear on the United Nations Flag?

12. What is the 1994 direct-tovideo sequel to the Disney classic "Aladdin" called?

13. Who created the characters of Captain Arthur Hastings and Colonel Race?

14. Which organ in the human abdomen functions in the destruction of old red blood cells and holds a reservoir of blood?

15. If one was likened to "a bad penny", he or she would always.?



Answers:

1. John McCain
2. Julius Caesar
3. Gautam Gambhir (440 runs)
4. Black Beauty
5. Eugene Cernan
6. Waltz
7. Hijra
8. Albert Einstein
9. Two (D and G)
10. Vincent Van Gogh
11. Olive
12. `The Return of Jafar'
13. Agatha Christie
14. Spleen
15. Turn up

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Common date of the Equinox. In astrology, March 21 the day of the Equinox is the first full day of the sign of Aries. It is also the traditional first day of the astrological year; and International Astrology Day.


March 21, 1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.

March 21, 1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.

March 21, 2002 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

date 21.3.2008 quiz
1. The actor who played Sirius Black in the Harry Potter movies celebrates his birthday on this date. Name him.

2. Who was the last male player to win FIFA World Player of the Year award two years in a row?

3. We should thank Fraunhofer Gesellschaft for creating and patenting which popular music format?

4. Fill in the blank: “Sea gull, sea gull, sit on the sand; It’s a sign of _______ when you are at hand.”

5. To which European leader is the term ‘axis’ as used in the WWII alliance popularly attributed?

6. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is considered as an inventor/pioneer of which ‘visual’ activity?

7. If either Christopher Columbus or Vasco da Gama had ‘thalassophobia’, they would not have done what they did. What is ‘thalassophobia’ a fear of?

8. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is the President of…?

9. Which animal is also called sand rat or desert rat?

10. India won the Olympic gold in men’s hockey uninterrupted from 1928 to…?

11. The legislative capital of South Africa is…?

12. In which part of the brain is the cerebrum?

13. Which type of coffee is usually served in large mug or bowl filled with coffee and steamed milk?

14. What was the nationality of the astronomer Tycho Brahe?

15. What five-lettered word is used for a vault beneath the main level of a church and normally used as a meeting or burial place?



Answers

1. Gary Oldman

2. Ronaldinho

3. MP3

4. Rain

5. Benito Mussolini

6. Photography

7. The sea

8. Republic of Maldives

9. Gerbil

10. 1956. It lost in the 1960 final

11. Capetown

12. Forebrain

13. ‘Café au lait’ (sometimes café latte also)

14. He was Danish

15. Crypt

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India slips on UN e-governance list (msn)


March 24, 1999 - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

March 25, 1807 - The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, became the first passenger carrying railway in the world.

March 25, 1979 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

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March 29, 1857 - Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
March 29, 1886 - Dr John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
March 29, 2004 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.

March 30, 1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.
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Quiz
28.3.2008

1. On this date in 1930, the cities of Constantinople and Angora changed their names to…?

2. Who or what is a ‘mouse potato’?

3. The structure in the cells of plants and algae where photosynthesis takes place is/are called…?

4. On March 28, 1987, the world lost the Austria-born singer on whom the character of Julie Andrews was based in the classic “The Sound of Music”. Name her.

5. Which is the only recognised natural predator of the polar bear?

6. Which astronaut is the only person to fly on Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions?

7. What distinction does Victoria Woodhull have in America politics?

8. What would an entomophagist prefer in his/her food?

9. Which essential organic compound gets its name from the Greek for ‘primary’?

10. Which American legend has the most career men’s singles tennis titles with 109 titles?

11. What is a ‘flex-cuff’?

12. In which country is the Atacama Desert?

13. Which of these natural phenomena is said to cause the most fatalities: floods, heat wave or hurricanes?

14. From whose neck did the winged horse Pegasus spring?

15. What type of a firearm is a SLR?

answers
Answers: 1. Istanbul and Ankara

2. An addictive computer user

3. Chloroplasts; 4. Maria von Trapp; 5. Man!; 6. Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. He flew on the Sigma 7 Mercury mission, Gemini 6A and Apollo 7 missions; 7. She was the first ever woman candidate for President of the U.S.; 8. Insects

9. Protein (from ‘proteios’)

10. Jimmy Connors; 11. A plastic strip that can be fastened around one’s wrists as a restraint;

12. Chile; 13. Heat wave;

14. Medusa; 15. Self Loading Rifle
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