Interesting Facts

Photo contest 2011 by national geographic traveler – Win a Trip

2011-06-02T03:37:00.000-07:00

National geographic photography competition is started for this year 2011. This is the 23rd Annual Photo Contest by national geographic.

Photo Contest categories: like Travel portraits: Local working, playing, celebrating, outdoor scenes: Landscapes, aerials, wildlife, waterscapes, Scene of place: Pictures that evoke the essence of a destination, Spontaneous moments: Fun, quirky, surprising, and unrehearsed moments.

By winning in this contest you can win a trip to British and Irish isles. Entry fees for this contest are $15 per entry. The last date for the submission of the entry into this contest is June 27 2011.if you cannot make it to this date then you can pay $10 and join the contest before July 11 2011.

Prizes : you can win 1st prize for 14 day expedition for two to British and Irish,2nd price for nine night in trident hotel in India,3rd price for 2 and a half day photo workshop with Santa Fe Workshops and 7 more merit prices are also there.

Photography competition rules:

To know more about the rules of this photo contest conducted by national geography traveler hit www.nationalgeographic.com/travelerphotocontest

Bill Gates facts, the World’s richest man’s facts - year by year

2011-06-02T01:03:00.000-07:00

Some of the facts about Bill Gates, the world’s richest man are below. Bill Gates all facts are interesting, his way of life is remarkable with lot of achievements as a very young boy.

Bill Gates Born as an American. Here you can see some facts about Bill year by year. Bill Gates has three 3 Children . His Parents are William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates

1955 – The World’s No.1 Man Bill Gates born on October 28, 1955.(1955-10-28)

1967 – Gates enrolls at 13 at Lakeside school. Programs tic-tac-toe in a General Electric computer.

1968- At 14 he starts programming with Paul Allen.

1968 – Gates get banned from computing center for manipulating bugs to get free computing time blocks.

1973 – Bill gates scored 1590 out of 1600 in SAT.

1975 – At 21 Bill gates move to Albuquerque to work at MITS with Paul Allen on BASIC.

1975 – They name their company as MICRO-SOFT.

1980 – Bill Gates sells DOS for the IBM PC for $80,000.

1985 – Bill gates launched Windows1.0.

1990 – Windows 3.0 and MS office 1.0 were launched.

1994 – Bill Gates married Melinda.

1995 – Bill Gate’s Microsoft stuns the world with his Windows 95 launch.

2000 – Bill and Melinda Gates created the own foundation to help development across the world.

2001 – Windows XP launched.

2007 – Windows vista launched.

2008 – Bill Gates left his daily work at Microsoft.

2008 – Bill Gates last day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008.

2010 - Gates was awarded the 2010 Bower Award for Business Leadership

2010 – Bill Gates was honored with the Silver Buffalo Award by the Boy Scouts of America.

2010 – Bill gates earns US$250 every day.

2011 – The Net worth of Bill Gates is US $ 56 billion.

Interesting facts about Gandhi

2011-04-14T10:58:00.000-07:00

Some of the interesting facts about Gandhi ...........

Gandhi’s Birth:

Gandhi’s full name is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Gandhi is famously called as Bapu, Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhiji, and Father of India.
Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948 in Porbandar
He was born for Karamchand Gandhi (Father) and Putlibai Gandhi (Mother).
He was born a Hindu and practiced Hinduism all his life

Marriage life of Gandhi:

In May 1883, the 13-year old Mohandas was married to 14-year old Kasturbai Makhanji.
When Gandhi was 15, the couple's first child was born, but survived only a few days
Mohandas and Kasturbai had four more sons.

Gandhi fighting for Indian independence:

In 1893, Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment.
Gandhi was a prolific writer.
Young India is a journal published by Gandhi.
Gandhi employed non-cooperation, non-violence and peaceful resistance.
The Salt Satyagraha, which began with the Dandi March on March 12, 1930, was an important part of the Indian independence movement by Gandhi
Gandhi is a lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian
Gandhi revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
Gandhi is well know for his simplicity
He only wear kathar dress which is made by himself.
Gandhi become barrister in University College London, University of London

Gandhi Assassination:

On 30 January 1948, Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer meeting.
Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, he was a Hindu nationalist

Gandhi’s awards and Global recognition:

Time magazine named Gandhi the Man of the Year in 1930.
Gandhi was also the runner-up to Albert Einstein as Person of the Century at the end of 1999.
"Christ gave us the goals and Mahatma Gandhi the tactics." – Martin Luther King Jr
Mahatma Gandhi was on a 1969 postage stamp of the Soviet Union.
Mahatma Gandhi District in Houston, Texas
Monument to Mahatma Gandhi in New Belgrade, Serbia. On the monument is written "Non-violence is the essence of all religions"

Biography of Mahatma Gandhi :

Gandhi wrote several books including his autobiography, An Autobiography of My Experiments with Truth.
Biography of Mahatma Gandhi is taken as a film in 1982.
The film Gandhi won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The film Gandhi Grossed $52,767,889 revenue.

About Honey Bees

2010-05-20T20:35:00.000-07:00

Its all about a tiny busy creature which is in this earth for more than 150 million years. its unbelievable that there are 20,000 bee species in which just seven are real honey bees. There are also other 800 species of bees without Sting which produce honey. The honey of Sting-less bee is sweeter than the honey of Honey bee. The scientific name of honey bee is"Apis mellifera". The honey produced by the Honey bees contains "pinocembrin", an antioxidant which is associated with improved brain functioning.

Honey is actually produced and stored to keep the colony alive in the winter and at the time when they cant fly. The most interesting thing of these wonderful creatures are the procedure of making honey. They visit hundreds and hundreds of flower's, eating the nectar and regurgitate what they have eaten, this will mix with the preservative enzymes form their own honey stomach. once the mixer(honey) is ready then they will fill in the hexagonal cells. then they fan the hive with their wings to evaporate the water from the mixer in the cells. After this work is done 20% of the water wont be there in the mixer. this is done to stop the change of sugar to a form of alcohol(fermenting). The honey comb wont melt as the bees will maintain a constant temperature of 95 degree Fahrenheit. They use their wings to fan and they also collect water instead of honey to make the hive cool on hot days.

The honey bee's are fast enough to cross 6 miles in an hour. with there wings stroke incredibly fast at 200 beats per second. A worker honey bee will produce one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its life time.
Honey bees are really hard workers.

Tamilnadu 12th Results 2010

2010-05-12T01:18:00.000-07:00

It is expected that the Tamil Nadu 12th broard exam results can be released today.
Government of Tamil Nadu
Directorate of Government Examinations is the official site of Tamil Nadu were results are published, it displays Await for Announcement.
Few more sites where the results can be seen.
http://results.tamilnadueducation.net/
http://tnresults.nic.in/
http://www.dge2.tn.nic.in/

The tallest bridge

2010-05-05T18:41:00.000-07:00

The Millau Viaduct is the world tallest vehicular bridge. It was open in the year 2004 14th of December. it is a cable stayed road Bridge and the construction cost is €400 million to build this bridge. It is built across the Vally of the River Tarn. The construction work started in the year 2001 and was completed in the 2004. This roadway weighs 36,000 tones. This massive bridge is designed by Micchel Virlogeux Structural engineer form French and Norman Foster an Architect form British. The Total lenght of this bridge is 2,460 m that 8,071 ft and the width is 32 m which is 105 ft. The interesting thing about this bridge is its one mast's summit is at 343 meters which is slightly taller than Eiffel Tower.

Oxygen

2010-04-28T03:46:00.000-07:00

Oxygen is most vital part of all the living things in the earth. Oxygen was discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in1771. It is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. The word Oxygen comes form Greek 'acid former'. Liquid and solid state of oxygen are pale blue in color. Do you know 90% of nutritional energy we get from Oxygen. Our brain needs Oxygen to work. The basic reason for most of the diseases is deficiency of oxygen that is without Oxygen cells wont function properly inturn which is easy for virus to attack. We have 60 to 70% Concentration of Oxygen in our body on an average, it is said that with this level one can live a healthy life. Diseases that are related to Oxygen deficiency is generally known as hypoxia. It is very important for burning up the body’s toxins. Before 300 years the Oxygen level on earth's atmosphere is 38%. but now it is decreased to 19% which is very low when compared with those years, its all because of the industries, emition of corbondioxide and the main reason is destroying forests. Its a precious thing gifted by god without Oxygen there is no life in this planet. Let us save Mother Nature.

LG GD910

2010-03-01T19:28:00.000-08:00

LG Electronics introduces its new “Watch Phone” GD910. Its a cool gadget looks like a watch and it works as mobile phone. The front panel is covered with scratch-proof tempered glass, this is the first watch phone with touch screen, and 7.2Mbps 3G HSDPA high speed Internet access. This phone use Li-ion battery with a stand by of 173 hours. This is also a water-resistant. The data transmission will be in high speed and with a built in camera video call can be made. Talking through the phone is convenient with Bluetooth headset. The most interesting this is watch phone weighs 85gms only and with 13.9mm body thickness. The watch phone is available in India with the price tag Rs.49, 900. Overall the watch phone is a smart gadget

Google’s ultra high-speed broadband connection

2010-02-11T01:56:00.000-08:00

In a blog post on Wednesday morning the world No 1 search engine Google announced that it is going to build and test high-speed fiber broadband connection. It is really a great news to hear that Google is planning make Internet access faster for everyone. With the help of fiber optic broadband network customers can get connected to the Internet, Do you think what is interesting in this? You can enjoy the speed at 100 times faster than the existing broadband connections. This connection will allow the customer to download a HD movie in few minutes and is 1000 times faster than AT&T’s basic DSL offering. They are going to test this one-gigabit-per-second fiber connection with 500,000 users that too in a competitive price. Google has urged FCC to encourage these types of experiments. There is a RFI from Google to communities interested in taking part in this experiment. Another link where residents of U.S and local groups can nominate their communities. In a video Kelly says that Google is working to make the web faster for everyone with the fiber-to-the-home connections and findings from this experiment will be shared to the world. Lets wait for the result of this experiment.

TCS site hacked

2010-02-08T09:40:00.000-08:00

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) is one of the largest and leading software concerns. The official website of this software concern has been hacked and posted a banner with a message that the site is for sale. This message has been written in both English and French. It is believed to be a French hacker. Already in the year of 2009 twitter faced the same sort of problem.

The interesting thing is the hacker added a widget “whos.among.us” to display number of people on the site at any given point of time, and also an email Id to contact regarding the sale. People say that it could be a DNS hijack where the nameservers of the site have been changed.

Anyhow now the site has been restored and working fine

Nokia

2010-02-06T19:12:00.000-08:00

It is really interesting to know some information about a world famous mobile company. I came across some information about Nokia from my friends which really interesting.
Do you know when and through which network the first GMS call was made? It was in 1991 at Helsinki by a Nokia-supplied network and the prime minister of Finland Harri Holkeri made the first GSM call and the interesting thing is, he was using a Nokia phone.
Each and every one knows about the “Nokia Tune”. It is a guitar work by Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega in 19th century and the name is "Gran Vals". The same name ("Gran Vals") was present in the Nokia phone. But later in 1998 it was changed to “Nokia Tune”.
Have you ever seen number 4 in any of the Nokia handset model number; you can’t because number 4 is considered as unlucky in Southeast/East Asia.
The tone available on Nokia phones when receiving SMS is Morse code for "SMS" and the "Ascending" SMS tone is Morse code for the slogan "Connecting People”. Again the Standard SMS tone is Morse code for "M".
Eric Spiekermann designed the Nokia corporate font AgfaMonotype Nokia Sans font. Before using the current font, Nokia was using Agfa Rotis Sans Font in its mobile phone user’s guides and also in advertisements.

Blackberry Bold 9700

2010-01-30T20:28:00.000-08:00

Research in Motion (RIM) launched its Blackberry Bold 9700 in New Delhi on Thursday. Blackberry always a favorite for business people, with all Blackberry keyboard shortcut keys and easy operating environment. Frenny Bawa, the Vice President of Research in Motion, India, said he was pleased to release the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 in India after the success of original BlackBerry Bold.

The body size of this phone is 09 × 60 × 14mm with a 2.44 inches touch screen with a resolution of 480 × 360. Camera with 3.2 mega pixel with auto focus and 2x digital zoom. BlackBerry Bold 9700 is equipped with Blackberry 5.0 operating system and also uses a 800MHz processor which give a good speed to operate and there is a 256MB of flash memory. BlackBerry 9700 will support 3G connection and it also has built in GPS and Wi-Fi. With all these features BlackBerry 9700 is convenient for operating and is suitable for all businessmen and consumers to browsing and sending mails.

Albert Einstein

2010-01-28T21:35:00.000-08:00

Albert Einstein was born in March 14, 1879 at Ulm, Germany. He did his schooling in luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. In 1896 he moved to Swiss Federal Polytechnic School at Zurich in Switzerland, there he was trained to be teacher in Physics and Mathematics. he got his degree in 1901 and his doctor's degree in 1905.

He invented the theory of Photoelectric Effect in 1905 and in the same year he gave the Theory of Relativity (E=mc²). In 1911 he got the answer for the question why the sky is Blue? In 1922 he got the noble prize in physics for the year 1921 especially for his Photoelectric effect. He introduced his Refrigerator in 1926. Einstein Died in 18 of April 1955.

He appeared for his university entrance exam in 1895 where he cleared only maths and science papers.
Before world war II Einstein was well known in America so people on streets would stop him and ask him to explain the theory. Finally he found a solution to get ride of this, that is he told questioners “Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein”
When he died his last words also died with him as he was telling something in German and nurse near him doesn’t know German.
After Einstein’s death his brain was removed with in seven hours for research. He was one of the foremost geniuses of 20th century.
That too the brain was removed without the approval of his family.

Human brain

2009-11-04T21:07:00.000-08:00

Hippocrates ancient Greek physician found that the brain plays an important role in sensation and intelligence in 400 BC. Human brain is active more in night than in the day time. When a person breath, 20% of the oxygen goes to the brain. Human starts losing 7000 brain cells a day when he or she attains the age of 35. The human brain generates 25 watts power when the person is awake which is enough to light a Bulb. There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human brain. The weight of the human brain is 2% of the total body weight. The human brain is divided into two parts the right and left, left part of the brain controls right side of the body and the right controls the left side of the body.

Titanic

2009-10-31T04:36:00.000-07:00

Do you know it took three years to the build titanic, and the cost was $7,500,000. There were 2201 passengers on board and only 20 lifeboats, which is only enough for half of the passengers in the ship. Titanic carried 3560 life jackets but it dint help all the passengers to survive. Mails of 3000 bags were also present in the ship. Most of the passengers survived after the terrible accident is first class passengers those who were charged $4,350 for the ticket. The cost of the second class is $1750 and $30 for the third class. It is usual to break champagne bottle in the bow of a new ship but that was not happened when titanic started its voyage. Titanic consumed 825 tons of coal every day. The speed of titanic is 23 knots.

Hummingbirds

2009-10-29T05:07:00.000-07:00

Among all birds Hummingbirds are the smallest. The interesting fact about the hummingbird is they flap their wings 11-90 times per second. Hummingbirds can fly in the speed of 54 km/h. These birds need lot of energy to fly as their heart beats 1,260 times per minute. So they visit 1000 of flowers every day, they also eat smal insects. The hummingbirds brain weight is 4.2% of it whole body weight, that is the largest, when compared with the bird kingdom. These are the only species which can fly backwards which no other birds can do. On an average a hummingbird live for 3 to 5 years. Even though many hummingbirds die in one year at the time of leaving the nest.

Working of DC motor

2009-10-29T04:01:00.000-07:00

Motors converts electrical energy to produces mechanical energy. When current passes in a wire and is placed in region of magnetic field the wire will get force. The size of force tells how fast the motor spins. Force depends on the current in the wire, wires length and the strength of the magnetic field.
(Force = current * wires length * magnetic field)
DC motor contains two magnets and a coil is placed in the middle of the magnets. When current passes through the coil it produces a magnetic field. The repletion and attraction of the magnet gives torque by which the armature turns.