American Idol – “The search for a superstar”. According to Neilson ratings, America’s most watched Television program is American Idol From 2004 to 2009, it has remained at the top of the charts as the all time favorite program. The popularity of the show can be judged by the fact that American Idol is broadcast [...]
The gambling and gaming tables have certainly lost a lot of business because of the recent economic situation affecting almost the entire world. The largest of the casinos have survived the troubled waters, and as the economic crisis curve slowly slopes downwards, the gambling corporations, and their gigantic casinos are back to competing with each [...]
Painting a masterpiece is a talent which not everyone has. A very small number of people can paint and out of those who can, fewer have created showpieces which sell for millions decades later. Here we have the five most expensive paintings in the world; different works of art by Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso and [...]
Important personalities are always at the risk of being harmed by the public. Be it a sportsman or a lawyer, or the president of the country, he/she is always at the risk of being assassinated by some crazy criminal, who has the capability to murder for their own personal benefit. Here we have the unfortunate [...]
Sheep wool is covered with wool wax or wool grease called Lanolin. which is a greasy yellow secretion by the sebaceous glands of wool-bearing animals. It’s waterproof properties sheds rain water from the wool on the sheep, hence there is no effect of water on the sheep’s wool. Not only does Lanolin avoid shrinking, it [...]
Pine-apples? There is absolutely no resemblance of a pineapple to an apple. Did the pine tree grow apples in ancient times? Why are pineapples called pineapples? In 1493, when Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, he brought home the pineapple with him to give to Queen Isabella. The Spanish had never seen anything like it. Since [...]
Perhaps one of the speediest, and the most powerful, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is also the most expensive car in the world. Priced at $2,600,000 this car can travel up to 407 km/h or 253 mph, and is the only car which is has the license to travel at such speeds on regular streets.
Capitalization is part of writing the proper script of a language. In general the first word of a sentence, and all proper nouns are supposed to be capitalized. Did you ever wonder how capitalization became part of languages? To solve this mystery, we need to analyze an old Roman script, called “uncial”. The Latin and [...]
Different searches yield different results, but the fact is that there are 195 countries in this world. However, On July 9, 2011, South Sudan will be declared as independent, and will be the newest addition in the list of countries, changing the figure from 195 to 196.
Twitter.com claims to be a microblogging and social networking website with ‘a difference’. The idea behind twitter is simple – express your thoughts in 140 characters at a time;
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