1 - The liquid inside young coconut can be used as a substitute of blood plasma.
2- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
2- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
3- The first product to have a bar code was wringley's gum.
4- The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
5- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
6- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
7- Walt disney was afraid of mice.
8- Pearl melt in vinegar.
9- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
10- A duck's quack does not echo, and no one knows why ?
11- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
12- Crocodile is only animal and reptile which shed tear while eating.
13- Word without vowel is RHYTHM.
14- Dolphins sleep with 1 eye open.
15- A butterfly has 12000 eyes.
16- ostrich eats pebles to help digestion by grinding up the indigested food.
17- The elephant is the only animal that can't jump
18- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
19- The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
20- A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
Strange Facts
- Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.
- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”, uses every letter in the alphabet.
- Average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.
- A 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year by the weight of books.
- Nutmeg can extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
- The density of neuron star is 1.5 to 3 times of sun’s mass.
- Almost 85% of the universe is a form of dark matter.
- The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".
- Only one person in two billion will live up to 116 of age.
- 200 companies contributing 29% to the world economy employs only 0.9% of the world’s work force.
- 98 tons of ore historic buried plant material is used to make one U.S gallon of gasoline.
- An estimated 16,000 people worldwide are becoming infected with HIV every day.
- Strong negative emotions lead to damage of immune system.
- Due to pollution and overfishing, population of American, Asian and Europeans eels have declined up to 99%.
- The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
- Neutrons have a life of 14 minutes outside the nucleus of an atom.
- Only 22% of original forests on earth have remained.
- There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
- Humans are the only primates having pigment in the palms of their hands.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
- Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Did you know that ?
- Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
- A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
- A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
- A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
- About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
- A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
- A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet
- A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
- A zebra is white with black stripes.
- Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling. Porpoises and dolphins are mammals. There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins. Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using "echolocation". The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.
- The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air.
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
- The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
- The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
- The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
- the wind blows. As the sun warms the earth’s surface, the atmosphere warms too. Some parts of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm. Other places receive indirect rays, so the climate is colder. Warm air, which weighs less than cool air, rises. Then cool air moves in and replaces the rising warm air. This movement of air is what makes the wind blow.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
- do we might feel warmer wearing a dark-colored jacket than a light-colored one? . Dark colors absorb light energy. Light colors and white reflect light energy. When light shines on your dark jacket, the jacket fabric absorbs light energy. The absorbed light energy causes electrons in the atoms of the jacket to vibrate. This activity releases heat energy, which makes the jacket—and you—warmer. That's why we like to wear more dark colors in winter and more light colors in summer.
- While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.
- At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
- flute made of bone is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world. It’s a flute carved from a bird’s wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with other flutes at an ancient burial site in China.
- The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known to exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago
- Glue dates back to prehistoric times. Artists once mixed colorings with raw eggs, dried blood, and plant juices to make sticky paints for cave murals. Later, ancient Egyptians and other people learned to make stronger glues by boiling animal bones and hides. Today companies make glues using synthetic substances.
- A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
- A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
- A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.
- The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!!
- The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. !!
- A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
- At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
- You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
- Of all the words in the English language, the word ' set ' has the most definitions!
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!-
- Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
- More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
- "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
- The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
- No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- The average person laughs about 15 times a day.
- The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
- All polar bears are left handed.
- Ants don't sleep.
- A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
- A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
- A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
- About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
- A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
- A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet
- A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
- A zebra is white with black stripes.
- Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling. Porpoises and dolphins are mammals. There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins. Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using "echolocation". The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.
- The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air.
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
- The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
- The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
- The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
- the wind blows. As the sun warms the earth’s surface, the atmosphere warms too. Some parts of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm. Other places receive indirect rays, so the climate is colder. Warm air, which weighs less than cool air, rises. Then cool air moves in and replaces the rising warm air. This movement of air is what makes the wind blow.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
- do we might feel warmer wearing a dark-colored jacket than a light-colored one? . Dark colors absorb light energy. Light colors and white reflect light energy. When light shines on your dark jacket, the jacket fabric absorbs light energy. The absorbed light energy causes electrons in the atoms of the jacket to vibrate. This activity releases heat energy, which makes the jacket—and you—warmer. That's why we like to wear more dark colors in winter and more light colors in summer.
- While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.
- At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
- flute made of bone is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world. It’s a flute carved from a bird’s wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with other flutes at an ancient burial site in China.
- The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known to exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago
- Glue dates back to prehistoric times. Artists once mixed colorings with raw eggs, dried blood, and plant juices to make sticky paints for cave murals. Later, ancient Egyptians and other people learned to make stronger glues by boiling animal bones and hides. Today companies make glues using synthetic substances.
- A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
- A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
- A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.
- The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!!
- The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. !!
- A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
- At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
- You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
- Of all the words in the English language, the word ' set ' has the most definitions!
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!-
- Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
- More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
- "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
- The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
- No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- The average person laughs about 15 times a day.
- The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
- All polar bears are left handed.
- Ants don't sleep.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Unknown facts about Allergies!
Source: ChilliBreeze
Does the word “allergy” conjure up images of red, blotchy skin, sneezing fits, and breathing spasms? While the term is a general one to indicate that the body’s immune system is over-reacting to substances called “allergens”, there still prevail several other misconceptions about allergies.
Food Allergies
One of the most common allergies, about 8% of adults and 2% of children suffer from food allergies. Food allergies can occur from any food – but mainly, soy, nuts, cow’s milk, fish, and peanuts. And we thought that most people with food allergy are allergic to strawberries and tomatoes! “Lactose Intolerance” is often confused with an allergy to milk. But the fact is that more children than adults have an allergy to milk, which is characterized by hives, vomiting, and breathing problems. Adults actually have a problem digesting the sugars present in milk, which isn’t really an allergy. While children usually outgrow allergy to milk, eggs, soya and wheat, allergy to nuts, peanuts, and fish are seldom overcome.
Insect Allergies
Are you about to go for a camping trip this summer? Then you must stay safe from insect bites that can trigger severe and serious allergic reactions. Remember to seek immediate medical help if you start having symptoms. If stung by a bee, do not try to pull out the “sting”, as this could send in more venom. Try instead, to scrape it out.
Latex allergies
The term “latex” is used to refer to products made from “natural rubber”. So the allergy could be from use of any product, like gloves, condoms, and balloons. If you know you’re allergic to latex, simply avoid it. Let others around you know this too. Latex allergy could also later develop into more serious conditions like “occupational asthma”.
Do you know of anyone who suffers from a rare allergy? How do you manage your allergies – are there any special precautions you take? Do you know of some ways to overcome them?
(Source: American Academy of Family Physicians)
Friday, May 23, 2008
Facts about oceans
The oceans occupy nearly 71% of our planet's surface
More than 97% of all our planet's water is contained in the ocean
The top ten feet of the ocean hold as much heat as our entire atmosphere
The average depth of the ocean is more than 2.5 miles
The oceans provide 99 percent of the Earth's living space- the largest space in our universe known to be inhabited by living organisms
More than 90% of this habitat exists in the deep sea known as the abyss
Less than 10% of this living space has been explored by humans
Mount Everest (the highest point on the Earth's surface 5.49 miles) is more than 1 mile shorter than the Challenger Deep (the deepest point in the ocean at 6.86 miles)
The longest continuous mountain chain known to exist in the Universe resides in the ocean at more than 40,000 miles long
The Monterey Bay Submarine Canyon is deeper and larger in volume than the Grand Canyon
The Antarctic ice sheet that forms and melts over the ocean each year is nearly twice the size of the United States
The average temperature of the oceans is 2ºC, about 39ºF
Water pressure at the deepest point in the ocean is more than 8 tons per square inch, the equivalent of one person trying to hold 50 jumbo jets.
The Gulf Stream off the Atlantic seaboard of the United States flows at a rate nearly 300 times faster than the typical flow of the Amazon river, the world's largest river
The worlds oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold
The color blue is least absorbed by seawater; the same shade of blue is most absorbed by microscopic plants, called phytoplankton, drifting in seawater
A new form of life, based on chemical energy rather than light energy, resides in deep-sea hydrothermal vents along mid-ocean ridges
A swallow of seawater may contain millions of bacterial cells, hundreds of thousands of phytoplankton and tens of thousands of zooplankton
The blue whale, the largest animal on our planet ever (exceeding the size of the greatest dinosaurs) still lives in the ocean; it's heart is the size of a Volkswagen
The gray whale migrates more than 10,000 miles each year, the longest migration of any mammal
The Great Barrier Reef, measuring 1,243 miles, is the largest living structure on Earth. It can be seen from the Moon.
More than 90 percent of the trade between countries is carried by ships and about half the communications between nations use underwater cables
More oil reaches the oceans each year as a result of leaking automobiles and other non-point sources than was spilled in Prince William Sound by the Exxon Valdez
Fish supply the greatest percentage of the world's protein consumed by humans
Most of the world's major fisheries are being fished at levels above their maximum sustainable yield; some regions are severely overfished
The Grand Banks, the pride of New England fishing for centuries, are closed due to overfishing
- Eighty per cent of all pollution in seas and oceans comes from land-based activities.
- Three-quarters of the world's mega-cities are by the sea.
- By 2010, 80 per cent of people will live within 60 miles of the coast.
- Death and disease caused by polluted coastal waters costs the global economy US$12.8 billion a year. The annual economic impact of hepatitis from tainted seafood alone is US$7.2 billion.
- Plastic waste kills up to 1 million sea birds, 100,000 sea mammals and countless fish each year. Plastic remains in our ecosystem for years harming thousands of sea creatures everyday.
- Over the past decade, an average of 600,000 barrels of oil a year has been accidentally spilled from ships, the equivalent of 12 disasters the size of the sinking of the oil tanker Prestige in 2002.
- Tropical coral reefs border the shores of 109 countries, the majority of which are among the world's least developed. Significant reef degradation has occurred in 93 countries.
- Although coral reefs comprise less than 0.5 per cent of the ocean floor, it is estimated that more than 90 per cent of marine species are directly or indirectly dependent on them.
- There are about 4,000 coral reef fish species worldwide, accounting for approximately a quarter of all marine fish species.
- Nearly 60 per cent of the world's remaining reefs are at significant risk of being lost in the next three decades.
- The major causes of coral reef decline are coastal development, sedimentation, destructive fishing practices, pollution, tourism and global warming.
- Less than one half a per cent of marine habitats are protected -- compared with 11.5 per cent of global land area.
- The High Seas -- areas of the ocean beyond national jurisdiction -- cover almost 50 per cent of the Earth's surface. They are the least protected part of the world.
- Although there are some treaties that protect ocean-going species such as whales, as well as some fisheries agreements, there are no protected areas in the High Seas.
- Studies show that protecting critical marine habitats -- such as warm-and cold-water coral reefs, seagrass beds and mangroves -- can dramatically increase fish size and quantity.
- More than 3.5 billion people depend on the ocean for their primary source of food. In 20 years, this number could double to 7 billion.
- Populations of commercially attractive large fish, such as tuna, cod, swordfish and marlin have declined by as much as 90 per cent in the past century.
- Each year, illegal longline fishing, which involves lines up to 80 miles long, with thousands of baited hooks, kills over 300,000 seabirds, including 100,000 albatrosses.
- As many as 100 million sharks are killed each year for their meat and fins, which are used for shark fin soup. Hunters typically catch the sharks, de-fin them while alive and throw them back into the ocean where they either drown or bleed to death.
- Global by-catch -- unintended destruction caused by the use of non-selective fishing gear, such as trawl nets, longlines and gillnets -- amounts to 20 million tons a year.
- The annual global by-catch mortality of small whales, dolphins and porpoises alone is estimated to be more than 300,000 individuals.
- Fishing for wild shrimp represents 2 per cent of global seafood but one-third of total by-catch. The ratio of by-catch from shrimp fishing ranges from 5:1 in temperate zones to 10:1 and more in the tropics.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Almost Unknown Bible Facts
If you read the Bible from cover-to-cover there are certain items which simply reach out and grab your attention. These are not necessarily earth shattering items, but they can be used to reveal whether or not someone who claims to have read the Bible, actually has. Let me mention nine here. You can verify these scriptures to insure that I am not using a "trick" Bible. If and when you read the Bible from cover-to-cover you may discover others to add to this list.
1. Human Longevity
Sometime around 1976-1980 I was listening to the news while driving home from work. It was announced that a government funded group of scientists had concluded that humans can live to a maximum age of one hundred and twenty years. Around that age the process which causes body cells to reproduce stops, and the body then dies.
I bolted up out of my sleep that night as it suddenly occurred to me where I had read that information before. It was in the book of Genesis in the Bible. These scientists had been paid to discover something that was known three thousand years ago:
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. (Genesis 6:3)
Incredibly, the scientists verified the same identical number of one hundred and twenty years. Chapter 19, Human Longevity, illustrates how this was accomplished.
2. Multiple Copies of the Ten Commandments
In the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones informs two government agents that Moses smashed into pieces the two stone tablets on which were written the Ten Commandments. He is correct thus far. He continues to explain that they "took the pieces and put them in the ark." Wrong! Why would they not place the unbroken identical second copy of the Ten Commandments into the ark? This is precisely what is reported in the Bible. Lets look at the history of the original stone tablets:
And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. (Exodus 24:12)
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. (Exodus 31:18)
And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. (Exodus 32:15)
And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. (Exodus 32:19)
The verses describing the creation of the second set of tables are separated in the book of Exodus. These verses are Exodus 34:1, 34:4, 34:28, and 40:20. Let me quote here the same story as described in the book of Deuteronomy, which are sequential verses:
At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me. And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me. (Deuteronomy 10:1-5)
So the second copy of the stone tables containing the Ten Commandments was placed into the ark. Each table had writing on both sides. Although many claim to have studied the Bible, few people know that two copies of the Ten Commandments were produced
3. Both Thieves Reviled Jesus
The version of the crucifixion which you will hear from most Christian theologians is the one told in Luke. Luke states that one of the malefactors railed on Jesus, while the other said, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." However, four books of the Bible relate the crucifixion story and one should expect them to be basically the same. Two of these four books state that both thieves reviled Jesus:
And they that passed by reviled him... (Matthew 27:39)
The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth. (Matthew 27:44)
And they that were crucified with him reviled him. (Mark 15:32) The story in John simply mentions that there were two others crucified with Jesus in the middle:
Where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. (John 19:18)
The truth would seem to be that both men crucified with Jesus reviled Him. For a full explanation of this apparent contradiction, refer to chapter 20 entitled "Proofs" That Man Has An Immortal Soul?
4. Wise Men Not at the Manger
If you see a Christmas manger display with three wise men, that is an error. By the time the wise men arrived, Jesus was in a house:
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented him with gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. (Matthew 2:11)
In actuality, some mangers and homes were under the same roof of dwellings built during this period. The animals would be kept on the ground floor. Perhaps halfway back under the roof, steps led up to the family's living quarters. Crowding caused by the census taking may have resulted in the upper rooms being full when Mary and Joseph arrived. Finding no room at the inn, they probably stayed on the ground floor in the manger area of a house. By the time the wise men arrived, sufficient people had departed so that they moved into the upper rooms, or "into the house." This may also be the type of dwelling where the Lord's Supper occurred:
And he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us. (Mark 14:15)
Incidentally, the Bible never states the actual number of wise men who came to see the baby Jesus:
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem. (Matthew 2:1)
We probably assume there were three wise men because there were three types of gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. That is, one brought gold, a second brought frankincense, and a third brought myrrh. This is not necessarily the case. All we know for a fact is that there was more than one wise man.
5. Why Adam and Eve Were Expelled from the Garden
Adam and Eve were not expelled from the Garden of Eden because they sinned. God would not care if they hung out there for awhile, except that the tree of life was in the garden. They were kicked out to prevent them from eating from the tree of life. Why? Because if they ate the fruit of the tree of life they would become spiritual bodies like God and the angels and live forever. That is exactly what your Bible states:
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. (Genesis 3:22-23)
These are very important verses because they prove that Adam and Eve did not posess eternal life when God sent them forth from the Garden of Eden. The Bible specifically states that Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden to prevent them from eating fruit from the tree of life and thus living forever! Most churches simply ignore these verses as their theology is based on man's false immortality.
6. In the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall
No one who reads the Bible after September 11, 2001 will fail to notice the following scripture:
And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of water in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. (Isaiah 30:25)
Isaiah is a book of prophecy, predicting what will happen in the future. "In the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall," almost shouts World Trade Center. The World Trade Center contained twin towers and it was a great slaughter of at least 2,823 innocent people.
The entire chapter thirty of Isaiah describes the futility of relying on strong allies and not God. Israel's ally today is the United States, which is considered to be the world's last superpower. Putting their faith in human power instead of God causes Israel to dwindle down to a few, as a beacon on a hill. Regarding the children of Israel, Isaiah prophesies:
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill. (Isaiah 30:17)
Then following the cycle described so often in the history of the children of Israel, they repent and turn to God and He blesses and rescues them. In what period does this occur?
...in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. (Isaiah 30:25)
"The day of the great slaughter" could refer to the coming battle of Armageddon. "When the towers fall" could place the time of this event as present time if the towers refer to the World Trade Center. Notice that towers is plural. Notice the phrase, "at the rebuke of five." There were five hijackers planned to be aboard each of the four hijacked aircraft. Events could get exciting soon. Watch the news!
7. The earth is round
Americans are taught that Christopher Columbus discovered the earth was round. However, did someone know that fact thousands of years before Columbus sailed?
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth... (Isaiah 40:22)
These verses which relate facts that man in all his wisdom only discovered many years later, lend credence that the scriptures are truly the inspired words of God. That is, the Bible contains facts which mankind only discovered thousands of years after they were written down in the scriptures. Men wrote the scriptures under the inspiration of God. Since men did not even scientifically discover these facts until hundreds or thousands of years later, these facts written down in the scriptures could not have come from the minds of men at the time they were written! Therefore, men had to have been inspired by God to write these facts since they did not know them as facts at the time. One of these is that the earth's shape is round. Another is the fact that man's physical life has an upper limit of one hundred and twenty years. Some claim to have studied the scriptures for years, yet have not detected these simple truths. This proves the following scripture to be true:
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. (Daniel 12:9)
8. Life on other planets?
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. (John 10:14-16)
Jesus was relating a parable to the Jews when He made this statement. So the sheep referred to could be the Jews. If that is the case, then the sheep not of this Jewish fold would be the gentiles. Remember that Jesus came first to the Jews, then to the gentiles.
However, the entire flock of earthly sheep for which Jesus gave His life is every human on the Earth, both Jews and gentiles. If this is the meaning of the verse, then where are the sheep which are not of this fold? That is, if Jesus died for all the sheep in the fold of the Earth, and He has sheep which are not of the fold of the Earth; then where are these other sheep which He must bring together into this fold?
Jesus could be referring to the angels which revolted on the earth and are currently imprisoned in hell. These sheep would certainly not be of this fold. That is, on the earth:
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. (Jude 1:6)
These angels are no longer in the fold of the earth, so it's possible that Jesus is speaking of them. Otherwise, the sheep not in this fold could be on another planet or planets. That is, the earth may not be the only inhabited planet. If the earth is not the only planet with intelligent life, it is a very special planet, because God sent His only Son to die for the sins of earthlings. Can you imagine God the Father calling Jesus in and asking, "How often is it that your Father asks you to do something? We have another rebellious planet and I would like for you to go there as a mortal, live a sinless life, you know...
9. More than two of some animals aboard Noah's ark
Some question the truth of the Noah's ark story due to the logistics involved. Could the ark which he built adequately house two of every animal species on the earth? In actuality, it had to house more that two of every animal species on the earth:
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 7:2-3) Clean beasts are those that have cloven hooves and chew their cud:
And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. (Deuteronomy 14:6)
Some examples of clean animals are all species of sheep, cattle, goats, and deer. Seven pairs of each clean animal species and fowl were aboard the ark. When the ark finally came to rest on dry ground, Noah sacrificed some of the clean animals to the Lord:
And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. (Genesis 8:20)
Noah could not have sacrificed animals and fowl without making them extinct if only one pair of each clean animal was onboard.
1. Human Longevity
Sometime around 1976-1980 I was listening to the news while driving home from work. It was announced that a government funded group of scientists had concluded that humans can live to a maximum age of one hundred and twenty years. Around that age the process which causes body cells to reproduce stops, and the body then dies.
I bolted up out of my sleep that night as it suddenly occurred to me where I had read that information before. It was in the book of Genesis in the Bible. These scientists had been paid to discover something that was known three thousand years ago:
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. (Genesis 6:3)
Incredibly, the scientists verified the same identical number of one hundred and twenty years. Chapter 19, Human Longevity, illustrates how this was accomplished.
2. Multiple Copies of the Ten Commandments
In the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones informs two government agents that Moses smashed into pieces the two stone tablets on which were written the Ten Commandments. He is correct thus far. He continues to explain that they "took the pieces and put them in the ark." Wrong! Why would they not place the unbroken identical second copy of the Ten Commandments into the ark? This is precisely what is reported in the Bible. Lets look at the history of the original stone tablets:
And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. (Exodus 24:12)
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. (Exodus 31:18)
And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. (Exodus 32:15)
And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. (Exodus 32:19)
The verses describing the creation of the second set of tables are separated in the book of Exodus. These verses are Exodus 34:1, 34:4, 34:28, and 40:20. Let me quote here the same story as described in the book of Deuteronomy, which are sequential verses:
At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me. And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me. (Deuteronomy 10:1-5)
So the second copy of the stone tables containing the Ten Commandments was placed into the ark. Each table had writing on both sides. Although many claim to have studied the Bible, few people know that two copies of the Ten Commandments were produced
3. Both Thieves Reviled Jesus
The version of the crucifixion which you will hear from most Christian theologians is the one told in Luke. Luke states that one of the malefactors railed on Jesus, while the other said, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." However, four books of the Bible relate the crucifixion story and one should expect them to be basically the same. Two of these four books state that both thieves reviled Jesus:
And they that passed by reviled him... (Matthew 27:39)
The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth. (Matthew 27:44)
And they that were crucified with him reviled him. (Mark 15:32) The story in John simply mentions that there were two others crucified with Jesus in the middle:
Where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. (John 19:18)
The truth would seem to be that both men crucified with Jesus reviled Him. For a full explanation of this apparent contradiction, refer to chapter 20 entitled "Proofs" That Man Has An Immortal Soul?
4. Wise Men Not at the Manger
If you see a Christmas manger display with three wise men, that is an error. By the time the wise men arrived, Jesus was in a house:
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented him with gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. (Matthew 2:11)
In actuality, some mangers and homes were under the same roof of dwellings built during this period. The animals would be kept on the ground floor. Perhaps halfway back under the roof, steps led up to the family's living quarters. Crowding caused by the census taking may have resulted in the upper rooms being full when Mary and Joseph arrived. Finding no room at the inn, they probably stayed on the ground floor in the manger area of a house. By the time the wise men arrived, sufficient people had departed so that they moved into the upper rooms, or "into the house." This may also be the type of dwelling where the Lord's Supper occurred:
And he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us. (Mark 14:15)
Incidentally, the Bible never states the actual number of wise men who came to see the baby Jesus:
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem. (Matthew 2:1)
We probably assume there were three wise men because there were three types of gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. That is, one brought gold, a second brought frankincense, and a third brought myrrh. This is not necessarily the case. All we know for a fact is that there was more than one wise man.
5. Why Adam and Eve Were Expelled from the Garden
Adam and Eve were not expelled from the Garden of Eden because they sinned. God would not care if they hung out there for awhile, except that the tree of life was in the garden. They were kicked out to prevent them from eating from the tree of life. Why? Because if they ate the fruit of the tree of life they would become spiritual bodies like God and the angels and live forever. That is exactly what your Bible states:
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. (Genesis 3:22-23)
These are very important verses because they prove that Adam and Eve did not posess eternal life when God sent them forth from the Garden of Eden. The Bible specifically states that Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden to prevent them from eating fruit from the tree of life and thus living forever! Most churches simply ignore these verses as their theology is based on man's false immortality.
6. In the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall
No one who reads the Bible after September 11, 2001 will fail to notice the following scripture:
And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of water in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. (Isaiah 30:25)
Isaiah is a book of prophecy, predicting what will happen in the future. "In the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall," almost shouts World Trade Center. The World Trade Center contained twin towers and it was a great slaughter of at least 2,823 innocent people.
The entire chapter thirty of Isaiah describes the futility of relying on strong allies and not God. Israel's ally today is the United States, which is considered to be the world's last superpower. Putting their faith in human power instead of God causes Israel to dwindle down to a few, as a beacon on a hill. Regarding the children of Israel, Isaiah prophesies:
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill. (Isaiah 30:17)
Then following the cycle described so often in the history of the children of Israel, they repent and turn to God and He blesses and rescues them. In what period does this occur?
...in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. (Isaiah 30:25)
"The day of the great slaughter" could refer to the coming battle of Armageddon. "When the towers fall" could place the time of this event as present time if the towers refer to the World Trade Center. Notice that towers is plural. Notice the phrase, "at the rebuke of five." There were five hijackers planned to be aboard each of the four hijacked aircraft. Events could get exciting soon. Watch the news!
7. The earth is round
Americans are taught that Christopher Columbus discovered the earth was round. However, did someone know that fact thousands of years before Columbus sailed?
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth... (Isaiah 40:22)
These verses which relate facts that man in all his wisdom only discovered many years later, lend credence that the scriptures are truly the inspired words of God. That is, the Bible contains facts which mankind only discovered thousands of years after they were written down in the scriptures. Men wrote the scriptures under the inspiration of God. Since men did not even scientifically discover these facts until hundreds or thousands of years later, these facts written down in the scriptures could not have come from the minds of men at the time they were written! Therefore, men had to have been inspired by God to write these facts since they did not know them as facts at the time. One of these is that the earth's shape is round. Another is the fact that man's physical life has an upper limit of one hundred and twenty years. Some claim to have studied the scriptures for years, yet have not detected these simple truths. This proves the following scripture to be true:
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. (Daniel 12:9)
8. Life on other planets?
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. (John 10:14-16)
Jesus was relating a parable to the Jews when He made this statement. So the sheep referred to could be the Jews. If that is the case, then the sheep not of this Jewish fold would be the gentiles. Remember that Jesus came first to the Jews, then to the gentiles.
However, the entire flock of earthly sheep for which Jesus gave His life is every human on the Earth, both Jews and gentiles. If this is the meaning of the verse, then where are the sheep which are not of this fold? That is, if Jesus died for all the sheep in the fold of the Earth, and He has sheep which are not of the fold of the Earth; then where are these other sheep which He must bring together into this fold?
Jesus could be referring to the angels which revolted on the earth and are currently imprisoned in hell. These sheep would certainly not be of this fold. That is, on the earth:
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. (Jude 1:6)
These angels are no longer in the fold of the earth, so it's possible that Jesus is speaking of them. Otherwise, the sheep not in this fold could be on another planet or planets. That is, the earth may not be the only inhabited planet. If the earth is not the only planet with intelligent life, it is a very special planet, because God sent His only Son to die for the sins of earthlings. Can you imagine God the Father calling Jesus in and asking, "How often is it that your Father asks you to do something? We have another rebellious planet and I would like for you to go there as a mortal, live a sinless life, you know...
9. More than two of some animals aboard Noah's ark
Some question the truth of the Noah's ark story due to the logistics involved. Could the ark which he built adequately house two of every animal species on the earth? In actuality, it had to house more that two of every animal species on the earth:
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 7:2-3) Clean beasts are those that have cloven hooves and chew their cud:
And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. (Deuteronomy 14:6)
Some examples of clean animals are all species of sheep, cattle, goats, and deer. Seven pairs of each clean animal species and fowl were aboard the ark. When the ark finally came to rest on dry ground, Noah sacrificed some of the clean animals to the Lord:
And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. (Genesis 8:20)
Noah could not have sacrificed animals and fowl without making them extinct if only one pair of each clean animal was onboard.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
James Bond 007
1. Daniel Craig may be the sixth actor to play Bond, but CIA agent Felix Leiter, who appears in nine Bond movies, is played by eight different actors: Jack Lord in Dr No, Cec Linder in Goldfinger, Rik Van Nutter in Thunderball, Norman Burton in Diamonds are Forever, David Hedison in Live and Let Die and License to Kill, Bernie Casey in Never Say Never Again, John Terry in The Living Daylights and now Jeffrey Wright in Casino Royale. Daniel Craig may be the sixth actor to play Bond Daniel Craig may be the sixth actor to play Bond BREAKING NEWS It was only the USSR that defeated Nazism Mammoth earthquake hits China Putin agrees to chair Russian government after election Scientists discover most recent supernova in Galaxy More...
2. Bond is a smoker, but he quits in the 80s films, however, in the first Roger Moore movies Bond smokes cigars.
3. In the 21 official Bond movies, the actress playing the Bond girl has only been older than the actor playing Bond twice, and they have both starred in the BBC series The Avengers. Both Honor Blackman was 37 to Connery's 34 at the time of Goldfinger and Diana Rigg was 31 to George Lazenby's 30 at the time of On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
4. The latest Bond film Casino Royale is based on Ian Flemming's first Bond novel, but it has been filmed twice before. In 1954 there was a TV version of Casino Royale with American Barry Nelson playing Jimmy Bond and in 1967 Woody Allen made Casino Royale - a send-up starring David Niven.
5. Although the first American Bond girl, Jill St John, didn't come along until 1971, there have now been more American-born actresses cast in the part than actresses from any other country. There have bee seven American Bond Girls, four English ones, three French and 2 Swedish. There has only ever been one Bond girl from Switzerlan , Italy, Japan, Poland and Malaysia.
6. Bond doesn't always drive an Aston Martin. He drives a Russian tank in Goldeneye, a double-decker bus in Live and Let Die and an oil tanker in License to Kill.
7. Bond was born in Germany , he was raised in Scotland and England , and considers himself to be Scottish.
8. James Bond's astrological sign is Scorpio.
9. Bond's father was Scottish and his mother was French Swiss. Originally Ian Fleming chose the name James Bond because it sounded like a good Anglo-Saxon name. When James Bond was 11, his parents died in a mountain climbing accident in the Aiguilles Rouges. After the death of his parents, Bond went to live with his aunt.
10. The total box office takings for the last 20 Bond films is $3,818,000,000.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Facts about Hulk Hogan
1985 - Would Hogan be willing to work a program with Rick Steamboat if Steamboat agreed to turn heel? No. Give him Big John Studd instead.
1986 - Hogan-Savage is tentatively planned for WM 2, after the two had feuded in house shows which Savage had won by DQ or countout. Hogan nixes the idea of facing the dynamic, atheltic Savage at 'Mania, even though he would be booked to win. Hogan handpicks King Kong Bundy to embarass in a cage match. Savage wrestles George Steele far down the undercard.
1986 - Hogan agrees to work with Paul Orndorff, but won't do the job to him. Hogan agrees only because he is guarenteed a win at a huge event. He defeats Orndorff in a cage match on SNME to end the feud.
1987 - Hogan again turns down the idea of feuding with Savage; but suggests turning him face, so Hogan can step aside for awhile, film a movie and get some needed rest.Savage turns face that summer.
1988 - Hogan agrees to "drop" the belt to Andre, but only under questionable circumstances to preserve his character. Hogan agrees to "give the rub" to Savage at WM IV. Hogan only agrees because he is promised he will get the title back at WM 5.
1988 - Six months later, as Savage is having a successful run, Hogan suggests putting them together as a team "Mega Powers" and they headline Summerslam. Hogan is no longer the champion - but still in the main event.
1989 - Hogan finally meets Savage at Wrestlemania V. Hogan beats him for the title. Rather than face Savage in the anticipated rematch at Summerslam, or a program with Rick Rude as creative suggests - Hogan deccides to go a different route.
Hogan suggests a tag team match, pitting himself and his close friend Brutus Beefcake, against Savage and an ACTOR, Tiny Lister who played Zeus in the Hogan film "No Holds Barred". The film opened that summer to decent business, so Hogan uses a WWE PPV to promote the film, while "giving the rub" to his friend Beefcake.
1990 - Hogan agrees to drop the belt to Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania. Only with a guarentee of an extended break and the promise he would get the title back. A month after 'Mania, Hogan is "attacked" by Earthquake and off TV for a few months. After teasing retirement on TV, Hogan returns at Summerslam as "Immortal" and vanquishes his good friend John Tenta (Earthquake).
1990 - To preserve the Warrior character, creative decides he will drop the title to someone OTHER than Hogan. Despite the allure of a Hogan/Warrior rematch - Randy Savage is rumoured to be the man Warrior will drop the belt to at Royal Rumble '91. Hogan suggests Sgt Slaughter. Slaughter has just returned as an "Iraqi sympathizer" and Hogan pushes for Slaughter to beat Warrior, then he can beat Slaughter to regain the belt.
1991 - Hogan defeats Slaughter a few months after "Desert Storm" starts. He waves his flag and defeats the Iraqi villan at Wrestlemania. After headlining Wrestlemania for the past two years, Savage and Warrior are reduced to the undercard.
1991 - Hogan again decides against a rematch with Warrior at Summerslam, and suggests they team together against Slaughter & The Iron Shiek. Six months after he had beaten Slaughter for the belt, he feels the feud is not over and that fans will tune in to watch him team with Warrior against "the enemy".
1991 - Hogan agrees to drop the title to Undertaker, but refuses to do a clean job to him. Ric Flair interferes in the match with a chair and 'Taker gets the win.
1992 - McMahon decides that Flair will win the title at Royal Rumble, then drop the title to Hogan in a "dream match" at Wrestlemania VIII. Hogan decides he wants to take another extended break after 'Mania. He suggests Flair drop the title to Savage instead and he can work with Sid Vicious and "give him the rub".
Despite the fact that Flair/Savage is the WWE Title match, it is placed in the middle of the show. Hogan and the lumbering Sid Vicious close the show.
The first time the WWE Champion has not been in the main event of Wrestlemania.
1993 - Hogan agrees to return to team with Brutus Beefcake against Money Inc. at Wrestlemania and it appears to be the first time he will NOT be in the main event.
When Hogan learns that WWE Champion Bret Hart is scheduled to drop the title to Yokozuna, he informs McMahon that this will be the first Wrestlemania that a face doesn't win the main event and the "people aren't gonna like it". Hogan suggests "surprising" the audience by challenging Yoko immediately afterward and beating him to win the WWE Title. Vince McMahon agees. Hogan beats Yoko to regain the title.
1993 - McMahon and WWE creative suggests Hogan and Bret Hart engage in a face vs face match at Summerslam that will see Hogan "pass the torch" to Hart and drop the title.
Hogan turned the idea down, and agreed to drop the title back to Yokozuna, who in turn would drop it to Hart at SS. Some critics believe, however, that Hogan simply didn't want to drop the title to the new flagship of the company.
Hogan drops the belt to Yoko at KOTR (but doesn't drop it cleanly), while WWE goes with the failed Lex Luger "US Express" idea. Hogan leaves WWE two months later and does not appear at Summerslam.
1994 - Hogan signs with WCW after being courted by Ric Flair and Eric Bischoff. Hogan insisted on "complete creative control" over the Hulk Hogan character and a certain perrcentage of EACH PPV TOTAL REVENUE.
1994 - A three match series is planned with Hogan/Flair. Hogan would win the first, Flair would regain it and Hogan would win the finale. All parties agree.
Hogan wins the WCW World Title from Ric Flair in his first match back in a year. When the time comes for Flair to regain the title, Hogan refuses, saying the fans "weren't ready for him to drop it".Flair later admits in his book, that fans were already booing Hogan at shows, but that WCW was dubbing in a "cheering crowd soundtrack".The subsequent PPVs featuring Flair/Hogan fail to sell.
1994 - Hogan negotiates for former WWE stars and Hogan allies Brutus Beefcake, Earthquake and Typhoon to join WCW.Creative suggests Hogan face Sting in a face vs face "dream match" at Starrcade. Hogan decides it makes better sense for him to face Beefcake as the heel, "The Butcher". The PPV flops.
1995 - Hogan convinces Randy Savage to leave WWE and join WCW. Instead of starting a feud between the two former WWE Champions, Hogan insists on teaming with Savage against Kevin Sullivan and his 3 Faces of Fear.
1995 - Hogan agrees to work with Vader, but the program soon falls apart when both acuse the other of "not selling for the other".Fans are steadily losing interest in WCW. The company begins to falter seriously, as executives point at the Hogan contract and "creative control"
agreement as being a main culprit. Hogan takes extended time off - but remains the highest paid man on the roster.
1996 - With WCW desperate to compete with WWE, WCW signs Hall and Nash and plot the NWO angle. Hogan is booked to turn heel and he agrees. The angle is a smash. Within weeks, Hogan wins the World Title from The Giant.Instead of milking fresh matchups as a heel, Hogan decides that WCW should bring in Roddy Piper. Despite the possibility of a Starrcade matchup with Lex Luger or The Giant - Hogan faces Piper in a cage match in the main event. Hogan puts over Piper via the sleeperhold, in a NON-TITLE match.
1997 - Hogan feuds with Piper and Savage, while turning down suggestions he put over Luger or Diamond Dallas Page for the title. He appears weekly, but rarely wrestles on TV, while still remaining the highest paid star in WCW.
1997 - In his much hyped Starrcade match with Sting, it was decided that Hogan would beat Sting after an alleged "fast count" by referee Nick Patrick. WCW's newly contracted Bret Hart would accuse Patrick and have the match restarted with Sting winning by submission.
Hogan reportedly paid off referee Patrick, to count normally and make it look like Hogan had pinned Sting cleanly. When this DID happen, the planned finish played out - but fans booed because it was clearly botched and made Sting look bad.
1998 - Hogan agreed to put over Goldberg cleanly on Nitro, but with the condition that Karl Malone & DDP get involved to prompt a Hogan/Dennis Rodman team to debut on PPV at Bash At The Beach. Hogan promoted the match on "The Tonight Show" and later teamed with Bischoff against DDP and Jay Leno HIMSELF!
The Hogan celebrity tag team matches stole all the attention while WCW Champion Goldberg was all but ignored.
1999 - After six months without the title, and still being the top guy, Hogan regained the title from Kevin Nash in the "Fingerpoke of Doom" incident. Openly flaunting his creative control clause. He would lose the title, but not cleanly to Ric Flair.When the NWO angle began to lose serious steam, Hogan turned face again. Randy Savage had recently turned heel and regained the WCW Title.Once again, this time conviently as a face, Hogan defeated Savage to regain the title.Despite having names like Hart, Luger and Sting to work with Savage - the title went baclk to Hogan. At his request.
2000 - Hogan begins feuding with WCW booker Vince Russo over how he's being used. Russo wanted to push younger stars and to appease Russo only, Hogan worked with young Billy Kidman.When a WCW Title match with Jeff Jarrett was booked, Russo had Jarrett winning. Hogan refused, because his contract with WCW was almost up and he feared Russo wouldn't use him on future PPV events. Meaning Hogan would lose out on serious cash.Russo pulled a swerve on Hogan by having Jarrett lay down for him intentionally. Hogan did so, winning the belt - then was immeditaely stripped of it.Hogan was never seen in WCW again.
2002 - Hogan accepts an offer to return to WWE and reunite the original NWO, with the understanding he would be in a featured match with The Rock at Wrestlemania X8.
Hogan scored a huge deal from WWE, and agreed to put over The Rock. He suggests they close the show as he felt "they had drawn the crowd" - but McMahon and specifically Triple H refuse to put the WWE Title match in a secondary role.Hogan is later booked to win the title from Triple H, but is dissapointed when it comes with the condition he drop it to Undertaker a month later.After being booked to lose to Kurt Angle at KOTR 2002, Hogan decided he needed time off again. Despite only having been back for all of four months.Hogan is convinced to stay long enough to get in a quick tag team championship win with Edge. He is then asked to put over Brock Lesnar, which he does.He is dissatisfied with his role, because he isn't be portrayed the way "he thought he would". He takes another "extended break" after the Lesnar match.
2003 - He returns at the request of VinceMcMahon and the promise of a big Wrestlemania payday. Their street fight is a featured match on the card.With the WWE Title now revolving around much younger wrestlers, Hogan is frustrated by Creatives decision to book him in a secondary role on Smackdown and he leaves WWE again.
2004 - Hogan is openly courted by TNA Wrestling, but the deal hits a snag when Hogan was reportedly told he would have to put over Jarrett at some point. Hogan begins to complain of "knee problems" as the deal falls apart.
2005 - Hogan is inducted into the Hall of Fame, and agrees to the idea of a Hogan/Shawn Michaels match at Summerslam.McMahon proposes two matches, with each winning one. Hogan agrees.After spending all of his comeback as a face, HBK agrees to turn heel to sell the match.Michaels carries a clearly laboring Hogan through a decent match at Summerslam, and HBK does the clean job to Hogan.The second match in the series is called off, when Hogan began to complain "his knee was acting up again".Hence, the Hogan win over HBK stands as their one and only meeting.
2005 - Hogan proposes the"Dream Match" scenario of Hogan vs Steve Austin to WWE Creative for Wrestlemania. Austin says no - citing the HBK scenario at Summerslam. He refuses to put Hogan over.
2006 - Hogan is asked to appear at Summerslam and face Randy Orton. He agrees with the rumoured condition that WWE pushes his daughter Brooke's debut CD.Instead of putting over "The Legend Killer", Hogan flexes his "creative control".
Despite being 53, having wrestled one match in over a year, and bad knees, Hogan defeats the 26 year old former World Champion via clean pinfall.
1986 - Hogan-Savage is tentatively planned for WM 2, after the two had feuded in house shows which Savage had won by DQ or countout. Hogan nixes the idea of facing the dynamic, atheltic Savage at 'Mania, even though he would be booked to win. Hogan handpicks King Kong Bundy to embarass in a cage match. Savage wrestles George Steele far down the undercard.
1986 - Hogan agrees to work with Paul Orndorff, but won't do the job to him. Hogan agrees only because he is guarenteed a win at a huge event. He defeats Orndorff in a cage match on SNME to end the feud.
1987 - Hogan again turns down the idea of feuding with Savage; but suggests turning him face, so Hogan can step aside for awhile, film a movie and get some needed rest.Savage turns face that summer.
1988 - Hogan agrees to "drop" the belt to Andre, but only under questionable circumstances to preserve his character. Hogan agrees to "give the rub" to Savage at WM IV. Hogan only agrees because he is promised he will get the title back at WM 5.
1988 - Six months later, as Savage is having a successful run, Hogan suggests putting them together as a team "Mega Powers" and they headline Summerslam. Hogan is no longer the champion - but still in the main event.
1989 - Hogan finally meets Savage at Wrestlemania V. Hogan beats him for the title. Rather than face Savage in the anticipated rematch at Summerslam, or a program with Rick Rude as creative suggests - Hogan deccides to go a different route.
Hogan suggests a tag team match, pitting himself and his close friend Brutus Beefcake, against Savage and an ACTOR, Tiny Lister who played Zeus in the Hogan film "No Holds Barred". The film opened that summer to decent business, so Hogan uses a WWE PPV to promote the film, while "giving the rub" to his friend Beefcake.
1990 - Hogan agrees to drop the belt to Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania. Only with a guarentee of an extended break and the promise he would get the title back. A month after 'Mania, Hogan is "attacked" by Earthquake and off TV for a few months. After teasing retirement on TV, Hogan returns at Summerslam as "Immortal" and vanquishes his good friend John Tenta (Earthquake).
1990 - To preserve the Warrior character, creative decides he will drop the title to someone OTHER than Hogan. Despite the allure of a Hogan/Warrior rematch - Randy Savage is rumoured to be the man Warrior will drop the belt to at Royal Rumble '91. Hogan suggests Sgt Slaughter. Slaughter has just returned as an "Iraqi sympathizer" and Hogan pushes for Slaughter to beat Warrior, then he can beat Slaughter to regain the belt.
1991 - Hogan defeats Slaughter a few months after "Desert Storm" starts. He waves his flag and defeats the Iraqi villan at Wrestlemania. After headlining Wrestlemania for the past two years, Savage and Warrior are reduced to the undercard.
1991 - Hogan again decides against a rematch with Warrior at Summerslam, and suggests they team together against Slaughter & The Iron Shiek. Six months after he had beaten Slaughter for the belt, he feels the feud is not over and that fans will tune in to watch him team with Warrior against "the enemy".
1991 - Hogan agrees to drop the title to Undertaker, but refuses to do a clean job to him. Ric Flair interferes in the match with a chair and 'Taker gets the win.
1992 - McMahon decides that Flair will win the title at Royal Rumble, then drop the title to Hogan in a "dream match" at Wrestlemania VIII. Hogan decides he wants to take another extended break after 'Mania. He suggests Flair drop the title to Savage instead and he can work with Sid Vicious and "give him the rub".
Despite the fact that Flair/Savage is the WWE Title match, it is placed in the middle of the show. Hogan and the lumbering Sid Vicious close the show.
The first time the WWE Champion has not been in the main event of Wrestlemania.
1993 - Hogan agrees to return to team with Brutus Beefcake against Money Inc. at Wrestlemania and it appears to be the first time he will NOT be in the main event.
When Hogan learns that WWE Champion Bret Hart is scheduled to drop the title to Yokozuna, he informs McMahon that this will be the first Wrestlemania that a face doesn't win the main event and the "people aren't gonna like it". Hogan suggests "surprising" the audience by challenging Yoko immediately afterward and beating him to win the WWE Title. Vince McMahon agees. Hogan beats Yoko to regain the title.
1993 - McMahon and WWE creative suggests Hogan and Bret Hart engage in a face vs face match at Summerslam that will see Hogan "pass the torch" to Hart and drop the title.
Hogan turned the idea down, and agreed to drop the title back to Yokozuna, who in turn would drop it to Hart at SS. Some critics believe, however, that Hogan simply didn't want to drop the title to the new flagship of the company.
Hogan drops the belt to Yoko at KOTR (but doesn't drop it cleanly), while WWE goes with the failed Lex Luger "US Express" idea. Hogan leaves WWE two months later and does not appear at Summerslam.
1994 - Hogan signs with WCW after being courted by Ric Flair and Eric Bischoff. Hogan insisted on "complete creative control" over the Hulk Hogan character and a certain perrcentage of EACH PPV TOTAL REVENUE.
1994 - A three match series is planned with Hogan/Flair. Hogan would win the first, Flair would regain it and Hogan would win the finale. All parties agree.
Hogan wins the WCW World Title from Ric Flair in his first match back in a year. When the time comes for Flair to regain the title, Hogan refuses, saying the fans "weren't ready for him to drop it".Flair later admits in his book, that fans were already booing Hogan at shows, but that WCW was dubbing in a "cheering crowd soundtrack".The subsequent PPVs featuring Flair/Hogan fail to sell.
1994 - Hogan negotiates for former WWE stars and Hogan allies Brutus Beefcake, Earthquake and Typhoon to join WCW.Creative suggests Hogan face Sting in a face vs face "dream match" at Starrcade. Hogan decides it makes better sense for him to face Beefcake as the heel, "The Butcher". The PPV flops.
1995 - Hogan convinces Randy Savage to leave WWE and join WCW. Instead of starting a feud between the two former WWE Champions, Hogan insists on teaming with Savage against Kevin Sullivan and his 3 Faces of Fear.
1995 - Hogan agrees to work with Vader, but the program soon falls apart when both acuse the other of "not selling for the other".Fans are steadily losing interest in WCW. The company begins to falter seriously, as executives point at the Hogan contract and "creative control"
agreement as being a main culprit. Hogan takes extended time off - but remains the highest paid man on the roster.
1996 - With WCW desperate to compete with WWE, WCW signs Hall and Nash and plot the NWO angle. Hogan is booked to turn heel and he agrees. The angle is a smash. Within weeks, Hogan wins the World Title from The Giant.Instead of milking fresh matchups as a heel, Hogan decides that WCW should bring in Roddy Piper. Despite the possibility of a Starrcade matchup with Lex Luger or The Giant - Hogan faces Piper in a cage match in the main event. Hogan puts over Piper via the sleeperhold, in a NON-TITLE match.
1997 - Hogan feuds with Piper and Savage, while turning down suggestions he put over Luger or Diamond Dallas Page for the title. He appears weekly, but rarely wrestles on TV, while still remaining the highest paid star in WCW.
1997 - In his much hyped Starrcade match with Sting, it was decided that Hogan would beat Sting after an alleged "fast count" by referee Nick Patrick. WCW's newly contracted Bret Hart would accuse Patrick and have the match restarted with Sting winning by submission.
Hogan reportedly paid off referee Patrick, to count normally and make it look like Hogan had pinned Sting cleanly. When this DID happen, the planned finish played out - but fans booed because it was clearly botched and made Sting look bad.
1998 - Hogan agreed to put over Goldberg cleanly on Nitro, but with the condition that Karl Malone & DDP get involved to prompt a Hogan/Dennis Rodman team to debut on PPV at Bash At The Beach. Hogan promoted the match on "The Tonight Show" and later teamed with Bischoff against DDP and Jay Leno HIMSELF!
The Hogan celebrity tag team matches stole all the attention while WCW Champion Goldberg was all but ignored.
1999 - After six months without the title, and still being the top guy, Hogan regained the title from Kevin Nash in the "Fingerpoke of Doom" incident. Openly flaunting his creative control clause. He would lose the title, but not cleanly to Ric Flair.When the NWO angle began to lose serious steam, Hogan turned face again. Randy Savage had recently turned heel and regained the WCW Title.Once again, this time conviently as a face, Hogan defeated Savage to regain the title.Despite having names like Hart, Luger and Sting to work with Savage - the title went baclk to Hogan. At his request.
2000 - Hogan begins feuding with WCW booker Vince Russo over how he's being used. Russo wanted to push younger stars and to appease Russo only, Hogan worked with young Billy Kidman.When a WCW Title match with Jeff Jarrett was booked, Russo had Jarrett winning. Hogan refused, because his contract with WCW was almost up and he feared Russo wouldn't use him on future PPV events. Meaning Hogan would lose out on serious cash.Russo pulled a swerve on Hogan by having Jarrett lay down for him intentionally. Hogan did so, winning the belt - then was immeditaely stripped of it.Hogan was never seen in WCW again.
2002 - Hogan accepts an offer to return to WWE and reunite the original NWO, with the understanding he would be in a featured match with The Rock at Wrestlemania X8.
Hogan scored a huge deal from WWE, and agreed to put over The Rock. He suggests they close the show as he felt "they had drawn the crowd" - but McMahon and specifically Triple H refuse to put the WWE Title match in a secondary role.Hogan is later booked to win the title from Triple H, but is dissapointed when it comes with the condition he drop it to Undertaker a month later.After being booked to lose to Kurt Angle at KOTR 2002, Hogan decided he needed time off again. Despite only having been back for all of four months.Hogan is convinced to stay long enough to get in a quick tag team championship win with Edge. He is then asked to put over Brock Lesnar, which he does.He is dissatisfied with his role, because he isn't be portrayed the way "he thought he would". He takes another "extended break" after the Lesnar match.
2003 - He returns at the request of VinceMcMahon and the promise of a big Wrestlemania payday. Their street fight is a featured match on the card.With the WWE Title now revolving around much younger wrestlers, Hogan is frustrated by Creatives decision to book him in a secondary role on Smackdown and he leaves WWE again.
2004 - Hogan is openly courted by TNA Wrestling, but the deal hits a snag when Hogan was reportedly told he would have to put over Jarrett at some point. Hogan begins to complain of "knee problems" as the deal falls apart.
2005 - Hogan is inducted into the Hall of Fame, and agrees to the idea of a Hogan/Shawn Michaels match at Summerslam.McMahon proposes two matches, with each winning one. Hogan agrees.After spending all of his comeback as a face, HBK agrees to turn heel to sell the match.Michaels carries a clearly laboring Hogan through a decent match at Summerslam, and HBK does the clean job to Hogan.The second match in the series is called off, when Hogan began to complain "his knee was acting up again".Hence, the Hogan win over HBK stands as their one and only meeting.
2005 - Hogan proposes the"Dream Match" scenario of Hogan vs Steve Austin to WWE Creative for Wrestlemania. Austin says no - citing the HBK scenario at Summerslam. He refuses to put Hogan over.
2006 - Hogan is asked to appear at Summerslam and face Randy Orton. He agrees with the rumoured condition that WWE pushes his daughter Brooke's debut CD.Instead of putting over "The Legend Killer", Hogan flexes his "creative control".
Despite being 53, having wrestled one match in over a year, and bad knees, Hogan defeats the 26 year old former World Champion via clean pinfall.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Bollywood Hidden facts Akshay Kumar
1. Akshay Kumar’s Real Name - Rajeev Hari Om Bhatia
2. Akshay Kumar did all types of odd jobs before he came in to the film industry. He even worked in Kolkata as a peon for a travel agency for a year and a half. One of his friends suggested modelling. Once in the field, he changed his name from Rajeev Hari Om Bhatia to Akshay Kumar.
3. First movie Akshay Kumar signed - Deedar
4. Even though his first released movie was Saughand, he first signed Deedar. Akshay was the original choice for Phool Aur Kante but since he had given dates for Deedar, Phool Aur Kante went to Ajay Devgan.
5. Akshay and Ajay Devgan would both practice stunts with Ajay Devgan’s father, Veeru Devgan. While Akshay was early, Ajay was a latecomer.
6. Akshay Kumar worked as a chef in Bangkok
7. Akshay Kumar’s father promised to send his to Bangkok for martial arts training provided he secured a first class in his board exams. Akshay secured 63 percent and got a ticket to Bangkok. Once there his uncle got him job at Metro Guest House where his first salary was 1000 baht (Rs 1,500). At night he would sleep in the kitchen.
8. Akshay Kumar married actress Twinkle Khanna in the year 2002.
9. Akshay was known for his Casanova image before his marriage and his affairs with Raveena Tandon and Shilpa Shetty was well known. Until 2001 when he got married to Twinkle Khanna. In 2002 they were blessed with baby boy, Aarav.
10. Akshay Kumar’s next movie with Deepika Padukone is ‘Made in China’ The movie is Made In China. It is produced by Warner Brothers and Rohan Sippy. Nikhil Advani is the director. Currently Akshay and Deepika are training in the Wushu form of martial arts. Shooting for the movie will commence from January 2008 to May 2008 in Shanghai, Beijing and a village in China.
2. Akshay Kumar did all types of odd jobs before he came in to the film industry. He even worked in Kolkata as a peon for a travel agency for a year and a half. One of his friends suggested modelling. Once in the field, he changed his name from Rajeev Hari Om Bhatia to Akshay Kumar.
3. First movie Akshay Kumar signed - Deedar
4. Even though his first released movie was Saughand, he first signed Deedar. Akshay was the original choice for Phool Aur Kante but since he had given dates for Deedar, Phool Aur Kante went to Ajay Devgan.
5. Akshay and Ajay Devgan would both practice stunts with Ajay Devgan’s father, Veeru Devgan. While Akshay was early, Ajay was a latecomer.
6. Akshay Kumar worked as a chef in Bangkok
7. Akshay Kumar’s father promised to send his to Bangkok for martial arts training provided he secured a first class in his board exams. Akshay secured 63 percent and got a ticket to Bangkok. Once there his uncle got him job at Metro Guest House where his first salary was 1000 baht (Rs 1,500). At night he would sleep in the kitchen.
8. Akshay Kumar married actress Twinkle Khanna in the year 2002.
9. Akshay was known for his Casanova image before his marriage and his affairs with Raveena Tandon and Shilpa Shetty was well known. Until 2001 when he got married to Twinkle Khanna. In 2002 they were blessed with baby boy, Aarav.
10. Akshay Kumar’s next movie with Deepika Padukone is ‘Made in China’ The movie is Made In China. It is produced by Warner Brothers and Rohan Sippy. Nikhil Advani is the director. Currently Akshay and Deepika are training in the Wushu form of martial arts. Shooting for the movie will commence from January 2008 to May 2008 in Shanghai, Beijing and a village in China.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
32 facts that amaze you
1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that!
6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! That explains it!
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.
15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback.
32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that!
6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! That explains it!
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.
15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback.
32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Some Known and Unknown Facts :
* India has never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.
* India invented the number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
* India established the world's first University at Takshasila in 700 B.C.
* Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages. It is the best suited language for computer software (Forbes magazine, July 1987).
* Ayurveda is the earliest system of medicine known to humans.
* The art of navigation originated in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. Navigation comes from the Sanskrit word "Nav Gatih".
* Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by earth to orbit the sun as 365.258756484 days (in 5th century A.D).
* In the 6th century A.D Budhayana calculated the value of pi . Quadratic equations were propunded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.
* According to the Gemological Institute of America , upto 1896, India was the only source for diamonds.
* IEEE has proved an age old suspicion that the pioneer of wireless communication is Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
* The earliest reservoir and dam was built in Saurashtra, India during Chandragupta Maurya's time (300 B.C)
* Chess originated in India.
* Susruta is known as the father of surgery, performing complex surgeries as many as 2600 years ago.
* India invented the number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
* India established the world's first University at Takshasila in 700 B.C.
* Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages. It is the best suited language for computer software (Forbes magazine, July 1987).
* Ayurveda is the earliest system of medicine known to humans.
* The art of navigation originated in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. Navigation comes from the Sanskrit word "Nav Gatih".
* Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by earth to orbit the sun as 365.258756484 days (in 5th century A.D).
* In the 6th century A.D Budhayana calculated the value of pi . Quadratic equations were propunded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.
* According to the Gemological Institute of America , upto 1896, India was the only source for diamonds.
* IEEE has proved an age old suspicion that the pioneer of wireless communication is Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
* The earliest reservoir and dam was built in Saurashtra, India during Chandragupta Maurya's time (300 B.C)
* Chess originated in India.
* Susruta is known as the father of surgery, performing complex surgeries as many as 2600 years ago.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Seven Unknown Facts About Bruce Lee
by valli, Oct 28, 2007
The very name of Bruce Lee reminds us of lightning-fast punches, deadly combating skills and well-built muscles. Most of the people who watch his talent in action think that he must have had all the opportunities to take him to where he went.
But he had to cross many obstacles to succeed in what he did. Here are a few facts that many people do not know about Bruce Lee.
1. Bruce Was Born in America
Although born in America, Bruce Lee was grown up in Hong Kong. He would get into fights very often in his teens, and after a particularly bloody fight including a trip to police station, he was sent back to America by his family.
2. He Dropped Out Of The University
In America, at the end of his junior year in 1964, Bruce decided to drop out of the university to dedicate himself to martial arts. He thought he would join the list of people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, who became famous despite dropping their studies.
3. He Was Badly Injured
He grievously injured his back during one of the practice sessions for The Green Hornet series in 1970. The doctors asked him to forget Kung Fu. But for someone who loved martial arts so much, this was too devastating a blow to take. Although he took physical rest for 6 months, his mind worked furiously and he wrote down many ideas and methods of martial arts. After 6 months, he himself started practicing them, moderately at first and vigorously with time, and then resumed to his teaching. But his back remained as a source of pain through out his life.
4. Many Opportunities Were Stolen From Him
After The Green Hornet series, he did not get any television work. The movie he acted in, The Silent Flute, was a flop. At that time, Warner Bros have contacted him asking help in developing a TV series based on martial arts. He gave them many ideas which were used in the famous TV series Kung Fu which starred David Carradine, and not Bruce Lee. Warner Bros themselves admitted that they never even considered Bruce for that role.
5. His Practice Was Vigorous
After his recovery from the back injury, Bruce Lee practiced incessantly to get back the previous vigor in his body. There are records which show that he practiced kicks up to thousand times a day.
6. He Loved Reading
Bruce Lee had a vast collection of books, and still looked for new books every time he went out. He read not just the books on martial arts, but books on personal growth. He even liked novice writers of his time like Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale and Clement Stone.
7. His Success Came from a Less-Than-Perfect Victory Bruce Lee was once challenged in the 1960s, for revealing the secrets of Chinese to others. He won the fight, but he was not happy: He took 3 minutes to win the fight when he could have completed in one minute. This less-than-perfect experience had made him modify the traditional martial arts to make them more deadly and powerful.
Dedication, determination and confidence that he can achieve what he wants are what that made him successful.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Facts about Electricity
What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster? Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesson. On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then stick your finger into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings. Did you notice how your friend twitched violently and cried out in pain?
This teaches us that electricity can be a very powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others unless we need to teach them an important electrical lesson. It also teaches us how an electrical circuit works, when you scuffed your feet, you picked up a batch of "electrons," which are very small objects that carpet manufactures weave into carpets so they will attract dirt. The electrons travel through your blood stream and collect in your finger, where they form a spark that leaps to your friend's filling, then travels down to his feet and back into the carpet, thus completing the circuit.
AMAZING ELECTRONIC FACT If you scuffed your feet long enough without touching anything, you would build up so many electrons that your finger would explode! But this is nothing to worry about, unless you have carpeting.
Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc. for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in. Then along came the first Electrical Pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite in a lightning storm and received a serious electrical shock. This proved that lightning was powered by the same force as carpets, but it also damaged Franklin's brain so severely that he started speaking only in incomprehensible maxims, such as, "A penny saved is penny earned." Eventually, he had to be given a job running the post office.
After Franklin, came a herd of Electrical Pioneers whose names have become part of our electrical terminology Myron Volt, Mary Louise Amp, James Watt, Bob Transformer, etc. These pioneers conducted many important electrical experiments. For example, in 1780 Luigi Galvani discovered (this is the truth) that when he attached two different kinds of metal to the leg of a frog, an electrical current developed and the frog's leg kicked, even though it was no longer actually attached to the frog, which was dead anyway. Galvani's discovery led to enormous advances in the field of amphibian medicine. Today, skilled veterinary surgeons can take a frog that has been seriously injured or killed, implant pieces of metal in its muscles, and watch it hop back into the pond just like a normal frog, except for the fact that it sinks like a stone.
But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically just sat until 1923, when the record was invented.
But Edison's greatest achievement came in 1879, when he invented the electric company. Edison's design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit. The electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again. This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few consumers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the last year in which any new electricity was generated in the United States was 1937. The electric companies have been merely re-selling it ever since, which is why they have so much free time to apply for rate increases.
Today, thanks to men like Edison and Franklin, and frogs like Galvani's, we receive almost unlimited benefits from electricity. For example, in the past decade scientists developed the laser, an electronic appliance that emits a beam of light so powerful that it can vaporize a bulldozer 2,000 yards away, yet so precise that doctors can use it to perform delicate operations on the human eyeball, provided they remember to change the power setting from "VAPORIZE BULLDOZER" to "DELICATE."
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Great Knowledge
* no piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
* The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
* Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
* A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
* The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.
* Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
* Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
* Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
* The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
* Earthworms have five hearts
* The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges. (Facts continue below)
* Fingerprints of koalas are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
* Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.
* If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
* If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)
* Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
* Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book "Historia de duobos amantibus" in 1444.
* SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below
* Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese".
* As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
* Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.
* The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
* Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
* A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
* The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.
* Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
* Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
* Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
* The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
* Earthworms have five hearts
* The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges. (Facts continue below)
* Fingerprints of koalas are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
* Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.
* If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
* If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)
* Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
* Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book "Historia de duobos amantibus" in 1444.
* SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below
* Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese".
* As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
* Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.
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