Term For The Day

avitational Lensing :

Gravitational Lensing is the name given to a phenomenon where light bends when it encounters a gravitationally - powerful cosmic object such as a star or a large planet..... This phenomenon occurs due to the bending of the Space - Time continnum by a heavy cosmic object...... This leads to light being refracted in different ways thus giving the observer the illusion of a lens in space.......

Term For The Day

PYROCLASTIC FLOW:

Pryoclastic Flow is the term used to describe the Ultra - Hot mixture of gas and volcanic ash (rocks) that flows the sides of a volcano as soon as it erupts ..... The mixture is so hot that it is believed that the Pyroclastic flow from the eruption of Mt.Vesuvius that wiped out the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum during its eruption in A.D 79 evaporated the internal organs of humans and other living beings almost instantly........ Scary........

Trivia For The Day

Although the Planet Mercury is named after the element Mercury , the crust of Mercury is very very rich in Iron Ore...... It has so much mercury that if found a way to mine Mercury it would solve all the iron needs of mankind for many million years........

Trivia For The Day - Famous MNCs and their origin countries

I have compiled a list of Famous MNCs and their countries of origin......

RaboBank - The Netherlands

Philips - The Netherlands

Unilever - The Netherlands

Accenture - Ireland (!!!!)

Shell - The Netherlands

Exxon Mobil - USA

Boeing - USA

Lockheed - USA

Martin

Nokia - Finland

Airbus - France

Tata - India

Bharti - India

Telenor - Norway

MTS - Russia

Nike - USA

Puma - Germany

Adidas - Germany

Of Course The Netherlands has the privilege of being the "MNC Country".......

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Tsar Bomba is the most powerful Nuclear Bomb ever tested. The name itself in Russian means "King of Bombs". Originally meant to be a 100 MegaTon bomb , the capacity was scaled down to 50 MegaTons and tested at Novaya Zemlya island near the Arctic Circle . The Blast was so powerful that shock waves from the blast traveled the Circumference of the earth 7 times........

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Varese Sarabande , the popular music label known for its soundtracks is a part of the Universal Music Group.

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Many who might have watched THE MUMMY trilogy might have heard the word "Hamunaptra" ..... The City Of the Dead is what the movie describes the City as in the movie..... Of course the City is a fictional city.... But hold it right there.... NO strangely Hamunaptra is a REAL city..... The City is a part of the Indus Valley civilization in Pakistan...... The name of the city means " The City of Dead" ..........

Specials - The Harpeggi

Many people who have been gripped by the Oscar fever would have known that the Great Indian Composer A.R.Rahman has been nominated for two Oscars this year.... His song "If I Rise" featuring Dido and A.R.Rahman has been lauded by many for containing interesting sounds.... The Video of If i Rise features A.R.Rahman playing a loop over an almost unknown instrument and Dido singing.... Many told me it was a Finger Pad - a kind of music controller.... But when i came to know it was not a controller but an instrument i was intrigued at this never seen never heard before instrument.... The Harpeggi does not even have a Wikipedia Page so i thought i can put something about the Harpeggi here...... The Harpeggi belongs to a class of instruments called the Tapping instruments..... They are tapped with the fingers to produce sound.... The Harpeggi when tapped produces sounds electronically.... The most interesting part is that a Harpeggi is played like a Piano or a Keyboard but produces sounds like a Electric Guitar ...... The Harpeggi was invented by THE MARCODI MUSICAL COMPANY..... As a bonus i have pasted here the link of a video where the A.R.Rahman purchases a Harpeggi and tries to play with it....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_6Jt1JyKZg

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Not many people know that the popular Cola-drink Coca Cola contains caffeine.... Virtually most people do not know that it contains Cocaine..... "Whaaaat did u just tell Cocaine?", yes, yes Coca-Cola was originally a product intended for medicinal purposes thats why it contained Cocaine.... But the original recipe was changed to remove the Cocaine from the Soft-Drink... Even today Coca Cola contains Coca leaves without Cocaine in it...... Thats why the name COCA cola.....

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Heineken , the World's Second Largest Beer company is headquartered in The Netherlands....

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BrahMos - The Cruise missile developed by Russia and India is the fastest Cruise Missile in the World....

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An interesting Corporate...... Perfetti Van Melle.....................

Perfetti Van Melle is an Italian Confectionery manufacturer..... It is a Multi-national giant which produces many common toffees that we use in our daily life.... Some of the brands that Perfetti Van Melle produces are....

• Alpenliebe
• Center Fresh
• Mentos
• HappyDent Chewing Gum

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Many people are under the common misconception that Sri Lanka's Capital is "COLOMBO" no its not!!!!!!!!! Sri Lanka's Capital is Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte..... It is located near Colombo.....

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Think Music - The famous Chennai - Based Music label, famous for some of its blockbuster soundtracks like Paiya , Enthiran is owned by SATHYAM CINEMAS of Chennai....

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Some interesting facts about the rap song "Lose Yourself" by Eminem...

• It was composed and sung by Eminem for his part-biographical movie 8 Mile
• The song was recorded in a portable recording studio by Eminem
• The song has completed 2 Million music downloads making it the highest downloaded rap song in history
• The song spent 12 Weeks on the top of the Billboard Charts making it the longest run for a rap song on the top of the charts
• The song won The Academy Award for the Best Song making it the first and only rap song to have won the Academy Award
• When the award was conferred, Eminem was sleeping in his house under the presumption that a rap song would never get the Academy Award.

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Titan - the largest moon of Saturn is the only known object in the universe other than Earth to contain liquids on its surface and in its atmosphere..... Lakes of liquid hydrocarbons have been discovered speculating the existence of some life form.....

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The island of Borneo, one of the islands in the archipelago of Indonesia and is also the third largest island in the World.....(Excluding Australia in the list)..... But the interesting fact about Borneo is that the island is shared by three countries..... It has Brunei, the small oil-rich country in its northern shore.... The remaining area is split between two countries - Indonesia and Malaysia.....

Sports Special - Football Clubs and their Stadiums.....

Here contains a list of some of the most important football clubs with their more famous football stadiums....As usual this is a self-composed list so pardon me if I have excluded some.....

Manchester United - Old Trafford

Manchester City - City of Manchester Stadium

Chelsea - Stamford Bridge

Arsenal - Emirates Stadium

Tottenham Hotspurs - White Hart Lane

Everton - Goodison Park

Liverpool F.C - Anfield Stadium

Aston Villa - Villa Park

Juventus - Stadio Olimpicio di Torino

A.C.Milan & Inter - San Siro ( Stadio Guiseppe Meazza)

A.S.Roma - Stadio Olimpico

Barcelona F.C - Camp Nou

Real Madrid - Santiago Bernabeu

Valencia F.C - Estadio Mestalla

Mohun Bagan F.C - Salt Lake Stadium( Shared with East Bengal F.C )

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The month of August - The Eighth month of the English calendar is named after the first Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar the great Nephew of Julius Caesar........

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The man with the highest number of Oscars still alive is not Al Pacino, not John Williams but is ALAN MENKEN, a famous composer who has scored some of the most famous Disney movies such as Pocahontas, Tangled(2010), The Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame....