Major Events that happened in 2011

January 11 – Flooding and mudslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro kills 903

January 24 – 37 people are killed and more than 180 others wounded in a bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia.

March 11 – A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,822 and leaving another 3,926 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake.

March 17 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: The United Nations Security Council votes 10-0 to create a no-fly zone over Libya in response to allegations of government aggression against civilians.

 

April 29 – An estimated two billion people watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.

May 1 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan.

June 4 – Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia and forcing over 3,000 people to evacuate.

July 21 – Space Shuttle Atlantis lands successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS-135, concluding NASA's space shuttle program.

 

July 22 – 76 people are killed in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet (the government center in Oslo) and a shooting at a political youth camp in the island of Utøya.

September 10 – Zanzibar ferry sinking: The MV Spice Islander I carrying at least 800 people sank off the coast of Zanzibar. 240 people have been confirmed dead.

 September 12 – Approximately 100 Kenyans are dead after a petrol pipeline explosion in Nairobi, Kenya.

September 19 – After 434 dead, the United Nations launches a $357 million appeal for victims of the 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan

 October 4 - Mogadishu bombing: 100 people are killed in a car bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

 October 4 - In Thailand, 283 people are killed by floods during a severe monsoon season, with 58 of the country's 77 provinces affected.

October 4 - The death toll from the flooding of Cambodia's Mekong River and attendant flash floods reaches 207

October 20 - Basque separatist militant organisation ETA declares an end to its 43-year campaign of political violence, which has killed over 800 people since 1968

 October 23 – A destructive magnitude 7.2 Mw earthquake jolted eastern Turkey near the city of Van, killing over 582 people, and damaging about 2,200 buildings

November 26 – The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, the most elaborate Martian exploration vehicle to date, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. It is slated to land on Mars on August 5, 2012. 

 December 15 – The United States formally declares an end to the Iraq War.

December 16 – Tropical Storm Washi causes 1,249 flash flood fatalities in the Philippines with 1,079 people are officially listed as missing.

December 29 – Samoa and Tokelau moves from east to west of the International Date Line in order to align its time zone better with its main trading partners, meaning that it will not mark December 30 this year.

Finally, Leaving all these events and hope to have a prosperous year, Happy New Year 2012

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Interesting facts about Food and Drinks

Facts about food & drinks:

• Ice cream was originally made without sugar and eggs.
• Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
• Only food that does not spoil: honey.
• In Bavaria, beer isn't considered an alcoholic drink but rather a staple food.
• Beer is made by fermentation cause by bacteria feeding on yeast cells and then defecating. In other words, it's a nice tall glass of bacteria doo-doo.
• In medieval England beer often was served with breakfast.
• There are more than 15,000 different kinds of rice.
• Rice is the main food for half of the people of the world.
• John Kellogg invented corn flakes, for a patient with bad teeth. Charles Post invented Grape Nuts. Dr. Kellogg was the manager of a Michigan health spa and Post was a patient. The spa was founded by Sylvester Graham...inventor of the Graham cracker and pioneer of the early 1800s movement to eat more bran.
• Carbonated water, with nothing else in it, can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda.
• The secret recipe for Coca Cola, code-named "Merchandise 7X" is kept under lock and key in a vault in the SunTrust Bank Building in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Coke inventor Dr. John S. Pemberton and current world headquarters of Coca Cola International.
• SPAM stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM.
• Burger King® uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants.
• The famous Chef Wolfgang Puck chose the Italian word "Spago" as the name for his popular chain of restaurants. In Italian - spago = "String" or "Twine" - slang for spaghetti.
• Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.
• Fanta Orange is the third largest selling soft drink in the world.
• A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
• Sixty cows can produce a ton of milk a day.
• Thin-skinned lemons are the juiciest.
• Carrots were first grown as a medicine not a food. The Ancient Greeks called carrots "Karoto".
• According to Hershey's Chocolate Company, Valentine's Day ranks fourth in candy sales, behind Halloween, Christmas and Easter.

Coldplay - Paradise

Lyrics:

"Paradise"

When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
So she ran away in her sleep
Dreamed of para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Every time she closed her eyes
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh

When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
And the bullets catch in her teeth

Life goes on
It gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear, a waterfall
In the night, the stormy night
She closed her eyes
In the night, the stormy night
Away she'd fly.

And dreamed of para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh

She dreamed of para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh.

La la la La
La la la

So lying underneath those stormy skies.
She said oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.
I know the sun must set to rise.

This could be para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
This could be para- para- paradise
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh.

This could be para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Could be para- para- paradise
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh.

This could be para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Could be para- para- paradise
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh.

Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo
Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo

3,000-year-old human remains uncovered in Mustang caves

The news extracted from ekantipur.com on 12 December, 2011 written by Ankit Adhikari

What could well be compared toShangri-La as envisioned by British author James Hilton in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, recent findings of human history dating back to over 3,000 years inthe caves of Upper Mustang have unraveled a significant portion, if not thewhole of that virgin unknown.

A team of national and international climbers, scientists, archaeologists, historiansand anthropologists has found evidence of thousands of years of civilization in this mystical land. After beginning the first phase of its research in 2008,the team discovered human remains dating back to 3,000 years, bringing out untold stories of an “independent” civilization. According to Mohan Singh Lama,an archaeologist with the Department of Archaeology (DoA), the findings go backto the pre-history period (before the beginning of the Christian era) when the Indus Valley and the Chinese civilizations were slowly making inroads intoNepal via present day India and the Tibetan plateau. “Since cave settlement was not popular in other places around, we can view this as an independent civilization,”he said, adding that one of the most important cultures of the past that they found out is the unique burial pattern. According to him, dead bodies used tobe buried in caves, along with jewelry and utensils. The team found square coffins in the caves with human skeletons, perched under kilos of jewelry and utensils. “This makes the entire area rich in underground treasure, but many ofthe graves were dug by treasure hunters,” Lama said. Though not practiced now,treasure hunting used to be one of the most sensational businesses for many people in and around Mustang until a couple of centuries ago, experts say.

The team that includes experts from the National Geographic channel and the DoA hasso far been able to explore at least nine caves.

Ancient Tibetan Buddhist shrines were also recovered from the caves. The shrines aredecorated with exquisitely painted frescoes, including a 55-panel depiction of Buddha’s life. Thousands of pages of religious texts written in the Tibetan language,stone carvings, idols and paintings are the main religious findings, Lama said.Caves where people lived were constructed several meters vertically upward from the basement. “The caves that begin with a small hole visible from the outside are huge maze-like structures in the inside,” Lama said. However, how the people climbed up to the entrance is still a mystery” Lama added.

After 2008, the team continued its study in 2010 and 2011.

Mark Aldenderfer, an archaeologist at the University of California who is leadingthe excavation team, claims people have been living in the Mustang valley since10,000 years. “Our team found stone tools near Kagbeni. These tools resemblethose from lower elevations. Their presence suggests people have been moving intothe valley for a very long time,” Aldenderfer told the Post.

एउटा अर्को राजेश हमालको जोकस।।

फेरि एकचोटि राजेश हमाल केटी माग्न गएछन् । केटीसँग कुरा मिलेपछी केटीले finalize गर्न भनेर ममिलाई बोलाई । ममिले राजेशलाई देख्ने बित्तिकै faint भैछन् ।

होश खुलेपछि hospital म उनलाईfaint हुनुको कारण सोधियो ।

ममिले भनिन् , ” यिनी त मलाई पनि हेर्न आएका थिए ।”

How popular websites looked when they launched

Let’s go into past for a while. Let’s see how our current popular websites looked when they were launched mostly during mid and late 90s. Remember the days when the word Google was not interchangeable with Internet? Or when every site seemed to have a Netscape icon on it? Or when Flash was still something you cleaned your floor with?

Thanks to the way back machine Internet archive, we're still able to see some of the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 pioneers looked in their earliest incarnations.

Let’s have a look of screenshots of top websites currently in the mid to late 1990s:

google.com - launched in 1996

facebook.com - launched in 2004

myspace.com - launched in 2003

yahoo.com - launched in 1994

youtube.com - launched in 2005

wikipedia.org - launched in 2001

msn.com - launched in 1995

apple.com - launched in 1987 (screenshot from1996)

drudgereport.com - launched in 1997

amazon.com - launched in 1995

twitter.com - launched in 2006

whitehouse.gov - launched in 1994

craigslist.org - launched in 1995

nytimes.com - launched in 1995

news.bbc.co.uk - launched in 1997

dell.com - launched in 1996

friendsreunited.com - launched in 2000

telegraph.co.uk - launched in 1994

blogger.com - launched in 1999

Forget New Twitter. Check Out Old Facebook

By Scott Gilbertson

The tech press is abuzz,debating the merits and failures of the new (new new?) Twitter web and mobile designs.

If you’re like most, you aren’t even seeing Twitter’s new website just yet, so if you’d like to contemplate  something a bit more fun on a Friday morning, consider what Twitter might have looked like had it been around in 1997.

You might remember 1997, the head yearly days of web design — 1-pixel spacer images, animated gifs, tables with gray borders and a magical new idea called “cascading stylesheets.”

How would Twitter have looked in that world? We’ll never know,but thanks to a new art project dubbed “Once Upon” you can see what Facebook,YouTube and Google+ might have looked like had they been around in 1997. Once Upon was created by artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, who describe the project as “three important contemporary web sites recreated with the technology and spirit of late 1997, according to our memories.”

That’s right, Facebook, YouTube and Google+ redesigned in the spirit and look of 1997. As an added bonus the demo site has been set up to limit bandwidth at a 1997-esque 8 kB/s so it loads just as painfully slow as it would have on dial up.

Naturally all three sites are“best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.03 and a screen resolution of 1024×768pixels, running under Windows 95″ (that resolution actually seems a bit large for 1997, but that’s okay). If you can’t find a Windows 95 machine in the closet fear not, the demo site will work in any web browser that supports frames.

एक्छिन रमाइलो गरौ।।

मोबाइल म्यारिज ब्युरो

विदुर : “मैले ‘मोबाइल म्यारिज ब्युरो’ खोलेको छु । ०००० डायल गरी अविवाहित युवकले १, युवतीले २ र अभिभावकले ३ थिच्नुहोला ।” प्रश्न आयो : “दोश्रो विवाह गर्न चाहने चाँही के थिच्नु नि ?” विदुर : “दोश्रो विवाह गर्न चाहनेले पहिलोको घाँटी थिच्नु ।”


भेटे देखी बहुतै कम खान थालेको छु

प्रेमी: तिमीसंग भेटे देखी बहुतै कम खान थालेको छु । रक्सी खान छाडें, धुम्रपान गर्दिन …
प्रेमिका: हामी बीचको प्रेमले सबै कुरो बिर्साइदियो ?
प्रेमी: प्रेमले होइन, मायालु । पैंसाको अभावले ।

10 more words for GRE....

Here are 10 words for those who are preparing for GRE,

1. Bard n.  poet
• The ancient bard Homer sang of the fall of troy.
2. Blunder n, v. error
• The criminal's fatal blunder led to his capture.
3. Canto n. division of long poem
• Dante's poetic masterpiece "The Divine Comedy" is divided into cantos.
4. Champion v, n. support militantly
• Martin Luther King Jr,  won the Nobel Peace Prize because he championed the oppressed in their struggle for equality.
5. collaborate v. work together
•  Two writers collaborated  in preparing this book.
6. conglomeration n. mass of material sticking together
• In such a conglomeration  of miscellaneous statistics, it was impossible to find the single areas of analysis.
7. counterpart n.  a thing that completes another; things very much alike
• Day and night are counterparts.
8. deciduous adj. falling off, as of leaves.
• The oak is a deciduous tree.
9. derogatory adj. expressing a low opinion
• Because the word Eskimo has come under strong attack in recent years for its supposedly derogatory connotations, many Americans today either avoid the term or feel uneasy using it.
10. dishearten v. discourage
• His failure to pass the bar exam disheartened him.

For increasing GRE word power....5 Words for today...

For all who are preparing for GRE, here are 5 words for today,

1. aboriginal:  adj, n. being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native (aborigine, n)
• Her studies of the primitive art forms of the aboriginal  Indians were widely reported in the scientific journals.
2.  adulation n. flattery; admiration. (adulate, v)
• The rock star thrived on the adulation of his groupies and yes -men. 
3. amenities n. convenient features; courtesies.
• In addition to the customary amenities for the business traveler- fax machines, modems, a health club- the hotel offers the services of a butler(head of the servant) versed in the social amenities.
4. apothegm n. pithy, compact saying. (pithy-precisely meaningful, forceful and brief)
• Proverbs are apothegms that have become familiar sayings.
5. astral adj. relating to the stars.
• She was amazed at the number of astral bodies the new telescope revealed.

अमेरिकाबाट धेरै फुर्ति नलगाऔ है!!

अमेरिकाबाट गाऊँमा हर्केलाइ फोनमा फुर्ति लाऊँदै शेरे,
शेरे: ओबामालाइ चिन्छस?..
हर्के: चिन्दिन
शेरे: अमेरिका आए पो चिन्थिस, एन्जेलिना जोलीलाइ नि?.
हर्के :अहँ चिन्दिन
…शेरे: अंग्रेजी फिल्म हेरे पो चिन्थिस, रिहानालाइ नि?..
हर्के: चिन्दिन
शेरे: अंग्रेजी गीत सुने पो चिन्थिस, लन्ठु शेरेका कुरा सुनेर हर्के झन्कींदै भन्यो ‘बिर्खेलाई चिन्छस?..
शेरे: अहँ चिन्दिन यार
हर्के: तेरै स्वास्नीको boy friend हो, कहिल्यै घर बसे पो चिन्थिस..

ख्याल ठट्टा.....

Old but funny one....
टिचरले रामलाई सोधेछन्

टिचर : राम टिमि भन त एउटा कुखुराले एक दिनमा २ ओटा अण्डा दिन्छ भने एक हप्तामा कतिओटा अण्डा दिन्छ?

राम : १२ ओटा सर ।

टिचर : कसरि १२ ओटा मात्रै दिन्छ ? हप्तामा ७ दिन हुन्छ।

राम : सर सनिबार त छुट्टि हुन्छनि त।

Rajesh Hamal better than Rajnikant!!!

Once rajesh hamal & Rajanikant met on a plane & had a bet dat if rajesh dai fails to ans his questions he must give 5$ & if Rajanikant fails he has 2 give 500$.. rajanikant agreed!

Rajanikant: wats d diff b/w earth n moon?
rajesh dai silently gives 5$

rajesh dai : which is d animal with 3legs goes 2 d mountain & returns with 4legs?
Rajanikant thought for 2hrs & gave 500$ n asks wats d ans?
rajesh dai again silently gave 5$ !!