IMPORTANT DAYS

January 9	NRI Day
January 10	World Laughter Day
January 12	National Youth Day
January 15	Army Day
January 26	India's Republic Day, International Customs Day
January 30	Martyrs' Day; World Leprosy Eradication Day
2nd Sunday of February	World Marriage Day
February 24	Central Excise Day
February 28	National Science Day
Second Monday March	Commonwealth Day
March 8	International Women's Day; Intl. literacy Day
March 15	World Disabled Day; World Consumer Rights Day
March 18	Ordnance Factories Day (India)
March 21	World Forestry Day; International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 22	World Day for Water
March 23	World Meteorological Day
March 24	World TB Day
April 5	International Day for Mine Awareness; National Maritime Day
April 7	World Health Day
April 17	World Haemophilia Day
April 18	World Heritage Day
April 21	Secretaries' Day
April 22	Earth Day
April 23	World Book and Copyright Day
May 1	Workers' Day (International Labour Day)
May 3	Press Freedom Day; World Asthma Day
May 2nd Sunday	Mother's Day
May 4	Coal Miners' Day
May 8	World Red Cross Day
May 9	World Thalassaemia Day
May 11	National Technology Day
May 12	World Hypertension Day; International Nurses Day
May 15	International Day of the Family
May 17	World Telecommunication Day
May 24	Commonwealth Day
May 31	Anti-tobacco Day
June 4	International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
June 5	World Environment Day
June 3rd Sunday	Father's Day
June 14	World Blood Donor Day
June 26	International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
July 1	Doctor's Day
July 6	World Zoonoses Day
July 11	World Population Day
August 3	Internatioal Friendship Day
August 6	Hiroshima Day
August 8	World Senior Citizen's Day
August 9	Quit India Day, Nagasaki Day
August 15	Indian Independence Day
August 18	IntI. Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
August 19	Photography Day
August 29	National Sports Day
September 2	Coconut Day
September 5	Teachers' Day; Sanskrit Day
September 8	World Literacy Day (UNESCO)
September 15	Engineers' Day
September 16	World Ozone Day
September 21	Alzheimer's Day; Day for Peace & Non-violence (UN)
September 22	Rose Day (Welfare of cancer patients)
September 26	Day of the Deaf
September 27	World Tourism Day
October 1	International Day for the Elderly
October 2	Gandhi Jayanthi
October 3	World Habitat Day
October 4	World Animal Welfare Day
October 8	Indian Air Force Day
October 9	World Post Office Day
October 10	National Post Day
October 2nd Thursday	World Sight Day
October 13	UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
October 14	World Standards Day
October 15	World White Cane Day (guiding the blind)
October 16	World Food Day
October 24	UN Day; World Development Information Day
October 30	World Thrift Day
November 9	Legal Services Day
November 14	Children's Day; Diabetes Day
November 17	National Epilepsy Day
November 20	Africa Industrialisation Day
November 29	International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
December 1	World AIDS Day
December 3	World Day of the Handicapped
December 4	Indian Navy Day
December 7	Indian Armed Forces Flag Day
December 10	Human Rights Day; IntI. Children's Day of Broadcasting
December 18	Minorities Rights Day (India)
December 23	Kisan Divas (Farmer's Day) (India)

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FACTS ABOUT ANTARCTICA

Antarctica is the coldest continent on earth, as the lowest temperature recorded here was -89o C. On an average, it is 17 degrees colder than Arctic in the north.


The coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -129 Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.


The continent was discovered in 1820 by a Russian expedition, but was not further explored to any serious extent for another 100 years. 


 No permanent human residents are known to have ever lived on the continent and even today only temporary scientific communities exist. 


It is the driest continent on earth, as it hardly receives 2 inches of rainfall annually.  The ‘Dry valley’ region on the continent is supposed to be bereft of rainfall since 2 million years.


The continent of Antarctica is buried under 1 mile of ice sheet and snow. If the ice melts, the continent would spring back 500 m, in around 1000 years.


If Antarctica's ice sheets melt, the level of the world’s oceans would rise by 60 to 65 meters (200 - 210 ft).


Antarctica is the ideal place to find meteorites, as they are easily visible on the white sheets of ice. They do not get covered by vegetation and even get trapped into the ice.


Antarctica is one and a half times the size of United States.


At the deepest point, the ice in Antarctica is around 3 - 4 km thick.


The largest animal living on the continent is midge, which measure less than a half inch long.


Antarctica is the windiest continent on earth. It experiences frequent wind storms, which at times speed over 300 knots at the sea coast.


The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot here.


Owing to the chilly water in Antarctica, codfish have antifreeze in their blood to save them from freezing.


The ice cap at Antarctic contains 29 million cubic kilometers of ice. This constitutes nearly 90% of all the ice on the planet and between 60 - 70% of all of the fresh water in the world.


Only 0.4 percent of Antarctica is not covered by ice.


Antarctica is the highest continent in elevation.


The Antarctic ice sheet is 3-4 km thick, covers 13 million sq km and has temperatures as low as -70 degrees centigrade.


The world's windiest place is Commonwealth Bay, Antartica with winds regularly exceeding 150 miles per hour.


Antarctica is the highest, driest, and coldest continent on Earth.


The continent is the only natural habitat of the Emperor Penguin, immortalized in the movie March of the Penguins. The penguin, however, also is found on the shoreline of some southern continents from time to time. 


The continent has no government and is not owned by any country. Many countries have claimed the continent at one time or another. Currently, a treaty exists that grants the continent its independence from any such claims. 

Did You know

Did You Know, Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.


Did You Know, The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.


Did You Know, 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.


Did You Know, TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.


Did You Know, Butterflies taste with their feet.


Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally green.


Did You know, If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.


Did You Know, Every day more money is printed for
Monopoly than the US Treasury.


Did You Know, It is impossible to lick your elbow.


Did You Know, Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.


Did You Know,"When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go."

THREE PLANTERS-JOKES

There were two guys working for the city. One would dig a hole — he would dig, dig, dig. The other would come behind him and fill the hole — fill, fill, fill. These two men worked furiously; one digging a hole, the other filling it up again. A man was watching from the sidewalk and couldn’t believe how hard these men were working, but couldn’t understand what they were doing. Finally he had to ask them. He said to the hole digger, “I appreciate how hard you work, but what are you doing? You dig a hole and your partner comes behind you and fills it up again!” The hole digger replied, “Oh yeah, must look funny, but the guy who plants the trees is sick today.”

GIRLS V/S BOYS

When a Girl Cries,The World “Consoles” her
But when a boy cries , They say Come on man don’t be A “Girl”

If A Girl slaps a Boy, Definitely the Boy would have “done something”
If Boy Slaps a girl,Rascal doesn’t know how to “Respect Ladies”

If a Girl is talking to Boys, She is “Very Friendly”
If a Boy talks to a Girl,He is “flirting”

If a Girl meets with accident,Then its “mistake of others”
If a Boy meets with same accident , “Don’t you know how to Drive”

BILL GATES FUNNY FACT

1.Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that’s about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!

2.If he drops a thousand dollars, he won’t even bother to pick it up bcoz the 4 seconds he picks it, he would’ve already earned it back.

3.The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.

4.He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US$5 Million for his pocket money.

5.Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn’t drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he’ll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates
is now.

6.If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.

7.If you change all of Bill Gate’s money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from the earth to moon, 14 times back and forth.! But you have to make that road non-stop for 1400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.

WORDS CONTAINING ALL THE VOWELS IN CORRECT ORDER

"ABSTEMIOUS and FACETIOUS are the two words that contains all the vowels in their correct order". 


MEANINGS:


Abstemious:

1. sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
2. marked by temperance in indulgence

Facetious: 

1. cleverly amusing in tone

INDIAN STATES AND CAPITALS

Do you know how many states and union territories are there presently in INDIA........?You know that capital of India is New Delhi but do you know capitals of all states and union territories of India...............?

    

               Our country India is divided into 28 states and 7 union territories.States have their own government that is,state government whereas union territories are administered by central government.

List of all the states and their capitals

      STATE         CAPITAL

1. Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad
2. Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar
3. Assam Dispur
4. Bihar Patna
5. Chhatisgarh Raipur
6. Goa Panaji
7. Gujarat Gandhinagar
8. Haryana Chandigarh
9. Himachal Pradesh Shimla
10. Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar (Summer), Jammu (Winter)
11. Jharkhand Ranchi
12. Karnataka Bangalore
13. Kerala Thiruvananthapuram
14. Madhya Pradesh Bhopal
15. Maharashtra Mumbai
16. Manipur Imphal
17. Meghalaya Shillong
18. Mizoram Aizawl
19. Nagaland Kohima
20. Orissa Bhubaneswar
21. Punjab Chandigarh
22. Rajasthan Jaipur
23. Sikkim Gangtok
24. Tamil Nadu Chennai
25. Tripura Agartala
26. Uttar Pradesh Lucknow
27. Uttaranchal Dehradun
28. West Bengal Kolkata

List of all the union territories and their capitals
    UNION TERRITORY               CAPITAL

1. Andaman and Nicobar Islands                       Port Blair
2. Chandigarh                                                         Chandigarh
3. Dadra and Nagar Haveli                                   Silvasa
4. Daman and Diu                                                  Daman
5. Lakshadweep                                                     Kavaratti
6. Pondicherry                                                        Pondicherry
7. National Capital Territory of Delhi(NCT)                  Delhi

WORLD COUNTRIES-CAPITALS AND FLAGS

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY COUNTRIES ARE THERE IN WORLD?

When one asks this question different number of answers pop up.Different sources provide different numbers.

              The best possible answer is that there are 195 countries in the World.There are 192 members of the United Nations. Unfortunately, the number 192 is too often used to represent the number of countries in the world. Although this number represents almost all of the countries in the world, there are still two recognized independent countries, the Vatican City and Kosovo, that are independent and are not members of the U.N. so 192 is not the number of countries in the world.

              The United States' State Department recognizes 194 independent countries around the world. Their list of 194 countries reflects the political agenda of the United States of America and its allies. Missing from the State Department's list is one entity that may or may not be considered a country, depending on who you talk to.
                    Taiwan meets the requirements of independent country or state status. However, due to political reasons, it fails to be recognized by the international community as independent. Nonetheless, it should be considered as independent.
              Taiwan was actually a member of the United Nations (and even the Security Council) until 1971, when mainland China replaced Taiwan in the organization. Taiwan continues to press for full recognition by other countries, to become "part of the club" and fully recognized worldwide but China claims that Taiwan is simply a province of China.
             Thus the best possible answer would be 195 countries.However recognize that there are dozens of territories and colonies that are sometimes erroneously called "countries" but don't count at all - they're governed by other countries. Places commonly confused as being countries include Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Greenland, Palestine, Western Sahara, and even the components of the United Kingdom (such as Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England - they're not fully independent countries, states, or nation-states).



Here is the list of all 195 countries with their capitals and flags.


FLAG   COUNTRY-CAPITAL

       Afghanistan - Kabul

        Albania - Tirane

       Algeria - Algiers

       Andorra - Andorra la Vella

      Angola - Luanda

      Antigua and Barbuda - Saint John's

  Argentina - Buenos Aires

What gives Sunrise and Sunset an orange glow?

Do you know why there is an orange glow around the Sun at the time of Sunrise and Sunset?Here is the answer........


              At the Sunrise and Sunset,we see the Sun through a greater thickness of air because it is low in the sky.Therefore,we are looking at it across the Earth's surface rather than directly up into the sky.
             At these times,the sky often turns orange-red because the "photons" of red and orange light are scattered through the atmosphere around us.
                                      As the Sun sets or rises,its light travels to us across the Earth's surface.The colours of the spectrum are gradually scattered.Red and Orange are the last to be scattered before the Sun finally sets or rises.

SCIENTISTS-MAX PLANCK

Max Planck was a  renowned physicist. Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born on 23 April in Kiel Germany. His father was a prominent jurist and professor of law at a university of Kiel. At the age of  9,his father received a post at the university of Munich ,and Planck attended the Maximilian Gymnasium. While Planck succeeded very well in all subjects there,he gained an interest in physics and mathematics,finally   graduating at the age of 17.
          

OSCAR

The first actor to receive an Oscar posthumously was Peter Finch who died of a heart attack while leaving the Beverly Hills Hotel to do a pre-Oscar ceremony TV interview with Good Morning America.

The oscar statuettes were once made of plaster - during the war.

The biggest winner ever was Walt Disney, who picked up a whopping 26 Oscars from 64 nominations, plus another six special trophies.

The famous golden statuette, formally named the Academy Award of Merit, got its more popular moniker “Oscar” when Academy librarian Margaret Herrick said that it resembled her Uncle Oscar. Before this name stuck, other people had tried to call it “the golden trophy,” “the statue of merit,” and “the iron man.”

Midnight Cowboy was the only X-rated movie (for graphic sex scene) to ever win the Academy Award for Best Pictures.

A movie has to be at least 40 minutes long to be considered for a Best Picture award. The shortest movie that ever won was Marty, which took one hour and twenty-eight minutes.

READING

The average reading speed is 200 – 250 words a minute in non-technical material .

Estimates indicate that at least 20 million of the nation’s 53 million school-age children are poor readers - about two out of five children.

The average person retains only 5% of what is read once, after thirty days.

The term dyslexia can refer to two disorders: developmental dyslexia is a learning disability; alexia or acquired dyslexia refers to reading difficulties that occur following brain damage.

The average American college graduate only reads 5 books in his/her post-college lifetime.

Ronald Carver, a professor of education research and psychology, claims that the fastest college graduate readers can only read at most twice as fast as their slowest counterparts, namely about 600 words per minute.

U.S. President John F. Kennedy was a proponent of speed reading and encouraged his staff to take lessons.

WHITE HOUSE

The architect of the White House was chosen in a design competition, which received nine proposals, including one submitted anonymously by Thomas Jefferson.

There are 132 rooms, 32 bathrooms, and 6 levels to accommodate all the people who live in, work in, and visit the White House. There are also 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 7 staircases, and 3 elevators.

The building was originally referred to variously as the “President’s Palace”, “Presidential Mansion”, or “President’s House”. President Teddy Roosevelt gave the White House its current and official name in 1901.

White House was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian style and has been the residence of every U.S. President since John Adams.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had an indoor swimming pool built at the White House as therapy for his polio.

The White House is the only private residence of a head of state that is open to the public, free of charge.

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.

The White House requires 570 gallons of paint to cover its outside surface.

LAUGHING FACT

If you laugh 100 times it’s the same thing with cycling 15 minutes on your bike. Energetic laughter boosts the heart rate deepens the breathing rate, and bring into play muscles in the face, stomach, and diaphragm.

Apart from enhance our moods, laughter can cut down stress, cooperate fighting infection, and reduce pain.

Laughter generate helpful changes in brain chemistry by delivering endorphins, and it leads more oxygen into the body with the deeper inhalations.

Laughter is instinctive and contagious. Our laughter is under minimal conscious control, and it challenges the hypothesis that we are in full control of our behaviour.

Italian author Pietro Aretino who in 1556 was laughing so hard at a bawdy story being told to him by his sister that he fell backwards in his chair and died of suffocation from “laughing too much.”

Laughter amplify the natural killer cells that attack viruses and some types of cancer and tumour cells.

BARBIE DOLL

Barbie is named after the daughter of the original inventor, Barbara.

The first BARBIE DOLL were made in Japan. On the bottom of the right foot they are marked Made In Japan.

Barbie doll was introduced in Europe in 1961.

Every second, two Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world.

The first Black, and Hispanic Barbie dolls were introduced in 1980. Barbie has appeared in over 40 various nationalities.

The first Barbie doll sold for $3.

Barbie has had over 80 careers. The first was as a teenage fashion model.

Only stamp collecting is more popular in the U.S. than doll collecting.

Barbie has over 40 pets. Among them are cats, dogs, horses, a panda, a lion cub and a zebra.

Barbie is eleven and one half inches tall.

BIRTHDAY FACT

Your birthday is a very special day. Only eighteen million other people share it (unless you were born on February 29, in which case you really are special since only 4.5 million people have your birthday).

The custom of lighting candles originated with people believing that the gods lived in the sky and by lighting candles and torches they were sending a signal or prayer to the gods so they they could be answered. When you blow out the candles and make a wish this is another way of sending a signal and a message.

The volume of blood in your body is approximately 5 litres. The heart pumps about 280 litres of blood around your body every hour - that’s 2,688,000 litres per year!

The Earth is zooming around the sun at around 66,780 miles per hour! Since your last birthday the Earth has completed one journey around the sun travelling about 584,337,600 miles.

The earliest birthday parties in history were held because it was feared that evil spirits were attracted to people on their birthdays.

BERMUDA TRAINGLE

Some people believe that the laws of physics do not apply in the Bermuda Triangle. It is one of the two places in the world where the compass needle does not show the true north, magnetic compass needle does not show the real north.

Reports about strange disappearances from this area date back before 1950. It is an oceanic region that swallows ships and planes without leaving. Bermuda Triangle early history, dates from 16.09.1950,with an article that talked about the disappearances of ships and aircraft between Florida and Bermuda.

In the ensuing years have appeared all sorts of assumptions, about who should be responsible (aliens) and how many “victims” were, from 1955 till now: 428 vessels.

True Triangle Bermuda began in 5/12/1945, with the famous extinction “Flight 19″ . Five bombers planes have mysteriously disappeared along with other aircraft which came to search them. So, 6 planes and 27 people was not founduntil today.

However, we can not say with certainty if the story is real or is just a legend. The most extinctions can be explained rationally and we do not know exactly if the events happened exactly in that area because were not found.