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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Indian Wildlife National Parks
¤ Bandhavgarh Park
¤ Keoladeo National Park
¤ Sariska Tiger Reserve
¤ Kaziranga Park
¤ Corbett National Park ¤ Ranthambhore Park
¤ Kanha National Park
¤ Sunderbans Tiger
¤ Gir National Park
¤ Manas National Park
Forts In India
.. Gwalior Fort
.. Amber Fort
.. Ahhichatragarh Fort
.. Junargarh Fort
.. Mehrangarh Fort
.. Bala Quila (Fort)
.. Jaisalmer Fort
.. Chittorgarh Fort
.. Jaigarh Fort
.. Purana Qila
.. Ranthambhore Fort
.. Golconda Fort
Palaces of India
Jaivilas Palace
Umaid Bhavan Palace
Fort Palaces of Orchha
Lake Palace
Chail Palace
Delhi Mosques
Begumpuri Masjid
Fatehpuri Masjid
Jamalikamali Mosque
Quwwat-ul-Islammasjid
Khirkee Masjid
Mosques in India
Jamali Kamali
Moti Masjid
Taj-ul-Masjid
Adhai-din ka Jhonpra
Quwwat-ul Islam Masjid
Most Books Typed Backwards
WHO: |
Michele Santelia |
WHAT: |
67 books (3,503,013 words, 19,760,936 characters , 23.198 pages, 263,931 paragraphs, 499,554 lines) |
WHERE: |
Campobasso, Italy |
WHEN: |
November 16, 2008 |
Using a computer and four blank keyboards, and without looking at the screen, Michele Santelia (Italy) typed backwards 67 books (3,503,013 words, 19,760,936 characters , 23.198 pages, 263,931 paragraphs, 499,554 lines) in their original languages including The Odyssey, Macbeth, The Vulgate Bible, the Guinness World Records Book 2002, and the Dead Sea scrolls in Ancient Hebrew. Michele put together a 4,05 mt (13 ft 12 in) high tower of the books typed. He completed typing backwards Etruscan scripts in Etruscan Language and The Million in Ancient Chinese on 16 November 2008.
Largest Offshore Gas Platform
WHO: |
Troll |
WHAT: |
656,000 tonnes |
WHERE: |
Off Norway, North Sea. |
WHEN: |
1996 |
The Troll Offshore Gas Platform, located off Norway in the North Sea, is the heaviest man made mobile object ever made, with a dry weight of the gravity base structure at 656,000 tonnes. Standing 369m tall, it was made from 245,000m3 of concrete, (the equivalent to 215,000 foundations for ordinary homes) and 100,000 tonnes of steel (approximately 15 Eiffel towers).
Largest Wireless Internet Provider
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WHO: |
NTT DoCoMo |
WHAT: |
45,687,117 subscribers |
WHERE: |
Japan |
WHEN: |
January 2006 |
NTT DoCoMo (Japan) is the world's largest wireless internet provider, with 45,687,117 subscribers to their i-mode service as of January 2006.
LARGEST MONKEY
The male mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) or man-ape of equatorial West Africa has an average head and body length of 61-76 cm (24-30 in) and a tail length of 5.2-7.6 cm (2-3 in). Adult males weigh an average of 25 kg (55 lb), although specimens weighting up to 54 kg (119 lb) and measuring 50.8 cm (20 in) to the shoulder have been known. The mandrill is also one of the most colourful mammals, recognized by its naked vivid-blue rump, red-striped face and yellow beard.
Major Temples In India
.. Badrinath Temple
.. Pushkar Temples
.. Tirupati Temples
.. Kanyakumari Temple
.. Dwarkadheesh Temple
.. Srimahavirji
.. Dilwara Jain Temples
.. Ajanta Cave Temples
.. Kedarnath Temple
.. Kalkaji Temple
.. Lotus Temple
.. Birlamandir
.. Meenakshi Temple
Books & Writers
Books | Authors | |
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A Bend in the river | V.S. Naipaul | |
A Brush with Life | Satish Gujral | |
A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib | S.S. Kohli | |
A Foreign Policy for India | I.K. Gujral | |
A Fortune Teller Told Me | Tiziano Terzani | |
A Gender Lens on Social Psychology | Judith A Howard and Jocelyn A.Hollander | |
A General and His Army | Georgy Vladimov | |
A Himalayan Love Story | Namita Gokhale | |
A Last Leap South | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | |
A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History | P.N. Chopra | |
A Peep into the Past | Vasant Navrekar | |
A Possible India | Partha Chatterjee | |
A Psychoanalysis of the Prophets | Abdulla Kamal | |
A Reveolutionary Life | Laxmi Sehgal | |
A Secular Agenda | Arun Shourie | |
A Simple Path | Lucinda Vardey | |
A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | |
A Tale of Two Gardens | Octavio Paz | |
A Tribute to People's Princess: Diana | Peter Donelli | |
A Tryst With Destiny | Stanley Wolfer | |
Abbot | Walter Scott | |
Absalom, Absalom | William Faulkner | |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | |
Acoession to Extinction | D.R. Mankekar | |
Across Borders, Fifty-years of India's Foreign Policy | J.N. Dixit | |
Adam Bede | George Eliot | |
Adhe Adhure | Mohan Rakesh | |
Adonis | P.B. Shelley | |
Adrain Mole-The Wilderness Years | Sue Townsend | |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | |
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | |
Adventures of Sally | P.G. Wodehouse | |
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | |
Adversary in the House | lrving Stone | |
Advice and Consent | Allen Drury | |
Aeneid | Virgil | |
Affairs | C.P.Snow | |
Affluent Society | J.K.Galbraith | |
Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx and Mujahid | R.H. Magnus & Eden Naby | |
Africa's Challenge to America | Chester Bowles | |
After All These Years | Susan Issacs | |
After the Dark Night | S.M. Ali | |
Against the Grain | Boris Yeltsin | |
Age of Reason | Jean Paul Sartre | |
Agni Pariksha | Acharya Tulsi | |
Agni Veena | Kazi Nazrul Islam | |
Agony and the Ecstasy | Irving Stone | |
Ain-i-Akbari | Abul Fazal | |
Airport | Arthur Hailey | |
Ajatshatru | Jai Shankar Prasad | |
Akbarnama | Abul Fazal | |
Alaska Unbound | James Michener | |
Alchemist | Ben Johnson | |
Alexander Quartet | Lawrence Durrel | |
Alexander the Great | John Gunther | |
Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
Alien Nation | Peter Brimelow | |
All for Love | John Dryden | |
All is Well that Ends Well | William Shakespeare | |
All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | |
All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren | |
All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward | |
All things Bright and Beautiful | James Herroit | |
All Under Heaven | Pearl S.Buck | |
Along the Road | Aldous Huxley | |
Altered States | Anita Brookner | |
Amar Kosh | Amar Singh | |
Ambassador's Journal | J.K. Galbraith | |
Ambassador's Report | Chester Bowles | |
Amelia | Henry Fielding | |
American Capitalism | J.K. Galbraith | |
An American Dilemma | Gunnar Myrdal | |
An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | |
An Apology for Idlers | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
An Autobiography | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
An Eye to China | David Selbourne | |
An idealist View of Life | Dr.S. Radhakrishnan | |
Anandmath | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee | |
Anatomy of a Flawed inheritance | J.N. Dixit | |
Ancient Evenings | Norman Mailer | |
Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
And Quiet Flows the Don | Mikhali Sholokhov | |
And Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll | |
Androcles and the Lion | George Bernard Shaw | |
Angry Letters | Willem Doevenduin | |
Anguish of Deprived | Lakshmidhar Mishra | |
Animal Farm | George Orwell | |
Anna Karenina | Count Leo Tolstoy | |
Another Life | Derek Walcott | |
Answer to History | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | |
Antic Hay | Aldous Huxley | |
Antony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare | |
Ape and Essence | Aldous Huxley | |
Apple Cart | George Bernad Shaw | |
Arabian Nights | Sir Richard Burton | |
Area of Darkness | V.S. Naipaul | |
Arion and the Dolphin | Vikram Seth | |
Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw | |
Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules verne | |
Arrangement | Elia Kazan | |
Arrival and Departure | Arthur Koestler | |
Arrow in the Blue | Arthur Koestler | |
Arrow of Good | Joseph Conrad | |
Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis | |
Arthashastra | Kautilya | |
As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | |
As You Like It | William Shakespeare | |
Ascent of the Everest | Sir John Hunt | |
Ashtadhyayi | Panini | |
Asia and Western Dominance | K.M. Panikkar | |
Asian Drama | Gunnar Myrdal | |
Aspects of the Novel | E.M. Forster | |
Assassination of a Prime Minister | S.Anandram | |
Assignment Colombo | J.N. Dixit | |
Assignment India | Christopher Thomas | |
Athenian Constitution | Aristotle | |
Atoms of Hope | Mohan Sundara Rajan | |
August 1914 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | |
August Coup | Mikhali S. Gorbachev | |
Author's Farce | Henry Fielding | |
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian | Nirad C. Chaudhuri | |
Autumn Leaves | O.Pulla Reddi | |
Avanti Sundari | Dandin |
Monday, July 27, 2009
Books & Authors
Sunday, July 26, 2009
ICC Trophy Summary
Year | Host nation | Final venue | Scores | Result |
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1979 | England | Worcester | Sri Lanka 324 for 8 (60 overs) Canada 264 for 5 (60 overs) | Sri Lanka won by 60 runs |
1982 | England | Leicester | Bermuda 231 for 8 (60 overs) Zimbabwe 232 for 5 (54.3 overs) | Zimbabwe won by five wickets |
1986 | England | Lord's, London | Zimbabwe 243 for 9 (60 overs) Netherlands 218 all out (58.4 overs) | Zimbabwe won by 25 runs |
1990 | Netherlands | The Hague | Netherlands 197 for 9 (60 overs) Zimbabwe 198 for 4 (54.2 overs) | Zimbabwe won by six wickets |
1994 | Kenya | Nairobi | Kenya 281 for 6 (50 overs) United Arab Emirates 282 for 8 (49.1 overs) | UAE won by two wickets |
1997 | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Kenya 241 for 7 (50 overs) Bangladesh 166 for 8 (25 overs) | Bangladesh won by two wickets (Duckworth-Lewis method) |
2001 | Canada | Toronto | Namibia 195 for 9 (50 overs) Netherlands 196 for 8 (50 overs) | Netherlands won by two wickets |
2005 | Ireland | Clontarf | Scotland 324 for 8 (50 overs) Ireland 277 for 9 (50 overs) | Scotland won by 47 runs |
2009 | South Africa | SuperSport Park, Centurion | Canada 185 all out (48 overs) Ireland 188 for 1 (42.3 overs) | Ireland won by 9 wickets |
Winners of the 2003 Global Competition
Project No | Project Title | Country of Implementation | Amount Awarded | Award Pool |
Argentina | $ 76,484 | DM Award | ||
Bangladesh | $ 152,172 | DM Award | ||
Bangladesh | $ 101,517 | DM Award | ||
Bolivia | $ 92,187 | IFC | ||
Brazil | $ 244,200 | DM Award | ||
Brazil | $ 200,000 | DM Award | ||
Brazil | $ 124,021 | HIV/AIDS | ||
Burkina Faso | $ 148,400 | DM Award | ||
Cambodia | $ 189,381 | DM Award | ||
Cambodia | $ 157,813 | InfoDev & IFC | ||
Ethiopia | $ 200,000 | DM Award | ||
Ethiopia | $ 90,000 | HIV/AIDS | ||
Ghana | $ 176,397 | Biodiversity & Climate Change | ||
India | $ 170,500 | Biodiversity & Climate Change | ||
India | $ 61,065 | Biodiversity & Climate Change | ||
India | $ 68,100 | DM Award | ||
India | $ 118,210 | DM Award | ||
India | $ 88,712 | DM Award | ||
India | $ 230,000 | DM Award | ||
India | $ 59,674 | DM Award | ||
India | $ 98,500 | DM Award
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India | $ 25,000 | InfoDev | ||
Kenya | $ 85,293 | HIV/AIDS | ||
Latvia | $ 212,927 | DM Award
| ||
Mexico | $ 132,250 | Biodiversity & Climate Change | ||
Mexico | $ 126,200 | DM Award
| ||
Mongolia | $ 121,530 | DM Award | ||
Mongolia | $ 213,000 | Biodiversity & Climate Change | ||
Mozambique | $ 249,741 | DM Award
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Nepal | $ 194,400 | Biodiversity & Climate Change | ||
Nepal | $ 166,771 | DM Award | ||
Nepal | $ 115,000 | DM Award
| ||
Peru | $ 114,800 | DM Award | ||
Peru | $ 236,830 | DM Award | ||
000619 | Philippines | $ 150,000 | DM Award
| |
Romania | $ 159,436 | HIV/AIDS | ||
Rwanda | $ 246,648 | DM Award
| ||
Sierra Leone | $ 126,020 | DM Award
| ||
South Africa | $163,690 | DM Award
| ||
South Africa | $ 50,000 | InfoDev | ||
South Africa | $ 155,000 | Biodiversity & Climate Change | ||
Suriname | $ 71,715 | DM Award
| ||
Tanzania | $ 163,780 | DM Award | ||
Turkey | $ 129,990 | DM Award
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Viet Nam | $ 102,750 | Biodiversity & Climate Change | ||
Zambia | $ 50,000 | InfoDev | ||
Zimbabwe | $ 108,675 | Biodiversity & Climate Change |