Indian Wildlife National Parks

¤ Dudhwa National Park
¤ 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

.. Lal Qila or Red Fort
.. 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

Bir Singh Palace
Jaivilas Palace
Umaid Bhavan Palace
Fort Palaces of Orchha
Lake Palace
Chail Palace

Delhi Mosques

Jama Masjid
Begumpuri Masjid
Fatehpuri Masjid
Jamalikamali Mosque
Quwwat-ul-Islammasjid
Khirkee Masjid

Mosques in India

Jama Masjid
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

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.

The Seven Continents:

Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Australia
Europe
North America
South America

Major Temples In India

.. Khajuraho Temples
.. 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

Major Maonuments in India

.. Taj Mahal .. Jantar Mantar .. India Gate .. Parlament House .. Rashtrapati Bhavan .. Qutub Minar .. Fatehpursikri Monuments

.. Shimla Rajbhawan .. Monuments of Lucknow .. Bawadi .. Rewakund .. Solakhamba .. Gwalior Excavations .. Jantar Mantar

.. Gaitor Ruins .. Vyasonkichhatri .. Lucknow Monuments .. Alaiminar .. Shimla Rajbhawan .. Pavaya Ruins

Books & Writers

Books	Authors
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

Books & Authors

1. The Family and the Nation - By Jain Muni Sri Mahapragya and Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

 

2. The Universe in a Single Atom - By Dalai Lama

 

3. The Bikini Murders - By Farukh Dhondy

 

4. Wilsonian Moment-Self Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism :- By Erez Manela, Oxford University Press, New York

 

5. Barack Obama, the New Face of American Politics - By Martin Dupuls, Keith Boeckelman; Praegar Publishers, West Port, USA

ICC Trophy Summary

Year	Host nation	Final venue	Scores	Result
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
000536	Building Legal Capacity to Enforce Social Rights	Argentina	$  76,484	DM Award
001223	Piloting Managed Health Care for Sex Workers	Bangladesh	$ 152,172	DM Award
000169	ChildHope & Aparajeyo - Justice for Children	Bangladesh	$ 101,517	DM Award
000263	Dress for Development (and Success)	Bolivia	$ 92,187	IFC
001532	Sustainable Development by Recycling Coconut Husks	Brazil	$ 244,200	DM Award
000895	Locally-Made Paper & Craft to Preserve Rainforests	Brazil	$  200,000	DM Award
001483	EMPREGAR: Job Market Insertion for AIDS Orphans	Brazil	$ 124,021	HIV/AIDS
001036	Protecting the Environment	Burkina Faso	$ 148,400	DM Award
001910	Prey Veng Safe Water Project	Cambodia	$  189,381	DM Award
000479	Digital Divide Data: Jobs & Training for the Poor	Cambodia	$  157,813	InfoDev & IFC
000975	Equal Opportunity for Persons with Disabilities	Ethiopia	$  200,000	DM Award
002160	That's Enough! Or in Amharic "YIBEKAL"	Ethiopia	$  90,000	HIV/AIDS
000915	Power to the Poor in Ghana	Ghana	$  176,397	Biodiversity & Climate Change
000925	Wild Silk Helps Conserve Himalayan Oak Forests	India	$  170,500	Biodiversity & Climate Change
001640	Enhancing Livelihoods by Conserving Biodiversity	India	$  61,065	Biodiversity & Climate Change
001466	Drishtee: Connecting India Village by Village	India	$ 68,100	DM Award
001118	Scojo India: Low-Cost Reading Glasses for the Poor	India	$ 118,210	DM Award
001048	Sustainable Freedom Initiative for Bonded Laborers	India	$  88,712	DM Award
001551	Carbon-Neutral/BioDiesel Fueled Energy System	India	$ 230,000	DM Award
001671	Magic Bus: Mentoring At-risk Children	India	$   59,674	DM Award
001217	Tribal Rat Catchers - No More Occupational Hazards	India	$  98,500	DM Award
001975	Computers on Wheels	India	$  25,000	InfoDev
001529	HIV Awareness Project of the Deaf	Kenya	$  85,293	HIV/AIDS
000783	Conserving Biodiversity through Wood Sale Auctions	Latvia	$  212,927	DM Award
002136	The HotPot Initiative	Mexico	$  132,250	Biodiversity & Climate Change
000729	Getting Ready for the Market	Mexico	$  126,200	DM Award
000283	Prevent Under-Age Prostitution with Skill Building	Mongolia	$  121,530	DM Award
000295	Fly Fishing for Biodiversity Conservation	Mongolia	$  213,000	Biodiversity & Climate Change
000031	VillageReach: Health Care for Remote Communities	Mozambique	$  249,741	DM Award
000284	Reduce Land Use Conflicts through Local Incentives	Nepal	$ 194,400	Biodiversity & Climate Change
001684	Sustainable 'Doko Dai' Mobile Library	Nepal	$ 166,771	DM Award
000407	Arsenic Biosand Water Filter for Rural Nepal	Nepal	$ 115,000	DM Award
001507	Marmalade of Oca: An Andean Delight	Peru	$ 114,800	DM Award
001165	Reforestation as a Savings Mechanism for the Poor	Peru	$ 236,830	DM Award
000619	Hilwai Rehabilitation Boat for Disabled Persons	Philippines	$ 150,000	DM Award
000292	Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission	Romania	$ 159,436	HIV/AIDS
000790	Zero Grazing Dairy for Small Farmers Rural Rwanda	Rwanda	$ 246,648	DM Award
001432	Restoring Lives of Vulnerable Sierra Leonean Women	Sierra Leone	$ 126,020	DM Award
002144	Accessing Mental Health Care in Rural South Africa	South Africa	$163,690	DM Award
000170	Rural Connectivity for Enhanced Healthcare	South Africa	$  50,000	InfoDev
001531	Community Empowerment and Fynbos Conservation	South Africa	$ 155,000	Biodiversity & Climate Change
001988	Traditional Medicine and Healthcare in Suriname	Suriname	$  71,715	DM Award
002255	Training African Rats as a Cheap Diagnostic Tool	Tanzania	$ 163,780	DM Award
001451	Seismic Performance Improvement of Masonry Houses	Turkey	$ 129,990	DM Award
001386	Ha Tien - Habitats and Handbags	Viet Nam	$  102,750	Biodiversity & Climate Change
000027	Handheld Software Tools for Program Assessment	Zambia	$  50,000	InfoDev
000244	Chili as a Tool for Conservation and Development	Zimbabwe	$  108,675	Biodiversity & Climate Change