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Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world locatedcontinents

"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, GSwedish, Portuguese, and Dutch. Human nose is not as sensitive as a dog's, but it can re50,000 different scents.

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sesquipedalian - fond of big words. Literally, a 'foohalf', hence words of that length.

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In the summer of 1853, Native American George Crum was chef at an elegant resort in Saratoga Springs, New York. Onfound Crum's French fries too thick for his liking and rejected th

decided to rile the guest by producing fries too thin and crisp tofork. The plan backfired. The guest was ecstatic over the brownpotatoes, and other diners began requesting Crum'spotato chips

Potato Chips in 1853

Snack food made of a thin slice of white

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"Tutankhamun: His Tomb and thenew exhibition now in Zuri

meticulously reconstructed the toand its treasures. Specially trainedin Cairo built more than 1,000 under scientific supervision. The wfive years. Here is a replica of theof King Tut, weighing 24 lbs, whicover the head of the king's bandaThe idealized portrait of the younthe style of the late Amarna period

eyes are formed by bright quartz, inlays for the pupils.

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If you have seen the movie Minority Report or a number of other futuristic filmsthen you may have seen this technology in action, or at least Hollywood’s re-creation of it.

Multi-Touch technology was put on display at Adobe TED in San Francisco, byJeff Han. Multi-Touch Sensing through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR)

is on its way from the R & D room to the showroom. FTIR comes from thebiometric world, where it is used to read fingerprints. Now it is being used totrack multiple screen touches to manipulate screen objects.

A physical mouse and keyboard will no longer be needed as this technologybecomes a practical reality. Physically interfacing with any technology could berevolutionized with an interface that allows the technology to adapt to the userinstead of the user adapting to the interface.

Children with disabilities could see a marked increase in learning as thistechnology is used to adapt learning technology to them. Sizable keyboards or

floating keys that adapt to the hands of the user are now possible. A revolutioncould be in our near future.

Multi-touch interface is coming.

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"I love you, not only for what you awhat I am when I am with you."

--Roy Croft

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Mouth open, ears closed

Eyes open, vision closed

Greed within, values gone

Evil within, goodness gone

Hands open, heart closed

Body open, mind closed

Pride within, humility gone

Venom within, God gone

Humans today I see around

Humanity but hardly found

Alive people I see around

Awake though seldom found…

It is scientifically proved that humans

more and more selfish and greedy everand analyze why, you may get many mThere are few who have asked me whbeing greedy and selfish. If I am not, I’on and left to rot. Some came up wittheory. If I am not selfish or greedy, hardly come my way, after all only thgets attention and food. Well no maargues, one should not be selfish or

feeling. Life more or less gives what eaMost people in the world think they Dand they are WORTH more. May be it not but if everyone starts to believe twhat you are, you do your job and let times we are too busy trying to avoid bthat we step over many people withguilt. Remove guilt, shame, appreciatiobelief from human life and we do not

much at all. Sadly that is where I am seecrop heading to. The poem exactly

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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse or as heis more popularly known, PG Wodehouseis the man who brought new facets tocomedy. Wodehouse describes his writingin the following words:

“I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sortof musical comedy without music andignoring real life altogether; the other is

going right deep down into life and notcaring a damn.”

Humor is one subject that needs alot of effort to come out good. It shouldessentially come in the package, and notbe a last-minute injection into nooks andcorners when the author thought hisproduct was too dry. That’s where

Wodehouse triumphed. He churned out

humor in chunks. In his own words,

"I go in for what is known in thetrade as 'light writing' and those who dothat – humorists they are sometimescalled – are looked down upon by theintelligentsia and sneered at."

Wodehouse, known as Plum tohis close friends started writing at a very

young age. Living away from parents, hespent his holidays with his aunts, whichmay have led to the characterization of the formidable aunts in his novels, in thelikes of Bertie Wooster’s Aunts Agathaand Dahlia, and Lady Constance of theBlandings Castle. Wodehouse’s shortterm career as a banker may have possiblyled to the story of Mike and PSmith

starting theirs in a bank. Wooster-Jeeves, BlandingsCastle, PSmith were a few popular seriesfrom the great writer.

P G Wodehouse

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Book ShThe story describes Augie

March's growth from childhood to a fairly

stable maturity. Augie, with his brotherSimon and the mentally abnormal Georgehave no father and are brought up by theirmother who is losing her eyesight, and atyrannical grandmother in very humblecircumstances in the rough parts of Chicago. Augie drifts from one situation toanother in a free-wheeling manner - jobs,women, homes, education and lifestyle.

In lifestyle he ranges fromnear adoption by a wealthy couple whospoil him, to a struggle for existencestealing books and helping out friends indesperate straits. His most unusualadventure is his flight to Mexico with thewild and irrepressible Thea who tries tocatch lizards with an eagle.

All through the book, Augie

is encouraged into education, but neverquite seems to make it; he reads a great deal

Augie comes on stage with one of literature's most famous opening lines. "Iam an American, Chicago born, and go at

things as I have taught myself, free-style,and will make the record in my own way:first to knock, first admitted." With thisteeming book Bellow returned aDickensian richness to the Americannovel. As he makes his way to a fullbrimming consciousness of himself, Augiecareens through numberless occupationsand countless mentors and exemplars, all

the while enchanting us with the slapdashAmerican music of his voice.

for himself and devel

philosophy of life. During this sunk and he suffers a dialone in a lifeboat with whbe a lunatic. After rescue Stella and the book ends wa slightly dubious existenceinvolved in some fairly sdeals and she attemptingcareer in acting.

The Adventures of Augie

March (1953)

Author: Saul Bellow

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USA Singles Top 4

I Kissed A GirlKaty Perry

Take A BowRihanna

LollipopLil Wayne

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There are three countries in the world which atotally landlocked and which share a border wone other country. Two are Lesotho and Vatica

Which is the third country?

The movie My Blueberry Nights by Wong Kar-wai marks theacting debut of which singer?Hint: This singer is of Indian roots.

What is Italian for "baked earth", the most pof which was discovered by farmers in Xian,1974?

There is a human-computer interaction research experimentin which subjects interact with a system that they believe isautonomous, but is actually operated by an unseen humanbeing. The name of the experiment comes from a famousstory, in which an ordinary man hides behind a curtain andpretends, by use of "amplifying" technology, to be someonepowerful. What story?

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A Wednesday is not about the train blasts, nor is it similarto MUMBAI MERI JAAN. Sure, terrorism is the wallpaperhere, but A Wednesday talks about the plight and powerof the common man, the aam aadmi.

Flashback: Prakash Rathod [AnupamKher], Commissioner of Police, Mumbai gets a calldemanding the release of four militants in lieu of information on bombs that the man has planted invarious parts of Mumbai. At first, Prakash suspects it to bea crank call, but his doubts are dispelled once he actuallyfinds a bomb planted in the police station right oppositehis Police Headquarters.

On the whole, A Wednesday is cinemaat its best. It may not be a Kinng-sized entertainer to lurethe audiences in hordes and set the box-office afire, but A

Wednesday does pack in king-sized punch. Do yourself afavour: Watch A Wednesday.

‘Hijack’ is an action thriller revolving around a and an airport officer who lays his life on the lhostages from hijackers.

The movie stars Shiney Ahuja alead roles.

The film is about Vikram Madan (Shiney Ahuja) wmaintenance officer at the Chandigarh airport.

His social life is limitedRajeev, who is the Security Chief of the same awould have it, Vikram’s daughter is traveling witha debate contest to Amritsar from Delhi. But a groworking for a man named Rasheed (KK Raina) hiRasheed is languishing in Indian jails and the terelease as ransom.

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Perhaps this Pang Brothers remake would bemore interesting (and/or tolerable) if Nic Cage couldhave been convinced to play his character as a deaf-mute

hitman as the original story goes. Though they certainlyhave a cult following, the Pangs's brand of horror hasn'ttaken off with mainstream audiences here, what withtheir meddling English-language debut and that barelythere remake with J'Alba achieving back-to-backstrikeouts. Our suggestion: Scrap this version, redevelopthe remake with a bankable Asian star (Chow-Yun Fat, JetLi), set the story in the U.S., and watch the receipts roll in.Though we certainly will acknowledge that the movie

will probably rake it in across Asia.

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Bangkok Dangerous Burn After Readin

Director: Ethan Coen Joel CoenStars: Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Studio: Focus Features

The Plot: A disk containing the memoirs of a Cup in the hands of two unscrupulous gym emattempt to benefit from the discovery.

THE BUZZ: The Coens want to make you lauthan a year after bringing Anton Chigurhsaddling away with 4 Oscars for their efforts.think BAR will reach the same level of saturation as NCfOM, I guess there's someth

for a movie in which most everyone in theunderstand the ending? Sigh ... More on thipremiere at the Venice Film Festival at the end

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The sinking city of Mexico[Image byC a r l o s r c h i l l -http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Torre_Mayor_004.jpg]During theschool days, most of us have read aboutg roundwate r . The overu se o f groundwater as a resource has serious

implications. A case in the point is MexicoCity, which lies on a depleting aquifer, anunderground layer of permeable rocks orother materials from which groundwatercan be extracted.The population of thecity has increased dramatically in the pastfew decades, and the city pumps out anenormous amount of water from aquifereveryday. As a result, the soil underneath

is collapsing, and the city is sinking at an

alarming rate -- it has sunk 30 feet duringthe 20th century (compare this with

Venice, which has sunk just 9inches).Mexico City was originally builton an island in the middle of a lake. Thelake was drained by the rising populationof the city, and became a desert by the1950s. The city now resorted togroundwater for its drinking supply. Asthe city pumped more and more water,

the soil underneath began tosubsidence is visible along the line and is causing damage to the tunnels, the water pipes and the seforced the city to install vast pumpelevate the level of the sewage tcanals, resulting in huge operati

city authorities have taken sevaddress the problem. However, anything about the sinking, unless of the city is reduced. This is a diffthe city is the political, industriacenter of Mexico.The city haalternative water sources. For examwater is now pumped 4000 feefaraway Cutzamala river -- this p

expensive. The city officials havepumping water in the city centernow being drawn from wells at This has slowed the sinking of the not greatly. 70% of the watemetropolitan area is still drawn froThe environmentalists have uresidents to harvest the rain watenot generated much response.U

finds a concrete way to control thisfuture lies in great danger.

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Google Chrome, Google Inc.'s new Web

browser, is shown during a news conferenceat the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. GoogleInc. is releasing Chrome in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering thedominance of Microsoft Corp.'s InternetExplorer and ensuring easy access to itsmarket-leading search engine.

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Google Inc.'s new Web brcalled Chrome, does muca browser needs to do thepresents a sleek appearanpages into easy-to-managand offers several ways foto control their Internet psettings.

One of the best featthey have put the tab buttop. Also it is really sleek wof only 417 kb. And googthat if a tab crashes then igoing to get down the whbrowser.

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Our world Our World

Our World was the first live, internasatellite television production, which was br

on 25 June 1967. Performers, including operMaria Callas and artist Pablo Picasso, from nnations were invited to perform in ssegments featuring their respective countrithe two-and-half-hour event had the television audience ever up to that daestimated 400 million people around the

watched the broadcast.Today, it is most famous

segment from the United Kingdom starriBeatles. Performing at the height of the V War, the group wanted to spread a message oand love to the world.

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A model goes green for the 2008 WorldBody Painting Festival in Daegu, SouthKorea, on Aug. 29. The festival is said tobe the largest body painting event in theworld.

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He'd better like tomatoes ... A reveler getsdrenched in tomato pulp during the annualfood fight, Tomatina, in Bunol, Spain, Aug.27. Each year tens of thousands of peoplehurl truckloads of tomatoes at each other,

creating knee-deep red rivers through thesmall town.

Talk about turning the wdown. A topsy-turvy hoin Trassenheide, German

Workers are building theof a project called The WDown.

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Mozilla CEO John Lilly said he has noworries about Google jumping into the

open source browser market.In a blog posted on

September 1 before the beta release of Google’s Chrome on Monday, Lilly notedthat Mozilla’s Firefox has plenty of competition and reminded the public thatthe foundation’s primary motive is tokeep the web open.

Lilly’s blog continued:

“Mozilla and Google have always been

different organizations, with differentmissions, reasons for existing, and ways of doing things. I think both organizationshave done much over the last few years toimprove and open the Web, and we’vehad very good collaborations that includethe technical, product, and financial. Onthe technical side of things, we’vecollaborated most recently on Breakpad,

the system we use for crash reports — stuff like that will continue. On the productfront, we’ve worked with them toimplement best-in-class anti-phishing andanti-malware that we’ve built intoFirefox, and looks like they’re buildinginto Chrome. On the financial front, as hasbeen reported lately, we’ve just renewedour economic arrangement with them

through November 2011, which means a

lot for our ability to continuFirefox and in new things likservices.

“So all those aligned efcontinue,” he insisted. “And parts where we’re different, w

missions, will continue to Mozilla’s mission is to keep tand participatory — so, unmarket, we’re a public-benefgroup (Mozilla Corporatioowned by the Mozilla Founno other agenda or profit m

We’ll continue to be thacontinue to develop our

technology in an open, commcollaborative way.”

Mozilla’s Firefox will concompetitive, he said.

“With that backdrop, it’ll be see what happens over the coand years,” Lilly said.

Mozilla CEO on googlechrome. From his blog.

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The Mahabodhi temple at Bodhgaya islocated on the spot where the Buddhaattained enlightenment. The temple'sprinciple relic is a distant descendant of theBo tree under which the Buddha sat when

his enlightenment took place. The site,having been sacred to Buddhists since theearliest days of the faith, is of unknownantiquity. Elements of the temple datefrom the 3rd century BC, but the presentform of the temple is a reconstruction of alater form that would have been familiarto Hiuen Xsiang, the 7th centunry ChineseBuddhist pilgrim whose story is the basis of

"The Monkey King" drama of literaryreknown.The temple is one of the few early

monumental brick structures to havesurvived in eastern India. Its enormouscentral tower (55 m tall) is a 19th centuryrenovation faithful to the earlier towersthat existed on the site. The towercomprises numermous horizontal bands of

mouldings and arch motifs that extend

upward to an amalaka topped byumbrella-shaped forms, recalling theumbrella motifs found at Buddhist stupasdating back to the time of Asoka andearlier. Around the central tower are foursmaller towers added at the end of 19thcentury that mimic the form of the centraltower.

West of the main temple is a smallerarea housing the Boddhi tree relic. Here,on what may have been the firstsanctuary on the site, can be found astone seat from the 3rd century BC.Scattered around the site are plastercopies of stone posts dating from theShunga period. The originals are stored inthe nearby archaelogical museum andmay have been used in the earliest stagesof the temple to protect the Bodhi tree.

The Mahabodi temple is a sitesacred to all Buddhists, particularly thoseof the Theravada branch mainly found insouth and southeast Asia. In these areas,the form of the temple has been much

copied in such places as Neand Burma, which each hrepresentations of the Mahab

Mahabodhi Temple (current form 7th century onward, possibly 1000 years older)

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You know something is an excellent sport when they hold itchampionships in a pub.

The 2006 British and World Marbles Championship took pl

Green in London over the weekend, and the Germans werewinners.

Interesting notes on the “tournament:"

• Two hundred spectators showed up, which was just highenumber of competitors (six teams of 22).• The tournament was held on the parking lot ground of a airport. It's amazing they weren't able to get more sponsors

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A Really 'Open'Tournament by Jayalakshmi

Flushing Meadows is a busy place thesedays. Wyclef Jean has written a song about Venus Williams. Andy Roddick is probablythe most talked about young man insporting circles in the US. And a fallen herowill be trying desperately to claw his wayback to the top amidst increasing fight fromyounger, perhaps hungrier, players.

Welcome to the US Open.

Roger Federer has gone without a GrandSlam victory this year, in mostuncharacteristic fashion. With NovakDjokovic having taken the honours at theAustralian Open and Federer's long-timenemesis Rafael Nadal winning the FrenchOpen and his first Wimbledon title, Federer

has had much to worry about. His dream of an Olympic gold has also remainedunfulfilled, his woeful form continuing tohaunt him in the Games at Beijing. What,then, is the prediction for the US Open?

While a Federer-Nadal finalmight still be the most talked-about match-up, there are quite a few people willing toruin it for the bookmakers, the frontrunner

a m o n g t h e m b e i n g D j o k o v i c .Notwithstanding the clowning around (themost famous of his antics being, arguably,his mimicry of Maria Sharapova), the Serb isa solid contender for the title. He didn't dowell enough at Wimbledon; that isn't animpediment to his US Open dreams,though.

The women's draw looks pretty

open. World No. 1 Ana Ivanovic hasproved to be the first casualty of thetournament, losing unimaginably to

Frenchwoman Julie Coin. 2champion Svetlana Kuznetfailed to This opens the dooof the East European brigadJelena Jankovic, and, of

Williams sisters. They havanswered numerous questiomotivation and hunger

performances.Justine Hen

retirement earlier in the yeawide open for the younger wsingle player has been able tmantle of undisputed champmade an early exit from Whas lost in the second rouOpen; Sharapova has been

injuries and Jankovic has notSlam yet. Perhaps it will takefor the women's rankings todeclare a clear champion- bsurprise will only make it exviewers.

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People logging onto the LaughLab website were invited using a "Giggleometer" which had a five-point scale rang"not very funny" to "very funny".

One intriguing result was that Germans - not renowned fsense of humour - found just about everything funny. Thexpress a strong preference for any type of joke.

People from the Republic of Ireland, the UK, Australia anZealand most enjoyed jokes involving word plays.

One example was as follows. Patient: "Doctor, I've got a stuck up my bum." Doctor: "I've got some cream for that

Americans and Canadians, on the other hand, preferred there was a strong sense of superiority - either because looks stupid or is made to look stupid by someone else.

This was an example of American humour.

Texan: "Where are you from?"

Harvard graduate: "I come from a place where we do nosentences with prepositions."

Texan: "OK, where are you from, Jackass?"

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Funny chemical names

This molecule always brings a smile to the lips of undergrads when they first hear itsname, especially in the UK. For those not in the know, Adam Ant was an English popstar in the early 1980's famous for silly songs and strange make-up.

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