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Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William on the same airplane as a precaution!

It is the female lion who does more than 90 percent of thewhile the male is afraid to risk his life, or simply prefers to rest

All the chemicals in the human body have a combineapproximately 4.00.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Unitein 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are ayour head!

In Chinese the words for crisis and opportunity are the same.

The word "four" has four letters. In the English language thernumber whose number of letters is equal to its value.

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PhotoBlog For your information.

A Catostylus species jellyfish seems frozen in place in this split-level view off thecoast of South Africa.

Replace a regular incandescent lightcompact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) -less energy than a regular bulb. This will save about 300 pounds of carboyear.

Cover your pots while cooking - Doinglot of the energy needed for prepariEven better are pressure cookers and scan save around 70%!

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The love of lifeJust imagine that if you woke up on your60th birthday and figured out that youdragged yourself to work for the past 40years of your life? Wouldn't that be pathetic?But yet, many of us drag ourselves us towork every day. We sit in front of ourmonitors and tap on our keyboards and

gyrate our mice, emotionally disconnectedfrom what our hands and minds do becauseour hearts are some place else. We speakabout "work-life balance" without evengiving a thought to the utter absurdity of theterm.

Some of us are least bothered. We never had a passion in life and we nevercared. And some of us did have a passion, an

yearning to do something that we trulyloved. And we now live in denial, telling

ourselves that it is fate and that we need tostick to what destiny has planned for us. Wetell ourselves that our parents have astanding in society and that it needs to bepreserved. The pressure of our peers and themockery our relatives, didn't we haveenough?

My story today revolves aroundtwo people, whose names I do not wish toreveal. One of them is about to finish his firstyear MBBS at CMC, while the other just

joined as a fresher for the same program thisyear. They are 23. Yes, they are as old as me.And I just completed two years in thecorporate world! Do you know howdifficult is to find yourself in the company of

people who are disconnected from youemotionally by age? Do you know howdifficult it is to get ordered around or evenragged when you are an adult? Well, at leastit is not as hard as finding out that youshould have done something else in your lifewhen you are old and have a grandchild onyour lap!

So, what did you want to be? A

physicist? An economist? An architect? Adoctor? A dentist? A writer? - The deep

earning of a soul back thmemories that bring a sigh nowit be that way? Why can't we cha

All we have is one lifdoes not make sense to live unless you are absolutely sure tto do it that way. Run to your firs

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Science

TechnologyThe city of Madrid soon plans to add a striking new structuclimatically transform its urban architecture. DesignEcosystems, the Air Tree pavilion is to be built from recycand will be 100% energy self-sufficient. Using photovolAir Tree produces a substantial amount of energy, which back to the local electric companies, the profits bein

maintenance of the structure. The second byproduct ioxygen - hence the name Air Tree!

Urban Air Trees

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About seven billion years ago, the universe wsort of pubescent growth spurt that as far hasn't slowed down.

Scientists call the growth stimulus dark eneof a better term or an understanding of the me

New Yard Stick for theUniverse

50 years ago this week, Texas Instrument's Jack Kilby demonstratedthe first working integrated circuit, or microchip. It's a crudeconglomeration of just five components, but it was also proof that acircuit could be miniaturized by housing all of its components on onepiece of semiconductor material, allowing all these parts to worktogether without laborious (and technologically infeasible) manualconnections. In essence, it's the electronic wheel captured in firsteureka.

The Microchip Turns 50

Here's the Original

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The Central Railroad of PeruAntec Skeleton Open Air PC Cas

The Central Railroad of Peru which was completed in 1907is historically quite distinguished. An engineering feat of land and steel, it reaches to the amazing height of fifteen-thousand eight hundred and thirty feet (above sea level) tothe city of Ticlio, then down to Bone City (La Oroya) andonto Huancavelica: One thousand miles of rail through

mountains, across 41 bridges, around 13 zigzags and through60 tunnels.

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And a bit of love

Life is but a brief moment. The years go by qold age arrives suddenly before we have aPeople desire so many things and waste thevain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yfor glory and a higher station. But whemoment nears and they look back at their livlived, they realise they've been happy only dumoments when they've loved.

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by Tapas Mohanty

She stood there alone ,on the lonely street,The chill bit her hard, but her cold feet,Dead as a corpse, she waited in the dark,

Wilted she waited, like a dying spark,

Just a piece of flesh and that's what they need,Just a "need" I am, on which they always feed,

They don't feel a thing, they can't see my scars,Just a "thing" I am ,sold in the bazaars,

I don't curse my fate, I don't cry a tear,Never do I regret coz I know my life won't steer,Yes! I slander at times, about a thing or two,

Why did He give me life and why do I love it too,

I don't pray for a hero, who would hold my hand,

I never prayed for a fairy with her magic wand,All I need is a day, where I could "live" for a while,A day in my days, that would make me smile,A stranger of a man ,who'll love me with his eyes,The sweetest of truths, that could kill the holy lies...

The tunes hummed deeper , as she laid on the bed,The night wanted tears but she laughed instead,Her dreams were mauled, her hopes were raped,

Her heart laid still, her shivers coldly draped,Just a piece of flesh, just a "thing" she was,Just a sorry truth, in their gory claws.

She....

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A u t h o r f oAgatha Christie

by Seetha

Agatha Christie (1890-1976). A namefamiliar to all detective-fiction readers.

What makes Agatha Christie different fromother mystery fiction writers is that besidesthe crime and suspense, she knew to tell astory gracefully. If you were an AgathaChristie reader for a long time, you can beguaranteed to have read some good

English.

Starting with The Mysterious Affair at Stylesin 1920 where she created that short egg-headed detective genius called HerculePoirot, the mystery writer went on to writea number of novels till she passed away in1976. Other powerful characters emergedto be her readers favorites: Miss Marple, an

old but intelligent problem-solver, Hastings,narrator and companion in a few Poirot

novels, Tommy and Tuppence, a crime-solving couple, and many more.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd remainsthe masterpiece of all her works. Thisbook and And then there were nonefeatures in the top 100 list of crimenovels prepared by the Hatchards CrimeCompanion of Crime WritersAssociation.

Being a romance writer as well, thoughshe was more famous for her crimenovels, Christie brought romanticisminto her crime fictions in the form of chivalrous men and bewitching women.

Winner of several awards andacknowledgements, Agatha Christie tothis day remains as one of the bestselling writers in the Guinness Book of

World Records. For this reason, herworks have been translated to 56languages, as well as adapted to producea number of TV series, movies, stageplays and video games.

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Book All quiet on the westernfrontAuthor: Erich MariaRemarque

Once in a while, you happen upon aclassic. You know what it is by the wornnature of the book when you pick it upfrom the library's shelf. 'All quiet on thewestern front' is a book of that sort.Originally written in German by ErichMaria Remarque in 1929, the book is a firstperson account of World War I by aGerman Soldier-Paul Bumer.

Paul and his friends - a bunch of German schoolboys, enlist in the army atthe insistence of their school master, somedoing so against their own wishes. We seethe war through the eyes of theseyoungsters. Though filled with fine feelingsof patriotism at the beginning, they findthemselves systematically broken downduring the harsh training. When posted atthe front,they learn to rely on their instinctsrather than reason to direct their actions.They learn to give in to the animal inthemselves in order to survive.

Indifference becomes their way of life- the only way they find, to be able to takethe horrors of war. Starvation, disease, nonexistence of any personal space, fear of pain, death and the morrow fills each day.

Outnumbered by the enemy, they soldier onin the face of the inevitable. How would youfeel if you had to march past a bunch of newly made coffins, knowing one of themwas meant for you - perhaps to be used thatvery day?

Theirs is a generation betrayedby the previous one. No future seems to bepossible after having seen so much at such ayoung age. Some die painful and prolongeddeaths. Some lose the will to fight. Some goinsane. Some are crippled. And the rest go on,the numbers of their company reducing eachday.

Nations at war depend on thebravado of the soldiers at the front.Sometimes, one wonders who the realenemy is. Is it the soldier on the other side of no man's land, the leader who first decided togo to war, the commander who has to sendhalf healed men into the battle again, the

school master who first almost binto believing this was their people who sit back home and fethe 'young heroes'?

This is a book that wboundaries, nationalism and pashowing what they all reduce to

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Leisure

Sock WrestlingAll the kids sit in a circle and have to take off theirshoes so they are only wearing socks.

Every person is given a number. Two numbers arethen called out. The with those numbers comeinto the center of the circle, and, remaining on theirknees, must, in any way possible, get the other person'ssock before they get theirs.

Very funny to watch. A variation is for theto have pillows under their tops which makes it

less contact and dangerous

person

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King of the HillThis game can be played with several players and amound of dirt or hill. One person is chosen to beking of the hill probably .Then one at a time eachplayer goes up the hill to dethrone the King of thehill. The object is to get the king off of the hill.There is no ultimate winner just a lot of fun.

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MindGame

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Which cricket commentator, who mistakenly calMonty Panesar 'Monty Python', was awarded anin 2003? HINT:father Tom is said to have been thinspiration for the naming of fictional James Bonvillian Ernst Stavro Blofeld - the one with the w- created by Ian Fleming.

What connects Elizabeth Fry, Sir John Houblon, Adam Smith,George Stephenson, and Sir Edward Elgar?

In May 2007 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid AMaktoum announced the biggest what in histodate?

What term originally meaning 'storehouse' referred, andstill refers, to a periodical of various content andimaginative writing?

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Hari Prasad Dhoonda or Hari Puttar, is a bright 10 year oldwho has recently moved from India to the U.K. with hisparents . His father is assigned to work on a secret project,for which he has access to a chip with confidentialinformation. By mistake, Hari and his cousinare left behind at home by the family who set out on a

picnic.Meanwhile, an infamous don, Kali Mirchi, assignstwo bumbling burglars steal the secret formula chip fromHari's house. When Hari accidentally discovers the missionof the burglars, he embarks on a journey of great adventureand suddenly discovers the self-confidence, creativity andgumption that he did not know he possessed.

The so called naive Hari Puttar embarkson a journey of great adventure and suddenly discovers theself-confidence, creativity and gumption that he did not

know he possessed.

"Welcome to Sajjanpur" is about an Indian villapeople are very simple and mostly uneducated. Mis one of the few educated people in the village dreams of writing a novel someday. But, in the makes a living by reading andwriting the letters of the uneducated villagers. H

with other villagers and he soon finds that he can the activities of the village through his actions.

Hari Puttar - A Comedy of Terrors

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Beverly Hills Chihuahua Flash of Genius

Director: Raja Gosnell

Stars: Drew Barrymore, George LopezStudio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The Plot: While on vacation in Mexico, Chloe(Barrymore), a pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua,finds herself lost and in need of assistance in orderto get back home. Coming to Chloe's aid is a amacho Chihuahua named Papi (Lopez), a spiritguide (Hayek) who endeavors to help Chloe

discover her true heritage.

Director: Marc Abraham

Stars: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Alan AldStudio: Universal Studios

The Plot: Once Robert Kearns (Kinnear) discocars are coming equipped with intermittentwipers -- a technology Kearns invented, paunsuccessfully tried to sell -- he launches a lanagainst the U.S. automotive industry.

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Back to school: The mysterious Indus script

- by utkarshThe Harappan or the Indus ValleyCivilization (IVC) forms an integral part of our history textbooks. One of the biggestmysteries shrouding this ancient civilizationare the symbols found on its inscriptions.

The first Indus seal was discovered in1872-73, followed by the discovery of anentire civilization in the 1920s. Till date, overa hundred claims of 'decipherment' of theIndus script have been made, and a myriadof languages have been proposed as thelanguage of the IVC. However, none of theclaims have proved conclusive. There is alsoevidence to suggest that the IVC may havebeen multilinguistic.

The first claim of 'decipherment' wasannounced by Alexander Cunningham, in1877, when only one Indus seal had beendiscovered. According to Cunningham, thewriting on the seal was Asokan Brahmiscript. In 1882, the Sinologist Terrien de

Lacouperie claimed that this Indus seal waswritten in tribal Chinese Lolo script.

In the 1960s, a high-profile research

team claimed thatthe Indus valley

inscriptionsencoded an

ancient Dravidianlanguage. This

hypothesis becamethe dominant

model for nextthree decades,

fueled byethnic patriotism. There were others who alsotried to establish connections between the

Vedic civilization and the IVC.Several flaws have been pointed out in

these theories, and there is a long record of fake evidence and forgeries by the 'researchers'claiming to have deciphered the script. Amongthe recent ones was the forgery of a 'horse seal'by Natwar Jha and N. S. Rajaram, whoidentified the language as Vedic Sanskrit.Similarly, there have been many forgeriesinvolving supposed finds of Indus inscriptions

on Tamil village walls.In 2004, Steve Farmer,

and Michael Witzel prophypothesis.They argued thatfound on the Indus seals are justsymbols, not a 'script'. Steve Fais a fact that odd path dephistorical field often develop dudirections taken by promresearchers.

According to Witze"rejected writing for other systems". This raises a new quHarappans never adopted wrthey were seemingly aware of itrade contacts with the Me

Witzel et al hypothesize that thethe IVC must have opposed wri"threats it posed to whatevesymbols gave them over IndusThis could provide an explanatthat several Indus seals have and around the MesopotamianMesopotamian inscriptions haat the Indus sites.

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Draftmix.com is a site where onecan play fantasy sports. The siteoffers live drafts every daythroughout each sport's season -Football and baseball are offeredcurrently. The players can draft ateam and join a league any time.You can play for play money orreal cash.

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S o c i a l M o t h i s a g r o u pconfessional for friends. Getatleast three of your friendsregistered and you can all postyour secrets anonymously.The more, the merrier. You gethints when a secret is posted by afriend, but not about whichfriend confessed that particularthought -that is what you play atguessing or logically deducing.

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The credit crunch that began in America s sub prime mortgagerupted into a global financial crisis today. The US ecorecession, credit markets are in distress and the rest of the worla downturn.

In simple terms, Subprime lending is the practice loans to borrowers who do not qualify for market interest ratevarious risk factors, such as income level, size of the down paycredit history, and employment status. The value of U.S

mortgages was estimated at $1.3 trillion as of March 2007 wimillion subprime mortgages outstanding. The situation has lecrisis.

Here is a chronology of major events that has led toever times at the financial world:

New York investment bank Bear Stethe brink of collapse because of their extensive investments ibacked securities.

A number of German ban

investments in the U.S. real-estate market are caught up iincluding IKB Deutsche Industriebank, Sachsen LB (Saxony SBayernLB (Bavaria State Bank).

The British bank Northern Roby worried savers.

Profits at the U.S. financial giant Csharply. Then one large financial institution after another repof dollars in writedowns and heavy losses.

The Swiss banking giant UBS repo

18 billion dollars in writedowns for 2007 on account of its exporeeling U.S. real-estate market. It announces another 19 billiowritedowns in April.

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When the wall cracked earlier

Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also knownas the Crash of 29 or the Great Crash, wasthe most devastating stock market crash inthe history of the United States, taking intoconsideration the full and longevity of itsfallout. Three phrasesBlack Thursday,Black Monday, and Black Tuesdayareused to describe this collapse of stockvalues.

On the verge of collappressure by the Federal Reserve, thebank, Bear Stears is forced to accept U.S. investment bank JPMorgan Chaseprice. In Germany, Deutsche Bank rep141 million euros for the first quarter ofquarterly loss in five years.

The California morIndyMac collapses. Troubles for Ugiants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac grow.

The U.S. goveover Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Theinvestment bank Lehman Brothers deep

'Black MonBrothers files for bankruptcy, Merrill Lybe acquired by the Bank of Americrescued by Fed Reserve. Goldman Sachworst drop in profits since going public

And many more will follow.

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We recently asked our readers

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At the age of 15 this person was punished with 15 lashes , each lash he shouted out "bharat mata ki jai". After that inctook a vow that "he would never be arrested and would die

man". And did he not keep his vow, when at the tender age ,after being betrayed by his fellow compatriots he decided himself. He is the one who at the age of 15, on being askedby the judge, shouted at him saying "my name is azad (freeis none other than Chandrashekhar Azad.

Take a moment from your busy lifeimagine yourself being born a century back. Can you see ythe place of AZAD ? Where the most pressing thoughts woof your promotion or where to go and hang out over the we

but how to be useful to the country. Take some time to refleand just picturize the situation of a young person of your agshooting himslef just to make his country "Azad" . Now cayourself in Chandrashekhar Azad's boots? What would you

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Nation What is a man without his people, his pride, Without a great nation to save his lonehide?He's simply a grain that's lost in the dust,Thrown through the world by a perilousgust.

One must have trust in his motherland, lo,Trust it's the best, with all others below.But how is one's nation the best above all,For there must be others who've come to afall?

The grand key is to think with one's heart,As a great nation's people just can't part

With their country, their flag, the color of bloodShed by their fellows and shed for the mud

That covers their land from wgrow.Their nation's the best becausknowThat even though Death besieThey'd charge out in fury, cou

Decaying through time, forgoA fallen nation's reduced to a But despite collapse and despIt captures one's mind and ma

For that is what makes a greatAs all it must do is make one'sThus a man should not put thiout,So he can be sure beyond reas

When he's held at gunpoint byfoes,His country, his people, will swoes,Save him from drifting, a specHe won't forget his dear countManimala

The thought of shooting myself would havenever have come to my mind in that situation.I would have tried till my last blood drop to bealive and to be useful for country's freedommovement as much as Icould. By being alive Azad could have inspiredmore and more youth across India to take partin country's freedom struggle.

Shooting himself was not required fromAzad. My eyes would not have wanted to getclosed before I could see the tricolor flying highunder the sky of an independent India.

I feel today's youth is also no less than theheroes we had during British regime. That wasa time when everybody had ire towards theBritish. Everyone was going through the painand it was very easy toflare up that anger and to make every youth tostand up. If such circumstances come againthen I am sure we would have hundreds of such heroes who would love to die for suchcause. Also, this time we wouldhit hard as we have experienced ourexistence in a democratic and independentIndia. Resistance of today's youth towardsanybody ruling them is much higher than itwas in the past. Deepak Bajpai

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First Impressions -

I was at Delhi for a couple of days in August.Here are my first impressions of Indias capitalcity.

Delhi is a huge city and each place feels sodifferent the government offices majestic intheir power, the monuments and memorials -silent and mourning, the bazaars loud,confusing and vivacious and the people - mostlyunhurried.

Most of the sight seeing attractions are far fromeach other and hence, there is very little traffic atany one point. The roads are great, so just cruise

along! You can get around on the metro or busor autos or taxis. Pollution by vehicles is kept to

Delhi

Very little traffic and pollution

a minimum by the public transport thatruns on CNG.

A tour of the monuments is a must - Indiagate, Raj Ghat, Rashtrapati Bhavan,Parliament building, Birla Mandir, QutbMinar, Red fort, Bahai temple (Looksbeautiful from the air). The kind of intricate work on some of the oldermonuments leave you gaping (Seepicture). I also visited the doll museumthat houses over 6000 dolls from all overthe world representing their country'scustoms and ways quite interesting tochildren and adults alike.

Bazaars are around everywhere and you

can bargain a lot in most places forclothes, electronic goods etc! So, put away

The sight-seeing

A haven for bargain shopping

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The weather is pretty hot. I wgardens and parks have hreduce the heat. Most places walking. You'll find lemoeverywhere and it tastes a bafter a tiring walk.

Agra is just a few hours away

missed a lot by not visiting tOh, well there is only so muin two days.

http://www.bharatonline.comHelpful website:

Bahai temple Inside qutub minart

Share your first impressiplace along with picturediscover India.

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The story of Garuda

The sage Kashyapa, the wish-born son of LordBrahma, was married to the two daughtersKadru and Vinata of Daksha. The sisters werevery beautiful and extremely jealous of eachother.

Kashyapa offered to grant each of them a boon. To Kadru, who wanted athousand sons of great strength, were bornthe race of serpents endowed with greatstrength. Vinata had two eggs, after her wishfor two sons who would outshine her sister'ssons in strength and fame.

However, the eggs did not hatch for along time and Vinata broke open one of hereggs out of impatience. The embryo in it hadnot formed completely. The child was angryat his mother's impatience and cursed her to

slavery and warned her not to disturb theother egg. (He was Aruna and he becamethe charioteer of the sun god)

Some time later, the two sisters wereinvolved in an argument - ending in a betwith the stakes of the loser becomingenslaved to the winner. By crooked means,Kurda won the bet and Vinata became aslave.

Soon, the second egg hatched andGaruda emerged, so blindingly bright thatno one was able to even look at him. He hadthe head and wings of an eagle andsometimes, the rest of his body as that of aman.

When Vinata told him the story of thebet she had made with Kadru. Garuda askedhis brothers for some means of getting out of enslavement. The snakes asked Garuda tobring them the divine Amrit(elixer of life)from the Devas in return for freedom.

Garuda agreed and went into battle withthe Devas, defeated them and took the

being stolen, he used his weaGaruda. In respect to the Rfrom whose bones that weapcrafted, Garuda shed exactlyand continued on his way unha

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despite having obtained it andthe boon of immortality withfor Amrit, for his selflessadvised Garuda to fulfill his vthe Amrit to his brothers bprevent them from drinkingsnakes, if immortal, would cthe world.

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brothers, he showed them threleased his mother and bondage. He then distractelong enough for Indra to stAmrit .

Garuda and Indra becamdivided the rule of the wothemselves. Garuda got thbirds and other flying creature

got the rest. Garuda becamemount in return for the boonbecome his food.

A new section where we take you back toGrandma's lap where you listened to these forthe first time.

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It got crowded in heaven so, for one day and one day onlydecided to only accept people who had really bad day on the died.

St. Peter was standing at the pearly gates and said to the first mme about the day you died. The man said, Oh, it was awful. Imy wife was having an affair, so I came home early to catchhim. I searched all over the apartment but couldnt find him aSo I went out onto the balcony, we live on the 25th floor, and foman hanging over the edge by his fingertips. I went inshammer, and started hitting his hands. He fell, but landedbushes. So, I got the refrigerator and pushed it over the balccrushed him. The strain of the act gave me a heart attack, of whfrom.

St. Peter couldnt deny that this was a pretty bad day, and sinccrime of passion, he let the man in. He then asked the next mabout the day he died. Well, sir, it was awful, said the seconwas doing aerobics on the balcony of my 26th floor apartmetwisted my ankle and slipped over the edge. I managed tobalcony of the apartment below, but some maniac came out anpounding on my fingers with a hammer. Luckily I landed in soBut, then the guy dropped a refrigerator on me!

St. Peter chuckled, let him into heaven and decided he could rto enjoy this job. Tell me about the day you died? he said toman in line. OK, picture this; Im naked, hiding inside a refrig

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Funny chemical names No, these aren't the favourite compound of the Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz, butare in fact a type of mesoionic compound. These are ring structures in which the positiveand negative charge are delocalised, and which cannot be represented satisfactorily byany one polar structure. They got their name when Huisgen called them after the cityMunich (Mnchen), after similar compounds were called sydnones after Sydney.

Munchnones

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Off the Block...

Glibido: All talk and no action.

Worst Slogan Translations

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitationalonce again asked readers to take any wordfrom the dictionary, alter it by adding,subtracting, or changing of one letter, andsupply a new definition .

When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mewere supposed to have read, "It won't leak in your embarrass you." The company thought that the word "

(to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "Iin your pocket and make you pregnant."

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