1. | British Governor General of Bengal | Warren Hastings |
2. | Governor General of Independent India | Lord Mountbatten |
3. | Commander-in-chief of Free India | General Roy Bucher |
4. | Cosmonaut | Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma |
5. | Emperor of Mughal Dynasty in India | Babar |
6. | Field Marshal | S. H. F. J. Manekshaw |
7. | Indian Governor General of Indian Union | C. Rajagopalachari |
8. | Indian I.C.S. Officer | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
9. | Indian Member of Viceroy's Executive Council | Sri S. P. Sinha |
10. | Indian to swim across English Channel | Mihir Sen |
11. | Indian woman to swim across-English Channel | Miss Arati Saha |
12. | Man to climb Mount Everest | Tenzing Norgay |
13. | Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen | Phu Dorjee |
14. | Man to climb Mount Everest twice | Nwang Gombu |
15. | Nobel Prize winner | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
16. | President of Indian National Congress | W. C. Banerjee |
17. | President of Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
18. | Talkie Film | Alam Ara (1931) |
19. | Test Tube Baby (Documented) | Indira |
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20. | Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
21. | Woman Minister of Indian Union | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
22. | Woman Chief Minister of State | Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani |
23. | Woman Governor | Mrs. Sarojini Naidu |
24. | Woman President of Indian National Congress | Dr. Annie Besant |
25. | Woman Prime Minister | Mrs. Indira Gandhi |
26. | Woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Mrs. Shanno Devi |
27. | Prime Minister of India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
28. | Muslim President of Indian Union | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
29. | Speaker of Lok Sabha | G. V. Mavlankar |
30. | Woman to climb mount Everest | Bachhendri Pal |
31. | Woman Judge in Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi |
32. | Woman Chief Justice of a High Court | Smt. Leela Seth |
33. | Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) | Kalpana Chawla |
34. | The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics | Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000) |
35. | The First Indian World Chess Champion | Vishwanathan Anand |
36. | India's first paperless Newspaper | The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001) |
37. | India's First woman Merchant Navy Officer | Sonali Banerjee |
38. | The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha | G. M. C. Balyogi |
39. | The first Vice-President of India to die in harness | Krishna Kant |
40. | The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century | Mithali Raj
(August 2002 playing against England) |
41. | The first woman Air Vice-Marshal | P. Bandopadhyaya |
42. | The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor | Ms. Kiran Bedi |
43. | The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident | Dr. Kalpana
Chawla (Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003) |
44. | The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India | K. J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003) |
45. | The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament | Sania Mirza (2003) |
46. | The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship | Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003) |
47. | The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD | Mrs. Ranjana Kumar |
48. | The highest individual test scorer of India | Virendra Sehwag ( 309 runs in the first test in Multan against Pakistan) |
49. | The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times | Rahul Drgvid (playing test against Pakistan in Pakistan in. April 2004) |
50. | The first Odisha woman to top I.A.S. | Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003) |
51. | The first Sikh Prime Minister of India | Dr. Manmohan Singh |
52. | The first woman Director General of Police of a State | Kanchan C.
Bhattacharya (DGP Uttarakhand) |
53. | The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief | MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police) |
54. | The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army | Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune) |
55. | The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming | Bula Chaudhury |
56. | The first woman to become Indian Air Force's first woman Air Marshal | Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay |
57. | The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years | Dharmendra Yadav (Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP) |
58. | India's first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title | Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad) |
59. | The first Indian to set a world record of ever
having reached the highest of heights yet in a hot balloon |
Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.) |
60. | The first wonder child of Odisha only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km. | Budhia (May 2006) |
61. | The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro (Chennai Metro Police) | Letika Saran |
62. | The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole | Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006) |
63. | The first sportsman ever to win Gold Medal in Shooting in the World Shooting Championship | Abhinav Bindra (July 24, 2006) |
64. | The first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title | Preeti Desai (2006) |
65. | The first woman President of the Republic of India | Pratibha Patil |
Thursday, 15 November 2012
First in India
Nasa : A Brief History
What Does NASA Do?
NASA's
vision: To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so
that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.
To do that, thousands of people have been working around the world -- and off of it -- for 50 years, trying to answer some basic questions. What's out there in space? How do we get there? What will we find? What can we learn there, or learn just by trying to get there, that will make life better here on Earth? |
History
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower
established the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration in 1958, partially in response to the Soviet
Union's launch of the first artificial satellite the
previous year. NASA grew out of the National Advisory
Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), which had been researching
flight technology for more than 40 years.
President John F. Kennedy focused NASA and the nation on sending astronauts to the moon by the end of the 1960s. Through the Mercury and Gemini projects, NASA developed the technology and skills it needed for the journey. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first of 12 men to walk on the moon, meeting Kennedy's challenge. Meanwhile, NASA was continuing the aeronautics research pioneered by NACA. It also ![]() After Apollo, NASA focused on creating a reusable ship to provide regular access to space: the space shuttle. First launched in 1981, the space shuttle has had 120 successful flights. In 2000, the United States and Russia established permanent human presence in space aboard the International Space Station, a multinational project representing the work of 16 nations. NASA also has continued its scientific research. In 1997, Mars Pathfinder became the first in a fleet of spacecraft that will explore Mars in the next decade, as we try to determine if life ever existed there. The Terra and Aqua satellites are flagships of a different fleet, this one in Earth orbit, designed to help us understand how our home world is changing. NASA's aeronautics teams are focused on improved aircraft travel that is safer and cleaner. Throughout its history, NASA has conducted or funded research that has led to numerous improvements to life here on Earth. |
Organization
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NASA Headquarters, in Washington,
provides overall guidance and direction to the agency, under
the leadership of the Administrator. Ten field centers and a
variety of installations conduct the day-to-day work, in
laboratories, on air fields, in wind tunnels and in control
rooms.
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NASA Today
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NASA conducts its work in three principal
organizations, called mission directorates:
Aeronautics: pioneers and proves new flight technologies that improve our ability to explore and which have practical applications on Earth. Human Exploration and Operations: focuses on International Space Station operations and human exploration beyond low Earth orbit. Science: explores the Earth, solar system and universe beyond; charts the best route of discovery; and reaps the benefits of Earth and space exploration for society.
In the early
21st century, NASA's reach spans the universe. The Mars
Exploration Rover Opportunity is still studying Mars after
arriving with its twin Spirit in 2004. Cassini is in orbit
around Saturn, as Juno makes its way to Jupiter. The
restored Hubble Space Telescope continues to explore the
deepest reaches of the cosmos.
Closer to home, the latest crew of the International Space Station is extending the permanent human presence in space. Earth Science satellites are sending back unprecedented data on Earth's oceans, climate and other features. NASA's aeronautics team is working with other government organizations, universities, and industry to fundamentally improve the air transportation experience and retain our nation's leadership in global aviation. |
The Future
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The end of the space shuttle program
does not mean the end of NASA, or even of NASA sending
humans into space. NASA has a robust program of exploration,
technology development and scientific research that will
last for years to come. Here is what's next for NASA:
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Friday, 9 November 2012
BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS
1. No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to
an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.
2. Overeating
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.
3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.
4. High Sugar Consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition
and may interfere with brain development.
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition
and may interfere with brain development.
5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the
supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.
supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.
6. Sleep Deprivation
Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of
brain cells.
Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of
brain cells.
7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered, increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and
decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.
decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.
8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the
brain as well as damage the brain.
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the
brain as well as damage the brain.
9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause
brain shrinkage.
brain shrinkage.
10. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Interesting Facts
- 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
- 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
- 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
- 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
- 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
- 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."
- 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
- 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
- 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
- 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
- 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
- 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
- A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
- A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
- A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
- A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
- A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
- A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
- A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
- A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
- A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
- A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
- A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
- A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
- A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
- A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
- A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
- A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
- A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
- A whale's penis is called a dork.
- About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
- About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
- According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
- Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
- All porcupines float in water.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
- America once issued a 5-cent bill.
- America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
- An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
- An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
- An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
- Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
- Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
- Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
- Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
- Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
- Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
- Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
- Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
- Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
- Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
- Bubble gum contains rubber.
- Camel's milk does not curdle.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
- Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
- Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
- Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
- Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
- Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
- Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
- David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
- Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
- Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
- Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
- Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
- Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
- During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
- Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
- Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
- Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
- Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
- Every person has a unique tongue print.
- Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
- Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
- Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
- Giraffes have no vocal cords.
- Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
- Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
- Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
- Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
- Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
- Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
- If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
- If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
- If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
- If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
- If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
- In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
- In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
- In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
- In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
- In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
- In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
- In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
- In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
- In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
- In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
- In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
- In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
- In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
- In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
- Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
- It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
- It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
- It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
- It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
- It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
- It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
- It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!)
- Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
- John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
- "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
- Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
- Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
- Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
- Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original size: "L.A."
- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
- Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
- Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
- Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
- Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
- More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
- More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
- More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
- Mosquitoes have teeth.
- Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
- Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
- Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
- Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
- On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building looks like an American flag, but is actually the flag that flew over to Dominion of Canada before the Maple Leaf .
- On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
- One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
- One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
- One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
- Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
- Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
- Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
- Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
- Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
- Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
- Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
- Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
- Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
- Reindeer like to eat bananas.
- Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
- Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
- Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
- Slugs have 4 noses.
- Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
- Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.
- Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
- Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
- Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
- The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
- The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
- The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
- The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
- The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
- The average person laughs 15 times a day.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
- The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.
- The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
- The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
- The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
- The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
- The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
- The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
- The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
- The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
- The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
- The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
- The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
- The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
- The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
- The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
- The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
- The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
- The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
- The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
- The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
- The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
- The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
- The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
- The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
- The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
- The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
- The phrase, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
- The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
- The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
- The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
- The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
- The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
- The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
- The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... thus the saying.
- The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
- The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
- The state of Florida is bigger than England.
- The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
- The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
- The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
- The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
- The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
- The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
- The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
- The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)
- The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
- The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
- There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
- There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
- Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
- Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
- Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
- Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
- When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
- When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
- When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
- White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees).
- Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
- Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
- Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
- You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
- You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
- You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
- You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
- You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
- Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Importants of Laws and Principles
Archimedes Principle :
- When a body is immersed either wholly or partially in a fluid at rest, the apparent loss of weight suffered by it is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by it.
- Equal volumes of all gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure contain equal number of molecules.
- A black body absorbs heat or radiates heat more quickly than any other body.
- It increases with the increase of pressure.
- The presence of impurities also raises the boiling point of a liquid.
- A body will remain at rest only if the vertical line through the centres of gravity passes through the base of support of the body.
- The force between the two electric charges reduces to a quarter of its former value when the distance between them is doubled.
- The amount of chemical change during electrolysis is proportional to the charge passed.
- The masses of substances liberated or deposited by the same quantity of electric charge are proportional to their chemical equivalents.
- In chemical changes, matter is neither created nor destroyed.
- The sum total of the masses of all the products of a chemical change is exactly equal to the sum total of the substances from which these products have been formed.
- The amount of heat given to a system is equal to the sum of the increase in the internal energy of the system and the external work done.
- It is impossible to construct a continuous self-acting machine that can pump heat energy from a body at lower temperature to a body at higher temperature.
- When an electric current is induced by a change in magnetic field, the induced current is always in such a direction that its magnetic field opposes the change of field which causes the induction.
- E = mc2, where E = quantity of energy released from the annihilation of matter of mass ‘m’, c = velocity of light.
- It implies that mass and energy are interchangeable.
- The rate at which a body cools or loses its heat to its surroundings is proportional to the excess of mean temperature of the body over that of the surroundings, provided this temperature excess is not too large.
- Every body in the universe attracts every other body with a force, directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
- Everybody continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by a force ( called Law of Inertia ).
- The rate of change of momentum of a moving body is proportional to the applied force and takes place in the direction of the force.
- For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
- The amount of current flowing in an electric circuit is governed by the voltage of the battery on dynamo which powers it.
- In other words, the current through a conductor is directly proportional the potential difference across the conductor and inversely proportional to its resistance.
- Light travels in a straight line.
- Total internal reflection takes place when a ray of light tries to pass from a denser medium to a rarer medium at an angle of incidence more than the critical angle.
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
How Famous Companies Got Their Names?
Nike: Named for the greek goddess of victory. The swoosh symbolises her flight.
Skype: The original concept was ‘Sky-Peer-to-Peer’, which morphed into Skyper, then Skype.
Mercedes: This was actually financier's daughter's name.
Adidas: The company name was taken from its founder Adolf (ADI) Dassler whose first name was shortened to the nickname Adi. Together with first three letters of his surname it formed ADIDAS.
Adobe: This came from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apple Computers: It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late for filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.
CISCO: It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It's short for San Francisco.
Compaq: This name was formed by using COMP, for computer and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
Corel: The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland Research Laboratory.
Google: The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor; they received a cheque made out to 'Google'. So, instead of returning the cheque for correction, they decided to change the name to Google.
Hotmail: Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard: Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel: Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes): Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft: Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
Motorola: Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
Sony: It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound and 'sonny' as lang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN: Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
Apache: It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server - thus, the name Apache Jakarta (project from Apache): A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web server handling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room at SUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place.
Tomcat: The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name for the JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN.
C: Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie).
C++: Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then 'newC'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.
GNU: A species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humour associated with its pronunciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The Gnu Song' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'.
Java: Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was no other language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.
LG: Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.
Linux: Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which here placed by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax (free+freak+x). His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called 'Linux' on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax. (Linus parents named him after two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling).
Mozilla: When Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla). The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it was re-christened Netscape Navigator.
Red Hat: Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!
SAP: "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/ Projects' group of IBM.
UNIX: When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS. They needed the OS to run the game 'Space War' which was compiled under MULTICS. It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX.
SCO (UNIX): From Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz.
Xerox: The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say 'dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root 'xer' means dry.
Yahoo: The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
3M: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the material corundum used to make sandpaper. It was changed to 3M when the company changed its focus to Innovative Products.
Mercedes: This was actually financier's daughter's name.
Adidas: The company name was taken from its founder Adolf (ADI) Dassler whose first name was shortened to the nickname Adi. Together with first three letters of his surname it formed ADIDAS.
Adobe: This came from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apple Computers: It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late for filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.
CISCO: It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It's short for San Francisco.
Compaq: This name was formed by using COMP, for computer and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
Corel: The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland Research Laboratory.
Google: The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor; they received a cheque made out to 'Google'. So, instead of returning the cheque for correction, they decided to change the name to Google.
Hotmail: Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard: Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel: Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes): Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft: Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
Motorola: Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
Sony: It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound and 'sonny' as lang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN: Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
Apache: It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server - thus, the name Apache Jakarta (project from Apache): A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web server handling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room at SUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place.
Tomcat: The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name for the JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN.
C: Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie).
C++: Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then 'newC'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.
GNU: A species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humour associated with its pronunciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The Gnu Song' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'.
Java: Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was no other language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.
LG: Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.
Linux: Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which here placed by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax (free+freak+x). His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called 'Linux' on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax. (Linus parents named him after two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling).
Mozilla: When Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla). The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it was re-christened Netscape Navigator.
Red Hat: Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!
SAP: "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/
UNIX: When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS. They needed the OS to run the game 'Space War' which was compiled under MULTICS. It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX.
SCO (UNIX): From Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz.
Xerox: The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say 'dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root 'xer' means dry.
Yahoo: The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
3M: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the material corundum used to make sandpaper. It was changed to 3M when the company changed its focus to Innovative Products.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Let's say it's 6.15pm and you're going home (alone of course),
after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't kno
w if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself..!!
NOW HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE..
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.
A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.
The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't kno
w if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself..!!
NOW HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE..
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.
A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.
The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
Thursday, 1 November 2012
Some Useful Codes for Nokia Cellphone
*#21# This phone code allows you to check the number that"All Calls"are diverted to.
*#2640# Displays phone security code in use .
*#30# Lets you see the private number.
*#43# Allows you to check the"Call Waiting"status of your cell phone.
*#61# Allows you to check the number that"On No Reply"calls are diverted to .
*#62# Allows you to check the number that"Divert If Unreachable (no service)"calls are diverted to .
*#67# Allows you to check the number that"On Busy Calls"are diverted to
*#67705646# Phone code that removes operator logo on 3310&3330
*#73# Reset phone timers and game scores.
*#746025625# Displays the SIM Clock status, if your phone supports this power saving feature"SIM Clock Stop Allowed", it means you will get the best standby time possible .
*#7760# Manufactures code.
*#7780# Restore factory settings.
*#8110# Software version for the nokia 8110.
*#92702689# Displays - 1.Serial Number, 2.Date Made, 3.Purchase Date, 4.Date of last repair (0000 for no repairs), 5.Transfer User Data. To exit this mode you need to switch your phone off then on again.
*#9487034512345 6789# Deactivate the PWM-Mem.
**21*number# Turn on"All Calls"diverting to the phone number entered.
**61*number# Turn on"No Reply"diverting to the phone number entered .
**67*number# Turn on"On Busy"diverting to the phone number entered .
12345 This is the default security code .
press and hold # Lets you switch between lines.
*#9999# Phones software version if *#0000# does not work.
*#06# For checking the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI Number) .
#pw+1234567890+ 1# Provider Lock Status. (use the"*"button to obtain the"p,w"and"+"symbols).
#pw+1234567890+ 2# Network Lock Status. (use the"*"button to obtain the"p,w"and"+"symbols) .
#pw+1234567890+ 3# Country Lock Status. (use the"*"button to obtain the"p,w"and"+"symbols).
#pw+1234567890+ 4# SIM Card Lock Status. (use the"*"button to obtain the"p,w"and"+"symbols) .
*#147# This lets you know who called you last (Only vodofone).
*#1471# Last call (Only vodofone) .
*#21# This phone code allows you to check the number that"All Calls"are diverted to
*3370# This Nokia code activates Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) - Your Nokia cell phone uses the best sound quality but talk time is reduced my approx. 5%
#3370# Deactivate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) .
*#4720# Activate Half Rate Codec - Your phone uses a lower quality sound but you should gain approx 30% more Talk Time.
*#4720# With this Nokia code you can deactivate the Half Rate Codec.
*#0000# Displays your phones software version, 1st Line : Software Version, 2nd Line : Software Release Date, 3rd Line : Compression Type
*#61# Allows you to check the number that"On No Reply"calls are diverted to .
*#62# Allows you to check the number that"Divert If Unreachable (no service)"calls are diverted to .
*#67# Allows you to check the number that"On Busy Calls"are diverted to
*#67705646# Phone code that removes operator logo on 3310&3330
*#73# Reset phone timers and game scores.
*#746025625# Displays the SIM Clock status, if your phone supports this power saving feature"SIM Clock Stop Allowed", it means you will get the best standby time possible .
*#7760# Manufactures code.
*#7780# Restore factory settings.
*#8110# Software version for the nokia 8110.
*#92702689# Displays - 1.Serial Number, 2.Date Made, 3.Purchase Date, 4.Date of last repair (0000 for no repairs), 5.Transfer User Data. To exit this mode you need to switch your phone off then on again.
*#9487034512345 6789# Deactivate the PWM-Mem.
**21*number# Turn on"All Calls"diverting to the phone number entered.
**61*number# Turn on"No Reply"diverting to the phone number entered .
**67*number# Turn on"On Busy"diverting to the phone number entered .
12345 This is the default security code .
press and hold # Lets you switch between lines.
*#9999# Phones software version if *#0000# does not work.
*#06# For checking the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI Number) .
#pw+1234567890+ 1# Provider Lock Status. (use the"*"button to obtain the"p,w"and"+"symbols).
#pw+1234567890+ 2# Network Lock Status. (use the"*"button to obtain the"p,w"and"+"symbols) .
#pw+1234567890+ 3# Country Lock Status. (use the"*"button to obtain the"p,w"and"+"symbols).
#pw+1234567890+ 4# SIM Card Lock Status. (use the"*"button to obtain the"p,w"and"+"symbols) .
*#147# This lets you know who called you last (Only vodofone).
*#1471# Last call (Only vodofone) .
*#21# This phone code allows you to check the number that"All Calls"are diverted to
*3370# This Nokia code activates Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) - Your Nokia cell phone uses the best sound quality but talk time is reduced my approx. 5%
#3370# Deactivate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) .
*#4720# Activate Half Rate Codec - Your phone uses a lower quality sound but you should gain approx 30% more Talk Time.
*#4720# With this Nokia code you can deactivate the Half Rate Codec.
*#0000# Displays your phones software version, 1st Line : Software Version, 2nd Line : Software Release Date, 3rd Line : Compression Type
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Human Brain Analysis - Man vs. Woman.
1. MULTI-TASKING
Women - Multiple process
Womens brains designed to concentrate multiple task at a time.
Women can Watch a TV and Talk over phone and cook.
Men - Single Process
Mens brains designed to concentrate only one work at a time. Men can not watch TV and talk over the phone at the same time. they stop the TV while Talking. They can either watch TV or talk over the phone or cook.
2. LANGUAGE
Women can easily learn many languages. But can not find solutions to problems. Men can not easily learn languages, they can easily solve problems. That's why in average a 3 years old girl has three times higher vocabulary than a 3 yeard old boy.
3. ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Mens brains has a lot of space for handling the analytical process. They can analyze and find the solution for a process and design a map of a building easily. But If a complex map is viewed by women, they can not understand it. Women can not understand the details of a map easily, For them it is just a dump of lines on a paper.
4. CAR DRIVING.
While driving a car, mans analytical spaces are used in his brain. He can drive a car fastly. If he sees an object at long distance, immediately his brain classifies the object (bus or van or car) direction and speed of the object and he drives accordingly. Where woman take a long time to recognize the object direction/ speed. Mans single process mind stops the audio in the car (if any), then concentrates only on driving.
5. LYING
When men lie to women face to face, they get caught easily. Womans super natural brain observes facial expression 70%, body language 20% and words coming from the mouth 10%. Mens brain does not have this. Women easily lie to men face to face.
So guys, do not lie face to face.
6. PROBLEMS SOLVING
If a man have a lot of problems, his brain clearly classifies the problems and puts them in individual rooms in the brain and then finds the solution one by one. You can see many guys looking at the sky for a long time. If a woman has a lot of problems, her brain can not classify the problems. she wants some one to hear that. After telling everything to a person she goes happily to bed. She does not worry about the problems being solved or not.
7. WHAT THEY WANT
Men want status, success, solutions, big process, etc... But Women want relationship, friends, family, etc...
8. UNHAPPINESS
If women are unhappy with their relations, they can not concentrate on their work. If men are unhappy with their work, they can not concentrate on the relations.
9. SPEECH
Women use indirect language in speech. But Men use direct language.
10. HANDLING EMOTION
Women talk a lot without thinking. Men act a lot without thinking
Women can Watch a TV and Talk over phone and cook.
Men - Single Process
Mens brains designed to concentrate only one work at a time. Men can not watch TV and talk over the phone at the same time. they stop the TV while Talking. They can either watch TV or talk over the phone or cook.
2. LANGUAGE
Women can easily learn many languages. But can not find solutions to problems. Men can not easily learn languages, they can easily solve problems. That's why in average a 3 years old girl has three times higher vocabulary than a 3 yeard old boy.
3. ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Mens brains has a lot of space for handling the analytical process. They can analyze and find the solution for a process and design a map of a building easily. But If a complex map is viewed by women, they can not understand it. Women can not understand the details of a map easily, For them it is just a dump of lines on a paper.
4. CAR DRIVING.
While driving a car, mans analytical spaces are used in his brain. He can drive a car fastly. If he sees an object at long distance, immediately his brain classifies the object (bus or van or car) direction and speed of the object and he drives accordingly. Where woman take a long time to recognize the object direction/ speed. Mans single process mind stops the audio in the car (if any), then concentrates only on driving.
5. LYING
When men lie to women face to face, they get caught easily. Womans super natural brain observes facial expression 70%, body language 20% and words coming from the mouth 10%. Mens brain does not have this. Women easily lie to men face to face.
So guys, do not lie face to face.
6. PROBLEMS SOLVING
If a man have a lot of problems, his brain clearly classifies the problems and puts them in individual rooms in the brain and then finds the solution one by one. You can see many guys looking at the sky for a long time. If a woman has a lot of problems, her brain can not classify the problems. she wants some one to hear that. After telling everything to a person she goes happily to bed. She does not worry about the problems being solved or not.
7. WHAT THEY WANT
Men want status, success, solutions, big process, etc... But Women want relationship, friends, family, etc...
8. UNHAPPINESS
If women are unhappy with their relations, they can not concentrate on their work. If men are unhappy with their work, they can not concentrate on the relations.
9. SPEECH
Women use indirect language in speech. But Men use direct language.
10. HANDLING EMOTION
Women talk a lot without thinking. Men act a lot without thinking
Monday, 29 October 2012
Countries and their Capitals
Countries and their Capitals
No. Country Capital
1 Afghanistan Kabul
2 Albania Tirane
3 Algeria Algiers
No. Country Capital
1 Afghanistan Kabul
2 Albania Tirane
3 Algeria Algiers
4 Andorra Andorra la Vella
5 Angola Luanda
6 Antigua and Barbuda Saint John’s
7 Argentina Buenos Aires
8 Armenia Yerevan
9 Australia Canberra
10 Austria Vienna
11 Azerbaijan Baku
12 The Bahamas Nassau
13 Bahrain Manama
14 Bangladesh Dhaka
15 Barbados Bridgetown
16 Belarus Minsk
17 Belgium Brussels
18 Belize Belmopan
19 Benin Porto-Novo
20 Bhutan Thimphu
21 Bolivia Sucre (constitutional ); La Paz (administrative )
22 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo
23 Botswana Gaborone
24 Brazil Brasilia
25 Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan
26 Bulgaria Sofia
27 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
28 Burundi Bujumbura
29 Cambodia Phnom Penh
30 Cameroon Yaounde
31 Canada Ottawa
32 Cape Verde Praia
33 Central African Republic Bangui
34 Chad N’Djamena
35 Chile Santiago
36 China Beijing
37 Colombia Bogota
38 Comoros Moroni
39 Congo, Republic of the Brazzaville
40 Congo, Democratic Republic of the Kinshasa
41 Costa Rica San Jose
42 Cote d’Ivoire Yamoussoukro
43 Croatia Zagreb
44 Cuba Havana
45 Cyprus Nicosia
46 Czech Republic Prague
47 Denmark Copenhagen
48 Djibouti Djibouti
49 Dominica Roseau
50 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo
51 East Timor (Timor-Leste) Dili
52 Ecuador Quito
53 Egypt Cairo
54 El Salvador San Salvador
55 Equatorial Guinea Malabo
56 Eritrea Asmara
57 Estonia Tallinn
58 Ethiopia Addis Ababa
59 Fiji Suva
60 Finland Helsinki
61 France Paris
62 Gabon Libreville
63 The Gambia Banjul
64 Georgia Tbilisi
65 Germany Berlin
66 Ghana Accra
67 Greece Athens
68 Grenada Saint George’s
69 Guatemala Guatemala City
70 Guinea Conakry
71 Guinea-Bissau Bissau
72 Guyana Georgetown
73 Haiti Port-au-Prince
74 Honduras Tegucigalpa
75 Hungary Budapest
76 Iceland Reykjavik
77 India New Delhi
78 Indonesia Jakarta
79 Iran Tehran
80 Iraq Baghdad
81 Ireland Dublin
82 Israel Jerusalem*
83 Italy Rome
84 Jamaica Kingston
85 Japan Tokyo
86 Jordan Amman
87 Kazakhstan Astana
88 Kenya Nairobi
89 Kiribati Tarawa Atoll
90 Korea, North Pyongyang
91 Korea, South Seoul
92 Kosovo Pristina
93 Kuwait Kuwait City
94 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek
95 Laos Vientiane
96 Latvia Riga
97 Lebanon Beirut
98 Lesotho Maseru
99 Liberia Monrovia
100 Libya Tripoli
101 Liechtenstein Vaduz
102 Lithuania Vilnius
103 Luxembourg Luxembourg
104 Macedonia Skopje
105 Madagascar Antananarivo
106 Malawi Lilongwe
107 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
108 Maldives Male
109 Mali Bamako
110 Malta Valletta
111 Marshall Islands Majuro
112 Mauritania Nouakchott
113 Mauritius Port Louis
114 Mexico Mexico City
115 Micronesia, FederatedStates of Palikir
116 Moldova Chisinau
117 Monaco Monaco
118 Mongolia Ulaanbaatar
119 Montenegro Podgorica
120 Morocco Rabat
121 Mozambique Maputo
122 Myanmar (Burma) Naypyidaw
123 Namibia Windhoek
124 Nauru Yaren (de facto)
125 Nepal Kathmandu
126 Netherlands (Holland) Amsterdam
127 New Zealand Wellington
128 Nicaragua Managua
129 Niger Niamey
130 Nigeria Abuja
131 Norway Oslo
132 Oman Muscat
133 Pakistan Islamabad
134 Palau Melekeok
135 Panama Panama City
136 Papua New Guinea Port Moresby
137 Paraguay Asuncion
138 Peru Lima
139 Philippines Manila
140 Poland Warsaw
141 Portugal Lisbon
142 Qatar Doha
143 Romania Bucharest
144 Russia Moscow
145 Rwanda Kigali
146 Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre
147 Saint Lucia Castries
148 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown
149 Samoa Apia
150 San Marino San Marino
151 Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome
152 Saudi Arabia Riyadh
153 Senegal Dakar
154 Serbia Belgrade
155 Seychelles Victoria
156 Sierra Leone Freetown
157 Singapore Singapore
158 Slovakia Bratislava
159 Slovenia Ljubljana
160 Solomon Islands Honiara
161 Somalia Mogadishu
162 South Africa Pretoria (administrative ); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (judiciary)
163 Spain Madrid
164 Sri Lanka Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (administrative ); Colombo (trade)
165 Sudan Khartoum
166 Suriname Paramaribo
167 Swaziland Mbabane(Adminis trative) / Lobamba (Royal and Legislative)
168 Sweden Stockholm
169 Switzerland Bern
170 Syria Damascus
171 Taiwan Taipei
172 Tajikistan Dushanbe
173 Tanzania Dodoma (administrative ); Dar es Salaam
174 Thailand Bangkok
175 Togo Lome
176 Tonga Nuku’alofa
177 Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain
178 Tunisia Tunis
179 Turkey Ankara
180 Turkmenistan Ashgabat
181 Tuvalu Funafuti province
182 Uganda Kampala
183 Ukraine Kyiv
184 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi
185 United Kingdom London
186 United States of America Washington D.C.
187 Uruguay Montevideo
188 Uzbekistan Tashkent
189 Vanuatu Port-Vila
190 Vatican City (Holy See) Vatican City
191 Venezuela Caracas
192 Vietnam Hanoi
193 Yemen Sanaa
194 Zambia Lusaka
195 Zimbabwe Harare
5 Angola Luanda
6 Antigua and Barbuda Saint John’s
7 Argentina Buenos Aires
8 Armenia Yerevan
9 Australia Canberra
10 Austria Vienna
11 Azerbaijan Baku
12 The Bahamas Nassau
13 Bahrain Manama
14 Bangladesh Dhaka
15 Barbados Bridgetown
16 Belarus Minsk
17 Belgium Brussels
18 Belize Belmopan
19 Benin Porto-Novo
20 Bhutan Thimphu
21 Bolivia Sucre (constitutional ); La Paz (administrative )
22 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo
23 Botswana Gaborone
24 Brazil Brasilia
25 Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan
26 Bulgaria Sofia
27 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
28 Burundi Bujumbura
29 Cambodia Phnom Penh
30 Cameroon Yaounde
31 Canada Ottawa
32 Cape Verde Praia
33 Central African Republic Bangui
34 Chad N’Djamena
35 Chile Santiago
36 China Beijing
37 Colombia Bogota
38 Comoros Moroni
39 Congo, Republic of the Brazzaville
40 Congo, Democratic Republic of the Kinshasa
41 Costa Rica San Jose
42 Cote d’Ivoire Yamoussoukro
43 Croatia Zagreb
44 Cuba Havana
45 Cyprus Nicosia
46 Czech Republic Prague
47 Denmark Copenhagen
48 Djibouti Djibouti
49 Dominica Roseau
50 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo
51 East Timor (Timor-Leste) Dili
52 Ecuador Quito
53 Egypt Cairo
54 El Salvador San Salvador
55 Equatorial Guinea Malabo
56 Eritrea Asmara
57 Estonia Tallinn
58 Ethiopia Addis Ababa
59 Fiji Suva
60 Finland Helsinki
61 France Paris
62 Gabon Libreville
63 The Gambia Banjul
64 Georgia Tbilisi
65 Germany Berlin
66 Ghana Accra
67 Greece Athens
68 Grenada Saint George’s
69 Guatemala Guatemala City
70 Guinea Conakry
71 Guinea-Bissau Bissau
72 Guyana Georgetown
73 Haiti Port-au-Prince
74 Honduras Tegucigalpa
75 Hungary Budapest
76 Iceland Reykjavik
77 India New Delhi
78 Indonesia Jakarta
79 Iran Tehran
80 Iraq Baghdad
81 Ireland Dublin
82 Israel Jerusalem*
83 Italy Rome
84 Jamaica Kingston
85 Japan Tokyo
86 Jordan Amman
87 Kazakhstan Astana
88 Kenya Nairobi
89 Kiribati Tarawa Atoll
90 Korea, North Pyongyang
91 Korea, South Seoul
92 Kosovo Pristina
93 Kuwait Kuwait City
94 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek
95 Laos Vientiane
96 Latvia Riga
97 Lebanon Beirut
98 Lesotho Maseru
99 Liberia Monrovia
100 Libya Tripoli
101 Liechtenstein Vaduz
102 Lithuania Vilnius
103 Luxembourg Luxembourg
104 Macedonia Skopje
105 Madagascar Antananarivo
106 Malawi Lilongwe
107 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
108 Maldives Male
109 Mali Bamako
110 Malta Valletta
111 Marshall Islands Majuro
112 Mauritania Nouakchott
113 Mauritius Port Louis
114 Mexico Mexico City
115 Micronesia, FederatedStates of Palikir
116 Moldova Chisinau
117 Monaco Monaco
118 Mongolia Ulaanbaatar
119 Montenegro Podgorica
120 Morocco Rabat
121 Mozambique Maputo
122 Myanmar (Burma) Naypyidaw
123 Namibia Windhoek
124 Nauru Yaren (de facto)
125 Nepal Kathmandu
126 Netherlands (Holland) Amsterdam
127 New Zealand Wellington
128 Nicaragua Managua
129 Niger Niamey
130 Nigeria Abuja
131 Norway Oslo
132 Oman Muscat
133 Pakistan Islamabad
134 Palau Melekeok
135 Panama Panama City
136 Papua New Guinea Port Moresby
137 Paraguay Asuncion
138 Peru Lima
139 Philippines Manila
140 Poland Warsaw
141 Portugal Lisbon
142 Qatar Doha
143 Romania Bucharest
144 Russia Moscow
145 Rwanda Kigali
146 Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre
147 Saint Lucia Castries
148 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown
149 Samoa Apia
150 San Marino San Marino
151 Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome
152 Saudi Arabia Riyadh
153 Senegal Dakar
154 Serbia Belgrade
155 Seychelles Victoria
156 Sierra Leone Freetown
157 Singapore Singapore
158 Slovakia Bratislava
159 Slovenia Ljubljana
160 Solomon Islands Honiara
161 Somalia Mogadishu
162 South Africa Pretoria (administrative ); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (judiciary)
163 Spain Madrid
164 Sri Lanka Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (administrative ); Colombo (trade)
165 Sudan Khartoum
166 Suriname Paramaribo
167 Swaziland Mbabane(Adminis trative) / Lobamba (Royal and Legislative)
168 Sweden Stockholm
169 Switzerland Bern
170 Syria Damascus
171 Taiwan Taipei
172 Tajikistan Dushanbe
173 Tanzania Dodoma (administrative ); Dar es Salaam
174 Thailand Bangkok
175 Togo Lome
176 Tonga Nuku’alofa
177 Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain
178 Tunisia Tunis
179 Turkey Ankara
180 Turkmenistan Ashgabat
181 Tuvalu Funafuti province
182 Uganda Kampala
183 Ukraine Kyiv
184 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi
185 United Kingdom London
186 United States of America Washington D.C.
187 Uruguay Montevideo
188 Uzbekistan Tashkent
189 Vanuatu Port-Vila
190 Vatican City (Holy See) Vatican City
191 Venezuela Caracas
192 Vietnam Hanoi
193 Yemen Sanaa
194 Zambia Lusaka
195 Zimbabwe Harare
*SOME USEFUL CODES FOR SAMSUNG*
Software version: *#9999#
IMEI number: *#06#
Serial number: *#0001#
Battery status- Memory capacity :
*#9998*246#
Debug screen: *#9998*324# - *#8999*324#
LCD kontrast: *#9998*523#
Vibration test: *#9998*842# -
*#8999*842#
Alarm beeper - Ringtone test :
*#9998*289# - *#8999*289# Smiley: *#9125#
Software version: *#0837#
Display contrast: *#0523# -
*#8999*523#
Battery info: *#0228# or *#8999*228#
Display storage capacity: *#8999*636# Display SIM card information:
*#8999*778#
Show date and alarm clock:
*#8999*782#
The display during warning:
*#8999*786# Samsung hardware version:
*#8999*837#
Show network information:
*#8999*638#
Display received channel number and
received intensity: *#8999*9266# *#1111# S/W Version
*#1234# Firmware Version
*#2222# H/W Version
*#8999*8376263# All Versions Together
*#8999*8378# Test Menu
*#4777*8665# GPSR Tool *#8999*523# LCD Brightness
*#8999*377# Error LOG Menu
*#8999*327# EEP Menu
*#8999*667# Debug Mode
*#92782# PhoneModel (Wap)
#*5737425# JAVA Mode *#2255# Call List
*#232337# Bluetooth MAC Adress
*#5282837# Java Version Type in *#0000# on a Samsung A300 to
reset the language
Master reset(unlock) #*7337# (for the
new samsungs E700 x600 but not E710)
Samsung E700 type *#2255# to show
secret call log (not tested) Samsung A300, A800 phone unlock enter
this *2767*637#
Samsung V200, S100, S300 phone
unlock : *2767*782257378 #
*#9998*246#
Debug screen: *#9998*324# - *#8999*324#
LCD kontrast: *#9998*523#
Vibration test: *#9998*842# -
*#8999*842#
Alarm beeper - Ringtone test :
*#9998*289# - *#8999*289# Smiley: *#9125#
Software version: *#0837#
Display contrast: *#0523# -
*#8999*523#
Battery info: *#0228# or *#8999*228#
Display storage capacity: *#8999*636# Display SIM card information:
*#8999*778#
Show date and alarm clock:
*#8999*782#
The display during warning:
*#8999*786# Samsung hardware version:
*#8999*837#
Show network information:
*#8999*638#
Display received channel number and
received intensity: *#8999*9266# *#1111# S/W Version
*#1234# Firmware Version
*#2222# H/W Version
*#8999*8376263# All Versions Together
*#8999*8378# Test Menu
*#4777*8665# GPSR Tool *#8999*523# LCD Brightness
*#8999*377# Error LOG Menu
*#8999*327# EEP Menu
*#8999*667# Debug Mode
*#92782# PhoneModel (Wap)
#*5737425# JAVA Mode *#2255# Call List
*#232337# Bluetooth MAC Adress
*#5282837# Java Version Type in *#0000# on a Samsung A300 to
reset the language
Master reset(unlock) #*7337# (for the
new samsungs E700 x600 but not E710)
Samsung E700 type *#2255# to show
secret call log (not tested) Samsung A300, A800 phone unlock enter
this *2767*637#
Samsung V200, S100, S300 phone
unlock : *2767*782257378 #
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