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Amazingly Rare Parrot Flower from Thailand

This is a flower from Thailand. It is also a protected species and is not allowed to be exported. This will be the only way we will be able to view this flower.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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" Its Really AMAZING "

Amazing Wonderful Indian Temples Abroad !*!*!*!*!

Wonderful Indian Temples Abroad *****

Lord Venkateshwara Temple, Birmingham, United Kingdom-:

Malibu Hindu Temple, Malibu, California, United States

  

Shiva-Vishnu Temple, Livermore, California, United States

Lord Vishnu Temple, Angkor, Cambodia - The largest temple of the world

Prambanan Shiva Temple, Central Java, Indonesia

 

Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple of Greater Chicago - Aurora, Illinois, United States

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir - Toronto, Canada

Sri Siva Vishnu Temple, Washington DC, United States

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, London (Neasden Temple), United States

Sri Murugan Temple Batu Caves, Penang, Malaysia

Amazing " RICHEST PERSON"

Top 10 Richest person in the world 2010 ! ! !

No.1   -   Carlos Slim Helu

$53.5 billion
Telecom, Mexico.
Telecom tycoon who pounced on privatization of Mexico’s national telephone company in the 1990s becomes world’s richest person for first time after coming in third place last year. Net worth up $18.5 billion in a year. Recently received regulatory approval to merge his fixed-line assets into American Movil, Latin America’s biggest mobile phone company.

No.2   -   Bill Gates

$53 billion
Microsoft, U.S.
Software visionary is now the world’s second-richest man. Net worth still up $13 billion in a year as Microsoft shares rose 50% in 12 months, value of investment vehicle Cascade swelled. More than 60% of fortune held outside Microsoft; investments include Four Seasons hotels, Televisa, Auto Nation. Stepped down from day-to-day duties at Microsoft in 2008 to focus on philanthropy

 
 
 

No.3   -   Warren Buffett

$47 billion 
Investments, U.S.
America’s favorite investor up $10 billion in past 12 months on surging Berkshire Hathaway shares; says U.S. has survived economic "Pearl Harbor," but warns recovery will be slow. Shrewdly invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs and $3 billion in General Electric amid 2008 market collapse. Recently acquired railroad giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe for $26 billion.
 
 
 
 
No.4   -   Mukesh Ambani

$29 billion
Petrochemicals, oil and gas. India.
Global ambitions: His Reliance Industries, already India’s most valuable company, recently bid $2 billion for 65% stake in troubled Canadian oil sands outfit Value Creations. Firm’s $14.5 billion offer to buy bankrupt petrochemicals maker LyondellBasell was rejected. Since September company has sold Treasury shares worth $2 billion to be used for acquisitions. Late father, Dhirubhai, founded Reliance and built it into a massive conglomerate.

 
 
No.5   -   Lakshmi Mittal

$28.7 billion
Steel, India.
London’s richest resident oversees ArcelorMittal, world’s largest steel maker. Net profits fell 75% in 2009. Mittal took 12% pay cut but improved outlook pushed stock up one-third in past year. Looking to expand in his native India; wants to build steel mills in Jharkhad and Orissa but has not received government approval. Earned $1.1 billion for selling his interest in a Kazakh refinery in December

 
 
No.6   -   Lawrence Ellison

$28 billion
Oracle, U.S.
Oracle founder’s fortune continues to soar; shares up 70% in past 12 months. Database giant has bought 57 companies in the past five years. Completed $7.4 billion buyout of Sun Microsystems in January; acquired BEA Systems for $8.5 billion in 2008. Studied physics at U. of Chicago; didn’t graduate. Started Oracle 1977; took public a day before Microsoft in 1986.

 
 
 
 
No.7   -   Bernard Arnault

$27.5 billion
Luxury goods, France.
Bling is back, helping fashion icon grab title of richest European as shares of his luxury goods outfit LVMH–maker of Louis Vuitton, Moet & Chandon–surge 57%. LVMH is developing upscale Shanghai commercial property, L’Avenue Shanghai, with Macau billionaire Stanley Ho.

 
 
 
No.8   -   Eike Batista

$27 billion
Mining, oil. Brazil.
Vowing to become world’s richest man–and he may be on his way. This year’s biggest gainer added $19.5 billion to his personal balance sheet. Son of Brazil’s revered former mining minister who presided over mining giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce got his start in gold trading and mining.

 
 
 
 
No.9   -   Amancio Ortega

$25 billion
Fashion retail, Spain.
Style maven lords over Inditex; fashion firm, which operates under several brand names including Zara, Massimo Dutti and Stradivarius, has 4,500 stores in 73 countries including new spots in Mexico and Syria. Set up joint venture with Tata Group subsidiary to enter India in 2010. Betting on Florida real estate: bought Coral Gables office tower that is currently home to Bacardi USA.

 
 
 
No.10   -   Karl Albrecht

$23.5 billion
Supermarkets, Germany.
Owns discount supermarket giant Aldi Sud, one of Germany’s (and Europe’s) dominant grocers. Has 1,000 stores in U.S. across 29 states. Estimated sales: $37 billion. Plans to open New York City store this year. With younger brother, Theo, transformed mother’s corner grocery store into Aldi after World War II. Brothers split ownership in 1961; Karl took the stores in southern Germany, plus the rights to the brand in the U.K., Australia and the U.S. Theo got northern Germany and the rest of Europe.

AMAZING " JAPAN "

Facts About Japan-:

Government: Parliamentary with constitutional monarchy


Prime Minister: Yukio Hatoyama (elected Sept. 2009)

Capital: Tokyo

Population: 127,078,679 (July 2009 est.)

Population Growth Rate: -0.191% (2009 est.), World Rank: 219th

GDP: 4.34 Trillion (2008)

Electric Power Generation: Conventional thermal (coal, oil, natural gas) 60%, Nuclear 29%, Hydroelectric 9%, Renewables 2%

Industries: Consumer electronics, motor vehicles, machine tools, steel, and nonferrous metals

Exports: Motor vehicles, semiconductors, and office machinery

Agriculture: Rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit, pork, fish

Currency: Yen

Life Expectancy: Average: 82, Male: 78.8, Female: 85.6

GDP per Capita: $33,800

Literacy Rate: 99%

Unemployment Rate: 4%

Oil imports: 5.425 million bbl/day

Internet Users: 87.5 million

Environmental Issues: Acid rain; Japan is the largest consumer of Amazon rainforest timber

Geography

Japan is located in the North Pacific off the coast of Russia and the Korean peninsula. The area of Japan is 377,873km², which makes it slightly smaller in land mass than California. Japan consists of four main larger islands and more than 4000 smaller islands. The main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. Honshu is the largest with an area of 231,000km². A modern railroad system connects the major islands with Japan's high-speed Shinkansen connecting major urban areas.

Japan is over 70% mountainous terrain with approximately 18% of the land mass suitable for settlement. Japanese cities are typically sprawling and densely populated. Tokyo, a megalopolis and capital of Japan, is located on Honshu island. Central Tokyo has a population of 12 million people, with the population of the Greater Tokyo Area estimated at over 35 million people.

The islands of Japan are located in an area known as The Ring of Fire in the Pacific. This is an area with many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Japan is very seismically active with over 1,500 earthquakes per year. In 1923 the Great Kanto Earthquake killed more than 143,000 people in the Tokyo area. Tsunamis and volcanic eruptions are other natural destructive forces in Japan. In 1896 in Sanriku, Japan, 27,000 people were killed by a Tsunami caused by an earthquake.

Population

There are over 127,078,679 (July 2009 est.) people living in Japan. For most of Japan's history its borders were closed to foreigners. As a result, Japan's society is very homogeneous, composed of 98.5% ethnic Japanese. The remaining 1.5 percent are mostly Korean, who number around 1 million. There are also considerable numbers of Brazilians, Chinese, and Filipinos residing in Japan. There is also an ethnic minority of indigenous people, called Ainu, who live mostly in northern Hokkaido.

Language

Japanese is the official language of Japan. Many Japanese also have some ability in writing and speaking English as it is a mandatory part of the curriculum in the Japanese educational system. Japanese uses four different writing systems; Kanji (Chinese characters), Hiragana (phonetic alphabet for native words), Katakana (phonetic alphabet for foreign words), and Romaji (western alphabet used to write Japanese). Japanese vocabulary has been strongly influenced by loanwords from other languages, with most loanwords coming from Chinese and English.

 Climate

The climate of Japan varies considerably depending on the region and season. Summer is usually very hot and humid, known to the Japanese as "mushiatsui". From mid July there is a rainy season which lasts around one month. Winters are usually mild, with the northern areas of Japan receiving more snow. Spring and autumn are usually sunny with mild temperatures.





Religion

The two major religions in Japan are Shinto and Buddhism. Religion does not play a major role in the life of the average Japanese, but people usually have religious ceremonies at births, weddings, and funerals. On New Year's Day visiting a temple or shrine is also a common custom. About 1% of the population follow Christianity, which was heavily persecuted in Japan prior to the Meiji Restoration in 1873.

Amazing Facts

Amazing ! ! ! ! !

What is the world's largest fish?

The harmless whale shark holds the title of largest fish, with the record being a 59 footer captured in Thailand in 1919.

Most consumed energy resource in the U.S ?

Currently, OIL provides the largest share of U.S. energy consumption -- about 41 percent of the entire market. Natural gas provides about 24 percent, coal 23 percent, hydropower 4 percent and nuclear power 8 percent.
In the United States, natural gas is used for:
• Industrial processes = 46%
• Residential use = 22%
• Generating electricity = 15%
• Commercial buildings = 15%

Blue whale weight and length ?
Blue whales reach between 70-110 feet in length and weigh up to 150 tons.

Biggest animal in the world ?
The blue whale is the largest animal in the world. The largest blue whale caught was a 110-foot female. It is not known how the angler got this beast home or how they fit it in the freezer.

Blue whale massacre crustaceans ?
The blue whale, the worlds largest animal at 110 feet according to guiness world records eat krill, which are shrimp-like crustaceans only about an inch-and-a-half long.

Pick on somebody your own size? Not whales! An adult whale might slaughter 40 million, or 4-6 tons of these little creatures in one day!!

Amazingly, the krill population persists, but you have to assume this perpetual atrocity affects the krills ability to develop a stable society.

What is the world's largest animal?

The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.



How tall is the world's tallest tree ?
A 379.1' Redwood in Redwood National Park is currently the world's largest tree

What is the biggest city in the U.S. ?
If Brooklyn, New York became independent of New York City, it would be the third largest city in the United States, after the remainder of New York and Los Angeles.

What is the largest number of coins you can have without being able to make change for a dollar ?
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins

Don't forget about the hippo ?
Hippos are the third largest animal on land. Only elephants and some rhinos are bigger.

Amazing Facts About INTERNET!!!

THE INTERNET

• Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number 'one followed by a hundred zeros'.
• Yahoo! derived its name from the word Yahoo coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. A Yahoo is a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human!
• Researchers consider that the first search engine was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

• Marc Andreessen founded Netscape. In 1993, he had already developed Mosaic, the first Web browser with a GUI.
• It was once considered a letter in the English language. The Chinese call it a little mouse, Danes and Swedes call it 'elephant's trunk', Germans a spider monkey, and Italians a snail. Israelis pronounce it 'strudels' and the Czechs say 'rollmops's...What is it? The @ sign.
• In the Deep Web, the part of the Web not currently catalogued by search engines, public information said to be 500 times larger than on the WWW.
• The first search engine for Gopher files was called Veronica, created by the University of Nevada System Computing Services group
• Tim Berners-Lee predicted in 2002 that the Semantic Web would "foster global collaborations among people with diverse cultural perspectives", but the project never seems to have really taken off.
• In February 2004, Sweden led the world in Internet penetration, with 76.9 percent of people connected to the Internet. The world average is 11.1 per cent.
• The top visited websites in February2004, including affiliated sites, were Yahoo!, MSN, the Warner Network, EBay, Google, Lycos and About.com.

• The search engine "Lycos" is named for Lycosidae, the Latin name for the wolf spider family.
• The US International Broadcasting Bureau created a proxy service to allow Chinese, Iraians and other 'oppressed' people to circumvent their national firewalls, relaying forbidden pages behind silicon curtains.
• Lurking is to read through mailing lists or news groups and get a feel of the topic before posting one's own messages.
• SRS stands for Shared Registry Server. The central system for all accredited registrars to access, register and control domain names.
• WAIS stands for 'Wide Area Information Servers' - a commercial software package that allow the indexing of huge quantities of information, the makes those indices searchable across the Internet.
• An anonymiser is a privacy service that allows a user to visit Web sites without allowing anyone to gather information about which sites they visit.
• Archie is an information system offering an electronic directory service for locating information residing on anonymous FTP sites.
• On the Internet, a 'bastion host' is the only host computer that a company allows to be addressed directly from the public network.
• 'Carnivore' is the Internet surveillance system developed by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who developed it to monitor the electronic transmissions of criminal suspects.
• Did you know that the original URL of Yahoo! was

                 http://akebono.stanford.edu/ ?

• Developed at the University of Nevada, Veronica is a constantly updated database of teh names of almost every menu item on thousands of gopher servers.
• The Electrohippies Collective is an international group of 'hacktivists' based in Oxfordshire, England.
• UIML (User Interface Markup Language) is a descriptive language that lets you create a Web page that can be sent to any kind of interface device.
• In Internet terminology, a demo is a non-interactive multimedia presentation, the computer world's equivalent of a music video.

• Did you know that the name of the famous search engine AltaVista came into existence when someone accidentally read and suggested the word 'Vista' on an unclean whiteboard as 'Alta Vista'?
• Boeing was the first airline to discover the Y2K problem, way back in 1993.
• Did you know that Domain registration was free until an announcement by the NAtional Science Foundation on 14th September, 1995, changed it?
• The Internet was initially called the 'Galactic network' in memos written by MIT's J C R Licklider in 1962.
• Shokyu Ishiko, a doctorate in agriculture and chief priest of Daioh Temple in Kyoto has created an online virtual temple which will perform memorial services for lost information.
• A 55 kg laddu was made for Lord Venkateswara at Trumala as a Y2K prayer offering.

• The morning after Internet Explorer 4 was released, certain mischievous Microsoft workers left a 10 by 12 foot letter 'e' and a balloon with the message, "We love you", on Netscape front lawn.
• If you were a resident of Tongo, a monarchy in the southwest Pacific, you could own domains as cool as 'mail.to' and 'head.to'.
• The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) began the administration of Internet IP address in North and South America in MArch 1998.
• The testbed for the Internet's new addressing system, IPv6, is called the 6bone.
• The first Internet worm was created by Robert T.Morris, Jr, and attacked more than 6000 Internet hosts.
• According to The Economist magazine, the first truly electronic bank on the Internet, called First Virtual Holdings, was opened by Lee Stein in 1994.
• The French Culture Ministry has banned the word 'e-mail' in all government ministries, documents, publications and Web sites, because 'e-mail' is an English word. They prefer to use the term 'courriel'.

• The German police sell used patrol cars over the Internet, because earlier auctions fetched low prices and only a few people ever showed up.
• Rob Glasser's company, Progressive Networks, launched the RealAudio system on April 10, 1995.
• 'Broswer safe colours' refer to the 216 colours that are rendered the same way in both the PC and Mac operating systems.
• Though the world Wide Web was born in 1989 at CERN in Switzerland, CERN is mainly involved in research for particle physics.
• The first computer company to register for a domain name was Digital Equipment Corporation.
• The 'Dilbert Zone' Web site was the first syndicated comic strip site available on the Internet.
• Butler Jeeves of the Internet site AskJeeves.com made its debut as a large helium balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in 2000.

• Sun Microsystems sponsors NetDay, an effort to wire American public schools to the Internet, with help from the US government.
• In Beijing, the Internet community has coined the word 'Chortal' as a shortened version of 'Chinese portal'.
• Telnet is one of the oldest forms of Internet connections. Today, it is used primarily to access online databases.
• Domain names can be really sell at high prices! The most expensive domain name was 'business.com', which was bought by eCompanies for $7.5 million in 1999.
• The first ever ISP was CompuServe. It still exists, under AOL Time Warner.
• On an average, each person receives 26.4 e-mails a day.
• Ray Tomlinson, a scientist from Cambrige, introduced electronic mail in 1972. He used the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the e-mail address.
• Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) was designed in 1973.

• The Apple iTunes music store was introduced in the spring of 2003. It allows people to download songs for an affordable 99 cents each.
• Satyam Online become the first private ISP in December 1998 to offer Internet connections in India.
• The number of UK Internet users increase by an estimated 75 percent each year.
• The Internet is the third-most used advertising medium in the world, closely catching up with traditional local newspapers and Yellow Pages.
• It took 13 years for television to reach 50 million users- it took the Internet less than 4 years.
• As of now, there are over 260 million people with Internet access worldwide.
• 1 out of 6 people used the Internet in North America and Europe, as per a 1999 survey.
• The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
• In 1946, the Merriam Webster Dictionary defined computer as 'a person who tabulates numbers; accountant; actuary; bookkeeper.'
• An estimated 2.5 billion hours were wasted online last year as people waited for pages to download, according to a study sponsored by Nortel Networks.

• AOL says spam is the number one complaint of its customers, and that it has to block over one billion unsolicited e-mails every day.
• In 2002, the average Internet user received 3.7 spam messages per day. The total rose to 6.2 spam messages per day in 2002. By 2007, it is expected to reach 830 messages per day.
• A terminology industry research firm called Basex says that unsolicited e-mail cost $ 20 billion in lost time and expenses worldwide in 2000.

• In 2003 an Atlanta- base ISP called Earthlink won a lawsuit worth $16.4 million (US) against a spammer in Buffalo NY, and a $25 million (US) lawsuit against a spammer in Tennessee.

Its Amazing!!!

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