Cheer the boys, and cry for them

IPL-3 is in full swing. Preity Zinta and Shilpa Shetty, movie actors and co-owners of, respectively, Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals, are managing cricketers and a cricket franchise. How does that work? Express reporters spent time with both, on and off the field, to find out
Preity Zinta (Kings XI)
These, then, are the remains of the day.
It’s a minute past midnight, March 14, Sunday morning. The plastic dug-out feels lethargic. The match is over: the Delhi Daredevils have thrashed Kings XI Punjab by five wickets at the PCA Stadium in Mohali — at home. Through all the silence, a cheering owner tries to soften the blow.
Dressed in the team’s colours with the logo stitched alongside, Preity Zinta, actor and co-owner of the IPL team, is at peace. Games are won, and sometimes lost. “When there is a major crisis, I’m the calmest person on the planet. I thrive in chaos. We’re one big family and we will solve it,” she says. Three hours of trying to inspire her team didn’t.

India launches most luxurious tourist train

India's most luxurious tourist train started its maiden journey from an eastern city on Saturday evening.    

The train , which is called "Maharajas Express," launched at Kolkata station at 10:10 pm by Indian Railway Minister Mamata  Banerjee, Indian media reported on Saturday evening.    

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For the coming six days and seven nights, the train will stop at six stations before reaching the destination of New Delhi.It will be a unique pan-Indian tour, and tourists could visit many famous destinations, such as heritage cities and wild forests , where visitors may have the opportunity of a glimpse of tigers, said Banerjee.    

The train only carry 88 passengers in 23 well-decorated carriages, which are equipped with individual temperature control systems, environment-friendly toilets, live TV sets, DVD players,  internet and direct dial telephones, and all food and drinks are complimentary, according to the report.There are four categories of carriages—junior suite for US$800 per person per day, deluxe cabin for US$900, suite for US$1400 and the Presidential Suite for US$2500.    

The new move created history in Indian railways, and will promote the development of the tourism industry, the minister said. Enditem

Kareena, Mallika's wardrobe disasters

Transparent dresses, showing bra straps, body hugging outfits – actresses from Bollywood and Hollywood have messed up with their style statements at several occasions. Here are a few celebrities who should have paid a visit to the recently concluded Lakme Fashion Week to get a few fashion tips. Catching them in their not-so-best moments!

Kareena Kapoor accompanied Saif to Jaipur for the promotion of the movie ' Love Aaj Kal ' where she wore tight-fitted leggings. Bebo just thought of using her leggings as pants or may be the actress was just too busy to look herself in the mirror.

IPL fever continues with Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa Shetty has been going through a really bad time! Well we are talking about her health. The actress who is down with flu has refused to rest at home when her team is set to fight with Shah Rukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders.

The owner of Rajasthan Royals, Shilpa Shetty, can’t rest when her team is on the ground. Despite suffering from flu, Shilpa chose to be with her team at Ahmedabad. “I have been bitten by the flu bug but am still high on life! I am coughing my lungs out, sound like Raza Murad, still I’ll scream for my team Rajasthan Royals” said Shilpa who landed to Ahmedabad on Saturday afternoon to cheer for her team.

Unlike Shah Rukh Khan, Shilpa has been traveling with her team everywhere. Shilpa wants to be fine before their next match which is on Wednesday March 24 at Mohali. Their next match will be with Preity Zinta’s Kings XI Paunjab. It can be recalled that few days back Preity Zinta was also down with fever and sore throat.

We hope Shilpa gets well soon before Rajsthan Royal’s next match!

How can I Unlock Iphone 3g/3gs at home?

With this tutorial we learn you how to unlock Iphone 3G/3Gs 3.1.3 & Iphone 2G with our last  software updated on March 17.Unlock your Iphone 3G 3.1.3(even the latest baseband)  witha few clicks.Save your money and time and Unlock your iphone now. In essence, compared to Blackra1n, it changes little, if not more control of what goes to install. Furthermore, compared with Blackra1n, the procedure is longer but then allows to have a custom firmware already prepared that can be restored to your iPhone at every opportunity. Unlock Iphone 3G 3.13 Today The program only works on Windows XP, Vista and 7, requires. NET Framework 3.5 (download) and at least 256MyB of RAM. Allows you to unlock all iPhones, except 3GS with iBoot updated (almost all those released from one month to this part). Before making the jailbreak recommend reading this article Here are the steps to follow: 1. Sn0wbreeze beta download from this link and connect the iPhone to PC Solution To Your Iphone Problems – Unlock Today 2. This first version does not allow you to use the expert mode, through which we can choose the Cydia package to be implemented in custom firmware, boot logo change and enable other options just like on PwnageTool. Then choose Simple Mode (Cydia and install a custom logo to snowbreeze) 3. Download the firmware 3.1.3 on your iPhone and select it after clicking on Browse 4. If the program finds the correct firmware, then you can click Start. Asked whether or not you want to activate the phone, click on NO if you have an iPhone 3G/3GS bought in Italy, and on YES if you have an iPhone 2G or iPhone 3G/3GS purchased abroad. 5. After a while the custom firmware is created and saved to your desktop 6. Now put the iPhone in DFU mode and follow these steps: Turn off the phone, press the Home and Power for 10 seconds, leaving only the Power key, keep pressing the Home button for 10 seconds. You will enter DFU mode. 7. Now open iTunes, a window appears that warns you that our iPhone is in recovery mode, click OK and then holding down the Shift key on your keyboard, click on Restore. We choose the firmware that sb0wbreeze us that we just created and saved to your desktop. At the end of the restoration you’ll have your iPhone jailbroken. We recommend that all users still expect the final version, even though the beta has not created any problems (tested on iPhone 3GS old Italian iBoot and iPhone 2G)./www.iphoneland.info”>In essence, compared to Blackra1n, it changes little, if not more control of what goes to install. Furthermore, compared with Blackra1n, the procedure is longer but then allows to have a custom firmware already prepared that can be restored to your iPhone at every opportunity. Unlock Iphone 3G 3.13 Today The program only works on Windows XP, Vista and 7, requires. NET Framework 3.5 (download) and at least 256MyB of RAM. Allows you to unlock all iPhones, except 3GS with iBoot updated (almost all those released from one month to this part). Before making the jailbreak recommend reading this article Here are the steps to follow: 1. Sn0wbreeze beta download from this link and connect the iPhone to PC Solution To Your Iphone Problems – Unlock Today 2. This first version does not allow you to use the expert mode, through which we can choose the Cydia package to be implemented in custom firmware, boot logo change and enable other options just like on PwnageTool. Then choose Simple Mode (Cydia and install a custom logo to snowbreeze) 3. Download the firmware 3.1.3 on your iPhone and select it after clicking on Browse 4. If the program finds the correct firmware, then you can click Start. Asked whether or not you want to activate the phone, click on NO if you have an iPhone 3G/3GS bought in Italy, and on YES if you have an iPhone 2G or iPhone 3G/3GS purchased abroad. 5. After a while the custom firmware is created and saved to your desktop 6. Now put the iPhone in DFU mode and follow these steps: Turn off the phone, press the Home and Power for 10 seconds, leaving only the Power key, keep pressing the Home button for 10 seconds. You will enter DFU mode. 7. Now open iTunes, a window appears that warns you that our iPhone is in recovery mode, click OK and then holding down the Shift key on your keyboard, click on Restore. We choose the firmware that sb0wbreeze us that we just created and saved to your desktop. At the end of the restoration you’ll have your iPhone jailbroken. We recommend that all users still expect the final version, even though the beta has not created any problems (tested on iPhone 3GS old Italian iBoot and iPhone 2G).

Advertisement goes off-track

The advertisement for the flagging off of the prestigious luxury train, ‘Maharajas' Express' by the Railways on Saturday ran into controversy with an inaccurate depiction of Delhi in Pakistan and Kolkata in the Bay of Bengal.

The major goof-up also figured in a State Summit on “The Way Forward” organised by a TV channel in the city on Saturday, with Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechuri remarking: “This is also another way forward – in a Railways' advertisement Kolkata has been shown in the Bay of Bengal and Delhi in Pakistan.”

The Eastern Railways (ER) was quick to act, pinning the blame on the advertising agency Adunique 76 and blacklisting it. In a press release the ER said: “The advertising agency which designed and released the advertisement in connection with the flagging off of the ‘Maharajas' Express,' committed a great mistake, pointing out cities wrongly in respect of India. In the design approved by the ER, there was no such mistake and the ER had given correct details to the agency.

“The agency has been blacklisted and debarred from dealing with any railway work,” the release said. The ER Chief Public Relations Officer, Samir Goswami apologised for the incident.

Somen Gupta of Adunique told The Hindu that the map in the advertisement was only an artist's impression and not to scale. He said that the agency had been working with the Railways for nearly 12 years now.

The train, flagged off by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee late in the evening, promises to provide a ‘rare travelling experience' starting off from here and then touching Gaya, Varanasi, the forests of Bandhavgarh in Maharashtra then Khajuraho before touching Agra , Gwalior and Delhi.

New Delhi Special Correspondent writes:

The Bharatiya Janata Party criticised the government for the advertisement charging that it was an affront to the country's sovereign pride. It demanded an apology from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

It recalled how on January 26 an advertisement had shown the former Pakistan Air Chief, Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed, alongside Dr. Singh.

Alleging that it exposed the ‘state of governance,' the BJP hoped that the Prime Minister would correct the way the government was functioning. It also demanded an enquiry.

PTI reports:

The Congress said, “it seems to be a mistake on the part of the Railways.”

However, it is a serious issue and “one should take note of it and ensure that no such incident occurs again,” party spokesman Shakeel Ahmed said. Asked about the BJP's criticism, he said “nobody should try to gain political mileage out of an administrative mistake.”

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Strange Facts of This World

Animals, Birds & Insects

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  A snail can sleep for three years.
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  All polar bears are left handed.                   
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  Butterflies taste with their feet.
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  Ants never sleep.
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  Owls cannot move their eyes because their eyeballs tubular in shape.
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  A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
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  A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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  There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
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  Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
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  A baby bat is called a pup.
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  A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
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  German Shepherds (dog) bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
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  A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
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  The animal (insect) responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
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  The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed 1,904
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    pounds in 1939.  
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    Snakes are immune to their own poison.
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    Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
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    Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
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    A shrimp's heart is in their head.
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    It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
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    Hydra - an aquatic creature is the only living creature that never die. It regenerates, replacing its cells with fresh ones.
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    Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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    In the animal kingdom, the animals that fart the most are the elephants.
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    Lions, leopards, tigers, and jaguars are the only species of cats that can roar; but they can’t purr.
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    Entomophagy is the scientific name for insect eating. There are more than 1,450 recorded species of edible insects. Many species of insects are lower in fat and higher in protein and have a better food-to-meat ratio than beef, lamb, pork, or chicken.
    
    
  Foods & Drinks
  
  
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  Coca-Cola was originally green because of fresh cocoa leaves.
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  Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
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  Strawberry is the only fruit with its seeds on the outside.
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  All other vegetables must be replanted every year except two perennial vegetables; Asparagus and rhubarb that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons.
  Games & Sports
   
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    There are 366 dimples on a golf ball.
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    There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play first four moves, per side, in chess.
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    Playing cards in India are in round shape.
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    Boxing is the only sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the winner until the contest ends.
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    The biggest badminton shuttle in the world can be found on the lawns of the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, in Kansas City. It is 48 times larger than the real thing. This shuttle is 18 feet high and weighing 5,000 pounds.
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    Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
    
    
    General
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      The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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      The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
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      Albert Einstein never learned how to drive a car.
    History
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    If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
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    If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
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    If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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    Mao Zedong of China never brush his teeth in his lifetime.
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    When Elizabeth-I of Russia died in 1762, there were 15,000 dresses in her closets.
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    During World War II, the Japanese used shark liver oil in the engines of their fighter planes.
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    J. P Blanchard, a Frenchman, is credited with having been the first person to use a parachute. In 1785, from a balloon high in the air, he dropped a dog in a basket to which a parachute was attached. Blanchard also claimed to have descended from a balloon in a parachute in 1793.
    
    
    Human Body
     
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      Randy Gardner of San Diego is the longest person who has gone without sleep for 11 days in 1965. He broke the record of Peter Tripp of New York, who settled a record of 8.5 days without a wink.
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      The fingernails grow faster on the hand you favor. If you are right-handed, your right fingernails will grow faster, and vice versa. The middle fingernail grows faster than any other nail.
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      Usually right handed people utilize left side of brain for all their conscious, voluntary activities.
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      The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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      Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
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      The women who snore are at an increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease than men.
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      You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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      It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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      Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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      If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
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      If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
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      An average person eat 60,000 pounds of food in his lifetime.
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      An average person spent 24 years of his life in sleeping.
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      An average woman consume 6 lbs. of lipstick in her lifetime.
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      Sitting while talking on the phone for eight hours will burn 914 calories. Driving a car for eight hours will knock off around 1,219 calories. And standing in a casino for eight hours will burn about 1,402 calories.
      
      
      
      
      Inventions & Discoveries
       
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        Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers are invented by women.
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        The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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        The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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        In 1932. Engineer, Harry Jennings, built the first folding, tubular steel wheelchair. The chair was built for a paraplegic friend of Jennings called Herbert Everest. Together they founded Everest & Jennings, a company that monopolized the wheelchair market for many years.
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        Otto Frederick Rohwedder is generally credited with inventing the first automatic bread slicer in 1928.
         
      Language & Literature
      
      
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      Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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      Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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      E is the most frequently used letter in English.
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      Gadsby is the only novel (267 pages, 50,000 words) written in 1939 by Ernest Vincent Wright, without the use of letter "E". 
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      Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter; by Mark Twain in 1876.
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      Uncopyrightable is the only 15-letter word in the English language that can be written without repeating a letter.
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      The word Set has 464 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. The word Run runs a distant second, with 396.
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      The dot over the i or j is called a tittle.
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      The word queue is the only word in the English language that is pronounced the whole for its first letter.
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      The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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      Mandarin is most-spoken language in the world, spoken by 1.07 billion people, followed by English, spoken by 514 million.
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      Papua New Guinea have the greatest number of first languages. There are 869 separate languages - not dialects.
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      The world's first university was established in Taxila (comprised of cities Mohenjadaro and Harappa) Pakistan in 700 BC.
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      There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar; Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
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      The only three English words beginning with dw are; Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
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      111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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      There are currently 6,912 living languages, defined as languages that people speak today.
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      Letters 'a', ' b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99
      (Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)
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      Letters 'a', ' b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999
      (Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)
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      Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
      (Letter 'b' only comes for the first time in Billion)
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      Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Counting
      
      
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  World Records
   
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    The war between England and Zanzibar in 1896 was the shortest war in history, lasted only 38 minutes.
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    Monumental Axis in Brazil is the world's widest road. 160 cars can drive side by side at the same time.
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    The Central Railway in Peru is the world's highest railway. It climbs to 15,694 feet in the Galera Tunnel.
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    Australian $5 to $50 notes are made of plastic.

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  Other History Events to Remember

  30 Apr 1975	End of US-Vietnam war after 28 years
  03 Jul 1975	Apollo-Soyuz joint venture in the outer space
  09 Nov 1989	Fall of 43 Km. long Berlin Wall
  24 Apr 1990	Hubble telescope launched in the space
  02 Oct 1990	East and West Germany united
  17 Jan 1991	Gulf War (Kuwait & US Aliens vs. Iraq)
  25 Aug 1991	Fall of CCCP in the USSR after 77 years
  07 Dec 1992	Demolish of Babri Masjid at Ajodhia, India
  16 Nov 1995	Docking of US space shuttle Atlantis with USSR space station Mir
  30 Jun 1997	Hong Kong handed over to China after 156 years of British regime

  
  

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The illusion of the Miracle

What represents this curious form ? A miracle ?

To discover what is hidden, attentively fix the 4 black spots of the center during 30 seconds, Then look at a blank white wall, or a piece of paper, or on the white space near image. What do you see?

On the white zone which appears, you should see a famous character of the History (to accentuate the effect you can close or blink eyes).

This illusion, is due to retinal persistence. Indeed, if you reverse the colors of this image, you will very clearly see this character.

Blue Ice Illusion:

For the rotational optical illusions, there are two ways to see the illusion. The first way is to move your head in and out from the screen. Focus on the center as you do this. 

This first blue illusion will also work with your peripheral vision, as your eyes naturally move around the page and the illusion, it will appear to move.

For the First Illusion in this collection, check this out! Blue Ice Illusion:
The circles will appear to move clockwise and counterclockwise depending on whether you are moving forward or away. You can also find this illusion in the Desktop Wallpaper section, so you can set it as your background on your computer.

Disappearing Pink Dots.

If you continue to focus on the    cross   in the center of the image you will notice that ..    

the violet circles will soon DISAPPEAR completely..

How many horses in this picture? Should find 7

Amazing Medical Facts of the Body

26 Most people have lost fifty per cent of their taste buds by the time they reach the age of sixty. 27 The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead' pencils. 28 One square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands. 29 When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens. 30 The human body has less muscles in it than a caterpillar. 31 Give a tennis ball a good, hard squee ze. You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body. 32 If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one life time and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years! 33 The life span of a taste bud is ten days. 34 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 35 The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose. 36. 37 Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. This 5.6 liters of blood circulates through the body three times every minute. 38 The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime--that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers. 39 Babies start dreaming even before they're born. 40 The human body can function without a brain. 41 Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands. 42 10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria. 43 There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of the United States and Canada combined . 44 Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it. 45 A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months 46 You sit on the biggest muscle in your body, the gluteus maximus a.k.a. the butt. Each of the two cheeky muscles tips the scales at about two pounds (not including the overlying fat layer). 47 The tiniest muscle, the stapedius of the middle ear , is just one-fifth of an inch long. 48 The average human head weighs about 10 pounds. 49 The average human brain weighs three pounds. 50 The DNA helix measures 80 billionths of an inch wide.

Amazing Medical Facts of the Body

1 The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.

2 There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any moment. To maintain this number, about two and a half million new ones need to be produced every second by your bone marrow.That's like a new population of the city of Toronto every second.

3 Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second. That's a little less than the population of Canada - every second !

4 A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.

5 Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (25 mi/hr).

6 A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).

7 Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.

8 Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.

9 Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.

10 We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.

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12 When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph

13 Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.

14 We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.

15 We are about 70 percent water.

16 We make one litre of saliva a day.

17 Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.

18 In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.

19 We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.

20 It is believed that the main purpose of eyebrows is to keep sweat out of the eyes.

21 A person can expect to breathe in about 40 pounds of dust over his/her lifetime.

22 There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

23 From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

24 Your body contains enough iron to make a spike strong enough to hold your weight.

25 The surface area of a human lung is equal to that of a tennis court.

Ex-boyfriend sues Lady Gaga for $35 million

Lady Gaga's former boyfriend, producer and business partner, is suing the pop star for $35 million, claiming he was pushed away after their failed romance.

Songwriter-producer Rob Fusari's lawsuit contends he transformed Stefani Germanotta into "Lady Gaga" and switched her rock riffs with dance beats to make her songs commercial hits.

"We have no comment," Lady Gaga's publicist told CNN on Thursday night.

Lady Gaga, one of the world's hottest recording acts, won two Grammys this year for her debut album.


Robert Meloni, Fusari's lawyer, borrowed a line from William Congreve's tragic play "The Mourning Bride" to set the stage for his arguments.

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," Meloni said.

Lady Gaga was the woman scorned when Fusari ended their romance, according to the suit.

"All business is personal. When those personal relationships evolve into romantic entanglements, any corresponding business relationship usually follows the same trajectory so that when one crashes, they all burn. That is what happened here," the suit said.

The story starts with 20-year-old Germanotta riding a bus from Manhattan to Fusari's studio in Parsippany, New Jersey, to work on music in the spring of 2006.

"Fusari was expecting someone a little more grunge-rocker than the young Italian girl 'guidette' that arrived at his doorstep and was worried that he had made a mistake," the court papers said.

"Fusari then asked her to play one of her songs on the studio piano and within seconds, (he) realized that Germanotta had star potential. The trick would be coaxing it out of her."

While Fusari thought Germanotta's songs were brilliant, they lacked commercial appeal, the suit said.

"He pushed her to explore different musical genres," it said. "Over the course of the next several months, Germanotta commuted from New York to Jersey seven days a week, radically reshaping her approach. They put their focus on writing music and finding a sound for her."

Fusari takes credit for convincing her "to abandon rock riffs and add dance beats. He demonstrated how the sound of a drum machine would not hurt the integrity of her music."

The suit claims Fusari created her stage name by accident. A text message intended to read "Radio Ga Ga," named after the Queen song, was changed by spell check on his cell phone to "Lady Ga Ga," it said. "Germanotta loved it and 'Lady Gaga' was born."

Their romance grew as they were "working intensely in such close emotional quarters," it said. Germanotta and her father soon signed a contract with Fusari giving him a 20 percent share of her career, the suit said.

The romance declined after Lady Gaga gained and then lost a record deal with Island Def Jam, it said.

"The couple was now constantly bickering as Germanotta became more and more verbally abusive towards Fusari," the suit said.

"Fusari wanted to return their relationship to a purely professional level, so in January 2007, he ended their romantic involvement."

After Lady Gaga got a new recording contract in May 2007 with Interscope, she stopped answering Fusari's phone calls, it said.

Still, he co-wrote and produced four songs on Lady Gaga's debut album "The Fame," including the hit "Paparazzi."

Woods Buildup Begins With a Familiar Image

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In a 5-second sliver of a 30-second spot on NBC, the wordless message will be “Remember me?”

The battle to rebuild Woods’s image is under way, and it will not be hurt by the PGA Tour’s use of his familiar celebratory ritual in a promotional spot for the Players Championship in May. The spot is scheduled to be broadcast this weekend.

It will be a strong visual reminder to tour advertisers and sponsors that Woods will soon be back doing what he does best: playing golf and winning events. And although it is a spot for the Players, it will help the Masters, which will be broadcast by CBS, by emphasizing that Woods’s return there in April promises to be anything but ordinary.

“This will be the most-watched Masters ever,” said Dr. Bill Sutton, a sports marketing consultant and professor at the University of Central Florida. “The golf people will want to see how he competes and there will be other people who watch this because, ‘Wow, Tiger Woods, I hear all these bad things about him. I want to see what he looks like.’ ”

On the level of the Woods brand and his personal well-being, the return will be the apparent culmination of one stage of a rehabilitation process marked by his somber apology last month at the T.P.C. Sawgrass clubhouse. Seeking forgiveness from his wife, Elin, his family, friends, business associates and fans, he referred to his “repeated irresponsible behavior,” admitted he was unfaithful and said, “I am the only person to blame.”

Now, as Woods returns to golf to restore his career, the focus shifts to a key crisis-management objective: changing the subject.

Augusta National is the best place to accomplish the objective, and the process already has begun, said Bob Dorfman, the executive creative director at Baker Street Advertising in San Francisco. Dorfman rates the endorsement value of athletes in the Sports Marketers Scouting Report.

“Certainly in the sense of the public, and dealing with that, and dealing with the media, this is the smartest place to return,” Dorfman said. “The crowd will be policed very closely and if there are any untoward comments, they’ll yank those people out.”

Woods will sit with the news media for an interview session early in the week of the Masters, which Dorfman and other crisis management specialists say will be a critical moment if he is to begin closing the chapter on questions about his precipitous fall. This, many experts agree, could very well be Woods’s most important Masters appearance.

But not so fast, said Mike Paul, an image expert who is the president of MGP & Associates PR in New York. Paul is not convinced Woods has put in enough time in therapy at a sex addiction center, and added that without tough questioning by the news media about his behavior, Woods is not yet equipped to face the extreme pressure and scrutiny he will undergo when he returns to golf.

“If he were my client, I would tell him that until you have had a number of tough questions asked and answered by the mainstream press, you’re going to continue to be in crisis,” Paul said. “What’s happening right now is that we’re starting to drink the Kool-Aid already. We’re switching focus from a man who was a serial adulterer with many different women as the root of the crisis to a man that we want to watch play golf again.

“Some inexperienced people believe that his coming back and winning golf tournaments is going to make it all go away. That’s just not true.”

Ready or not, here Woods comes and marketers will be among those watching closely, looking for any evidence that his appeal to consumers has eroded. Fellow competitors will be evaluating whether his skills have slipped or whether his legendary confidence has been shaken.

Some will be look for improved demeanor, including no more club throwing, for which Woods was criticized after hurling his driver at the T.P.C. Boston. Others will be monitoring for off-color language, sometimes picked up by parabolic microphones after errant shots.

“A lot of people are not happy with his behavior on the course,” Sutton said, adding: “People will be watching for all kinds of things. But they mostly will be watching to see whether he can win.”

Dorfman agreed. “In these kind of cases the most important thing is winning,” he said. “The sooner he can start winning, the sooner advertisers will come back and the fans will forget. We saw it happen with Kobe Bryant.”

The idea that Woods could actually step back into the arena and win a major after a five-month absence from tournament golf is raised only because he has done the unthinkable before.

Of the prospect of Woods winning the Masters, Sutton said: “It would be like Roy Hobbs stepping out of the hospital bed in ‘The Natural.’ With limited practice, limited game conditions, if you will, the world looking at him, and all the pressure on him if he won the Masters, I think it would be more significant than the victory over Rocco Mediate in the U.S. Open.”

I am thrilled: Saina Nehwal

A day after she celebrated her 20th birthday Saina Nehwal zoomed into the top-5 in the world badminton rankings on Thursday.

The first Indian woman to do so, Saina is now targeting to break into the top-3 within one year. The world No. 5 said that she didn't expect to reach this far so soon. However, the superb performance at the All England championships last week ensured the sudden elevation.

"I thought I would reach the sixth rank this week. It was a pleasant surprise. For the last one year or so it was my goal to reach the top-5 and I am thrilled. I think the semifinal finish at the All England made this possible," said Saina.

The Hyderabadi said that she would be targeting top-3 ranking now. "I think a top-3 finish is a real possibility now. I hope to do that within a year. But my main target would be to win as many important titles as possible. I came close to winning one in Birmingham last week," said Saina, who lost to eventual champion Tine Rasmussen in the semifinals of the All England championships on Saturday.

The Indian lost in straight games but that was not before offering a stiff resistance. "It was very close. At 19-19 in the first game I should have served a bit better. Though it was painful to lose at that stage I am very happy with my performance. My aim is to win the Olympic gold in London. I am confident to doing well at the Olympics," she said.

Next up for Saina is the Asian Championships to be held at New Delhi from April 12 to 18.

Saina's mentor and chief coach of the Indian team Pullela Gopi Chand is not surprised by the achievement of his ward. "I was expecting this. She did very well in the last year. We never concentrated on the ranking and played only big tournaments. Our focus now is on doing well at the forthcoming tournaments," Gopi said.

Kajol pregnant

One question Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn is constantly asked in most interviews is whether he plans to have another child. And Ajay has never shied away from admitting that if destiny wills it, he will be more than happy to add to his family. Now news has it that Ajay’s gorgeous superstar biwi Kajol is reportedly pregnant. And, the Devgns are all in a very upbeat mood. Insiders say the family was in a dual celebratory mode on March 12 when they all met at a birthday dinner for Ajay’s sister.

The handsome Bollywood couple’s first born Nysa will be seven on April 20. And everyone knows that both Ajay and Kajol give their daughter top priority over everything else in their lives. Kajol has wrapped up her talkie portions in Siddharth Malhotra’s Hindi version of StepMom with Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal. There were clear discussions on the set that the shooting could not be extended under any circumstances. The actress, who was recently seen in Karan Johar’s My Name Is Khan, has also finished the major portions for Kumar Mangat’s Toonpur Ka Superhero with husband Ajay.

It is said that Ajay, who returned to Mumbai after a three-month-long outdoor for his various film shoots, is now keen to shoot in and around Mumbai only just to spend time with his wife. The actor couldn’t make it to the recent Filmfare Awards night because of his busy work schedule but he did send Kajol to the function with absolutely strict instructions to return home in half-an-hour.

Kajol’s sister Tanisha and Ajay’s first cousin Vickey accompanied the actress to the event. And Kajol, who looked resplendent in a red sari and was absolutely enjoying the buffonery of her favourite co-star Shah Rukh Khan with Saif Ali Khan on stage, made sure that she left the awards ceremony within the time stipulated by her husband.

Insiders say that the promotional track of StepMom that was to be shot later is being wrapped up from March 20 in Mumbai because Kajol is participating in the song shoot. The film is slated for a July release and sources say the music video could very well have been shot later. However, keeping in mind Kajol’s decision not to do any work after March, the track is being shot now. We wishe Ajay and Kajol love and luck. We could not be happier for the couple.

Nithyananda now booked by Karnataka cops

Swami Nithyananda of Dhyanapeetam Ashram near Bidadi is now under the Karnataka police scanner.

While Ramanagaram DySP Devaraj has been appointed as the investigating officer in the case, the Bidadi police have registered a case against the swami under six Sections of CrPC. The charges include cheating, rape, unnatural sex and outraging religious sentiments.

The FIR was filed on Thursday evening after the Bidadi police got the papers sent by Chennai police against the swami. It took three days for the police to get the papers translated into Kannada.

Red card for Amitabh Bachchan

Almost a fortnight after Kerala’s tourism minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan wrote to Amitabh Bachchan offering him brand ambassadorship
of Kerala Tourism, a section within the CPM, including some politburo members, have come out against the proposal.

For them, brand ambassador of Narendra Modi’s Gujarat for the Left-controlled state is sacrilege. Mr Bachchan, who had accepted the Kerala’s government’s proposal a week ago, had in the CPM’s eyes committed the cardinal sin of praising Mr Modi. Mr Bachchan had said that he was promoting a state, not an individual.

The differences within the CPM came to the fore on Thursday when politburo member Sitaram Yechury said Kerala and BJP-ruled Gujarat cannot have the same brand ambassador. “The decision will be made by the state government. At the same time that I am confident that the LDF will not appoint a person as brand ambassador who is already a brand ambassador for Modi’s Gujarat,” Mr Yechury told reporters.

But Mr Balakrishnan, a politbureau members and number 2 in the state Cabinet, is determined to go ahead with the government’s decision. “We will be sending a senior tourism official to Mumbai to hold discussions with Bachchan. If the terms and conditions are mutually acceptable, he will be made the brand ambassador for tourism. It all depends on how the specifics are going to work out,” officials in the Kerala government said.

The state government has already deputed the director of tourism M Sivasankar to hold talks with Mr Bachchan. However, there are worries within the state party unit that the move could upset Muslims in the state. The CPM had adopted an aggressive Muslim appeasement strategy during the recent Lok Sabha polls to re-capture its waning minority votebank.

The bickering within the party is bound to cause some embarrassment to the LDF government, which decided to approach Mr Bachchan at a time when Kerala’s tourist figures were dropping. The state government had been searching for a brand ambassador to give a boost to tourism in the state when Mr Bachchan in a television interview expressed his willingness to become brand ambassador for Kerala tourism.

The state’s efforts to draw tourists to its breathtaking beauty have taken a hit with frequent hartals paralysing life and often causing violence. With a record of around 100 hartals a year at one point, all of which were generally successful, the state bears the loss of several crores.