Q:Who invented cornflakes?
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A: It was John H. Kellogg, who was born on this day in 1852. He was a doctor who was experimenting with health food, when he accidentally made the grain flakes. His brother, Will Kellogg, started the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906. By heavily advertising their corn flakes, the company--which became the Kellogg Company--prospered into a giant U.S. corporation.


next time wont give the answer sooon to come !!

Nice , thanks :)

Q: Now What is the highest active volcano in Europe?

lets see who will get this ;)

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Q: Now What is the highest active volcano in Europe?

i think it's the one in Italy don't remeber its name,,but i think it's in Sicilly or Scillia something like that !:rolleyes:

It's true!


Use Your Brain to Cut Stress

Relieve stress by understanding which brain hemisphere is stressed.

If you feel depressed or emotionally overwrought, your stress is in the right hemisphere - the creative, emotional, holistic side. What do to: Switch to your matter-of-fact left hemisphere by doing math, writing factorial prose or organising. The emotional right brain will calm down.

If you feel time-stressed and overburdened, the left hemisphere is involved. Switch to your right brain by singing or playing a sport.

Its called (Mt. Etna), on the island of Sicily, is the highest, at 11,000 feet. In 1669 Mt. Etna erupted for several months, and on March 25 of that year it destroyed the town of Nicolosi, taking 20,000 lives. Oooo By the way the name "Etna" comes from the Greek, and means I burn
smoooky haaa?

well next question shall come soon ;) keep on Rolling!

very nice topic Thugy..intresting keep them coming!

Q:eheem...MMM ok--> who was the famous "teddy bear" named after? U know teddy bear !! toys, cartoon etc?

very nice topic thugy .........
he was a famouse american presedent ........:rolleyes: ........... Theodore Roosevelt i guss ..........:rolleyes: ...... and they celebrate in america each year the 25th october as a tedy bear day ......
am i right ...........:D

Yes you are right Maha.
The Teddy bear takes its name from President Theodore Roosevelt. On one of his many hunting trips, so the story goes, Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear cub. According to toymakers Rose and Morris Michtom, when they heard of the president's act of mercy, they created this toy bear and named it "Teddy."

wonderful.....Maha and pharmy...both got it right! thanx for the info ;)

OK OK a new one will come sooon ;) Just keep on checking daily ;)

P.s. does this topic deserve 5 stars??? or 4 stars???

u can rate it ;)

Q/ what was the most facinating thing that happend about the election of George Washington (one of USA presidents)
that never happend again in the history of USA ever ? ;)

hey is this question that difficult? ;)

well done thug4life,,
i wish if revelutional and bombola come again and ask questions..
they used to be addicted to such topics...wonder where are they and were is the old thread...

anywya, pls thug don't remind me about the washington family.. can't think now.. i will search for the answer..

it doesnt need thinking...Just needs abit of searching!!

hhhehe no one knows???

Correct me if I'm wrong thug...
George Washington was the only president to be elected unanimously. The people wanted him to be the presedent, they tried to convince him to accept the office, which never happened again!

Yes he was choosen twise with everyone agreeing about him and no single opposed Voice!! and that never happend again in the history of USA even now!

Ok new Questions shall come soon! Just Keep On Rolling!

o00o0 nice.. am Enjoying this thread.
backing up some info's.

Yup and gains ya some new info as well ;)
I am trying to make it intresting!!!

any ways
new one shall come In sooon!!

Q/ Well...because of two brothers around 200 stories collected and transleted to more than 70 languages.These stories or shall i say folktales such as "Snow White," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Rumpelstiltskin" went famous!.Worldwide...My question is...Name those two brothers ;) ?

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Ok have ur shot dudes!

:D am not sure but is da answer Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

LoL louts that is the correct answer...:D

Yesss...correct and it took them 13 years to complete the collection of the 200 tales! by that they drew the smiles on kidds faces for all the comming generations!!...Nice haa?!

OKAYZ
another question shall come soon!
Just
Keep
On
Rolling ;)

Q/what is the country that had the first subway train? plzz give some info about it :D

The first subway train was in NewYork, when the Mayor George B. McClellan closed a morning oratory at City Hall, and ended with these words :"Now I, as Mayor, in the name of the people, declare the subway open!". This was in honor for of the opening of the NewYork City Subway System. The first train emerged with the Mayor at the control at precisely 2:35p.m on October 27 1904.

according to the information i have the answer that u gave Dr N is not correct...Try again ;)

come ONNNn is it that difficult???

Every time I look for an answer, I get the same ifo about the NewYork train! So, I don't know! You tell us!:lost:

I know that New York had the first subway train in 1904.
But the fisrt subway train in the wold?? I donno.

answer:
The world's first subway train was In England (FOR SURE) (((( London's Underground Metropolitan Railway))), it was opened to passengers in 1863 Not 1904!!! and not NEw York Trains ran every 15 minutes from Farringdon Street to Paddington in London.

ALL right guys...keep on roooOOoling new Questions coming up soon ;)

hmmmmm is it called thomas ....... coz in england they celebrate the day which they made thomas train and all kids love it .......... they got many labels of this train on shirts of children ....... meal box and etc ......... but i dont really remember the exact day which they celbrate ........:rolleyes: ..........
btw the train is beautiful but tooo old ...... i got some pics of this train but unforunatly back home ......:rolleyes:

This one should be Very easy ;) and important as well!

Q) who is (( Frederick Banting))? what did he do??? give a small info about him ;)




P.s. thanx maha for the info!u mentoned above about the previous Question

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Frederick Grant Banting was born on November 14, 1891, at Alliston, Ont., Canada. He was the youngest of five children of William Thompson Banting and Margaret Grant. Educated at the Public and High Schools at Alliston, he later went to the University of Toronto to study divinity, but soon transferred to the study of medicine. In 1916 he took his M.B. degree and at once joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and served, during the First world War, in France. In 1918 he was wounded at the battle of Cambrai and in 1919 he was awarded the Military Cross for heroism under fire.

Banting had become deeply interested in diabetes. The work of Naunyn, Minkowski, Opie, Schafer, and others had indicated that diabetes was caused by lack of a protein hormone secreted by the islands of Langerhans in the pancreas. To this hormone Schafer had given the name insulin, and it was supposed that insulin controls the metabolism of sugar, so that lack of it results in the accumulation of sugar in the blood and the excretion of the excess of sugar in the urine. Attempts to supply the missing insulin by feeding patients with fresh pancreas, or extracts of it, had failed, presumably because the protein insulin in these had been destroyed by the proteolytic enzyme of the pancreas. The problem, therefore, was how to extract insulin from the pancreas before it had been thus destroyed.

While he was considering this problem, Banting read in a medical journal an article by Moses Baron, which pointed out that, when the pancreatic duct was experimentally closed by ligatures, the cells of the pancreas which secrete trypsin degenerate, but that the islands of Langerhans remain intact. This suggested to Banting the idea that ligation of the pancreatic duct would, by destroying the cells which secrete trypsin, avoid the destruction of the insulin, so that, after sufficient time had been allowed for the degeneration of the trypsin-secreting cells, insulin might be extracted from the intact islands of Langerhans.

Determined to investigate this possibility, Banting discussed it with various people, among whom was J.J.R. Macleod, Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto, and Macleod gave him facilities for experimental work upon it. Dr. Charles Best, then a medical student, was appointed as Banting's assistant, and together, Banting and Best started the work which was to lead to the discovery of insulin.

In 1922 Banting had been appointed Senior Demonstrator in Medicine at the University of Toronto, and in 1923 he was elected to the Banting and Best Chair of Medical Research, which had been endowed by the Legislature of the Province of Ontario. He was also appointed Honorary Consulting Physician to the Toronto General Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children, and the Toronto Western Hospital. In the Banting and Best Institute, Banting dealt with the problems of silicosis, cancer, the mechanism of drowning and how to counteract it. During the Second World War he became greatly interested in problems connected with flying (such as blackout).

In addition to his medical degree, Banting also obtained, in 1923, the LL.D. degree (Queens) and the D.Sc. degree (Toronto). Prior to the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1923, which he shared with Macleod, he received the Reeve Prize of the University of Toronto (1922). In 1923, the Canadian Parliament granted him a Life Annuity of $7,500. In 1928 Banting gave the Cameron Lecture in Edinburgh. He was appointed member of numerous medical academies and societies in his country and abroad, including the British and American Physiological Societies, and the American Pharmacological Society. He was knighted in 1934.

As a keen painter, Banting once took part of a painting expedition above the Arctic Circle, sponsored by the Government.

Banting married Marion Robertson in 1924; they had one child,William (b. 1928). This marriage ended in a divorce in 1932, and in 1937 Banting married Henrietta Ball.

When the Second World War broke out, he served as a liaison officer between the British and North American medical services and, while thus engaged, he was, in February 1941, killed in an air disaster in Newfoundland.



Long but interesting.

hmmmmm great to know about this man ........i heared his name but didnt have any clue about him ........thenx pharmacy for the infromation and thugy for the q ............:D

gr88888888 info pharmacy113

Great pharmacy thanx for the info ;)

ok hers another Question

Q/Who wrote (The Jungle Book)? and give a breif info about the writer ;)

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Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936): was born in Bombay, but educated in England at the United Services College, Westward Ho, Bideford. In 1882 he returned to India, where he worked for Anglo-Indian newspapers. His literary career began with Departmental Ditties (1886), but subsequently he became chiefly known as a writer of short stories.
In 1894 appeared his Jungle Book, which became a children's classic all over the world.
Other works include The Second Jungle Book (1895), The Seven Seas (1896), Captains Courageous (1897), The Day's Work (1898), Stalky and Co. (1899), Just So Stories (1902), Trafficks and Discoveries (1904), Puck of Pook's Hill (1906), Actions and Reactions (1909), Debits and Credits (1926), Thy Servant a Dog (1930), and Limits and Renewals (1932). During the First World War Kipling wrote some propaganda books. His collected poems appeared in 1933.
In 1926 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature, which only Scott, Meredith, and Hardy had been awarded before him.
Rudyard Kipling died in 1936.

Great Great pharmacy seems that u r the king of Who WHo questions :D:gap: :D

any ways different questions shall come soon!!
keep on rolling ;)

Q)What was the name of the book by ((Jules Verne ))about a man who makes a speedy world tour?

and plzz give a small breifing about the book :)

ooh mine i havent got answer for this question ........its a bit a hard for me ....... ok waiting for members to answer .........:rolleyes:

come on come ONNnnn guys U all know this!!! its FAMOUS and i mean it!

This is a very easy one.
The book is Around The World In Eighty Days

To take on the bet - to go around the world in eighty days, faster than anyone had gone before - was madness. If Phileas Fogg missed a single connection, he would lose 20,000 pounds. Phileas Fogg was an eccentric Englishmen who lived a quiet ordered life and believed that with technology and planning, nothing was unforeseeable. But he could not plan for the ebullient nature of his French servant, Passepartout, for the adventures that crop up on their journey and for the totally unexpected collision with romance. The humor and freshness of Verne's writing - vivid dispatches from a newly accessible world - make Around the World in Eighty Days an ideal subject for an audiobook. Jules Verne would have approved.

BTW, the movie was AMAZING.

wonderful pharma....and YES the movie was GREAT

Ok next question shall come in soon! so as usual
Keep on rolling!

gr8 info pharmacy113 :)

Whats the name of the disease that was the top cause of death in the 18th century and often leave a scar on the faces of those who survive from it?
MMm give some info about this disease and make it as simple as possible ;)

Is it Smallpox?

Yes pharmacy Ya got it right!
now now U owe me a nice continuation of the answer ;)

Ok this information is for the public:
Smallpox:
The Disease
Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal infectious disease. There is no specific treatment for smallpox disease, and the only prevention is vaccination. The name smallpox is derived from the Latin word for “spotted” and refers to the raised bumps that appear on the face and body of an infected person.

There are two clinical forms of smallpox. Variola major is the severe and most common form of smallpox, with a more extensive rash and higher fever. There are four types of variola major smallpox: ordinary (the most frequent type, accounting for 90% or more of cases); modified (mild and occurring in previously vaccinated persons); flat; and hemorrhagic (both rare and very severe). Historically, variola major has an overall fatality rate of about 30%; however, flat and hemorrhagic smallpox usually are fatal. Variola minor is a less common presentation of smallpox, and a much less severe disease, with death rates historically of 1% or less.

Smallpox outbreaks have occurred from time to time for thousands of years, but the disease is now eradicated after a successful worldwide vaccination program. The last case of smallpox in the United States was in 1949. The last naturally occurring case in the world was in Somalia in 1977. After the disease was eliminated from the world, routine vaccination against smallpox among the general public was stopped because it was no longer necessary for prevention.

Where Smallpox Comes From
Smallpox is caused by the variola virus that emerged in human populations thousands of years ago. Except for laboratory stockpiles, the variola virus has been eliminated. However, in the aftermath of the events of September and October, 2001, there is heightened concern that the variola virus might be used as an agent of bioterrorism. For this reason, the U.S. government is taking precautions for dealing with a smallpox outbreak.

Transmission
Generally, direct and fairly prolonged face-to-face contact is required to spread smallpox from one person to another. Smallpox also can be spread through direct contact with infected bodily fluids or contaminated objects such as bedding or clothing. Rarely, smallpox has been spread by virus carried in the air in enclosed settings such as buildings, buses, and trains. Humans are the only natural hosts of variola. Smallpox is not known to be transmitted by insects or animals.

A person with smallpox is sometimes contagious with onset of fever (prodrome phase), but the person becomes most contagious with the onset of rash. At this stage the infected person is usually very sick and not able to move around in the community. The infected person is contagious until the last smallpox scab falls off.

Thanx alot pharamcy Great info ;)

Ok next Q will come up soon ;)

Q: What is the title of a book about a girl who falls down a rabbit hole and meets many eccentric creatures, among them a Cheshire cat and a Mad Hatter? and please give some info about the book and the writer ;) ?

am expecting that the answer will come out FAST !!!

2 days and no answer shame shame shame

Is it Alice in Wonders Land !:rolleyes:

Exactly Navi, that's the correct answer..
Poor thug, I wonder why I missed this thread!! Better keep my eyes open from now on!

Yup half of the answer right! but not complete
give a Brief description about it and mainly about the writer :)

I hope that Navigator doesn't mind me doing it for him.

The Book is: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
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Alice's life changes the minute she follows the nattily attired white rabbit down his hole. Suddenly, she is lost in a world where illogic is logic and vice versa. Lewis Carroll's timeless satirical fantasy remains as witty and captivating today.

The writer: Lewis Carroll
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Born in 1832, Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), the creator of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and a host of other stories, first published Useful and Instructive Poetry, the first of the family magazines. The logic that seems to pervade through most of his works is the keen interest and
brilliance that the author displays during his school days. In December 1852, he obtained a First in Maths Moderations and was nominated to a Fellowship at Christ Church. It was in February 1855, that he was nominated for the "Master
of the House". It is during this time his interest in photography was aroused by one of his uncles. This interest is beautifully captured in the wonderful illustrations that accompany his stories. Moreover, the narrative too is rich with language that can easily capture the imagination of the reader (child and adult)

- the language being such that every situation and idea is etched out like a photograph. It is 1857 that Dodgson became a Master of Arts and wrote Hiawatha’s Photographing. This was later followed by his first book, A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry followed by College Rhymes.

It was on the 4th of July, 1862 that Dodgson told the story of "Alice" during a trip to Godstow with the Lidell children, and on the 13th of November he began to write down Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for Alice Lidell. He concluded writing in February 1863. He sent a specially illustrated version to Alice Lidell and later ( May 1865 ) the first specimen copy of the book was
sent to Carroll by the publishers. This was followed by the publication of Through the Looking Glass in 1871. Other stories followed this. Some of them being The Hunting of the Snark, Word-links, Rhyme and Reason, and A Tangled Tale. He wrote A Game of Logic defending the employment of children in theaters. In December 1889 Sylive and Bruno was published,
followed by the publication of The Nursery Alice for very young children. He resigned from his job as Curator of the Senior Common Room in 1892. After his retirement, his books on mathematics and logic were brought to print.
Lewis Carroll died on 14th January 1898. With his death, there ended the fascinating career of an author who wrote beautiful stories for children and adults.

pharmacy u r Great!!! thanx! hey
why me and u not become Friend??? haa?:gap: :gap: we shall share drugs ya know LOL
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Ok next question shall come in V V V soon Keep on rolling!

Ok next question..

Q) He was Jailed for around 27 years and he was indeed the most famous political prisoner in the world...a movie was released about him...He was released in 1990...he shared the Nobel price in 1993 and he even became the president of a country ;) ???

Ok cant get much more easier than this!! Geeeee
I need as well a BRIEF info about this guy plzzzz????

NELSON MANDELA

http://myhero.com/images/freedom/mandela/mandela3.gif

and here is his whole story ;)

Freedom HERO (http://myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=nelsonMandela)

Originally posted by Thug4Life
why me and u not become Friend? :gap: we shall share drugs ya know LOL
Sorry but BUSINESS is BUSINESS :D

Answer is:
Nelson Rolihlahla MANDELA
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Your q's are getting so easy Thuggin.

I know they r easy
cause want to attract more souls to this place ya know :gap:

Ooo well ...
well done Ayah as well U pharmacy

next Q shall come in soon!...

Q) Was a great chemist and peace activist ...was awarded 2 Nobel prizes...Not just one But two ;)......one for the work in chem and the other for campaign to stop the testing of nuclear weapons...was also Involved in medicine when made up this theory that vitamin C can prevent or cure the common cold and other diseases???? WHO IS this person

I need as usual a brief Biography with one picture if possible of this person ;) ?

Linus Pauling

http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1962/pauling.gif

(February 28, 1901- )*, the only person who has won two undivided Nobel Prizes, was born in Portland, Oregon, the son of a pharmacist, Henry H.W. Pauling, and Lucy (Darling) Pauling. He attended Washington High School in Portland but because of a technicality did not receive his diploma until 1962, long after he had received his bachelor's degree from Oregon State College in 1922, his doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in 1925, and honorary degrees from universities in seven countries.

He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1954 and the Peace Prize for 1962

as usual Great answer :) well done hhehe no need to make the pharmacy word bold though LOL

Next Question shall came soon....Today i hope!

whenever i want to put a question different than WhoI get something intresting that makes me want to share it with u here we go:

Q) Math math Math :Dwho invented the multiplication symbol "x"?

U know like 2x2=4 ;)

umm am not sure but i think da greeks?

No louts
its a person whom Invented this symbol (x)

so who is it?

okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk


umm what about "William Oughtred "??

yes yes thats the guy an English mathematician, William Oughtred, who was born in 1574. He was actually a vicar who did math on the side. He also invented the slide rule.

Michelangelo??? yeaa who is Michelangelo???? Dont tell me the turtles :D but Michelangelo used to be a famous person? who!

ok i got this ....................... :)


Michelangelo
As sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer, Michelangelo Buonarroti stands as the archetype of the Renaissance genius, with a talent that transcends time and continues to influence and inspire contemporary artists.

Michelangelo began his career in Florence in 1488, as an apprentice in the studio of Domenico Ghirlandaio. He quickly moved to the Medici Court in Florence where he gained an appreciation for classical sculpture and humanist philosophy that shaped and influenced his work. After the death of his patron, Lorenzo de Medici, the artist traveled to Bologna and Rome, continually refining his brilliant technique and establishing his reputation as a dominant force in the arts.

In May of 1508, Michelangelo accepted a commission from Pope Julius II to paint the Vatican's Sistine Chapel ceiling. Initially, Michelangelo was reluctant to accept the commission, regarding himself a sculptor, but his initial trepidations faded and he began the project in early 1509. Using the centuries-old technique of fresco, Michelangelo worked at a feverish pace under exceptionally adverse conditions. The ceiling decoration devised by Michelangelo consisted of a series of illusionistic architectural elements that frame figures and narrative scenes derived from the Old Testament. Completed four years later in 1512, the ceiling marked the summit of the artist's career as a painter and sealed his reputation as the greatest painter of the High Renaissance.

The controversial restoration of the ceiling, begun in 1980, has dramatically transformed its appearance, revealing a dazzling array of color, renewing interest in Michelangelo as a colorist. Although the artist devoted the last thirty years of his life almost exclusively to architecture, his powerful paintings remained enormously influential, and continue to stand among the supreme masterpieces of art history.

http://www.michelangelo.com/buon/images/self-port.gif
thats him ;)




http://www.michelangelo.com/buon/images/study-legs.jpg


His Studies of Anatomy


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Creation (Hands)
by Michelangelo Buonarroti


Ok next question soooooooOON I hope u guys enjoy this!

Q)How did America get its name?

:) ok this is much easier

da answer is :-
History tells us, and has done for years, that the name of America came from one Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine transatlantic explorer who was a navigator with Christopher Columbus in 1499, and the first geographer to realise that the Americas were separate continents :)

Vespucci was born in 1454 to a prominent family in Florence, Italy. As a young man he read widely, collected books and maps, and even studied under Michaelangelo. He began working for local bankers and was sent to Spain in 1492 to look after his employer's business interests. :)

In 1507, a German mapmaker suggested that the new world be named America, because he mistakenly thought that a man named Amerigo Vespucci had been the first European to land on the American continent. Vespucci was a merchant who may have gone along on a few voyages to the new world, but was probably not a commander of these voyages. Nor was he the first person to set foot on the American continents. It's an odd twist of fate that the name of this obscure man has been given to two continents


Great Louts...I brought up this Easy question just for the intrest of the info within it ;)
Next coming soon

Q)What were the first words ever spoken into a telephone by inventor Alexander Graham Bell's????

and Who is he anyways?????? A brief Biography Plzzz BRIEF!!

"Mr Watson, come here!" as i can recall......
Maybe someone wanna give a brief about him.... :rolleyes:

Yesss
"Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." that whats he said
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He once said:
"Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought."

I really like that.....any ways



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Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor.

Throughout his life, Bell had been interested in the education of deaf people so invented the Microphone and the electrical speech machine:)

Bell imagined great uses for his telephone...BUT would he ever have imagined telephone lines being used to transmit video images? any way
he died in 1922 :)

Q}Who invented the laser, which has revolutionized surgery?

I am stopping this thread!!! duuh!

it was 1st inveneted in 1940s ....by who i dont remeber ....hmmmm let me think and see if i could remebr ....well i was reading about this 6 months ago but my recent studies seems cleared all that infromation ... was it invented in usa 1st ...
:rolleyes:

LoL thug sorry i was away ..
it is invented in 1958 by Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes
they published an artical in the Physical Review, the journal of the American Physical Society

Right Fahad and Schawlow received the Nobel Prize in 1981, along with Nicolaas Bloembergen for their work in laser spectroscopy.

some info i found it intresting about Niagara Falls I guess u all know where does this wonderful water falls placed?

well in USA/CANADA




http://www.infoniagara.com/new-pictures/am-falls.jpg

Now imagine this great water fall stopped from flowing??
yes it did happen!once on the 29th of March 1848, a cold spell in Niagara caused an ice jam that stopped the waterfall from flowing. Never to forget that this water fall is the third greatest waterfall in the world in terms of its power and volume of water

NOW MY Quiz

Any one knows whats the First Greatest and the 2nd greatest water falls in the world in terms of power and volume of water???

by the way concintrate here I SAID in terms of water volume discharge ( feet3 / sec.)now u might find several answers...yet am still intrested to know :) Good luck!

e7eem e7eem is my question that difficult?????

Hey thug great thread. WIsh i has spotted this before. as knew the underground train one at least.

Ok Waterfalls. as far as i know the greatest in terms of size and water flow is

1) Victoria falls. 2.5km (1.5 miles) wide, 550 million litres of water plunge every minute 100m (330ft)

(yes i got facts off net but i knew victoria was largest.)

2)Is Niagra. which is actually 2 falls. these are the American falls or Bridal Veil falls and the Horseshoe falls.
by comparison the water flows are

567,811 liters per second
and
2,271,247 liters per second

collectively making

170,343,480 million litres a min

considerably smaller than victoria but often mistaken as the biggest falls in the world.

great try Grassy
I know its abit difficult and different sources give different answers...BUT here what i got!

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1)Boyoma Falls in Zaire...(congo) Discharge ( feet3 / sec.):600,000

2)Guaira Falls:Brazil / Paraguay ..Discharge ( feet3 / sec.: 460,000
and thats the picture
http://home.att.net/~j.r.cano/Waterfalls/Guaira_falls_BrazilPar.jpg
Now

abit easier question:

what was the Greatest Waterfall that Ever exsisted??? See WASSSS IT WASSSS :D

http://home.att.net/~j.r.cano/Waterfalls/lewisriverfalls2_WAusa.jpg

Hey thugs. sorry ol pal but you know me. Im gonna have to disagree on this one. Did some research and found that the Boyoma Falls actually passes 600.000 litres per second thats 360.000.000 litres a min so thats less than the victoria.. however that is more than niagra but still making Victoria the largest.

Open to being proven otherwise though.


what i wanna know is. how on earth do they measure how much water is going over them?? anyone know?

thats why i said its contraversial if u noticed the begining of this quiz ....I knew that different opinions shall rise from this!

yup fair point!! ok mate keep them coming!

Q)what was the Greatest Waterfall that Ever exsisted??? See WASSSS IT WASSSS ??this is just to finish up with the waterfalls thingy!

Dry Falls

North America.

stopped flowing approx 25,000 years ago

3 1/2 miles wide apparantly

Bingo LOOOL I think am really affected by this society am in now!!! Geeee any ways

Ya got it right!
lemme try and find a picture for the dry fall thingy!

this is the picture i guess!
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Q)How much did the United States pay for Alaska?
and WHO created the Flag of Alaska ???

u can give some brief historical info about it if u wish to ;)

$7.2 million in gold from the russians if i recall correctly..

apparantly the yanks offered 5million first but the russians knew the yanks would pay more and so they did.

Bet come 1945 the ruskies regretted that sell though!

The U.S. bought Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million, about 2 cents an acre, in 1867. Many Americans thought it was a waste of money and called Alaska "Seward's folly" and "Seward's icebox," poking fun at Secretary of State William Seward who negotiated the deal. In years to come, however, Americans began to appreciate the richness of Alaska's natural resources, such as wildlife, oil, gold and timber. (Alaska's flag was designed by a 13-year-old Native-American boy.)

Q}}} Does the name Jack Johnson remind u of anything?

Honest Answer) NO!

http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/images/johnson.gif

Jack Johnson

Born: Mar. 31, 1878
Boxer

controversial heavyweight champion (1908-15) and 1st black to hold title; defeated Tommy Burns for crown at age 30; fled to Europe in 1913 after Mann Act conviction; lost title to Jess Willard in Havana, but claimed to have taken a dive; pro record 78-8-12 with 45 KOs.

Died: June 10, 1946


OKKKK guys i will be slower now....give some time for others to answer

so my next question will come soon

Q}any one knows what is The Pony Express ????

The Pony Express was a mail service set up in the American Wild West to primarily serve Mail between St Joseph Missouri and San Fransisco California.

... called "pony" express because the mail was delived by horseback, of course :)

great answers both

The Pony Express began its brief but historic mail delivery service in 1860 and stayed in business for 18 months. By using a system of horse and rider relays, the Pony Express delivered mail from Missouri to California--a distance of 2,000 miles--in ten days. When the transcontinental telegraph line was completed in 1861, it put the Pony Express out of business.

Q}What is the name of the king who was born in 1157, was brought up French although he was crowned King of England, led the Third Crusade, and was a fierce fighter as well as a poet?
Please i need a brief bio and pix of him if possible ;) ?

come onn come onnnn easy easy!!!

Richard the Lionhearted

King of England, 1189-1199 A.D.

A king that cared very much about his mom (more than England and his father)

he joined Philip II of France against his father (!) in 1188, defeating Henry in 1189.

He acted upon a promise to his father to join the Third Crusade and departed for the Holy Land in 1190 (accompanied by his partner-rival Philip II of France). In 1191, he conquered Cyprus en route to Jerusalem and performed admirably against Saladin, nearly taking the holy city twice.

Richard died April 6, 1199

[goodnight - i hope i'm right]:)

heres a another pic of that guy

the Lion-hearted, the subject of songs and stories, died on this day in 1199... :) He was fatally hit by a crossbow bolt while laying siege to a castle.

MMM such an end

and yup scoootttich garrrl got it all right!!
well done
new Question shall come in soon!
keep on rolling!

Q)Who made the first trip around the world by bicycle?

Thomas Stevens. He left San Fransisco to Columbia in an attempt to become the first man to ride a bicycle around the states, then he changed his mind and decided to go around the world. He bagan his journey in 1884.
Am I correct?:confused:

wooo woo I knew u will get it ;)
His journey, on a high-wheeler, took him two years and nine months. In 1971 Ray Reece of England cycled around the world in 143 days.
i have another question ;) away from the who who ones!
keep on rolling

Q) what is currently the TALLEST BUILDING in the world???? provide a picture and measurment in meters or Ft or both!! plzz ?

ok here goes!
Not sure though!
Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan
Stories: 106
Height: 508m/1,667 fthttp://www.skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/556/1710taipei_101-thumb.jpg

this question is contraversial...
but officialy talking and according to my sources
the above is not the one....

I will leave some time for others to answer and see if any one has a different answer!
i

At a height of 553.33m (1,815 ft., 5 inches), it is the World's Tallest Building

CN Tower

Tallest structure: CN Tower

Tallest inhabbited building: Petronas Tower, Malaysia. But not for long, the building in Taipei will be taller once construction is completed, but has been on hold for a few years do short funding. You can see from the picture above that it is not done yet.

And soon Dubai will have the tallest (and ugliest) building in the world.

This Taipei 101 building ain't too good looking either. Check it out:
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=18

yeaaa but look at this
http://img.infoplease.com/images/skygraphweb.gif

But the taiepi 101 one as was said didnt finish yet!

and wait wait look at this
http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/5192/centre_of_india.html
This 224-story, 2222-foot(677m) pyramid-shaped building in
Katangi, India was scheduled for November 6. The building is
being financed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (The Beatles former
spiritual leader), and will be his new world headquarters.
The firm designing this tower are known for a previous large
development, the Twin Towers in Battery Park City, NYC.
==
yet the CN thingy is on the role!!!

So CN i suppouse is the right answer! by most sites! but put in mind the antena (if its included or not) and inhabited one or not!!!!. and the construction if finished or not!

Q: Who was Casey Jones? well lemme answer this

in 1900, locomotive engineer Casey Jones (real name John Luther) discovered that his train, the Cannonball Express, was headed for a collision with a freight train ahead on the track. Instead of saving himself by jumping from the train, Jones heroically stayed on board to try and slow it down enough to save the other passengers. He died in the crash, but many of his co-workers were saved. The song "Casey Jones" is thought to have been written by Jones' engine wiper, Wallace Saunders.



How heroic haaaa

any ways new questions shallcome soon keep on rolling!

Q: Whats soo special about this book (("Common Sense Book of Baby Care,"))...and who wrote it?

Benjamin Spock is born in New Haven, CT in 1903. He was a well known pediatrician and author of this best selling book, that was publishes in 1946.

Dr. Spock's book Baby and Child Care was published in 1946, just in time for the post-World War II baby boom, and became a widely-accepted "bible" on child rearing. Pediatrician Spock encouraged new parents to use common sense and to treat children with respect. This led some critics to call him the "Father of Permissiveness," in spite of Spock's protests to the contrary. In the 1960s Spock gained new fame as a pacifist and Vietnam War protestor.

Great GREAT trueeeeee
and if i only can find a picture for this man i wouldve attached it to this thread!! mmm

any ways....new questions shall come in soon!

http://64.246.42.50/graphics/bio_spock.jpg
thats the guy
and for more info
click here
http://www.drspock.com/about/drbenjaminspock/0,1781,,00.html

ok now to the next question ;)

Q) Can you name the English nurse who single handedly established nursing as a respectable career for women? and Can u give a breif bio and a picture of her?

Florence Nightingale?

half answer correct Mr Mux ;)

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/nitegale.gif
Florence Nightingale lived a long and remarkable life. Although she is known as the founder of modern nursing and one of the most famous women in history, few people know that she spent the last half of her life confined to her home and often bedridden, suffering from an illness similar to what we now call ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome).

She was born on May 12, 1820 to wealthy British parents travelling in Italy. Named for the city in which she was born, young Florence never quite fit the mold of a Victorian lady. She was well educated in literature, music, drawing and the domestic arts. A women of her social standing was expected to marry and devote her life to her family, entertaining, and cultural pursuits. However, she felt an early calling to serve, and refused to marry. When she attempted to go to work as a nurse, her horrified family repeatedly opposed her. In those days, hospitals were often dirty and dark and nurses were untrained, sometimes drunken women. Finally, at age 33 she was able to obtain some minimal training and begin her career.


continue at:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4277/nightingale.html

Q}Which California (USA) bridge is the third-largest suspension bridge in the world? wait wait dont go...whats the 1st and 2nd largest suspension bridges in the world????

I think the largest suspension bridge is Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
located in Japan and was built in 1998.
The second bridge is The Great Belt Bridge which is located in Germany and was built in 1998.
I don't know about the third one but I think it's The Humber Bridge in U.K. and was built in 1981.

according to my info the 3rd largest one is in California (which i need its name ;) ) and if possible some pix ;)

any ways am going to wait for the answers from others as well
and then confirm...

lemme go for ma weekend now ;)

and hey

Keep On rollling...cause its Q and A u r in ya know ;)

eeeeh OK ok i shall answer this!

the name of that bridge in Cali is ((Golden Gate))
http://www.pcimagenetwork.com/golden/p3.jpg
now the 1st is in japan
(Akashi Kaikyo ) at Kobe-Naruto ... Japan
http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/julaug98/images/kaikyo1.jpg

and the 2nd largest suspension is in Denmark
(Great Belt Bridge) at Halsskov-Sprogoe... Denmark

http://www.bridgephoto.dk/illu/bridge2002111510.jpg


OK next question now soon!

Q)Who were the first people to reach the top of Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world?

Sir Edmund Hillary and his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay, were the first people to reach the top of Mt Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

Correct :) i shall provide some info about the mountain or the guys soon :)

http://www.mountain-images.co.uk/printenlargements/PSL014---Everest-from-Tibet.jpg

Look at the beauty Oo well this is mount.Everest!..the great mountain that inspired many pioniers to climb it and to defeat it!

It took away many souls as within their attempt to do so...But Glory came into some ...By the way!...why its called Mount.Everest!
well through my search i came to read about this fact:
1841: Sir George Everest, Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843, records the location of Everest. so i guess the name came from this guy!!!... its funny! I bet that the locals have their own name for the mountain!! which camne to be the fact shortley after i wrote this line heheh.....any ways
as said above Sir Edmund Hillary and his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay were the first that reached the top of the mountain ... BUT whats the height of this mountain???

well Mt. Everest recorded height is 8848 meters or 29,029 ft though the National Geographic Society has determined the height as being 29,035 feet. However, this "new" height is not yet determined as official to our knowledge. As the norm with Everest, nothing is simple.

Longitude: 86º55’40" E

Latitude: 27º59’16" N

Nepal Name: Sagarmatha <===see

Tibetan Name: Chomolungma <===see

I guess Everest is very lucky to have his name over a great mountain like this!!!! who knows one day u might dicover something and ur name might be put on it????? How nice

hey guys hope u enjoyed ma article above!
ok...to the next question!

ok something intresting i would like to share it with u before asking a new question...

Here's an historical oddity. On June the 7th in 1989, there was a moment in the very early morning and later in the afternoon, when the time was 1:23:45 on 6/7/89.

Don't expect that kind of sequence for another hundred years, or perhaps at 12:34:56 on July 8, 2009, depending on how you look at it. ;)

come on ask another question!

Q:Who was the first woman to be launched into space? Can u give a small breif biography about her?

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38812000/jpg/_38812819_tereshkova238.jpg

1963: Soviets launch first woman into space
A former textile worker from the Soviet Union has become the first woman in space.
Lieutenant Valentina Tereshkova, 26, was the fifth Russian cosmonaut to go into the Earth's orbit when her spaceship Vostok VI was launched at 1230 Moscow time.

Moscow Television broadcast the first pictures of the elated blonde - code-named Seagull - ninety minutes later.

One of the main purposes of her mission is to attempt the first docking manoeuvre with another spaceship.

great great got me a fast answering partner out here! good

what was the Frenchman ( Charles Blondin ) famous at??? and how is that related to the Niagra falls???

http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/Magazines/images/224tightrope.jpg

Charles Blondin, the 'Daredevil Wirewalker', a legendary figure due to his tightrope crossing of the Niagara Falls.

heheheh I love ur black and white pix ;)
Correct again ;)

Q}Who was called the (man of 1,000 voices)?

Is it Danny Gans:lost:

http://www.reviewjournal.com/images/bestoflv/1997/photos/bw-gans.jpg

Mackie Bloom

So what is the answer thug4life?

He was Mel Blanc, who was the cartoon voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Woody Woodpecker, Road Runner, Porky Pig, Tweety Pie, Sylvester and many others. He also came up with such well-known phrases as, "What's up, Doc?" and Th-th-th-that's al f-f-f-olks! Blanc died in 1989.

http://www.punoftheday.com/blanc.jpg

Born in San Francisco in 1908, Mel Blanc was the famed voice of popular and beloved animated cartoon characters, including Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Pie, Sylvester, and many others.

Known as The Man of 1,000 Voices, Blanc's voice as these cartoon characters became instantly recognizable to generations of children starting with the golden era of Merrie Melodies cartoons by Warner Brothers.

Among the many lines he uttered: Bugs Bunny's "Eh, what's up, Doc", "I tawt I taw a putty tat", from the tart-tongued canary Tweety; the Road Runner's "Beep, beep", Sylvester the Cat's "Thufferin' thuccotash", Woody Woodpecker's signature "Hee, hee, heh, ho. Hee, hee, heh, ho", and stutter- strewn Porky Pig's "Th-th-th-th-that's all f-f-f-folks."

continue....http://www.punoftheday.com/funny012.html

http://www.aoi.com.eg/aoieng/civil/images/samsung2.jpg
Q)When was the first color television show broadcast? hey u can tell us abit about this and the history of Tv?

http://www.high-techproductions.com/lucy.gif

CBS broadcasts the first color program on June 21,1951
but only 25 receivers can accommodate mechanical color. Viewers of 12 million existing sets see only a blank screen.

More about the history of TV (http://www.high-techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.htm)

Okayz wonderful Qais ..U got it right this time ;)
well more questions shall come soon..(well after 2 days i guess since I might not be around) BUT any one can ask a questions around here...doesnt have to be just me!!!

Geee U guys sleepy! any ways
Q: When was the world's first test-tube baby born? And can u give abit of additional info about this?

The world's first test tube baby was born in 1978. Louise Joy Brown , born in Oldham, Lancashire, England. Born to Lesley and Gilbert Brown, the baby was conceived outside the mother's body.

Great hers some additional info
First test tube baby (http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa043001a.htm)
http://www.farmington.k12.mn.us/3ap70s/brown.JPG
that was the baby hehhehe now aged 25 years currently ;)

In 1969 (Norma McCorvey) did something that rised some big issues mostly related to ethics and morals that is debaitiful till now!! soo what is it? and what happend??? and what was the consiquences :)

Norma McCorvey became pregnant by her boyfriend in 1969. She said she had been raped, thinking that this would make it possible for her to get a legal abortion.

But Texas law then permitted abortion only to save the life of the mother. She and various pro-abortion organizations used her case to challenge the Texas abortion law in court, finally reaching the Supreme Court in 1973.

Resulted in the 1973 United States Supreme Court decision which dismantled every state law prohibiting abortion and provided for virtually unregulated abortion through the country.

yessss and this lead to world wide changes in the idea of abortion! tillthe limit of abuse!!!

Good example

Look at Holand!!!

alllright thanx for the answer charmed!

new question shall come in soon!

welll Thugy where are ur questions ...
maybe i didnt answer one of them but i was enjoying reading them ...
sooo get up and let our mind work again :p
waiting for mor questions..

The world's first and largest and most beautiful metro and subway are in Russia very long time back, they had steam engines running through it. It was made by KGB in Russia.

They have 5 different floors or stories in that metro. It's the world's largest as well and the biggest network as well.

The public in Russia only used 3 of these subways and Metros until now, the rest are used buy RSS and the KGB to transport their weapons and their different things which are not suppose to be exposed.

The Russians my friends had the world's first subway and Metro, Please for more information those of you who knows to read Russian can go to one of the Russian websites, I will give you the website later in this session at the moment can't find it.

Originally posted by the_killer
The world's first and largest and most beautiful metro and subway are in Russia very long time back, they had steam engines running through it. It was made by KGB in Russia.

They have 5 different floors or stories in that metro. It's the world's largest as well and the biggest network as well.

The public in Russia only used 3 of these subways and Metros until now, the rest are used buy RSS and the KGB to transport their weapons and their different things which are not suppose to be exposed.

The Russians my friends had the world's first subway and Metro, Please for more information those of you who knows to read Russian can go to one of the Russian websites, I will give you the website later in this session at the moment can't find it.
well dont say am wrong heheheh most of the web sites say so
ooo I was wondering what r u talking about...Long back post (thanx )
well as i said before some answers might be contraversial But best thing to do is to go according to the official written ones!
(aint easy though!)

so...I would like from u to find me a source and the date of that info u gave! (when that metro was build? saying long time back isnt enough u know)

MAAAN this place is getting warmer and more questions should come In any momment from now!
so keep on rolling!

What is the world's largest desert? and please breif us with some info and a picture! spice it up!

SAHARA

It is with a size of 9 million km², the world's largest desert. Its maximum length is 5,000 km, running from west to east. Sahara is covering Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Niger and Mali.
1,5 million people live in Sahara, most of these in Mauritania, Morocco and Algeria.

Sahara is very dry but there is an annual rainfall on most regions, but this is just a couple of millimetres.
1/4 of Sahara is mountainous, with the highest peak reaching 3415 metres above sea level.
Animal life is limited to gazelles, antelopes, jackals, foxes, badgers and hyena.
Only 200,000 km² of Sahara are fertile oases, where dates, corn and fruits are grown. The spread of Sahara is part of a process starting at least 8,000 years ago, when this region was still fertile.

http://i-cias.com/e.o/ill/sahara.jpg

Great answer and info pharmy pal...welcome back!!!

another question

Where was the highest temperature recorded offcourse on earth and what was it in C please?

The highest recorded air temperature was 136 degrees Fahrenheit -- that's 58 degrees Celsius -- recorded in Libya in 1922 -- that's in the Sahara Desert. The second highest temperature was 134 degrees Fahrenheit - 57 degrees Celsius -recorded in 1913 in California's Death Valley.

And the lowest temperature recorded in Antarctica is 128.6 degrees
below zero Fahrenheit, and is indeed, the lowest temperature recorded
on Earth. It was recorded at a Soviet station by the name of Vostok
July 21, 1983.

wonderful

heheheh u dont give them a chance haa! LOOOL

any ways
mmm lemme think of another question!!!
mmm maybee next time!

if any has questions can put it here as i said before!

Q: Who wrote "The Count of Monte Cristo?" and the actionfilled "The Three Musketeers?" Biography and any additional nice info please is required!

A: Alexandre Dumas is the one who wrote it.

http://www.online-literature.com/authorpics/dumas.jpg http://www.novelguide.com/thecountofmontecristo/images/comccover.gif

Biography

Alexandre Dumas was born on July 24, 1802 in France. Being the son of a well-known general in Napoleon’s army, Dumas had close ties with the resistance movement during the Napoleonic era. Indeed Dumas lived anything but a dull life. As he grew as a play-writer, he also grew increasingly fond of women, having several mistresses and fathering at least two illegitimate children by them. Although he did volunteer his services to the 1830 Revolution, his Hemmingwayish lifestyle continued. Eventually he had to take refuge outside of France in order to escape his creditors. He died in December of 1870 at the age of sixty-eight. Though he had frivoled away nearly all his money, Dumas maintained his brash mocking of death, saying, “I shall tell her a story, and she will be kind to me.”

Alexandre Dumas will be remembered not only for The Count of Monte Cristo, but also for his other major novels, The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask. Although on the surface, much of Dumas’s writing is simple adventure, most of Dumas’s works have deeper meanings. These meanings include man’s relationship to God and one another, man’s sinful nature and greed, and man’s ability to forgive and be forgiven. Dumas will go down in history as the most famous French novelist of his era and perhaps of all time.

Novel Analysis (http://www.novelguide.com/thecountofmontecristo/)

I'm reading "The Count of Monte Cristo" in french- english book to practice my french and it is interesting!

Great answer which is comprehensive...
thanx...hey while i was surfing the net i found something else intresting!...

let it be the next question!

Who invented sandwiches and whats the history of it??

Now the answer for this might be abit funny! but same time there is some historical background about some part of the answer

let us see who will find it!http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/B143105white

History of Sandwiches

The first recorded sandwich was by the famous rabbi, Hillel, who lived during the 1st century B.C. He started the Passover custom of sandwiching a mixture of chopped nuts, apples and spices between two matzohs to eat with bitter herbs. The filling between the matzohs served as a reminder of the suffering of the Jews before their deliverance from Egypt and represented the mortar used by the Jews in their forced labor of constructing Egyptian buildings.

During the Middle Ages (6th to 16th century), thick blocks of bread called trenchers were used in place of plates. Meats and other foods were piled on top of the bread to be eaten. At the end of the meal, one either ate the trencher or, if hunger had been satisfied, tossed the gravy-soaked bread to another less fortunate human or animal.

It is also said that the cooks at London’s Beef Steak Club, a restaurant, invented the first sandwich. John Montague (1718-1792), the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, usually gambled for hours at a time at this restaurant, sometimes refusing to get up even for meals. It is said that ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread. Because Montague also happened to be the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, others began to order "the same as Sandwich!" Today, billions of sandwiches of unbelievable variety are his legacy.

History of Sandwiches (http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/SandwichHistory.htm)

geee that was fast!

Fourth Earl of Sandwich, usually gambled for hours

look at the guy how was he lazy and addicted!!!

;)
thanx ayah!
newquestion shall come soon!...maybee today but mostly tomorrow ;)

"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?" Biography please ;)

Rabbi Hillel, a famous Jewish scholar. Born to a wealthy family in Babylonia, but came to Jerusalem without the financial support of his family and supported himself as a woodcutter. It is said that he lived in such great poverty that he was sometimes unable to pay the admission fee to study Torah, and because of him that fee was abolished. He was known for his kindness, his gentleness, and his concern for humanity. One of his most famous sayings, recorded in Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers, a tractate of the Mishnah), is "If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?" The Hillel organization, a network of Jewish college student organizations, is named for him.

So thug?!!

Thanx and the answer is correct

:Q} (The Hundred Years') War was fought between France and which country ? and what was the reason and results?

The battle was between France and England, and it had something to do with wine investment...
More details in this site (if you're really into history!).
http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/hundred_years_war.html

alhamdulilah some one answerd :D

I owe u a cake from ur made D N :D:D

thanx
next question soon!

WHats the most widely spoken language in the world? and what are the other top 10 languages?

Language Approx. number of speakers

1. Chinese (Mandarin) 1,075,000,000
2. English 514,000,000
3. Hindustani 496,000,000
4. Spanish 425,000,000
5. Russian 275,000,000
6. Arabic 256,000,000
7. Bengali 215,000,000
8. Portuguese 194,000,000
9. Malay-Indonesian 176,000,000
10. French 129,000,000

Indeed and In UN what r the listed official languges? I know arabic was the 6th to be listed what about the rest!

The official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

History:
The United Nations was established on October 24, 1945, by 51 countries committed to preserving peace through international cooperation and collective security. Today, nearly every nation in the world belongs to the UN. Membership now totals 189 countries.

Hope that members r benifiting from this!
I realy like it

Thanx pharmacy!

who invented the wheel? (and i do not know the answer, but love to know:D )

It seems like the inventor of the wheel is UNKNOWN!!
since it was invented ages ago (stone age).
But I'll post some pictures of the process of its devising.

http://www.la-legal.com/images/Prehistoric.jpg
http://www.gnrtr.com/tendencies/_images/wheel1.gif
http://www.gnrtr.com/tendencies/_images/wheel2.gif
http://www.gnrtr.com/tendencies/_images/wheel3.gif
http://www.gnrtr.com/tendencies/_images/wheel4.gif
http://www.gnrtr.com/tendencies/_images/wheel5.gif
http://www.gnrtr.com/tendencies/_images/wheel6a.jpg
http://www.a-motorhome-on-tour.co.uk/docpics/wheel.jpg

I loved ur approach pharmacy :)

Up till now, it is still a mystery as to who invented the wheel and when the wheel was invented. According to archaeologists, it was probably invented in around 8,000 B.C. in Asia. The oldest wheel known however, was discovered in Mesopotamia and probably dates back to 3,500 B.C.

This wheel was believed to have been made by the Sumerians. It was made of planks of wood joined together. The picture below briefly describes the stages of development of the wheel.

Stage one: Early men placed rollers beneath heavy objects so that they could be moved easily.

Stage two: Early men began to place runners under a heavy load, which they discovered would make it easier for the load to drag. This was the invention of the sledge.

Stage three: Men began to combine the roller and the sledge. As the sledge moved forward over the first roller, a second roller was placed under the front end to carry the load when it moved off the first roller. A model of a sledge with such rollers is in the Smithsonian Institution.

Stage four: Soon, men discovered that the rollers which carried the sledge became grooved with use. They soon discovered that these deep grooves actually allowed the sledge to advance a greater distance before the next roller was needed to come on!

Thus, in Stage five: The rollers were changed into wheels. In the process of doing so, wood between the grooves of the roller were cut away to form an axle and wooden pegs were fastened to the runners on each side of the axle. When the wheels turn, the axle turned too in the space between the pegs. The first wooden cart was thus made.

Stage six: A slight improvement was made to the cart. This time, instead of using pegs to join the wheels to the axle, holes for the axle were drilled through the frame of the cart. Axle and wheels were now made separately.

The wheel was furthered improved on later by the Egyptians, who made wheels with spokes, which could be found on Egyptian chariots of around 2000 BC. Over in Ancient India, chariots with spoked wheels dating back to around 1500 B.C. were also discovered. The Greeks too, adopted the idea of wheel-making from the Egyptians and made further improvements to it. Later, during the time of the Roman Empire, the Romans too engaged themselves in wheel-making and produced the greatest variety of wheeled vehicles. They had chariots for war, hunting, and racing, two-wheeled farm carts, covered carriages, heavy four-wheeled freight wagons and passenger coaches.

Today, we see that the wheel has indeed undergone a drastic transformation from a simple one made of wood to the pneumatic rubber tyres that we see on vehicles today. What do you think are the advantages of using rubber tyres instead of wooden wheels?

With the image (http://www.google.ae/search?q=cache:992MbskgQT4J:library.thinkquest.org/C004203/science/science02.htm+%22who+invented+the+wheel%3F%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)

another informitive reply by charmed...thanx ;)
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The Twist...a dance that quickly became a worldwide dance phenomenon during the end of the last century!...whats the story behind it and who started it!

Gosh, lol, this question has been here for so long!
here goes...
TWIST: This dance was written by an African American musician in Georgia in 1958. He and his band members made up some twisting movements for the musicians to do while playing the music. Then in 1960, Chubby Checker made his first twist record, and made the Twist famous in Philadelphia. Twist came to New York via Philadelphia and New Jersey and then spread throughout most countries.
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The annoying DEDE hehhehe (liked ur avatar!)
wonderful and as usualy u got it right :)

The twist dance spread around the modern world

Next question soon!

Every one knows the theory of evolution By Charles Darwin
in relation to this who is (((John Scopes))), who was a biology teacher ...whats his story?

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John Thomas Scopes came to Tennessee fresh out of college. In the spring of 1925, he had just completed his first year as science teacher and part-time football coach at the high school in the little town of Dayton. Scopes planned to return home to Kentucky for the summer. But in his words, "a beautiful blonde" distracted him and he stayed for another week hoping for a date. The decision changed his life forever.

It all began when the state of Tennessee passed a law making it a crime to teach evolution in public schools. A new organization called the American Civil Liberties Union responded immediately. The ACLU placed an ad inviting a teacher to help test the law in the courts. Dayton was in an economic slump, and the town's movers and shakers thought a sensational trial would put Dayton "on the map."

John Scopes was playing tennis when a group of businessmen called him to the town gathering place, Robinson's drugstore. They asked if he would be willing to be indicted for teaching evolution. Though he couldn't remember actually teaching Darwin's theory, Scopes believed in evolution and agreed to the plan.

The trial began on July 10, 1925. "The town was filled with men and women who considered the case a duel to the death," John Scopes later wrote. "Everything I did was likely to be noted."

But over the next two weeks nobody paid much attention to the defendant. Attorneys for both sides hogged the spotlight in the overheated courtroom. In the words of historian Kevin Tierney, "Scopes was being used. He was completely willing to be used. But essentially the case had been taken over by the big names."

On the most sensational day of the trial, when Clarence Darrow interrogated William Jennings Bryan as an expert on the Bible, Scopes actually became a reporter for his own trial -- filling in for a journalist who had left town!

The trial ended in a conviction. The judge imposed a fine of $100 and John Scopes spoke for the first time. "Your honor," he said, "I feel that I have been convicted of violating an unjust statute. I will continue in the future, as I have in the past, to oppose this law in any way I can."

For Scopes, the trial had been an ordeal. When it was all over, he gave up teaching and left town. He accepted a scholarship to the University of Chicago, received a master's degree in geology and took a job as a petroleum engineer in Venezuela -- where no one had ever heard of him.

In 1960 the defendant returned to the scene of his "crime" when the movie version of the trial, Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind, premiered at a Dayton drive-in. Scopes saw himself on the big screen as Bertram Cates, defender of science and victim of intolerance. In the film he is jailed for his beliefs.

indeed pharmacy I hope that U found such an info intresting as it was to me...same applied to the rest of the members!!!

I wonder if they r benifiting from this thread...casue surely I do!!?!

Next question soon!

Originally posted by Thug4Life
I hope that U found such an info intresting as it was to me...same applied to the rest of the members!!!
I wonder if they r benifiting from this thread...casue surely I do!!?!


Of course we do so keep on rolling.

Don't stop thug, we're always here to answer your questions. And I'm sure that members and guests do read them, so keep those questions coming!

here we go...Traffic lights...something that is realy important in our life as drivers and even pedistarians!...BUt whats the story behind it? whats its History..when was it first used? tell us what ya know there ;)

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Even during the horse and buggy days, traffic in big cities was often heavy. Police officers had to be stationed full time directing traffic at busy intersections.
The world’s first traffic light came into being before the automobile was in use, and traffic consisted only of pedestrians, buggies, and wagons. Installed at an intersection in London in 1868, it was a revolving lantern with red and green signals. Red meant "stop" and green meant "caution." The lantern, illuminated by gas, was turned by means of a lever at its base so that the appropriate light faced traffic. On January 2, 1869, this crude traffic light exploded, injuring the policeman who was operating it.
And with the coming of automobiles, the situation got even worse. Police Officer William Potts of Detroit, Michigan, decided to do something about the problem. What he had in mind was figuring out a way to adapt railroad signals for street use. The railroads were already utilizing automatic controls. But railroad traffic traveled along parallel lines. Street traffic traveled at right angles. Potts used red, amber, and green railroad lights and about thirty-seven dollars worth of wire and electrical controls to make the world’s first traffic light. It was installed in 1920 on the corner of Woodward and Michigan Avenues in Detroit. Within a year, Detroit had installed a total of fifteen of the new automatic lights.
At about the same time, Garrett Morgan of the United States realized the need to control the flow of traffic. A gifted inventor and reportedly the first African American to own an automobile in Cleveland, Ohio, he invented the electric automatic traffic light. Though it looked more like the semaphore signals you see at train crossings today, it provided the concept on which modern four-way traffic lights are based.

what can I say!

Perfect!

hey just a small question!
the colors...

scientificly talking
why RED
Why yellow or orange
and why Green!!!

Red , the color of blood, proved a logical choice for the stop signal, as for thousands of years, this color forbade danger.

Engineers used the trial and error method in selecting the other colors. The first trial in the 1830s, that of choosing green for the caution signal, and clear for the go signal, failed miserably. Clear as a choice for the go signal, varied slightly from the light cast from typical street lamps, or from the glare of the sunlight, and, thus could quite easily be mistaken for the go signal...after the fact.

This failure prompted the railroad engineers to alter their color selections to red for stop, green for go, and yellow for caution.

very intresting! thanx :)

whats so special of an African-American athlete called Jesse Owens????

He was the first Afro-American to win the 100 metres race and that too, bare footed.

Thats what I think.

well shinoda LP here it is:

this athlete broke 4 world records in one afternoon at Big Ten Championships (May 25, 1935); a year later, he upstaged Hitler by winning 4 golds (100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump) at 1936 Olympics in Berlin. as u all know Hitler wanted to show the world the superiority of the Aryan race, represented by his German athletes. But Jesse deprived him of that opportunityand he became a hero!

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Q: Who was the youngest person every to win an Olympic gold medal?

Marjorie Gestring of the U.S.A., at the age of 13, for springboard diving, in Berlin 1936.

Q: who is Ian Fleming???

a pic plzz if possible!

Creator of James Bond

http://www.klast.net/bond/images/flem_col.jpg

British author, journalist
Born: 5/28/1908
Birthplace: London, England

Author best known for his popular series of James Bond spy novels. Fleming worked as a journalist in Moscow (1929) and served in the British Naval Intelligence during World War II, before becoming a novelist. Casino Royale (1953) was the first of numerous thrillers revolving around Agent 007. His most popular Bond books included Live and Let Die (1954), From Russia, With Love (1957), Goldfinger (1959) and For Your Eyes Only (1960), all of which were optioned by Saltzman-Broccoli Eon Productions and made into hit movies. As a world traveler and gambler with a fondness for fast cars, Fleming's own life was often tied to the fictional adventures of James Bond.

Died: 8/12/1964

Q: What is a kinetoscope?

A machine, for the production of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, give the impression of continuous motion.

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Thomas Alva Edison
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The Inventor of Kinetoscope

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931), American inventor, whose development of a practical electric light bulb, electric generating system, sound-recording device, and motion picture projector had profound effects on the shaping of modern society.

Q: whats the Biography of Koffe Anan (UN sec).. Hope that I got the spelling right!

Here you go!

Kofi Annan of Ghana is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first Secretary-General to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff, he began his first term on 1 January 1997. On 29 June 2001, acting on a recommendation by the Security Council, the General Assembly appointed him by acclamation to a second term of office, beginning on 1 January 2002 and ending on 31 December 2006.
Mr. Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana, on 8 April 1938. He studied at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi and completed his undergraduate work in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A., in 1961. From 1961 to 1962, he undertook graduate studies in economics at the Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales in Geneva. As a 1971-1972 Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Annan received a Master of Science degree in management.

More? check this link then:
http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/pages/sg_biography.html

This was an easy one thug!

http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/pages/annanofficial2002.jpg

Here's a pic!

I know it was an easy one :D
Just was intresting to know :)
thanx ;) next question will come soon!

keep on rolling!

Who said, "I have a dream" biography please

Martin Luther King.
later will come with the biography cause am sleepy.

ok najah,,, i'll do it :D

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929–1968, American clergyman and civil rights leader


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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., prepares to speak to a crowd of 200,000 marchers in Washingtion, DC.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., graduated from Morehouse College (B.A., 1948), Crozer Theological Seminary (B.D., 1951), and Boston University (Ph.D., 1955). The son of the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, King was ordained in 1947 and became (1954) minister of a Baptist church in Montgomery, Ala. :color:

He led the boycott (1955–56) by Montgomery blacks against the segregated city bus lines, and he attained national prominence by advocating a policy of passive resistance to segregation. In 1956, he gained a major victory and prestige as a civil rights leader when the Montgomery buses began to operate on a desegregated basis.

After the Montgomery success, King organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which gave him a base to pursue further civil rights activities, :bored: first in the South and later nationwide. His philosophy of nonviolent resistance led to his arrest on numerous occasions in the 1950s and 60s. :rolleyes:

He organized the massive March on Washington (August 28, 1963), which brought more than 200,000 people together. In 1964 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. :app:

King's leadership in the civil rights movement was challenged in the mid-1960s as others grew more militant. However, King's interests widened from civil rights to criticism of the Vietnam War and to a deeper concern for poverty. His plans for a Poor People's March to Washington were interrupted (1968) for a trip to Memphis, Tenn., in support of striking sanitation workers. On April 4, 1968, he was shot and killed by an assassin's bullet on the balcony of the motel where he was staying. James Earl Ray was later convicted of his murder. His birthday is an American national holiday, celebrated on the third Monday in January. :kewl:

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done ;)

well done
Thanx :)

Helloooooo,,

am busy from now On :S
But hey any one can ask in this thread as I indicated and said several several times!!!

pharma Ya can take over!

Ok..

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

A famous quote by ...................? with info plz.

yeap i know this is one of the famous qoute by Gandhi.
actually i looke din teh net about ghandi and i found many things , don't know which to mention.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born of a Bania (Vaishya or trading caste) family at Porbunder, Kathiawar, the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand alias Kaba Gandhi, Prime Minister successively in Porbunder, Rajkot and Vankaner States, and his fourth wife Putlibai. he was born on 2nd October 1869

Bravo FaHaD :app:

pharmacy113 we are waiting for more Q from u ???:wink:

Ok...

In our solar system, which planet has the longest day?

Venus has the longest day which takes 243 earth days..

Interestingly the venus day is actually longer than its year which is 224.7 earth days. .taking longer to rotate on its axis than to orbit the sun.

Originally posted by grasshopper
Venus has the longest day which takes 243 earth days..

Interestingly the venus day is actually longer than its year which is 224.7 earth days. .taking longer to rotate on its axis than to orbit the sun.
Now thats very intresting!
who wants to live in it any way!!!

hey isnt it called the planet of Love???

Named after Venus the goddess of love thug .. Libran ruling planet if you are into astrology.

Given the acid atomosphere. raging storms and unbearable tempatures not sure its a place for a romantic date though.

Next:

Again in our solar system:

What is the least dense planet?

the least density planet is Sturn
because it is mainly composed of hydrogen molecule and metalic hydrogen
the density is about 700kg/m3
while the highest density planet is Earth > Mercury> venus>mars..

Q:
the earth takes 24 hours to complete one revolution. How much does jupiter take?

You are right FaHaD,

Saturn is the least dense planet.

Hey How r u?
am fine
am good
am OK!!!

dont forget to buy that thing i asked u for!..

OK I will!!!

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U noticed that we use the (OK) alot in english!
soooo
WHats the story behind it!...whats its origin?

heheh sure i asked about it means something is there :D:gap:

This is what I found thug!

"There have been numerous attempts to explain the emergence of this curious colloquial expression, which seems to have swept into popular use in the US during the mid-19th century. Most of them are undoubtedly pure speculation. It does not seem at all likely, from the linguistic and historical evidence, that it derives from the Scots expression 'och aye', the Greek ola kala ('it is good'), the Choctaw Indian oke or okeh ('it is so'), the French aux Cayes ('from Cayes', a port in Haiti with a reputation for good rum) or au quai ('to the quay', as supposedly used by French-speaking dockers), or the initials of a railway freight agent called Obediah Kelly who is said to have written them on lading documents he had checked. The oldest written references to 'OK' result from its adoption as a slogan by the Democratic party during the American Presidential election of 1840. Their candidate, President Martin Van Buren, was nicknamed 'Old Kinderhook' (after his birthplace in New York State), and his supporters formed the 'OK Club'. This undoubtedly helped to popularize the term (though it did not get President Van Buren re-elected!). During the late 1830s there had been a brief but widespread craze in the US for humorous misspellings, and the form orl korrekt which was among them could explain the initials 'OK'. Such a theory has been supported by more than one distinguished American scholar, and is given in many dictionaries, including Oxford dictionaries. The only other theory with at least a degree of plausibility is that the term originated among Black slaves of West African origin, and represents a word meaning 'all right, yes indeed' in various West African languages. Unfortunately, historical evidence enabling the origin of this expression to be finally and firmly established may be hard to unearth".

So is it correct?

Originally posted by Dr N
This is what I found thug!

"There have been numerous attempts to explain the emergence of this curious colloquial expression, which seems to have swept into popular use in the US during the mid-19th century. Most of them are undoubtedly pure speculation. It does not seem at all likely, from the linguistic and historical evidence, that it derives from the Scots expression 'och aye', the Greek ola kala ('it is good'), the Choctaw Indian oke or okeh ('it is so'), the French aux Cayes ('from Cayes', a port in Haiti with a reputation for good rum) or au quai ('to the quay', as supposedly used by French-speaking dockers), or the initials of a railway freight agent called Obediah Kelly who is said to have written them on lading documents he had checked. The oldest written references to 'OK' result from its adoption as a slogan by the Democratic party during the American Presidential election of 1840. Their candidate, President Martin Van Buren, was nicknamed 'Old Kinderhook' (after his birthplace in New York State), and his supporters formed the 'OK Club'. This undoubtedly helped to popularize the term (though it did not get President Van Buren re-elected!). During the late 1830s there had been a brief but widespread craze in the US for humorous misspellings, and the form orl korrekt which was among them could explain the initials 'OK'. Such a theory has been supported by more than one distinguished American scholar, and is given in many dictionaries, including Oxford dictionaries. The only other theory with at least a degree of plausibility is that the term originated among Black slaves of West African origin, and represents a word meaning 'all right, yes indeed' in various West African languages. Unfortunately, historical evidence enabling the origin of this expression to be finally and firmly established may be hard to unearth".

So is it correct?
U owe me a cake since u answered 100% correct :D
well done
I found it intresting thats why i asked about it ;)

Q: Who wrote "The War of the Worlds" and "Time Machine? with a small pic and bio if possible ;)

HG Wells wrote them. Don't know any bio, but War of the
Worlds became famous after Orson Wells did a radio show with t