the wonders of the world

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Although most people know that a list exists of the Seven World Wonders, only few can name them. The list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was originally compiled around the second century BC. The first reference to the idea is found in History of Herodotus as long ago as the 5th century BC. Decades later, Greek historians wrote about the greatest monuments at the time. Callimachus of Cyrene (305BC-240BC), Chief Librarian of the Alexandria Mouseion, wrote "A Collection of Wonders around the World". All we know about the collection is its title, for it was destroyed with the Alexandria Library.

The final list of the Seven Wonders was compiled during the Middle Ages. The list comprised the seven most impressive monuments of the Ancient World, some of which barely survived to the Middle Ages. Others did not even co-exist. Among the oldest references to the canonical list are the engravings by the Dutch artist Maerten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), and Johann Fischer von Erlach's History of Architecture.

Today, archaeological evidence reveals some of the mysteries that surrounded the history of the Wonders for centuries. For their builders, the Seven Wonders were a celebration of religion, mythology, art, power, and science. For us, they reflect the ability of humans to change the surrounding landscape by building massive yet beautiful structures, one of which stood the test of time to this very day.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are:

* The Great Pyramid of Giza
* The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
* The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
* The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
* The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
* The Colossus of Rhodes
* The Pharos of Alexandria

[to be continued]

this day in history...

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Events
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* 490 BC - the Battle of Marathon, in which Athens defeated an invading army of Persians, may have been fought on this date in the proleptic Julian calendar
* 30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
* 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah. Considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
* 1121 - Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David the Builder won a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
* 1164 - Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
* 1281 - The fleet of Qubilai Khan is destroyed by a typhoon while approaching Japan.
* 1323 - Treaty of Nöteborg - Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time.
* 1332 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor - Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar routed by Edward Balliol.
* 1480 - Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
* 1499 - First act of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
* 1687 - Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohács.
* 1793 - The Rhône department was created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire was split into two departments: Rhône and Loire (Lêre).
* 1806 - Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first English invasion.
* 1833 - Chicago was founded.
* 1851 - Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
* 1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Deimos.
* 1898 - Armistice ends the Spanish-American War.
* 1914 - World War I - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included.
* 1944 - Alençon liberated by General Leclerc, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by the Allied forces.
* 1952 - The Night of the Murdered Poets - Thirteen most prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow.
* 1953 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project proceeded with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
* 1960 - Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched
* 1964 - South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to its racist policy.
* 1972 - The last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam.
* 1977 - The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
* 1978 - Japan and the People's Republic of China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China.
* 1981 - Release of the IBM PC or Personal Computer
* 1990 - Sue, the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota.
* 1992 - Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
* 1998 - Swiss banks agree to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to Holocaust survivors to settle claims for their assets.
* 2005 - Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by a sniper at his home.

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Borned this day
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1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway
1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun
1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia
1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom
1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1963 - Sir Mix A Lot, American musician and composer
1971 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player

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Holidays
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United Nations - International Youth Day (since 1999)
Brazil - Father's Day (August second sunday)
Thailand - The Queen's Birthday, Mother's Day
Zimbabwe - Defence Force Day

tocmai ma intrebam...

where did all the good people go!?!?![ by Jack Johnson ]

pacat ca ne trezim dupa ce pleaca ei...
[saptamana trecuta de exemplu...]trist nu?...

cool facts

♦ Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.

♦ Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

♦ Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

♦ A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

another lil quotey

" A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "

[ Oscar Wilde ]

sa nu ne plictisim citind :)

Horatiu Malaele - O gâză

eh? geniu sau nu? (eu oricum la geniu il pun:) )

astroevents

August 11, 2007 - Perseid meteors

August 12, 2007 - New Moon
7:03 P.M.

August 13, 2007 - Neptune at opposition
[ Opposition occurs when a body farther from the Sun than Earth appears opposite the Sun in the sky. It is the best time to observe a planet. ]


Some extra infos about Perseids:
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The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids are so called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus. However, they can be seen all across the sky. Because of the path of Swift-Tuttle's orbit, Perseids are mostly visible on the northern hemisphere.

The shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the greatest activity between August 8 and 14, peaking about August 12. During the peak, the rate of meteors reaches 60 or more per hour.

Meteor showers occur when Earth moves through a meteor stream. The stream in this case is called the Perseid cloud and it stretches along the orbit of the Comet Swift-Tuttle. The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet as it passed by the Sun. Most of the dust in the cloud today is approximately a thousand years old.

However, there is also a relatively young filament of dust in the stream that boiled off the comet in 1862. The approximate rate of meteors originating from this filament is much higher than normal.

The famous Perseid meteor shower has been observed for about 2000 years, with the first known information on these meteors coming from the Far East. In early Europe, the Perseids came to be known as the "tears of St. Lawrence."


[deci poate va vad pe net la noapte...AFARA!!! toata lumea afara la noapte....si maine noapte..tot afara adica]

:::::_A Samurai and a Zen Master_:::::

A samurai, a very proud warrior, came to see a Zen Master one day. The samurai was very famous, but looking at the beauty of the Master and the Grace of the moment, he suddenly felt inferior.

He said to the Master, "Why am I feeling inferior? Just a moment ago everything was okay. As I entered your court suddenly I felt inferior. I have never felt like that before. I have faced death many times, and I have never felt any fear -- why am I now feeling frightened?"

The Master said, "Wait. When everyone else has gone, I will answer. "

People continued the whole day to come and see the Master, and the samurai was getting more and more tired waiting. By evening the room was empty, and the samurai said, "Now, can you answer me?"

The Master said, "Come outside."

It was a full moon night, the moon was just rising on the horizen. And he said, "Look at these trees. This tree is high in the sky and this small one beside it. They both have existed beside my window for years, and there has never been any problem. The smaller tree has never said to the big tree, 'Why do I feel inferior before you?' This tree is small, and that tree is big -- why have I never heard a whisper of it?"

The samurai said, "Because they can't compare."

The Master replied, "Then you need not ask me. You know the answer."

win xp tips

" Microsoft yada-yada Program has encountered a problem and needs to close.
We are sorry for the inconvenience. "

si apoi

"Yada-yada Application has Encountered a Problem and Must be Shut Down"

annoying, nu-i asa? m-am plictisit si eu de el...Dar iata ca putem opri serviciul de reportare a erorilor in cativa pasi rapizi (the easy or the "i'm-so-techy" way):

method 1 (easy-way):
=======
[Start] -> [click dreapta My Computer] -> [Properties] -> [tabul Advanced] -> [butonul Error reporting]
si selectati "Disable error reporting" si puteti lasa bifat "But notify me when critical errors occur"
[OK][OK]

method 2 (i'm-the-coding-guru-way):
=======
[Start] -> [Run] - > [Regedit]
Navigati la cheia de registru: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting
Modificati (Creati daca nu exista) :
Data Type: REG_DWORD [Dword Value] // Value Name: DoReport
Value Data: [0 = Nu trimite rapoarte / 1 =Trimite rapoarte]
Iesiti din registru si restartati


there... greu ? :)

bancul zilei...

Un orb intra in bucatarie , si cautand ceva pune mana pe razatoare.
Pipaie in sus, in jos, la un moment dat se opreste si-si zice iritat : - Mah care dracu' a scris porcaria asta ?!?!?

[credits to adi petrescu][am ras singur 10 minute, si inca mai rad..]

Bursa - solved!

M-a tot frecat aseara o bucatica din ziar, la sectiunea de economie - cursul valutar si bursa.
La cursul valutar nu prea am avut probleme dar la FTSE, CAC, NYLD, BUBOR, NIKKEI 225, BET-C, BET-FI huh, am transpirat putin (mai ales ca unele suna treibil de amuzant)...

deci sa clarificam problema:

intai BURSA:

Termenul desemnează o instituţie cu putere de autoreglementare, specifică Economiei de piaţă liberă - bursa - ca formă organizată de schimb de mărfuri şi valori. În esenţă, noţiunea indică locul de întâlnire a negustorilor şi oamenilor de afaceri, în sensul unui spaţiu de concentrare a cererii şi ofertei. Acest conţinut rezultă din definiţiile date în limbajul de specialitate. Astfel „Legea română asupra burselor" din 1929 - „Legea Madgearu" - se arată că „bursele sunt instituţii publice create în scopul de a reuni pe comercianţi, industriaşi, producători, armatori şi asigurători în vederea negocierii valorilor publice şi private, monedelor, devizelor, mărfurilor, productelor, închirierii vaselor şi acoperirii riscurilor de tot felul" . Prin urmare bursa este o piaţă, care se particularizează prin obiectul tranzacţiilor şi modul de organizare şi funcţionare.


apoi hieroglifele = Indici bursieri

In economie sau finante, un indice (un indice al preturilor sau un indice bursier) este un indicator global al unei activitati, al performantei sau al unei evolutii in general. De exemplu, indicele preturilor de consum este un cos valoric format din preturile bunurilor de larg consum utilizate de populatie, calculat periodic, care se substituie cu succes nivelului general al inflatiei dintr-o anumita tara.

Aceeasi metodologie se foloseste si in cazul indicilor bursieri. Astfel, un asemenea indice nu este decat o colectie de actiuni listate la bursa, si reflecta statistic valoarea componentelor sale. Este folosit ca si indicator pentru a reliefa caracteristicile actiunilor componente, care au in comun diferite similaritati: faptul ca se tranzactioneaza pe aceeasi bursa, ca fac parte dintr-un anumit sector economic de activitate sau ca au aceeasi clasa de capitalizare bursiera.

In concluzie, un indice bursier este un indicator menit sa reflecte schimbarile valorice ale unui grup specific de actiuni.

Tipuri de indici bursieri

Indicii bursieri pot fi clasificati in mai multe modalitati. Astfel, un indice compozit reprezinta performantele generale ale unei piete bursiere in ansamblul ei, si prin extensie, reflecta sentimentele investitorilor privind starea generala a economiei. Cei mai tranzactionati indici bursieri sunt indicii compoziti, care includ cele mai puternice companii de pe cea mai mare piata bursiera din tara respectiva. Astfel, in SUA exista Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) si S&P 500, in Marea Britanie FTSE 100, in Franta CAC 40, in Germania DAX, in Japonia NIKKEI 225.

Pe langa indicii compoziti exista si asa-numitii indici sectoriali, care cuantifica performanta anumitor sectoare specifice ale pietei. De exemplu, Morgan Stanley Biotech Index este alcatuit din 36 de companii americane care activeaza in sectorul bio-tehnologiei. Alti indici sectoriali sunt bazati pe companiile existente in domeniul financiar, naval, telecomunicatii, transporturi, IT, etc.

acum eu ce sa fac daca economia nu intra in domeniile mele de interes...[asta nu inseamna copii, ca trebuie sa va neglijati cursurile de la facultate]
mare noroc cu cine a inventat netu asta...(o sa caut evident :) ) altfel as fi avut 1 varianta cu 3 urmari , dintre care nu stiu care-i mai norocoasa...

- il intrebam pe tata care:
1) imi tinea teorie pana diseara ca nu am aflat pana la varsta asta nimic din lucrurile importante...
2) imi tinea teorie pana diseara cu bursa, indici, inflatie, investirori si alte minunatii...
3) ambele...(oh no, no, no...)

something to remember (?)

☻ Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.

☻ Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

☻ Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.

☻ Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

era sa uit ...

trebuie sa gasesc un banner mai colorat sau ceva, sa sara mai bine in ochi...[sau poate facem ceva in max :) anyone? ]

The time in human form...

Once upon a time, going from analog clocks to digital seemed to imply a kind of laziness - it's like you were having the time handed to you without effort.

But let's face it: on some days, even reading those numbers can be too much. Hence the Verbarius. This sleek, clock will give you the time in what they call "human" form: "A quarter to three" rather than "2:45." "Noon." "Midnight."

My question: what do they do with those slightly awkward times, like 4:17? Is 2:25 the same as half-past?

(Or am i just missing the point, asking myself these questions?)

some fun between the lines - dan puric

Un mare om si actor: Dan Puric



hai ziceti ca nu v-a placut :)

bushcraft - [p5]

HOW TO WEAR YOUR RUCKSACK

You must take the time to adjust all the features of your pack before heading out into the wilderness. Get a teammate to assist you when putting on your pack – it will be easier to adjust properly with a helping hand.
[<- el este un cretz prietenos si dezordonat]

Shoulder straps:
a) check shoulder straps for length – padding should cover across shoulder and down front of chest;
b) some shoulder straps offer a tensioning strap at the top of the shoulder that is used once the pack is on to draw the top of the frame closer to the shoulders;
c) some straps offer a quick release feature on one or both shoulder straps (hip belts as well). These are especially handy if you have fallen into water, or you are in an emergency and you need to get the pack off immediately. Quick releases are not for routinely taking off your pack;
d) only tighten the shoulder straps enough to hold the pack to your back. They are designed to work cooperatively with the hip belt to support your pack;
e) a sternum strap connects the two shoulder straps together.

Because the hip belt takes most of the weight, your shoulder straps may wander towards the outsides of your shoulders. The sternum strap holds the shoulder straps in place.

Hip belt:
a) wear the hip belt snugly around your hips, not your waist;
b) when putting on your pack, tighten your hip belt first, then your shoulder straps – this ensures that the weight is resting on your hips;
c) you can attach a water bottle holster to your hip belt.

Airman - Michael Jordan airblock [ basketball ]

credits go to adi preda :)

today i have built another page :)

iulie-august trips

Piatra Craiului 2007:

useless inventions

Trying to keep you cool this summer? Thanko steps in to assist with this USB necktie with a geeky-looking fan nestled inside its Windsor knot.
If you don't mind being chained to your desk, this might help evaporate a modicum of sweat in even the steamiest of situations. That is, if the fan on this contraption were pointed directly at you. Taking a look at the photos of this beast, it looks like the fan is pointing straight ahead, cooling off people standing in front of you rather than blowing on your own face. Well, at least it might be able to keep your neck cool.
Just remember that you're attached to your PC when it's time to stand up...

HOW TO ESCAPE FROM KILLER BEES

[cu dedicatie pentru adi ]

1) If bees begin flying around and/or stinging you, do not freeze.
2) Run away; swatting at the bees only makes them angrier.
3) Get indoors as fast as you can.
4) If no shelter is available, run through bushes or high weeds.
This will help give you cover.

If a bee stings you, it will leave its stinger in your skin.
Remove the stinger by raking your fingernail across it in a sideways motion. Do not pinch or pull the stinger out—this may squeeze more venom from the stinger into your body. Do not let stingers remain in the skin, because venom can continue to pump into the body for up to ten minutes.

To MINIMIZE RISK

• Avoid colonies by filling in holes or cracks in exterior walls, filling in tree cavities, and putting
screens on the tops of rainspouts and over water meter boxes in the ground.

• Do not bother bee colonies: if you see that bees are building—or have already built—a colony
around your home, do not disturb them. Call a pest control center to find out who removes bees

• Do not jump into a swimming pool or other body of water—the bees are likely to be waiting for you when you surface.

quote of the day

" If you are scared of the mice invasion in your house, just stop and think a little of how protected you are from elephants! "

[Animal Planet, this morning :) ]

Astronomy - Orion's belt

Orion's belt

The tight linear grouping of the prominent white stars Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka in the constellation of Orion. The names of all three refer to the set: the outer two are named after the "belt" of the Arabs' "Central One" (a mysterious female figure), while Alnilam comes from an Arabic word that aptly means "the string of pearls." The proximity of the three in the sky is an illusion. In fact, the stars at either end of the Belt, Alnitak and Mintaka, are the closest together in space, Alnitak being a little over 800 light-years away, and Mintaka 100 light-years farther off. The central star, Alnilam, is much more distant than either of these, lying on the edge of the Orion Molecular Cloud, more than 1,300 light-years from the Sun. Alnilam is also easily the most massive and luminous of the three stars, so that despite its greater distance it still shines more brightly than its two companions.

Like much of its parent constellation, Orion's Belt is a highly nebulous region of the sky. This is especially true in the direction of Alnitak, where numerous nebular structures are found. The most famous of these is the Horsehead Nebula, a dark cloud that blots out the light from the red-pink streak of IC 424.

Mythology

Greek mythology has several versions of the history of Orion, the gigantic hunter of primordial times. These end in different versions of his death: He challenged the gods, either by attempting to rape Artemis or by claiming that he could kill every wild animal on Earth. Some versions then say Artemis shot him with her arrows; but others say that Artemis or Earth produced a great Scorpion whom he could not defeat and which killed him. The gods raised him and the Scorpion to the skies, as Scorpio/Scorpius. Yet other stories say Orion was chasing the Pleiades.

Sirius, the Dog Star, constitutes Orion's left leg. It is part of Canis Major and has its own mythology. In some myths, it is Orion's hunting dog.

The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt

The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt

The primal archetype of the Egyptian obelisk and pyramid was the sacred Ben-Ben stone in the temple of Heliopolis, the oldest centre of the sun cult. The original stone at Heliopolis, symbolising the primeval mound, was believed to have been the point at which the rays of the rising sun first fell. The gilded capstone of the pyramid, which would sit at the apex, or the tip of an obelisk was known as a ben-benet.

Whilst most people tend to relate pyramids with the great Old Kingdom complexes of Giza and Saqqara, there are in fact over a hundred pyramids in Egypt, which span a period of a thousand years, and many of these are relatively unknown to most people. All but a very few are grouped around and near Cairo, just south of the Nile Delta. Only one royal Egyptian pyramid is known further south, built by Ahmose, founder of the 18th dynasty and the New Kingdom, at Abydos, however over 180 further pyramids were also built in Nubia over the course of another millennium.

words to say daily

Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah
Cantonese Chinese - Ngo oiy ney a
Catalan - T'estimo
Cherokee - Tsi ge yu i
Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse

[you'll find out what they mean :) ]

[to be continued...]

lil bits of science

did you know ?




> Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

> At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.

> At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.

it happend on this day

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Events
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* 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
* 610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammed began to receive the Qur'an.
* 955 - Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
* 991 - Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalized in a well-known poem.
* 1316 - Second Battle of Athenry
* 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
* 1557 - Battle of St. Quentin Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars
* 1628 - The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes on her maiden voyage.
* 1675 - The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London was laid.
* 1680 - Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
* 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
* 1792 - French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
* 1809 - Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.
* 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek - The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
* 1893 - At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
* 1904- The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets.
* 1905 - Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
* 1913 - Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
* 1920 - World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
* 1932 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
* 1944 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
* 1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
* 1998 - The Royal Proclamation of HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah as the Crown Prince of Brunei.
* 2000 - World Population reaches 6 billion according to www.ibiblio.org world population tracker.
* 2001 - The Hudson River Way is opened to traffic.
* 2003 - The highest temperature ever is recorded in the UK, 38.5°C (101.3°F), occurs in Kent. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
* 2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
* 2005 - Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours. [hmmmmmm....vezi adi? vezi ??? si tu ticule, la fel...]

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Birthdays
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1267- King James II of Aragon
1296 - John I, Count of Luxemburg
1397 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor
1856 - William Willett, English inventor of Daylight Saving Time
1884 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer
1913 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist,Nobel laureate
1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
1965 - John Starks, American basketball player

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Holidays
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Roman festivals - Opalia, festival in honor of Ops
Ancient Latvia - Labrenca Diena held
Independence Day in Ecuador

astroevents

August 10, 2007 - Moon near Pollux [at 22h UT, morning sky]

August 11, 2007 - Perseid meteors

August 12,2007 - New Moon at 22:30 UT. Start of lunation 1047.
[A lunation is the cycle of phases in one synodic month, starting and ending with a "new moon". This is slightly longer than the sidereal lunar month, in which the Moon revolves once around the Earth, because of the additional effect of the Earth's revolution around the Sun.]

we start with some science

gone on holiday...

plecat la munte...spre calire spirituala :)
please stay tuned for new info delivery in about 2-3 days or so ... :)

lots of info here waiting for you =>
[just browse shared till now]

science with cornstarch and water

some cool facts

> "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

> In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

> You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

> Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

> There is a city called Rome on every continent.

on this day...[31st July]

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Events
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* 431 - Election of Pope Sixtus III.
* 781 - The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
* 904 - Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
* 1009 - Pietro Boccapecora becomes Pope Sergius IV.
* 1423 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
* 1498 - On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
* 1655 - Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it would hold for six years.
* 1658 - Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
* 1667 - Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
* 1703 - Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
* 1741 - Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
* 1790 - First U.S. patent issued; granted to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
* 1856 - Christchurch, New Zealand chartered as a city.
* 1913 - The Balkan States sign an armistice at Bucarest.
* 1917 - The Third Battle of Ypres starts in Flanders.
* 1919 - German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (to enter into force August 14)
* 1936 - The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics were to be held in Tokyo. However, the games were given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and were eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
* 1938 - Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanta (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia)
* 1940 - A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading the opposite way, killing 43 people.
* 1941 - Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
* 1945 - John K. Giles attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison.
* 1951 - Japan Airlines is established.
* 1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
* 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
* 1975 - In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
* 1976 - Viking program: Viking 1 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo.
* 1987 - A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
* 1999 - Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector - NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
* 2006 - Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana [La Pequeña Habana in Spanish], Miami, Florida, where many Cuban-Americans participated.

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Holidays
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* Hari Pahlawan - Malaysian warrior's day.
* La Hae Hawai‘i - Hawaiian Flag Day.
* Republic of the Congo - Upswing of the Revolution.

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Borned today
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1143 - Emperor Nijo of Japan
1396 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy
1527 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
1803 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer
1918 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1965 - J. K. Rowling, British novelist (her most famous character, Harry Potter was also born this day, but in 1980)
1965 - Scott Brooks, former pro basketball player
1966 - Dean Cain, American actor

some fun between the lines - jim carrey

Jim Carrey at Meryl Streep's AFI tribute

HOW TO TREAT A LEG FRACTURE

Most leg injuries are only sprains, but the treatment for both sprains and fractures is the same.


1) If skin is broken, do not touch or put anything on the wound.
You must avoid infection. If the wound is bleeding severely, try to stop the flow of blood by applying steady pressure to the affected area with sterile bandages or clean clothes.
2) Do not move the injured leg—you need to splint the wound to stabilize the injured area.
3) Find two stiff objects of the same length—wood, plastic, or folded cardboard—for the splints.
4) Put the splints above and below the injured area— under the leg (or on the side if moving the leg is too painful).
5) Tie the splints with string, rope, or belts—whatever is available. Alternatively, use clothing torn into strips. Make sure the splint extends beyond the injured area.
6) Do not tie the splints too tightly; this may cut off circulation.
You should be able to slip a finger under the rope or fabric. If the splinted area becomes pale or white, loosen the ties.
Have the injured person lie flat on their back.
This helps blood continue to circulate and may prevent shock.


WHAT TO AVOID

• Do not push at, probe, or attempt to clean an injury; this can cause infection.
• Do not move the injured person unless absolutely necessary. Treat the fracture and then go get help.
• If the person must be moved, be sure the injury is completely immobilized first.
• Do not elevate a leg injury.
• Do not attempt to move or reset a broken bone; this will cause severe pain and may complicate
the injury.

" Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. "

[ Jules Feiffer ]

astroinfo

July 30, 2007 - Neptune 1.3° north of Moon, occultation
August 1, 2007 - Mercury 6° south of Pollux
August 1, 2007 - Uranus 2° south of Moon
August 2, 2007 - Venus 6° south of Regulus
August 3, 2007 - Moon at perigee

[ perigee = the point in the moon's orbit when it is closest from earth ]

a little from egypt

Egyptian Gods

Ancient Egypt had by tradition a great variety of gods and what today can be labelled as "spirits" and "fairies".
The total of them all was over 2.000, but many of them had similar characteristics and appeared all over the country by different names. The huge diversity is due to the fact that before the country was united the Nile Valley was split up into about forty self ruling areas (later to be provinces - so called nomes) where the ruling tribe had its own deities. Almost all gods had one thing in common - they had a count- erpart of the opposite sex and manifested themselves on earth through animals.


God Aah

Aah (like "awe"), was an old moon god in charge of the moon-year (12x30 days). Besides "moon" his name meant "collar", "to embrace" and "defender".
His duties were shadowy and he was seen as a moon crescent often with sun disk upon it (picture on the left). He accompanied mainly Thot and Khons, but also others. Rarely he was upon the head of a sitting Osiris with whom he was known in texts as Osiris-Aah. He could be seen as Thoth-Aah with a crescent upon a pedestal standing in a boat. He took part in "The Book of the Dead" where he was quoted in a prayer presenting himself by saying: "I am the moon-god Aah, the dweller among the gods". His most famous roll in Egyptian mythology was in a tale where he gambled with Thoth and made him help the pair Nut and Geb to raise a family.

the usefull lesson [continued edition]

the exterior of a heart...







the interior of the heart...

Bengali - Ami tomake bhalobashi
Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian - Obicham te
Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah


to be continued...

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astronews

July 30, 2007 - Neptune 1.3° north of Moon, occultation

[ An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer ]

Jim Carrey - Self Defense

first aid - survive poisonous attacks

HOW TO SURVIVE A POISONOUS SNAKE ATTACK


Because poisonous snakes can be difficult to identify— and because some nonpoisonous snakes have markings very similar to venomous ones—the best way to avoid getting bitten is to leave all snakes alone. Assume that a snake is venomous unless you know for certain that it is not.

How to TREAT A BITE

1) Wash the bite with soap and water as soon as you can.
2) Immobilize the bitten area and keep it lower than the heart. This will slow the flow of the venom.
3) Get medical help as soon as possible.
A doctor should treat all snakebites unless you are willing to bet your life that the offending snake is nonpoisonous. A bite from any type of poisonous snake should always be considered a medical emergency. Even bites from nonpoisonous snakes should be treated professionally,
as severe allergic reactions can occur.
4) Immediately wrap a bandage tightly two to four inches above the bite to help slow the venom if you are unable to reach medical care within thirty minutes.
The bandage should not cut off blood flow from a vein or artery. Make the bandage loose enough for a finger to slip underneath. If you have a first aid kit equipped with a suction device, follow the instructions for helping to draw venom out of the wound without making an incision. Generally, you will need to place the rubber suction cup over the wound and attempt to draw the venom out from the bite marks.

What NOT TO DO

• Do not place any ice or cooling element on the bite; this will make removing the venom with suction more difficult.
• Do not tie a bandage or a tourniquet too tightly. If used incorrectly, a tourniquet can cut blood flow completely and damage the limb.
• Do not make any incision on or around the wound in an attempt to remove the venom—there is danger of infection.
• Do not attempt to suck out the venom. You do not want it in your mouth, where it might enter your bloodstream.

speaking of martial arts...

" Martial Arts without phylosphy is just streetfight "

[ aseara, un nene intelept de la tv ]

todays events

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Events
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1419 - First Defenestration of Prague.
1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1608 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
1729 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
1756 - Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1825 - Malden Island discovered.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1930 - In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup.
1932 - Olympic Games: The Games of the X Olympiad open in Los Angeles, California.
1932 - Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres.
1945 - World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen.
1954 - Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.
1966 - At Wembley Stadium, host England wins the Football World Cup, After drawing 2-2 at the end of 90 minutes, England beat West Germany 4-2.
1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival.
1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission - David Scott and James Irwin on Lunar module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
1980 - Vanuatu gains independence.
1990 - The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 - World's longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

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Holidays
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Vanuatu - Independence Day

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Have their birthday today
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1470 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China
1818 - Emily Brontë, English novelist
1855 - Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist
1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist
1904 - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and Governor of California
1948 - Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
1961 - Laurence Fishburne, American actor
1963 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress
1963 - Chris Mullin, basketball player
1971 - Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
1974 - Hilary Swank, American actress

dictionarul pentru prieteni

Noi cuvinte si fraze impreuna cu semnificatiile lor:




cicles (subst.)
- personaj (masculin se pare) a carui viata este primejduita de moarte
- expresii cunoscute: " sa moara cicles "
[ credits go to anca]

cassian (subst)
- alt personaj masculin, insa aparent cu radacini in canada, a carui viata este pe terminate
- exista sansa ca intre cei doi (cicles si cassian) sa existe o corespondenta
- expresii cunoscute : " sa moara cassian"
[ credits go to madalin]

a sede flexat(verb+adverb)
- expresie ce defineste impunerea imediata a unei stari de neimpacientare si euforie
- de asemnea cand este folosita intr-un grup, impune linistea conditionata, fara comentarii sau alte faze, membrului careia i se adreseaza
- expresii: " sezi flexat "," stai flexi "
[ credits go to adi-cretz ]

hitara mahica(subst)
- expresie constituita dintr-un subst si un adj, care prin utilizare repetata a devenit substantiv
- expresia defineste, prin influente latinesti, chitara nelipsita in excursiile de pe munte, care reprezinta de mult ori un bagaj suplimentar, inutil, de-a dreptul magic
- utilizare: noaptea prin bezna in lipsa de alte activitati, foarte eficienta in incurajarea grupului ca nu e nici un urs in apropiere

da-te-n brazi(verb cu directionare)
- expresie folosita pentru directionarea unui membru al grupului in vecinatatea padurii in momentele cand acesta iti sta in cale

Egypt

The civilisation and culture of Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a long-standing civilization in northeastern Africa. It was concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River, reaching its greatest extent in the second millennium BC, during the New Kingdom. It reached from the Nile Delta in the north, as far south as Jebel Barkal at the Fourth Cataract of the Nile. Extensions to the geographic range of ancient Egyptian civilization included, at different times, areas of the southern Levant, the Eastern Desert and the Red Sea coastline, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Western body (focused on the several oases).

The Egyptian religion, embodied in Egyptian mythology, is a succession of beliefs held by the people of Egypt, as early as predynastic times and all the way until the coming of Christianity and Islam in the Græco-Roman and Arab eras. These were conducted by Egyptian priests or magicians, but the use of magic and spells is questioned.

Every animal portrayed and worshiped in ancient Egyptian art, writing and religion is indigenous to Africa, all the way from the predynastic until the Graeco-Roman eras, over 3000 years.

The inner reaches of the temples were sacred places where only priests and priestesses were allowed. On special occasions people were allowed into the temple courtyards.

The religious nature of ancient Egyptian civilization influenced its contribution to the arts of the ancient world. Many of the great works of ancient Egypt depict gods, goddesses, and pharaohs, who were also considered divine. Ancient Egyptian art in general is characterized by the idea of order.

Martial Arts

Bruce Lee - Martial Arts Phylosophy



martial arts is not only for the body...