The Bermuda Triangle

• The Bermuda Triangle is also called Devil's Triangle.
• It is a mysterious triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded roughly at its points by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.
• This area is noted for a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft
• Over 100 airplane disappearances and over
  1000 lives have been lost since 1945.
• The Bermuda Triangle has become popular through representation by the mass media, in which it is a paranormal site in which the known laws of physics are either violated, altered, or both.
• Many theories have been given to explain the extraordinary mystery of these missing ships and planes. Evil extraterrestrials, residue crystals from Atlantis, evil humans with anti-gravity devices or other weird technologies are favorites among fantasy writers.
• Even though the disappearances are mysteries, the number of incidents are not larger than the rest of the world.
• Even the US Coast guard claims that this is no mystery and the number of disappearances are same as the rest of the world.
• In short, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery by a kind of communal reinforcement among uncritical authors and a willing mass media to uncritically pass on the speculation that something mysterious is going on in the Atlantic.

10 Richest Indians

10) Gautam Adani

Net Worth: $3.9 billion (dropped)
Age: 46
Marital Status: Married, 2 children
Hometown: Ahmedabad

About Gautam Adani :Dropped out of college to start a trading outfit 20 years ago. Now his Adani Enterprises has interests in edible oils, power, infrastructure. Owns Mundra Port, India's largest in private sector. Fishermen recently took Adani to court over special economic zone he's building on western coast; court ruled in his favor. Plans to list power subsidiary are delayed.

9) Adi Godrej

Net Worth: $4 billion (dropped)
Age: 66
Marital Status: Married, 3 children
Hometown: Mumbai

About Adi Godrej :Third generation head of Godrej Group, a consumer products conglomerate which makes locks, soaps, mosquito repellants, furniture and foods. In major image makeover, group logo was changed for the first time since it was founded 111 years ago. Following the easing of decades-old land ownership restrictions, Godrej has outlined ambitious plans to develop family's 3,500 acre estate in suburban Mumbai. Son Pirojsha, a Columbia grad, works in property arm.

8) Kumar Birla

Net Worth: $5 billion (dropped)
Age: 41
Marital Status:Married, 3 children
Hometown: Mumbai

About Kumar Birla :Head of Aditya Birla Group, commodities conglomerate inherited from father, with operations in 25 countries. His telecom outfit bought 50% of mobile operator Spice Communications. In October a rights issue by its aluminum maker Hindalco unraveled as its stock price plunged to alltime low.

7) Azim Premji

Net Worth: $7 billion (dropped)
Age: 63
Marital Status:Married, 2 children
Hometown: Bangalore

About Azim Premji :Longtime head of $4.9 billion (revenues) Bangalore outsourcing giant Wipro, handed over operations to 2 co-chief executives in April. Remains chairman. Hit by global economic slowdown, stock is down 44% in past year.

6) Shashi & Ravi Ruia

Net Worth: $7.6 billion (dropped)
Age: 64
Marital Status:Married, 2 children/Married, 2 children
Hometown: Mumbai

About Shashi Ruia and Ravi Ruia : Brothers' Essar Group's most valuable asset is 33% stake in mobile phone operator Vodafone Essar, India's third largest. Also own 8% in rival telecom firm BPL Mobile. Lost out to Russian firm Severstal in bid for steelmaker Esmark this year. Other holdings in shipping, oil, construction, power.

5) Kushal Pal Singh

Net Worth: $7.8 billion (dropped)
Age: 77
Marital Status:Married, 3 children
Hometown: Delhi

About Kushal Pal Singh : Real estate baron and DLF chairman lost $27.2 billion in past year. Attempt to boost share price through share buyback was unsuccessful as were its plans to list its real estate investment trust in Singapore. Company paid $40 million in February to sponsor new cricket league for 5 years.

4) Sunil Mittal

Net Worth: $7.9 billion (dropped)
Age: 51
Marital Status: Married, 3 children
Hometown: Delhi

About Sunil Mittal :Runs Bharti Group whose Bharti Airtel is country's largest mobile phone operator. In May backed out of deal to take over South Africa's MTN, opening door for Anil Ambani's failed bid. Launched Airtel Digital TV, a direct-to-home digital television service. Joint venture with Wal-Mart expected to open its first store next year. Funding soccer academy.

3) Anil Ambani

Net Worth: $12.5 billion (dropped)
Age: 49
Marital Status:Married, 2 children
Hometown: Mumbai

About Anil Ambani :Plans to merge his Reliance Communications with South Africa's MTN in what would have been India's largest-ever overseas deal were scuttled in July after brother Mukesh threatened to sue, claiming he had right of first refusal. Stock stumbled 48% since. Married to a onetime Bollywood actress, Anil has Hollywood ambitions: His Reliance Entertainment is investing $500 million in a new studio venture with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks.

2) Laxmi Mittal

Net Worth: $20.5 billion (dropped)
Age: 58
Marital Status:Married, 2 children
Hometown: London

About Laxmi Mittal :Stock of world's largest steel outfit, ArcelorMittal, which he heads, spiraled to 4-year lows amid falling steel prices. In November announced plans to cut output, reduce debt. Mittal joined Goldman Sachs board in June. Has stakes in Indiabulls, RAB Capital.

1) Mukesh Ambani

Net Worth: $20.8 billion (dropped)
Age: 51
Marital Status:Married, 3 children
Hometown: Mumbai

About Mukesh Ambani : Makes debut as India's richest, despite fact that net worth fell $28.2 billion in past year as stock price of petrochemicals flagship Reliance Industries tanked. Unfazed, Mukesh upped Reliance stake, paying $3.4 billion to convert 120 million preferential warrants into shares, at a premium to stock price. Legal spat with estranged brother Anil over gas supply agreement still unresolved.

10 Facts About India That Will Blow Your Mind!!!

1. In the next three years, up to 25% of the world's new workers will be Indian
2. 42% of the world's poor live in India
3. India's GDP per capita will quadruple from 2007 to 2020, according to Goldman Sachs
4. Property prices in Mumbai and Delhi have more than doubled in the past 18 months
5. India's tech capital, Bangalore, has increased its office supply by six times since 2006, and now has more Grade-A offices than Singapore
6. Half the world’s outsourced IT services come from India, amounting to a $47 billion dollar industry
7. India is the world's second largest importer of arms and has spent $50 billion on defense purchases in the last decade.
8. India grows 12 million tons of mangoes in a year, the weight equivalent to 80,000 blue whales
9. India's Cherrapnuji is the wettest places on earth, receiving 425 inches of rain every year
10. India has 568 million more registered voters than the US and has a better turnout rate too.
    
    

The Big Bang!!!

• The Big Bang Theory is the currently accepted explanation of the beginning of the universe.
• The big bang theory proposes that the universe was once extremely compact, dense, and hot. Some original event, a cosmic explosion called the big bang, occurred about 10 billion to 20 billion years ago, and the universe has since been expanding and cooling.
• The theory is based on the mathematical equations, known as the field equations, of the general theory of relativity set forth in 1915 by Albert Einstein.
• American astronomer Edwin Hubble provided some of the greatest supporting evidence for the theory with his 1929 discovery that the light of distant galaxies was universally shifted toward the red end of the spectrum. This proved that the galaxies were moving away from each other. He found that galaxies farther away were moving away faster, showing that the universe is expanding uniformly. However, the universe's initial state was still unknown.
• Many Religious people still do accept the big bang theory as it disagrees with religious texts

Global Warming

Global Warming Effects Will

Drastically Change Your Life

• A shocking rise in sea levels around the world will occur from the melting ice. If all the polar and glacial ice melts, the water level will increase by 230 feet worldwide.
• Your hometown could be underwater by the end of the century. Major cities including New York, Miami, Tokyo, Mumbai, Venice, Shanghai, and many others will be among those affected.
• Great migrations will disrupt your city and life as people relocating from coastal areas will have to move more inland. Your local roads and bridges will be overloaded from the strain.
• You’ll be affected by wars over land, water, and food; the world’s population, estimated to be 9 billion by 2050, will have less land to live on and many fewer resources per person.
• You’ll experience water and food shortages as droughts affect the water supply and prevent farmers from growing crops. Agriculture all over the world will be affected, meaning that many people will starve.
• Intense, more frequent weather events will strike your home; rising ocean temperatures will lead to more hurricanes and typhoons; droughts, heat waves, flooding, and tornadoes will be more common, too.
• You may not be able to get help during a natural disaster from over-worked relief organizations; with the increase in extreme weather events, there simply may not be enough help.
• Your family may not have enough food as the intricate food chain gets disrupted. Many species won’t be able to cope with the increasing temperatures and will die off, throwing the food chain off-balance.
• The ocean’s fragile ecosystem will be disrupted as coral reefs, an integral part of the ocean, bleach and die from the increase in water temperatures.
• You could get deadly diseases as heavy rains may contaminate water supplies, and more disease-carrying bugs thrive off the warming temperatures. Human health will suffer because milder winters allow the vectors of malaria, dengue fever and Lyme disease to expand their range.
• A mini-Ice Age could strike Europe. The oceans’ important currents will be changed as more ice melts. The increase in freshwater from melting glaciers in the Arctic and Greenland could cause the Atlantic’s powerful Gulf Stream current to shut down, sending Europe into a mini-Ice Age.

India

• India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years.
• When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
• The name ‘India’ is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
• The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name ‘Hindustan’ combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
• Chess was invented in India.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
• Number '0' was invented in india by Srinivasa Ramanujam.
  
• The ‘Place Value System’ and the ‘Decimal System’ were developed in India in 100 B.C.
• The World’s First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
• India is the largest democracy in the world, the 7^th largest Country in the world, and one of the most ancient civilizations.
• The game of Snakes & Ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called ‘Mokshapat’. The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. In time, the game underwent several modifications, but its meaning remained the same, i.e. good deeds take people to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
• The world’s highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
• India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.
• The largest employer in India is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.
• The world’s first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
• India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India’s wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
• The Art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘NAVGATIH’. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Nou’.
• Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.
• The value of “pi” was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also originated in India.Quadratic Equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 (i.e. 10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C.during the Vedic period.Even today, the largest used number is Terra: 10*12(10 to the power of 12).
• Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world
  (Source: Gemological Institute of America).
• The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
• Sushruta is regarded as the Father of Surgery. Over2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
• Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
• India exports software to 90 countries.
• The four religions born in India – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world’s population.
• Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.
• Islam is India’s and the world’s second largest religion.
• There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.
• The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568 respectively.
• Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and 52 A.D. respectively
• The Venkateshwara Temple in the town of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world’s largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate Rs.300 million to the temple everyday.
• Sikhism originated in the Holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. Famous for housing the Golden Temple, the city was founded in 1577.
• Vellore, the fort city is famous for another golden temple with 300 tonnes of gold. The city also has historical significance and is famous for the first battle for independance in 1908.
  
• Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called “the Ancient City” when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
• India provides safety for more than 300,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who escaped to flee religious and political persecution.
• Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.

• Bodhidharma was one of the famous Buddhist missionaries who went to china to teach martial arts.
  

• Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.

Leonardo da vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Read about some of his works and some facts about himself!

• Da Vinci is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.
• Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait.
• The most reproduced religious painting of all time is Leonardo’s The Last Supper!
• He had conceptualized a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator,the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics.
• If his name is considered in modern sense, he doesn’t have a surname actually!
• Some old court records show that Leonardo has been charged with sodomy and aquitted. Also it has been presumed that he was homosexual!
• Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, nicknamed Salai or Il Salaino is considered to be Leonardo’s closest pupil. He has created a nude version of Mona Lisa which is known as Monna Vanna. On Leonardo’s death, he inherited the Mona Lisa.
• Salai is the presumed model for Leonardo’s painting St. John the Baptist.
• As an engineer Leonardo has designed several machines including the Helicopter. Some of these machines were built and tested according to his original designs. Some of those designs proved a success, whilst others fared less well when practically tested.
• He used to write in mirror image in his notebooks because of his left handedness (it was easier for him)!
• Leonardo was a vegetarian!
• The different drawings and other historic materials shows that Leonardo was tall, athletic and extremely handsome!