Two Important holy places

There are two places which are very much important for different religions like Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Buddies, and Jews.

One is Bait Ul Muqaddas mosque and another is Adam Peak (Sri Pada).

Bait Ul Muqaddas

Bait Ul Muqaddas

Bait Ul Muqaddas

1.    Bait Ul Muqaddas mosque: This mosque is situated in Palestine. But it is now under Israel. This mosque is a holy place for Muslim, Christian and Jews. Still now Muslim and Jews are fighting for this holy mosque. 

Sri Pada

Sri Pada

2.      Adam Peak (Sri Pada): This place is situated in Sri-Lanka on a hill. It is a holy place because the first foot mark of Hazrat Adam placed here. It is very important for Muslim because of the foot mark of Hazrat Adam. But The Hindus believe that it is the foot mark of Bhaban Sri Krishna. So it is a holy place for them. Again The Buddies say that it is the foot mark of their Load Buddha. That’s why it is also holy place for them.       

Highest&Lowest Point in the World

 Mount Everest is the Highest point in the world.

Everest, Nepal-China: 29,035 feet / 8850 meters

 Dead Sea shore is the lowest point in the world.

Dead Sea, Israel-Jordan: 1369 feet / 417.5 meters below sea level.

It is very interesting that both highest & lowest points in the world are situated in Asia.

**Highest&Lowest Point in Africa
Highest Point: Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: 19,340 feet / 5895 meters
Lowest Point: Lake Assal, Djibouti: 512 feet / 156 meters below sea level


**Highest&Lowest Point in Antarctica
Highest Point: Vinson Massif: 16,066 feet / 4897 meters
Lowest Point: The Bentley Subglacial Trench is approximately 2540 meters (8,333 feet) below sea level but is covered with ice; if Antarctica's ice were to melt, exposing the trench, it would be covered by sea so it is a quasi-lowest point and if one ignores the reality of the ice, it is the lowest point "on land" on the earth.


**Highest&Lowest Point in Australia
Highest Point: Kosciusko: 7310 feet / 2228 meters
Lowest Point: Lake Eyre: 52 feet / 12 meters below sea level


**Highest&Lowest Point in Europe
Highest Point: Elbrus, Russia (Caucasus): 18,510 feet / 5642 meters
Lowest Point: Caspian Sea shore, Russia-Iran-Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan: 92 feet / 28 meters below sea level


**Highest&Lowest Point in Western Europe
Highest Point Mont Blanc, France-Italy: 15,771 feet / 4807 meters
Lowest Point: Tie: Lemmefjord, Denmark and Prins Alexander Polder, Netherlands: 23 feet / 7 meters below sea level


**Highest&Lowest Point in North America
Highest Point: McKinley (Denali), Alaska: 20,320 feet / 6194 meters.
Lowest Point: Death Valley, California: 282 feet / 86 meters below sea level.


**Highest&Lowest Point in South America
Highest Point:Aconcagua, Argentina: 22,834 feet / 6960 meters
Lowest Point: Laguna del Carbon (located between Puerto San Julian and Comandante Luis Piedra Buena in the province of Santa Cruz): 344 feet / 105 meters below sea level.

Top 10 beautiful women

People magazine is out with the World's Most Beautiful Woman list for 2012.

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1.            Beyonce was voted the most beautiful woman in the world, describing her as a force of nature, style icon and proud mother.

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  2.            Sofia Vergara, Colombian actor, comedian, television hostess and model, came second.

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3.            South African actor Charlize Theron grabbed the third spot.

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4.            American actor and television personality Lily Collins was voted the fourth most beautiful.

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5.            American actor Madeleine Stowe came fifth.

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6.            The sixth most beautiful woman is American actor Christina Hendricks

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  7.            American actor Michelle Williams grabbed the seventh spot.

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8.            American actor Paula Patton was voted the eighth most beautiful.

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9.            American country music artist Miranda Lambert came ninth.

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10.    Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton made it to the tenth spot.

A fish has no heart, brain or bones

A jellyfish is an invertebrate made up mostly of water, it has no heart, brain or bones. It is made up of 95-97% water, 3% protein and 1% minerals.

For the past few days I have been thinking a lot about jellyfish.
These jelly "fish" have NO blood, NO brain, NO heart!!!
Now, think about this for a second..... they do not have any of these vital organs for us humans, yet they have been around 600 million years! They do not have a brain.... therefore they don't have memories, they don't think, they don't compete, they don't complain, they don't have a sense of "I" like humans do.
They don't even have lungs or nose! they get their oxygen through diffusion.

Jellyfish can taste, know the difference between light and darkness, keep themselves balanced and sense up and down.
Its funny how us humans can barely do that. We have to try very hard to keep our lives balanced and know right from wrong...

They live in the present, don't really care about the past, and don't worry about the future. Yet, they are good predators, and can be very harmful to humans. They just eat, sleep, reproduce, die.

Underground River

 

Normally river means source of water from some hill or mountain, flow on ground and finally fall in to sea or meet with other rivers. But there is river in Philippine which follow through underground and it is called underground River.         

In 2010, a group of environmentalists and geologists discovered that the underground river has a second floor, which means that there are small waterfalls inside the cave. They also found a huge cave dome, measuring 300 meters above the underground river, incredible rock formations, large bats, a deep water hole in the river, more river channels, another deep cave, marine creatures, and more. And because it's very dark inside and very hard to get oxygen, it's dangerous for humans, so they didn't uncover all of the mysteries of this deep underground river.
On November 11, 2011, Puerto Princesa Underground River was provisionally chosen as one of the New7Wonders of Nature. This selection was officially confirmed on January 28, 2012.

Top 10 Highest Railway Bridges In The World

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 1 Chenab River Railway Bridge
Height (meters/feet): 1,053 feet321 meters

Main Span Length(meters / feet): 1,509 feet460 meters

Location: Katra, Jammu-Kashmir

Country: India

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2 Beipanjiang River Railway Bridge
Height (meters / feet):  902 feet275 meters

Main Span Length(meters / feet):771 feet235 meters

Location: Fa’er Bouyei, Guizhou

Country: China

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3 Mala Rijeka Viaduct
Height (meters / feet): 650 feet198 meters
Main Span Length(meters / feet): 495 feet 151 meters

Location: Podgorica, Montenegro

Country: Montenegro

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4 Anjikhad Railway Bridge
Height (meters / feet): 610 feet186 meters

Main Span Length(meters / feet):869 feet265 meters

Location: Katra, Jammu-Kashmir

Country: India

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5 Qingshuihe River Railway Bridge
Height (meters / feet) : 600 feet183 meters

Main Span Length(meters / feet):420 feet128 meters

Location: Qingshuihezhen, Guizhou

Country: China

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6 Pit River Bridge
Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial

Height (meters / feet):  500 feet152 meters

Main Span Length(meters / feet): 630 feet192 meters

Location: Shasta Lake, California

Country: United States

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7 Caijiagou Railway Viaduct
Height (meters / feet):  495 feet151 meters

Main Span Length(meters / feet): (394) feet120 meters

Location: Liduzhen, Chongqing

Country: China

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8 Santa Giustina Railway 1959 Bridge
Ponte Santa Giustina 1959 Ferrovia

Height (meters / feet): 475 feet145 meters

Main Span Length(meters / feet): 256 feet78 meters  

Location: Dermulo, Trentino-Alto-Adige

Country: Italy

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9 Viaduct 13

Height (meters / feet) :469 feet143 meters
Main Span Length(meters / feet): (98) feet 30 meters Location: Muçum, Rio Grande do Sul

Country: Brazil

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10 Santa Giustina Railway 1890 Bridge
Ponte Santa Giustina 1890 Ferrovia

Height (meters / feet): 460 feet140 meters

Main Span Length(meters / feet):197 feet60 meters

Location: Dermulo, Trentino-Alto-Adige

Country: Italy

The War

There are so many things in this world which has no good effect only and only bad effect, the war is one of them. The war means thousands of people die, rape, sound of crying from children, destroy & burn houses etc.

Here is a list of war from 1899---present

1.     The Second Boer War (1899-1902)--Britain vs. The Boer Republics now South Africa.
2.     Somali "Mad Mullah" Jihad (1899-1905)--Somali tribesmen led by religious leader Muhammad ibn Abd Allah Hasan waged a desert guerrilla war against Britain, Italy and Ethiopia.

3.     Philippine-American War (1899-1902)--Originally called the "Philippine Uprising", this was a war of independence fought by the Filipinos against the occupying American military.

4.     The Boxer Rebellion (1899-1900)
5.     Italo-Ottoman War (1911-1912)--(also known as the Turco-Italian War and the Tripolitanian War)--Italy decided to add to its growing African empire by attacking Ottoman-ruled Tripolitinia (Libya).
6.     First Balkan War (1912-1913)--The Balkan nations of Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece defeated the Ottoman Empire, and seized nearly all of the Ottoman Empire's remaining European territories.
7.     Second Balkan War (1913)
 8.    World War One (1914-1918)--The first "official" world war was originally known as "The Great War," and also as "The World War."

9.     The Turkish War of Independence (1919-1922)
10.   Russian Civil War
11.   Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921)--Major war between Poland and Russia/The Soviet Union.
12.   Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
13.   Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936)--(also known as the Abyssinian War)
14.   Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
15.   World War Two (1939-1945)
16.   Cold War (1945-1990)
17.   Greek Civil War (1946-1949)--The first major military conflict of the Cold War.
18.   First Indochina War (1946-1954)  

19.   French Indochina War (1946-1954) --(known in Vietnam as "The French War")

20.   Pathet Lao War (1950-1954)
21.   Khmer Issarak War (1950-1954)
22.   First Kashmir War (1947-1948)--First war between India and Pakistan over possession of Kashmir.
23.   First Arab-Israeli War (1948-1949)
24.   Malayan War (1948-1960)
25.   Korean War (1950-1953)
26.   Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962)- Algeria won independence from France after a very bloody guerilla war.
27.   Suez War of 1956
28.   Second Indochina War (1956-1975) --The so-called "Vietnam War"

29.   Vietnam War (1956-1975)-- Known in the U.S. and much of the world as "The Vietnam War." Known in Vietnam as "The American War."

30.   Laotian Civil War (1959-1975)
31.   Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975)
32.   Yemen Civil War (1962-1970)
33.   Sino-Indian War (1962)--Short but bloody border war between China and India.
34.   Second Kashmir War (1965)--Second war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
35.   Six-Day War (1967)-- Israel defeated the combined forces of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq in six days.
36.   Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
37.   Bengali War of Independence (1971)
38.   Lebanese Civil War (1975-1991)
39.   Ogaden War (1977-1978)
40.   Third Indochina War (1977-1989)

41.   Cambodia-Vietnam War (1977-1991)

42.   China -Vietnam War (Feb. 17-Mar. 16, 1979)
43.   China-Vietnam Border Clashes (1979-1988)
44.   Thai-Laotian Border Clashes (1980, 1984, 1987)
45.   Afghan Civil War (1978-Present)
46.   Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979-1981)
47.   Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan (1979-1989)
48.   Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
49.   Falkland Islands War (1982)
50.   Israeli Invasion and Occupation of Southern Lebanon (1982-2000)
51.   Invasion of Grenada (1983)
52.   Gulf War (1991)
53.   Third Balkan War
54.   Second Chechen War
55.   Congo War

A Solder in a Snake bally

In Republic Congo an UN solder From Morocco was attracted by a very big snake. Finally that solder was found in that snake bally as death. At last other solder just cut that snake and kept out that solder's death body.

Snake

There are many dangerous animals in the world, Snake is one of them. Every year a lot of people die due to snake bite.

The knowledge of snake bite first aid can be the difference between death and survival for a person that has been bitten.

Most species of snake are harmless but unless you are absolutely sure that you have identified the snake correctly then treat the bite seriously and apply snake bite first aid - See instructions below.

Snake Facts

• Children are at higher risk for death or serious complications because of their smaller body size.
• Snakes found in and near water are frequently mistaken as being poisonous.
• A snake can actually bite for up to an hour after it is dead (from a reflex).
• Although Australia is home to the largest number of venomous snakes in the world, it averages only one fatal snake bite per year.
• Not all poisonous snakes are fully charged with venom.
• Even those that are fully charged do not always inject a lethal dose.

Other factors

Other factors that influence the possible seriousness of a snake bite include

• the persons health, size, age, and psychological state.
• the nature of the bite may also vary, like penetration of one or both fangs, the amount of venom injected, the location of the bite and proximity to major blood vessels.
• the health of the snake and the interval since it last used its venom mechanism is also important.

These multiple variables make every bite unique. Depending on circumstances, the bite of a “mildly” venomous snake may be life-threatening and that of a “strongly” venomous snake may not. Again treat the bite seriously and apply snake bite first aid - See instructions below.

Signs and Symptoms

The most common symptoms of all snakebites are:

Emotionally based symptoms-

• overwhelming fear
• panic
• emotional instability

This may be because of all the hype surrounding snakes and possible death or injury from bites which in turn may cause symptoms such as-

• nausea
• vomiting
• diarrhoea
• vertigo
• fainting
• tachycardia (fast heart beat)
• cold and clammy skin.

Physically based symptoms-

• Most snake bites, whether by a venomous snake or not, will have some type of local effect. There can be minor pain and redness in over 90% of cases, although this varies depending on the site.
• Bites by vipers and some cobras may be extremely painful, with the local area sometimes becoming tender and severely swollen within 5 minutes. The bite area may also bleed and blister.
• Pit viper bites may include lethargy, weakness, nausea, and vomiting. Then over time may develop more life-threatening symptoms such as low blood pressure, rapid breathing, severe tachycardia (heart beats very fast), altered perception of what is happening around them and respiratory failure (breathing difficulty or breathing stops). It this happens CPR should be applied.

First Aid For Snakebites

• Call medical help immediately if possible.
• Remain calm, remember most snake bites are not fatal.
• Minimise movement if possible. If you are hiking alone you may have to hike out for help.
• If you are bitten on the arm or finger remove any rings, bracelets or watches. Loosen any tight clothing in case swelling occurs.
• Apply a pressure bandage to the bitten limb. If the bite is to the trunk, head or neck, apply firm pressure to the bitten area. Do not restrict chest movement as breathing will be affected by this.
• Splint or use a sling on the bitten limb to restrict movement.
• If there is no bandage or equivalent to apply a pressure bandage make note of any inflammation by tracing the edge of the swelling with a pen or the like near/around the bite and mark the time clearly next to it. If it progresses make a new tracing noting the time of each new mark beside that new tracing. This will give valuable information to medical help as to the development of the swelling.
• If possible, lie down and keep the bitten extremity at body level. Raising it can cause venom to travel through the body quicker. Holding it down, can increase swelling.
• When possible arrange for transport to the nearest hospital emergency room, where anti-venom for snakes common to the area will often be available and given if required.

Some definite No No's
for Snake Bite First Aid

• NO aspirin or other pain relievers.
• NO tourniquets. This cuts blood flow completely and may result in loss of the affected limb.
• DO NOT try to suck the venom out of the wound or cut into the bite with a knife. Such measures have not been proven useful and may cause further injury (see below explanation).
• DO NOT apply a cold compress or ice on the bite. Research has shown this to be potentially harmful.
• DO NOT raise the wound above the heart. Raising it can cause venom to travel into the body. Holding it down, can increase swelling.
• DO NOT use electric shock or a stun gun on the bite area. This method is under study and has yet to be proven effective. It could harm the victim.
• DO NOT wash the snake bite area - Australian recommendations for snake bite treatment strongly recommend against cleaning the wound. Traces of venom left on the skin/bandages from the strike can be used in combination with a snake bite identification kit to identify the species of snake. This speeds determination of which anti-venom to administer in the emergency room.(1)

DO NOT try and capture the snake. If it's safe you can try to take a photo with a camera or with your phone. This is the best way in aiding snake identification.