A thief became national hero

On Monday, August 21, 1911, the world's most famous work of art - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa - was stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris.

An Italian man named Vincenzo Perugia who was the thief.

How did Perugia steal the Mona Lisa? He had spent Sunday night in the Louvre, hiding in an obscure little room. Monday morning, while the museum was closed, he entered the room where the painting was kept and unhooked from the wall. In a staircase, he cut the painting from it's frame. While trying to leave the building, he came to a looked door. He unscrewed the doorknob and put it in his pocket. He then walked out of the Louvre and into the pages of history.

 Vincenzo Perugia

Perugia stole that pic because he wanted to sand it back to Italy. He thought that Italy is the main owner of this pic.

After that he was arrested in France but became the national hero in Italy.

A Fish can copy Human voice

Normally we know that some birds can copy the human voice. But do u know that there is one kind of fish in sea which can also copy human voice. The name of that kind of fish is Porpoise.

 
Porpoise is an aquatic animal that imitates man in several respects. In appearance it looks like a fish but it does not come in the category of fish. It comes in the category of mammals as it gives birth to young ones and feed them. Dolphin, whale and porpoise come under this category. Porpoise breathe through lungs as gills are absent in its body. On the head of the porpoise there is a hole which is called as a nose. For breathing it brings its head above the surface of water and breathes through the nose. It is mostly found in the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. The color of its body is either brown or black. Its tail is in flat position. The length of its body is up to 1.75 metres. There are about 80 to 100 teeth in its mouth. The porpoise is the cleverest animal and is specialist in imitating a man. It can imitate human voice. In the marine studio of Florida, there is porpoise which speaks in human voice.

List of states with nuclear weapons

There are currently eight states that have successfully detonated nuclear weapons. Five are considered to be "nuclear-weapon states" (NWS) under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons these are: the United States, Russia (successor state to the Soviet Union), the United Kingdom, France, and China. Nations that are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons are sometimes referred to as the nuclear club.
Since the NPT entered into force in 1970, three states that were not parties to the Treaty have conducted nuclear tests, namely India, Pakistan, and North Korea. North Korea had been a party to the NPT but withdrew in 2003. Israel is also widely believed to have nuclear weapons, though it has refused to confirm or deny this, and is not known to have conducted a nuclear test.

The five nuclear-weapon states under the NPT

Country	Warheads active/total	Year of first test
United States	2,150 / 8,000	1945
Russia	1,800 / 10,000	1949
The United Kingdom	160 / 225	1952
France	290 / 300	1960
China	n.a. / 240	1960

 

 Non-NPT nuclear powers

India	n.a. / 80–100	1974
Pakistan	n.a. / 90–110	1998
North Korea	n.a. / <10	2006

  

Undeclared nuclear powers

Israel

n.a. / 80–200

possibly 1979

Cloning

Have you ever wished you could have a clone of yourself to do homework while you hit the skate park or went out with your friends?

 Cloning is the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another. This means that every single bit of DNA is the same between the two!

You might not believe it, but there are human clones among us right now. They weren't made in a lab, though: they're identical twins, created naturally. Below, we'll see how natural identical twins relate to modern cloning technologies.

Dr. Ian Wilmut, the man who headed the research team which introduced a seven-month old Finn-Dorset lamb named Dolly into the world, transgressed long-standing barriers and evoked dormant ethical questions with the arrival of Dolly.  Dolly has since been joined by Molly and Polly - two genetically identical lambs carrying human genes that produce a factor  for the treatment of haemophilia.

Scientists think that at the future 100 of Albert Einstein or 100 of Hitlar can be created by cloning.

The Most Enigmatic Places in the World

Discovery Channel names these 3 places as the Most Enigmatic Places in the World, but there are much more mysterious sites around the world that capture our imagination because they seem to be so otherworld.

1.    Stonehenge:

Who has never heard about Stonehenge?
Stonehenge is a megalithic monument on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England, composed mainly of thirty upright stones (sarsens, each over ten feet tall and weighing up to 45 tons), aligned in a circle, with thirty lintels (6 tons each) perched horizontally atop the sarsens in a continuous circle.

Some have suggested that Stonehenge was built by Druids, but we don't really know much about the builders. The archaeology points to a construction date between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago, so it was built even before the first metal tools were used by humankind.

 2.   Nazca Lines:

Nazca Lines are the most outstanding group of geoglyphs in the world, they are located in the Nazca Desert, between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru. Etched in the surface of the desert pampa sand about 300 hundred figures made of straight lines, geometric shapes and pictures of animals and birds - and their patterns are only clearly visible from the air.
There are 3 mysterious aspects to Nazca Plateau:

• First, the straight lines, many kilometers long, crisscross sectors of the pampas in all directions.
• Second, many of the lines form geometric figures: angles, triangles, bunches, spirals, rectangles, wavy lines, etc.
• Third, many lines form animal patterns.

It is believed that the geoglyphs were built by a people called the Nasca- but why and how they created these wonders of the world has defied explanation. If the people who lived here 2,000 years ago had only a simple technology, how did they manage to construct such precise figures? Did they have a plan? If so, who ordained it? It all seems so otherworldly.
3.    Easter Island:

Easter Island (Rapa Nui in the indigenous language), is a Chilean-governed island in the south eastern Pacific Ocean. Rapa Nui is a small, hilly, now treeless island of volcanic origin. It's been called the most isolated inhabited territory on Earth, but there is another aspect that sets it apart from any other place on Earth - its hundreds of megalithic human-like statues that face inland from the shore. These enigmatic statues are called moai.
Almost all moais were carved out of distinctive, compressed, easily worked volcanic ash. The largest one weights up to 165 tons, and its height is almost 22 meters. Some upright moai have become buried up to their necks by shifting soils.
Some scientists suggest that Easter Island inhabitants, the Rapanui, came from Polynesia. But similarities to Indian stone statues around Lake Titicaca in South America are striking. Is this accidental or not? Scholars are unable to definitively explain the function and use of the moai statues. Some of them suggest that the statues were symbols of authority and power, both religious and political.

Most common cause of war

The war is a great problem for every nation. It does not Bering peaces only destroy. Do u know what is the common cause of war. Many people give their different comments about war.

1.     Some body thinks that religious differences  is the common cause of war. In the past 2000 years this has probably been the number 1 cause for war. Everyone wants to say their God is the right one.

2.     Some body says that territory is the common cause of war. Before organized religion, such as Christianity and Islam and Judaism, there were people fighting for territory. The Romans did not fight because they wanted to spread their religion; they faught because they wanted more land. Alexander the Great did not fight because he wanted to spread his religion; he faught because he wanted more land. Greed for land is a big thing. I feel that religion might play a part in it, but there is always the greed for power that makes someone do what they do.

3.     Some one tells that there are a myriad of causes to wars, and certain ones often appear with higher frequencies in a given period than others. This question should really be more time-dependent because it's almost hopeless to identify a cause for war that has historically been more common than others. Some causes or inspirations for conflict can also be diluted; one could say the Romans and Alexander fought for territory and glory, not just either or, and maybe that they had other reasons as well. Often that's the case: there's rarely a single reason, but a coalescence of factors that generally accrue over time.

4.     Some gentleman tells that, people+religion =land+resources.

5.     I want to add one thing more that is Love. Love is one of the cause of war. The Tory city distorted due to Love.

A war began because of a dog

The Greco-Bulgarian Conflict also known as The War of the Stray Dog occurred in 1925 when a Greek soldier allegedly ran after his dog, which had strayed across the border from Macedonia. The border was guarded by Bulgarian sentries, and one of them shot the Greek soldier. Given the tense political climate, escalation was inevitable; in response, the Greek dictatorial government under General Theodoros Pangalos sent soldiers into Bulgaria. Bulgaria ordered its troops to provide only token resistance, trusting the League of Nations to settle the dispute.

The League did indeed condemn the Greek invasion, and called for both Greek withdrawal and compensation to Bulgaria. Greece ceded to this demand and was imposed a fine of £45,000. Over 50 people were killed before Greece complied. Greece complained about the disparity between its treatment and that of Italy in the Corfu incident in 1923, when the Italian armed forces occupied the Greek island of Corfu in retaliation for the murder of Italian general Enrico Tellini by bandits while surveying the Greek border with Albania.