.. that the Seven Natural Wonders of the Modern World are:
1/ Mt. Everest (Himalaya)
2/ Victoria Falls
3/ The Grand Canyon
4/ The Great Barrier Reef (coral reefs, Australia)
5/ The Northern Lights (aurora borealis)
6/ Paricutin (volcano, Mexico)
7/ The Harbor at Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)
.. that Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) patented 1,093 devices, including 389 related to electric light and power, 195 for the photograph, 150 for the telegraph, 141 for the storage battery, and 34 for the telephone?
.. these facts about USA presidents:
- the oldest president was Reagan, who was 77 when he left the office?
- the youngest one was Roosevelt, who was 42?
- the shortest term had Harrison (died of pneumonia 31 days after inauguration)?
- Nixon was the only president who resigned?
- Virginia gave 8 presidents?
- 8 presidents have died in office and 3 presidents died on July 4?
.. the names of the United Nations Secretaries General?
1946 Trygve Lie, Norway
1953 Dag Hammarskjol, Sweden
1961 U Tant, Burma
1972 Kurt Waldheim, Austria
1982 Javier Perez de Cuellar, Peru
1992 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egypt
1997 Kofi Annan, Ghana
| Nations with the largest armed forces | Historic Assassinations | Terrorism |
| 1/ China
(incl. nuclear capability)
USA (incl. nuclear capability) Russia (incl. nuclear capability) India N. Korea S. Korea Turkey Pakistan Iran Vietnam Indonesia Egypt Myanmar Iraq Ukraine France (incl. nuclear capability) Taiwan Germany Italy 20/ Syria 26/ Great Britain (Criteria: Active-Duty troop strength) Sources: The Military Balance Strange life style, isn't it? |
1995
Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel
1993 Premadasa, President of Sri Lanka 1992 Boudiaf, President of Algeria 1991 Rajive Gandhi, former prime minister of India 1986 Olof Palme, Prem. of Sweden 1984 Indira Gandhi, Prime Min. of India 1981 Anwar al-Sadat, President of Egypt 1975 Ratsimandraga, President of Madagascar 1976 Murtala Mohammed, President of Nigeria 1968 Martin Luther King 1963 John F. Kennedy 1940 Leon Trotsky 1923 Gen. Francisco "Pancho" Villa 1918 Nicholas II, ex czar of Russia and his family (his wife, son, four daughters) 1916 Grigori Rasputin 1914 Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife 1898 Empress Elizabeth of Austria 1865 Pres. Abraham Lincoln |
Timothy J. Mc Veigh, a US
Army veteran, was convicted and sentenced to death in June 1997 for the
April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma
City that Killed 168 people.
"Carlos the Jackal", one of the world's most notorious terrorist, was sentenced to life in prison by a French court (December 1997). |
| Notable floods, | major earthquakes.. | .. and storms. |
| 1998 Papua New Guinea
Deaths 3,000 1998 China Deaths 3,000 1997 Somalia Deaths 1,300 1995 China Deaths 1,200 1988 India Deaths 1,000 1982 El Salvador, Guatemala Deaths 1,300 1981 China Deaths 1,300 1979 India Deaths 15,000 1974 Bangladesh Deaths 2,500 * 1939 China Deaths 200,000 * 1931 China (Huang He River) Deaths 3,700,000 * 1887 China (Huang He River) Deaths 900,000 And it's mostly estimated.. |
1990
Qest Iran
Deaths 40,000 1988 Turkey-USSR border Deaths 25,000 1976 Tangshan, China Deaths: 255,000 1970 North Peru Deaths 66,000 1935 Queta, India Deaths: 50,000 1932 Gansu, China Deaths: 70,000 1927 Nan-Shan, China Deaths: 200,000 1923 Yokohama, Japan Deaths: 143,000 1920 Gansu, China Deaths: 200,000 1908 Messina, Italy Deaths: 83,000 1737 Calcutta, India Deaths: 300,000 1556 Shaanxi, China Deaths: 830,000 And it's mostly estimated.. |
1998 Cyclone, India
Deaths 1,320 1993 Monsoon, Bangladesh Deaths 2,000 1991 Tropical storm, Philippines Deaths 7,000 1991 Cyclone, Bangladesh Deaths 139,000 1985 Cyclone, Bangladesh Deaths 10,000 1974 Hurricane Fifi, Honduras Deaths 2,000 1970 Cyclone, Bangladesh Deaths 300,000 1965 Windstorm, Bangladesh Deaths 17,000 and 30,000 1963 Hurricane Flora, Caribbean Deaths 6,000 1963 Windstorm, Bangladesh Deaths 22,000 1959 Typhoon Vera, Japan Deaths 4,500 1942 Hurricane, India Deaths 40,000 And it's mostly estimated.. |
| Latest Traffic at World Airports (1999): | Aircraft disasters that shocked us | Space |
| 1/ London,
Great Britain (Heathrow)
Tokyo/Haneda, Japan Frankfurt, Germany, Seoul, South Korea Paris, France (Charles De Gaulle) Amsterdam, Netherlands Hong Kong, China London, Great Britain (Gatwick) Toronto, Ontario 10/ Tokyo, Japan (Narita) However, these USA airports
Very important, isn't it?
|
1998
Swissair MD-11 (crashed)
Deaths 229 1998China Airlines Airbus (crashed) Deaths: 203 1997 Indonesian Airbus A-300 (crashed) Deaths: 234 1997 Korean Air Boeing 747-300 (crashed) Deaths: 228 1996 Saudi Arabian Boeing 747, Kazakh Ilyushin 76 cargo plane (collided) Deaths: 349 1996 Antonova 32 (crashed) Deaths: 350 1994 China Airlines Airbus (crashed) Deaths: 264 1988 Iranian A300 Airbus (shotdown) Deaths: 290 1983 S. Korean Boeing 747 (shotdown) Deaths: 269 1977 KLM 747, Pan American 747 (collided) Deaths 582 *1976 British Airwy Trident, Yugoslav DC-9 (collided near Zagreb) Deaths 176* The worst single plane crash: 1985 Japan Air Lines Boeing 747, crashed Deaths 520 Terrible! Just think how strong is sadness and anger and lost of their families. |
July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the Moon followed by astronaut Edwin Aldrin, mission Apollo Saturn 11, as TV said. Few months later Conrad and Bean made the second Moon landing in mission Apollo Saturn 12 (November 14, 1969). The third Moon landing was made by Shepard na Mitchell (January 31, 1971), mission Apollo-Saturn 14. Scott and Irwin made the fourth Moon landing (7/26/1971), Young and Duke made 5th Moon landing (4/16/1972), Cernan and Schmitt made 6th lunar landing (12/7/1972). That's it as far as I know about Moon landing. |
| 10 greatest works of literature of the II Mill. | 10 greatest Scientists of the II Millennium | 10 most influential men of the II Mill. |
| Leonardo da Vinci
Isaac Newton Jons Jakob Berzelius Charles Darwin Dmitri Mendeleyev Ernest Rutherford Albert Einstein Niels Bohr Werner Heisenberg Enrico Fermi (Sources: Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Prize in chemistry, for the World Almanac) |
Leonardo da Vinci
Isaac Newton Jons Jakob Berzelius Charles Darwin Dmitri Mendeleyev Ernest Rutherford Albert Einstein Niels Bohr Werner Heisenberg Enrico Fermi (Sources: Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Prize in chemistry, for the World Almanac) |
William Shaespeare
Isaac Newton Charles Darwin Nicolaus Copernicus Galileo Galilei Albert Einstein Christopher Columbus Abraham Lincoln Johann Gutenberg William Harvey (Sources: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and writer for the World Almanac) |
| Largest deserts of the World | ||
| Sahara, 3,5000,000 sq mi (North
Africa)
Namib, 800 mi (along SW African coast) Atacama, 600,000 mi long area (Chile) Gobi, 500,000 sq mi (Mongolia, China) Patagonia, 300,000 sq mi (South Argentina) Kalahari, 225,000sq mi (South Africa) Chihuahuan, 140,000 sq mi (USA, Mexico) Taklimakan, 140,000 sq mi (China) Syrian, 100,000 (Saud Arab, Jord, Syria, Iraq) Arabian, 70,000 sq mi (Egypt, Sudan) |
||
| Average longevity of animals | Fastest animals | |
| Hippopotamus
41 Elephant - Asian 40 years
Elephant - Asian 40 years Elephant - African 35 years Grizzly 25 years Baboon 20 years Chimpanzee 20 years Polar Bear 20 years Gorilla 20 years Horse 20 years Rhinoceros (white) 20 years (Sources Ronald T. Reuther) |
1/ Cheetah 70
mph
Pronghorn antelope 61 mph Wildebeest 50 mph Thomson's gazelle 50 mph Quarterhorse 47,5 mph Elk 45 mph Cape hunting dog 45 mph Coyote 43 mph Gray fox 42 mph 10/ Hyene 40 mph (Maximum speeds over approximate quarter-mile distances) Source: Natural History magazine |
|
| Sites of Winter Olimpic games | Sites of Summer Olimpic games | Information on Olympic games |
| 1924 Chamonix
1928 St. Moritz 1932 Lake Placid 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1948 St. Moritz 1952 Oslo 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1960 Squaw Valley 1964 Innsbruck 1968 Grenoble 1972 Sapporo 1976 Innsbruck 1980 Lake Placid 1984 Sarajevo 1988 Calgary 1992 Albertville 1994 Lillehammer 1998 Nagano 2002 Salt Lake City |
1896 Athens
1900 Paris 1904 St. Louis 1906 Athens 1908 London 1912 Antwerp 1924 Paris 1928 Amsterdam 1932 Los Angeles 1936 Berlin 1948 London 1952 Helsinki 1956 Melbourne 1960 Rome 1964 Tokyo 1968 Mexico City 1972 Munich 1976 Montreal 1980 Moscow 1984 Los Angeles 1988 Seoul 1992 Barcelona 1996 Atlanta 2000 Sydney 2004 Athens |
Flag: symbol of the 5 rings on
a plain white background
Motto: "citius, altius, fortius" (swifter, higher, stronger) Oath: "In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the glory of sport and the honor of our teams." * The 1980 Summer Olympic Games
were boycotted by 62 nations, including the USA.
|
| Population of the World's Largest Cities | The Largest USA Cities | |
| 1. Tokyo,
Japan
Mexico City, Mexico Sao Paulo, Brazil New York City, USA Bombay, India Shanghai, China Los Angeles, USA Calcutta, India Buenos Aires, Argentina Seoul, South Korea Beijing, China Osaka, Japan Lagos, Nigeria Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 15. Delhi, India |
1.
New York
Los Angeles Chicago Houston Philadelphia San Diego Phoenix Dallas San Antonio 10. Detroit In the USA the largest state is Alaska and the smallest one is Rhode Island. Sources USA Geological Survey, Department of the Interior |
|
| Current Population | Principal Languages of the World | |
| .. more
than:
China 1,200,000,000 India 980,000,000 USA 270,000,000 Indonesia 212,000,000 Brasil 170,000,000 Russia 146,000,000 Pakistan 135,000,000 Bangladesh 127,000,000 Japan 126,000,000 Nigeria 110,000,000 Sources: Bureau of the Census, USA Department of Commerce |
Mandarin
Hindi Spanish English Bengali Arabic Portuguese Russian Japanese German French Malay Indonesian Sources: Prof. Sidney Culbert, Seattle, WA |
|
| Religions | ||
| 1/ Christians
- followers of Jesus Christ
- Roman Catholics - Protestants - Orthodox - Anglicans 2/ Other Christians: - Catholics non-Roman - marginal Protestants - crypto-Christians - adherents of of African, Asian, black and Latin-American indigenous churches 3/ Atheist - persons professing atheism, skepticism, disbelief or irreligion, including antireligious (opposed to all religion) 4/ Buddhists - Mahayana, Theravada, Lamaism 5/ Hindus 6/ Jews 7/ Muslims 8/ New-Religionists 9/ Nonreligious - Persons professing no religion, nonbelievers, agnostics, freethinkers, dereligionized secularists indifferent to all religion |
Where is your church? Where is your God in 1999? Does he/she/it ever think of you? Does God take good care of you?  |
|
| Racial
and Ethnic Classifications: Bureau of the Census, USA Department of Commerce
Persons could identify their race by classifying themselves in one of the categories listed on the census form (persons of Spanish/Hispanic origin may be of any race) : |
|
| White
Black, African American, Negro American Indian Eskimo Aleut Chinese Filipino Japanese Asian Indian Korean Vietnamese Hawaiian Samoan Guamanian other Asian-Pacific Islander* or Other rase |
*Other Asian-Pacific Islander:
Cambodian Hmong Laotian Thai Bangladeshi Burmese Indonesian Malayan Okinawan Pakistani Sri Lankan Tongan Tahitian Northern Mariana Islander Palauan Fijian |
mind of us..
.
1650 -500 million
1850 - 1 billion,
1930 - 2 billion,
1975 - 4 billion,
1997 - 5,8 billion
1998 - 5,9 billion?
.. the 10 leading causes of death?
1/ heart disease
2/ cancer
3/ stroke
4/ chronic obstructive lung diseases and allied conditions
5/ accidents and adverse effects
6/ pneumonia and influenza
7/ diabetes mellitus
8/ suicide
9/ kidney disease
10/ chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
Sources: National Center for Health Statistics, USA Department of Health and Human Services)
.. some of the benefits of Quitting Smoking?
Within 20 minutes
- blood pressure drops to normal
- pulse rate drops to normal
- body temperature of hands and feet increases to normal
Within 8 hours
- carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal
- oxygen level in blood increases to normal
Within 24 hours
- chance of heart attack decreases
Within 48 hours
- nerve endings start regrowing
- ability to smell and taste is enhanced
Within 2 weeks to 3 months
- circulation improves
- walking becomes easier
- lung function increases up to 30%
Within 1-9 months
- coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath decrease
- cilia regrow in lungs, increasing ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs, reduce infection
- body-s overall energy increases
Within 1 year
- excess risk of coronary heart disease is cut by half
Within 5 years
- lung cancer death rate for average former smoker decreases by almost half
- stroke risk is reduced to that of a nonsmoker 5-15 years after quitting
- risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus is half that of a smoker's
Within 10 years
- lung cancer death rate similar to that of nonsmokers
- precancerous cells are replaced
- risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decreases
Within 15 years
- risk of coronary heart disease is that of a nonsmoker
(Sources: American Cancer Society)
.. that in Ethiopia life expectancy at birth is 39 years for male, and 42 for female? Even worse, in Malawi is 36 for both male and female, in Swaziland 37 for male and 39 for female and in Zimbabwe 39 for male and 39 for female! In Afghanistan 47 for male and 46 for female; Botswana: 39 for male and 40 for female; Burkina Faso: 45 for male and 46 for female; Cambodia: 46 for male and 49 for female; Guinea: 43 for male and 48 for female; Kenya: 47 for male and 48 for female; Namibia: and Niger: 41 for male and female; Rwanda: 41 for male and 42 for female; Somalia: 44 for male and 47 for female; Tanzania: 44 for male and 48 for female; Uganda: 41 for male and 43 for female
.
| April
26, 1986
Remember Chernobyl, near Kiew (Ukraine, ex USSR)? The worst nuclear accident in the nuclear power history? 135,000 people were evacuated from areas around Chernobyl. At least 31 dead in the immediate aftermath and tens of thousands of excess cancer deaths and increased rates of birth defects have been expected.. |
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