Showing posts with label Strange things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strange things. Show all posts

04 August 2011

HOW CAN A GUY CAN GET THAT FAT


Manuel Uribe, The man of a 560 kilograms recently drive Guinness World Record as “the most fat person in the world”.He may also become “most weight reduce people” at the same time, because of reducing weight about 200 kilograms previously. 
Manuel Uribe, born in Monterrey, Mexico is not just any other ordinary man on the street. He holds the distinction of being the heaviest man on earth. He weighs as much as six adult humans
At his heaviest time he weighed 1300 pounds! He has since lost a lot of that weight but still officially holds the title.
He managed to do this despite the fact that he refused to undergo surgery, and he had been confined to his bed (specially reinforced to handle his weight) for the past 4 years.
He also hopes to be recognized by Guinness as the "World's Greatest Slimmer" for setting the weight loss record.

12 July 2011

WHERE ARE THE MOST HAUNTED HOUSE IN THE WORLD

In US -  Whaley house. Built in 1856 it is home to ghost of Thomas Whaley and two of his children.
In San Diego -  In Australia, it is Monte Cristo.New South Wales, built in 1844 and haunted by old Mrs Crawley, a maid and a baby girl.


 The Worlds most famous haunted house was Borley Rectory built on the site of an old Benedictine monastry in 1863, sightings of ghostly  phenomenon were reported from around it in 1885 other phenomenon such as phantom coach and horses, footsteps, poltergeists activity and wall writing were  experienced  by various inhabitants over there. On a research of this mystery there were some 2,000 reported  incidents took place between 1930 and 1953. And it was mysteriously burned down in 1939 so what stopped the spooky spot now. 

WHY DON'T WE FALL OFF THE EARTH



Friends do you know how fast we are spinning together with earth? It's enough for you to make dizzy on listening. We are spinning through the space with the Earth at the speed of 1,600 km/h. If it suddenly stops or starts spinning fast then we would be thrown out into the space but don't worry Earth wouldn't spin 800 times faster than it does now for it to happen.  

WAIT!!!!                                                                                     Then why don't we  fall off the Earth. Here are some of the  reasons why this does not happen because all of us are held to Earth by the gravity. Well it's the general theory of relativity proposed by Albert Einstein which explains  that any mass creates a disturbance in  space and it generates a field of gravity which is directly proportional to the  mass of the object. So always the smaller object revolves the bigger objects as Moon revolves and Earth revolves the Sun. It also depends on the distance that separates them from the center. 

DID CANNIBALS REALLY EXIST


          
A fact from scientific research stated that human beings once must have been cannibals because most of us  have immunity from such diseases that was not possible without eating human brains.

FEELING PECKISH?? DON'T READ ON. . .
but some people really did eat human flesh.

  • The Fore  tribe of Papua New Guinea used to eat flesh of their dead ones until 1957, when brain disease known as 'kuru' and it was discovered by passed on eating human brains.
  • Aboriginal peoples in Australia used to eat parts of their dead ones in a ritual ceremony which had of believe that the dead ones will live in them.
  • There's evidence of Native American cannibals in Colorado about 850 years ago. Scientists figured it out by the cooking pots, remains of the bones and fossilized human poo.
  • Some disasters have  sometimes leaded to cannibalism: in 1972, the survivors of a plane crash in the Andes were forced to eat the frozen bodies of the dead.  

11 July 2011

THE BEST GIFT

The best gift ever gifted was  gifted by France to United States of America. The gift was The Statue of Liberty. Which is still standing today. Weighing 225 tones and standing from the pedestal to the tip of the torch is 305 ft and 6 inches. It has become very special tourist attraction places in United States. Better to say that may be very less people those who go to United States and does not hopes of visiting The statue of Liberty. It has been known and symbolized as the symbol of freedom to all the people  all over the the world. It was first opened in             1986 July.It has also been said that  this was gifted by the people of France that The Statue of Liberty was gifted for the freedom of the people of France. The torch symbolizes the freedom to the people.The torch is the symbol of freedom.Statue of liberty has become the most  precious gift and most unforgettable gift ever.

HIGHEST BRIDGE IN THE WORLD EVER


Commonly peoples build bridges over the sea,rivers so that it will be easier to cross them.But here is completely different reason for the construction of the worlds highest bridge.Construction began October 10,2001 and first thought to be finished four years later.But constructing the bridge at the height where no bridges have not yet met make engineers face new engineering  challenge it the construction if the bridge that the schedule of the construction went extended by the weather conditions.The reason to built this bridge is to reduce the traffic of the city which was disaster.The total length it runs is 2,460 meters,has 4 lanes to run and is 32 meters wide.It reaches the height of 343 meters which is the most for any bridges ever constructed here on earth.The Le Viaduc de Millau (the native name for the bridge) was opened in 14 Dec 2004.If you ever visit France, then you must take time to see Millau Viaduct. It is an extraordinary feeling to take a look at one of the world’s titleholders.Not only the bridge is at the tallest of the world ,the pylons are there too.


It just a little bit taller than the Eiffel tower in Paris.Look at the view it provides to the nature lovers.It it just great.And it is worthy of gaining the title of one of the best places of the world.

WHO BUILT STONEHENGE, HOW AND WHY

 Is it a some kind of a temple or what.The stones line up with the sunrise at midsummer and sunset at midwinter, so perhaps people worshiped at sun god. It has been standing there since it have been made by our ancestors.
Two types of stones were used there at Stonehenge smaller comes from  wales and weighs about 4 tonnes each. The  bigger stoned comes from about 380 km away and 30 tonnes each. The stoned were brought to shape from hammering and probably took years to transport them there.

This ancient henge were built in three stages:

  • The first Stonehenge was a circular earth bank about the of 110 m across with a ditch around it, made by stone age people around 5000 years ago.
  • Later the wooden structure was made.
  • Stonehenge was completed in around 3,600 years ago during the Bronze age.

    WHAT DO YOU DREAM

    Babies don't dream much more than adult, and not only because they sleep a lot more they can have 8 hrs of REM sleep at a time.Actually if don't dream you could never fly with wings or meet your favorite movie  star.No one knows why actually why and what do we dream but there have been some theories reasoned for a persons dream:

    • Dreams happens for no reason at all .Your brain just clicks over while you are asleep and random things come out which do not mean anything at all.
    • Dreams express emotions that you have been bottling about and it works out for at least try to.
    • Dreams are the Gods speaking to you. Many of our ancestors believed that  many of our the answers to their questions were given to you at your sleep time as dream if you are lucky enough.
    • The famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud thought that the dreams were what the person wish and imagine to happen or what we secretly wish for,even when we pretend they are full of symbols with hidden meanings.

    08 July 2011

    COUNTING THE STARS

    Cloud and Dust galaxy
    No wonder that everyone in this world looks at the sky and starts thinking " How many stars might be out there?" It is a fact that there are much more stars out there in the sky than there are grains  of sands here on 
                                                        
         
    Earth. Now think!!


    Out there in the Galaxy which is a huge group of stars they are all held together by the gravity .Some galaxy are eliptical  some are spiral. Among them yet Milky Way galaxy is discovered largest galaxy. Some  hypothesis states that Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years from one end to another and let me tell you one light year is the distance travelled by light in 1 year with the velocity
     of 300,000 km/s. It is eatimated to have 4 billion of stars. It is still likely to see 2500 stars at a time as per angle of our eye. Others are impossible to see from earth without telescope. Containing around 4 billion of stars  is our Milky Way galaxy and it is only one. There are more such galaxies out their than you can imagine.There are 40 galaxies  just in local
    Spiral galaxy
     group and after that there are lots of them. The nearest one from us is Andromeda Galaxy which is 4.6 light years away.

    SEVEN WONDERS OF ANCIENT WORLD

    In the middle ages people built which is impossible to built again even with the latest technologies of building so thats why everyone called them the wonders of the world today they are just written in the pages of history.

     Ancient Wonders:

                                                                                                                          
      Statue of Zeus
    1. Lighthouse at Alexandria -(destroyed by earthquake c. 1300s) It was about 120 m , This was the world's tallest buildings at the time it was built.
    2. Colossus of Rhodes -(destroyed by earthquake c.200 BC )This was the huge statue of the sun god  
         Helios stood in Rhode harbour for 50 years.
      1. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus -(destroyed by earthquake)This elaborate tomb for the  King Mausolus has given the word  Mausoleum.
      2. Statue of Zeus-( destroyed by fire c . AD 460) a 12 m tall gold and ivory statue of the king of gods, whose head nearly touched the top of the temple of Zeus( the site of original Olympic Games)
      3. Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt- The amazing stone tomb of  Pharaoh Khufu has lasted over 4,500 years.
          Seven ancient wonders of world
      4. Hanging Gardens-(disappeared) King Nebuchadnezzar is believed to have had a spectacular palace and gardens with lush terraces and the support of pillars,built as gift for his homesick wife.
      5. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus-(destroyed by Goths in AD 262 ) an ancient Greek marble temple to honour  of the goddess of hunting.

      WHO IS THE ELDEST OF ALL HERE

      Oldest tree in the world
      There are many thesis provided for what is the oldest things in the earth. Thats       really confusing and many think those are small organisms but as per fact some are illustrated about what have been here since long before we arrived here:

      • Some bacteria found in 1999 when they are reanimated in in laboratory were found to be 250 million years old. Thats really  really old. If they could only speak they could tell us about the start of the Triassic period.
      • It is called King's Lomatia, A Tasmanian shrub ,has being cloning itself for over 43,000 years. Now you got a reason to think. It doesn't reproduce sexually like most plants so speaking technically its same old plant that have been around indeed for a very long time.
      • An Eucalyptus tree found in Australia  is estimated to be somewhere 13,000 years old 
      • Comparing with these even the oldest lived animal seems to be a mere baby which has a record of 220 years old.