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50 things i want to do before i die..

1. Ride something bigger than a horse. Trekking through the jungle on the back of a two story tall elephant will surely be something you remember forever.
2. Travel India by train. With its extensive rail network, this mode of transport is the best way to see one of the world’s most colorful and diverse countries.
3.Climb one of the world’s Seven Summits. Climbing mountains is not for the faint-hearted, but everyone has had a dream of standing atop one.
4.Publish an article about your travels. Part of traveling is sharing your experiences with others. Plus, getting published might be easier than you think
5. Photograph an endangered species. Aside from an image you can keep for a lifetime, it will remind you, and others, how fragile life can be
6.Spend 24 hours alone in the jungle...
7.Learn how to make a national dish. What is the one and only thing that everyone has in common? Eating.
8. Cross a country using only public transportation. See a country the way most of its people do: from the window of a bus or a train.
9.Spend the night in a storied/historic hotel. You might not even have to leave town to experience a night of classic atmosphere.

10.  Be in the stands when two rival  teams play each other in Cricket. Cricket is a passion for most of the india’s population.
11.Pick a holiday spot call your friends and just start without thinking about the consequences.((surprise tour))

Words to live by

1 I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness. 2 Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. 3 I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather.. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. 4 The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it’s still on the list. 5 Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. “Yes” is the answer. 6 Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship. 7 We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police. 8 Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand. 9 We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. 10 Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich. 11 Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. 12 War does not determine who is right – only who is left. 13 If I agreed with you we’d both be wrong. 14 The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. 15 Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason. 16 Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 years telling them to sit down and shut-up. 17 If sex is a pain in the ass, then you’re doing it wrong… 18 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. 19 Evening news is where they begin with ‘Good evening’, and then proceed to tell you why it isn’t. 20 A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.. 21 My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch. 22 I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian 23 If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of payments. 24 I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks. 25 If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining. 26 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. 27 If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea… does that mean that one enjoys it? 28 Some people are like Slinkies … not really good for anything, but you can’t help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs. 29 How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? 30 Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish? 31 A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don’t need it. 32 Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. 33 Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. 34 To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research. 35 A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. 36 I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with “Guess” on it…so I said “Implants?” 37 Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet? 38 A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. 39 The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas! 40 Good girls are bad girls that never get caught. 41 Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy. 42 Laugh at your problems, everybody else does. 43 The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room. 44 Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says “If an emergency, notify:” I put “DOCTOR”. What’s my mother going to do? 45 He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame. 46 The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. 47 I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you. 48 Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. 49 God must love stupid people. He made SO many. 50 Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman. 51 The sole purpose of a child’s middle name, is so he can tell when he’s really in trouble. 52 Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose. 53 Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. 54 Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat. 55 My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. 56 Some people say “If you can’t beat them, join them”. I say “If you can’t beat them, beat them”, because they will be expecting you to join them, so you will have the element of surprise. 57 Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go. 58 It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end. 59 Crowded elevators smell different to midgets. 60 Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even if you wish they were. 61 You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice. 62 Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. 63 I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot. 64 A bargain is something you don’t need at a price you can’t resist. 65 My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too. 66 I intend to live forever. So far, so good. 67 Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with. 68 A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. 69 We have enough gun control. What we need is idiot control. 70 You’re never too old to learn something stupid. 71 I should’ve known it wasn’t going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I’m a Libra and she’s a bitch. 72 A little boy asked his father, “Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?” Father replied, “I don’t know son, I’m still paying.” 73 With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. 74 Women may not hit harder, but they hit lower. 75 Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil. 76 There’s a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can’t get away. 77 I don’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die. 78 Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen. 79 Why do Americans choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? 80 I always take life with a grain of salt, …plus a slice of lemon, …and a shot of tequila. 81 If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you! 82 I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not sure. 83 When in doubt, mumble. 84 I like work. It fascinates me. I sit and look at it for hours. 85 To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target. 86 Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you’re an asshole. 87 A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it. 88 A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer. 89 Just remember…if the world didn’t suck, we’d all fall off. 90 I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, “I’m going to mop the floor with your face.” I said, “You’ll be sorry.” He said, “Oh, yeah? Why?” I said, “Well, you won’t be able to get into the corners very well.” 91 Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever. 92 You are such a good friend that if we were on a sinking ship together and there was only one life jacket… I’d miss you heaps and think of you often. 93 When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water. 94 Hallmark Card: “I’m so miserable without you, it’s almost like you’re still here.” 95 Virginity is like a soapbubble, one prick and it is gone. 96 Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. 97 If winning isn’t everything why do they keep score? 98 If you keep your feet firmly on the ground, you’ll have trouble putting on your pants. 99 If you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some people have more than one child. 100 Whoever coined the phrase “Quiet as a mouse” has never stepped on one.

INTERESTING USELESS FACTS

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms  like fried bacon.

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!

The elephant is the only mammal  that can't jump!

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

On average a hedgehog's  heart beats 300 times a minute.

More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

The longest recorded flight  of a chicken is 13 seconds

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

Slugs have 4 noses.

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

The average person laughs 10 times a day!

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

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One of these amazing, but useless facts is false. Do you know which one?

MAINFRAMES COMPUTERS

In school times, we all must have read about the types of computers. This section also briefs us with the concept of Mainframe Computers.Mainframe Computers are very large computers in which all the units like processor or any other are hung into a single frame. They are used for certain large computing applications or enormous data processing. The term was mainly used for the computers generally manufactured by the IBM.The concept was like read to forget when your exams are over. But now the time has come to polish your all knowledge about mainframes. The recent information in the market confirms that mainframe computers are seeing a comeback in the market. And India which is emerging as the strong contender for driving the economy is set to be the point of onset of these computers.India has expanded its outsourcing projects and the Indian companies are moving up the stairs of choice for outsourcing destinations for foreign firms. This all has raised the needs of larger data computations and processing. Based on this feedback from market trend and the growth rate of about 40-50%, analysts are calculating that India will plug the fire for onset of mainframe computers once again in the industry.The mainframe computers faced a setback in last when distributed computing was on upswing. At that time market become so reluctant to its adoption that it seems to be near extinction. But welcoming bells rang for it once again. It is under renaissance era. Along with reinventing its position in the market, it has also reinvented its scope of functionalities. It will see a change from the traditional domain of bulk data processing and financial transactions to be the center point for IT infrastructure. It will be used to increase security, maintenance and the availability.It is making a strong comeback as the need to manage larger database is increasing and security is becoming the major concern of the companies these days. If market statistics are to be believed, in last few years mainframe computers has gained almost 16% market share. The mainframe computers can host multiple operating systems and can be treated as many virtual machines. 

These computers give a boom to the centralized computing. As the concepts of utility computing, cloud computing, thin client architecture along with remote computing are getting faster acceptance, the concept of centralized computing is on the shores. The professionals who have managed a single server might be knowing the complexity and with needs number of servers go on increasing thereby adding to the complexity. With mainframes this complexity will reduce to an acceptable level. The mainframes will definitely hit the market with new face and the better interfaces will let the mainframes to integrate with Web applications and existing client/server architecture. The IBM is all set with its new z Series mainframes and are high on the hopes to ad TCS, RBI, HCL, Satyam, Wipro to its client needs

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RANDOM AND INTERESTING FACTS...

1. Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

2. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

3. In October 1999 the 6 billionth person was born.

4. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

5. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

6. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.

7. The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1 kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

8. Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

9. Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

10. In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf.

11. If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

12. All the hydrogen atoms in our bodies were created 12 billion years ago in the Big Bang.

13. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

14. The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

15. Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

16. When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

17. The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

18. If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

19. The Australian billy goat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.

20. Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

21. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

22. One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

23. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

24. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.

25. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

26. Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.

27. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

28. Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

29. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.

30. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.

31. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.

32. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

33. Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

34. Chimps can understand 300 different signs.

35. The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.

36. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

37. Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.

38. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

39. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

40. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

41. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

42. The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.

43. The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

44. A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

45. Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.

46. At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.

47. The largest galaxies contain a million, million stars.

48. The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

49. Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.

50. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

51. The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

52. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

53. A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.

54. Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.

55. The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

56. If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

57. It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.

58. There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

59. The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.

60. Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.

61. Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.

62. The Saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.

63. Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

64. Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

65. Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.

66. One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

67. Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.

68. Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

69. The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees Celsius.

70. Space debris travels through space at over 18,000 mph.

71. The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.

72. Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.

73. Tuberculosis is the biggest global killer of women.

74. Hummingbirds consume half of their body weight in food every day.

75. Some species of bamboo grow at a rate of 3ft per day.

76. Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.

77. The highest recorded train speed is 320.2 mph by the TGV train in France.

78. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred Rompelburg.

79. The research spacecraft Helios B came within a record 27 million miles of the Sun.

80. 65 million years ago the impact of an asteroid is estimated to have had the power of 10 million H-Bombs.

81. The temperature at the centre of the Earth is estimated to be 5500 degrees Celsius.

82. Argentia in Newfoundland has an average 206 days of fog each year.

83. Mount Waiale’ale in Hawaii is the rainiest place in the world and has 335 rainy days a year.

84. 68% of all UFO sightings are by men.

85. 15% of the world’s fresh water flows down the Amazon.

86. A cat has 32 sets of muscles in each ear.

87. Over two-thirds of people admit to urinating while in public swimming pools.

88. More people die of heart attacks on Monday than on any other day of the week.

89. Beetles are the strongest animals on Earth relative to their size. A rhinoceros beetle can carry 850 times its own weight in its back.

90. In 1961 the Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in Space.

91. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

92. In 1885 Karl Benz built the first car powered by an internal combustion engine.

93. Scotsman John Baird invented the Baird televisor (now the television) in 1925.

94. Io, one of Jupiter’s moons, is the most volcanically active place in the Solar System.

95. The Walkman was launched in Japan by Sony in 1979.

96. Traffic lights with red and green gas lights were first introduced in London in 1868. Unfortunately, they exploded and killed a policeman. The first successful system was installed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914.

97. Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.

98. 3 billion of the world’s 6 billion population are under the age of 25.

99. Infant mortality in 1900 was 142 in 1000 births. By 2000 it had reduced to just 6 in every 1000.

100. In total there is said to be around 400 million dogs in the world.

ORIGINAL REASON FOR THE SPLIT BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTHAN

Well, history is written based on the records which people have about these so called great people. It is important that everybody should know the reality…… …..may be after their death. It’s inevitable that the truth about them comes out after their death because while alive they are so powerful that they would have killed the concern people.

Let me elaborate my point: Do you know that still in India more than 50% people(I am talking about uneducated and some of educated) think that Indira Gandhi was daughter of M K Gandhi. Everybody knows contribution of M K Gandhi in India’s freedom movement. So they always thought her as a great person. Not only in India even western people think that Indira Gandhi was daughter of M K Gandhi. Well, Nehru really did not do anything about Indian freedom movement except he demanded to be the first PM of India. So people think her as a Goddess. It’s true that she was married to Firoz Khan Gandhi (who was a Punjabi-Parsi).

After she had Sanjay and Rajeev they could not get along with each other. Sanjay was with her in India but Rajiv was out of India for education. She kept him away purposefully.

Sanjay and she was also not getting along with because he started taking interest in politics and was knowing many of her secrets including her affairs. So she murdered him.

Do you know that how India’s partition happened? It was tug of war between two ambitious people: One of them was Nehru (of Indian Congress) and another was Br. Jinna(of Muslim League). Both were Cambridge graduated. Both did not contribute much in freedom fighting movement.

Due to Lady Baton’s close contact to Nehru (Nehru had an affair with her which was accepted by Mt. Baton) it was most likely that British were going to make Nehru as PM.

But Jinna did not accept it and asked for a separate Muslim state. This discussion was held back at Cambridge.  Gandhi was not interested in power because by that time he had become a spiritual person. If he would have accepted to be India’s PM then partition would not have occurred as Br. Jinna also was accepting Gandhi’s leadership.  It was clear that if Gandhi will not become PM then Mt. Baton will make Nehru as PM. So Muslim league gave air to Hindu-Muslim conflict in the area and asked for separate Muslim nation. To avoid more bloodshed Gandhi did not have any alternative than to accept ML demands. On 15th August 1947 two nations were created.

GREATER INDIA

George Washington was half Indian.

The mother of George Washington, Mary Ball Washington, was of the Indian origin. Her parents Ram
Lalu Yadav and Radha Lubhai were the stowaway on a ship ” HMS Queen Mary ” which docked in Boston
and they both got off.They soon found a job in a farm by acting dumb and mute. Mary was born as
Kanya Seeta in 1702 in Fairfax Virginia ( now known for CIA headquarters) to her parents who had
converted to Christianity while they were still on the ship fleeing India in search of golden
future. It is alleged that while on ship Kanya Seeta’s father, Ram Lalu Yadav stole a huge chunk
of beef from the ship’s kitchen in order to survive some days of the voyage. As Hindus they
couldn’t have consumed that delicious steak hence conversion to Christianity was a next logical
step. In a hurried, half baked ceremony performed by Lalu, both husband and wife became
Christians and started calling themselves  Michael and Sharon Ball. It seems that they both
enjoyed stolen steaks so much that they literally had a “ball” during their illegal voyage hence
their surname Yadav was replaced by Ball. It was here in the state of Virginia where  “Mary” met
Augustine Washington and married him. George was born as Pandurang Washington but was referred so
only in private. Having Indian blood, he excelled in everything he did and became Father of
nation for the United States when he fought British and got independence from them.
It seems that Americans are embarrassed about this fact that their father of nation was half
Indian and hence utmost secrecy has been used to cover up these facts hence CIA HQs are located
right on the barn where Ram Lalu and Radha Lubhai lived and worked. So that the matter remains
deeply burried and a weight on them.

- this revelation was published in the NEWSWEEK, March 10th Issue in 1968 -


Bicycle was invented in India by a Maharshtrian.

Modern day bicycle is also an invention from India as it was virtually designed by “Pao-Ghasita
Tukaram” a native of present day Nagpur in Maharashtra in 1810. Pao Ghasita use to supply oranges
to the British Army based in a cantonment in that area. One day while carrying the whole lot of
oranges from the hill, Pao Ghasita Tukaram tripped and fell along with all the oranges. All the
oranges and he himself kept rolling down without any effort and in few minutes all the oranges
dropped on the Army tent like rain followed by a big thud of Pao Ghasita flattening the whole
tent and the two officers from the British Army on their siesta break. Pao Ghasita was badly
roughed up by the pissed off army men and it is here,while he was getting kidney punches, he
thought of inventing a bicycle.  He realised that if two wheels can roll instead of hundreds of
oranges and a human this would save him from the beating and other related insults. He sketched a
diagram called ” jhaunyapahiya”. Those rogue army guys snatched the technical drawings from Pao
Ghasita and chased him away and sold the same drawings to a German Baron called Karl Von Drais.
He further claimed the patent on a bicycle in 1818 in a show in Paris where he introduced the
first Bike called pushbikes, Draisines or “hobby horses”.

- first published in CIA chronicles of 1956-


Alfred Noble stole Dynamite formula from an Indian

The invention of Dynamite is attributed to Alfred Bernhard Nobel but in reality he stole this
invention from a man K.J.A Alphons, a native from Calicut, in 1865. Alphons and Alfred met in
Cairo in 1865 and became friends. They never could understand each other as one spoke in one of
Southern India’s intelligible languages whereas the other one spoke in the Swedish language which
first sounded like Marathi to everyone in India. They would speak to each other with hand made
gestures and signs. Alphons had the designs from the Dynamite since many years but to safe guard
it from the evil men he hid it in his Pyjama linings. It is not clear as to how Alfred got hold
of Alphons’s pyjamas but in 1867 Alfred patented Dynamite exactly giving the same recepie Alphons
was guarding protectively. So ashamed was Alphons that he never returned to his native India.

- published in Mother India magazine in 1958 and then in Dharamyug in 1966. Indrajal comics even
made a Phantom story on it in their series of September 1967 -

 

Indians were launching rockets almost 1000 years before Russians and Americans made an attempt in
this direction.

The Chola empire was founded by Vijayalaya , who captured Tanjore in 850 AD. The Chola power
became solidly established in the reign of Rajaraja (985 AD – 1014 AD) and his son Rajendra I
(1014 AD – 1044 AD). Rajaraja and Rajendra were militarily very advanced and it seems they are
the reason that we have our modern day invention of GPS. It was Rajendra who sent first rocket to
space fired by a mixture of combustible obnoxious gases made in their backyard makeshift
laboratories. It seems that they concocted the fire power to send a cylinderical rocket to space
by producing nuclear energy from ” Myrcoodi”(Myrcoodi is made out of Sambhar dal and Medu vada
rice pudding mixed with cowdung, lame lion’s droppings and the shit of black monkeys mixed in
right proportions tied together in banana leafs with jute ropes). The rocket sent to space by
King Rajendra was called ” Latoopatayyam” and it carried a payload of 5000 Sers (old measuring
unit equal to 2500 Kilos). It was the first satellite ever launched by mankind and is now in the
possession of the CIA.

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India Fact File - Facts about India

	India is the largest democracy in the world.
	One out of every 6 humans is an Indian.
	India is the 7th largest country in the world.
	The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
	India has never invaded any country in her entire history.
	Ancient Indians invented ZERO and today's place value based number system. (This was spread to the rest of the world by Arab merchants who came to India for trade. Hence, it is called Hindu-Arabic Numerals)
	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. Later through time, the game underwent several modifications but the meaning is the same i.e good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
	The world's first known University was established in Takshashila, India in 700BC. Here more than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
	World's oldest democratic kingdom was established in Kalinga in North India as long back as 300 bc.
	Hinduism is the oldest known religion in the world and has no known founders.
	Sanskrit - one of the ancient Indian languages is the best suited language to develop Computer Software (According to the Forbes Magazine), as its syntax is best suited for it to be developed into a programming language.
	The art of navigation was born in the river Sindhu 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
	Kalaripayat is the world's oldest form of martial arts and is practices in Kerala state of India. It was transmitted to China by a sage named Boddhidharma in the 5th century. The Chinese called him Po-ti-tama. He taught this art in a temple. This temple is today known as the Shaolin temple. Thus Judo, Karate, Kung Fu and other similar marshal arts which are today identified with the far-east actually originated from India.
	According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
	USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose from India and not Marconi as was thought earlier.
	World's earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra, India.
	Chess was invented in India.
	Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India.
	When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established world's greatest civilizations like Sindhu (Indus) Valley Civilization and Saraswati Valley Civilization.
	India is the home for the largest number of pet animals in the world.
	Nail polish was first used in ancient Bengal of India by men to attract girls.
	Lips stick was first used in ancient Indus valley of India by girls.
	The entire continent of America (which includes USA - the so called superpower of the day) was discovered and made known to the rest of the world when the European powers were desperately trying to discover a sea route to India (after the land route of Constantinople vital for European trade was blocked by Ottoman Turks) and one such voyager Columbus ended up at the American continent mistakenly identifying it to be India (later followed by Amerigo Vespucci, whom America was named after)!!! To summarize, America was discovered because of India. Even today many natives of these places are called Indians, even though they have nothing to do with India!!
	The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
	Indian Railways is the largest employer in the world employing over 1.6 million employees!!
	India has the most post offices in the world!
	Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind
	India ranks first in the production of milk and butter, mango, tea, raw sugar, jute, coconut, cashew and also in the cutting, processing and manufacturing of gems and jewellery
	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, which was long before the European mathematicians.
	The number of companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, at more than 6,000, is second only to NYSE
	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.
	Four out of 10 Silicon Valley startups are run by Indians.
	India consumes a fifth of the world's gold output.
	Indian Railways is the largest railway network in the world under single management.
	Indian Paramilitary Force is the largest paramilitary force in the world.
	Indian Army is the third-largest army in the world.
	Indian Air Force is the fourth-largest air force in the world.
	Indian Navy is the fifth largest in the world.
	Siachin Post held by the Indian armed forces (located in the Karakoram mountain range on the largest glacier outside the polar regions which is 78 km long) is the world's highest battlefield and also the most deadliest. Located at an altitude of 6,300 meters (20,700 feet) above sea level and with temperature from -30C to -60C, the world's deadliest battle field is guarded by Indian armed forces.
	India is the largest producer and consumer of tea in the world, accounting for more than 30% of global production and 25% of consumption.
	India is the world's premier center for diamond cutting and polishing. Nine out of every 10 diamond stones sold in the world pass through India today.
	India's Hero Honda is the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer, with 2002 production of 1.7 million units.
	Other than US and Japan, India is the only country to have built a super computer indigenously.
	It is the second-largest cement-producing country in the world, producing more than 110m tonnes.
	Of the Fortune 500 companies, 220 outsource their software-related work to India.
	There are 8,500 Indian restaurants in the UK, 15% of the country's total dining-out establishments.
	India is ranked the sixth country in the world in terms of satellite launches.
	There are over 70,000 bank branches in India - among the highest in the world.
	With 800 movies per year, India's film industry overshadows Hollywood.
	Six Indian ladies have won Miss Universe/Miss World titles over the past 10 years. No other country has won more than twice.
	The Kumbh Mela festival, held every 12 years in the city of Allahabad, attracts 25 million people (more than the population of 185 of the 227 countries in the world).
	The Indian city of Varanasi, also known as Benares, is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

 - Info Collected by SAJID
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