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Thursday, November 1, 2007

'Till Death Do Us Part: Rare Conjoined Twins

Abigail and Brittany are truly two souls in one body.

For some conjoined twins (Siamese twins), separation may be possible but for them, the girls are destiny to be together forever.

I know that it must be hard for them to struggle through all the look when people first saw them. After all, we are only human.

May God blessed them with a happy and healthy life.


Sunday, September 23, 2007

Magnetar And The Devil's Bible

Magnetar is a rare, small, fast-spinning neutron star or celestial body about 15,000 light years away in the constellation Sagittarius. The star is only 9 mile across and periodically shoots out huge cataclysms of X-ray emissions. It contains as much mass as the sun and has one of the most powerful magnetic fields in the universe despite its size. Based on the study conducted with the European Space Agency's XXM-Newton orbiting telescope, its magnetic field is 600 trillion times that of Earth's.

Codex Gigas or the Devil's Bible which was created in the 13th century A.D by a Benedictine monk is now on exhibition at the Klementinum in Prague, the Czech Republic's national library. The tome returning home for the first time after 360 years, for exhibition which will last for four months on loan, since Swedish troops invaded Prague in 1600s and carried the Devil's Bible away as booty. Manuscript contains the Old and New Testaments of the Bible along with several historical texts of 624 pages and weighed 165 pound. Nickname Devil's Bible came from the illustration of Lucifer (in picture above).

Source via: National Geographic News

Monday, September 10, 2007

If You Are Using Dell LapTop, Please Have A Look




A friend sent this to me. What happened was, he was away from his desk to get something and colleagues heard a "boom" then saw smoke came out from the side of his laptop. Almost immediately, they turn the power off and unplugged the socket. Still, the laptop caught fire. One of the colleague grabbed the fire extinguisher and aimed it right at the laptop and another two minor explosions were heard. They suspected that it was the battery.


This is not to bad mouth anyone, just that if you happen to be using one of Dell laptops, you might want to consider take out you battery while you are using the DC. Meaning plug-in.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Signature Spider (Argiope sp. _Family Araneidae)

A Signature Spider rests in its web in Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006. This spider weaves a web marked with distinctive zigzag bands of white silk. The Signature Spider holds its legs together in pairs, making it look like a creature with four legs instead of eight. (Photo: STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images) via

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Top Ten Richest Pet In The World: #2 £40 Million Kalu The Chimpanzee

Patricia O'Neill, wife to the former Australian swimming champion Frank O'Neill, decided to leave her £40million fortune to her pet chimp, Kalu while her husband is away. more...

Top Ten Richest Pet In The World: #3 £6 Million Trouble The Maltese Terrier


Read more at Leona Helmsley: My Dog, My Will or Daily Mail

Top Ten Richest Pet In The World: #4 £450,000 Tina And Kate The Collie Crosses

Nora Hardwell, who died the day before her 90th birthday, ensured her two dogs would live out the rest of their days in luxury by bequesting them the run of her home and five acres of land in Peasedown St John, near Bath, as well as £450,000 to be spent on their every whim.

Her will stipulated that a carer must be employed to look after the two dogs, and that the house must be kept clean at all times. more...

Top Ten Richest Pet In The World: #5 £150,000 Jasper The Mongrel

Jasper is a true time "Cinderella" fairy tale. He spent his early days in Battersea Dogs' Home until brewery heiress Diana Myburgh met him and took care of him until she died, aged 74, in 1995. more...

Top Ten Richest Pet In The World: #6 £100,000 Tinker The Cat

Margaret Layne died in 2003, ages 89, has left Tinker the stray £100,000 trust fund with trustees appointed to deliver him food and milk everyday. Tinker is free to access the widow's house for 21 years or until he dies, which ever come sooner. Then the house is passes to the trustees charged with his case. Not long after his owner died, Tinker was move to a safe house in mid-Wales after death threats from people who's jealous of his money. more...

Top Ten Richest Pet In The World: #7 & #8 £17,500 Cats And £16,667 Silverstone The Tortoise

Porgy, Pride, Joy and Ronald the cats gets £17,500 and Silverstone gets £16,667. They are all beneficiary of the late Miss Christina Foyle, the bookshop queen. They are now living with Miss Foyle's former housekeeper, Maureen Harding. more...

Top Ten Richest Pet In The World: #9 £10,000 Each Top Cat And Matilda

The minister's daughter, a retired Librarian in Aberdeen, definitely saw her cats worth more then her. She would travel everywhere by bus and had no central heating at home but left both her cats £10,000 each when she died in 2004. more...

Top Ten Richest Pet In The World: #10 £7,957 Angus The Cow And Larry The Lamb

Queen Mother has created a £3 million trust fund for 150 Aberdeen Angus and 200 North Country Cheviot sheep on the Castle of Mey Farm. Each animal gets a personal fortune of almost £8,000. more...

Friday, August 31, 2007

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #25 The Biggest Enclosed Body Of Water

The Caspian Sea is the biggest enclosed body of water on Earth, having an even larger area than that of the American Great Lakes or that of Lake Victoria in East Africa. It is approximately 1,030 km long and its width ranges from 435 km to a minimum of 196 km. It has no connection to the world’s oceans and its surface level at the moment is around –26.5 m below MSL. At this level, its total coastline is some 7,000 km in length and its surface area is 386,400 km2. The water volume of the lake is about 78,700 km3.

Read the full story: Caspian Environment

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #24 The Largest Delta

The Ganges Delta is by far the Largest Delta in the World. Situated in the South Asia region, consisting of the Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. It is also given a nickname, The Green Delta, for being one of the most fertilized land. It covers an area more than 105,000 km². Although it lies within border of Bangladesh and India, rivers from Bhutan, China and Nepal also drain into it from the north.

Read further: Wikipedia

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #23 The Longest River

The Longest river on earth is The Nile. The distance between White Nile source to Mouth is 6,695 km. Two main sources according to Micheal Barron is the white Nile and the Blue Nile from Lake Victoria, Uganda and Lake Tana Ethiopia respectively.

The Nile and its tributaries flow though nine countries. The White Nile flows though Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt. The Blue Nile starts in Ethiopia. Zaire, Kenya, Tanzanian, Rwanda, and Burundi all have tributaries, which flow into the Nile or into lake Victoria Nyanes. The major cities that are located on the edge of the Nile and White Nile are: Cairo, Gondokoro, Khartoum, Aswan, Thebes/Luxor, Karnak, and the town of Alexandria lies near the Rozeta branch.

Read more: The Nile River

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #22 The Deepest Part Of Ocean

The Mariana Trench is the deepest known submarine trench located at the Western North Pacific Ocean. The maximum depth of 11 km of the trench also made it the deepest location on the surface of Earth's crust at the Southeast side of the Mariana Islands, near Guam.

Further reading: Wikipedia or UND

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #21 The Longest Coastline

Canada has the world's longest coastline including the coastline of the country's islands. Total length is 243,792 km and is surrounded by 3 Oceans; Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic.

Read fact sheet: Saskschools or About.com

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #20 The Largest Basin

The Congo Basin lies in the heart of Africa is the world's largest basin. It is one of the most important natural wildness left on our planet. The whole area covered more than 3,680,000 km2, covering three territories; Democratic Republic of The Congo, Central African Republic and Republic of Congo.

Source: WWF and Wikipedia

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #19 The Longest Mountain Range

The Andes is the Word's longest mountain range. Over 7,000 km long, 500 km at widest part and an average height of 4,000 m, it is about the width of Himalaya and almost twice as long although she doesn't beat the hight of the Himalaya.

The whole Andean range spread across 7 countries in the region including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. The Aconcagua is the highest peak of Andes. The summit of Mount Chimborazo in the Ecuadorean Andes is the point on the Earth's surface most distant from its center, because of the equatorial bulge.

Did You Know The 25 -Est In The World: #18 The Lowest Point on Earth

The Earth's lowest point is situated between Israel and Jordan, a salt lake known as The Dead Sea. At 420 m (-420 m) below sea level, its shore is actually the lowest point on dry land.

The Dead Sea is 67 km long and 18 km at its widest point. Salinity is 8.6 times more saline than seawater (normally 35 to 37 ppt) making it possible for anyone to literally float on it. Cool.

FYI, the lowest point in North America is the Badwater Basin, 86 m below sea level, Dead Valley California.

Looking at the sunset, I'd say it's a place for a memorable vacation.

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