LONDON EYE

The London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel situated on the banks of the River Thames in London , England . The entire structure is 135 metres
(443 ft) tall and the wheel
has a diameter of 120 metres
(394 ft). It is the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe , and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom , visited by over 3.5 million people annually. When erected in 1999 it was the
tallest Ferris wheel in the
world, until surpassed first
by the 160 m (520 ft) Star of Nanchang in 2006 and then the 165 m (541 ft) Singapore Flyer in 2008. It is still described by its operators as
"the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel" (as the wheel is
supported by an A-frame on one side only, unlike the
Nanchang and Singapore wheels). It is the 20th tallest structure in London . The London Eye, or
Millennium Wheel, was
officially called the British
Airways London Eye and then
the Merlin Entertainments
London Eye. Since 20 January 2011, its official name is the EDF Energy London Eye following a three-year
sponsorship deal. The London Eye is located in
the London Borough of Lambeth at the western end of Jubilee Gardens , on the South Bank of the River Thames between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge . The site is adjacent to that of the
former Dome of Discovery , which was built for the Festival of Britain in 1951.

THE SAILING STONES

THE SAILING STONES , also referred to as sliding rocks or moving rocks, are a geological puzzling phenomenon found in California, Death Valley. These rocks, some as heavy as 300 Kilograms, are mysteriously transported across a virtually flat desert plain without human or animal intervention, leaving erratic trails in the hard mud behind them, some hundreds of yards long. They move by some mysterious force, and in the nine decades since we have known about them, no-one has ever seen them in motion.

Aurora Diamante

The Aurora Diamante priced at $1,470,600 is the most expensive writing instrument till date. Only one is for sale per year. The Aurora Diamante contains over 30 carats of De Beerss diamonds on a solid platinum barrel. It has a two-tone, rhodium-treated , 18KT solid gold nib and is personalized with a coat of arms, signature or portrait!!!

ALBERT EINSTEIN FAILED HIS UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAM

In 1895, at the age of 17, Einstein, one of the greatest minds ever born actually failed his university entrance exam into the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School. Actually he passed the Science and the Math sections, but failed in the rest of it like History and Geography. When asked later about this, he said that they were too boring and he didn’t feel like answering them correctly!

Skógafoss, Iceland

Skógafoss is a waterfall situated in the south ofIceland. It is one of the biggest waterfalls in the country with a width of 25 metres (82 feet) and a drop of 60 m (200 ft). Due to the amount ofspray the waterfall consistently produces, a single or double rainbow is normally visible on sunny days

9,000 yr old Caucasian mummy of Spirit Cave, Nevada

9,000 yr old Caucasian mummy of Spirit Cave, Nevada~

The Spirit Cave mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America. It was discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave, thirteen miles east of Fallon, Nevada, USA by the husband-and-wif e archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.

Upon entering Spirit Cave they discovered the remains of two people wrapped in tule matting. One set of remains, buried deeper than the other, had been partially mummified (the head and right shoulder). The Wheelers, with the assistance of local residents, recovered a total of sixty-seven artifacts from the cave.

In 1996 University of California, Riverside anthropologist R. Ervi Taylor examined seventeen of the Spirit Cave artifacts using mass spectrometry. The results indicated that the mummy was approximately 9,400 years old. Further study determined that the mummy exhibits Caucasoid characteristics resembling the Ainu (an Ethnic Japanese people).

Venus -- The Morning/Evening Star

Venus, named after the Roman God of love and beauty, boasts a myraid of oddities. For one, it's the most Earth-like planet in the solar system (it's even similar in size, mass and composition), but unlike Earth, it has an extremely dense atmosphere full of greenhouse gasses that cause the surface temperatures on the terrestrial planet to exceed 870 degrees F (465 degrees C), which is sufficiently hot enough to melt lead. Its thick atmosphere has made it a difficult planet to explore, so we don't know a whole lot about the mechanisms that make this stange planet tick, other than information collected from probes that were sent to explore the planet and its atmosphere. Most of our information about Venus came from the Soviet "Venera" program that accomplished not only the first successful spacecraft landing on another planet, but it remains the only space program to EVER successfully land a probe on Venus and transmit data from the surface. Ultimately, The harsh surface environment proved too much for the sensitive probes to withstand. The longest duration any of them survived for was only 127 minutes, which is still impressive if you think about all of the variables that had to be overcome.

Perhaps the most odd of all of the oddities of the planet Venus, is that unlike its siblings, it spins on its axis clockwise, making it the only planet in the solar system that spins on in retrograde. We don't have a great understanding of why Venus does this, but most scientists speculate that the planet possibly collided with another celestial body during its early evolutionary process. Much the same way as it is speculated that a collision between Earth and a theoretical planet named "Thea" was the catalyst for the formation of our moon.

Not only does Venus rotate clockwise, it also rotates incredibly slowly. It creates one full rotation once every 243 Earth days, while it orbits the sun in 225 Earth days

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.

Today, itz the birth anniversary of GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics . Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism , in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism , his main talent was for drama , and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.


He was most angered by what he perceived as the exploitation of the working class. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society . He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. For a short time he was active in local politics, serving on the London County Council .


He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an
Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion
(adaptation of his play of the same name ), respectively.


Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honours, but accepted it at his wife's behest: she considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books into English.

Self Repairing Coating For Your Gadgets

Now what more worst could it be than thatyou buy an expensive phone with all the glamour it carries and go to market to cover it up with some protective coating. But after some time you realize that the coating itself got damaged and now your beloved gadget is prone to scratches now.
But BEHOLD now since a self repairing coat film has just arrived which can repair any kind of scratches in less than TEN seconds. Toray Advanced Film are the producers of this new scratch repairing membrane. Tests and results have shown that even scratching the layer for 200,000 times the membrane still works fine and it repairs itself and its as good as new with in ten seconds. Now there should be one thing always kept in mind before testing this new scratch repairing membrane that it could just repair all kind of scratches which you might get accidently, but it is not capable to do any thing once it is broken. And trust me it won’t break until you catch a knife or scissor to tear it apart.
The new scratch repairing membrane is on its way to market and Toray is getting this stuff produced in bulk. So now you can remain worry free for your phones and tablets. This coating would keep the promise of what you always wanted from a coating.

One of the most beautiful bird,

The Resplendent quetzal
A beautiful 30-35 cm bird with 65cm long tail,its whole body is shiny emerald with bright red breast and a white tail,their long feather of the back covers this white tail,their wing feathers are also unlikely long,hanging beautifully,the y have a helmet like head with straight hair and yellow beak,some of the feathers of the head coversome part of the beak.found in rainforest of southern mexico this bird used to be worshipped by mayans fr its beauty