amazing facts

[Roshan]

the accomplishment of understanding the trick is something no one can take away

Queri,

The way you put it across is nice ! I like it !

[Querida]

hi y'all well this i found quite amazing i knew of cross-bredding of domestic cats but of big cats as well...and that the offspring did not prove sterile as other crosses have:

http://members.aol.com/jshartwell/hybrid-bigcats.html

[Querida]

"Certainly the oldest inhabitant in The Crocodile Hunter's Australia Zoo on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, and surely the oldest inhabitant on the Australian continent, Harriet is a giant Galapagos land tortoise, collected by Charles Darwin on his famous Voyage of the Beagle. With her date of birth calculated to 1830, she's well into her 18th decade now, although she has some way to go to surpass Darwin's gift of a tortoise to the King of Tonga that lived to 189!

Steve Irwin (TV's Crocodile Hunter) and his Zoo staff have cared for Harriet since 1987, prior to which she had been at Fleay's Fauna Sanctuary for 35 years. Indeed, it was there, in 1960, that it was discovered that she was a Harriet and not a Harry! Originally named after the Brisbane Botanical Gardens curator, Harry Oakman, "Harry" had been resident in the Gardens for nearly 100 years until 1952 (when the Gardens' zoo closed, Dr David Fleay stepped in to take over).

The giant tortoise had been brought to Australia by John Wickham - a former English naval office who had been with Darwin in South America - and when Wickham left for France in the 1860s, Harriet took up residence in the Brisbane Botanical Gardens.

Charles Darwin had brought Harriet and two of her sub-species back to England, in 1835, when she was five years old and about the size of a dinner plate. Checking against Darwin's records from 1834, Harriet is a Santiago tortoise (Geochelone nigra darwini). While she still ovulates annually, she hasn't seen another Galapagos tortoise for over 150 years (or more) - and the zoo hasn't been able to trace a male of her subs species. But she's not lonely, as she is a favourite of staff and visitors alike, and simply adores company.

With the hope that she will see in her 200th anniversary at least, why not wish her a happy birthday - if anyone deserves respect for living through a lot, it must be Harriet."

[Cindy]

is your school or college famous? Check it out.. see if ur school's picture or ur group foto is listed in this site... if not... u can even upload if u have a foto with you and register ur shool on web.....

See if that Gulmohar tree, those benches, that football ground..... is there in the site..

http://www.worldschoolphotographs.com

[Querida]

[arihantarihant007]

These were some of amzing & coolest facts !!!! 8) 8) 8)

[ts]

In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca Recording company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." The group was called The Beatles.

In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.

In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry fired a singer after one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck." He went on to become the most popular singer in America, named Elvis Presley.

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"

When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."

In the 1940's, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947 - after seven long years of rejections! He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention, an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.

Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contacted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralyzed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.

[Querida]

wow thats really inspirational!

check this out...see how your age is gauged:

http://www.frontiernet.net/%7Ecdm/age1.html

kinda nice to know i'm 63 years 5 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 84 :P

[scorpio]

TS,

Pretty interesting snippets.

Querida,

The site was nice and the analysis was interesting to read!

[Deep_Secrets]

The only possible way to lick your elbow is to break your arm off and then do it.