Gain General knowledge: March 2007

Friday, March 16, 2007

Alphabet

(1)The fruit in Tarte Tatin? Apples
(2)Children's TV programme featuring Professor Yaffle (the wooden woodpecker)? Bagpuss
(3)Charles Babbage's notable invention? Computer
(4)Framework for oil well drilling machinery? Derrick
(5)Traditional fur trim on ceremonial and heraldic robes? Ermine (From the white winter coat of the ermine - mustela erminea - AKA stoat and short-tailed weasel. Incidentally the black spotted patterns in heraldic ermines are the black tips of the tails in the joined pelts.)
(6)A maker of arrows? Fletcher
(7)A hot spring which shoots out boiling water and steam? Geyser
(8)Metric unit equal to 10,000 square metres? Hectare
(9)Chemical element with atomic number 53? Iodine
(10)Contest fought between medieval knights with lances on horseback? Joust
(11)Basketball-netball hybrid game for mixed male and female teams? Korfball
(12)The twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet? Mu (= m)
(13)The Tokyo stock exchange index? Nikkei
(14)A fine translucent stiff cotton muslin used chiefly for making dresses? Organdie/organdy/organza
(15)Female part of a flower? Pistil
(16)A type of low fat curd cheese? Quark (interestingly perhaps indirectly related to particle physics quarks, a term adopted by US physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1964, based he says on the mythical seabird chorus "...Three quarks for Muster Mark..." in James Joyce's book (Finnegans Wake, thought to mean three cheers or jeers। Either or both Gell-Mann and Joyce might have been alluding ironically to quark cheese since in German the word extends metaphorically to mean rubbish or nonsense।)
(17)The right page of an open book? Recto (the left page is verso)
(18)The white part of the human eye? Sclera
(19)Bride in the 1998 film Bride of Chucky? Tiffany
(20)Mottled green and yellow citrus fruit hybrid between a grapefruit and tangerine? Ugli
(21)Roman goddess of the hearth? Vesta
(22)US state of which Madison is capital? Wisconsin
(23)Irrational fear or dislike of people from foreign countries? Xenophobia
(24)Circular collapsible tent of felt or skins used by Mongolian nomads? Yurt
(25)Italian dessert of whipped egg yolks, sugar and marsala wine? Zabbaglione
(26)Zurich's river? Limmat

entertainment

(1)Which UK politician was replaced by a tub or lard when he failed to turn up for a recording of TV quiz show Have I Got News For You? Roy Hattersley
(2)Who played the title role in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee? Emma Thompson
(3)What was the name of Lucille Ball's Cuban band-leader first husband? Desi Arnaz
(4)Who took over the hosting of BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 2005? Kirsty Young
(5)In which UK TV series did actor Neil Morrissey make his first television appearance? Boon
(6)What was the name of Bruce Springsteen's 1970s-80s backing group? The E Street Band
(7)Which was the first British TV game show to be adapted for screening in the USA? The Krypton Factor
(8)Which sport is the subject of the 1977 film Slap Shot, starring Paul Newman? Ice hockey
(9)Who wrote the novel Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Robert Louis Stevenson
(10)What was the name of Scarlet O'Hara's first husband in Gone with the Wind? Charles Hamilton (second was Frank Kennedy, followed by Rhett Butler)
(11)Which British TV comedy series took its name from the title of a 1960 crime-comedy film starring Jack Hawkins? The League of Gentlemen
(12)Which TV and film character's full name is Alistair Graham? Ali G
(13)Which TV soap actress played Cleopatra in the 1964 film Carry On Cleo? Amanda Barrie (she later played Alma Baldwin in Coronation Street)
(14)What was the name of the ranch in TV's cowboy series Bonanza? The Ponderosa
(15)Whose autobiography is entitled With Nails? Richard E Grant
(16)Which film saw the return after 12 years of Sean Connery as James Bond? Never Say Never Again (1983)
(17)What is the name of Inspector Clouseau's manservant? Cato
(18)Which actor is the voice of Z in the 1998 film Antz? Woody Allen
(19)Which British pop group did Graham Nash leave to join David Crosby in forming Crosby Stills Nash and Young? The Hollies
(20)What did M*A*S*H stand for? Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
(21)What was the first Beatles film? Hard Day's Night (1964)
(22)What is the occupation of The Fugitive? Surgeon (Dr Richard Kimble)
(23)Which band released the album Zooropa? U2
(२४)Which actor brothers played the piano players in the 1989 film The Fabulous Baker Boys? Jeff and Beau Bridges
(25)Which football team is the subject of the 1996 film Fever Pitch? Arsenal
(26)Johnny Knoxville became famous in what TV show? Jackass
(२७)Which singer and actress was born Julia Elizabeth Wells in 1935? Julie Andrews
(28)Which actor played Bruce Wayne in the 2005 film Batman Begins? Christian Bale
(29)Who did Deidre Langton marry in Coronation Street in 1981? Ken Barlow
(30)Who spoke the only word in the 1976 film Silent Movie? Marcel Marceau (the French mime artist - he said, "Non.")

History

(1) What took place on Griffin's Wharf in America in 1773? The Boston Tea Party (on 16 December - American colonists, protesting against British taxes and lack of self-governance, dumped more than 300 crates of British-owned tea in Boston harbour, after boarding three ships disguised as Mohawk natives - the event is regarded as a precursor to the American revolutionary war of independence)
(2) What was the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims travelled to North America in 1620? The Mayflower
(3) What was the name of the English farmer who invented the seed-planting drill in 1701? Jethro Tull
(4) In which year was Nelson Mandela released from prison? 1990
(5)What was the nationality of the first non-Italian Pope since 1523? Polish (Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, Pope from 1978-2005)
(6) What was the name of the world's first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957? Sputnik I
(7) Which country gained its independence from Denmark in 1944? Iceland
(8)In 1803 who started shipping portions of the sculpted frieze from the Parthenon in Greece to England? Lord Elgin (Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin - the sculpted frieze is more commonly known as the Elgin Marbles।)
(9) In which year did French Queen Marie Antoinette go the guillotine? 1793
(10) Who became US president after Herbert Hoover? Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)
(11)French King Louis XIV (1638-1715) was the longest reigning European monarch - how long did he reign? 72 years (from 1643-1715)
(12)Marjorie Robb, who died in Boston USA in 1992 aged 103, was the last living survivor of what? The sinking of the Titanic (1912)
(13)Who in 1963 murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin (according to official accounts) of US President John F Kennedy? Jack Ruby
(14) The Kiel Canal in Germany, officially opened in 1895, connects which two seas? North Sea and Baltic Sea (it is apparently the world's busiest artificial waterway)
(15) Fletcher Christian, who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, subsequently rediscovered and settled on which remote Pacific Island, which had been 'lost' from British maritime records? Pitcairn Island (in the Pacific Ocean, North-East of New Zealand)
(16)What were the waitresses called who worked in the English Lyons Cornerhouse tea rooms, popular in first half of the 1900's? Nippies
(17)In 1624 what was purchased from the local inhabitant Native Americans by the Dutch for a reported sum of $24? Manhattan Island
(18)Which former Prime Minister of India was assassinated in 1991 as he campaigned for re-election? Rajiv Gandhi
(19)Which New York hotel was designed by Henry Hardenbergh in 1897? Waldorf-Astoria
(20)What date is France's Bastille Day? 14th July
(21)Which mountain was climbed for the first time in 1786? Mont Blanc (by Jacques Balmant and Michel-Gabriel Paccard - the mountain is on the border of France and Italy, who each claim the summit is in their country)
(22)In what year did India and Pakistan become independent nations and free from British rule? 1947 (15 August India, and 14 August Pakistan)
(23)Which planet was discovered by William Herschel 1781? Uranus
(24)In 1926, 19 year-old Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to do what? Swim the English Channel
(25)In what year, generally regarded as marking the end of the Cold War, did the Berlin Wall come down? 1989 (9 November)
(26)Which calendar was devised in 1582? Gregorian Calendar (by Aloysius Lilius - it is the calendar that most of the world uses today)
(27)Which London Emporium opened in Picadilly 1707? Fortnum and Mason's
(28)British publisher Ludvik Hoch was better known by which name? Robert Maxwell
(29)Which English King abdicated in 1936? Edward VIII

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Hunting an Elephant

Mathematicians hunt elephants by going to Africa, throwing out everything that is not an elephant, and catching one of whatever is left.Experienced mathematicians will prove the existence of at least one unique elephant and then leave the detection and capture of an actual elephant as an exercise for their graduate students.
Computer programmers hunt elephants by exercising Algorithm
A:1. Go to Africa.
2. Start at the Cape of Good Hope.
3. Work northward in an orderly manner, traversing the continent alternately east and west.
4. During each traverse pass,
a. Catch each animal seen.
b. Compare each animal caught to a known elephant.
c. Stop when a match is detected.
Experienced computer programmers modify Algorithm A by placing a known elephant in Cairo to ensure that the algorithm will terminate.
Economists don't hunt elephants, but they believe that if elephants are paid enough, they will hunt themselves.Experienced economists never saw an elephant, but they try to hunt one by controlling the interest rates.
Statisticians hunt the first gray animal they see N times and call it an elephant.Experienced statisticians add that there is a small probability that the animal they hunted is a mouse.
Lawyers can let hunting a single elephant drag out for several years. Experienced lawyers can make it last even longer.
Consultants don't hunt elephants, and many have never hunted anything at all, but they can be hired by the hour to advise those people who do.Experienced consultants can also measure the correlation of hat size and bullet color to the efficiency of elephant-hunting strategies, if someone else will only identify the elephants.
Politicians don't hunt elephants, but they will share the elephants you catch with the people who voted for them.Experienced politicians take the elephant for themselves and blame the press.
Managers set broad elephant-hunting policy based on the assumption that elephants are just like field mice, but with deeper voices.Experienced managers keep in the project file the advise that claims that elephants are just like field mice.
Sales people don't hunt elephants but spend their time selling elephants they haven't caught, for delivery two days before the season opens.Experienced sales people ship the first thing they catch and write up an invoice for an elephant.
Computer sales people catch gray animals at random, and sell any one of them weighs within plus or minus 15 percent of any previously observed elephant.Experienced computer sales people catch gray rabbits, and sell them as desktop elephants.

Work Experience

(1)
"Why are you so excited?", the surgeon asked the patient that was about to be anesthetized."But doc, this is my first operation.""Really? It's mine too, and I am not excited at all."
(2)
A young man, hired by a supermarket, reported for his first day of work. The manager greeted him with a warm handshake and a smile, gave him a broom and said, "your first job will be to sweep out the store."
"But I'm a college graduate," the young man replied indignantly.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know that," said the manager. "Here, give me the broom, I'll show you how."
(3)
Three men took a small plane to the wilderness in northern Canada to hunt moose over the weekend. The last thing the pilot said was, "Remember, this is a very small plane and you will only be able to bring ONE moose back."
But of course, they killed one each and returned to the plane with three moose.The pilot said: "I have told you to bring one moose only"."That's what you told us last year," the hunters replied, "but for an additional $100 you allowed us to bring three moose. Here, take $100 now."The pilot agrees, and lets them bring all three dead moose onboard.
Just after takeoff, the plane stalled and crashed. In the wreckage, one of the men woke up, looked around and said: "Where the hell are we?" "Oh, just about a hundred yards east of the place where we crashed last year."
(4)
A Manager of a retail clothing store is reviewing a potential employee's application and notices that the man has never worked in retail before. He says to the man, "For a man with no experience, you are certainly asking for a high wage."
"Well Sir," the applicant replies, "the work is so much harder when you don't know what you're doing!"
(5)
The classified ad said, "Wanted: a very experienced lumberjack". A man answered the ad and was asked to describe his experience."I've worked at the Sahara Forest.""You mean the Sahara Desert," said the interviewer.The man laughed and answered, "Oh sure, that's what they call it now!"
(6)Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
Experience is something you do not get until just after you need it.
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.
Experience is knowledge acquired when it's too late.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Application Jokes

(1)A man applied for a job as an industrial spy. Together with several other applicants, he was given a sealed envelope and told to take it to the fourth floor.
As soon as the man was alone, he stepped into an empty hallway and opened the envelope. Inside, a message read: "You're our kind of person. Report to the fifth floor Personnel Office."

(2)An applicant was being interviewed for admission to a prominent medical school. "Tell me," inquired the interviewer, "where do you expect to be ten years from now?""Well, let's see," replied the student. "It's Wednesday afternoon. I guess I'll be on the golf course by now."
(3)
The navy psychiatrist was interviewing a potential sailor. To check on the young man's response to trouble, the psychiatrist asked, "What would you do if you looked out of that window right now and saw a battleship coming down the street?"The baby sailor said, "I'd grab a torpedo and sink it.""Where would you get the torpedo?""The same place you got your battleship!"
(4)
HR Manager to job candidate: "I see you've had no computer training. Although that qualifies you for upper management, it means you're under-qualified for our entry level positions."
(5)Several weeks after a young man had been hired, he was called into the personnel manager's office.
"What is the meaning of this?" the manager asked. "When you applied for the job, you told us you had 5 years' experience. Now we discover this is the first job you've ever had."
"Well," the young man said, "in your ad you said you wanted somebody with imagination."
"Where did you receive your training?""Yale.""Good, and what's your name?""Yim Yohnson."
(7)
A business was looking for office help. They put a sign in the window, stating the following:
HELP WANTEDMust be able to type, have computer skills, and bebilingual. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.A dog trotted up to the window, saw the sign and went inside. He looked at the receptionist and wagged his tail, then walked over to the sign, looked at it and whined a bit.
Getting the idea, the receptionist got the office manager. The office manager looked at the dog and was surprised, to say the least. However, the dog looked determined, so he led him into the office. Inside, the dog jumped up on a chair and stared at the manager. The manager said "I can't hire you. The sign says you have to be able to type."
The dog jumped down, went to the typewriter and proceeded to type out a perfect letter. He took out the page and trotted over to the manager and gave it to him, then jumped back up on the chair. The manager was stunned, but then told the dog, "The sign also says you have to be good with a computer."
The dog jumped down again and went to the computer. The dog proceeded to enter and execute a perfect spreadsheet that worked flawlessly the first time.
By this time, the manager was totally dumb-founded! He looked at the dog and said, "I realize that you are a very intelligent dog and have some interesting abilities. However, I still can't give you the job."
The dog jumped down and went over to a copy of the sign and put his paw on the sentence about being an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The manager said "Yes, but the sign also says that you have to be bilingual." The dog looked at that manager calmly and said, "Meow."
(8)Are you qualified to this job?
Wanted: Hair-cutter. Excellent growth potential. Wanted: Man to take care of cow that does not smoke or drink. Wanted: Part-time married girls for soda fountain in sandwich shop. Girl wanted to assist magician in cutting-off-head illusion. Blue Cross and salary. Wanted: Preparer of food. Must be dependable, like the food business, and be willing to get hands dirty.
Applicant Speak: what they say and what they mean by it
I know how to deal with stressful situations:
I'm usually on Prozac. When I'm not, I take lots of cigarette and coffee breaks.
I seek a job that will draw upon my strong communication & organizational skills:
I talk too much and like to tell other people what to do.
I'm extremely adept at all manner of office organization:
I've used Microsoft Office.
My pertinent work experience includes:
I hope you don't ask me about all the McJobs I've had.
I take pride in my work:
I blame others for my mistakes.
I'm balanced and centered:
I'll keep crystals at my desk and do Tai Chi in the lunchroom.
I have a sense of humor:
I know a lot of corny, old jokes and I tell them badly.
I'm willing to relocate:
As I leave San Quentin, anywhere's better.
I'm extremely professional:
I carry a Day-Timer.
My background and skills match your requirements:
You're probably looking for someone more experienced.
I am adaptable:
I've changed jobs a lot.
I am on the go:
I'm never at my desk.
I'm highly motivated to succeed:
The minute I find a better job, I'm outta there.
I have formal training:
I'm a college dropout.
I interact well with co-workers:
I've been accused of sexual harassment.
Thank you for your time and consideration:
Wait! Don't throw me away!

Employer Speak: what they say and what they mean by it
Entry level position:
You'll be making minimum wage.
Entry level position in an up-and-coming company:
You'll be making minimum wage; we'll be bankrupt in a year.
Profit sharing plan:
Once it's shared between the higher-ups, there won't be a profit.
Competitive salary:
We remain competitive by paying less than our competitors.
Join our fast-paced company:
We have no time to train you; you'll have to introduce yourself to your coworkers.
Nationally recognized leader:
Inc. Magazine wrote us up a few years ago, but we haven't done anything innovative since.
Immediate opening:
The person who used to have this job gave notice a month ago. We're just now running the ad.
Casual work atmosphere:
We don't pay enough to expect that you'll dress up, although a couple of the real daring guys wear earrings.
Competitive environment:
We have a lot of turnover.
Must be deadline oriented:
You'll be six months behind schedule on your first day.
Some overtime required:
Some time each night and some time each weekend.
Flexible hours:
Work 40 hours; get paid for 25.
Must have an eye for detail:
We have no quality control.
College degree preferred:
Unless you wasted those four years studying something useless like Philosophy, English or Social Work.
Career minded:
Female Applicants must be childless (and remain that way).
Apply in person:
If you're old, fat or ugly you'll be told the position has been filled.
No phone calls please:
We've filled the job; our call for resumes is just a legal formality.
Problem solving skills a must:
You're walking into a company in perpetual chaos.
Requires team leadership skills:
You'll have the responsibilities of a manager, without the pay or respect.
New Job Interview Technique
Take the prospective employee and put him in a room with only a table and two chairs. Leave him alone for two hours, without any instruction. At the end of that time, go back and see what he is doing.
If he has taken the table apart, put him in Engineering.If he is counting the butts in the ashtray, assign him to Finance.If he is waving his arms and talking out loud, send him to Consulting.If he is talking to the chairs, Personnel is a good spot for him.If he is sleeping, he is Management material.If he is writing up the experience, send him to the Technical Documentation team.If he doesn't even look up when you enter the room, assign him to Security.If he tries to tell you it's not as bad as it looks, put him into Marketing.If he is wearing green sunglasses and need a haircut, Software is his niche.If he mentions what a good price we got for the table and chairs, send him to Purchasing.If he mentions that hardwood furniture does not come from rainforests, Public Relations will suit him well.
How many applicants does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but 200 applied for the job. Thirteen. One to change the bulb and a dozen others to make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity to apply for the job.

Proffesional Jokes

(1)
An applicant was filling out a job application. When he came to the question, "Have you ever been arrested?" He answered, "No."The next question, intended for people who had answered in the affirmative to the last one, was "Why?" The applicant answered it anyway: "Never got caught."
(2)
Employer to applicant: "In this job we need someone who is responsible."Applicant: "I'm the one you want. On my last job, every time anything went wrong, they said I was responsible."
(3)
"Young man, do you think you can handle a variety of work?""I ought to be able to. I've had ten different jobs in four months."
(4)
Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources person asked a young applicant fresh out of Business School, "And what starting salary are you looking for?"The applicant said, "In the neighborhood of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package."The interviewer said, "Well, what would you say to a package of 5-weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every two years - say, a red Corvette?"The applicant sat up straight and said, "Wow! Are you kidding?"And the interviewer replied, "Yeah, but you started it."
(5)
In a job interview for policemen the applicants are shown a profile picture of a man, and the interviewer says, "The job that you're applying for requires powers of observation. Make one observation about this man."
The first applicant enters and says, "This man has just one ear." "Get out!!" screams the interviewer.
The second applicant enters and says, "This man has one ear." "Get out!!" screams the interviewer again.
Then the third applicant gets up to go in for his interview. The first two guys are out there and they tell him, "The guy that's giving the interview doesn't like to hear that the man in the picture has one ear.""Thanks for the tip" says the third applicant.
So the third applicant enters, stares at the picture for a while and finally he says, "This man wears contact lenses." The interviewer is impressed and says, "Excellent observation. Tell me, how could you tell?" So the guy says, "Well, this man has just one ear, how could he wear glasses?"
(6)
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
(7)
The local sheriff was looking for a deputy, so Gomer went in to try out for the job."Okay," the sheriff drawled, "Gomer, what is 1 and 1?""11" he replied.The sheriff thought to himself, "That's not what I meant, but he's right."
"What two days of the week start with the letter 'T'?""Today and tomorrow."The sheriff was again surprised that Gomer supplied a correct answer that he had never thought of himself.
"Now Gomer, listen carefully: Who killed Abraham Lincoln?"Gomer looked a little surprised himself, then thought really hard for a minute and finally admitted, "I don't know.""Well, why don't you go home and work on that one for a while?"
So, Gomer wandered over to the barbershop where his pals were waiting to hear the results of the interview. Gomer was exultant. "It went great! First day on the job and I'm already working on a murder case!"

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Ozone Level Test

How To Check the Levels of Atmospheric Ozone Near Your House:

Are you in danger of suffering from increased UV radiation exposure? If you live on earth, then you are! In fact, NASA, ESA, JAXA, and more are working on solutions to the ozone layer problem. The ozone hole, first discussed in the 1970s, has brought great attention to the little talked about stratospheric layer of the atmosphere since that time.
Now, you can check on the level of ozone in your home state or country anywhere in the world by following a few easy steps.
Difficulty: Average
Time Required: 10 minutes
Here's How:
(1)If you do not currently know the latitude and longitude for your hometown, go to Maporama and enter your country and address into the search boxes. If your address comes up unknown, try using an address for a widely popular location in your local area.
(2)Once you have your latitude and longitude location, go to the TOMS Ozone Satellite Web site. Enter your latitude and longitude in the box below the world map image.
(3)The TOMS Satellite data image also allows the user to input the date of the desired information. You can choose any day between January 1st, 2004 and today. Enter in the date you need the information.
(4)The information is displayed in a unit called the Dobson Unit. For more information on the dobson unit,
Read the article The Battle to Save the Ozone Layer.
Download the image of a Dobson Unit.
and take the Tour of the Ozone Tutorial
Each of these steps will lead to a greater total understanding of the ozone hole.
(5)Older data between November, 1978 and December, 1994 and from August, 1996 to the present can be accessed using specific satellites such as the Nimbus-7, Meteor-3, ADEOS, Earth Probe, and OMI.
(6)There! You have the total "column" ozone above your house! Keep in mind, this is NOT the same as the dangerous ground level ozone that is a part of smog. For more information on this type of ozone, read the short tutorial on Ground Level Ozone.
Tips:
Teachers may want to use this information to create lesson plans on gathering ozone data. For even more lessons on the ozone hole, go to the Ozone Solutions Page.
What You Need:
A Computer with an Internet Connection

Capital of Every Country

The 193 Countries on Earth With Their Capital City or Cities
Here's a listing of the capitals of every country on earth (not including Taiwan).
This is a complete listing of the 193 official countries of the world. Please see my article about the Number of Countries in the World for more information on the number 193. (Note that the word "capitol" refers to the building and not to the city).

My World Atlas provides maps and geographic information about every country and non-country on the planet.
Afghanistan - Kabul
Albania - Tirane
Algeria - Algiers
Andorra - Andorra la Vella
Angola - Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda - Saint John's
Argentina - Buenos
AiresArmenia - Yerevan
Australia - Canberra
Austria - Vienna
Azerbaijan - Baku
The Bahamas - Nassau
Bahrain - Manama
Bangladesh - Dhaka
Barbados - Bridgetown
Belarus - Minsk
Belgium - Brussels
Belize - Belmopan
Benin - Porto-Novo
Bhutan - Thimphu
Bolivia - La Paz (administrative) Sucre (judicial)
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarajevo
Botswana - Gaborone
Brazil - Brasilia
Brunei - Bandar Seri
BegawanBulgaria - Sofia
Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou
Burundi - Bujumbura
Cambodia - Phnom Penh
Cameroon - Yaounde
Canada - Ottawa
Cape Verde - Praia
Central African Republic - Bangui
Chad - N'Djamena
Chile - Santiago
China - Beijing
Colombia - Bogota
Comoros - Moroni
Congo, Republic of the - Brazzaville
Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Kinshasa
Costa Rica - San Jose
Cote d'Ivoire - Yamoussoukro (official) Abidjan (de facto)Croatia - Zagreb
Cuba - Havana
Cyprus - Nicosia
Czech Republic - Prague
Denmark - Copenhagen
Djibouti - Djibouti
Dominica - Roseau
Dominican Republic - Santo Domingo
East Timor - Dili
Ecuador - Quito
Egypt - Cairo
El Salvador - San Salvador
Equatorial Guinea - Malabo
Eritrea - Asmara
Estonia - Tallinn
Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
Fiji - Suva
Finland - Helsinki
France - Paris
Gabon - Libreville
The Gambia - Banjul
Georgia - Tbilisi
Germany - Berlin
Ghana - Accra
Greece - Athens
Grenada - Saint
George'sGuatemala - Guatemala City
Guinea - Conakry
Guinea-Bissau - Bissau
Guyana - Georgetown
Haiti - Port-au-Prince
Honduras - Tegucigalpa
Hungary - BudapestI
celand - Reykjavik
India - New Delhi
Indonesia - Jakarta
Iran - Tehran
Iraq - Baghdad
Ireland - Dublin
Israel - Jerusalem
Italy - Rome
Jamaica - Kingston
Japan - Tokyo
Jordan - Amman
Kazakhstan - Astana
Kenya - Nairobi
Kiribati - Tarawa
Korea, North - Pyongyang
Korea, South - Seoul
Kuwait - Kuwait City
Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek
Laos - Vientiane
Latvia - Riga
Lebanon - Beirut
Lesotho - Maseru
Liberia - Monrovia
Libya - Tripoli
Liechtenstein - Vaduz
Lithuania - Vilnius
Luxembourg - Luxembourg
Macedonia - Skopje
Madagascar - Antananarivo
Malawi - Lilongwe
Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur
Maldives - Male
Mali - Bamako
Malta - Valletta
Marshall Islands - Majuro
Mauritania - Nouakchott
Mauritius - Port Louis
Mexico - Mexico City
Federated States of Micronesia - Palikir
Moldova - Chisinau
Monaco - Monaco
Mongolia - Ulaanbaatar
Montenegro - Podgorica
Morocco - Rabat
Mozambique - Maputo
Myanmar (Burma) - Rangoon but moving to Pyinmana
Namibia - Windhoek
Nauru - no official capital; government offices in Yaren District
Nepal - Kathmandu
Netherlands - Amsterdam
New Zealand - Wellington
Nicaragua - Managua
Niger - Niamey
Nigeria - Abuja
Norway - Oslo
Oman - Muscat
Pakistan - Islamabad
Palau - Koror
Panama - Panama City
Papua New Guinea - Port Moresby
Paraguay - Asuncion
Peru - Lima
Philippines - Manila
Poland - Warsaw
Portugal - Lisbon
Qatar - Doha
Romania - Bucharest
Russia - Moscow
Rwanda - Kigali
Saint Kitts and Nevis - Basseterre
Saint Lucia - Castries
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Kingstown
Samoa - Apia
San Marino - San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe - Sao Tome
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Senegal - Dakar
Serbia - Belgrade
Seychelles - Victoria
Sierra Leone - Freetown
Singapore - Singapore
Slovakia - Bratislava
Slovenia - Ljubljana
Solomon Islands - Honiara
Somalia - Mogadishu
South Africa - Pretoria (administrative) Cape Town (legislative) Bloemfontein (judiciary)
Spain - Madrid
Sri Lanka - Colombo
Sudan - Khartoum
Suriname - Paramaribo
Swaziland - Mbabana
Sweden - Stockholm
Switzerland - Bern
Syria - Damascus
Tajikistan - Dushanbe
Tanzania - Dar es Salaam
Thailand - Bangkok
Togo - Lome
Tonga - Nuku'alofa
Trinidad and Tobago - Port-of-Spain
Tunisia - Tunis
Turkey - Ankara
Turkmenistan - Ashgabat
Tuvalu - Funafuti
Uganda - Kampala
Ukraine - Kyiv
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom - London
United States - Washington D.C.
Uruguay - Montevideo
Uzbekistan - Tashkent
Vanuatu - Port-Vila
Vatican City (Holy See) - Vatican City
Venezuela - Caracas
Vietnam - Hanoi
Yemen - Sanaa
Zambia - Lusaka
Zimbabwe - Harare

Pick SLC or CVG Airports to Be On-Time

The U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics provides data about on-time departures and arrivals at major U.S. airports. The latest data shows that Salt Lake City, Utah (SLC) and Cincinnati, Ohio (CVG) are the airports where you have the best change of arriving or departing on-time.

Switzerland Accidentally "Invades" Liechtenstein

Last Thursday, 170 Swiss infantry soldiers accidentally wandered just over a mile across an unmarked border between Switzerland and Liechtenstein and into the country of Liechtenstein. Once the soldiers realized their mistake, they turned around. Switzerland has apologized profusely and Liechtenstein, which lacks a military, says no harm was done by the gaff.

Geneticists: English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Are Same People

According to an article in the New York Times, the DNA of individuals throughout the United Kingdom is so strikingly similar that the people of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales may all be descended from the same majority population that has existed on the islands for thousands of years and may not be descended from different peoples at all. Will we be able to put to rest the idea that England, Scotland, and Wales are separate independent countries?

Largest Road Network

Connie wrote to ask which country has the world's largest road network. According to the CIA World Factbook, India has 3.3 million kilometers of roads (2.1 million miles), making it the largest road network in the world. This figure represents both paved and unpaved roads.

Top 10 Travel Destinations

The World's Most Popular Countries as Travel Destinations
The World Tourism Organization recently released their data for the world's top tourist destinations for 2005. Below is a list of the ten top countries that received tourists from another country, along with the number of visitors for 2005.
You can compare this list to the top twenty list for 1998. Since then, China has nearly doubled the number of tourists and Turkey has more than doubled their number of tourists in the last seven years.
1. France - 76 million
2. Spain - 55.6 million
3. United States - 49.4 million
4. China - 46.8 million
5. Italy - 36.5 million
6. United Kingdom - 30 million
7. Mexico - 21.9 million
8. Germany - 21.5 million
9. Turkey - 20.3 million
10. Austria - 20 million

Quiz-1

http://www.4to40.com/activities/quiz4u/html/generalknowledge01.asp?qid=1&sa=1

100 Years of the history of world

1900:
Boxer risings in china against europeans; king umberto I of italy murdered by anarchist;The commonwealth of Australia created ; Max planck formulates quantum theory . Britain's labour party founded.
1901:
Queen Victoria dies ; succeeded by her son Edward 7; rabindranath tagore founds his santiniketan school;oil drilling begins in persia.
1902:
US acquires perpetual control over panama canal; Aswan dam opened.
1903:
The russian social democratic party splits into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks ; orville and Wilbur Wright successfully fly a powered airplane; Henry Ford ,with capital of $ 100,000,founds the ford motor company .
1904:
Russo-Japanese war ; church and state separated in france ; rolls-royse company founded;first telegraphic transmission of photographs.
1905:
Port Arthur surrenders to Japanese ; demonstration in St. Petersburg brutally crushed by police ("bloody sunday");first partiton of Bengal.
1906:
US troops occupy cuba (1909); Theodore Roo-sevelt , on first trip outside US by a president in office.
1907:
Panic of 1907 causes run on banks , stopped by J.P Morgan's importation of US$100 million in gold from Europe ; Ross Harrison develops tissue culture tecniques c; Baden-Powell founds Boy scout movement.triple Entente.
1908:
Union of South Africa estabilished;earthquake in sutheren calabria and Sicily , 150000 killed;General Motors Corporation formed.
1909:
US explorer Robert E. peary reaches the North pole ; Girl Guides estabilished in Britain.
1910:
Union of South Africa becomes a dominionwithin the British Empire with botha as premier;Japan annexes Korea ; revolution in Portugal .
1911:
Chinese Republic proclaimed Manchu dynasty falls (in power since 1644);Sun Yat-sen elected president ;Roald Amundsen raeches the souyth Pole ; Rutherfords atomic theory ; Delhi made Capital of India.
1912:
Sun Yat-sen fo-unds Kuomintang ( China Natinal Party);Titanic Sinks on her maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg 1,513 drowned .
1914: World War 1 Begins;US Court Decides patent suit on airplanes in favour of Wright brothers against Glenn Curtiss; Panama Canal opened.
1915: Albert Einstein postulates his general theorY Of Relativity; First transcontinental telephone call between Alexander Graham Bell in New York & Dr. Thomas A. Witson in San Francisco. Gandhiji return to India.
1917: October Revolution in Petrograd; The Allies execute dancer Mata Hari As a Spy;us Govt. Purchase Dutch West Indies.
1918: Woodrow Wilson propounds Fourteen points for world Peace;End of First World War; Women over 30 get the vote In Britain;World-Wide Influenza epidemic ,22 million dead.
1919: President Wilson presides over first league of Nations meeting In Paris ,Benito Mussolini founds Fascist party ; Afghanistan fully Independnet. treaty of Versailles.
1920: League Of nations come into being ; Earthquake in China claims 2,00,000 victims, End of Russian civil War; Khilafat movement.
1921: Takashi Hara, Premier of Japan , assassinted . Breakway Chinese Govt. under Sun yat-sen.
1922: Mussollini forms Fascist Government ;John Harwood invents a self-winding wrist-watch ; Mustapha Kemel proclaims Turkey a republic ; Soviet States From USSR ; ulyses published.
1923: Centres of Tokyo & Yokohama Destroyed By Earthquake , 120,000 dead; Ankara replaces Istanbul as capital of Turkey.
1924: First elections in Italy Under Fascist methods ; 65% favours mussolini; Insecticides used for the First time.
1925: Hitler reorganizes Nazi party (27,000 members) and publishes vol.1 of "MeinKampf"Scotish inventor John Logie Baird (1888-1946) transmits a recognisable human Features by Television.
1926: General strike called in Britain ;Republic in Labanon proclaimed; Kodak Produces the first 16 mm Movie film .
1927: "Black Friday" in Germany- The Economic system collapses; I.P Pavlov:"conditioned reflexes"; Broadcasting begins In India .
1928: J.L baired Demonstrates color t.v ; Aexander Fleming (1881-1954) discovers penicillin, Indian Physicist C.V Raman Discovers the Raman Effect;Brazil Economy collapses owing to over-production of Coffee, FIrst Color motion Pictures Exhibited By George Eastman.

Jets Fans, Beware

A guy walks into a bar with his pet dog. The bartender says, "No pets allowed."
The man replied, "This is a special dog. Turn on the Jets game and you'll see." The bartender, anxious to see what will happen, turns on the game. The guy says, "Watch. Whenever the Jets score, my dog does flips." The Jets keep scoring field goals and the dog keeps flipping and jumping.
"Wow! That's one helluva dog you got there! What happens when the Jets score a touchdown?"
The man replied, 'I don't know. I've only had him for 7 years!'

Twas the Night After Christmas

The kids they weren't talking to me or my wife, the worst Christmas they said they had had in their lives. My wife couldn't argue and neither could I, so I watched TV and my wife, she just cried.
When out in the yard the dog started barkin', I stood up and looked and I saw Sheriff Larkin. He yelled, "Roy I am sworn to uphold the laws and I got a complaint here from a feller named Claus."
I said, "Claus, I don't know nobody named Claus, and you ain't taking me in without probable cause."
Then the Sheriff he said, "The man was shot at last night." I said, "That might have been me, just what's he look like."
The Sheriff replied, "Well he's a jolly old feller, with a big beer gut belly, that shakes when he laughs like a bowl full of jelly.
He sports a long beard, and a nose like a cherry."
I said, "Sheriff that sounds like my wife's sister Sherri."
"It's no time for jokes Roy" the Sheriff he said. "The man I'm describing in dressed all in red. I'm here for the truth now, it's time to come clean.
Tell me what you've done, tell me what you've seen." Well I started to lie then I thought what the hell, it wouldn't have been the first time that I've spent New Years in jail.
I said, "Sheriff it happened last night about ten, and I thought that my wife had been drinking again." When she walked in from work she was as white as a ghost.
I thought maybe she had seen one of them UFO's. But she said that a bunch of deer had just flown over her head, and stopped on the roof of our good neighbour Red.
Well I ran outside to look and the sight made me shudder, a freezer full of venison standing right on Red's gutter. Well my hands were a shakin' as I grabbed my gun, when outta Red's chimney this feller did run.
And slung on his back was this bag over flowin'. I thought he stolen Red's stuff while old Red was out bowling'. So I yelled, "Drop fat boy, hands in the air!" But he went about his business like he hadn't a care. So I popped a warning shot over his head.
Well he dropped that bag and he jumped in that sled.
And as he flew off I heard him extort, "That's assault with intent Roy, I'll see ya in court." The above document was written by Jeff Foxworthy.

Christmas Related/Question&Answer

Q: What do elves learn in school?

A: The Elf-abet!

Q: What's the most popular wine at Christmas?

A: "I don't like sprouts" !Q: If athletes get athletes foot, what do astronauts get? A: Missletoe! Q: What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?

A: Frostbite.

Q: Why was Santa's little helper depressed?

A: Because he had low elf esteem.

Q: Why does Santa have 3 gardens?

A: So he can ho-ho-ho.

Q: Where do polar bears vote?

A: The North Poll.

Q: What do you get when you cross an archer with a gift-wrapper?

A: Ribbon hood.

Q: Why do birds fly south for the winter ?

A: Because it's to far to walk.

Q: What was wrong with the boy's brand new toy electric train set he received for Christmas?

A: Forty feet of track - all straight!

Q: What kind of bird can write?

A: A PENguin.

Q: How does Al Gore's household keep Christmas politically correct?

A: On Christmas morning, they give the presents TO the tree.

Q: What do you call a cat on the beach at Christmas time?

A: Sandy Claus!

Q: How do sheep in Mexico say Merry Christmas?

A: Fleece Navidad!

Q: What nationality is Santa Claus?

A: North Polish.

Q: Why does Santa's sled get such good mileage?

A: Because it has long-distance runners on each side.

Q: What do you call a bunch of grandmasters of chess bragging about their games in a hotel lobby?

A: Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer!

Q: What do you get if you deep fry Santa Claus?

A: Crisp Cringle.

Q: What did the ghosts say to Santa Claus?

A: We'll have a boo Christmas without you.

Q: What did Santa shout to his toys on Christmas Eve?

A: Okay everyone, sack time!!

Q: What do snowmen eat for breakfast?

A: Snowflakes.

Q: If Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus had a child, what would he be called?

A: A subordinate claus.

Q: Why did the elf push his bed into the fireplace?

A: He wanted to sleep like a log.

Q: Why did Santa spell Christmas N-O-E?

A: Because the angel had said, "No L!"

Q: What goes Ho, Ho, Swoosh, Ho, Ho, Swoosh?

A: Santa caught in a revolving door!

Q: Why does Santa Claus go down the chimney on Christmas Eve?

A: Because it " soots " him!

Q: What do you do if Santa gets stuck in your chimney?

A: Pour Santa flush on him.

Q: Did you hear that one of Santa's reindeer now works for Proctor and Gambel?

A: Its true . . . Comet cleans sinks!

Q: What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus?

A: Claustrophobic.

Q: Why does Scrooge love Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

A: Because every buck is dear to him.

Q: How come you never hear anything about the 10th reindeer "Olive" ?

A: Yeah, you know, "Olive the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names"

Q: Why did the little girl change her mind about buying her grandmother a packet of handkerchiefs for Christmas?

Q: Olive ?

A: Yeah, you know, "Olive the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names"

Q: Why is Christmas just like a day at the office?

A: You do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit.

Q: Olive?

A: Yeah, you know, "Olive the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names"

Q: What was so good about he neurotic doll the girl was given for Christmas?

A: It was wound up already.

Q: What's a good holiday tip?

A: Never catch snowflakes with your tongue until all the birds have gone south for the winter.

Friday, March 9, 2007

Major Nuclear Accidents

Sept. 30,1999:
Japan's worst nuclear accidents ever occurred at a uranium-reprocessing facility in T okaimura, NE of Tokyo, when workers accidently overloaded a container with uranium , there by exposing workers & area residents to extremely high radiation levels.
Apr.26, 1986:
In the worst nuclear accidents in the history of nuclear power, fires and explosions resulting from an unauthorized experiment at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Kiev USSR (now in Ukraine), left at least 31 dead in the immediate aftermath and spread radioactive material over much of europe. An estimated, 135000 peoplewere evacuated from the region, some of which was uninhabitablefor years . as a result of these radiation released, tens of thousands of excess cancer deaths(as well as increased birth defects) were expected.
Jan.6, 1986 :
A cylinder of nuclear material burst after being improperly heated at a KerrMcGee plant at Gore,Oklahoma,USA . 1 worker died , 100 were hospitalized.
Apr. 25, 1981 :
Some 100 workers were exposed to radiation during repairs of nuclear plant at Tsuruga , Japan .
Feb.11, 1981 :
8 Workers were contaminated when 1,00,000 gallons of radioactive coolant fluid leaked into containment building of Tva's Sequayah 1 plant in Tennessee,USA.
Mar. 28, 1979 :
The worst commercial nuclear accident in the US . occured as equiptment failures and human mistake led to to a loss of coolant and a partial core meltdown at the Three Mile Island reactor in Middletown, Pennsylvana.
Mar. 22, 1975:
Fire at the Brown's ferry reactor in Decatur , Alahama ,USA, caused dangerously lowering of water cooling levels.
Jan. 21,1969:
A coolant malfunction from an experimental under ground reactor at lucens Vad , switzerland ,released radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed.
Oct.5 ,1966:
A sodium cooling system malfunction caused a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Femi demonstration breeder reactor , near Detrot, Michigan,USA,killed 3 workers .Radiation contaminated.
Jan.3 ,1961:
A reactor at a federal installation near the Idaho Falls , Idaho USA, killed 3 workers .Radiation contaminated.
Oct. 7, 1957:
A fire in the windscale plutonium production reactor N of Liverpool,England , released radioactive material ; later blamed for 39 cancer deaths.

The Five Worst Air Disasters

(1) March 27,1977:
Two bo-eing 747's operated by Pan American and klm collide at the airport on
(2) August 12,1985:
Japan air lines boeing 747 crashes into a mountain on a domestic flight ;520 killed.
(3) November 12,1996:
Mid-air crash of two airlines(saudi & kazakh) in bhiwani district,haryana,351 killed.
(4) March 3, 1974 :
Turkish dc-10 crashes northeast of paris;346 killed.
(5) June 23, 1985 :
Air India Boeing 747 , 329 killed.

Monday, March 5, 2007

Wanna Lough

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Saturday, March 3, 2007

National Flag

The Indian flag was designed as a symbol of freedom. The late Prime Minister Nehru called it a flag not only of freedom for ourselves, but a symbol of freedom to all people.

The flag is a horizontal tricolour in equal proportion of deep saffron on the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom. The ratio of the width to the length of the flag is two is to three. In the centre of the white band, there is a wheel in navy blue to indicate the Dharma Chakra, the wheel of law in the Sarnath Lion Capital. Its diameter approximates the width of the white band and it has 24 spokes. The saffron stands for courage, sacrifice and the spirit of renunciation; the white, for purity and truth; the green for faith and fertility.

States & Union Territories

STATES
Andhra Pradesh
Gujarat
Kashmir
Nagaland
Tamil Nadu
Arunachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Manipur
New Delhi
Tripura
Assam
Haryana
Madhya Pradesh
Orissa
Uttaranchal
Bihar
Jharkhand
Maharashtra
Punjab
Uttar Padesh
Chattisgarh
Kerala
Meghalaya
Rajasthan
West Bengal
Goa
Karnataka
Mizoram
Sikkim

UNION TERRITORIES
North
AndamanNicobar
Chandigarh
Dadra Nagar Haveli
East
South
Daman & Diu
Lakshadweep
Pondichery
West

Major Cities

Agra
Chandigarh
Jaipur
Ahmedabad
Chennai
Mumbai
Bangalore
Delhi
Pune
Kolkota
Hyderabad
Thiruvananthapuram

Atlas

Africa
Algeria • Democratic Republic of the Congo • Egypt • Libya • Morocco • South Africa • Uganda • Western Sahara

North America
Canada (Ontario (Eastern Ontario • Toronto) • Nunavut • Quebec (Montreal) • Vancouver)
United States (California (San Francisco Bay Area • California Central Valley) • Lancaster • Chicago • Cleveland • Florida • Las Vegas • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New York City • Oklahoma • Philadelphia • Puerto Rico • Shreveport • Texas (Houston) • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Wisconsin)

Latin America and Caribbean
Argentina • Brazil • Cuba • Colombia • El Salvador • Haiti • Jamaica • Mexico • Panama • Peru • Puerto Rico • Uruguay • Venezuela

Asia
Bangladesh • Cambodia • China (People's Republic of China, Republic of China, Hong Kong) • India (Goa, Gujarat, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh) • Indonesia • Japan • Kazakhstan • Korea • Malaysia • Himalaya region • Pakistan • Philippines (Bohol) • Saudi Arabia • Singapore • Sri Lanka • Taiwan • Thailand • Turkey

Europe
European Union Belgium • Bulgaria • Czech Republic (Prague) • Denmark • Estonia • Finland • France • (Paris) • Germany • Greece • Hungary (Budapest, Miskolc) • Italy • Ireland • Latvia • Lithuania • Netherlands • Poland • Portugal • Romania (Bucharest) • Silesia • Slovakia • Slovenia • Spain (Galicia • Basque Country) • Sweden • United Kingdom (England (Cheshire, Cornwall, London, South East England (East Sussex, Kent, Hampshire)), Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man)

Albania • Armenia • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Croatia • Iceland • Kazakhstan • Republic of Macedonia • Moldova • Montenegro • Norway • Russia • Serbia • Switzerland • Turkey • Ukraine (Crimea) •

Middle East
Egypt • Iran • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Lebanon • Libya • Morocco • Palestine • Saudi Arabia • Turkey

Oceania
Australia • New Zealand

Atlas

Africa
Algeria • Democratic Republic of the Congo • Egypt • Libya • Morocco • South Africa • Uganda • Western Sahara
North America
Canada (Ontario (Eastern Ontario • Toronto) • Nunavut • Quebec (Montreal) • Vancouver)
United States (California (San Francisco Bay Area • California Central Valley) • Lancaster • Chicago • Cleveland • Florida • Las Vegas • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New York City • Oklahoma • Philadelphia • Puerto Rico • Shreveport • Texas (Houston) • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Wisconsin)
Latin America and Caribbean
Argentina • Brazil • Cuba • Colombia • El Salvador • Haiti • Jamaica • Mexico • Panama • Peru • Puerto Rico • Uruguay • Venezuela
Asia
Bangladesh • Cambodia • China (People's Republic of China, Republic of China, Hong Kong) • India (Goa, Gujarat, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh) • Indonesia • Japan • Kazakhstan • Korea • Malaysia • Himalaya region • Pakistan • Philippines (Bohol) • Saudi Arabia • Singapore • Sri Lanka • Taiwan • Thailand • Turkey
Europe
European Union Belgium • Bulgaria • Czech Republic (Prague) • Denmark • Estonia • Finland • France • (Paris) • Germany • Greece • Hungary (Budapest, Miskolc) • Italy • Ireland • Latvia • Lithuania • Netherlands • Poland • Portugal • Romania (Bucharest) • Silesia • Slovakia • Slovenia • Spain (Galicia • Basque Country) • Sweden • United Kingdom (England (Cheshire, Cornwall, London, South East England (East Sussex, Kent, Hampshire)), Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man)
Albania • Armenia • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Croatia • Iceland • Kazakhstan • Republic of Macedonia • Moldova • Montenegro • Norway • Russia • Serbia • Switzerland • Turkey • Ukraine (Crimea) •
Middle East
Egypt • Iran • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Lebanon • Libya • Morocco • Palestine • Saudi Arabia • Turkey
Oceania
Australia • New Zealand

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Definition

Geography (from the Greek words Geo (γη) or Gaea (γαια), both meaning "Earth", and graphein (γραφειν) meaning "to describe" or "to write"or "to map") is the study of the earth and its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity.[1] A literal translation would be "to describe the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes (275-195 BCE). Four historical traditions in geographical research are the spatial analysis of natural and human phenomena (geography as a study of distribution), area studies (places and regions), study of man-land relationship, and research in earth sciences. [2] Nonetheless, modern geography is an all-encompassing discipline that foremost seeks to understand the world and all of its human and natural complexities-- not merely where things are, but how they have changed and come to be. It is said to be the "mother of all sciences" and "the synthesizer of knowledge." As "the bridge between the human and physical sciences," geography is divided into two main branches, human geography and physical geography

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