Einstein, World's Smallest Horse
Labels: Albert Einstein, Barnstead New Hampshire, Guinness Book of Records, Guinness World Records, Horse, Sports, Thumbelina, United States |Britain's Smallest Mum
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REAL INCREDIBLE INDIA
Labels: Asia, Financial institution, India, Loan, Mumbai, Public transport, Reuters, Social Sciences, Subscriber Identity Module |# Pizza reaches home faster than Ambulance and Police.
# Car loan @ 5% but education loan @ 12%.
# Students with 45% get in elite institutions thru quota system and those with 90% get out because of lesser merit.
# 2 IPL teams are auctioned at 3300 crores and we are still a poor country where people starve for 2 sqaure meal per day.
# Assembly complex buildings are getting ready within one year while public transport bridges alone takes several years to be completed.
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21 Things that'll Happen if the IPL is Nationalized
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The Coffin Sports Car
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Solo Sailor Jessica Watson, 16, completes globe-circling feat
Labels: Abby Sunderland, Australia, Jessica Watson, Kevin Rudd, Port Jackson, Sydney, Sydney Harbor, Sydney Opera House |Watson sails into Sydney Harbor after her seven-month voyage, and is feted by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who calls her 'Australia's newest hero.'
Jessica Watson may have sailed on her own for 210 days, but the last hour of her trip was anything but solo.
As the 16-year-old Australian entered Sydney Harbor on Saturday after circumnavigating the world unassisted, an armada surrounded her 34-foot yacht: hundreds of racing yachts, tiny sea kayaks, dinghies, ferries, powerboats, water police vessels and one bright red tugboat that sprayed water over everyone.
After she wobbled onto dry land at the Sydney Opera House, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told her she was "Australia's newest hero." Other teenagers might think twice before disagreeing with their country's leader on national television. Not Jessica.
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Cursive Handwriting is Necessary
Labels: Cursive, Education, Fountain pen, Marshall University, Penmanship, SAT, United States, Wall Street Journal |Schools are spending less time than ever teaching the art of cursive handwriting, especially as more time is devoted to typing in the early grades. On the 2007 SAT essay questions, only 15% of college-bound students used cursive writing. The rest wrote in print. Some teachers argue that writing in script helps hand-eye coordination, even though average legibility peaks around 4th grade.
Text messaging, e-mail, and word processing have replaced handwriting outside the classroom, said Cheryl Jeffers, a professor at Marshall University’s College of Education and Human Services, and she worries they’ll replace it entirely before long.
“I am not sure students have a sense of any reason why they should vest their time and effort in writing a message out manually when it can be sent electronically in seconds.”
For Jeffers, cursive writing is a lifelong skill, one she fears could become lost to the culture, making many historic records hard to decipher and robbing people of “a gift.”
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Llama Caddies
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World's Smallest Girl
Labels: Conditions and Diseases, Congenital Anomalies, Dwarfism, Guinness World Record, Health, Musculoskeletal Disorders, Nepal, Primordial dwarfism |Kenadie Jourdin-Bromley weighed 2 lbs, 8 ounces when she was born in February 2003.
She was not expected to live more than a day, but she has survived. She continued to defy doctors expectations and at the age of 8 months, Kenadie was finally diagnosed with primordial dwarfism, a genetic condition that is believed to affect only about 100 people in the world.
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Funny Quotes.
Labels: Asia, Beauty salon, India, Juhu, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Patna, United States |# Sign on a railway station at Patna :
Aana free, jaana free,
pakde gaye to khana free.
# Seen on a famous beauty parlor in Bombay :
Don't whistle at the girl going out from here.
She may be your grandmother!
# Seen on a bulletin board:
Success is relative
More the success, more the relatives.
# Sign at a barber's saloon in Juhu, Bombay :
we need your heads to run our business.
# A traffic slogan:
Don't let your kids drive if they are not old enough - or else they never will be.....
#THE BEST ONE :
Its God's responsibility to forgive the terrorist organizations
It's our responsibility to arrange the meeting between them and god.'
- Indian Armed Forces
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