Earth Quake Shocks

•  The Island of Ranongga in the south pacific was lifted out of the water by 10 feet in 2007,by an earthquake that measured 8.1 on the Richter scale.
• An earthquake in Mexico in 1985 was strong enough to shake water out of a swimming pool 1,240 miles away in Tucson,Arizona.
• Hundreds of hibernating snakes came out from their underground hideaways in china,just before an earthquake struck in 1975.
• A 2007 earthquake was powerful enough to throw back a torpedo boat that had sunk in world war II.

Rare Rock

A stone Covered with long white "hair" is so rare it has been valued at over a million dollars.The hair is strands of fossilized fungus formed over millions of years. 

Earth Extremes

Antartica

coldest with -129 deg F  Windiest with 190 mph  Iceiest Antartica has 90 percent of Earth's Ice

El Azizia Ethiopia

Hottest with 136 deg F

Wettest (avg) Mount Wai'-ale-ale, kauai Hawaii ,about 500 inches a year.

Driest Atacama Desert,chile no rain since records began

Tallest Mt.Everest 29,035 Feet.

Deepest Pacific Ocean (Mariana Trench) 35,837 Feet

Google

• An estimated 80 to 85 percent of all queries on the Internet are typed into Google's search engines,and google.com is the most visited website in the world.
• According to comscore in 2010,34000 searches are made on Google every second.That's about 88 billion searches a month.
• Google makes its money from advertising, helping direct web users(traffic) to advertisers websites. In 2009, advertisers paid Google $22.9 billion.
• since 2001,Google has bougt more than 80 companies,including youTube,Blogger,photo-sharing site picasa,and slide.com.
• Brin and page pay themselves just a dollar a year- but their Google shares make them billionaires.
• "Goole" means 1 followed by 100 Zeroes.

Million Dollar Homepage

In 2005, British Student Alex Tew came up with an ingenious way to pay for his college education.He built a website of one million pixels and sold off blocks at a dollar per pixel to advertising banners.The website was filled in just five months and included a banner advertising Jack Black's rock group Tenacious D and another for the London Times newspaper. The last 1000 pixels were auctioned in ebay for $38,100!

Website Bust(Boo.com)

Fashion sales website Boo.com went bust in 2000,having run up cost of about $200 million.Its spending included flying a top hairstylist from Newyork to London to style the virtual hair of the website's avator,Miss Boo.

Craiglist.com

• The online classified ad site craiglist is one of the most visited websites in the world, and receives 20 billion page views every month.
• one Million New jobs are listed on craig list every month.
• Every month, 50 million new ads are placed on craiglist.The cost to pay an add for free.

ebay.com

ebay is a popular online aution site.ebay has around 90 million users,spending more than $57 billion each year.

YOU CAN FIND ANYTHING ON eBay

• In 2004 a 50,000 year old mammoth weighing 550,000 lb(250,000 kg) was sold for $98,000.
• A stain on the floor of a garage that looked like a picture of Jesus  was sold on ebay for $1,525.69.
• In 2006,a single Brussels,sprout left over from christmas dinner fetched $2,490 in an eBay auction.The seller,Leigh knight of stockton, England donated the money to cancer research.
• A piece of jewellery sells every 4 minutes on eBay India,where it is the most popular category of item for sale.

eBay best-sellers(by frequency)

• Every 3 seconds: a Woman's handbag.
• Every 9 seconds: a CD.
• Every 21 seconds:a mobile phone.
• Every 120 seonds:a soccer shirt.

Online Shopping

• In 1994,PizzaNet(owned by Pizza Hut) became the first company to offer food delivery over the Internet. The first order is thought to have been for a pepperoni and mushroom pizza with Extra cheese.
• Internet movie retailer Netflix ships out one Million DVD's to customers every day.
• Online shopping is huge in Japan.In 2010,$185 billion was spent by japanese consumers.
• 21% of people in Britain over age of 60 claim to do their weekly food shopping online.

A World Without Wires

•  House hold products,from digital photo frames to refrigerators,are provided with WI-FI access as new applications are developed. A WI-FI enabled refrigerator launched in 2011 can stream music into a kitchen,search for recipes online,and even order food from grocery stores.
• In 2010 free WI-FI hotspots were installed in 820 taxis in Tokyo,Japan.One hundred of these vehicles also include free sony PSPs for passengers to use during their ride.
• People Who need to connect to the Internet when out and about often use a small device called a scanner that detects local WI-FI hotspots without the need to boot up a computer.The scanner can even be built into T-shirts-the logo lights up when a hotspot is found.

Sea Water Battery

Japanese Scientists have Invented a new kind of battery.It uses Sea water as its electrolyte. The batteries are manufactured and stored dry. Whenever you need battery power,Just add Sea water.

Most Famous Telegraph Message

One of the Most famous telegraph Messages ever sent was sent by the wright brothers on Dec 17, 1903 to announce their successful flight.The brothers had to hike over four Miles to the kitty Hawk Weather Station to reach a telegraph station where they could announce their success.

World Largest Dental Cap

World Largest Dental cap is made of surgical steel. This cap is 19 Inches long, 5 Inches in diameter,Weighs 28 pounds and was surgically fitted onto 9 tusk of spike, a resident Asian Elephant at the Calgary Zoo in canada.

St Lucia Island Caribbean Sea

St Lucia Island Caribbean Sea

                                                          St. Lucia is the sort of island that travellers to the Caribbean dream about--a small, lush tropical gem that is still relatively unknown. One of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located midway down the Eastern Caribbean chain, between Martinique and St. Vincent, and north of Barbados. St. Lucia is only 27 miles long and 14 miles wide, with a shape that is said to resemble either a mango or an avocado (depending on your taste). The Atlantic Ocean kisses its eastern shore, while the beaches of the west coast owe their beauty to the calm Caribbean Sea.

In natural beauty, St. Lucia seems like an island plucked from the South Pacific and set down in the Caribbean. Its dramatic twin coastal peaks, the Pitons, soar 2,000 feet up from the sea, sheltering magnificent rain forests where wild orchids, giant ferns, and birds of paradise flourish. Brilliantly-plumed tropical birds abound, including endangered species like the indigenous St. Lucia parrot. The rainforest is broken only by verdant fields and orchards of banana, coconut, mango, and papaya trees.

Fun Fact

There is a broad array of exciting and exotic activities available on St. Lucia. The island's steep coastlines and lovely reefs offer excellent snorkeling and scuba diving. The rainforest preserves of St. Lucia's mountainous interior are one of the Caribbean's finest locales for hiking and birdwatching. Of course, the island also possesses excellent facilities for golf, tennis, sailing, and a host of other leisure pursuits. Not to be missed is St. Lucia's Soufriere volcano, the world's only drive-in volcanic crater.

Natural Hot Spring Manikaran India

Hot  Spring 

Manikaran, perched on the right bank of the roaring Parvati River, is situated at an altitude of 1760 m and is located about 45 kms, from Kullu, via Bhuntar, in Kullu District of Himachal Pradesh. Manikaran, a place of pilgrimage for Hindus and Sikhs, has many temples and a gurdwara.Hot water springs are situated near the bank of Parvati river.Chill watered parvati river tumbling from himalayas on one side  with bubbling hot water spring on the other.The healing properties of the Manikaran Springs are well known all over the country. Pilgrims from far come here and for the cure of their ailments. Rheumatism and muscular pains are said to cured very fast by taking bath in this water. 

Fun Fact

• The water of these springs is so much hot that pulses ( dal ), rice, vegetables etc. can be boiled and cooked in it. In the Gurudwara, the dal, rice and vegetables are boiled in the hot water and served to the visitors after cooking them fine and surprisingly the meal is tasty. 
• Vegetables etc. are cooked in a pan resting on the hot water.
•  Usually the meal is cooked fine in 20 minutes.Even 'chapatis' are cooked by immersion.    

Parvati River Manikaran

Gulfoss Island

Gulfoss Island Iceland

The Golden Waterfalls (Gullfoss) are situated in the upper part of River Hvita. The water cascades down two steps, one 11 m high, and the other 22 m, into the 2,5 km long canyon below. This canyon was created at the end of the Ice Age by catastrophic flood waves and is lengthened by 25 cm a year by the constant erosion.

Glacial water is brownish, since it carries lots of Sediments that the glacial ice has carved off the earth. Gullfoss is called the "Golden Falls", since on a sunny day the water plunging down the three step staircase and then tumbeling in two steps down into the 32 m deep crevice truly looks golden. To stand at Gullfoss and wallow in the beauty and the wonder of nature is an uplifting experience. One feels more energetic when leaving Gullfoss than when arriving.  The volume of water that spills over Gullfoss is 80-140 cubic meters/second.  A safe walk way has been built for people to walk right up to the falls, while at the top of the falls is another viewing deck where a different  point is available for  great photography.

World's Widest Street

Julio Avenue Argentina

This is the widest street in the world. 9 de Julio Avenue (mean July 9th Avenue – in honor of Argentina’s ndependence day) in Buenos Aires, Argentina is the widest street in the world. Has seven track in each direction and it covers the entire block. There is one building that sits on the Avenue (the former Ministry of Transportation building) but there are many famous landmarks along the sides – like the long time French Embassy, the statue of Don Quixote, and a famous monument (The obelisk) and the Plaza de la República. This street width 460 feet or about 140m. It typically takes at least 2 traffic light rotations to cross.

Robot Restaurant Bangkok

Hajime Japanese Robot Restaurant

The Hajime Restaurant in Bangkok is Thailand’s first Japanese robot restaurant, where all the serving waiters are robots.Customers order their food on a touchscreen display and their robotic waiter will whizz into action. The friendly robots will also dance to entertain as they work and go out to collect empty dishes at the customers’ table. Instead of wearing a maid’s outfit, Robot is dressed like a samurai.

Fun Fact

The robot  picks up your food and brings you your order. Or, you should hope it’s your order. You may need to be a high level computer programmer to explain to Robot that you asked for an “extra fork” and not “more pork.”

When not delivering customer orders, Robot might begin wheeling back and forth and swinging its arms to the beat of Jay Tee hip hop tunes. This display isn’t exactly a thing of beauty but there is something about it that forces a smile.

Fecamp Beach

Fecamp France

Fécamp , town in N France is a major port from the 12th to 17th cent., when Le Havre superseded it, Fécamp is now a resort on the English Channel with a casino, sports facilities, and a beach. The town also has shipyards, and food, textile, and machine-building industries. Fécamp dates back to Roman times. A monastery founded there c.660 became a pilgrimage site. Destroyed by Norsemen, it was rebuilt at the end of the 10th cent. and became the Benedictine Abbey of the Trinity. The abbey church, a magnificent example of 12th-century Norman architecture, has numerous additions from the 14th cent. Fécamp is famous for benedictine liqueur, which was first made by the monks in the 16th cent. and which is now made by a private company on the grounds of the old abbey.

Six Senses Ninh van Bay Resort

Six Senses Ninh van Bay vietnam

  Six Senses Ninh Van Bay is a unique   boutique resort sits on dramatic Ninh Van Bay, with its impressive rock formations overlooking the East Vietnam Sea, white sand beach and towering mountains behind, all adding to the sense of being luxuriously at one with nature. In classic Six Senses style, it offers guests an unparalleled experience of luxury reflecting the local environment, and provides personal service from arrival to departure. The exclusive property also presents the reality of the destination, with an architectural style reflecting the traditions of Vietnam. From the dramatic secluded setting to the personal service and sense of style, there is nothing else in Vietnam like the Six Senses Ninh Van Bay. It is perhaps the most romantic getaway in the country.

Amazing Facts

• Accessible only by boat, the resort is fronted by an absolutely private sweep of beach and backed by dramatic, jungle-covered cliffs and hills.
• The area is famous for its white sand beaches and unique rock formations. 
• Its warm turquoise waters teem with life, making it a perfect place for snorkeling or scuba diving.

Seychelles Islands

seychelles Africa

   The Seychelles Archipelago consists of one hundred and fifteen islands in the Indian Ocean.It is located approximately 1,500 kilometres east of the African continent, is famous for its beaches and constantly warm weather along with its raw beauty.There are forty-three Inner Islands and seventy-two Outer Islands. The Seychelles beaches and the great weather have been huge factors in establishing the islands as a popular destination. The highest point in the Seychelles is Morne Seychellois (905 m) on the island of Mahé.Mahé is the largest island and home to ninety percent of the population.

Fun facts

• The Seychelles is home to two Unesco World Heritage sites.
• Seychelles granitic islands are the oldest oceanic islands on earth.
• Seychelles is home to some of the rarest endemic birds (Seychelles bush warbler, paradise fly-catcher, bare-legged scops owl) to be found anywhere on earth.
• Seychelles is scattered over an area of 1.4 million km² of ocean.
• The first settlers to arrive in Seychelles landed on the island of Sainte Anne in 1770.
• Victoria is the capital of seychelles which is one of the tiniest capitals in the world and can easily be explored on foot in less than a day.

Preikestolen Rock Norway

preikestolen-Norway

Pulpit Rock or Preikestolen, Prekestolen in Norwegian, is one of the areas most profound tourist attractions. This natural rock formation with a 25 meter squared plateau stands 604 meters above the sea. Thousands of tourists visit the Rock every year. The trip takes about two hours by foot, but the rock formation can also be enjoyed from the sea by boat. The original name of the rock formation  is "Hyvlatonnå" - which means the tooth of a woodplane. In 2008 nearly 120,000 visitors visited Preikestolen putting it in fourth place amongst the most visited attractions in the area.The plateau from which a person can get a panoramic view of the valley and the surrounding mountains and vistas of green, is one of the most popular tourist destinations of the natural kind in this country. The vast waterway below, and the cliffs that surround it, is one of the most desolate places in one of the least densely populated countries on the planet.