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1. “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
2. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
3. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
4. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they both were deaf.
5. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
6. China has more English speakers than the United States
7. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “GO HANG YOURSELF”.
8. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
9. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
10. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
11. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
12. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu (US) at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
13. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
14. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different
15. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
16. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
17. The longest place name still in use is:
18. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
19. The sentence “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English Language.
20. The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond
21. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
22. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
23. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

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China has declared a top-level emergency plan for the country’s worst drought in five decades that has hit eight wheat-growing northern provinces and left more than 4 million people without proper drinking water.

The crisis was raised on late Thursday to level one emergency from level two, the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief said on its Web site.

That means the Flood Control and Drought Relief office takes control of the relief effort. It also triggers help from railway, civil aviation and other transport departments.

The announcement said rainfall in many parts of northern and central China has been 50 to 80% less than normal rainfall, and that 4.29 million people and more than 2 million livestock were without proper drinking water.

China suffers from an uneven distribution of its water resources. Availability of water for a person in north is less than one-fourth that in southern China. Weather patterns in the arid north and flood-prone south cost the government tens of millions of dollars in lost productivity each year.

The announcement said that the drought, which began in November, has affected 25.5 million acres (10.33 million hectares) of crops.

The official Xinhua News Agency reported that almost half of the wheat crop in the eight provinces — Hebei, Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and Gansu — were threatened. About 43 percent of the country’s winter wheat supplies are at risk,
after some areas have seen no rain for 100 days or more.

Xinhua reported that President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao had ordered all-out efforts to fight the drought at a Cabinet meeting Thursday. It said the government had allocated 400 million yuan ($58.5 million) for relief work.

Television news broadcasts have shown dry, cracked farm fields and crops withering in the ground.

State media has reported that the drought was the worst in some areas since the early 1950s.

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The Great Wall of China was built in the Qin, Han and Ming dynasties as defensive fortifications during the Warring States Periods of the Yan, Zhao and Qin dynasties. However, it did not become known as the Great Wall until the Qin dynasty. The construction required an army of labor that included soldiers, prisoners and average people to complete the more than 4163 miles of the wall. With a history of more than 2000 years, this is on destination that cannot be missed out on.

Fact 1:
It took The China Great Wall Academy 45-days to survey all of the 101 sections of the Wall in different provinces. That’s one time-consuming job.

Fact 2:
The Chinese call the Wall “Wan-Li Qang Qeng” when translated 10,000-Li Long Wall, which 10000 Li equals about 5000 km. It was built solid with a thickness of 30 feet at its widest area and a mere 15 its narrowest sections.

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वित्तीय संकट की दहशत में लुढ़के विश्व भर के शेयर बाजार

वैश्विक वित्तीय संकट और गहराने की आशंका के बीच चौतरफा बिकवाली की आंधी में आज देश के शेयर बाजार उड़ गए। बीएसई का सेंसेक्स 725 अंक की भारी गिरावट से 19 सितम्बर 2006 के बाद पहली बार 12000 अंक से नीचे चला गया। एनएसई के निफ्टी ने 215 अंक का गोता लगाया।

• बीएसई का सेंसेक्स शुक्रवार के 12526.32 अंक की तुलना में 12284.49 अंक पर 242 अंक नीचा खुला और इससे ऊपर की तरफ नहीं देख पाया। ताबड़तोड़ बिकवाली के बीच नीचे में 11732.97 अंक तक गिरने के बाद समाप्ति पर सेंसेक्स 724.62 अंक अर्थात 5.78 प्रतिशत के नुकसान से 11801.70 अंक पर बंद हुआ। सेंसेक्स का यह स्तर 19 सितम्बर 2006 के 11970.47 अंक के बाद का निम्नतम है।
• एनएसई का निफ्टी 215.05 अंक अर्थात 5.66 प्रतिशत के नुकसान से 3602.35 अंक रह गया।
• बीएसई के अन्य सूचकाकों में मिडकैप में 7.13 प्रतिशत की गिरावट रही। इसका सूचकांक 333.57 अंक गिरकर 4344.23 अंक रह गया। स्मालकैप 378.47 अंक अर्थात 6.92 प्रतिशत के नुकसान से 5086.93 अंक पर बंद हुआ।

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