Thursday, 11 October 2012
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Worlds most beautiful and largest hotels|Famous hotels across the world
Worlds beautiful hotels
Rose Tower-Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Height: 333 m (1,093 ft). 72 floors.
Dubai is definitely a leading destination in terms of world’s tallest hotels. next to Burj Al Arab and Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel, ranking 3rd and 4th on the list respectively, it houses the Rose Tower, the world’s tallest building used exclusively as a hotel. the construction of the complex commenced in 2004 and was finished in 2007. the official opening of the hotel is scheduled for December 2009.Saturday, 31 December 2011
Some weird facts about human body
Weird but interesting facts about human body...
- The brain doesn’t feel pain: Even though the brain processes pain signals, the brain itself does not actually feel pain.
- Your brain has huge oxygen needs:Your brain requires 20 percent of the oxygen and calories your body needs — even though your brain only makes up two percent of your total body weight.
- 80% of the brain is water: Instead of being relatively solid, your brain 80% water. This means that it is important that you remain properly hydrated for the sake of your mind.
- Males sweat 40% more then females.
- Your brain comes out to play at night: You’d think that your brain is more active during the day, when the rest of your body is. But it’s not. Your brain is more active when you sleep.
- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than Left-handed people do.
- Your brain operates on 10 watts of power: It’s true: The amazing computational power of your brain only requires about 10 watts of power to operate.
- A higher I.Q. equals more dreams: The smarter you are, the more you dream. A high I.Q. can also fight mental illness. Some people even believe they are smarter in their dreams than when they are awake.
- Testosterone in males decreases 10% every 10 years.
- Adrenaline gives you super strength: Yes, with the proper response in certain situations, you really can lift a car.
- Women smell better than men: Women are better than men at identifying smells.
- The brain changes shapes during puberty: Your teenage years do more than just change how you feel; the very structure of your brain changes during the teen years, and it even affects impulsive, risky behavior.
- Your brain can store everything: Technically, your brain has the capacity to store everything you experience, see, read or hear. However, the real issue is recall — whether you can access that information.
- Information in your brain travels at different speeds: The neurons in your brain are built differently, and information travels along them at different speeds. This is why sometimes you can recall information instantly, and sometimes it takes a little longer.
- Your smell is unique: Your body odor is unique to you — unless you have an identical twin. Even babies recognize the individual scents of their mothers.
- Humans use echolocation: Humans can use sound to sense objects in their area using echolocation. It is thought that those who are blind develop this ability to heightened effectiveness.
- Your nose remembers 50,000 scents: It is possible for your nose to identify and remember more than 50,000 smells.
- Your hearing decreases when you overeat: When you eat too much food, it actually reduces your ability to hear. So consider eating healthy — and only until you are full.
- Your sense of time is in your head: How you experience time is all about your perception. Some speculate that stress can help you experience time dilation. Apparently, time manipulation isn’t just for superheroes.
Thursday, 29 December 2011
Facts about Sunflower
The national flower of Russia; dates back to nearly 3000 years. The
Great Russian ruler Peter while visiting Holland was so fascinated by
the sunflower, that he took the seeds back to Russia. It has been found that in Peru, the Aztecs worshipped sunflowers. They
did so by placing sunflower images made of gold in their temples and
crowning princesses in the bright yellow flowers. Interesting??
- Sunflowers are native to the Americas.
- A sunflower head is made up of 1,000 to 2,000 individual flowers that are joined together to a base. The large petals that are found around the edge of a sunflower are individual ray flowers, these do not develop into seeds.
- The sunflower plant can grow from 3 to 18 feet tall.
- A sunflower only requires 90 to 100 days to grow.
- A single sunflower can have up to 2000 seeds.
- Growing sunflowers is a great way to attract birds to your yard.
- More than sixty different varieties of sunflowers can be found in the world. Out of all these, the most common one is bright yellow, with dark brown centers filled with seeds.
- The giant flower on sunflowers is actually made up of many tiny blooms? The center of the sunflower, where the seeds develop, is made up of tiny blossoms that bees absolutely love.
- Sunflowers typically grow between five and twelve feet tall (not counting cute little dwarf sunflowers.)
- At the bud stage, sunflowers exhibit a unique trait called heliotropism -- the bud of the sunflower faces the sun at all times throughout the day, starting the day facing east, and ending it facing west.
- In the last few years, a new form of low-pollen sunflower has been created. This method will not only help reduce the risk of asthma for pollen suffers, but also increase the life of the flower itself.
- A domesticated sunflower has a single-stem and a large seed head. This is in contrast to the wild variety that is highly branched with small heads and seeds.
- A distinguishing quality of the sunflower is that its flowering head tracks the sun’s movement. This occurrence is known as "heliotropism."
- Sunflower seeds are used to produce numerous things like cooking oil, medicine, paint, animal feed and biodiesel.
- New kinds of sunflowers that range from orange, tan, maroon or striped petals are being created. Not only are they different in color but, their centers are also green and yellow instead of the original sunflower color we all love.
- The tallest sunflower was grown in the Netherlands by M. Heijmf in 1986 and was 25' 5.5" tall.
- Kansas city has been nicknamed "The Sunflower State."
- 32.5", was the size of the largest sunflower head which had been grown in Canada.
- The Bonsai technique was used to make the shortest mature sunflower record. The sunflower was grown and was just over 2" tall.
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Saturday, 24 December 2011
World's Largest Snake
World's Largest and beautiful Snake:
The world’s largest snake is the green anaconda. Anaconda is found in Amazon rain forest of South America. The river Amazon in a home to most of the anaconda snakes in the world.
Anaconda can grow as long as 8 meteres long and wide as a fully grown men. It can reach the weight as much as 250 kilograms.
Male anacondas wrap themselves around the female anacondas in an attempt to mate. Females are stronger than males so they can decide on which males to mate with regardless of its size and strenght. Anacondas gestation period is seven months and their litter size is about 20 to 50.
Anacondas are members of the boa constrictor family. They wrap themselves around the prey to kill and then swallow the victim whole.
Anacondas in the wild spend most of their time hanging out in rivers hunting for their food. They are solitary creatures that are somewhat shy and not many of them are easily seen.
Anacondas like to hang out in rivers so it would be difficult to estimate the length of one seen swimming without seeing the entire snake. It's the anaconda's ability to remain partly hidden in the water that makes it difficult to accurately find a specimen that exceeds the current world's record.
The world’s largest snake is the green anaconda. Anaconda is found in Amazon rain forest of South America. The river Amazon in a home to most of the anaconda snakes in the world.
Anaconda can grow as long as 8 meteres long and wide as a fully grown men. It can reach the weight as much as 250 kilograms.
Male anacondas wrap themselves around the female anacondas in an attempt to mate. Females are stronger than males so they can decide on which males to mate with regardless of its size and strenght. Anacondas gestation period is seven months and their litter size is about 20 to 50.
Anacondas are members of the boa constrictor family. They wrap themselves around the prey to kill and then swallow the victim whole.
Anacondas in the wild spend most of their time hanging out in rivers hunting for their food. They are solitary creatures that are somewhat shy and not many of them are easily seen.
Anacondas like to hang out in rivers so it would be difficult to estimate the length of one seen swimming without seeing the entire snake. It's the anaconda's ability to remain partly hidden in the water that makes it difficult to accurately find a specimen that exceeds the current world's record.
Friday, 23 December 2011
Beautiful Cats
Amazing facts about Cats:
- A cat uses it's whiskers to tell if the space they are contemplating entering is big enough for them.
- Cats not only walk on their toes but they have 5 toes on their front paws and 4 toes on the their back paws.
- Sometimes your cat will find it difficult to find the treats you throw him on the floor. The reason is because cats can't see directly under their own nose.
- Cats can jump between 5 & 7 times as high as their tail.
- Ailurophobia: the hate or fear of cats
- 80% of all cats, big and small, have the same reaction to catnip, due to their feline genes. Cats that are younger than 6 months and tigers however, do not react to catnip.
- Just like fingerprints on humans, the nose pad of cats is rigid in a pattern that is completely unique.
- Start a garden inside your home. Cats love to eat grass, parsley, catnip, and sage. However, consult your Vet before
- Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe, camel and the maned wolf.
- Sir Isaac Newton is credited for inventing the cat door.
- Don't put planting a garden for your cat to eat. Many plants are harmful or even fatal to cats.
- Cats prefer their food at room temperature.
- your cat's collar on too tight. Make sure you can slip 2 fingers between the collar and the cat.
- Killing a cat was punishable by death in acient Egypt.
- Domestic cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine. A domestic cat hears frequencies up to about 65 kHz, humans up to 20 kHz. Its sense of smell is about 14 times stronger than that of humans
- The tails of wild cats almost never lift higher than their backs
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