10 Most Beautiful Highway In The World

1. The Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road – UAE

2. Stelvio Pass – Italy

3. Transfagarasan – Romania

4. Col de Turini – France

5. Los Caracoles Pass – Andes

6. San Bernardino Pass – Switzerland

 

7. Oberalp Pass – Switzerland

8. Atlantic Road – Norway

9. Iroha Zaka – Japan

10. The Overseas Highway – Florida Keys

 

 

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT INDIA

1. The name “India” is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshipers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name “Hindustan” combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.

2. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.

3. India exports software to 90 countries.

Some Windows 7 Keyboard shortcut keys

1) For the Easy way of Opening the Ease of access center, Press Windows+U.

2) For Hiding or Showing the Desktop , Press Windows+D.

3) For Opening an Search results Window, Press Windows+F.

4) To minimize the all Windows, press the Windows+M.

5) To lock an computer Press Windows+L.

6) To open the Run Dialog Box, Press Windows+R.

7) To open the Windows Explorer, Press Windows+E.

8) To change the view or Zoom in the Windows Explorer, Press Ctrl+(Mouse scroll wheel )

9) To see any Gadgets are used in your Desktop by Aeropeek, Press Windows+Space.

10) To get focus on the First Task Bar, Press Windows+T.

11) To move the Focus on the last task bar, Press Windows+Shift+T.

Interesting and cool facts about Brain are......

 

 

1) The Brain weighs about 3 pounds

2) Brain can survive without oxygen for 4 to 6 minutes, before it starts to die

3) About 20% of the Oxygen and Blood is necessary from the Human Body to the Brain

4) There are more than 100 Billion neurons in the Brain

5) Cerebrum is the Largest part in the Brain

6) During the Night times Brain works more actively preferred to day times

7) The Brain has no Ability to feel the Pain, due to absence of Pain Receptors

8) About 80% of our brain is made up of Water

9) In the Electronic terms, the capacity of human Brain in memory is in between 3 or 1000 TB( Terabytes)

10) The studies on the Brain Imaging tells us that feelings in human beings are originating from the Brain

Fun Facts About Merry Christmas (We MUST Know...)

Have you ever wondered about some of the things we see and embrace at Christmas? We know that Christmas is the day we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. That story is familiar to us all, and embraced by billions around the world.

But what about some of the other things—like Christmas trees and stockings and Santa? And just how many people on Earth celebrate Christmas, anyway?

Here are a few “did you know” kind of things that intrigued me:

1. The French gave the biggest Christmas present ever in 1886. It was the Statue of Liberty, and they gave it to the United States of America. (The French have one too, a smaller one, in Paris.)

2. Santa Claus was a real Saint. He lived in Myra in the 300s. Myra is in what’s now Turkey. The German name for Saint Nicholas is Sankt Niklaus.

3. The first artificial Christmas Tree wasn’t a tree at all. It was created out of goose feathers that were dyed.

4. Christmas has many, many names. Do you know some of them—aside from, of course, Christmas? How about?Sheng Tan Kuai Loh (China), or Hauskaa Joulua (Finland), or Joyeux Noel (France)? In Wales, it’s Nadolig Llawen, and in Sweden, God Jul. You can read more names for Christmas athttp://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/xmas/world1.htm .

5. That “Xmas” stems from Greece. The Greek “X” is a symbol for Christ.

6. Riga, Latvia was home to the first decorated Christmas tree. The year was 1510. About 36 million Christmas trees are produced each year on Christmas tree farms.

7. The Candy Cane is one of the most familiar symbols of Christmas. It dates back to 1670 in Europe but didn’t appear in the U.S. until the 1800s. The treat we see today, where the shape is Jesus’s hook to shepherd his lambs and the color and stripes hold significance for purity and Christ’s sacrifice, became common in the mid 1900s.

8. The Christmas Stocking got its start when three unmarried girls did their laundry and hung their stockings on the chimney to dry. They couldn’t marry, they had no dowry. But St. Nicholas, who knew of their plight, put a sack of gold in each stocking and in the morning the girls awoke to discover they had dowry’s. They could marry.

9. An estimated 1 of 3 people worldwide celebrate Christmas, including 2.1 Billion Christians.  There are about 7,038,044,500 people in the world, so about 23,460,148 celebrate Christmas.

10. The most popular Christmas Song ever is We Wish You a Merry Christmas. The song can be traced back to England, but its author and composer remains unknown.

11. December 25 was originally a pagan celebration. Nobody knows when Jesus of Nazareth was born and nobody celebrated his birthday for hundreds of years. December 25 was co-opted from pagan rites connected with the winter solstice.

12. The nativity story resulted in several wars. In the first few centuries of the Christian era, controversy over whether or not Jesus was divine at birth created political and social unrest that frequently burst out into full-scale warfare.

13. Mistletoe kissing originated with fertility rites. The hanging sprig is a very ancient symbol of virility and therefore anybody standing beneath it is signaling that he or she is sexually available.

14. Santa Claus originated in a newspaper ad. Far from being a quaint medieval legend, Santa Claus first appeared as a recognizable entity was in a newspaper ad for toys and "gift books" in the mid 19th century.

15. Christmas is only recently a "family" holiday. Christmas was originally celebrated as an adult form of "trick or treat," but with the "treat" consisting of booze and the threatened "trick" consisting of bodily harm or destruction of property.

16. "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" was originally a threat. The ever-popular song was originally sung, loudly and repeatedly, by crowds of rowdy, lower-class servants demanding booze from their masters... or else.  (I.e. "We won't go until we get some!")

17. The Christmas Tree is a manufactured tradition. Victorian intellectuals (like Clement Moore) invented the tradition as part of a social movement to consciously reform Christmas away from its tradition of raucous drinking.

18. Scrooge does not celebrate with the Cratchits. While most cinema versions of "A Christmas Carol" show the reformed miser celebrating with his lower-class employee, in the book, Scrooge celebrates instead with his middle-class nephew.

19. Christmas as a "day off" is a recent innovation. As late as 1850, December 25 was not a legal holiday in New England, so stores were open, business were open, and children were expected to attend school.

20. "The 12 Days of Christmas" costs about $1.3 million. The big challenge is getting the lords to leap in unison.  I figure about $100k per lord, with an extra $100k to cover the birds, rings, milkmaids, and so forth.

Merry Christmas, Everyone!