Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Facts About World Cup 2010
Interesting Facts About the World Cup
The first world cup took place in the year 1930 and is held every four years. However, due to World War II, the event was not held between 1942 and 1946.
Frenchman Lucien Laurent created history by scoring the first goal in the very first World Cup match held in Uruguay in 1930. However, one of the funny world cup facts here is that Lucien was adjudged to be the first scorer, only after the settlement of a dispute which vouched for American Bart McGee to be the first one. Read more on interesting facts about soccer.
What cannot be missed about the fun facts about FIFA World Cup is about the honor to receive the first red card. It was Chile’s Carlos Caszely in the year 1974.
FIFA World Cup fun facts would also remain incomplete without the mention about the youngest player to play in World Cup match. Only 17 years and 41 days old was the age of this little football player named Norman Whiteside. Here's more on history of soccer.
This one may not be one among the fun facts about the FIFA World Cup and may be too. The reason? Hungary is known to have a score of 27 goals in the World Cup of 1954. However, it lost to West Germany 3 – 2. Funny or unfortunate?
Roger Milla, from Cameroon is known to be oldest player to participate in a World Cup Match. This man was responsible to lead his country in the World Cup of Italy 1990. Know more on the history and timeline of soccer.
FIFA World Cup 2010 Fun Facts
Time for some more facts and figures to throw at you from the FIFA World Cup 2010 fun facts. Some facts may not sound funny or be funny, but they sure are informative. So grab whatever you can...
Starting off with the FIFA World Cup 2010 fun facts, the country bringing home the World Cup for the most number of times is none other than Brazil.
The announcement regarding South Africa to host the FIFA World Cup 2010, was made On 15 May 2004 by FIFA President Sepp Blatter. Know more on FIFA World Cup 2010 Standings: Day 1.
One of the most interesting FIFA World Cup 2010 fun facts is about the cut throat competition to make it to one of the 31 places. The number of teams which participated was a whopping number of 200 in total. As South Africa is the host, it automatically qualified for the FIFA World Cup. Read more on FIFA World Cup 2010 Standings: Day 2 and 3.
Here is another one among the FIFA World Cup 2010 fun facts you might like to know. It related to the cities of Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Bloemfontein, Rustenburg, and Pretoria. These are the places which have been selected as venues for staging the World Cup matches. To add to these, there are 10 stadiums which have been organized in these places. Here's more on FIFA World Cup 2010 Standings: Day 4.
Did you know by what name the South African National Team is known? It is 'Bafana Bafana'. In isiZulu, it means 'the boys, the boys'. Know more on FIFA World Cup 2010 Standings: Day 5.
Some of you must be delighted to read this one in this piece of the FIFA World Cup 2010 fun facts, which confirms that the Vuvuzela will be blown in all the stadiums and fan parks.
To conclude this section on the FIFA World Cup 2010 fun facts, in case you were unaware, the world cup will be played between 11 June and 11 July 2010. And yes, as a closing note, the number of viewers which was estimated to have watched the 2006 final in Germany, was an unbelievable 715.1 million!
source from http://www.buzzle.com/articles/fifa-world-cup-fun-facts.html
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Calculus
Friday, July 10, 2009
MJ
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009), often dubbed the "King of Pop," was an American recording artist, widely regarded as one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived. With his trademark black fedora and single, sequinned glove, his unique contributions to music and dance, along with a highly publicized personal life, made him a central part of popular culture around the world for four decades.
One of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, his achievements included multiple Guinness World Records—including the "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time"—13 Grammy Awards, 13 number one singles, and the sale of over 750 million records. He was also a notable philanthropist, donating millions of dollars to the 39 charities he supported, and raising more through his own Heal the World Foundation.
The seventh child of the Jackson family, he made his debut in 1968 as a member of The Jackson 5, beginning a solo career in 1971. His 1982 album Thriller remains the best-selling album of all time, with four others—Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and HIStory (1995)—among the best selling. He popularized several physically complicated dance moves, such as the robot and the moonwalk, now iconic. He is widely credited with having transformed the music video from a promotional tool into an art form, with videos such as Thriller, "Beat It" and "Billie Jean" making him the first African American to amass a strong crossover following on MTV, and others, such as "Black or White" and "Scream", ensuring his popularity well into the 1990s.
Jackson's personal life generated significant controversy. His changing appearance was noticed from the early 1980s, his skin appearing paler and his facial features becoming almost androgynous. He was accused in 1993 of child sexual abuse, and though no charges were brought, his health suffered when he started using painkillers to cope with the stress. He married twice, first in 1994 and again in 1996, and brought up three children, one of them with a surrogate mother, actions that triggered more speculation about his life. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted of different child molestation allegations, which provoked a further decline in his health. Jackson died at the age of 50 on June 25, 2009, in Los Angeles, after suffering a cardiac arrest. His memorial service was broadcast live around the world, watched by millions of people.[3]
*From Wikipedia
Monday, July 6, 2009
Some Very Interesting Facts You Probably Don’t Know
If you yelled for 8 years,7 months and 6 days you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas
is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
A pig’s orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it
starves to death.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
(Do not try this at home .. maybe at work)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is
attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the
male’s head off.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human
jumping the length of a football field.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
A cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish have no brains.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for
pleasure.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
3P Program
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Earth Hour 2009 – What Will You Be Doing?
Cuddling up with your loved ones and admiring the stars in the night sky or organising a treasure hunt in the dark? At 8:30pm on Saturday 28 March, people from all corners of the world will turn off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour - and cast their vote for action on climate change. Anybody can participate and join together with millions of people across the globe celebrating Earth Hour.
Earth Hour is about taking simple steps everyday that collectively reduce carbon emissions – from businesses turning off their lights when their offices are empty to households turning off appliances rather than leaving them on standby.
Here are 10 different ways to spend Earth Hour and reduce your carbon footprint:
1. Attend a local Earth Hour event or organise your own by throwing an Earth Hour street party with your neighbours
2. Gather family & friends for a night picnic in your local park and look at the stars
3. Enjoy a family dinner by candlelight
4. Organise a treasure hunt in the dark
5. Take the dog for a night walk
6. Have a candle-lit bath
7. Sit in the dark and share stories
8. Organise a family night playing board games
9. Share a romantic night in with your loved one
10. Upload your ‘on the night’ photos and videos to flickr and YouTube respectively, and then add them to the Earth Hour flickr group and the global YouTube Group.
Earth Hour Executive Director, Andy Ridley, is encouraging people to participate in whatever way they choose and to think beyond the hour.
“There are no hard and fast rules surrounding participation in Earth Hour. We only ask that you flick that switch and have fun doing whatever you choose to do during that time.
Make Earth Hour work for you. Families with young children should feel free to turn their lights off earlier than 8:30pm and for those having too much fun in the dark during the hour, don’t feel you have to limit yourself to one hour and switch back on at 9:30pm.”
To find out more about Earth Hour, visit the official website www.earthhour.org, sign up and join millions of people in more than 1,400 cities and towns in 80 countries throughout the world by turning off your lights for one hour at 8:30pm on Saturday 28 March.
