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Pug ♥ ♥

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Pug ♥ ♥

The pug is a toy dog with a wrinkly, short-muzzled face, and curled tail. The breed has a fine, glossy coat that comes in a variety of colors, and a compact square body with well-developed muscle. They have been described as multum in parvo ("much in little"), referring to the pug's personality and small size.
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Do you love Kite Flying?

» Do you love Kite Flying?

Do you love Kite Flying?
Did you know? Basant is one of the six ritus (seasons) corresponding to spring. Vasanta Panchami (Sanskrit: वसन्त पञ्चमी), an Indian festival celebrated every year on the fifth day (Panchami) of the Hindu month Magh (January–February), the first day of spring.

A fighter Kite which is invented in India and Pakistan is called a “Patang” “Guda”. These kites were made of tissue paper and two sticks of bamboo and most recently now kites were made of plastic wrap or Mylar (Non-sticky plastic).

The kites fly by line or thread. The line is called “Manjha”, a glass coated thread and each flier attempts to cut every other kite out of the sky. They always make competition with each other. The last kite flying is the winner.

In many of the states they do large scale of competition. Some of the competitions are last standing kite, some competitions are beautiful kites and some competitions are related to biggest kites.
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Bill Gates

» Bill Gates

At least 6 million lives have been saved by Bill Gates as he has given away more than $28 billion in charity since 2007.
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Apple can\'t call iPad an iPad in China

» Apple can\'t call iPad an iPad in China

Apple can\'t call iPad an iPad in China

Did you know? A court in China has rejected a lawsuit by Apple, accusing a company of infringing its iPad trademark.
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Reed Flute Cave, China

» Reed Flute Cave, China

It is a natural limestone cave with multicolored lighting and has been one of Guilin’s most interesting attractions for over 1200 years. It is over 180 million years old.
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Best Friends

» Best Friends

This pair have been seen together for over a year in Lake Van, Turkey. They were first spotted by local fisherman who witnessed them sharing a fish and playing together.
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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT STATUE OF LIBERTY

» INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT STATUE OF LIBERTY

1. The Statue of Liberty was designated a National Monument in 1924 and a World Heritage Site in 1984.
2. The statue was designed by FREDéRIC AUGUSTE BARTHOLDILDI of Alsace as a gift to the United States from the people of France to memorialize the alliance of the two countries in the American Revolution and their abiding friendship.
3. From the ground to the tip of the flame, the Statue is 305 feet 1 inch tall. This is approximately the same height as a 22-story building.
4. The torch that Liberty holds today is not the original torch. The original has been on display in the lobby since it was removed in 1984. The replacement was added in 1986. The copper flame on the replacement torch was covered in 24K gold. This makes it highly reflective in the daytime sun. At night, 16 floodlights illuminate it.
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The Arctic ocean

» The Arctic ocean

The Arctic ocean is the smallest and shallowest. The Arctic Ocean is the world's smallest ocean. It is mostly covered by solid ice, ice floes, and icebergs
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The Pamban Bridge is situated in Tamil Nadu

» The Pamban Bridge is situated in Tamil Nadu

*BEAUTIFUL*
The Pamban Bridge is situated in Tamil Nadu, India and it is a cantilever bridge on the Palk Strait connects Rameswaram on Pamban Island to mainland India. It was India's first sea bridge and second longest sea bridge in India. The railway bridge is 6,776 ft and was opened for traffic in 1914. The railroad bridge is a still-functioning double-leaf bascule bridge section that can be raised to let ships pass under the bridge.
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Guoliang Tunnel Road, China : VERY DANGEROUS !!!

» Guoliang Tunnel Road, China : VERY DANGEROUS !!!

Located in the Taihana Mountains in the Hunan Province of China, the Guoliang Tunnel is carved along the side of and through a mountain, this 1200 metres long tunnel has been dubbed as the road that does not tolerate any mistakes
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Earth Like Planet Discovered..!!

» Earth Like Planet Discovered..!!

Earth Like Planet Discovered..!!

The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday.
The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a list of more than 500 planets found to orbit stars beyond our solar system. It is the smallest and the best positioned to have liquid water on its surface -- among the ingredients necessary for life on Earth.
\"We are homing in on the true Earth-sized, habitable planets,\" said San Jose State University astronomer Natalie Batalha, deputy science team lead for NASA\'s Kepler Space Telescope that discovered the star.
The telescope, which was launched three years ago, is staring at about 150,000 stars in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, looking for faint and periodic dimming as any circling planets pass by, relative to Kepler\'s line of sight.
Results will be extrapolated to determine the percentage of stars in the Milky Way galaxy that harbor potentially habitable, Earth-size planets.
This is the first detection of a potentially habitable world orbiting a Sun-like star, scientists reported in findings to be published in The Astrophysical Journal.
Kepler-22b is 600 light years away. A light year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion km).
GROUND TELESCOPES
Planets about the same distance from their parent stars as Earth take roughly a year to complete an orbit. Scientists want to see at least three transits to be able to rule out other explanations for fluctuations in a star\'s light, such as small companion stars. Results also are verified by ground and other space telescopes.
Kepler-22b, which is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth, sits squarely in its star\'s so-called \"habitable zone,\" the region where liquid water could exist on the surface. Follow-up studies are under way to determine if the planet is solid, like Earth, or more gaseous like Neptune.
\"We don\'t know anything about the planets between Earth-size and Neptune-size because in our solar system we have no examples of such planets. We don\'t know what fraction are going to be rocky, what fraction are going to be water worlds, what fraction are ice worlds. We have no idea until we measure one and see,\" Batalha said at a news conference at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffet Field, California.
If Kepler-22b has a surface and a cushion of atmosphere similar to Earth\'s, it would be about 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22 C), about the same as a spring day in Earth\'s temperate zone.
Among the 2,326 candidate planets found by the Kepler team, 10 are roughly Earth-size and reside in their host stars\' habitable zones.
Another team of privately funded astronomers is scanning the target stars for non-naturally occurring radio signals, part of a project known as SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
\"As soon as we find a different, a separate, an independent example of life somewhere else, we\'re going to know that it\'s ubiquitous throughout the universe,\" said astronomer Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute in Mountain View.
The Kepler team is meeting for its first science conference this week.
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