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Did you know Trivia - Former UN head Kofi Annan has called for a "green revolution" to solve the food crisis threatening Africa.
"A genuinely African green revolution could lead to a doubling or tripling of food production," he told the BBC.
Africa needs direct, immediate help for farmers to stop food imports including new seeds and fertilisers, he said.
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Tuesday 6 May, 2008 12:02 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Argentina may be the most distressed story in Latin America, but it is also the most undervalued.
A wave of bad news swept over Argentina last week. The departure of Economy Minister Martin Lousteau, the decision by Standard & Poors to place Argentina on negative outlook and the after-effects of global deleveraging left many investors running for cover.
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Tuesday 6 May, 2008 08:01 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - In Chiang Mai, Thailand's second largest city, motorcycles screech, drone, and dangerously define their way through cars, in the process, discharging a wide range of pollutants into the atmosphere and human lungs.
Motorcycles in this part of Thailand, as in many parts of Asia, are a basic form of transportation.
Motorcycles constitute 70 to 80 percent of the vehicular traffic fleet of Asia. As many parts of the region undergo economic boom, it is expected that the number of motorcycles will continue to grow which will significantly increase the emission of hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide.
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Tuesday 6 May, 2008 04:09 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - The 16th International Conference on Electrical Engineering will be held at Tarbiat Modarres University in Tehran, from May 13-15.
Some domestic and foreign companies active in the fields of electronics, communication, high-voltage electronics and computer will take part in the three-day event to be held in an area of 650 square meters.
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Tuesday 6 May, 2008 12:08 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - The Scotch whisky industry is enjoying unprecedented growth, with exports at an all-time high of nearly £3 billion last year and more than one billion bottles shipped overseas.
Despite growing evidence of an economic downturn, claims of a new “golden era” for Scotch were bolstered yesterday after the main industry body said that a total of 1.135 billion bottles were exported in 2007, up 8per cent on the previous year.
Export sales increased by 14 per cent to £2.8 billion in shipment value, the Scotch Whisky Association said.
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Monday 5 May, 2008 08:06 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Installation of a prototype tidal stream generator is due to commence this week, after the Secretary of State, John Hutton, granted planning permission last month. The Pulse Stream 100 is the world’s first shallow water tidal stream grid connected generator, and the prototype will help reveal opportunities to use well located shallow water resources in close proximity to power consumers. The high energy intensity device is able to capture a significant amount of the energy contained within tidal flows as its arrangement is not restricted by water depth.
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Monday 5 May, 2008 04:05 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - NEW YORK- the company that invented the pull-top aluminum can, announced today that it has worked with Ball Corporation and Coors Brewing Company to introduce the Vented Wide Mouth Can – the industry’s first-ever can with a built-in vent that enables consumers to enjoy a smoother pour.
“In 1962, Alcoa invented the first pull-top aluminum can, which revolutionized the beer and soft drink industries,” said Ann Whitty, Vice President and General Manager of Alcoa Rigid Packaging Division. “This latest invention allows consumers to drink beer out of a can while enjoying a smoother pour, delivering a draft-like experience by reducing the vacuum.”
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Monday 5 May, 2008 12:07 PM |
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Did you know Trivia -WINTER the dolphin has become the world’s first bionic sea creature – after having an artificial tail fitted.
She lost her own when just two months old after getting caught in a crab trap.
The Atlantic bottlenose dolphin could not swim properly and faced death before being rescued by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida.
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Monday 5 May, 2008 10:07 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - IF the idea of a Filipino-designed car tickles your fancy, rest easy that you are not alone. There is enough history to point that we as a people have been perennially on the brink of breaking into truly homegrown auto manufacturing. Most will dismiss the idea of a locally penned automobile as sheer lunacy but there are some cars that have been designed and built in the Philippines that would argue otherwise.
Conge is a name that still comes up over rounds of beer and stories of better days gone by. Much of the reminiscing is centered on the two-door, two-seat Partner model, basically a fiberglass shell built around a space frame chassis and powered by a tuned Toyota 2TG.
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Monday 5 May, 2008 08:05 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - While India's defence budget for fiscal 2008-09 has been hiked by only five per cent in real terms to Rs 105,000 crore ($26.4 billion), China's People's Liberation Army has been given a 17.6 per cent increase in planned defence expenditure to Yuan 417.77 billion (58.79 billion). China's defence expenditure has grown at between 12 and 15 per cent annually in real terms over the last decade.
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Monday 5 May, 2008 04:02 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - JAXA has finally gotten around to releasing video of astronaut Takao Doi’s successful space boomerang toss conducted inside the International Space Station’s Harmony Module in March. (Watch it.)
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Sunday 4 May, 2008 08:01 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - BLUEFIELD — The coal industry is so hungry for workers that at least some coal companies are snatching up coal mining engineering students before they make it through four years of college.
“Our mining engineering technology only has about 10 students in the entire program right now,” Roger Owensby said. “Some students start out in the program, but go straight to work in the mines.”
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Sunday 4 May, 2008 12:04 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - ARE you the office Alpha Geek or one of the lazy Mouse Potatoes?
Or maybe you’re always off work sick because you’re such a Cyberchondriac?
Don’t worry if you struggle to click with these wwweird phrases.
They are part of a new geeky language dubbed Nerdic that’s being used by technology-savvy youngsters and IT enthusiasts.
It is Europe’s fastest-growing new lingo, according to research by website Pixmania.com.
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Sunday 4 May, 2008 08:09 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - While ordinary folks like you and I are busy fussing over what bank will offer us the cheapest home loan, Mukesh Ambani, the world’s fifth richest man with a net worth of $46 billion is all set to build a 22-storey home for his family of four. The gizmo-filled posh pad, named ‘Antilla’ is going to be the world’s most expensive home costing US $2 billion. The building will stand 550-ft tall above the ground and will have 400,000 sq. ft. of interior space when it’s completed in January 2009. So, what exactly has the head of Mumbai-based petrochemical giant Reliance Industries dished out on? Well, for starters, the home has six storey of parking space alone after which the living quarters with nine elevators and a host of storage rooms and lounges begin.
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Sunday 4 May, 2008 04:03 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - According to British military sources, an army entomology team (AET) has been formed with a view to training and deploying ants and termites against our nation’s enemies. The project, called E21, envisages millions of specially-bred bugs being dropped over frontline enemy positions to create widespread damage and considerable discomfort.
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Sunday 4 May, 2008 12:01 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - There are some devices where the expression "you go first" always pops into my head, and this is certainly one of them. We've seen some other wacky designs from Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana that have actually made it into production, so there's a chance that their Libelula Rocket Helicopter concept could turn into a real product.
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Saturday 3 May, 2008 08:09 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - A US woman stole a 20in boa constrictor from a pet shop - by slipping it down her knickers.
The snake was stolen from Preuss Animal House in Michigan.
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Saturday 3 May, 2008 02:37 PM |
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Did you know Trivia -Two pieces of dinosaur dung have been sold at auction for $960 (£486) at an auction house in New York.
The fossilised dung, which resembles rock on the outside, and a colourful mineral inside, is 130 million years old, from the Jurassic period.
Auctioneers Bonhams of New York said it sold for twice the expected price.
The buyer is reported to be Steve Tsengas, the 71-year-old owner of a company that sells products to treat pet animal waste in Ohio.
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Saturday 3 May, 2008 08:38 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - The world's first exhibition of 'extinct and impossible' smells is under way, from the metallic fallout of the first atomic bomb to the aroma of cloves and oranges from first aid kit of a medieval plague doctor.
The acrid reek of a blazing meteor impact, the sweaty bouquet of a space station, the hothouse aroma of a Victorian greenhouse are also there for the smelling at the Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland.
The aromatic exhibition has drawn on the efforts of perfumers, chemists, botanists and a Nasa scientist. "What we have created here is a world first, a scientific flight of fancy made up of exotic and strange scents," says Robert Blackson of the University of Sunderland, mastermind behind the endeavour.
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Saturday 3 May, 2008 04:37 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - A Texan man has been arrested for trying to cash a fake cheque at a bank - for £180 billion. Employees at the Chase Bank in Fort Worth grew suspicious after seeing the cheque for $360,000,000,000 and called the account holder.
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Saturday 3 May, 2008 12:36 AM |
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