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Interesting Facts About Pablo Picasso 2008-07-09 07:33:00 Pablo Picasso, the great Spanish painter and sculptor born in Andalucia, Spain.He also worked on ceramics and produced sculptures.Pablo Picasso was trained as an artist in Spain, but moved to Paris in 1900 where he spent much of his life.He is best known as the Co-founder, along with Georges Braques, of cubism.He carried out an impressive number of paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings. Its creative genius was very varied. In facts, he broke with the artistic traditions while making evolve the Cubism.Pablo Picasso full name was 'Pablito Diego Jose Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y Picasso Lopez'.Till the age of nineteen he used the name Ruiz Blasco after his father before changing his name after his mother.Picasso liked to enjoy the time in the company of his friends when he was not painting.He was never satisfied with one life partner. There always used to be mistresses to give hi ...

Interesting Facts About Hitler 2008-07-09 06:58:00 Born on the 20th of April, 1889, in Brannau, a town in Austria, Adolf Hitler was the 4th child of Klara Hitler and Alois Schickelgruber.Adolf Hitler’s early life was spent in Austria. He liked drawing; however, he was unsuccessful in passing the examination at the academy of arts. He then went to Munich and joined the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment of World War I, wherein he was gassed and wounded, and was also given an award for bravery in action.It was in 1919, after the end of the war, that Hitler joined what was known as the German Workers Party, which he later renamed as the National Socialist German Workers Party, which in turn was abbreviated to the Nazi Party. Soon, he took charge of the propaganda of the party and by the year 1921 he was made the leader.It was in 1923 that the National Socialist German Workers Party, led by Adolf Hitler tried to seize power, from the ruling German Weimar Republic, in the famous Beer-Hall Putsch. However, Hitler was unsuccessful and ...

Interesting Facts About Silver 2008-07-04 06:52:00 Silver has been coined to use as money since 700 BC.The term 'sterling silver' in reference to the grade .925 silver emerged in England in the 13th century.In ancient Egypt and Medieval Europe, silver was often more valuable than gold.Words for silver and money are the same in at least fourteen languages.Silver iodide has been used in attempts to seed clouds to produce rain.Most mirrors are backed with aluminum. For a superior quality finish, silver is used because of its high quality reflectivity.Because of its ability to take the highest polish, silver has a greater reflectivity than even gold!Mirrors are coated with silver because it reflects nearly all light.Of all the metals in existence, silver is the best conductor of electricity.Silver is what makes photography possible. Silver halide crystals are present in unexposed film.In 2003, the UK minted half a million ounces of silver into coins and medals.Silver bearings are used in jet engines because they provide superior performa ...

Interesting Facts About Bermuda Triangle 2008-07-02 04:18:00 The location of the Bermuda Triangle is around the east coast of Florida and Peurto Rico and also a little part of it is next to South CarolinaThe Bermuda Triangle doesn't have an actual absolute location because it is so big but is in-between 80-90 degrees west and 30-20 degrees north.The Bermuda Triangle is famous for the disappearences of over 66 airplanes and ships. The most famous disapearance is an airplane called flight 19. The ship disappeared over 30 years ago and it hasn't been seen since.The Bermuda Triangle is a windy yet sunny place. It's temperature is usually around 60-100+ degrees. The Bermuda Triangle doesn't have distinct seasons. The bermuda Triangle has winds that are normally around 10 miles m.p.hThe Bermuda Triangle is not actually a triangle in fact it doesn't even have a definite shape it never has had a official boundary.The Bermuda Triangle has supposedly been responsible for more than over 66 planes and ships.The Bermuda Triangle has not sucked in all th ...

Interesting Facts About Banana 2008-07-01 06:46:00 The word 'banan' is Arabic for finger.Last year there were more than 300 banana-related accidents in Britain, most involving people slipping on skins.Eating two bananas provides enough energy to see you through a strenuous 90-minute gym workout.In the West, only Germans eat more bananas than we do.A total of 35,000 bananas will be eaten by players, linesmen and ball boys and girls at this year's Wimbledon.The phrase 'going bananas' was first recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary, and is linked to the fruit's 'comic' connections with monkeys.Bananas don't grow on trees but on the world's biggest herb, Musa sapientium .Wild bananas originated in Asia and have been cultivated for more than 4,000 years.Only 14 per cent are exported. Locals eat the rest.Banana fans include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tim Henman, Julia Roberts and Manchester United, who eat banana and jam sandwiches before games. Bananas are America's #1 fruit. The average American consumes over 28 pounds of banana ...

Interesting facts About Maria Sharapova 2008-06-25 02:39:00 In 2003, Maria was named one of the "coolest girls" in America by YM magazine.Maria signed with IMG Models in November 2003. At 17 years and two months, Maria was the youngest Wimbledon finalist since Martina Hingis, who was 16 years and nine months when she won in 1997. Maria collected $1 million and a Porsche Cayenne for her season-ending victory in the 2004 WTA Championship. She donated the car to aid the victims of the Beslan school hostage tragedy.Maria’s second serve in the fifth game at Wimbledon was timed at 102mph.Maria earned her first endorsement deal at her Wimbledon title when her attempted to call her mom on her cell phone failed. She now has a contract with Motorola. According to Terra Lycos, the global Internet Group, Maria was number 11 on the list of most popular user searches for the week ending July 3, 2004. She fell directly behind Spider-Man 2. Maria boasts the most ear-shattering grunt in women’s tennis: 100 decibels. That drowns out Monica Seles (93.7 decibe ...

Interesting Facts About Hypnosis 2008-06-23 09:32:00 Hypnosis is a state of relaxation and concentration at one with a state of heightened awareness induced by suggestion.It is a non-addictive power for the good and is a natural manifestation of the mind at work.Hypnosis has been in use for thousands of years. There is a great deal of evidence to support the belief that Hypnosis was being used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans - for therapeutic benefit - as far back as about the fourth Century BC.Egyptians had very popular 'sleep temples' in which people were asked to lie down and listen to somebody chanting to help cure illness and problems as far back as 1550BC.Hypnosis translated from Greek (Hypnos) means 'to sleep' and while in the state of hypnosis, a person is very, very relaxed.While a person is in this more relaxed state, they find it easier to accept beneficial suggestions (e.g. "you are now a non-smoker"). Hypnosis is similar to daydreaming, in which you become very receptive to proper suggestions.The effects are: wonderful ...

Interesting Facts About Hydrogen 2008-06-17 04:44:00 Hydrogen was discovered in 1766 by English physicist and chemist Henry Cavendish.The name Hydrogen comes from the Greek words Hydro and Gen which mean water generator.The element Hydrogen is colorless, odorless, gaseous, nonmetallic element. The relative atomic mass of Hydrogen is 1.00797 making Hydrogen the lightest of all the elements. When combined with Oxygen, Hydrogen forms water.Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.When Hydrogen is subject to a pressure 500,000 times greater than that of the earth's atmosphere, hydrogen becomes a solid with metallic properties.Hydrogen is commonly used in hardening of oils and fats by hydrogenation.The two isotopes of hydrogen , deuterium and tritium are used in nuclear weapons.About 7.8 million metric tonnes (17.2 billion pounds) of hydrogen are produced in the United States today, enough to power 20-30 million cars or 5-8 million homes. Nearly all of this hydrogen is used by industry in refining, treating metals, and processin ...

Interesting Facts about Barack Obama 2008-06-05 10:47:00 Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, raised there (and, for a few years, in Jakarta, Indonesia), and moved to New York to attend Columbia University. In addition to his Columbia degree, he also earned a law degree from Harvard, where he was the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review.First African-American President of the Harvard Law ReviewObama's parents met in Hawaii while attending the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii of Manoa. His parents divorced when he was two years old, and at age six he then went to live in Indonesia with his mother and step-father (who was Indonesian). In 5th grade, Barrack returned to Hawaii and finished high school, while living with his grandparents.Obama was born to a white, American mother and a Kenyan father. He writes in his 1995 memoir "Dreams from My Father" that he barely noticed the racial difference between his parents in his early childhood.Barack Hussein Obama is named after his father, who was educated a ...

Interesting Facts About Phoenix Bird 2008-06-05 01:24:00 The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death. In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, it is associated with the sun god.According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. Every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird sing a beautiful song while it bathed in the well.Only one phoenix exists at a time. When the bird felt its death was near, every 500 to 1,461 years, it would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it on fire. The bird then was consumed by the flames.The phoenix never existed. It was a large bird, much like an eagle, written about in Greek mythology and based on ancient Egyptian legends.Only one phoenix was said to have lived at a time. This gold and red bird, always a male, lived in Arabia. Each phoenix lived for exactly 500 years, and when it was about to die, it gathered twigs and spices and built a nest. Then the phoenix sat on the nest and waited patiently for a ray of sun to set the nes ...

Interesting Facts About Sugar 2008-05-29 05:39:00 sugar was one of the first pharmaceutical ingredients used, as it still is today, to mask the bitter taste of medicinesIn 1899, the very first carton was used to pack sugar? This revolutionized the sugar business, greatly improving upon the crude wooden barrels from which sugar was originally scooped for customers.In the late 16th Century, a mere teaspoon of sugar cost the equivalent of five dollars in LondonSugar is the only taste humans are born cravingA can of Coke has 39 grams of sugar and a can of Pepsi has 41 grams of sugar. That is about seven teaspoons or 13 lumps of sugar per can!Lemons contain more sugar than Strawberries.When the sun explodes, it will compress itself and become so dense that a piece of it the size of a sugar cube will weigh the equivalent of 1 ton.The trick to curing hiccups is to get the nerves that regulate breathing synchronized by taking a teaspoon of granulated sugar.Sugar hardens asphalt. It slows the setting of ready-mixed concrete and glue.Sugar is ...

Interesting Facts About Moon 2008-05-28 07:49:00 Distance from earth: 384'467 km (~364 397 km at perigee, ~406 731 km at apogee) Traveling by car: 130 days Traveling by rocket:13 hours Traveling by light speed:1.52 secFor centuries, many people used to believe that the moon was a perfect sphere that had been created by the gods. In 1610, the Italian astronomer Galileo noticed that actually the Moon had many craters that were likely to have been caused by meteorite impacts. The surface area of the moon is 14,658,000 square miles or 9.4 billion acres Only 59% of the moon's surface is visible from earth.The moon rotates at 10 miles per hour compared to the earth's rotation of 1000 miles per hour. When a month has two moons, it is called a blue moon. One side of the moon is always facing the Earth.The dark spots we see on the moon that creates the image of the man in the moon are actually craters filled with basalt, which is a very dens ...

Interesting Facts About Swimming 2008-05-27 08:01:00 Swimming started in the 1st century.Over 50% of world-class swimmers suffer from shoulder pain.Swimming has been a part of the Olympics since 1896.Some people think swimming started when a person fell into the water and panicking, he started to swim in a way we call today dog paddle.Egyptians made a picture or symbol for swimming as far back as 2500 A.Peanuts are a source of energy for swimmers.Drags slow you down in swimming because they are not skin tight.The shorter your hair is the more chance you have for swimming faster because there is less friction.Swimming can be done for competition and it is helpful in survival.An hour of vigorous swimming will burn up to 650 calories. It burns off more calories than walking or biking.Swimming strengthens the heart and lungsSwimming works out all of the body’s major musclesSwimming help reduce stress Water’s buoyancy make swimming the ideal exercise for physical therapy and rehabilitation or for anyone seeking a low-impact exercise.Swimm ...

Interesting Facts About pi 2008-05-26 14:10:00 Pi is the number of times a circle's diameter will fit around its circumference.Most people would say that a circle has no corners, but it is more accurate to say that it has an infinite number of corners.The sequence of digits in Pi so far passed all known tests for randomness.The fraction (22 / 7) is a well used number for Pi. It is accurate to 0.04025%.Another fraction used as an approximation to Pi is (355 / 113) which is accurate to 0.00000849% A more accurate fraction of Pi is(104348 / 33215). This is accurate to 0.00000001056%. Pi occurs in hundreds of equations in many sciences including those describing the DNA double helix, a rainbow, ripples spreading from where a raindrop fell into water, super strings, general relativity, normal distribution, distribution of primes, geometry problems, waves, navigation....There is no zero in the first 31 digits of Pi.Pi is irrational. An irrational number is a number that cannot be expressed in the form (a / b) where a and b are integers ...

Interesting Facts About Paper Recycling & Paper Industry 2008-05-26 08:10:00 To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year! If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of all paper was recycled. After the war, this number decreased sharply.If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.!!! The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years ...