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Post by atokENSEM on Feb 14, 2004 16:00:49 GMT 8
*Tempat paling sejuk di dunia bukanlah di Kutub Utara atau Kutub Selatan tetapi Verkovank, Siberia dengan suhu serendah 100 darjah di bawah paras beku pernah dicatitkan.
*Tikus kasturi, mamalia paling kecil didunia makan empat kali lebih berat badannya dalam masa 36 jam.
* Kanak-kanak menghabiskan lebih banyak masa mempelajari tentang kehidupan melalui media terutamanya tv. Secara purata seorang kanak-kanak menghabiskan kira-kira 28 jam seminggu menonton tv, dua kali ganda lebih banyak daripada masa mereka di sekolah.
* Bahan buangan (najis) daripada seekor ayam sepanjang hayatnya boleh membekalkan tenaga elektrik yang cukup untuk menyalakan sebiji lampu mentol berkuasa 100 watt selama lima jam.
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Post by StRiDeR on Feb 15, 2004 21:44:00 GMT 8
The Marquis de Lafayette, America's Revolutionary War ally, named his only son George Washington Lafayette.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the fathers of communism, wrote 500 articles for the "New York Tribune" from 1851 to 1862.
While Theodore Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee in 1912, a would-be assassin fired a bullet into the right side of his chest. Much of the force of the slug was absorbed by the President's eyeglasses case and by the 50 page speech he was carrying double-folded in his breast pocket. Nevertheless, the bullet lodged itself just short of his lung, and, dripping in blood, Roosevelt pulled himself up to the podium. He asked the crowd to please "...be very quiet and excuse me from making a long speech. I'll do the best I can, but there's a bullet in my body... I have a message to deliver, and I will deliver it as long as there is life in my body." He spoke for 90 minutes, but was unable to refer to his text due to the gaping hole which the bullet had torn through it.
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Post by StRiDeR on Feb 15, 2004 21:44:37 GMT 8
Karl Marx was targeted for assassination when he met with two Prussian officers in his house in Cologne in 1848. Marx had friends among the German labor unions, and he was considered a threat to the autocrats. Dressed in his bathrobe, he forced the officers out at the point of a revolver, which, it turned out, was not loaded.
Ishi was believed to be the last of the Yahi, a tribe of Native Americans living in California that were wiped out by disease and massacres. In the early part of the twentieth century (1911), he became a sensation when he wandered out of the woods near Oroville. Ishi was taken to the University of California at San Francisco where he lived and worked (as a janitor) in the anthropology museum, helping researchers to document the Yahi language, until his death from tuberculosis in 1916. His name, Ishi, was given to him by the anthropologists. Linguists believe it was his tribe's word for "man."
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Post by StRiDeR on Feb 15, 2004 21:45:12 GMT 8
So many visitors were taking his cigars, so Thomas Edison devised a plan to discourage the practice. He had several boxes of cigars custom-made with cabbage leaves. But when the offensive smelling stogies were delivered to his office, his secretary sent them on to his home where his wife went ahead and packed the items in his luggage, and the offensive items accompanied Mr. Edison on his business trip. This just goes to show you that even a genius can't outsmart his wife.
Henry Waterman, of New York, invented the elevator in 1850. He intended it to transport barrels of flour.
John Greenwood, also of New York invented the dental drill in 1790.
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Post by atokENSEM on Feb 16, 2004 1:00:19 GMT 8
* Air Terjun Angel di Venezuela (Amerika Selatan) yang tingginya 988.31 meter adalah air terjun tertinggi di dunia dan lapan belas kali lebih tinggi daripada Air Terjun Niagara.
* Separuh daripada tulang dalam badan manusia terdapat di pergelangan tangan, buku lali, tangan dan kaki.
* Litar motosikal di Piccola Madonie di Sicily, Italy mempunyai 9,350 selekoh bagi pelumbanya.
* Otak manusia mempunyai 1,000 juta sel. Setiapnya bersambung kepada sekurang- kurangnya 10 sel berlainan untuk berbagai-bagai fungsi.
* Semasa tidur, satu perempat daripada tenaga badan pergi ke otak kerana keaktifan 10,000,000,000 sel saraf perlu dipelihara.
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Post by sha on Feb 16, 2004 8:58:06 GMT 8
Tahukah anda bahwa semua jenis kucing yang ada berasal dari satu nenek moyang?
Apakah kucing itu mengeong atau mengaum, dia tetap saja turunan dari spesies Felis silvestris , yang dapat dikategorikan sebagai kucing liar Afrika, kucing liar Eropa dan kucing liar Steppe.
Jenis yang paling kecil adalah kucing berbulu bintik-bintik yang ditemukan di Sri Lanka. Ukurannya setengah ukuran kucing kampung. Sedangkan kucing yang terbesar adalah seekor harimau. Harimau jantan Siberia atau harimau Amur mempunyai panjang badan keseluruhan lebih dari 3m (10 ft) dan berat badan hingga 300kg (660 lb).
Singa adalah rajanya para kucing. Berbeda dari jenis kucing lainnya, tidak hanya dalam penampilannya saja, tetapi juga dari sifat hidupnya yang berkelompok. Seekor singa jantan berat badannya mencapai 225kg (500 lb) dan panjang badannya dapat mencapai hingga 3m (10 ft).
Kucing yang tercepat, cheetah, juga merupakan binatang daratan yang paling cepat larinya. Dapat mencapai kecepatan 95 km/jam (60 mph) dalam waktu singkat. Tidak seperti kucing lainnya, dia tidak mengaum melainkan bersuara melengking. Dan seperti kucing rumahan, dia juga mendengkur.
Meong!
Kucing kampung mendengkur setiap 26 kali per detik, sama dengan frekwensi mesin disel dalam keadaan idle. Kucing kampung dapat mendengar frekswensi suara hingga 65 kHz, sedangkan manusia hingga 20 kHz. Kemampuan indera penciumannya 14 kali lebih kuat daripada penciuman manusia.
Pada mata kucing ada lapisan pemantul cahaya yang dinamakan tapetum lucidum, yang menyebabkan mata kucing berpendar di malam hari. Lapisan pemantul ini dapat menyerap cahaya 6 kali lebih kuat daripada mata manusia, yang memungkinkan kucing untuk dapat melihat di kegelapan.
Ada lebih dari 3.000 jenis kucing kampung, tetapi hanya 8% diantaranya yang mempunyai silsilah. Dan tidak seperti kucing biasanya, jenis ini ditemukan diseluruh dunia dengan jenis yang berlimpah. Di Amerika Serikat sendiri, jumlah kucing lebih banyak daripada jumlah anjing, dan masyarakat lebih banyak berbelanja makanan kucing daripada makanan bayi.
Kucing kampung - atau jenis kucing apapun juga - tidak mempunyai 9 nyawa cadangan. Mereka juga tidak selalu mendarat dengan ujung kakiknya. Dikatakan bahwa seekor kucing yang jatuh dari tingkat 20 mempunyai kemungkinan selamat lebih besar dibanding dengan yang jatuh dari tingkat 7, karena seekor kucing membutuhkan ketinggian sekurangnya 7 lantai untuk dapat mengatur tubuhnya agar dapat mendarat dengan kakinya.
Kucing melangkah dengan kedua kaki kirinya, sedangkan pada saat berlari menggunakan kedua kaki kanannya. Satu-satunya binatang yang melakukan hal ini adalah jerapah dan onta.
Kucing langka
Memang jenis kucing kampung adalah yang paling banyak, tetapi ada juga jenis kucing yang sangat langka bahkan terancam kepunahan di muka bumi. Hanya terdapat sekitar 250 ekor kucing mirip musang di Malabar, Asia yang berjuang dari kepunahan. Kucing Iriomote, ditemukan di kepulauan Jepang Iriomotejima, dengan jumlah kurang dari 100 ekor.
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Post by atokENSEM on Feb 16, 2004 17:19:42 GMT 8
kebykkn kucing skrg ni..dikacukkn supaya nampak lbh menarik..
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Post by StRiDeR on Feb 16, 2004 20:16:15 GMT 8
The corkscrew was invented by M.L. Bryn, also of New York, in 1860.
Electrical hearing aids were invented in 1901 by Miller R. Hutchinson, who was (you guessed it) from New York.
Dr. Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for polio in 1952, in New York (aaah!).
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Post by StRiDeR on Feb 16, 2004 20:16:50 GMT 8
Four wheel roller skates were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863. Can you guess where?
The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, "Mary had a little lamb."
In the early 1800s, a French silk weaver called Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented a way of automatically controlling the warp and weft threads on a silk loom by recording patterns of holes in a string of cards.
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Post by StRiDeR on Feb 16, 2004 20:17:50 GMT 8
In 1843, a mathematician, Ada Byron, published the first computer programs. She based them on Jacquard's punch-card idea. Her programs were for the first general-purpose mechanical digital computer, that was just invented by Charles Babbage.
As an advertising gimmick, Carl Meyer, nephew of lunch meat mogul Oscar Meyer, invented the company's "Wienermobile". On July 18, 1936, the first Oscar Mayer "Wienermobile" rolled out of General Body Company's factory in Chicago. The Wienermobile still tours the U.S. today.
Jeanne Pierre Francois Blanchard built the first parachute and tested it using a dog. He put the dog in a basket equipped with his invention and then dropped it from a hot air balloon. It was a giant step forward for aviation history, but a giant step backwards in establishing the dog as man's best friend.
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Post by atokENSEM on Feb 16, 2004 23:34:52 GMT 8
*Jambatan gantung dekat Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Haneda, Jepun dikatakan paling panjang di dunia. Berukuran 124 meter panjang dan 4 meter lebar, bahagian tengah bersambung untuk memudahkan ia diangkat apabila kapal lalu di bawahnya. Kos pembinaan adalah lebih murah daripada membuat terowong bawah laut.
*Sungai Huang Ho digelar sebagai Sungai Derita kerana kerap meragut ratusan juta nyawa apabila banjir setiap tahun.
* Ayam juga akan menghasilkan telur yang lebih besar jika hari sentiasa siang.
* Jantina kura-kura boleh dikenalpasti berdasarkan bunyi yang dihasilkan. Kura- kura jantan mengeluarkan bunyi garau sementara betina menghasilkan bunyi yang berdesir.
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Post by enigma on Feb 16, 2004 23:43:53 GMT 8
jambatan pulau pinang adalah jambatan ketiga terpanjang di dunia.....
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Post by atokENSEM on Feb 17, 2004 0:40:50 GMT 8
jambatan pulau pinang adalah jambatan ketiga terpanjang di dunia..... jambatan pertama dan kedua,ape dia? |
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Post by enigma on Feb 17, 2004 11:12:59 GMT 8
jambatan pertama dan kedua,ape dia? itu blom diselidiki lg... |
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Post by atokENSEM on Feb 17, 2004 17:02:34 GMT 8
itu blom diselidiki lg... la..ingatkn tau! |
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