Thursday, October 23, 2008

Croses Pouplume

The Croses Pouplume ("lousefeather") was an unusual ultralight aircraft developed in France in the 1960s. Inspired by Henri Mignet's Pou-du-Ciel design with its distinctive tandem wing layout, Croses set out to develop a similar aircraft to be powered by a single-cylinder motorcycle engine of around 6 kW (8 hp). The resulting machine, designated the EC-1 weighed only 108 kg (238 lb) empty, and flew around 1960. Like the Pou-du-Ciel, the Pouplume dispensed with traditional ailerons and elevators and pivoted the entire forward wing to provide pitch control

Monday, October 20, 2008

Rose Theatre

The Rose Theatre is located in downtown Brampton, Ontario. It opened in September 2006 with a series of public events throughout the month, culminating in a Grand Opening on September 29th featuring Diana Krall. The theatre includes a main performance hall with seating for 880, and a smaller multi-purpose hall with seating for 130-160, depending on configurationIt was built as "a cultural and tourist destination that will attract significant new business to surrounding restaurants, shops and services". The City says that the facilities are expected to generate $2.7 million in economic activity the first year and grow to $19.8 million by the fifth year. This is predicted to attract more than 55,000 visitors annually who will spend about $275,000 on before and after-show entertainment, creating close to 300 permanent jobs.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Egyptian pyramids

The Egyptian pyramids are pyramid shaped structures situated in Egypt, and were built as a tomb for dead pharaohs. There are over 100 Egyptian pyramids, most of which were built throughout the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. The first Egyptian pyramid was the Pyramid of Djozer which was built during the third dynasty beneath King Djozer. The pyramid was intended by Imhotep as a tomb for the King. The best known Egyptian pyramids are the Giza pyramids which are recognized among the largest structures still built and are the only residual monuments of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Gunung Mulu National Park

Gunung Mulu National Park, on the island of Borneo in the State of Sarawak, is the most studied tropical karst region in the world. The 52,864-ha park contains seventeen vegetation zones, exhibiting a number of 3,500 species of vascular plants. Its palm species are very rich, with 109 species in twenty genera noted. The park is dominated by Gunung Mulu, a 2,377 m-high sandstone pinnacle. At least 295 km of explored caves give a spectacular view and are home to millions of cave swiftlets and bats. The Sarawak Chamber, 600 m by 415 m and 80 m elevated, is the main known cave chamber in the world.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Future of Bluetooth

Broadcast Channel: enables Bluetooth information points. This will drive the adoption of Bluetooth into mobile phones, and enable advertising models based around users pulling information from the information points, and not based around the object push model that is used in a limited way today.
Topology Management: enables the automatic configuration of the piconet topologies especially in scatternet situations that are becoming more common today. This should all be invisible to the users of the technology, while also making the technology just work.
Alternate MAC PHY: enables the use of alternative MAC and PHY's for transporting Bluetooth profile data. The Bluetooth Radio will still be used for device discovery, initial connection and profile configuration, however when lots of data needs to be sent, the high speed alternate MAC PHY's will be used to transport the data. This means that the proven low power connection models of Bluetooth are used when the system is idle, and the low power per bit radios are used when lots of data needs to be sent.
QoS improvements: enable audio and video data to be transmitted at a higher quality, especially when best effort traffic is being transmitted in the same piconet.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the well-known uppermost mountain on Earth. Its peak (not counting the snow covering) being about 8,844m (29,015ft) high – and it continues to produce by an estimated two to five millimeters for each year!

The peak ridge marks the edge between China and Nepal.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Niagara Falls

Located on the border between Canada and the USA, the Niagara Falls comprises three divide waterfalls: the Horseshoe Falls (sometimes called the Canadian Falls); the American Falls; and the lesser, contiguous Bridal Veil Falls.

It is not the tallness, but the width and magnificence of the falls that takes your breath away.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Victoria Falls - Zambia/Zimbabwe

One of the world's mightiest falls, Victoria Falls thunders over a 100m-high, 1.5km-long cliff before rushing its enormous flow (120 million gallons of water a minute) into the Batoka Gorge.

Victoria Falls creates some of the world's most awesome white water, a spectacular view indeed

Monday, September 8, 2008

Paricutin Volcano

Paricutin Volcano in Mexico factually came from nowhere and emerged as a new volcano initial from a instant when the ground in a farmer's cornfield opened in February, 1943, and lava started graceful out! The lava flows then sustained with little break waiting February, 1952.

The lava covered two villages with lava, though there were no casualties, and today the top of the church of one of those villages can be seen peeking out of the solidified lava. A lot of people have climbed the volcano, which stands at a height of 2,800 m.

Monday, September 1, 2008

Angel Falls

Angel Falls is situated in the Guayana highlands, single of five topographical regions of Venezuela. It plunges off the rim of a "Tepuy", or table-top mountain, and free falls 2,421 feet to the river below, making it the tallest waterfalls on earth.In whole it is 15 times higher than Niagara Falls with a total of 2,937 feet.

Angel Falls was formally discovered in 1933 by an American aviator, James Crawford Angel. Getting to the falls can be difficult and usually involves taking a small flight from Caracus to Canaima and then a boat trip and trek to reach the falls. On the other hand, you could decide to just do an aerial fly-by of the waterfalls.

The falls are named after Jimmy Angel, a daring bush pilot from Missouri (Used to fly with Lindbergh's Flying Circus), today a contemporary legend. Jimmy Angel first saw the falls in 1933 with McCracken while penetrating for a legendary Gold Ore.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Aurora Borealis or Northen Lights

Aurora Borealis or the "Northern Lights" is the name known to a stunning light occurrence frequently seen in the northern regions of countries such as Norway, Sweden, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Alaska and Canada.

Mesmerizing, eerie, and never the same twice, Aurora Borealis flickers crossways the northern sky the majority often from September to October and March to April.

The Northern lights have frequently been described as the most astonishing natural firework display possible – with sparkling lights and surging colors in the sky.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the uppermost mountain in the world. Its height of 29,035 feet (8,850 meters) was determined using GPS satellite equipment on May 5, 1999. It was before supposed to be slightly lower (29,028 feet /8,848 meters), as determined in 1954 by averaging measurements from a variety of sites around the mountain. The new height has been confirmed through the National Geographic Society.

The first seven attempts on Everest, initial with a reconnaissance in 1921, approached the mountain from Tibet, where a route to the peak via the North Col and North Ridge seemed possible. All were ineffective. George Mallory, who spearheaded the first three expeditions, lost his life with Andrew Irvine throughout a failed ascent in 1924.

Unsuccessful attempts continued through 1938, then halted throughout World War II. By the war's ending, Tibet had closed its borders, and Nepal, previously unreachable, had done the opposite.


Thursday, August 14, 2008

Harbor of Rio de Janeiro

The Rio de Janeiro harbor is a stunning natural setting in south-east Brazil, stretching inland for concerning 20 miles. Many people know the bay for its huge statue of Jesus Christ – known as Christ the Redeemer or "Christo Redentor" – which looms on the Corcovado Mountain overlooking the bay.

There is some mistake in the name; Rio de Janeiro means River of January, but it is on the shores of Guanabara Bay. The Portuguese sailors who came early were in a naming spree; establish a calm water body within 20 miles of the shore they took it for the mouth of a river and named it Rio de Janeiro -the River of January as they exposed it in the month of January. Now the bay is Guanabara Bay its original name called by the natives and the enormous natural harbor functioning within the bay and the near city all are ‘Harbor of Rio de Janeiro’. It is the capital of the Brazilian state with the similar name -Rio de Janeiro.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's main coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for 2,600 kilometers (1,616 mi) in excess of an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometers (132,974 sq mi) along the north-eastern shore of Australia.

The Great Barrier Reef is a system of islands and coral reefs that is home to a huge biological variety of plants and animals. In addition to its ecological value, the area offers visitors the possibility to do a diversity of activities – including scuba diving, snorkeling, watersports and birdwatching – and a lot of places along the Queensland coast also present boat trips to the reef on a daily basis.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon is a huge rift in the Colorado Plateau that exposes uplifted Proterozoic and Paleozoic strata. The Grand Canyon is unmatched all through the world for the vistas it offers to visitors on the rim. It is not the deepest canyon in the world — together the Barranca del Cobre in Northern Mexico and Hell's Canyon on the Oregon-Idaho border are deeper — other than Grand Canyon is known for its overwhelming size and its complicated and colorful landscape. Physically it is significant because of the thick series of ancient rocks that are wonderfully preserved and bare in the walls of the canyon. These rock layers evidence much of the early geologic history of the North American continent. Grand Canyon is also one of the majority spectacular examples of natural erosion in the world.

Monday, August 4, 2008

The Pyramid at Chichen Itza

The Pyramid at Chichén Itzá (before 800 A.D.) Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, the most well-known Mayan temple city, served as the supporting and economic middle of the Mayan civilization. Its a variety of structures - the pyramid of Kukulkan, the Temple of Chac Mool, the Hall of the Thousand Pillars, and the Playing meadow of the Prisoners – can still be seen today and are affectionate of an extraordinary commitment to architectural space and work of art. The pyramid itself was the last, and debatably the greatest, of all Mayan temples.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Petra

Petra lies concerning 3-5 hours south of modern Amman, about 2 hours north of Aqaba, on the boundaries of the mountainous desert of the Wadi Araba. The city is bordered by towering hills of rust-coloured sandstone which gave the city some natural defense next to invaders.

The site is semi-arid, the friable sandstone which allowable the Nabataeans to carve their temples and tombs into the rock breakdown easily to sand.The colour of the rock ranges from pale yellow or white during rich reds to the darker brown of more resistant rocks. The twisted strata of different-coloured rock form whorls and waves of colour in the rock face, which the Nabataeans browbeaten in their architecture.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Christ Redeemer

Statue of Christ the Redeemer is situated at the top of Corcovado Mountain at a height of 710 meters.

Statue of Christ the Redeemer Brazil is surely one of the world's best known and the majority visited monuments.

The statue of Christ the Redeemer represents Jesus standing with outspread, welcoming arms and is one of the most well-known symbols of this lively city.

The entire monument of statue of Christ the Redeemer is 38m elevated with the statue accounting for 30m, the span from finger tip to fingertip is 28m and there is a small chapel housed in the bottom. As a vantage point it offers superb views of downtown Rio de Janeiro, the bay, Sugarloaf Mountain and Copacabana and Ipanema Beaches.

The monument of statue of Christ the Redeemer was inaugurated on the day of Our Lady of Aparecida, 12 Oct 1931 by then President of Brazil, Getúlio Vargas and cardinal Dom Sebastião Leme .

The innovative design of Statue of Christ the Redeemer Brazil was done by a Brazilian, named Heitor da Silva Costa. He was also the engineer in charge of the construction. He shared the project with French sculptor Paul Landowski. It was built from 1926 to 1931, with funds raised from donations. There's a chapel for 150 people on the stand of the statue.


Friday, July 25, 2008

Roman Colosseum


The Colosseum, which stands near the center of contemporary Rome, is possibly the finest existing example of antique Roman architectural engineering. One of the most well-known ruins in the world, thousands of tourists visit it every year.

The Colosseum is shaped like a contemporary football stadium and could seat 45,000 viewers. The four-story facility is 161 feet high, about 600 feet long and 500 feet wide. Events such as fights flanked by gladiators and between men and wild animals were detained there. Awnings could be hung from the walls to defend spectators from the sun.

The oval-shaped, sand-covered floor of the arena at first could be flooded for water spectacles. Later, though, cages for people and animals were installed under the arena. A wall alienated the arena from spectators whose seats rested on sloping concrete ropes as in many stadiums today.

Construction of the Colosseum started during the reign of Emperor Vespasian, who ruled from A.D. 69 to 79. building was completed in A.D. 80.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Taj Mahal


India’s pride and symbol of love and passion, Taj Mahal finally get the position among the new seven wonders as it deserves. The unofficially declaration held in a crowded soccer stadium at Lisbon in Portugal.It joined the other six greatest monuments including ‘Great wall of China’ and Peru’s Machu Picchu.

More than 100 million voters voted for this contest, said organizers on Saturday night. Taj Mahal joined the three Asian and two Latin American monuments along with only one European wonder. The Asian wonders are: ‘Taj Mahal’ of India, ‘Great Wall of China’ and ‘Petra’ of Jordan while in the Latin American monuments, ‘Chichen Itza’ of Mexico, ‘Christ Redeemer’ of Brazil and ‘Machu Picchu’ of Peru could get place in the list. ‘The Roman Colloseum’ of Italy is a single monument of Europe could able to get listed in the new wonders list.

Millions of people along with presented audience were cheered when Hollywood’s actor Ben Kingsley announced the list. The ceremony was live telecasted across the world. These new wonders replace the old wonders selected by Greek Scholars more than 2,000 years ago.

The old wonders were: ‘The Hanging Gardens’ of Babylon, ‘The Statue of Zeus’ at Olympia, ‘The Temple of Artemis’ at Ephesus, ‘The Mausoleum’ at Halicarnassus, ‘The Colossus’ of Rhodes, ‘The Lighthouse’ of Alexandria and ‘The Great Pyramid’ at Giza, Egypt in which only the Giza’s Pyramid is still in existence and the organizers have honoured it by giving a special category of wonder.