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She told the family that she and her neighbours woke up in the night feeling something was wrong. It took a while but they finally realized that it was the lack of noise. They had all become so used to the roar of the falls that the silence was unusual enough to alert their senses. Of course at that time nearly all the houses were near the falls.

Amazing pictures ! Almost 100 years old. Can you imagine walking on Niagara falls?

1911 Photos of Niagara Falls.

Rare Pictures.

Simply Superb. watch out.

Just behind the pupil of the eye is a lens. It is round and flat. It is thicker toward the middle.

If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles.

Smoking causes a decrease in penile blood flow and can cause impotence in males.

The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.

Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.

50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with :new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence! :

Studies indicate that weightlifters working out in blue gyms can handle heavier weights.

It takes seven seconds for food to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.

During a lifetime the average person eats about 35 tonnes of food

Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system

A tiny droplet of blood, contains 5 million red blood cells, 300,000 platelets and 10,000 white cells.

Garlic with its anti bacterial properties is an excellent remedy for acne. Crush it to make some paste and apply on affected area. Rinse after 5 minutes

There are approximately one hundred million people in the United States that have a chronic illness.

The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour.

The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.

Heart attack risk is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

Fingernails grow faster than toenails.

People of Ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache.

A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.

Studies have shown that the scent of Rosemary can help in better mental performance and make individuals feel more alert.

People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose.

Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.

People over the age of fifty will start to lose their dislike for foods that taste bitter.

The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose.

The stomach of an adult can hold 1.5 liters of material.

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for :your heart.

Even if you eat food standing on your head, the food will still end up in your stomach.

Our brain is 80% water

Advisable to maintain a 2 hour gap between milk & meat ,bcoz your body does not absorb any of the milk’s calcium.

All you men out there your untrimmed hair could grow 30 feet long in your lifetime

Fingernails grow faster than toenails.

The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose.

The sound of knuckles cracking is generated by imploding synobial fluid.

At rest, the adult body takes in and breathes out about 6 litres of air each minute.

There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females.

Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye.

Humans spend a third of their lives sleeping.

The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.

Smoking is associated with the development of urinary tract cancer, bowel cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical and uterine cancer? and yes, lung cancer.

Women’s hair is about half the diameter of men’s hair

Your skin is the heaviest organ

You blink your eyes about 20,000 times a day.

There are approximately 60 muscles in the face.

Manicuring the nails has been done by people for more than 4,000 years.

Smile more & frown less !!! It takes 43 muscles to frown & 17 muscles for a smile

Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998.

Close to fifty percent of the bacteria in the mouth lives on the surface of our tongue

To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, travelling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

Your body contains eight pints of blood.

A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.

One pint of blood, saves four lives

Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint.

Tobacco smoke induces the formation of free radicals?- highly reactive molecules that can bind to normal, healthy cells and destroy them.

Each day 400 gallons of recycled blood are pumped through the kidneys.

In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood.

Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 AM.

WRITTEN BY AN INDIAN SOFTWARE ENGINEER..

As the dream of most parents I had acquired a degree in
Software Engineering and joined a company based in USA, the
land of braves and opportunity. When I arrived in the USA, it
was as if a dream had come true.

Here at last I was in the place where I want to be. I decided I
would be staying in this country for about Five years in which
time I would have earned enough money to settle down inIndia.

My father was a government employee and after his retirement,
the only asset he could acquire was a decent one bedroom flat.

I wanted to do some thing more than him. I started feeling
homesick and lonely as the time passed. I used to call home and
speak to my parents every week using cheap international phone
cards. Two years passed, two years of Burgers at McDonald’s and
pizzas and discos and 2 years watching the foreign exchange
rate getting happy whenever the Rupee value went down.

Finally I decided to get married. Told my parents that I have
only 10 days of holidays and everything must be done within
these 10 days. I got my ticket booked in the cheapest flight.
Was jubilant and was actually enjoying shopping for gifts for
all my friends back home. If I miss anyone then there will be
talks. After reaching home I spent home one week going through
all the photographs of girls and as the time was getting
shorter I was forced to select one candidate.

In-laws told me, to my surprise, that I would have to get
married in 2-3 days, as I will not get anymore holidays. After
the marriage, it was time to return to USA, after giving some
money to my parents and telling the neighbors to look after
them, we returned to USA.

My wife enjoyed this country for about two months and then she
started feeling lonely. The frequency of calling India
increased to twice in a week sometimes 3 times a week. Our
savings started diminishing.
After two more years we started to
have kids. Two lovely kids, a boy and a girl, were gifted to us
by the almighty. Every time I spoke to my parents, they asked
me to come to India so that they can see their grand-children.

Every year I decide to go to India… But part work part
monetary conditions prevented it. Years went by and visiting
India was a distant dream. Then suddenly one day I got a
message that my parents were seriously sick. I tried but I
couldn’t get any holidays and thus could not go to India … The
next message I got was my parents had passed away and as there
was no one to do the last rights the society members had done
whatever they could. I was depressed. My parents had passed
away without seeing their grand children.

After couple more years passed away, much to my children’s
dislike and my wife’s joy we returned to India to settle down.
I started to look for a suitable property, but to my dismay my
savings were short and the property prices had gone up during
all these years. I had to return to the USA…

My wife refused to come back with me and my children refused to
stay in India… My 2 children and I returned to USA after
promising my wife I would be back for good after two years.

Time passed by, my daughter decided to get married to an
American and my son was happy living in USA… I decided that
had enough and wound-up every thing and returned toIndia… I
had just enough money to buy a decent 02 bedroom flat in a
well-developed locality.

Now I am 60 years old and the only time I go out of the flat is
for the routine visit to the nearby temple. My faithful wife
has also left me and gone to the holy abode.

Sometimes
I wondered was it worth all this?
My father, even after staying in India,
Had a house to his name and I too have
the same nothing more.

I lost my parents and children for just ONE EXTRA BEDROOM.

Looking out from the window I see a lot of children dancing.
This damned cable TV has spoiled our new generation and these
children are losing their values and culture because of it. I
get occasional cards from my children asking I am alright. Well
at least they remember me.

Now perhaps after I die it will be the neighbors again who will
be performing my last rights, God Bless them.
But the question
still
remains ‘was all this worth it?’

I am still searching for an answer……………..!!!
START THINKING
IS IT JUST FOR ONE EXTRA BEDROOM???
LIFE IS BEYOND THIS …..DON’T JUST LEAVE YOUR LIFE ……..
START LIVING IT …….

live life happily……….

You have two cows in Vijayawada. You hook them to internet and milk
them from Hyderabad ..
Jayalalithaism
You have two cows. You teach them to cry,”Ammaaaaaaa. ..
and fall at your feet.
Karunanidhiism
You have two cows. You give one to your son and the other to your nephew .
Gandhism
You have two cows. But you drink goat’s milk.
Indiraism
You have two bulls. You adamantly consider them as cows.
Lalooism
You have two cows. You buy Rs. 900 Crore worth of cattlefeed for them.
Rajnikantism
You have two cows. You throw them into air and catch their milk in your mouth.
Sardarism
You have two cows. You paint them both to get colourful milk.
Softwarism: (Ultimate… .)
Client has 2 cows and u need to milk them.
1 .. First prepare a document when to milk them (Project kick off)
2 .. Prepare a document how long you have to milk them (Project plan)
3 .. Then prepare how to milk them (Design)
4 .. Then prepare what other accessories are needed to milk them
(Framework)
5 .. Then prepare a 2 dummy cows (sort of toy cows) and show to client
the way in which u will milk them (UI Mockups & POC)
6 .. If client is not satisfied then redo from step 2
7 You actually start milking them and find that there are few problem
with accessories. (Change framework)
8 .. Redo step 4
9 .. At last milk them and send it to onsite. (Coding over)
10. Make sure that cow milks properly ( Testing)
11. Onsite reports that it is not milking there.
12. You break your head and find that onsite is trying to milk from
bulls
13. At last onsite milk them and send to client (Testing)
14. Client says the quality of milk is not good. (User Acceptance Test)
15. Offsite then slogs and improves the quality of milk
16. Now the client says that the quality is good but its milking at slow
rate (performance issue)
17. Again you slog and send it with good performance.
18. Client is happy???

By this time both the COWs aged and cant milk.

(The software got old and get ready for next release
repeat from step 1) !!!!

2. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)

3. Stone House (Guimaraes, Portugal)

4. Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)

5. Cathedral of Brasilia (Brazil)

6. La Pedrera (Barcelona, Spain)

7. Kansas City Library (Missouri, USA)

8. Low impact woodland house (Wales, UK)

9. Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)

10. Rotating Tower, (Dubai, UAE)

Have you ever seen a building in motion that actually changes its shape?
This building will never appear exactly the same twice. It is amazing
but you will have the choice of waking up to sunrise in your bedroom
and enjoying sunsets over the ocean at dinner. In addition to being
such an incredible engineering miracle it will produce energy for itself
and even for other buildings because it will have wind turbines fitted
between each rotating floor (picture 2). So an 80-story building will
have up to 79 wind turbines, making it a true green power plant.

11. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)

12. Olympic Stadium (Montreal, Canada)

13. Nautilus House (Mexico City, Mexico)

14. National Theatre (Beijing, China)

15. Conch Shell House, (Isla Mujeres, Mexico)

16. Cubic Houses (Kubus woningen) (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

17. Ideal Palace (France)

18. The Church of Hallgrimur (Reykjavik, Iceland)

19. Atlantis (Dubai, UAE)

20. Montreal Biosphere (Canada)

21. Forest Spiral (Darmstadt, Germany)

Not Easy Being Green

New Found Frog

Fish With a Mohawk

Scary Or Scared…

Study in Red and Brown

Flash In Violet

Green Frog From Guinea

Monkey Seen

Glass Frog

Sitting In a Tree

Black…Red…White

Frog With A Mask