William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle. He is better known as just Bill Gates. He is an American entrepreneur and social activist, co-creator (with Paul Allen) of the largest company, Microsoft. Until June 2008 he was the head of the company. Then he left and he became the non-executive chairman. He is also the co-chair of the charity company Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2009, he was qualified as the richest man on the planet. In 2009, he had $ 50 billion. Bill Gates...
Warren Edward Buffett was born on August 30, 1930, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He is the world's biggest and one of the most famous investors. He had 47 billion U.S. dollars in 2010.He is considered the richest man in the world and second richest man in the U.S. He is known by the nickname the Oracle of Omaha.
Biography
Warren Buffett was the second of three children in the family of the p...
Sergey Brin was born on August 21, 1973 in Moscow, USSR. He is an American businessman of Jewish origin. He is good at computer science, information technology and economy. He is a philanthropist, billionaire and co-founder (with Larry Page) of Google. He lives in Palo Alto, California
Biography
Sergey Brin was born in Moscow in a Jewish family of mathematicians, who moved to a permanent place of resi...
Agassi was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, the son of Emmanuel "Mike" Aghassian and Elizabeth "Betty" Agassi. His father is an Iranian of Armenian-Assyrian origin, representing Iran at the Olympics in 1948 and 1952, in box, before emigrated to the United States. His desire was to have a child who could win all four Grand Slam tournaments. He learned tennis by watching tapes with great champions. When Agassi started playing tennis, he had a collection of 18,000 bal...
Rafael Nadal has won the Wimbledon tour in July 2008, defeating his main opponent, the famous Roger Federer, and he is also quintuple champion at the Grand Slam tournament, has won for 4 times the tennis tournament Roland Garros and won all the matches played in the French tour until now. It's no wonder that after so many performances, the name of the tennis star Rafael Nadal was given to a 4 km diameter asteroid, located between the planets Mars and Jupiter, moving with a speed...
Pete Sampras - the embodiment of tennis itself, quiet, modest, and a beautiful tennis champion. His career is detached from a story with heroes with so many won titles and many of them "framed" at the beginning or at the end on an U.S. Open, won against another tennis hero, Andre Agassi. We grew up seeing the hero winning the 7 magic awards, we are talking here about the seven Wimbledon titles, a total of 14 Grand Slam titles, in important matches against: Andr...
Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications that impresses all the tme for its amazing technology and operating system. The ringtone "Nokia tune" is actually based on a guitar song named "Gran Vals", composed by the Spanish musician Francisco Tarrega. Nokia Tune was originally named "Grande Valse" on Nokia phones but was later changed to its actual name "Nokia Tune" in 1998 when it was well known to people and they all referred to as the "Nokia Tune". ...
It started in 1876, in a workshop for telegraph instruments, only 13 square meters, from the shopping district of Stockholm. The mechanic of only 30 years, Lars Magnus Ericsson founded one of the largest telecommunications companies worldwide, with his colleague of team, Carl Johan Anderson. By coincidence, this happens exactly in the same year when Alexander Graham Bell patented a new phone in the United States.
Sony Ericsson is a commerc...
LG mobile phones are characterized by perfect harmony between elegant style and functionality. Sleek design, touch screen, performing camera, advanced features, these are sufficient reasons to convince yourself that LG phones are the best choice.
LG, unlike Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola, appeared relatively late in the European market for mobile phones. The first devices were launched in Europe sometime in 2002, without too...
Lady Gaga was born on 28th of March, 1986 in Yonkers, New York, United States and was named Angelina Joanne Stefani Germanotta. She colored her hair in blond color because when she had black hair was always confused with Amy Winehouse. Her stage name - Lady Gaga - was inspired by the song 'Radio Ga-ga of the Queen band. Before trying to launch in the show-bizz, she attended the University` s Tisch School of the Arts in New York.
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Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie, born on August 16, 1958, is one of the most famous American artists. She was born in Bay City, Michigan and grew up in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York to pursue a career in modern dance. After she was a member of some pop bands such as Breakfast Club and Emmy, she debuted with the album "Madonna" in 1983. Described for many times as "one of the best pop artists of all the time", called "Queen of Pop&rd...
Born in Kentwood, Louisiana on 2nd of December, 1981, Britney Jean Spears always wanted to sing. As a child she sang in church choir and participated in a TV contest, called Star Search. When she had 8 years old was auditioned for the TV show "The New Mickey Mouse Club", but receives no role because is too young. However, one of the show producers has helped her to find an impresario in New York. Britney was a talented gymnast and participated in vario...
Akrit Yasval was born in India, where he is called the most intelligent pupil , because his IQ reaches to 146. This is an excellent result. He is called one of the geniuses. Akrit drew the attention of the people in 2000, when he held his first "surgical" operation in his native area. He was seven years old, his patient was a girl from the neighborhood. She was eight. The girl got burned and could not open her fist. The child proved that he was really gifted, he did not have any medi...
Kim Ung-Yong is one of the human miracles.
Biographical Notes
He went to the University at the age of 4. This Corean child was born in 1962 and still is the holder of the Guinness highest IQ - 210. At the age of four, the boy could read Japanese, Korean, German and English. When he was 5 years, Kim solved probabilistic complex system of differential equations. After that, he was invited to come to the ...
Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643. He is an English physicist, mathematician and one of the founders of classical physics. The author of the reference work "The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy," in which he laid out the law of universal gravitation and three laws of mechanics, which became the basis of classical mechanics.
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Isaac Newton, the son of a ...
Aquarium of Western Australia is situated in Hillarys, Western Australia. This is a privately owned Aquarium. It is the largest in Australia, and one of the largest in the world AQWA assures a fascinating journey through the underwater world of Western Australia. There live more than 400 species of marine life forms.
Description
The main tank is 40 metres (130 ft) long and 20 metres (66...
This aquarium is one of the world's largest aquariums in the world. It is situated in Atlanta, Georgia. The capacity of a giant reservoir is more than 30 million liters. There are already 100 000 inhabitants that live in its water depths.
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The shape of the aquarium is interesting. It is a huge cruise ship, divided into 60 separate chambers. The biggest of these is about three-fourths of the ...
Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) was founded in 1984. It is located on the territory of the former sardine cannery on Cannery Row from the coastline of the Pacific in Monterey, California. It has an annual attendance of 1.8 million visitors.
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It contains thousands of plants and animals, representing 623 species of ocean crea...
Atlantis Hotel located on the Paradise Island is a splendid vacation destination which celebrates the veritable wonders of the sea,being inspired by the myth of the lost continent of Atlantis. The resort includes 2,300 guest rooms, an entertainment center with the largest casino in the whole Caribbean region, an incredible collection of luxury boutiques and chic shops and extraordinary meeting and convention facilities, including the largest ballroom in the Caribbean. This resor...
One of the highest hotel in the world, ranked at seven stars, was built on a completely artificial island, situated at a distance of 280 meters from the shore. This is the prestigious Burj Al Arab, a majestic hotel, erected in a small paradise. As expected, the wonderful hotel was built to be one of the most luxurious hotels in the world, equipped with a generous platform for Rolls Royce cars and a helicopter landing runway, which when not in use, can serve as tennis court.
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Las Vegas is famous for its bustling night life, but especially for the thousands of casinos that holds between its walls. Like A Morgana Girl of the easy gain, Las Vegas annually attracts millions of tourists lured by the lights, money and the promise of luxury. From all the hotels in the area, Palazzo and Venetian Resort Hotel, which share the same license, seem to be the most prepared for these "emergency" that take place the year around. With a total of 8108 rooms, the ...
The antimatter costs 62.5 trillion per gram. In the future it is theoretically possible to use antimatter as fuel for spaceships to other planets. The problem is that its production requires extremely expensive technology, and to create just 1 gram, the world would have to work a whole year (global GDP is 65 trillion dollars). In physics the ' anti-matter is a conglomeration of antiparticles corresponding to the particles that constitute the ordinary matter...
The price of diamonds is of 55 000 dollars per gram. The colorless stone can cost more than 11 thousand dollars per carat, but colored diamonds are worth more.
Why do we need diamonds?
The natural diamonds are most often used in the jewelry industry. Also, the extreme hardness of diamonds finds its application in ind...
It costs from about 2.5 to 20 thousand dollars per gram, or from 500 to 4 thousand per carat. Taaffeite is a jewel of purple color said to be a million times rarer than diamonds. Because of its extreme rarity it is used only as a gemstone. Taaffeite is a very rare mineral , a complex of oxide (hydroxide), magnesium, beryllium and aluminum, which is close to the spinel and difficult distinguishable from it. It occurs as isolated euhedral crystals. Of spi...
