Photography & Camera

All camera technology is based on the law of optics first discovered by Aristotle.


Johannes Kepler was the first person suggested the use of a lens to improve the image projected by a Camera Obscura in 1609



Photography word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. 

Alhazen invented the first pinhole camera, ( Camera Obscura ) and was able to explain why the images were upside down.

Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with camera obscura in 1827.

Louis Daguerre was the inventor of the first practical process of photography.

The inventor of the first negative from which multiple postive prints were made was Henry Fox Talbot.

George Eastman invented film with a base that was flexible, unbreakable, and could be rolled in 1889.

The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera  the Kodak DC40 camera  the Casio QV-11  and Sony's Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996).

World Area, Educated, Population, River, Dam

Russia has the  Largest area  in the world.

Vatican City has the smallest area in the world

China has the maximum  population in the world.

Pitcairn Islands has the minimum population in the world

Michael Nicholson is the most educated person in the world. He has 27 different degrees, including two associate’s degrees, 19 master’s degrees, three specialist degrees, and one PhD.

United States,  is the most educated country in the world.

Nile River in Africa, is one longest rivers on Earth. Nile River flows along the 6650 km or 4132 miles and flow through nine countries: Ethiopia, Zaire, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan and of course Egypt.


The tallest dam in the world is the Nurek Dam, an embankment dam in Tajikistan at 300 m (984 ft) high.

Google

Founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University in 1995. 

 They had built a search engine  Back Rub that used links to determine the importance of a individual webpages 1996

Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name they go with Google—a play on the word googol.

Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee.

The first 10 language  are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.

Google open  first international office, in Tokyo.

BOLLYWOOD FIRST FILM

Raja Harishchandra  is first silent Indian film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke, in 1913


The film reel was 3700 feet long and roughly 40 minutes


The film premiered on 21 April 1913 at the Olympia Theater,


It was first shown in public on 3 May 1913 at Mumbai's Coronation 
Cinema, Girgaon,


The first Indian sound film, Ardeshir Irani's Alam Ara (1931)


In 1937, Ardeshir Irani, made the first colour film in Hindi, Kisan Kanya.

World Tallest Residential Building Princess Tower

The Princess Tower will hold the title of the world's tallest all residential building in marina, Dubai.

It has 101 floor and 414 m height.

The building was originally proposed at only 90 floors.

The dome is made up of decorative mast weighing in at 110 tons of steel and aluminum.

A real state developer TAMEER, made princess tower

The building has 13 elevators with speed 6m/s and 763 apartments

Elephant Largest Animal On Earth

The largest land animals alive today is Elephant

An elephant can smell water three miles away.

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.

African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.

 Elephant's gestation period is 22 months


The giant elephant's name was Jumbo with height  approximately 4 meters (13.1 ft) by the time of his death. 

Jumbo statue in St. Thomas Ontario, at Canada

Elephants are capable of pulling up to 11.5 liters (3 gallons) of water into the trunk

 

Mobile phone

The first hand-held mobile phone was demonstrated by Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing around 2.2 pounds (1 kg)


The new invention sold for an expensive price of $3,995 and weighed two pounds, receiving the nickname "the brick".




The first mobile telephone call made from a car occurred in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on June 17, 1946, 


The second generation (2G) cellular technology was launched in Finland by Radiolinja on the GSM standard, in 1991


The third generation (3G) was launched in Japan by  DoCoMo on the WCDMA standard  2001




The fourth generation (4G) was launched by  Motorola, HTC and Samsung in 2011.

mermaid

A mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish


The US National Ocean Service stated in 2012 that no evidence of mermaids has ever been found.




Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, China, and India. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria

Fastest Animals On Earth In Air Water And Land

The Peregrine Falcon is renowned for its speed, reaching over 325 km/h (202 mph) during its characteristic hunting stoop making it the fastest member of the animal kingdom in Air.

The cheetah, achieves by far the fastest land speed of any living animal—between 112 and 120 km/h (70 and 75 mph) in short bursts covering distances up to 500 m (1,600 ft), and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to over 100 km/h (62 mph) in three seconds.

Sailfish achieves by far the fastest water speeds of up to 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph) which is the highest speed in water creature

Human Longest Life Span World

who had the longest confirmed human life span in history

Jeanne Louise Calment( female)  was a French  living to the age of122 years, 164 days 

Christian Mortensen (male) who lived for 115 years and 252 days of United State

Chittorgarh Fort Rajasthan

Chittorgarh Fort  is the largest fort in India and the grandest in the state of Rajasthan

It sprawls majestically over a hill 180 m (590.6 ft) in height spread over an area of 280 ha (691.9 acres) above the plains of the valley drained by the Berach River

The Chittorgarh Fort has witnessed three bloody sieges and 'jauhars.

The entrance of the Chittorgarh has seven massive gates, the two towers known as the 'Kirti Stambh' (Tower of Fame) and the 'Vijay Stambh' (Tower of Victory) along with several temples, reservoirs, and palaces dating between the 9th and 17th centuries.

Amber Fort Jaipur Rajasthan

Raja Man Singh built Amer Palace in 16th century.




It is a mesmerizing blend of Hindu and Mughal architecture


Annual tourist visitation to the Amer Palace as 5000 visitors a day, and 1.4 million visitors were reported during 2007


Earlier to the Kachwahas, Amer was a small place built by the Meenas in the town they consecrated to Amba, the Mother Goddess, 

15 injured at Veer shooting at Amber Fort

Olympics Games Facts

The ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles, a son of Zeus. At this Olympic Games, a naked runner, Coroebus, won the sole event at the Olympics, the stade - a run of approximately 192 meters (210 yards) the first Olympic  champion of the history


The modern Olympic Game were founded by  Pierre de Coubertin in 1914, the Olympic flag contains five interconnected rings on a white background.


The Rings colour are blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The colors were chosen because at least one of them appeared on the flag of every country in the world.


The Olympic flag was first flown during the 1920 Olympic Games.


The last Olympic gold medals that were made entirely out of gold were awarded in 1912.


The first opening ceremonies were held during the 1908 Olympic Games in London.


James B. Connolly (United States), winner of the hop, step, and jump, was the first Olympic champion of the modern 1896 Olympic Games.


Women were first allowed to participate in 1900 at the second modern Olympic Games.


The winter Olympic Games were first held in 1924


Because of World War I and World War II, there were no Olympic Games in 1916, 1940, or 1944.


Motor boating was an official sport at the 1908 Olympics.


Polo was played at the Olympics in 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924, and 1936.


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Exceptions Of Metals

 Metals have a high melting point but CESIUM has a low melting point


 Metals are very hard but SODIUM and POTASSIUM are very soft can be cut with knife

 Metals are a good conductor but LEAD is a poor conductor

 Metals have a high desity but LITHIUM has a lower density

 Metals are solid in room temperature but MERCURY is liquid

Baikal Lake, Siberia, Russia

Lake Baikal is the world's oldest lake at 25 million years and deepest averaging 1642 m (5387 ft)


Baikal is home to more than 1,700 species of plants and animals, two thirds of which can be found nowhere else in the world and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.


Lake Baikal is nicknamed "Older sister of Sister Lakes".

Humming Birds

Hummingbirds are birds that comprise the family Trochilidae.


 They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring in the 7.5–13 cm (3–5 in) range.


 the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5-cm Bee Hummingbird. 


They can hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings 12–80 times per second


 To conserve energy while they sleep or when food is scarce, they have the ability to go into a hibernation-like state (torpor) where their metabolic rate is slowed to 1/15th of its normal rate


They are also the only group of birds with the ability to fly backwards.

Atacama desert in Chile

Atacama desert in Chile is the driest. it receives just 0.1mm per year. In fact some parts of the desert have not seen rainfall for over 400 years making it in most estimations the driest place on the planet earth.


on the 3rd October 2011 it also officially became home to the most expensive ground telescope in the world,  known as ALMA. The telescope consists of an array of 66 radio telescopes all using radio waves to peer deep into space helping us learn more about star formations especially during the early years of the universe

Assal Lake In Djibouti, Africa

Lake Assal  in Djibouti is Africa's lowest geographic point, it lies 515 feet (155m) below sea level. It's a fascinating salt water lake, with beaches literally made of pure salt.


Lake Assal is saltier than the Dead Sea.

Fastest Heaviest And Largest Fish On The Earth

The swordtail is the fastest swimmer of all the fish

The heaviest fish ever caught was the OCEAN SUNFISH. It weighed 4,928 lbs.

The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and it's tongue is as long as an elephant.




Fishes cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it

Big Tree, Kabwe, Zambia.

Big Tree, Kabwe: a fig tree with a 50 m wide canopy on the east side of Broadway, which served as a meeting place on many occasions during the early years of the township's history

VICTORIA FALLS ZIMBABWE

Described by the Kololo tribe living in the area in the 1800’s as ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’ - ‘the Smoke that Thunders’.

In more modern terms it is known as ‘the greatest known curtain of falling water’.

Columns of spray can be seen from miles away as 546 million cubic meters of water per minute plummet over the edge (at the height of the flood season) over a width of nearly two kilometers into a deep gorge over 100 meters below.

The Victoria Falls Bridge was commissioned by Cecil John Rhodes in 1900, although he never visited the falls and died before construction began, he expressed his wish that the "railway should cross the Zambezi just below the Victoria Falls. I should like to have the spray of the falls over the carriages."

Golden Temple Punjab India

Its proper name is Harmandir, which means "Temple of God".


Amritsar literally means "the pool of nectar", the name derived from a pool constructed at the sacred site in the 16th century, gifted by the Mughal Emperor Akbar to Guru Ramdas, the fourth preceptor of the Sikh faith.


It was Guru Arjan who installed the “Guru Granth Sahib” in the temple and appointed the first reader in August 1604.


The Golden Temple in India, is one of the oldest places of worship for the ‘Sikhs’ and is located in Amritsar, Punjab

Taj Mahal Agra India

The Taj Mahal of Agra is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. History of the Taj Mahal India shows that construction began in 1631 and took 22 years to complete with a work force of more than 20,000 men. It was finally finished in 1653 at a cost of 32 million Rupee or $400 million in today’s prices.The main dome was designed by Ismail Khan from the Ottoman Empire


The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who was head-over-heels in love with Mumtaz Mahal, his dear wife. She was a Muslim Persian princess (her name Arjumand Banu Begum before marriage) and he was the son of the Mughal Emperor Jehangir and grandson of Akbar the Great. It was at the age of 14 that he met Mumtaz and fell in love with her. Five years later in the year 1612, they got married.

Red Fort New Delhi India

The fort was built by Shahjahan - the Mughal King who also built the famous Taj Mahal - in 1648. The wall is 2.5 km long and the height varies from 16 meters on the river side to 33 meters towards the city. The whole structure is made of Red stone.The Prime Minister of India addresses the nation on August 15 from this very historical monument. 

Qutab Minar New Delhi India

Qutab Minar is among the tallest and famous towers in the world. The minaret is 234 feet high and the highest individual tower in the world.  The minar was completed in 1200 A.D  It has 378 steps which takes good amount of energy to reach at the top.   it is assumed and historians believe that Qutubuddib and Iltutmish finished it though the minar may have been commenced by Prithviraj or Vigraharaja.