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WHO DRILLED FIRST OIL WELL?

selva — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:33:57 +0000

Oil was first discovered by drilling a well in the united states in the year 1841.It was a finding of oil by chance because the drilling was carried out obtaining salt. Before the oil wells came in to existance people obtained oil from the places where it flowed naturally on the surface. Oil oozing out of the earth was found in 1854 in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The scientist of the Yale university tested a sample of it and found that it contained Petrol , Paraffin ,
And Lubricating oils. Edwin drake built the first well to bring oil to the surface by inserting a hollow shaft in the earth. Drake found oil at a depth of 21 meter and oil gushed out of the well on 28th August ,1859. Did you really know?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST BANK OPENED?

selva — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:44:21 +0000

A barter system of trade disappeared when the coins came in the existence.
Borrowing and lending of money has been an integral part of lives of people.
Earlier the money lenders or merchants used to do their business from benches in the market place. The word bank came from the Italian word banco
Which means a bench merchants of gold secured their gold in strong rooms. People gave them their money for keeping in safe custody and in turn they issued them paper receipts which were as valuable as money. So Goldsmiths were the first bankers.The first big national bank was the Bank of England which was started in 1694. Did you really know?

The week and names of weekdays.

selva — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:48:13 +0000

A month was the only division of time in the old days and was very difficult to think of thirty different names for days of month. Then arose the need to have one day off work for rest or for other religious purposes. The Babylonians were the first to decide that it should be every seventh day. The jews followed them and the week was invented.when the Egyptians adopted the seven day week,they named the days after five planets,which was the Romans.they named the days of the week as,the day of the Sun, of the Moon , Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus , and Saturn. The present names of the days are modified from the names given by the Anglo Saxons. Did you really know?

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selva — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:12:11 +0000

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HONEYBEE

selva — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:09:47 +0000

Honey is not produced by honey bees as most of us commonly assume;instead it is processed by honey bees as their food.The raw material for honey is nectar,a sugary substance present in the flowers of plants.

This is an adaptation in several plants to attract the pollinators like honeybees to aid them in cross pollination.The worker honey bee collect the nectar from the flowers and bring it to the bee hives.

The nectar has about 80% water and some complex sugars,which are processed into honey.Honey bees have a honey stomach in addition to there regular stomach,where the nectar reacts with enzymes and then the bees regurgitate the processed nectars.

They repeat this process several times until the nectar gets partially digested and store them in the honeycombs,the bees fan their wings to evaporate the water present in the processed nectars and thus increasing the sugar concentration in the honey to prevent fermentation.So honey is a mixture of sugars and few other compounds.

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AIR IS THE BEST THERMOSTAT

selva — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:13:59 +0000

DID YOU REALLY KNOW THAT AIR IS THE BEST THERMOSTAT AS ALL WOOLLEN GARMENTS HAS GOT LOT OF MICRO PORES IN IT FULL OF AIR WHICH INSULATES US FROM THE COLD TEMPERATURE.

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WHAT IS LIFE INSURANCE

selva — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:49:07 +0000

LIFE INSURANCE IS PROTECTING THE INCOME OF THE FAMILY.SO ALWAYS INSURE THE EARNING PERSON’S LIFE SO THAT IF DEATH OCCURS FOR THE EARNING PERSON THE INSURANCE AMOUNT WILL SUPPORT REST OF THE FAMILY

imagine if this could happen

selva — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:02:54 +0000

If there was a plate like a platform on which people can stand and as they think a place ,the next second they are there! imagine how this world could be.

hi i m keen to know

selva — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:58:50 +0000

Hi i am keen to know about happenings and astonishing facts across the world.

I will keep them posted on selva’s blog

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selva — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:49:01 +0000

didyoureallyknow INDIA IS THE LARGEST DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD.

India is also the second most populated country in the world after china.

India is the seventh largest country in the world in terms of area square kilometers.

The TAJMAHAL IS ONE AMONG THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD located in India.

The great emperor “Alexander the great “had to simply retreat trying to conquer india finding difficulty in transporting his large army across the river indus.