Pythagoras was a go-cuckoo

Pythagoras

The mathematician Pythagoras, who discovered the Pythagorean Theorem, (A2 + B2 = C2) was a go-cuckoo.

He killed people who didn’t agree or disproved him, he convinced people that facing the sun when you urinate is a heavily punishable sin, and didn’t believe in fractions, or decimals. He simply refused to believe that More than two and less than three could possibly exist.

1927: Fraudulent Election at its peak

Charles Dunbar Burgess King

(1875-1961)

In this year the world witnessed the most fraudulent election in Liberia when Charles Dunbar Burgess King had received 234,000 votes; however, at the time Liberia had only 15,000 registered voters. This was also listed in the Guinness book of record 1982, as the most fraudulent election reported in history.

Charles D. B. King was the 17th president of Liberia. He was in office within the duration of 10 years (1920-1930). He was born 12th March, 1875 in Monrovia, Liberia; he became the president of Liberia under the True Whig political party. He died 4th September, 1961 (aged 86).

Alia Sabur: The youngest college professor in history

Alia Sabur

Ali Sabur who started talking and reading when she was just 8 months old has been clearly ahead of the learning curve since an early age. She is from New York city in New York. From the report at hand, Sabur had elementary school finished at age 5. She made the jump to college at age 10. She earned a bachelor’s of science degree in applied mathematics from Stony Brook University at age 14 making her the youngest female in U.S. history to do so. She continued her education at Drexel University, where she earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering.

With endless future ahead of her, Sabur directed her first career choice to teaching. She was just three days short of her 19th birthday in February, 2008 (She is of age 26 now) when she was hired to become a full time faculty professor at Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea. Children are considered to be 1 year old when they are born, and add a year to their age every New Year instead of their actual birthday (In traditional Korean culture), so in Korea Sabur was considered 20.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this distinction made her the youngest college professor in history, beating the previous record held by Colin Maclaurin, who was a student of physicist Isaac Newton in 1717. At the time of her appointement, she said she will take part in classroom instruction, but will also focus on research into developing nanotubes for use as cellular probes that could aid cures for diseases.

In addition to her unprecedented academic achievements, Sabur is a music prodigy, she has been playing clarinet with orchestras since her solo debut at age 11, playing with recording artist Lang Lang and Smash Mouth. She also has a black belt in the Korean martial art of tae kwon do at the age of 9.

In Alia Sabur's wildly advanced studies she came across a famous quote from a German writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which says "Knowing is not enough. We must apply."That could serve as explanation for what prompted the 19-year-old to become the youngest college professor in history.

Lina Medina: The youngest mother at the age of five

A bizarre arose in 1939, when an increasing abdominal size of a five year old girl, thought to have been as a result of tumor turned out to be a nine month old pregnancy. Tiburelo Medina and Victoria Losea who were the parents of Lina Medina were shocked; the attention of the world was drawn to the country of Peru.

A month and a half after the original diagnosis, Medina at the age of 5 years and 7 months, gave birth to a boy named Gerardo Medina (the boy was named after Lina’s doctor) by a caesarean section on May 14, 1939, necessitated by her small pelvis, which made her the youngest known person in history to give birth. During the caesarean operation, the surgeons who performed the operations said Lina already had fully mature sexual organs from precocious puberty.

Gerardo weighed 2.7 kg (6.0lb; 0.43 st) at birth. Gerardo was raised believing that Medina was his sister, until he was 10 years of age, when it was revealed to Him that Lina was his mother. Medina has never revealed the father of the child nor the circumstances of her impregnation. Medina’s son, Gerardo grew up healthy and died at the age of 40.

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OMG! meet the Ageless Woman "The frozen beauty"

The frozen beauty as popularly called in china will turn 60years old on 30^th October this year. Her name is Liu Xiaoquig.

She was once one of the leading actresses in the 1980s and now a business woman. At the age of 30 she acted mainly mainland films and won numerous awards. She was also recently named the most beautiful woman in the world over 50 by Japanese TV

Her name is Liu Xiaoqing, she will turn 60 years old on October 30th this year. One of the leading actresses in China in the 1980s and now a business woman. She said she has never had any plastic surgery, she got the beauty naturally for free.

Xiaoqing is a business woman and a published author. In 1999, she appeared on Forbes’ list of the 50 richest Chinese businessmen and businesswomen in the world.

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The Devil's Kettle falls

There is a mysterious waterfall in Judge Magney State Park in Minnesota. Half of the water drops 50 feet into the Brule River; the other half falls into a cauldron and disappears.It is believed the water rejoins the main channel of the river or has a separate outlet into Lake Superior, but it has never been located. It is referred to as the Devil's kettle.

Researchers have dropped brightly colored dyes, ping pong balls, and other objects into the Devil's Kettle without result. There is even a legend that someone pushed a car into the fissure, but given that the Devil's Kettle is wholly inaccessible by road, most commentators dismiss this as hyperbole. Not only is the outlet unknown, but there is currently no satisfactory geological explanation for the Devil's Kettle.

Its indeed the Devil’s Kettle lol ! !! !!!

THE VATICAN-CITY: An Overview

-     It is the Seat of Roman Catholic Church; the worlds headquarter of the Roman Catholic Church.

-     A country enclaved in Rome.

-     It is the World’s smallest fully independent nation-state.

-     The government of the Roman Catholic Church is named the ‘Holy See’. It has resided in Vatican since 1929.

-     The Holy See is led by the Pope, who holds the absolute executive, legislative and judicial powers.

-     The executive powers are delegated to a governor, who is responsible to the Pope.

-     In the exercise of the Pope’s legislative powers, the Pope is advised and assisted by the sacred congregation.

-     The judicial powers are exercised by tribunals.

-     The secretariat of state represents the Holy See in international relations, and it sends diplomatic representatives to countries around the world.

-     The Official languages are Italian, Latin.

-     The Vatican has its own internal security known as contingent of Swiss guards. They have been responsible for the personal safety of the Pope since 1506.  Saint peter’s square, which opens to the city of Rome, is subject to the authority of the Italian police.

-     Food, water, electricity and gas must be imported. There is no restriction on the import or export of funds and no income tax.

-     Income is derived from the voluntary contributions of more than one billion Roman Catholics worldwide, as well as interest in investments and sale of stamps, coins and publications.

-     The major inhabitants of Vatican City are priests and nuns, others are laypersons engaged in secretariat, domestic, trade and service occupations.

-     Monetary unit in the Vatican City is the European Union (EU) single currency, euro (€), consisting of 100 cents.

Australian Aborigines: The Original Australians

They are indigenous Australians, believed to have migrated from Africa to Asia around 70,000 years ago. They are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aborigines arrived Australia around 50,000 years ago.

The coined word “Aboriginal Australians” came into existence when the British began colonizing Australia in 1788. The coined word was used to refer collectively to all people the British found already inhabiting the continent and later to the descendants of any of those people. Not until 1980s, when the sole legal and administrative criterion for inclusion in this category was race. This was classified according to visible physical characters or known ancestors. Children’s status during the colonial era was determined by that of their mothers, this meant that if born to aboriginal mothers, children were considered Aboriginal, regardless of their paternity.

More than 200 different Aboriginal languages were spoken, and most Aborigines were bilingual or multilingual. Both languages (dialects) and groups of people were associated with stretches of territory.

The Aborigines were hunter-gatherers who grew no crops and did not domesticate animals (apart from the dingo), so they were directly dependent on their natural environment.

Different study on Aboriginal Australians makes them one of the oldest living populations of the world and possibly the oldest outside of Africa, confirming they may also have the oldest continuous culture on the planet.

The Aboriginal race were deprived the power to legislate and were not to be counted according to the references sited in the original form of the constitution of Australia in 1901, but both references were removed by 1967 referendum.

In the late 20th century, there were growing calls for the Australian government to apologize to Aborigines for abuses they suffered under earlier administrations. For decades the government resisted releasing such a statement, but in February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a formal apology for the past mistreatment of Aborigines.

Meet Furman: An individual holding the most current Guinness world records

Ashrita Furman did have 121 titles under his belt. Furman set his first record in 1979 for doing 27,000 jumping jacks in a row. He has set 342 records, many of which have been beaten. His recent title was gained for the “Most lemons caught blindfolds in one minute by a two” may 13. He has set records in all seven continents. Because of his ability to set new records in a wide range of Guinness world record he was nicknamed “Mr. Versatility”.

The world’s oldest man dies at 111

Dr. Alexander Imich, who earned the record for world’s oldest man, died Sunday (June 8) as reported by the Guiness world records. Dr. Alexander Imich was 111years and 93days when he was awarded then title of oldest living man on May 8. Imich, a parapsychologist and retire chemist was born on February 4, 1903.

Erin Ijesa (Olumirin waterfall)

 

Erin Ijesa (Olumirin waterfall)

It is known that waterfall is the sudden sheer descent of a stream or river over a steep drop in its bed. Erosion and geology are the major causes of water fall but in some few cases tectonic movement along a fault may bring hard and soft rock together and encourage the establishment of a waterfall. Nigeria is endowed with numerous waterfalls in which  Olumirin waterfall is one of them.

 

Olumirin waterfall is definitely a place to be as its showcase the beauty of nature. It is located in Osun state, South-west, Nigeria. Studies also reveals that it is situated within latitude 7^o30’ and 8^o45’ North and Longitude 4^o 30^’ and 5^oEast.

This waterfall is unique as it has seven levels of the ascending plains. Each level’s view is wonderful and the freshness of the water is energizing. 

However, the seventh level is the most intriguing as it is not only laid at the peak of the fall but also host a settlement where habitants lived for years. The name of the settlement at the peak of the fall is 'Abake' meaning a village set upon the hill. Tourist and fun seekers sees the climbing up to its peak has a very challenging quest because of the steeply nature of the plain. Tourist ascending the ridge from the waterfalls, will have to climb for about one hour before getting to Abake settlement. The village is said to be in Effon Alaaye local government, hence the villagers refer to their settlement as Effon Alaaye (Ekiti State). The village basically consists of mud houses and the main occupations are farming, gari processing (using local method), cocoa cultivation and moi moi leaf cultivation as they are found in great numbers on the ridge. The enclave suffers from inaccessibility of good roads, lack of electrical supply, poor water supply, lack of hospitals, clinics or health centers etc. Despite the indigence of the people. They are ever convivial and ecstatic to see people beat the heights of the enormous ridge in order to visit their remote enclave.

Fresh water prawn which belongs to the infraorder Caridae family, atyidae and genus caridina is present in the water.

Erin Ijesa (olumirin water) fall is a place to be..........