Mount Everest

Here comes, the highest mountain on earth, The Mt. Everest which we call it Himalayan Spirit which lives and breathes all along in Nepal. Sir George Everest, Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843, records the location of Everest. The official altitude of the world's highest peak is 29,029 feet (8,848m). However, the National Geographic Society has determined the height to be 6 feet taller, 29,035 feet, but the Nepali government has not yet been made this new altitude official. There are two important routes to climb Mount Everest. One such route is from the southeast ridge from Nepal and the other is the northeast ridge from Tibet. The former is considered to be relatively easier to climb Mount Everest. Apart from these routes, there are other routes, which are not frequently used. Mount Everest, conquered for the first time by Sir Edmund Hillary with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, is the highest mountain on Earth. Sir Edmund died on Friday aged 88. Here are some facts about the mountain he loved. Each climber has a different opinion about what is the most difficult part of climbing Everest. Most would agree, though, that the altitude is tough to deal with. And most will also have stories about crossing the infamous Khumbu Icefall going from Base Camp to Camp One.

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Super computers

Super computers are the largest and fastest of all computers. Few in number, most are used for military purpose and for the most demanding many megabytes and processing speeds that may be measured in picoseconds (trillionth of a second). Space Administration (NASA) in the mid – 1980s, for example, could add and subtract 6.5 billion times per second – 150 picoseconds per operation.

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Tamil mother of Dravidian languages

Tamil Poet Thiruvalluvar

The earliest known Tamil inscription was date back to at least 500BC. The oldest literary text in Tamil, Tolkāppiyam, was composed around 200 BC. The Tamil alphabet is thought to have evolved from the Brahmi script, though some scholars believe that its origins go back to the Indus script. Probably the most significant contribution (of the Tamils) is that of Tamil literature, which still remains to be 'discovered' and enjoyed by the non Tamilians and adopted as an essential and remarkable part of universal heritage. If it is true that liberal education should 'liberate' by demonstrating the cultural values and norms foreign to us, by revealing the relativity of our own values, then the 'discovery' and enjoyment of Tamil literature, and even its teaching should find its place in the systems of Western training and instruction in the humanities. It is surprising that a language as old as Tamil has survived for such a long time and is still in everyday use. It survives in two distinct forms: the spoken form and the written form. Perhaps because of its age, it has an unusually diverse literature. Dravidian language is spoken by more than 63 million people. It is an official language of Tamil Nadu state in India and one of the official languages of Sri Lanka. Large Tamil-speaking communities also reside in Malaysia and Singapore, South Africa, and the Indian Ocean islands of Reunion and Mauritius. The earliest Tamil inscriptions date from c. 200 BC; literature in the language has a 2,000-year history.

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Fight Club

Starring:
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier, Richmond Arquette, David Andrews, George Maguire, Eugenie Bondurant, Christina Cabot, Sydney "Big Dawg" Colston, Rachel Singer, Christie Cronenweth, Tim De Zarn, Ezra Buzzington, Jared Leto, Peter Iacangelo

FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. An angry, violent, testosterone-saturated, darkly comic allegory on consumer culture and the reality of personal freedom, it's a film that dares to question American values in the most inventive ways since "Dr. Strangelove" -- although the comparison ends there. Like Tyler Durden himself, director David Fincher's FIGHT CLUB, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is startlingly aggressive and gleefully mischievous as it skewers the superficiality of American pop culture. Outstanding performances by Norton and Pitt are supported by a razor-sharp script and an arsenal of stunning visual effects that include computer animation and sleight-of-hand editing. But it's extraordinarily subversive for a studio picture -- anti-establishment in both theory and practice and Fincher must have had to fight off all kinds of nervous studio suits to keep it this undiluted.

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Bowling

From the beginning of cricket, bowling has since being the most skilled and difficult of cricket skills to acquire. Bowling is a practice by which a person (bowler) runs up to the wickets and throws the ball to the batsman with a full arm trying to hit the wicket to get the batsman out. The basic grip to hold the ball is to keep the seam vertical and to hold the ball with your index finger and middle finger either side of the seam with the side of your thumb resting on the seam underneath the ball. The bowler's dominant foot lands on the pitch, near the non-striker's bowling crease. At this point the bowler's body is rotated so that the dominant side is trailing, with the bowling arm held down behind the body, elbow straight, with the hand near the waist. His other arm is held high in front of the body, to counterbalance. The spin on the ball is roughly 30 degrees, so that the ball both spins sideways and dips with the over spin. Closest variation is the top-spinner, where the seam points to the wicketkeeper and the ball over-spins straight down the pitch. The out swinger delivered at pace is one of the most powerful deliveries. It swerves in the air from middle to off, begging for catches for the wicketkeeper or the slips.

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