Weird 9/11 Facts

1. New York City has 11 letters
2. Afghanistan has 11 letters.
3. Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in 1993) has 11 letters.
4. George W Bush has 11 letters.
5. The two twin towers make an "11"
   

This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets more interesting:

1. New York is the 11th state.
2. The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight number 11.
3. Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 = 11
4. Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers, was carrying 65 passengers. 6+5 = 11
5. The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9 + 1+ 1 = 11
6. The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number 911. 9 + 1 + 1 = 11.
   

Sheer coincidence..?! Read on and make up your own mind:

1. The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was 254. 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.
2. September 11 is day number 254 of the calendar year. Again 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.
3. The Madrid bombing took place on 3/11/2004. 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 11.
4. The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers incident.
   

Sheer coincidence..?! Read on and make up your own mind: Now this is where things get totally eerie:

The most recognized symbol for the US, after the Stars & Stripes, is the Eagle. The following verse is taken from the Quran, the Islamic holy book:

"For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced: for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah and there was peace."

That verse is number 9.11 of the Quran.

Still unconvinced about all of this..?! Try this and see how you feel afterwards, it made my hair stand on end:

Open Microsoft Word and do the following (TRY THIS FOR REAL)

1. Type in capitals Q33 NY. This is the flight number of the first plane to hit one of the Twin Towers.
2. Highlight the Q33 NY
3. Change the font size to 48.
4. Change the actual font to the WINGDINGS 1

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Fears

The dictionary defines a phobia as "an irrational, excessive, and persistent fear of some particular thing or situation." According to medical experts, there are more than 700 specific phobias currently documented. Several phobias are widespread, such as "claustrophobia" (fear of enclosed spaces), "ophidiophobia" (fear of snakes), or "acrophobia" (fear of heights).

About 1 out of every 20 Americans suffers from one or more phobias: some common phobias include fear of certain animals, being alone, open spaces, blood, or the Number 13 (triskaidekaphobia). To accommodate the prevalent fear many people have of the Number 13, numerous multi-story buildings do not list the 13th floor as such, but skip from the 12th to the 14th. The spectacular auction of Princess Diana's used evening dresses before her death did not include a catalogued Number 13 dress, jumping from Number 12 to Number 14.

Even famous people have their intense fears: Aviophobia (also called aerophobia). According to a study performed by Boeing Aircraft Corporation in 1980, 25 million Americans were scared to fly on airplanes. Famous notables of aviophobia include: Singer Aretha Franklin has an extreme fear of flying. She won't travel on airplanes, even for concerts clear across the country. Actor and screenwriter Billy Bob Thorton has cancelled television appearances that required him to get on a plane.

Other celebrities who are aviophobic include:

• Muhammad Ali, former champion boxer.
• Bob Bechel, political analyst.
• Ray Bradbury, science fiction writer.
• Cher, singer/actress.
• Florence Henderson, actress.
• Glenda Jackson, actress and member of British Parliament.
• Michael Jackson, singer.
• John Madden, sportscaster.
• Bob Newhart, comedian/actor.
• Ronald Reagan, former U.S. President and actor.

Other celebrities with known phobias include: Actress Natalie Wood was hydrophobic - her accidental death by drowning in the ocean in 1981 was very strange and unsettling for those who knew her well. Tennis champ André Agassi has a phobia of spiders, according to Brooke Shields in a statement to the press in October 1996. Supernatural novelist Anne Rice has stated that she fears the dark. Actress Kim Basinger has a phobia of wide, open spaces. Film director Alfred Hitchcock had a peculiar fear of eggs, according to biographer Donald Spoto. Country star Lyle Lovett reportedly is afraid of cows. Pop singer Michael Jackson appears to have a phobia of germs (referring to his obsessive wearing of a surgical-style mask when out in public).

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November 6

Hayy... ako pa yung unang nabunot sa newscasting. Sa November 6 na ako magbabalita. Kasi naman. Ako pa yung unang nabunot :-(

Ito nga pala yung mga events na nangyari ng November 6 nang mga nakaraang taon. Hindi ko pa alam kung ano yung irereport ko. Hehe.

1900 - U.S. presidential election, 1900: Republican incumbent William McKinley is re-elected by defeating Democrat challenger William Jennings Bryan.
1913 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
1918 - The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
1928 - U.S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
1935 - Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" (see: FM radio).
1939 - World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau
1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a wild exaggeration) and that Soviet victory was near.
1942 - SS City of Cairo sunk by German U-Boat U-68 in the South Atlantic en route to Brazil from Cape Town.
1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1956 - U.S. presidential election, 1956: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower is re-elected by defeating Democrat challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in a rematch of their contest four years earlier.
1957 - Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France
1962 - Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1963 - Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
1965 - Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans will take advantage of this program.
1971 - The AEC tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1975 - Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
1975 - The Sex Pistols play their first concert at St. Martin's School of Art in London.
1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1984 - Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale to be re-elected in one of the largest electoral landslides in United States election history.
1985 - In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
1985 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
1988 - Beatle Ringo Starr checks into an alcohol rehabilitation center.

1995 - Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announces he is moving his team to Baltimore.
1998 - Hugo Chávez is elected president of Venezuela
1999 - Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2001 - Belgian national airline Sabena is declared bankrupt.
2001 - Michael Bloomberg is elected mayor of New York City.
2001 - David Trimble is re-elected prime minister of Northern Ireland
2002 - 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris
2004 - An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.
2005 - The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 22 in Indiana and Kentucky.
2005 - The military junta of Myanmar begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.

Yung kay Mohandas Gandhi na nga lang nung 1913 ^_^

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Cynomys Ludovicianus

Blacktail Prairie Dog

A large, burrowing ground squirrel that lives in very large colonies called towns. Prairie dogs are wary of predators and excavate maze-like tunnel systems. They also build earth mounds from which they can survey their territory.

Latin Name: Cynomys Ludovicianus
Habitat: North American plains and plateaus, from Canada to Northern Mexico
Size: 40 cm, 1.4 kg
Diet: Grasses and herbs
No. of young: 1-6
Lifespan: 3-5 years

Stinky Subject

Toilet Talks

Delegates from China and 15 other countries came together in Beijing to discuss a rather stinky subject-PUBLIC TOILETS. At the World Toilet Summit, attendees were treated to seminars like "Toilet Management and Hygiene" and "The Human Toilet", as well as a tour of the city's toilet, which have been transforme to meet the international standards in anticipation of the 2008 Olympics, which will be held in Beijing. Outside the city, most of China's public toilets are mere holes in the ground, something the officials hope will change after the Summit.

Philippine Peso

History

The peso has been a floating currency since the 1950s. This means that the value is dictated by market forces. In the 1960s, the value of the peso was 0.50 US dollars. From there, it quickly devalued to around 25 peso = 1 US dollar following the fall of Ferdinand Marcos' regime. It would continue devaluation until Fidel Ramos would assume the presidency. During the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, the peso lost its value to 40+ peso to the US dollar and then became 50+ peso to the US dollar during the economic crisis in the time of President Estrada.

Greenland

Greenland is a land of snow and ice. Not much green grows there. It's so cold all the time that only the hardest trees there. Some of those trees are green. But the snow and ice that are on the ground all the time don't show a whole lot of grass.

How Greenland got its name isn't entirely clear. Erik the Red, the great explorer, might have been the first European to land in Greenland. Did he name it Greenland? Maybe. He might have found it greener than his homeland of Iceland.

We do know that Greenland was warmer (by a few degrees) a thousand years ago, when Erik the Red would have landed there.

This large island was claimed by Denmark for many years, until it became independent in 1979. In fact, it isn't even called Greenland anymore. The correct name of the now independent country is Kalaalit Nunaat.

Religion

Relihiyon ng mga Sinaunang Griyego

Naniniwala ang mga Ancient Greek sa maraming Dios at Diosa, gaya nina Zeus, Phoebus, Hermes, Athena, Aphrodite, at marami pang iba. Ang mga ito ay naninirahan sa bundok ng Olympus at namumuhay din na parang mga karamiwang tao – nag-aasawahan, nagkakaanak, nagtsitsismisan, nag-aaway, malulupit kung minsan, maaaring immortal, etc. Inaalam ng mga Griyego ang kalooban ng mga naturang Dios sa pamamagitan ng Orakulo. Ang ilan dito ay sina Phoebus, Delphi, Zeus, at si Dodona.