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Paul Newman

Paul Newman — Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club …

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कई वर्ष पहले, एक घने जंगल में चार चोर रहते थे। चुराया हुआ धन वे एक साधारण से बर्तन में रखते थे लेकिन उसकी हिफाजत जान से भी ज्यादा करते थे। कुछ अरसे बाद उनका मन चोरी – चकारी से ऊब गया। “मै तो ऐसी जिंदगी से तंग आ गया हूँ। हमे हमेशा चौकन्ना रहना पड़ता है, वरना हम पकड़े भी …

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Patricia Russo

Patricia Russo — Patricia F. Russo was born on 1953 in Trenton, New Jersey. She is an American businessperson most widely known for having served as chief executive officer of Lucent Technologies and its successor, Alcatel-Lucent, a large communications equipment manufacturer. Forbes magazine rated Russo as the tenth on its list of the most powerful women in 2006. Career at …

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Why does water not soak into our skin?

Our skin is a true waterproof, for nothing can enter it from the out side. Of course, it will allow water to come out in the form of sweat. Our skin contains millions of tiny tubes which carry sweat from the inner(true) skin to the finer skin on the surface of the body. With the sweat glands exerting pressure upwards, …

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Why does the WWF logo feature a panda?

The World Wildlife Fund was founded in UK by Sir Peter Scott, a British naturalist and painter, in 1961. The WWF got the idea of using Chi-Chi, a female giant panda at London Zoo. The team felt “the big, furry animal with her appealing, black-patched eyes” would make an excellent logo. Another reason was to minimize printing costs (it needed …

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Why does the touch-me-not shrink when touched?

The touch-me-not shrinks due to loss of turgidity (the pressure of content against the cell wall) by cells within the pulvini-specialised motor organs at leaf joints. Upon stimulation, like touching, the leaf cells lose potassium ions, triggering water to leave the cells through osmosis. It takes about 10 minutes for the cells to regain turgidity and the leaves to open …

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Why does the sky look blue from the earth and black from the moon?

A phenomenon called Rayleigh’s Scattering causes light to scatter when it passes through particles that have a diameter one-tenth that of the wavelength (colour) of light. Sunlight is made up of different colours, but because of the elements in the atmosphere, the colour blue is scattered more efficiently than other colours making the sky appear blue. However, the moon does …

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Why does the moon appear upside down in the southern hemisphere?

The moon orbits near the equator of the Earth. In the southern hemisphere, we are standing at the opposite side of the globe, from a person who is standing in the northern hemisphere. So, we are literally standing upside down with relation to the person at the other end. We, therefore, see the moon from a completely different vantage point. …

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