Hugo Chavez — Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was born on July 28, 1954 in the home of his paternal grandmother Rosa Inéz Chávez in the rural village of Sabaneta, Barinas State. His parents, Hugo de los Reyes Chávez and Elena Frías de Chávez, were working-lower middle class schoolteachers who lived in the small village of Los Rastrojos. The Chávez family …
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Huang Guangyu, was born on 24 June, 1969. He was the Chairman of GOME Group, which is the largest consumer electronics retailer in China. He had a net worth of US$1.7 billion as of 2005, according to Forbes Magazine’s world’s richest people ranking. In 2005, he was the richest man in China according to Time magazine. In 2006, he was …
Read More »Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik Roshan (born 10 January 1974) is an Indian film actor. He has established a successful career in Bollywood, has won six Filmfare Awards, and is cited in the media as one of the most attractive male celebrities in India. After small appearances as a child actor in several films throughout the 1980s, Roshan made his film debut with a …
Read More »Howard Stern
Howard Stern — Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio personality, television host, author, actor, and photographer best known for his radio show, which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a “shock jock” for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style. Stern has been exclusive …
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Homer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet. No reliable biographical information about him survives from classical antiquity. Apparently Homer was a pseudonym. His given name was Melesigenes. The Iliad and the Odyssey are considered by most scholars to be the products of a centurieslong tradition of orally composed poetry; the role of an individual poet, or poets, in composing …
Read More »Why is the iPhone called so?
The iPhone gets its name because it can be customized to suit the user. Its screen and applications can be altered to individual taste, like iPod and iGoogle. It highlights the ‘i’ – individuality of the user. The iPhone is a multimedia-enabled smartphone, which made its appearance a couple of years ago. It combines email, 3D graphics, camera, a portable …
Read More »Why are the keys on keyboards not arranged alphabetically?
The keyboards are designed such that the people when typing with both the hands find it very comfortable to type and not have to look down at the keyboard from time to time to type. The arrangement is such that the most typed words like “the”, “an” can be typed with three different fingers with out any problem. And second …
Read More »Who is Capeta?
It’s a sport anime about cart racing. Capeta is a 10-year-old boy. His father works for a paving company. While working on a go-karting track, his father gets some pieces out of the trash and constructs a kart. Capeta masters the mangled kart and impresses the manager of a racing team, who helps him gain entry into the world of …
Read More »Who is a wardriver?
A wardriver is someone who accesses an unsecured wireless connection through a PDA or laptop in a moving vehicle. It�s derived from the word wardialling from the film WarGames. Other related concepts are warbiking (accessing a wi-fi connection on a motorbike or bicycle) and warwalking/ jogging (doing the same while on foot). While there are several softwares to enable wardriving, …
Read More »Who is a Twude and who is a Twidette?
A Twude is a person who is rude on twitter while a Twidette is a person who still hasn’t joined twitter. For tweeple (read as people) who want to know more such twitter-based words, an online dictionary called twittonary used extensively by tweeters, is available.
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