Yes, He was Robert MacGregor, the leader of a band of Scottish outlaws. Sir Walter Scott featured him in a heroic role in his popular novel Rob Roy. MacGregor called himself Rob Roy, roy meaning red. Rob Roy had red hair. He was born 1671, in Buchanan parish, Stirlingshire. As a cattle farmer at Balquhidder, he raised a band of …
Read More »Can all dogs bark?
Surprisingly, the answere is no. There is one breed of dog, the Basenji, which cannot bark. This strange little dog with wrinkles on its cheeks and forehead, perky ears, and a tightly curled tail can make other sounds common to dogs like whines or cries or growls, but it cannot bark. Instead, it can make a sound that other dogs …
Read More »By which name do we know Theodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski?
The name under which the he wrote his many sea-faring novels was Joseph Conrad. He was born in the Ukraine in Russia on December 6, 1857. His boyhood was passed in Caracow in Poland. There he learned to speak and write French fluently and first began to take a great interest in the sea. At the age of 17 he …
Read More »Butter, cheese or milk?
Cows are very valuable animals to human beings. They give us milk, from which we make butter and cheese. The commonest dairy (milk-giving) cows are Friesians. Europeans drink an average of nearly 31 (5pt) of milk per week each.
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.
Read More »Who is a cybrarian?
A cybrarian is a person who makes a living doing online research and by retrieving information. A term similar to that of ‘librarian’, a cybrarian does the same work but integrates the use of internet into the library. In Greek, cyber means to steer or govern and -arian stands for one who belongs to, follows or believes in.
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