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Thursday, 9 June 2011

Champions league T20

We all know that Chennai won the 2o10 Champions league T20. But do you know that NEW SOUTH WALES BLUES won the champions league t20 of 2009? The y defeated Trinidad and Tobago in the final. NSWBlues participate in the KFC T20 Big Bash, and is also a first class team! Their team Has Australian International players such as Shane Watson, Micheal Clarke, Brad Haddin, Brett lee and Bollinger.
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Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Panchatantra

The Five Principles Is the english Translation Of panchatantra. It is one of the most well known stories in th world. It has been translated into Diffrent laguages thus:

Arabic: Kalīlah wa Dimnah
Persian: Anvār-e Soheylī
And in Englishg as The Morall Philosophie of Doni In 1570. So the panchtanthra Has been translated into many, many other languages.
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Saturday, 30 April 2011

The New Duke Of Cambridge: Hear his other titles!

Before the wedding with Cathriene Kate Elizabeth, Prince william was given the title of His Royal Highness The Duke Of Cambridge. However, he also Got the titles of: Earl of Strathearn , Which Is a title of a provincial ruler In Scotland. the last persorn to have this title was Duke Of Connaught in 1942. The first person to have this title streched far back into 1115!!!

" Baron Carrickfergus " is the other title Given to the Prince By th Queen. Ver y good name don't you think!Well, Traditionally, when male members of the royal family marry, they are Given a Peerge title. Carrickfergus is a barony In ireland. Also Kate Mideltoon will be The Countess of Strathearn and Baroness Carrickfergus respectievly. You Dont ahve to call her all the names, "His Royal Highness" or Your Royal Highness" Will be Enough!
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Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Two bodies: for one sport!

We all Know tha A particular sport has its Own govening body.....For example ICC Is the international cricket governig body. But Futsal HAs Two GOVERNING Bodies! the first one IS FIFA, The football govening body and The second one is AMF { Association Mundial De futsal translated to World Futsal Association.} Both Of them have diffrent tournments, And All nations send the same Team For both AMF and FIFA tournaments. while AMF Tournament was last held in 2007, The fifa tournament was held in 2008. So , It's rather complicated!
Any way, here is a note of Futsal:
Futsal is actually a variant of association football that is played on a smaller playing surface and mainly played indoors. Its name is derived from the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón (colloquially fútbol sala), which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football". During the sport's second world championships held in Madrid in 1985, the name fútbol de salón was used. Since then, all other names have been officially and internationally changed to futsal.

Futsal is played between two teams each with five players, one of whom is the goalkeeper. Unlimited substitutes per team are permitted. Unlike some other forms of indoor football, the game is played on a hard court surface delimited by lines; walls or boards are not used. Futsal is also played with a smaller ball with less bounce than a regular football. The rules create an emphasis on improvisation, creativity and technique as well as ball control and passing in small spaces.
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Sunday, 27 February 2011

Coups!

This Is the list of successful Coups in the world

A-E

F-J

K-P

Q-V

W-Z

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Thursday, 24 February 2011

kosovo

Kosovo
Kosovo physical map
Capital
(and largest city)		 Pristina (Prishtina or Priština)
42°40′N 21°10′E / 42.667°N 21.167°E / 42.667; 21.167
Ethnic groups (2009) 88% Albanians
7% Serbs
5% others[1]
Government disputed
- UNSG Special Representative Lamberto Zannier (UN)
- Serb assembly president Radovan Ničić
- Republic of Kosovo president Behgjet Pacolli
Governing authority disputed
- UN administration 10 June 1999
- Serb community February 2003
- Republic of Kosovo 17 February 2008
Area
- Total 10,908 km2
4,212 sq mi
- Water (%) n/a
Population
- 2007 estimate 1,804,838[2]
- 1991 census 1,956,1961
- Density 220/km2
500/sq mi
GDP (nominal) 2009 estimate
- Total $5.352 billion[3]
- Per capita $2,965
Currency Euro (€); Serbian Dinar (EUR; RSD)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Drives on the right
Calling code +3812
1 The census is a reconstruction; most of the ethnic Albanian majority boycotted.
2 Officially +381; some mobile phone providers use +377 (Monaco) or +386 (Slovenia) instead.
Republic of Kosovo
Republika e Kosovës (Albanian)
Република Косово (Serbian)
Republika Kosovo (Serbian)
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: Europe[4]
Location of Kosovo on the European continent
Location of Kosovo on the European continent
Capital
(and largest city)		 Pristina (Prishtina, Priština)
42°40′N 21°10′E / 42.667°N 21.167°E / 42.667; 21.167
Official language(s) Albanian, Serbian
Recognised regional languages Turkish, Gorani, Romani, Bosnian
Demonym Kosovar, Kosovan
Government Parliamentary republic
under international supervision
- President Behgjet Pacolli
- Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi
- International Civilian Representative Pieter Feith (EU)
Independence1 from Serbia, UNMIK
- UNSCR 1244 10 June 1999
- Proposal for Status Settlement 26 March 2007
- EULEX 16 February 2008
- Declared 17 February 2008
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Saturday, 14 August 2010

BBC

Here' s Information about BBC, TheBritish Broad casting Copration Let's get Some information elswhere, Shall we? The FIFA Confederations Cup, was first held in Saudi Arabia, organised by them when the Saudi national team played against some continental champions, but FIFA took it over in 1997.It is considered a dress rehearsal. It Starts once in 4 years, and the Continental Champions, 6,the host,and the current world cup holder paricipates. incase the Host and the Champions of the Continent are same, then the Runnerup Of the continent of the Host.visa-versa for the world cup.


BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest broadcasting organisation in the world. Its global headquarters are located in London and its main responsibility is to provide public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. The BBC is an autonomous public service broadcaster that operates under a Royal Charter. Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all United Kingdom households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to record and/or receive live television broadcasts; the level of the fee is set annually by the UK Government and agreed by Parliament.
Outside the UK, the BBC World Service has provided services by direct broadcasting and re-transmission contracts by sound radio since the inauguration of the BBC Empire Service in December 1932, and more recently by television and online. Though sharing some of the facilities of the domestic services, particularly for news and current affairs output, the World Service has a separate Managing Director, and its operating costs are funded mainly by direct grants from the UK government. These grants are determined independently of the domestic licence fee.
The Corporation's 'guaranteed' income from the licence fee and the World Service grants are supplemented by profits from commercial operations through a wholly owned subsidiary, BBC Worldwide Ltd. The company's activities include programme- and format-sales, magazines including Radio Times and book publishing. The BBC also earns additional income from selling certain programme-making services through BBC Studios and Post Production Ltd., formerly BBC Resources Ltd, another wholly owned trading subsidiary of the corporation.

History

The BBC was the world's first national broadcasting organisation and was founded on 18 October 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd. The original company was founded in 1922 by a group of six telecommunications companies—Marconi, Radio Communication Company, Metropolitan-Vickers, General Electric, Western Electric, and British Thomson-Houston—to broadcast experimental radio services. The first transmission was on 14 November of that year, from station 2LO, located at Marconi House, London.

The British Broadcasting Company Ltd. was created by the British General Post Office (GPO) and John Reith applied for a job with the existing company and later became its General Manager. The company was wound-up and on 1 January 1927 a new non-commercial entity called the British Broadcasting Corporation established under a Royal Charter became successor in interest.

To represent its purpose and values, the Corporation adopted the coat of arms, incorporating the motto "Nation shall speak peace unto Nation". The motto is generally attributed to Montague John Rendall, former headmaster of Winchester College, and member of the first BBC Board of Governors. The motto is said to be a "felicitous adaptation" of Micah 4: 3 "nation shall not lift up a sword against nation".

Experimental television broadcasts were started in 1932 using an electromechanical 30 line system developed by John Logie Baird. Limited regular broadcasts using this system began in 1934, and an expanded service (now named the BBC Television Service) started in 1936, alternating between an improved Baird mechanical 240 line system and the all electronic 405 line Marconi-EMI system. The superiority of the electronic system saw the mechanical system dropped early the following year. Television broadcasting was suspended from 1 September 1939 to 7 June 1946 during the Second World War. A widely reported urban myth is that, upon resumption of service, announcer Leslie Mitchell started by saying, "As I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted ..." In fact, the first person to appear when transmission resumed was Jasmine Bligh and the words said were "Good afternoon, everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh ...?"

The European Broadcasting Union was formed on 12 February 1950, in Torquay with the BBC among the 23 founding broadcasting organisations.

Competition to the BBC was introduced in 1955 with the commercial and independently operated television network ITV. However, the BBC monopoly on radio services would persist into the 1970s. As a result of the Pilkington Committee report of 1962, in which the BBC was praised for the quality and range of its output, and ITV was very heavily criticised for not providing enough quality programming, the decision was taken to award the BBC a second television channel, BBC2, in 1964, renaming the existing service BBC1. BBC2 used the higher resolution 625 line standard which had been standardised across Europe. BBC2 was broadcast in colour from 1 July 1967, and was joined by BBC 1 and ITV on 15 November 1969. The 405 line VHF transmissions of BBC 1 (and ITV) were continued for compatibility with older television receivers until 1985.

Starting in 1964 a series of pirate radio stations (starting with Radio Caroline) came on the air, and forced the British government finally to regulate radio services to permit nationally based advertising-financed services. In response the BBC reorganised and renamed their radio channels. The Light Programme was split into Radio 1 offering continuous "Popular" music and Radio 2 more "Easy Listening". The "Third" programme became Radio 3 offering classical music and cultural programming. The Home Service became Radio 4 offering news, and non-musical content such as quiz shows, readings, dramas and plays. As well as the four national channels, a series of local BBC radio stations were established in 1967, including Radio London.

In 1974, the BBC's teletext service, Ceefax, was introduced, created initially to provide subtitling, but developed into a news and information service. In 1978 BBC staff went on strike just before the Christmas of that year, thus blocking out the transmission of both channels and amalgamating all four radio stations into one.

Since the deregulation of the UK television and radio market in the 1980s, the BBC has faced increased competition from the commercial sector (and from the advertiser-funded public service broadcaster Channel 4), especially on satellite television, cable television, and digital television services.

The BBC Research Department has played a major part in the development of broadcasting and recording techniques. In the early days it carried out essential research into acoustics and programme level and noise measurement.[citation needed]

The 2004 Hutton Inquiry and the subsequent Report raised questions about the BBC's journalistic standards and its impartiality. This led to resignations of senior management members at the time including the then Director General, Greg Dyke. In January 2007, the BBC released minutes of the Board meeting which led to Greg Dyke's resignation.

Unlike the other departments of the BBC, BBC World Service is funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, more commonly known as the Foreign Office or the FCO, is the British government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom abroad.

On 18 October 2007, BBC Director General Mark Thompson announced a controversial plan to make major cuts and reduce the size of the BBC as an organisation. The plans included a reduction in posts of 2,500; including 1,800 redundancies, consolidating news operations, reducing programming output by 10% and selling off the flagship Television Centre building in London. These plans have been fiercely opposed by unions, who have threatened a series of strikes, however the BBC have stated that the cuts are essential to move the organisation forward and concentrate on increasing the quality of programming.


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