Total Area : 145,883 sq mi

Population (est. 2005): 127,417,244

Japan (official name Dai Nippon -"Freat Origin of the Sun") consists mostly of a crescent-shaped archipelago stretching 1,500 miles from Hokkaido near Russia's Siberian Sakhalian island is the north to semitropical Ryukyu Islands off the coast of Taiwan in the southwest. The four main islands (out of 6,825 in all) are, from north to south, Hokkaido, Honshu (considered the mainland), Shikoku, and Kyushu.

Selected Japanese National Records

Grey's Anatomy

The Best Ever Movie I Watched. My Most Favorite Movie.

Grey's Anatomy is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American primetime television medical drama. It debuted on ABC as a midseason replacement on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives. The series revolves around Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), who began in the show as a surgical intern at the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital in Seattle, Washington. She and the other former interns became residents at the end of the third season. The show features an ensemble cast, though Meredith is presented as the central character, providing voice-over narration at......

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"Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker wothout encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it." By George Matthew Adams.

"Success is not like a magical wand. It doesn't come to those with a silver spoon but is achieved by ones with a vision." By Suman Agarwal.

"When you fail, rejoice, for you are that much closer to success." By Charles Arriaga.

"To the unmotivated, an obstacle serves as an excuse. To the motivated, an obstacle serves as an opportunity to build character." By Captain Steven.

"Commitment, hard work, sincerity and planned efforts are the main keys to success in every profession." By Harish Gaur.

"The past is an experience! The present is an experiment! The future is expectations! Use your experience in your experiment to......

British mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton is said to have been inspired to study gravity when he saw and apple fall from a tree sometime around 1666. Although the story is entrenched in scientific and popular lore, no such thing seems to have happened.

   Newton's study of gravity was largely inspired by the findings of the French thinker Rene Descartes and German astronomer Johannes Kepler. It culminated in 1687 with the publication of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy").

   The Principia set forth innovative......

One of the most famous products of Einstein's wondrous year of 1905 was his statement of the equivalance of mass and energy. This is commonly written e=mc², where c is the speed of light.

   But Einstein said it differently. He used V for the speed of light and L for energy:"If a body releases the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass is decreased by L/V²." It wasn't until the 1920s that the formulation was modified, in accordance with then-common usage, and took on the form familiar today.

One can make a case that history's smartest person was William James Sidis (1898-1944), the son of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants to the U.S. He reportedly learned to read at a year and a half and write at three, and finished a seven-year public school course in six months at the age of six.

 William James Sidis in 1914

   SIdis entered Harvard at 11 abd gave a brilliant two-hour lecture to the mathematics club on four-dimensional bodies. In later life, however, Sidis become some critics to offer him as the classic example of a prodigy pushed too hard. He died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 46.

Another common alternative to the cathode-ray tube receiver is the liquid crystal display. In the early 1960s, RCA physical chemist Richard Williams found that the optical properties of liquid crystals could be manipulated by electric impulses.

  Wikipedia's logo displayed on an LCD monitor

   By 1968. RCA electronics engineer George Heilmeier and his coworkers had developed prototypes for simple LCD screens, which soon come to be used in calculators.

   The first color TV using a simple LCD screen, introduced by Seiko Epson in 1984, had a 2-inch screen (screen size is measured diagonally across the viewing area). By 2005 Samsung was displaying a screen more than 80-inches in size.

When completed in 2009, the Three Gorges Dam in China will be the world's largest made of 989 million cubic feet of concrete. Spanning 1.4 miles across the Chang (Yangtze) River, the dam will create a reservoir over 350 miles long, holding 1.39 trillion cubic feet of water, so much that it will take six years to fill.

   Its 18,200-megawatt hydroelectric plant will also be the world's largest, generating as much energy as 15 nuclear power plants. To make room for the reservoir, over 1.2 million poeple are being relocated, and countless villages, burial grounds, and archaeological sites will be flooded.

   The oldest person to recieve an Academy Award nomination in an acting category is Gloria Stuart. She was 87 when she recieved a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Titanic (1997).

 

 As 100-year-old Rose in Titanic

   The oldest actor is recieve a nomination is Sir Ralph Richardson. The renowned British stage actor was 82 when he recieved a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984).

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Three films have won 11 oscars:

   Ben-Hur (1959), starring Charlton Heston, Titanic (1997), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, and The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King (2003), with Elijah Wood and a large cast of other stars.

   Ben-Hur won Oscars for : Best Picture,......

With more than 29 million books, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, is the world's largest library. Founded in 1800 as a reference library for Congress, it was destroyed by the British dutin the war of 1812. To replace it, Thomas Jefferson sold his personal library containing 6,487 volumes for $23,950 in 1815.

   Today, there are nearlt 130 million items on about 530 miles of bookshelves. Along with its huge book collection, the library also houses 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps and 58 million manuscripts.

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Use this Freeware to help you see all the information about your own PC.

CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.

CPU

• Name and number.
• Core stepping and process.
• Package.
• Core voltage.
• Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier.
• Supported instructions sets.
• Cache information.

• Vendor, model and revision.
• BIOS model and date.
• Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor.
• Graphic interface.

• Frequency and timings.
• Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table.

• Windows......

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc². Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."^[1]

Einstein in 1947

Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity, which extended the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion, creating a new theory of gravitation.......

Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS), or micropsia, is a disorienting neurological condition which affects human visual perception.

An illustration by John Tenniel of Alice rapidly growing.

Subjects perceive humans, parts of humans, animals, and inanimate objects as substantially smaller than in reality. Generally, the object perceived appears far away or extremely close at the same time. For example, a family pet, such as a dog, may appear the size of a mouse, or a normal car may look shrunk to scale. This leads to another name for the condition, Lilliput sight or Lilliputian hallucinations, named after the small people in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's......

When Ferdinand Magellan led the first circumnavigation of earth in the 16th century, his 5 ships were about 33 metres (100 feet) long, and reached 10 knots. Today, cruise liners exceed 300m (1,000ft) in length and reaches 25 knots.

Cunard's Queen Mary 2, featuring 17 decks and towering 62 metres (200 ft) above the waterline, one and half times higher than the Statue of Liberty, only 35 metres shorter than the Empire State Building.

Other beauties in the big league include the Norway, at one stage, the longest liner at 315,5 metres (1,035 feet), yet she's not in the top ten by Gross Registered Tonnes (GRT), registering 76,049 tonnes. The......

In 1897, Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek, traveled from his home in Nice, France to purchase a car from the Daimler factory in Cannstatt, Germany. On his return to the French Riviera, his sporting Daimler Phoenix caused such a sensation that he decided to enter it into a local touring competition, under the name of "Mercedes" after his favourite 9 year old daughter. Realising the business potential for the new car, he not only placed an order for 36 more, but also secured the franchise for selling them in several countries. Gottlieb Daimler also agreed to having them sold under the name of "Mercedes."

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The largest flower in the world, the rafflesia arnoldi, weighs 7 kg (15 pounds) and grows only on the Sumatra island of Indonesia. Its petals grow to metre (1,6 feet) long and 2,5 cm (1 inch) thick.

Rafflesia arnoldi - world's largest flower

There are 16 species of rafflesia, found in Sumatra, Malaysia and Borneo. The species is named after the naturalist Sir Stamford Raffles, who founded the British colony of Singapore in 1819. Raffles discovered the parasitic plant with his friend Dr. Joseph Arnold during their travels in May 1818. The rafflesia arnoldi......

World's tallest buildings

Buildings completed or being built

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This wiki is designed to give you a little more background on the Did You Know? presentation. The wiki also will connect you with some resources to learn more about the shifts that are occurring in our world and their implications for K-12 and higher education.

Because we are educators in the United States, our experiences and perspectives are going to be somewhat America-centric. However, we believe that the themes of Did You Know? are global in nature and apply to schools and children around the world. We want all children to be successful. We do not view the growing importance of India and China as negative but rather as additional opportunities for everyone in the world. We do not mean to gloss over the very......