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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,......