tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5184931696306539912024-02-18T18:24:44.584-08:00Top 10 RocksAmazing World of Top 10.......Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518493169630653991.post-30038746890933774572011-06-15T23:25:00.000-07:002011-06-15T23:25:04.079-07:00Top 10 Things for India to Achieve its 2050 Potential according to Goldman Sachs:<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: black; font: small 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #212121; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> <div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Here are the list of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Top 10 Things for India to Achieve its 2050 Potential<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>according to Goldman Sachs:</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.33em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.87em 0px 0.62em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Improve governance.</h3><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Without better governance, delivery systems and effective implementation, India will find it difficult to educate its citizens, build its infrastructure, increase agricultural productivity and ensure that the fruits of economic growth are well established.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.33em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.87em 0px 0.62em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Raise educational achievement.</h3><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Among more micro factors, raising India’s educational achievement is a major requirement to help achieve the nation’s potential. According to our basic indicators, a vast number of India’s young people receive no (or only the most basic) education. A major effort to boost basic education is needed. A number of initiatives, such as a continued expansion of Pratham and the introduction of Teach First, for example, should be pursued.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.33em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.87em 0px 0.62em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Increase quality and quantity of universities.</h3><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">At the other end of the spectrum, India should also have a more defined plan to raise the number<br style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />and the quality of top universities.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.33em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.87em 0px 0.62em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Control inflation.</h3><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Although India has not suffered particularly from dramatic inflation, it is currently experiencing a rise in inflation similar to<br style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />that seen in a number of emerging economies. We think a formal adoption of Inflation Targeting would be a very sensible move to help India persuade its huge population of the (permanent) benefits of price stability.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.33em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.87em 0px 0.62em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Introduce a credible fiscal policy.</h3><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">We also believe that India should introduce a more credible medium-term plan for fiscal policy. Targeting low and stable inflation is not easy if fiscal policy is poorly maintained. We think it would be helpful to develop some ‘rules’ for spending over cycles.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.33em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.87em 0px 0.62em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Liberalize financial markets.</h3><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">To improve further the macro variables within the GES framework, we believe further liberalization of Indian financial markets is necessary.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.33em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.87em 0px 0.62em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Increase trade with neighbors.</h3><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In terms of international trade, India continues to be much less ‘open’ than many of its other large emerging nation colleagues, especially China. Given the significant number of nations with large populations on its borders, we would recommend that India target a major increase in trade with China, Pakistan and Bangladesh.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.33em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.87em 0px 0.62em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Increase agricultural productivity.</h3><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Agriculture, especially in these times of rising prices, should be a great opportunity for India. Better specific and defined plans for increasing productivity in agriculture are essential, and could allow India to benefit from the BRIC-related global thirst for better quality food.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.33em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.87em 0px 0.62em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Improve infrastructure.</h3><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Focus on infrastructure in India is legendary, and tales of woe abound. Improvements are taking place, as any foreign<br style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />business visitor will be aware, but the need for more is paramount. Without such improvement, development will be limited.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.33em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.87em 0px 0.62em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Improve Environmental Quality.</h3><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The final area where greater reforms are needed is the environment. Achieving greater energy efficiencies and<br style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />boosting the cleanliness of energy and water usage would increase the likelihood of a sustainable stronger growth path for India.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I highly advice you to read the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/2008/06/16235741/CB9BCB3C-5825-4AD6-9604-042202BBC985ArtVPF.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">full white paper</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>published by Goldman Sachs.</div></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518493169630653991.post-61532807360395015722011-06-15T23:23:00.000-07:002011-06-15T23:23:12.243-07:00Top 10: Things you didn't know about Ramdev<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: black; font: small 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; color: black; font: 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Here are some facts about Ramdev</b></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; color: black; font: 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">1.</b>He works 18-20 hours a day, waking up at 3 am every morning to begin his exercises, fuelled by a diet of milk, green vegetables and seasonal fruit.</div><div class="hm-pic" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Top 10: Things you didn't know about Ramdev" src="http://static.ibnlive.com/pix/sitepix/06_2011/ramdev3_3.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;" title="Top 10: Things you didn't know about Ramdev" width="550px" /></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; color: black; font: 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">2.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The yoga guru claims to have a follower in every household in India, and at least 30 million people tune in every day to his yoga programme that describes methods and teachings for treating anything from diabetes to high blood pressure.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; color: black; font: 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">3.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ramdev's main yoga centre in Haridwar, in Uttarakhand, can hold 6,000 people, and is the heartbeat of a global business spread across three trusts with a turnover of $ 40 million every year.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; color: black; font: 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">4.</b>His assets include a Scottish island now renamed "Peace Island", a two-campus university dedicated to yoga teaching and a pharmaceutical company producing ayurvedic medicine and herbal products.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; color: black; font: 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">5.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ramdev has promised to form a national political party to challenge the ruling Congress party at the 2014 general elections, and contest all 543 seats across India.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; color: black; font: 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">6.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ramdev has claimed that homosexuality is a mental disease, and that mentally stable people do not become homosexuals.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; color: black; font: 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">7.</b>When the Delhi High Court decriminalised homosexuality in 2009, local media reported Ramdev said: "The verdict will encourage criminality and sick mentality. This kind of thing is shameful and insulting."</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; color: black; font: 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">8.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ramdev was also sent a cease and desist order by the health ministry after he said that sex education in schools should be replaced by yoga education to combat the spread of HIV and AIDS.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; color: black; font: 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">9.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ramdev's trust runs courses and workshops in Britain, the United States, Canada, Mauritius and Nepal, and a book and CD business with a monthly turnover of around $ 500,000. He is scheduled to travel to Russia in late July for a series of workshops and lectures.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; color: black; font: 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;"><b style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">10.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He says he has never eaten an egg, nor drank alcohol.</div></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518493169630653991.post-7448539935209582452011-06-15T23:19:00.001-07:002011-06-15T23:19:58.128-07:00Top 10 Terrifying Prehistoric Sea Monsters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: black; font: small 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> <div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Here are 10 of the scariest monsters to ever call the ocean home in prehistory.</div><h2 style="color: #2b3349; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-transform: none;">10. Megalodon</h2><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-terrifying-prehistoric-sea-monsters.php/image002-6" rel="attachment wp-att-16010" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Megalodon" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16010" height="363px" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image0021.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Megalodon" width="378px" /></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Megalodon is probably the best-known creature in the list; it’s hard to keep the idea of a shark the size of a school bus out of pop culture. Plus, science-minded entertainment sources like the Discovery Channel love creatures that could pass for a movie monster. Despite the popular idea that Megalodon coexisted with dinosaurs, they lived from 25 to 1.5 million years ago, meaning that at best they missed the last dinosaur by 40 million years. On the other hand, this meant they might have still been around for the first humans. Eek.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Megalodons swam the warm oceans that were around until the last ice age in the early Pleistocene, which may have robbed them of their breeding grounds and food. Sometimes, it seems nature has our back.</div><h2 style="color: #2b3349; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-transform: none;">9. Liopleurodon</h2><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-terrifying-prehistoric-sea-monsters.php/image003-6" rel="attachment wp-att-16012" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Liopleurodon" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16012" height="395px" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image0032-560x395.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Liopleurodon" width="560px" /></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If Jurassic Park had an aquarium scene, and actually featured more animals from the Jurassic period, liopleurodon probably would have been in it. Although the actual length of these beasts is contested (some scientists have claimed lengths in excess of 50’), most agree that it was around 20 feet in length, with a full fifth of that being pointy-toothed head. When the mouth of the “smaller” estimate is still plenty large to eat you whole, I think that is perfectly huge enough.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Scientists have tested the paddle design of these creatures on small swimming robots and found that although they would not have been incredibly fast, they were incredibly agile. They also would have been able to make short, fast burst attacks like crocodiles, which in no way makes them any less intimidating.</div><h2 style="color: #2b3349; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-transform: none;">8. Basilosaurus</h2><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-terrifying-prehistoric-sea-monsters.php/image005-5" rel="attachment wp-att-16013" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Basilosaurus" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16013" height="400px" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image0052-400x400.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Basilosaurus" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Despite the name and appearance, that is not a reptile, but actually a whale (and not even the most fearsome on the list!) Basilosaurs were predatory ancestors of modern whales, and could be 50 to 85 feet long! It is described as being the closest a whale has ever come to being a snake because of how long and sinuous it was. Imagine swimming in the ocean with an 80+ foot long alligator-snake-whale. Now imagine being afraid to even take a bath ever again.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Physical evidence suggests that basilosaurus did not have the cognitive ability of modern whales, nor the ability to echolocate, and could only navigate in 2 dimensions (so no deep diving or breaching). So at least this monster whale was dumber than a bag of prehistoric hammers and could not chase you if you dove or scrambled out on dry land, probably forever.</div><h2 style="color: #2b3349; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-transform: none;">7.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Jaekelopterus rhenaniae</strong></h2><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-terrifying-prehistoric-sea-monsters.php/image007-6" rel="attachment wp-att-16014" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Jaekelopterus rhenaniae" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16014" height="240px" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image0073-560x240.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Jaekelopterus rhenaniae" width="560px" /></a></strong></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Nothing about the words “sea scorpion” are comforting to begin with, so this should not come off as too awful: this was one of the two largest arthropods to have ever lived, reaching a length of over 8 feet of armored, clawed horror. Most of us freak out at the thought of inch-long ants and foot wide spiders, so it’s easy to imagine screaming like a little girl if you ever stumbled across a living one of these.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On the plus side, sea scorpions (Euripterids) have been extinct since before the dinosaurs, having been wiped out in the Permian Triassic extinction event (which killed 90% of all life on earth) and are only survived, to some degree, by horseshoe crabs, which are even less formidable than regular crabs. There is no evidence that any sea scorpions were actually venomous, but the structure of their tail is similar to a modern scorpion’s, so it might have been.</div><h2 style="color: #2b3349; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-transform: none;">6.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Mauisaurus</strong></h2><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-terrifying-prehistoric-sea-monsters.php/image008-6" rel="attachment wp-att-16015" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Mauisaurus" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-16015" height="180px" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image0082-560x180.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Mauisaurus" width="560px" /></a></strong></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mauisaurus was named after the Maori god Maui, who pulled the islands of New Zealand up from the sea floor with a fish hook, so already you know this thing is going to be enormous. The neck of Mauisaurus measured up to 49 feet long; the longest proportionate (and really, “actual”) neck of any living thing aside from some sauropod dinosaurs. Their overall length was about 66 feet, and that ridiculously long neck had plenty of vertebrae, implying that it was flexible. Imagine a snake strung through a sea turtle with no shell, and you have an approximate idea of what this thing looked like.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It lived back in the Cretaceous era, meaning that creatures that jumped in the water avoid Velociraptors and Tyrannosaurs had to contend with these; the jury is out on which is worse. As far as science can tell, Mauisaurus was limited to the New Zealand area, showing that the area that would one day become Australia and its neighbors was always a land of terror.</div><h2 style="color: #2b3349; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-transform: none;">5.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Dunkleosteus</strong></h2><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-terrifying-prehistoric-sea-monsters.php/image010-4" rel="attachment wp-att-16016" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Dunkleosteus" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16016" height="333px" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image0101.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Dunkleosteus" width="494px" /></a></strong></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dunkleosteus was a 30 foot long carnivorous tank. It was outlasted by sharks, but I am sure that is small consolation for the variety of creatures this beast ate. Instead of teeth, it had bony ridges, like a turtle. It has been calculated that they had a bite force of 8,000 pounds per square inch, putting it on par with crocodiles and T-Rex in terms of being history’s strongest biters. They also believe, based on the evidence in the skull regarding its musculature, that it could have opened its mouth in one fiftieth of a second, meaning it vacuumed food into its guillotine of a mouth.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The plates that made up the “teeth” changed as the fish aged from a solid, rigid jaw to segments that allowed it to hold prey easier, and made it more effective in biting through the bony plate armor of other armored fish. In the arms race that was the prehistoric ocean, Dunleosteus was a predatory super tank.</div><h2 style="color: #2b3349; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-transform: none;">4.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Kronosaurus</strong></h2><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-terrifying-prehistoric-sea-monsters.php/image011-3" rel="attachment wp-att-16018" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Kronosaurus" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16018" height="300px" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image0112.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Kronosaurus" width="450px" /></a></strong></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Kronosaurus is another short-necked pliosaur (like Liopleurodon up at number 9), and like Liopleurodon, its overall length has been contested. It was a “mere” 30 feet long and the longest teeth in its massive mouth were up to 11 inches long. This is why it was named after Cronus, the king of the old<a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-theories-about-the-lost-city-of-atlantis.php" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Greek</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Titans.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Guess where it lived? If you guessed “Australia”, then you have been paying attention to life (and are correct). The head was up to 9 feet long. They could eat an entire modern man whole, and still have room left over for half of another. It has also been suggested that since their flippers are so similar in design to those of modern sea turtles, that they may have crawled out onto land to lay eggs. You can be sure no one was digging up these thing’s nests to get at the eggs.</div><h2 style="color: #2b3349; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-transform: none;">3.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Helicoprion</strong></h2><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-terrifying-prehistoric-sea-monsters.php/image012-2" rel="attachment wp-att-16020" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Helicoprion" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16020" height="290px" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image0121.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Helicoprion" width="500px" /></a></strong></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">These sharks grew to be about 15 feet long, and had a lower jaw that was made of a “tooth whorl”. It looks like a cross between a circular saw and a shark, and when you mix apex predators with power tools, the world quakes in fear.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Helicoprion’s teeth were serrated, implying that they were definitely carnivores, but there is some debate as to whether their teeth were in the front of the mouth, as shown in the picture, or if they were farther back, which would suggest a softer diet, like jellyfish. However it was arranged, it clearly worked; Helicoprion survived the Permian Triassic extinction, which means they may have been smart enough to create<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-nuclear-explosions.php" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">bomb</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>shelters. Or maybe they just lived in the deep sea.</div><h2 style="color: #2b3349; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-transform: none;">2.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Livyatan melvillei</strong></h2><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-terrifying-prehistoric-sea-monsters.php/image013-2" rel="attachment wp-att-16021" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Livyatan melvillei" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16021" height="512px" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image0131.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Livyatan melvillei" width="402px" /></a></strong></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Remember me mentioning “hypercarnivorous” whales? Well here it is. Imagine a cross between an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/10-dangerous-exotic-pets.php" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">orca</a>and a sperm whale. Livyatan melvillei was a whale that ate other whales. It had the largest teeth of any animal to ever use their teeth to eat (elephant tusks are bigger, but they just look impressive and help them smash things; they don’t eat with them) topping out at 1.18 feet. They lived in the same oceans and ate the same food as the Megalodon, so this whale actually had to compete with the largest predatory shark ever.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Not to mention their head was 10 feet long and featured the same echo-locating equipment as modern toothed whales, making them much more effective in murky water. In case it was not obvious, this beast was named after the leviathan, a giant sea monster from the bible, and Herman Melville, who wrote Moby Dick. If the great white whale had been one of these, it would have eaten the Pequot and everyone aboard as a snack.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: black; font: small 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><h2 style="color: #2b3349; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-transform: none;">1. Giant Stingray</h2><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-terrifying-prehistoric-sea-monsters.php/image015-2" rel="attachment wp-att-16023" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Giant Stingray" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16023" height="320px" src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image0151.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Giant Stingray" width="281px" /></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What grew 17 feet across, had a 10 inch poison spike in its tail and was strong enough to drag a boat filled with people? In this case, a prehistoric super-fish that is still lurking around in fresh and brackish waters from the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-powerful-rivers-in-the-world.php" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Mekong</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>river to northern Australia. Stingrays have been around since a few million years after the dinosaurs died out, and have proven to be a successful design, much like the sharks they descended from.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The giant stingrays use that tried and true ancient design, but have somehow managed to survive ice ages and even the catastrophic Toba event. They were featured on Animal Planet’s River Monsters, and despite the host’s tendency to exaggerate damn near everything, they are incredibly dangerous to fool around with, even if you don’t know you are fooling around with one. They are notorious for putting their neurotoxin covered spike completely through limbs. I guess, on the plus side, if there is one, at least they won’t try to eat you.</div></span></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518493169630653991.post-47270916826958107172011-04-04T11:47:00.000-07:002011-04-04T11:47:18.946-07:00Top 10 Fastest Cars for 2010 – 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="bugatti_veyron" height="132" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bugatti_veyron.jpg" width="200" /></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1. Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport</strong><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">;</strong> 267 mph, 0-60 in 2.2 seconds – This is a lightweight super car powered by 8.0-liter W16 engine with 1200 horsepower. It sells at $2,400,000, easily the highest priced car in the top 10 list. The car produced by Volkswagen Group subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles was introduced in 2005 as the fastest production car in the world.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/2009/04/05/top-10-fastest-cars/ssc-ultimate-aero-tt/" rel="attachment wp-att-1019" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="ssc-ultimate-aero-tt" class="size-full wp-image-1019 alignnone" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ssc-ultimate-aero-tt.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="ssc-ultimate-aero-tt" width="135" /></a></strong></span><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2. SSC Ultimate Aero;</strong> 257 mph, 0-60 in 2.7 seconds – This car was acknowledged by Guinness world records as the fastest car in March 2007. It is powered by a twin-turbo engine that packs an astounding 1183 horsepower. Only 24 cars were produced from 2006-2007 at a price of US $485,000.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br class="spacer_" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/2009/04/05/top-10-fastest-cars/koenigsegg-ccx/" rel="attachment wp-att-1057" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="koenigsegg-ccx" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1057" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/koenigsegg-ccx.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="koenigsegg-ccx" width="135" /></a>3. Koenigsegg CCX;</strong> 250 mph+, 0-60 in 3.2 seconds – This Sweden-made fast car packs 806 power from its 90 degree V8 engine. The CCX was first unveiled on February 28, 2006 at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show although its existence was announced earlier. At a price of $1,820,000 and $2,050,000 for top of the line model, exclusivity is guaranteed.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/2009/04/05/top-10-fastest-cars/saleen-s7-twinturbo/" rel="attachment wp-att-1086" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="saleen-s7-twinturbo" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1086" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/saleen-s7-twinturbo.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="saleen-s7-twinturbo" width="135" /></a>4. Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo;</strong> 248 mph, 0-60 in 3.2 seconds – This super fast car is powered by an 100% aluminum V8 engine packing with 750 horsepower. This twin-turbocharged monster went on sale for $585,296 USD in 2005 , replacing standard non turbo S7 production. Saleen offers an optional competition package with 33% increase in power.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/2009/04/05/top-10-fastest-cars/mclaren/" rel="attachment wp-att-1091" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="mclaren" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1091" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mclaren.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="mclaren" width="135" /></a>5. McLaren F1;</strong> 240 mph, 0-60 in 3.2 seconds – It is power driven by powerhouse V12 engine that packs 62y horsepower. It is popular with its trademark doors that resemble bat wings. Up until 1998, when McLaren produced and sold the standard F1 models, they had a price tag of around 970 000 USD. Today the cars can sell for up to nearly twice that of the original price.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/2009/04/05/top-10-fastest-cars/gumpert-apollo-2009/" rel="attachment wp-att-5078" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="gumpert-apollo-2009" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5078" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/gumpert-apollo-2009.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="gumpert-apollo-2009" width="135" /></a>6. Gumpert Apollo;</strong> 220 mph, 0-60 in 2.7 seconds – This super car is produced by a German automaker in Altenburg. It is a mid-engined, rear wheel drive two-seater constructed on a tubular chromoly frame, with fiberglass or optional carbon fiber body panels. There are 3 engine types available with the race version rated at 789.06 bhp. The production of the Apollo started in October 2005 with a starting price of $400,000 USD.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/2009/04/05/top-10-fastest-cars/ascari-a10/" rel="attachment wp-att-5079" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Ascari-A10" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5079" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/Ascari-A10.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="Ascari-A10" width="135" /></a>7. Ascari A10;</strong> 220 mph, 0-60 in 2.8 seconds – Although designed for racing A10 is intended to be a usable car or on the road. It is engineered and hand built in Banbury, England featuring a modified 5.0 L BMW V8 engine producing 625 bhp at a price of approximately $650,000 USD. Only 50 A10s lucky owners will have a chance to own one.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/2009/04/05/top-10-fastest-cars/ferrari-enzo/" rel="attachment wp-att-1092" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="ferrari-enzo" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1092" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ferrari-enzo.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="ferrari-enzo" width="135" /></a><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">8. Ferrari Enzo;</strong> 217 mph, 0-60 in 3.2 seconds – It is driven by a F140 V12 workhorse with 660 horsepower. It is currently one of the most powerful naturally aspirated production cars in the world. There are only 399 of these cars worldwide and the price of a unit shoots up every time someone crashes one. This Ferrari typically trades above $1,000,000 at auction.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/2009/04/05/top-10-fastest-cars/jaguar-xj2201/" rel="attachment wp-att-1845" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="jaguar-xj2201" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1845" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jaguar-xj2201.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="jaguar-xj2201" width="135" /></a>9. Jaguar XJ 220;</strong> 217 mph, 0-60 in 4.0 seconds – This fast car is driven bya V6 engine that packs 542 horsepower. This is one of the oldest as being released in 1992 but still got what it takes to remain the round of ten of hot wheels. Total of 281 cars were made and by 1997, few of these remained available for sale new at £150,000.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/2009/04/05/top-10-fastest-cars/pagani_zonda/" rel="attachment wp-att-1094" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="pagani_zonda" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1094" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pagani_zonda.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="pagani_zonda" width="135" /></a>10. Pagani Zonda F;</strong> 215 mph, 0-60 in 3.5 seconds – It’s no mistake that Pagani chose to use the “F” badging to represent the first step up in performance for the Zonda above the stock Zonda S. This fast car is driven by Mercedes Benz V12 engine packing 650 horsepower. Base price for this dream car is<span class="cdtl-spec-post-img-Rtxt" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">$694,000.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518493169630653991.post-12078298755863642892011-04-04T11:34:00.000-07:002011-04-04T11:34:33.963-07:00Top 10 Fastest Flying Birds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">The list of ten fastest flying birds which was more or less accepted in a worldwide manner:</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-18723" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11-300x136.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 90px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="135" /></a>1. Spine-tailed Swift</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Also popularly identified as the white-throated Needletail. The nomenclature of the bird in the domain of scientific community is Hirundapus caudacutus. The maximum recorded speed is 171 kilometers per hour. Spine-tailed Swifts are mostly seen in the eastern and northern part of Australia but because of their migratory nature their breeding place are in the rocky areas of central Asia. The spine tailed swifts generally devour flying insects e.g. termites, ants, beetles etc like other birds of its genre.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/21.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-18724" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/21-300x136.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 160px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="135" /></a>2. Frigate Bird</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Frigate Bird turned out to be the second fastest flying bird in the world which flies with a speed maximum speed of 153 kilometers per hour. Frigates has long wings, tails and bills and the male Frigate birds have a red gular pouch which is inflated during the breeding season in order to draw the attention and to attract the female counterpart for the purpose of mating. These birds mostly lived on fishes, jellyfish and squids. They are mostly seen in the North American and Central American countries. Frigate birds build their nest in low trees or on the earth on far-flung islands. Frigate bird is used a lay a single egg in each breeding season. Frigate birds generally have the longest time span of parental care.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/31.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-18725" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/31-300x136.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 140px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="135" /></a>3. Spur Winged Goose</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Spur Winged Goose whose scientific name is Plectropterus gambensis, belonged to the family of Anatidae, is the third fastest flying bird in the world. The maximum recorded speed of flying is 142 kilometers per hour. Spur Winged Goose prefer their place of natural habitation is in the seasonal and permanent wetlands. They are found mostly in African countries especially in the sub-Saharan regions. The male Spur Winged Goose differs considerably from its female counterpart; not only because of its sheer size, but the male do have a larger red facial patch. Mostly they are a quiet species but sometimes give a thin whistle while flying.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/41.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-18726" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/41-300x136.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 40px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="135" /></a>4. Red-Breasted Merganser</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Red-Breasted Merganser can fly with a pace of 129 kilometers per hour and it is ranked as the fourth fastest flying bird in the world. Mostly found in Central America but due to its migratory nature its preferred breeding habitation zone is in the freshwater lakes and rivers across northern part of North America, Asia and Europe.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/51.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-18727" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/51-300x136.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 60px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="135" /></a>5. White Rumped Swift</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">White Rumped Swift whose scientific name is Apus caffer and it happened to be the fifth fastest flying bird in the world with maximum speed of 129 kilometers per hour. These birds were mostly found in Morroco and Spain, and they breed mostly in region of sub-Saharan part of African continent. They generally consume insects which is the probably the only staple food they could have.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/61.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-18728" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/61-300x136.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 140px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="135" /></a>6. Canvasback Duck</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Canvasback Duck whose scientific name is Aythya valisineria and it happened to be the sixth fastest flying bird in the world with maximum speed of 124 kilometers per hour. Canvasback Duck are mostly seen in the North American and Central American regions of the world. They can fly with a speed of 124 kilometers per hour. It feeds on green aquatic vegetation which includes seeds, leaves, tubers, roots, buds, and even snails and insect larvae. The favored zones of Canvasback Duck’s breeding habitat are in the North American prairie potholes, subarctic river deltas in Saskatchewan, interior parts of Alaska etc.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/71.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-18729" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/71-300x136.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="135" /></a>7. Eider Duck</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Eider Duck happened to be the seventh fastest flying bird in the world with maximum speed of 113 kilometers per hour and they are mostly seen in the Northern Hemisphere of the world. These large sea ducks belonged to the genus Somateria within the broader family of Anatidae.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/81.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-18730" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/81-300x136.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 90px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="135" /></a>8. Teal</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Teal whose scientific name is Anas crecca and it turned out to be the eighth fastest flying bird in the world with a maximum a speed of 109 kilometers per hour. The Teal generally breeds across northern parts of Eurasia. In the breeding season they took their shelter in the freshwater wetlands such as taiga bogs or small ponds and lakes. However in the winter season, it is often found in the brackish waters and even in the creeks and lagoons along the shoreline. Teal generally devours on aquatic invertebrates like crustaceans, insects, mollusks and worms.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/91.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-18731" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/91-300x136.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 120px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="135" /></a>9. Mallard Duck</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Mallard Duck whose scientific name is Anas platyrhynchos and it turned out to be the nineth fastest flying bird in the world with a maximum a speed of 105 kilometers per hour. The Mallard duck is mostly observed in wetlands and it generally feeds on water plants. It is not only migratory in nature but also a bit gregarious and breeds in Central and North American regions. The Mallard duck happened to be the ancestor of all domestic ducks, and therefore it can inter-breed with other species belonging to the genus Anas. The outcome of these inter-breeding is producing rarer species of ducks which are a bit diluted genetically.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/101.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-18721" height="80" src="http://top-10-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/101-300x136.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 120px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="135" /></a>10. Pintail Duck</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Pintail Duck scientific name is Anas acuta and it is widely considered to be the tenth fastest flying bird in the world. Pintail Duck usually breeds in the northern regions of North America, Europe and Asia. It is also migratory nature and its preferred breeding range lies in and around the equator. Pintail Duck mainly feeds on invertebrate animals which includes a wide array of aquatic insects, mollusks and crustaceans. Pintail Dick’s nests and chicks are often exposed to predation by mammals e.g. foxes and badgers, and birds such as gulls, magpies etc.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518493169630653991.post-58558456597207252022011-02-08T03:33:00.000-08:002011-02-08T03:33:19.245-08:00Top 10 Books<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="litem" style="color: #2c2c2a; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">10. Middlemarch</span><span class="litem-more" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">George Eliot</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/middlemarch.jpg" style="color: #14b0ac;"><img alt="Middlemarch" border="1" height="250" hspace="4" src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/middlemarch-tm.jpg?w=151&h=250" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" vspace="4" width="151" /></a></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Middlemarch is considered by many scholars to be one of the most important novels of the Victorian era. It was written by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans) and was first published in 1871 to 1872. It is set in the 1830s in Middlemarch, a fictional provincial town in England, based on Coventry.</div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span id="more-7474" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="litem" style="color: #2c2c2a; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov</span><span class="litem-more" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Anton Chekhov</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/cover.gif" style="color: #14b0ac;"><img alt="Cover" border="1" height="250" hspace="4" src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/cover-tm.jpg?w=164&h=250" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" vspace="4" width="164" /></a></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Anton Chekhov was a Russian short story writer and playwright. He was born in Taganrog, southern Russia, on 29 January 1860. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later employed by Virginia Woolf and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure.</div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="litem" style="color: #2c2c2a; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">8. In Search of Lost Time</span><span class="litem-more" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Marcel Proust</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/c14216.jpg" style="color: #14b0ac;"><img alt="C14216" border="1" height="250" hspace="4" src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/c14216-tm.jpg?w=247&h=250" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" vspace="4" width="247" /></a></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I appreciate the great artistic merit in Proust’s writing, but I have to be honest and say that I have never managed to get more than half way through the first book of this multiple-book novel. I found it extremely slow paced and boring. This is Proust’s most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the “episode of the madeleine” in which he describes in great (boring) detail, eating a madeleine dipped in tea.</div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="litem" style="color: #2c2c2a; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">7. The Great Gatsby</span><span class="litem-more" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">F. Scott Fitzgerald</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/im.jpg" style="color: #14b0ac;"><img alt="Im" border="1" height="250" hspace="4" src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/im-tm.jpg?w=166&h=250" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" vspace="4" width="166" /></a></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I agree with the inclusion of this book – it is one of my favorites and one of the best examples of Fitzgerald’s writing. The Great Gatsby is a tale from the Jazz age of Gatsby – a wealthy man whose life is surrounded by mystery. A brilliant read.</div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="litem" style="color: #2c2c2a; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">6. Hamlet</span><span class="litem-more" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">William Shakespeare</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/hamlet-v2-poster.jpg" style="color: #14b0ac;"><img alt="Hamlet-V2-Poster" border="1" height="250" hspace="4" src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/hamlet-v2-poster-tm.jpg?w=155&h=250" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" vspace="4" width="155" /></a></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It is no surprise that Mr Shakespeare is on the list. I am not sure that I would have picked Hamlet as his best book, but who am I to debate 125 brilliant authors? Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, probably written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle for murdering Hamlet’s father, the King, gaining the throne through this treachery, and subsequently marrying his mother.</div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic;">5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="litem-more" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Mark Twain</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/huckleberry-finn-pix.gif" style="color: #14b0ac;"><img alt="Huckleberry Finn Pix" border="1" height="250" hspace="4" src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/huckleberry-finn-pix-tm.jpg?w=151&h=250" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" vspace="4" width="151" /></a></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It is good to see such a great book for the younger generation on the list. Huckleberry Finn is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels ever written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry “Huck” Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer (hero of three other Mark Twain books).</div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="litem" style="color: #2c2c2a; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">4. Lolita</span><span class="litem-more" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Vladimir Nabokov</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/lolita.png" style="color: #14b0ac;"><img alt="Lolita" border="1" height="250" hspace="4" src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/lolita-tm.jpg?w=160&h=250" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" vspace="4" width="160" /></a></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Lolita was first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris. The novel is both internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the book’s narrator and protagonist Humbert Humbert becoming sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl named Dolores Haze.</div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="litem" style="color: #2c2c2a; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3. War and Peace</span><span class="litem-more" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Leo Tolstoy</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/warandpeace.jpg" style="color: #14b0ac;"><img alt="Warandpeace" border="1" height="250" hspace="4" src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/warandpeace-tm.jpg?w=160&h=250" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" vspace="4" width="160" /></a></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">War and Peace was first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy’s two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world’s greatest novels.</div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic;">2. Madame Bovary</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="litem-more" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Gustave Flaubert</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/madame-bovary-fronte.jpg" style="color: #14b0ac;"><img alt="Madame Bovary Fronte" border="1" height="250" hspace="4" src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/madame-bovary-fronte-tm.jpg?w=152&h=250" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" vspace="4" width="152" /></a></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Madame Bovary was attacked for obscenity by public prosecutors when it was first serialised in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, resulting in a trial in January 1857 that made it notorious. The novel focuses on a doctor’s wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel’s true art lies in its details and hidden patterns.</div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic;">1. Anna Karenina</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="litem-more" style="color: #2c2c2a; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Leo Tolstoy</span></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/pevear-karenina.jpg" style="color: #14b0ac;"><img alt="Pevear Karenina" border="1" height="250" hspace="4" src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/pevear-karenina-tm.jpg?w=167&h=250" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" vspace="4" width="167" /></a></div><div style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Anna Karenina is widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered this book his first true novel. Although most Russian critics panned the novel on its publication as a “trifling romance of high life,” Fyodor Dostoevsky declared it to be “flawless as a work of art.” Tolstoy’s style in Anna Karenina is considered by many critics to be transitional, forming a bridge between the realist and modernist novel.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518493169630653991.post-60862345577490267842011-02-08T03:17:00.000-08:002011-02-08T04:47:26.609-08:00Top 10 politicians in the world<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">10. Margaret Thatcher (Former Prime Minister of U.K):<a href="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/thatcher.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-502" height="150" src="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/thatcher-150x150.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="thatcher" width="150" /></a></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable <a href="http://www.topyaps.com/top-10-sex-scandals-of-politicians/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">sex</a></em><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">. </em>This firelady<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> </em>from United Kingdom has a clear conception for whatever she promulgates. Famous for her stubborn and arrogant style, she is a symbol of a principled approach to personal freedom.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">9. Thomas Jefferson (Third President of U.S):<a href="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/jefferson.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-503" height="150" src="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/jefferson-150x150.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="jefferson" width="150" /></a></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you</em>. A respected educator, a powerful politician and a nerd curious to explore his surroundings. <a href="http://www.topyaps.com/top-10-famous-presidents-of-america/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Jefferson</a> is the <a href="http://www.topyaps.com/top-10-famous-authors/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">author</a> of Declaration of American Independence. One of the greatest minds in World politics and the founding father of Democratic party, he always emphasized his followers to obtain great ideas.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">8. Al Gore (Former Vice President of America):<a href="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/al-gore.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-504" height="150" src="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/al-gore-150x150.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="al gore" width="150" /></a></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">A hunk with a geek reputation and addict of Information Technology, this distinguished gentleman of politics demonstrated great leadership by instituting a federal program to wire all <a href="http://www.topyaps.com/top-10-business-school-in-world/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">schools</a> and libraries to the Internet in America. <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.</em></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">7. <a href="http://www.topyaps.com/top-10-people-who-changed-the-world/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Martin Luther King Jr</a></strong><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">. (Civil Rights Activist of America):<a href="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/martin-luther-king-jr.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-505" height="150" src="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/martin-luther-king-jr-150x150.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="martin luther king jr" width="150" /></a></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Spokesperson of his mind, he is considered as GOD among black people. In his perspective <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">life’s most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?</em> A personality filled with bravery and determination, he was the icon for black people and was passionate to provide them an equivalent status as the white possesses in society. According to his point of view <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">blacks should not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of the character.</em></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">6. Adolf Hitler (Dictator of Germany):<a href="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/hitler.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-506" height="150" src="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/hitler-150x150.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="hitler" width="150" /></a></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal <a href="http://www.topyaps.com/top-10-military-powers-of-the-world/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">world</a></em><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle. If you do not fight, life will never be won…</em>wow wow wow, bravo, superb. Despite some people see him as an evil and terrorizing element, he was a man with vision and mission. He was a genius in motivating Germans to achieve their goals, whether it requires devastation.<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">5. Vladimir Lenin (Russian Revolutionary):<a href="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/lenin.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-507" height="150" src="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/lenin-150x150.gif" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="lenin" width="150" /></a></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Son of a <a href="http://www.topyaps.com/292/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Russian</a> nobleman, this Russian think tank was inexorable symbol of passionate working. His concept of political correctness and ideological struggle was irresistible. <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sometimes – history needs a push.</em></div><div class="ezAdsense adsense adsense-midtext" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div id="chitikaAdBeacon-387" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></em></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">4. <a href="http://www.topyaps.com/top-10-famous-presidents-of-america/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Abraham Lincoln</a></strong><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> (Former U.S President):<a href="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/abraham-lincoln.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-512" height="150" src="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/abraham-lincoln-150x150.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="abraham lincoln" width="150" /></a></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">An unifying portrayal of political face, this great man is admired for his statesmanship. His ideas have not only benefited the forthcoming generations till today but would continue to bear an indelible mark on the upcoming generations as well. True believer of democracy, once he quoted – <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.</em></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3. Mikhail Gorbachev (Former President of USSR):<a href="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/gorbachev.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-509" height="150" src="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/gorbachev-150x150.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="gorbachev" width="150" /></a></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">This Nobel Peace Prize winner is a pariah of common people. He is an accumulate figure of change and hope for a stagnant system, motion, creativity and <a href="http://www.topyaps.com/top-10-amazing-places-on-earth/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">amazing</a> equilibrium. His concept of <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">playing by the rules</em>and <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">revolution of the mind </em>regard him as a hero. His heroic journey of hardship and triumph is enough to define him as a political superstar.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2. George Washington (First President of America):<a href="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/george-washington.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-510" height="150" src="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/george-washington-150x150.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="george washington" width="150" /></a></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Well, character of this person could be described by using the traits of honesty, <a href="http://www.topyaps.com/292/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">intelligence</a>, perseverance, endurance and strength. Referred as Father of America, he will be always remembered for his salient contribution in fighting for, creating and leading the United States of America in its sputtering days.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1. Sir Winston Churchill (Former British Prime Minister):<a href="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/churchill.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-511" height="150" src="http://www.topyaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/churchill-150x150.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="churchill" width="150" /></a></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terrors, victory, however long and hard the road may be. For without victory, there is no survival.T</span></span>his legendary head of political ring was also a prolific <a href="http://www.topyaps.com/top-10-newspapers-of-the-world/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">journalist</a>, writer as well as an adventurer.</div><div><br />
</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518493169630653991.post-60964615686410924682011-02-08T01:36:00.000-08:002011-02-08T02:40:15.318-08:00Top 10 Scams in India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
<h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Calibri, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.308em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.176em; margin-bottom: 0.588em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.765em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1) 2G Spectrum Scam</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">We have had a number of scams in India; but none bigger than the scam involving the process of allocating unified access service licenses. At the heart of this Rs.1.76-lakh crore worth of scam is the former Telecom minister A Raja – who according to the CAG, has evaded norms at every level as he carried out the dubious 2G license awards in 2008 at a throw-away price which were pegged at 2001 prices.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Calibri, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.308em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.176em; margin-bottom: 0.588em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.765em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2) Commonwealth Games Scam</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="clip image005 Top 10 Corruption Scams in India" border="0" height="172" src="http://cdn.trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/clip_image005.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; display: block; float: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Top 10 Corruption Scams in India indi business news everything you want to know about india" width="210" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Another feather in the cap of Indian scandal list is <a href="http://trak.in/tags/business/2010/10/22/cwg-commonwealth-corruption-charges/" style="color: #801402; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="CWG Corruption">Commonwealth Games loot</a>. Yes, literally a loot! Even before the long awaited sporting bonanza could see the day of light, the grand event was soaked in the allegations of corruption. It is estimated that out of Rs. 70000 crore spent on the Games, only half the said amount was spent on Indian sportspersons.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Central Vigilance Commission, involved in probing the alleged corruption in various Commonwealth Games-related projects, has found discrepancies in tenders – like payment to non-existent parties, will-ful delays in execution of contracts, over-inflated price and bungling in purchase of equipment through tendering – and misappropriation of funds.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Calibri, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.308em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.176em; margin-bottom: 0.588em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.765em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3) Telgi Scam</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">As they say, every scam must have something unique in it to make money out of it in an unscrupulous manner- and <a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_telgi-scam-timeline_1047159" style="color: #801402; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Telgi Scam Timeline">Telgi scam</a> had all the suspense and drama that the scandal needed to thrive and be busted.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Karim_Telgi" style="color: #801402; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Abdul Telgi">Abdul Karim Telgi</a> had mastered the art of forgery in printing duplicate stamp papers and sold them to banks and other institutions. The tentacles of the fake stamp and stamp paper case had penetrated 12 states and was estimated at a whooping Rs. 20000 crore plus. The Telgi clearly had a lot of support from government departments that were responsible for the production and sale of high security stamps.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Calibri, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.308em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.176em; margin-bottom: 0.588em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.765em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">4) Satyam Scam</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="clip image007 Top 10 Corruption Scams in India" border="0" height="150" src="http://cdn.trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/clip_image007.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; display: block; float: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Top 10 Corruption Scams in India indi business news everything you want to know about india" width="175" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The <a href="http://trak.in/tags/business/2009/01/06/satyam-head-raju-admits-fraud-letter-board-directors/" style="color: #801402; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Satyam Scam">scam at Satyam Computer Services</a> is something that will shatter the peace and tranquillity of Indian investors and shareholder community beyond repair. <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Satyam is the biggest fraud in the corporate history to the tune of Rs. 14000 crore.</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The company’s disgraced former chairman Ramalinga Raju kept everyone in the dark for a decade by fudging the books of accounts for several years and inflating revenues and profit figures of Satyam. Finally, the company was taken over by the Tech Mahindra which has done wonderfully well to revive the brand Satyam.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Calibri, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.308em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.176em; margin-bottom: 0.588em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.765em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">5) Bofors Scam</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bofors_scandal" style="color: #801402; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Bofors Scandal">Bofors scandal</a> is known as the hallmark of Indian corruption. The Bofors scam was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s; when the then PM Rajiv Gandhi and several others including a powerful NRI family named the Hindujas, were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India’s 155 mm field howitzer.</div><div class="note" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: whitesmoke; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.538em; padding-left: 0.769em; padding-right: 0.769em; padding-top: 0.538em;">The Swedish State Radio had broadcast a startling report about an undercover operation carried out by Bofors, Sweden’s biggest arms manufacturer, whereby $16 million were allegedly paid to members of PM Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most of all, the Bofors scam had a strong emotional appeal because it was a scam related to the defense services and India’s security interests.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Calibri, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.308em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.176em; margin-bottom: 0.588em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.765em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">6) The Fodder Scam</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="clip image010 Top 10 Corruption Scams in India" border="0" height="254" src="http://cdn.trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/clip_image010.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; display: block; float: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Top 10 Corruption Scams in India indi business news everything you want to know about india" width="350" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you haven’t heard of Bihar’s fodder scam of 1996, you might still be able to recognize it by the name of “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fodder_Scam" style="color: #801402; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Fodder Scam">Chara Ghotala</a><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> </em></strong>,” as it is popularly known in the vernacular language.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In this corruption scandal worth Rs.900 crore, an unholy nexus was traced involved in fabrication of “vast herds of fictitious livestock” for which fodder, medicine and animal husbandry equipment was supposedly procured.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Calibri, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.308em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.176em; margin-bottom: 0.588em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.765em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">7) The Hawala Scandal</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala_scandal" style="color: #801402; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Hawala Scandal">The Hawala case</a> to the tune of $18 million bribery scandal, which came in the open in 1996, involved payments allegedly received by country’s leading politicians through hawala brokers. From the list of those accused also included Lal Krishna Advani who was then the Leader of Opposition.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Thus, for the first time in Indian politics, it gave a feeling of open loot all around the public, involving all the major political players being accused of having accepted bribes and also alleged connections about payments being channelled to Hizbul Mujahideen militants in Kashmir.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Calibri, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.308em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.176em; margin-bottom: 0.588em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.765em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">8) IPL Scam</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Well, I am running out of time and space over here. The list of scandals in India is just not ending and becoming grave by every decade. Most of us are aware about the recent scam in IPL and embezzlement with respect to bidding for various franchisees. The scandal already claimed the portfolios of two big-wigs in the form of <a href="http://trak.in/tags/business/2010/04/13/kochi-ipl-team-controversy-shashi-tharoor-lalit-modi/" style="color: #801402; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="IPL Scandal">Shashi Tharoor and former IPL chief Lalit Modi</a>.</div><h3 style="color: #962424; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Calibri, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.308em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.176em; margin-bottom: 0.588em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.765em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">9,10) Harshad Mehta & Ketan Parekh Stock Market Scam</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="354" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="425"><embed id="player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="354" src="http://www.authorstream.com/player.swf?&pt=2&p=486267_634183844152763750" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></object></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.538em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Although not corruption scams, these have affected many people. There is no way that the investor community could forget the unfortunate <a href="http://www.sharetermpapers.com/journals-articles/harshad-mehta-scam/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #801402; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Harshad Mehta Scam">Rs. 4000 crore Harshad Mehta scam</a>and over Rs. 1000 crore Ketan Parekh scam which eroded the shareholders wealth in form of big market jolt.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518493169630653991.post-85320648347390946442011-02-08T01:33:00.000-08:002011-02-08T04:44:34.127-08:00Top 10 Weekend Box Office Hollywood Movies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><b><br />
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<tr><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;"><b>1</b></td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><img border="0" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjIwMzQwMzMwNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjE5MTUxNA@@._V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" /></td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1265990/" style="color: #136cb2;">The Roommate</a> (2011)</td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$15M</td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$15M</td></tr>
<tr><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;"><b>2</b></td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><img border="0" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM4MjY1NTEyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTc3MjcxNA@@._V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" /></td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0881320/" style="color: #136cb2;">Sanctum</a> (2011)</td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$9.45M</td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$9.45M</td></tr>
<tr><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;"><b>3</b></td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><img border="0" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTg2MDQ1NTEzNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTgxNTMyNA@@._V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" /></td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411238/" style="color: #136cb2;">No Strings Attached</a> (2011)</td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$8M</td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$51.4M</td></tr>
<tr><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;"><b>4</b></td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><img border="0" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMzU5MjEwMTg2Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzM3MTYxNA@@._V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" /></td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1504320/" style="color: #136cb2;">The King's Speech</a> (2010)</td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$7.71M</td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$83.5M</td></tr>
<tr><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;"><b>5</b></td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><img border="0" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTcwOTMwMDYyMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzAxMjMyNA@@._V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" /></td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0990407/" style="color: #136cb2;">The Green Hornet</a> (2011)</td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$5.97M</td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$87.1M</td></tr>
<tr><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;"><b>6</b></td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><img border="0" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTcxNTAxMTMzNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjQ1MDAxNA@@._V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" /></td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1161864/" style="color: #136cb2;">The Rite</a> (2011)</td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$5.59M</td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$23.7M</td></tr>
<tr><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;"><b>7</b></td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><img border="0" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjEyMjk1NjI1M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODcyNjAxNA@@._V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" /></td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472399/" style="color: #136cb2;">The Mechanic</a> (2011)</td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$5.3M</td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$20M</td></tr>
<tr><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;"><b>8</b></td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><img border="0" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjIxNjAzODQ0N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODY2MjMyNA@@._V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" /></td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403865/" style="color: #136cb2;">True Grit</a> (2010)</td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$4.64M</td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$155M</td></tr>
<tr><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;"><b>9</b></td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><img border="0" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNzY2NzI4OTE5MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjMyNDY4Mw@@._V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" /></td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/" style="color: #136cb2;">Black Swan</a> (2010)</td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$3.37M</td><td class="chart_even_row" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$95.9M</td></tr>
<tr><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;"><b>10</b></td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><img border="0" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMzg3MDUwMTI1OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzY0NDIxNA@@._V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" /></td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1578275/" style="color: #136cb2;">The Dilemma</a> (2011)</td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$3.28M</td><td class="chart_odd_row" style="background-color: #f0f1f7; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 45px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">$45.6M</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518493169630653991.post-11176222807746694062011-02-08T01:28:00.000-08:002011-02-08T02:43:50.315-08:00Top 10 Bollywood Movies of 2010<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518493169630653991.post-67081073578167637902011-02-08T01:15:00.000-08:002011-02-08T02:44:21.245-08:00Top 10 Countries by Population<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span></span><br />
<div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Present: </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">1. China </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">2. India </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">3. USA </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">4. Indonesia </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">5. Brazil </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">6. Pakistan </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">7. Russia </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">8-9. Bangladesh or Japan? </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">10. Nigeria </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Future (2050): </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">1. India </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">2. China </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">3-4. Pakistan or USA? </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">5. Indonesia </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">6. Nigeria </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">7. Brazil </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">8. Bangladesh </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">9. Russia </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">10. Gemany or Mexico? (Possibly Japan might be out of the top 10)</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Read more: <a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_top_ten_biggest_population_countries#ixzz1DMCm89NI" style="color: #003399; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_top_ten_biggest_population_countries#ixzz1DMCm89NI</a></span></span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0