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Sukses Keuangan On Tuesday, 8 April 20140
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History
Inhabitants of the Malaysian peninsula and the island of Singapore
first migrated to the area between 2500 and 1500
B.C. (see Malaysia). British and Dutch interest in the
region grew with the spice trade, and the trading post of Singapore was
founded in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles. It was made a separate Crown
colony of Britain in 1946, when the former colony of the Straits
Settlements was dissolved. The other two settlements on the
peninsula—Penang and Malacca—became part of the Union of Malaya, and the
small island of Labuan was transferred to North Borneo. The Cocos (or
Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island were transferred to Australia in
1955 and in 1958, respectively.
Singapore attained full internal self-government in 1959, and Lee Kwan
Yew, an economic visionary with an authoritarian streak, took the helm as
prime minister. On Sept. 16, 1963, Singapore joined Malaya, Sabah (North
Borneo), and Sarawak in the Federation of Malaysia. It withdrew from the
federation on Aug. 9, 1965, and a month later proclaimed itself a
republic.
Under Lee, Singapore developed into one of the cleanest, safest, and
most economically prosperous cities in Asia. However, Singapore's strict
rules of civil obedience also drew criticism from those who said the
nation's prosperity was achieved at the expense of individual
freedoms.
S. R. Nathan was declared president without an election when he was
certified as the only candidate eligible to run in 1999 elections. In Aug.
2004, Lee Hsien Loong became the country's third prime minister since
Singapore gained independence from Britain in 1965. Lee faced his first
electoral challenge in May 2006. His People's Action Party (PAP) won 82
out of 84 seats in parliamentary elections.
In Singapore's May 2011 general election, the ruling People's
Action Party was reelected with a majority of 81 to 6, which was the
equivalent of 60% of the vote. This percentage was viewed as promising
by the opposition, as it was significantly less than in the two previous
elections. After the elections, prime minister Lee Hsien Loong
uncharacteristically acknowledged mistakes and pledged a more efficient
government in the future.
Following on the heels of the general election, August's
presidential election saw a field of four candidates from which the
ruling party's Tony Tan emerged victorious. Though favored to win, Tan's
triumph was not exactly a landslide--the 7,000 vote margin was the
equivalent of 35.2% of the vote.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa located Pisa, Tuscany, Italy. It was first
constructed in 1174, and then abandoned for 90 years because it started
to lean.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a freestanding bell tower located the
Italian city of Pisa. It is located behind the Cathedral and is among
the oldest structure in Pisa's Cathedral Square.
The leaning Tower of Pisa is located behind the Cathedral complex called
the Piazza dei Miracoli meaning Field of Miracles. This building
usually stirs the imagination of ever person who comes across it, both
young and old.
The tower of Pisa is leaning to one side because the location where the
tower was built has very soft soil which resulted in the tower, which
had a mere 3 metre deep foundation, tilting to a one side. The tower of
Pisa has 207 columns ranged around eight stories.
It is a tall bell tower of the cathedral in Pisa (Italy). The tower is
located at the back of the Cathedral and it is the third oldest building
in Piazza del Duomo. It follows the Cathedral and the Baptistery with a
height of 55.86 m.
The leaning tower of Pisa was constructed with limestone and lime
mortar. The exterior part of the tower is covered using marble. The
tower located in Pisa, Italy, and it is famous just because it leans. It
was however closed to the public in 1990 due to fears that it might
fall.
(BONANNO PISANO)
It is considered that the architects and
engineers who designed the leaning Tower of Pisa are: Bonanno
Pisano, Gherardo di Gherardo, Giovanni Pisano, Giovanni di
Simone The first phase of Pisa Tower's construction
is attributed to Bonanno Pisano or Gherardo di Gherardo.
Giovanni Pisano and Giovanni di Simone continued the second phase of the
building. Tommaso Pisano finished the tower's construction.
In 1889, Paris hosted an Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) to mark the 100-year anniversary of the French Revolution.
More than 100 artists submitted competing plans for a monument to be
built on the Champ-de-Mars, located in central Paris, and serve as the
exposition’s entrance. The commission was granted to Eiffel et
Compagnie, a consulting and construction firm owned by the acclaimed
bridge builder, architect and metals expert Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel.
While Eiffel himself often receives full credit for the monument that
bears his name, it was one of his employees—a structural engineer named
Maurice Koechlin—who came up with and fine-tuned the concept. Several
years earlier, the pair had collaborated on the Statue of Liberty’s
metal armature.
(Maurice Koechlin)
Eiffel reportedly rejected Koechlin’s original plan for the tower,
instructing him to add more ornate flourishes. The final design called
for more than 18,000 pieces of puddle iron, a type of wrought iron used
in construction, and 2.5 million rivets. Several hundred workers spent
two years assembling the framework of the iconic lattice tower, which at
its inauguration in March 1889 stood nearly 10,000 feet high and was
the tallest structure in the world—a distinction it held until the
completion of New York
City’s Chrysler Building in 1930. (In 1957, an antenna was added that
increased the structure’s height by 65 feet, making it taller than the
Chrysler Building but not the Empire State Building, which had surpassed
its neighbor in 1931.) Initially, only the Eiffel Tower’s second-floor
platform was open to the public; later, all three levels, two of which
now feature restaurants, would be reachable by stairway or one of eight
elevators.
( Source:http://www.history.com/topics/eiffel-tower )
Posted by
Sukses Keuangan On Saturday, 5 April 20140
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India is about 1/3 the size of the United States, yet it is the second
most populous country in the world, with a population of 1,166,079,217.
India is the seventh largest country in the world, at 1.27 million square
miles.
India is the largest democracy in the world.
3. The Kumbh Mela (or Grand Pitcher Festival) is a huge Hindu religious
festival that takes place in India every 12 years. In 2001, 60 million
people attended, breaking the record for the world’s biggest gathering.
The mass of people was photographed from space by a satellite.
4. Many Indians find toilet paper repellent and consider it cleaner to splash
water with the left hand in the appropriate direction. Consequently, the
left hand is considered unclean and is never used for eating.
5. To avoid polluting the elements (fire, earth, water, air), followers
of Zoroastrianism in India don’t bury their dead, but instead leave
bodies in buildings called “Towers of Silence” for the vultures
to pick clean. After the bones dry, they are swept into a central well.
6. it is illegal to take Indian currency (rupees) out of India.
7. India leads the world with the most murders (32,719), with Russia taking
second at 28,904 murders per year.
8. India has one of the world’s highest rates of abortion.
9. More than a million Indians are millionaires, yet most Indians live on
less than two dollars a day. An estimated 35% of India’s population
lives below the poverty line.
10.Cows can be found freely wandering the streets of India’s cities.
They are considered sacred and will often wear a tilak, a Hindu
symbol of good fortune. Cows are considered one of humankind’s seven
mothers because they offer milk as does one’s natural mother.
* Chairman Mao once sought to humiliate Nikita Khrushchev by scheduling a
meeting in a swimming pool. Mao knew the Russian leader didn't know how to
swim and that in order to stay afloat, he had to wear water rings.
Eventually, he just sat on the edge of the water, dangling his feet. Mao
Zedong would later tell his doctor that this was his way of "sticking a
needle up Khrushchev's arse." (As related in Henry Kissinger's
memoirs).
* Ice cream was invented in China around 2000BC. The first ice cream was soft
milk and rice mixture packed in the snow.
Despite its size, China fits into just one time zone.
*Concern about pollution in Chinese cities has inspired the production of
canned fresh air, sold for five yuan a can. Varieties include "Pristine
Tibet" air, "Revolutionary Yah'an" and Post-Industrial Taiwan".
* In the Tang dynasty, every educated person was expected to greet as well as
say goodbye to another person in poetic verse composed on the spot.
* Ketchup originated in China as a pickled fish sauce called ke-tsiap.
*China is widely accredited (by, among others, FIFA President Sepp Blatter)
with the invention of football in the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. Linzi, the
capital of the ancient Chinese state of Qi, is said to be the birthplace of
“cuju” - “kick ball with foot.”
*There are more Christians in China (an estimated 54 million) than in Italy
(47 million) and China is on track to becoming home to the world's largest
Christian population.
*The rate of dog consumption in China is declining: most Chinese people now
prefer to keep cats and dogs as pets. But snakes are still fair game.
On an average day in China, 1.7 million pigs are consumed.
*The Hong Kong Chinese get a day off work to sweep their ancestors' graves.
During the Ching Ming festival, extra buses are laid on to cope with the
exodus from city to hillside graveyards.
*A 13th floor is often absent from hotels and commercial buildings and vehicle
licence plates and phone numbers are often devoid of the number four.
Superstition and numerology are prevalant in Chinese culture.
*Chinese woman traditionally marry in festive red - a lucky colour. White
symbolises death.
*Chinese people are under pressure to down chopsticks in order to save the
planet's resources. Some 80 billion sets are produced annually.
*One in five people in the world are Chinese.
* A panda’s entire mating season lasts only about two or three days. Once they
have mated, females chase the males out of their territory and raise their
cubs on their own.
* Until her death in December 2012, Yao Defen, who stood 7ft 8in high, was the
tallest woman in the world.
*Paper was invented in China, with early attempts made from hemp dating back
to the Western Han (206 BC - 24 AD). In 105 AD, records show the method was
improved by using the crushed bark of a mulberry tree.
*The mechanical clock was another great Chinese invention, although the
earliest model was an enormous 30 feet high. It was created by a monk named
Su Sung in 723 AD.
Posted by
Sukses Keuangan On Tuesday, 1 April 20140
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