Places known by their Alternate Name.... Battleground of EuropeBelgium Blue Mountains of IndiaNilgiri Hills City of LightParis City of PalacesKolkata, India City of JoyKolkata, India City of Golden GateSan Francisco City of Seven HillsRome City of Golden TempleAmritsar, India CockPit of EuropeBelgium Dark ContinentAfrica Diamond City in IndiaSurat, Gujarat Eternal CityRome Forbidden CityLhasa, Tibet Granite CityAberdeen, Scotland Garden City of IndiaBangalore Gift of NileEgypt Island of PearlsBahrain Land of Golden FleeceAustralia Land of KangarooAustralia Land of CakesScotland Land of Thousand LakesFinland Land of Golden PagodaMyanmar Land of Midnight SunNorway Land of Thousand ElephantsLaos Land of Rising SunJapan Land of MapleCanada Land of CanalsNetherlands Land of White ElephantThailand Land of WindmillsNetherlands Land of ThunderboltBhutan Land of Long White CloudNew Zealand Manchester of JapanOsaka Playground of EuropeSwitzerland Pearl of AntillesCuba Queen of Arabian SeaCochin, India Roof of WorldPamirs Sick Man of EuropeTurkey Sugar Bowl of WorldCuba Sorrow of ChinaRiverHwang Ho Scotland of EastShillong, India White cityBelgrade Venice of EastAlappuzha, Kerala Venice of NorthStockholm

Amazing Human Body: *.The largest organ in the body is the skin. *.The liver is the largest gland and the largest internal organ in the human body. *.The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by the human body. *.Our heart beats around 100000 times a day, 36500000 times a year and over a billion times if you live beyond 30. *.Length of thumb is the same with nose. *.Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body. They are created inside the bone marrow. *.It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body. *.The biggest muscle in the body is gluteus maximus, in the buttock. *.The lungs contain over 300,000 million capillaries.If they were laid end to end, they would stretch 2400km. *.Every drop of blood in human body is filtered by the body over 300 times a day. *.The ovum is the largest cell in the human body. *.The smallest is the male sperm cell; it is one-tenth of the diameter of a human hair. *.Adult lungs have a surface area of around 70 square meters. *.The stapes is the smallest bone in the body. It's located in the inner ear. *.The acid in stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades. *.Nose and Ears continue growing throughout entire life. *.Each person has a unique tongue print just like the fingerprints. *.The longest muscle in the body is Sartorius. *.The smallest muscle in the body is Stapedius, deep in the ear. It is thinner than a thread and 0.05 inches (0.127 centimeters) in length. *.Enamel is hardest substance in the human body. *.All babies are color blind when they are born, they only see black & white. *.The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body. *.It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. *.The adult body is made up of: 100 trillion cells, 206 bones, 600 muscles, and 22 internal organs. *.Bones in an adult account for 14% of the body's total weight. *.A baby born with 300 bones in their body, but as an adult we have 206 bones. *.200 muscles used to take one step. *.The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone) and it's hollow. It is also the longest and largest bone in Human body. *.The normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute. *.Blood is 6 times thicker than water. *.Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. *.Our kidneys filter about 1.3 liters of blood every minute & expel up to 1.4 liters of urine in a day. *.The only part of the body without blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air. *.An average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime. *.The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. *.14 bones make up the human face. *.The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood to 30 feet. *.The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.

London Olympic Medal Table...... Position Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 United States 46 29 29 104 2 China 38 27 23 88 3 Great Britain 29 17 19 65 4 Russia 24 26 32 82 5 South Korea 13 8 7 28 6 Germany 11 19 14 44 7 France 11 11 12 34 8 Italy 8 9 11 28 9 Hungary 8 4 5 17 10 Australia 7 16 12 35 11 Japan 7 14 17 38 12 Kazakhstan 7 1 5 13 13 Netherlands 6 6 8 20 14 Ukraine 6 5 10 21 15 New Zealand 6 2 5 13 16 Cuba 5 3 6 14 17 Iran 4 5 3 12 18 Jamaica 4 4 4 12 19 Czech Republic 4 3 3 10 20 North Korea 4 0 2 6 21 Spain 3 10 4 17 22 Brazil 3 5 9 17 23 South Africa 3 2 1 6 24 Ethiopia 3 1 3 7 25 Croatia 3 1 2 6 26 Belarus 2 5 5 12 27 Romania 2 5 2 9 28 Kenya 2 4 5 11 29 Denmark 2 4 3 9 30 Azerbaijan 2 2 6 10 30 Poland 2 2 6 10 32 Turkey 2 2 1 5 33 Switzerland 2 2 0 4 34 Lithuania 2 1 2 5 35 Norway 2 1 1 4 36 Canada 1 5 12 18 37 Sweden 1 4 3 8 38 Colombia 1 3 4 8 39 Georgia 1 3 3 7 39 Mexico 1 3 3 7 41 Ireland 1 1 3 5 42 Slovenia 1 1 2 4 42 Serbia 1 1 2 4 42 Argentina 1 1 2 4 45 Tunisia 1 1 1 3 46 Dominican Republic 1 1 0 2 47 Trinidad and Tobago 1 0 3 4 47 Uzbekistan 1 0 3 4 49 Latvia 1 0 1 2 50 Algeria 1 0 0 1 50 Grenada 1 0 0 1 50 Bahamas 1 0 0 1 50 Uganda 1 0 0 1 50 Venezuela 1 0 0 1 55 India 0 2 4 6 56 Mongolia 0 2 3 5 57 Thailand 0 2 1 3 58 Egypt 0 2 0 2 59 Slovakia 0 1 3 4 60 Belgium 0 1 2 3 60 Finland 0 1 2 3 60 Armenia 0 1 2 3 63 Malaysia 0 1 1 2 63 Chinese Taipei 0 1 1 2 63 Indonesia 0 1 1 2 63 Estonia 0 1 1 2 63 Puerto Rico 0 1 1 2 63 Bulgaria 0 1 1 2 69 Guatemala 0 1 0 1 69 Montenegro 0 1 0 1 69 Portugal 0 1 0 1 69 Botswana 0 1 0 1 69 Gabon 0 1 0 1 69 Cyprus 0 1 0 1 75 Qatar 0 0 2 2 75 Greece 0 0 2 2 75 Moldova 0 0 2 2 75 Singapore 0 0 2 2 79 Afghanistan 0 0 1 1 79 Bahrain 0 0 1 1 79 Hong Kong 0 0 1 1 79 Kuwait 0 0 1 1 79 Morocco 0 0 1 1 79 Saudi Arabia 0 0 1 1 79 Tajikistan 0 0 1 1

Autobiography List: Author Name Book Name Published Year Akira Kurosawa Something Like An Autobiography 1981 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Wings of Fire 1999 Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf 1925 Aerosmith Walk This Way 1997 Agatha Christie An Autobiography 1977 Albert Einstein Autobiographical Notes 1949 Andre Agassi Open: An Autobiography 2009 Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl 1947 Annie Besant Annie Besant: An Autobiography 1908 Arnold Schwarzenegger Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story Bill Clinton My Life 2004 Babur Baburnama Barack Obama Dreams from My Father 1996 Benito Mussolini My Autobiography: With the Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism 1928 Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1791 Bertrand Russell The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1951 Charles Darwin The Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character 1887 Charles Dickens Autobiographical Fragment 1847 Charlie Chaplin My Autobiography 1964 Dalai Lama Freedom in Exile 1991 Hillary Rodham Clinton Living History 2003 Jawaharlal Nehru An Autobiography 1936 Jean-Paul Sartre The Words 1964 Leo Tolstoy My Confession 1884 Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography Marilyn Monroe My Story Mahatma Gandhi The Story of My Experiments with Truth 1929 Mark Twain Mark Twain's Autobiography, posthumous 1907 Marlon Brando Songs My Mother Taught Me 1995 Maxim Gorky My Childhood 1913 Michael Jackson Moonwalk 1988 Muhammad Ali The Greatest: My Own Story 1975 Nelson Mandela A Long Walk to Freedom 1994 Nirad C. Chaudhuri The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 1951 Oscar Wilde De Profundis 1897 Ronald Reagan An American Life: The Autobiography 1990 Ronald Reagan An American Life 1990 Ronald Reagan The Reagan Diaries 2007 Sigmund Freud An Autobiographical Study 1925 Thomas Jefferson Autobiography 1743-1790 1821 Usain Bolt Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography 2013 Walter Benjamin Unpacking My Library 1931 Winston Churchill Memoirs of the Second World War 1959 Winston Churchill My Early Life: 1874-1904 1930

Animal World...... Biggest Eyes Bird:Ostriches Biggest Bird:North African ostrich Deadliest Animal:Female Anopheles mosquitoes, which carry malaria, kill morethan a million people each year. Fastest animal in Land:Cheetahs can run between 112 and 120 km/hr (70 and 75mph) Fastest animal in Water:Sailfish can swim up to 68 miles per hour. Fastest animal in Air:Peregrine falcons, they can fly 70 miles/hour and dive towardthe earth at more than 200 miles per hour. Fastest Bird in Land:Ostriches is the fastest bird on land, running up to 40 miles perhour Fastest Swimming Bird:Gentoo Penguin can swim 40 km per hour Fastest Mammal in water:Dall Porpoises can swim up to 35 miles per hour. Heaviest Flying Bird:The Dalmatian Pelican Heaviest cephalopod:Colossal squid Highest jumper:Kangaroo, can jump up to 10ft Longest arms:The Gibbon Longest Gestation:Asian elephants are born after a gestation period of 19 to 22months. Longest Lifespan:Tortoise, more than 150 years Loudest Animal:Blue whales' low-frequency pulses are as loud as 188 decibels Loudest Animal in Land:Howler monkeys, whose howl can be heard 4.8km away. Longest Migration:Arctic Terns migrate between Greenland and Antarctica eachyear travelling about 71,000 kilometers. Longest jumper:Snow Leopard, can jump up to 15m Largest Animal:Blue whales are the largest animals of all time. Largest Animal in land:African elephants are the heaviest and second tallest landanimals. Largest Invertebrate:Colossal Squid, reaching lengths of 10m, are the largestinvertebrates. Largest Carnivores:The Southern elephant seal. Largest Reptile:The Saltwater Crocodile. An adult male saltwater crocodile’sweight is 409 to 1,000 kilograms (900–2,200 lb) and length isnormally 4.1 to 5.5 meters (13–18 ft). Largest Snake:The Green Anaconda Most Venomous Animal:A single box jellyfish has enough venom to kill 60 adult humans Smallest Mammal:Adult bumblebee bats, which live in Thailand, weigh about twograms. Smallest Bird:Male bee hummingbirds weigh 0.056 ounces and are 2.75inches in length. Strongest Animal:The rhinoceros beetle can lift 850 times its own weight. Tallest Land Animal:Giraffe. It stands 5–6 m (16–20 ft) tall