Oscar Winner 2013: ·Best Picture"Argo" ·ActorDaniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln" ·ActressJennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook" ·DirectingAng Lee for "Life of Pi" ·Supporting ActorChristoph Waltz for "Django Unchained" ·Supporting ActressAnne Hathaway for "Les Misérables" ·Documentary Short Subject"Innocente" ·Documentary Feature"Searching for Sugar Man" ·Original Song"Skyfall" ·Original Score"Life of Pi" ·Animated Short Film"Paper Man" ·Animated Feature Film"Brave" ·Foreign Language Film"Amour" ·CinematographyClaudio Miranda for "Life of Pi" ·Visual Effects"Life of Pi" ·Costume Design"Anna Karenina" ·Makeup and Hairstyling"Les Miserables" ·Live Action Short Film"Curfew" ·Film Editing"Argo" ·Production Design"Lincoln" ·Sound Mixing"Les Miserables” ·Sound Editing"Zero Dark Thirty" and "Skyfall" ·Adapted ScreenplayChris Terrio for "Argo" ·Original ScreenplayQuentin Tarantion for "Django Unchained"

Oscar Award: *.An Oscar stands 34cm tall and weighs 8.5 pounds. *.The first Oscar awards were presented on May 16, 1929, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. *.The “Red carpet” at the Kodak Theatre is about 500 feet long. *.From 2002, Dolby Theatre (formerly known as Kodak Theatre) is the permanent host for Oscar ceremonies. *.Emil Jannings is the first person to receive the statuette of Oscar. He received Oscar for Best Actor in 1929. *.R. S. Owens and Company manufactures Oscar statuettes in Chicago since 1982. *.Katharine Hepburn won four best actress Oscars, most by any actor or actress. *.Ben Hur, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, these three films win 11 Oscars. They create the record of most Oscars ever won by a single film. *.The Return of the King is the only film ever to have won every single Oscar it was nominated for. *.Tatum O’Neal is the youngest ever Oscar winner at the age of 10. She won best supporting actress for the film “Paper Moon”. *.Walt Disney was nominated for 64, and won 26. He has won more Oscars than anyone else. *.“It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Silence of the Lambs” is the only three films have even won all top five Oscars - Best Film, Actor, Actress, Director and Writing. *.“Gone with the Wind” is the longest Picture that won Best Picture award winner with 234 minutes. *.Titanic holds the record of highest nomination with 14 each. *.Hattie McDaniel is the first Black actress to win an Oscar in 1940 for Best Supporting Actress in Gone with the Wind. *.Sidney Poitier is the first black actor to win an Oscar in 1963. *.George Bernard Shaw was the only Nobel Laureate who also won an Oscar in 1938 for Pygmalion. *.Adrien Brody is the youngest actor to win Best Actor award at the age of 29, for The Pianist. *.The oldest actor to win Oscar for Best Actor is 76 year-old Henry Fonda. *.Oscars' unluckiest nominee is Kevin O’Connell, holds the record for the most nominations with 20 and no wins. *.Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win the Oscar as best director for "The Hurt Locker". *.“Avatar” currently holds the record for most expensive movie ever to win an Oscar. *.The oldest person to win an Oscar was Jessica Tandy in 1990 at the age of 81. *.Halle Berry is the first black actress to win Oscar for Best Actress.

Computer World Info....... • Konrad Zuse invented the World’s first computer was named as the Z1 in 1936. It was the First freely programmable computer. • The first computer game was “Spacewar!".This game was programmed by Steve Russell and first released in February 1962. • Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce develop the first Integrated Circuit (The Chip) in 1958 • In 1954 John Backus & IBM develop first successful high level programming language FORTRAN Computer Programming Language • ARPAnet the first Internet connectivity started in 1969. • WordStar Software is the first release of Word Processors application developed by Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby in 1979. • Apple Lisa Computer is the first home computer with a GUI (graphical user interface) in 1983 • The first web browser was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. It was called WorldWideWeb (no spaces) and was later renamed Nexus. • The first search engine created was Archie, in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student of McGill University in Montreal. • On Aug. 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee published the first internet site ( http://www.w3.org /History/19921103- hypertext/hypertext /WWW/TheProject.ht ml) from CERN, the world’s largest physics lab in Geneva, Switzerland. • The first supercomputer was the Control Data Corporation (CDC) 6600 with a single CPU. It was released in 1964. • India's first supercomputer is PARAM 8000, which was installed in 1991. • NVIDIA's Tesla computer was launched in London in December 2008 is first personal supercomputer. • The first banner advertising was used in 1994. • The E-mail is older than the World Wide Web. • The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. • Rich Skrenta generated the first computer virus in February 1982. He is the author of Elk Cloner, the first computer virus to be released outside of the lab. • The first version of Excel was released for the Mac in 1985 and the first Windows version was released in November 1987. • Nobody can create a folder named “Con” in windows system. • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. • Each Excel worksheet holds 1,048,576 rows and 16, 384 columns which makes 17,179,869,184 cells per worksheet. • Up to last 100 actions can be undo in excel.

Day we have celebrated as: January • New Year's Day – 1st January • Day of Silence- 3rd January • NRI Day- 9th January • Laughing Day – 10th January • National Youth Day- 12th January • Army day- 15th January • National Voter's Day – 25th January • Indian Republic Day – 26th January • Martyr's Day- 30th January • Street Children's Day – 31st January February • National Girl Day -2nd February • World Cancer Day -4th February • Valentine's Day –14th February • National Science Day –28th February Days of the VALENTINE WEEK • Rose Day - February 7 • Propose Day - February 8 • Chocolate Day - February 9 • Bagels and Lox Day - February 9 • Pizza Pie Day - February 9 • Teddy Day - February 10 • Promise Day - February 11 • Kiss Day - February 12 • Hug Day - February 13 • Valentine's Day – February 14 March • International Women's Day – 8th March • No Smoking Day-13th March • World Disable Day – 15th March • World Consumer Rights Day – 15th March • Saint Patrick's Day – 17th March • World Poetry Day – 21st March • World TB Day – 24th March April • Fools' Day- 1st April • World Health Day- 7th April • World Parkinson's Disease Day-11th April • World Hemophilia Day-17th April • World Heritage Day- 18th April • Earth Day- 22nd April May • May Day-1st May • World Press Freedom Day-3rd May • World Red Cross Day- 8th May • National Technology Day- 11th May • Mother's Day- Second Sunday • International Nursing Day-12th May • Telecommunication Day-17th May • International Day for Biological Diversity-22nd May • Commonwealth Day- 24th May • World No-Tobacco Day-31st May June • International Children's Day- 1st June • World Environment Day-5th June • World Blood Donor Day- 14th June • Father's Day- 21st June • World Music Day-21st June • International Olympic Day-23rd June • International Anti - Drugs Day, International Day against Drug Abuse and illicittrafficking-26th June July • Doctor's Day-1st July • Independence Day in U.S-4th July • World Population Day-11th July • Kargil Vijay Divas-26th July August • World Breast Feeding Day- 1st August • International FriendshipDay-3rd August • Left Hander's Day-13th August • Indian Independence Day –15th August • World Photography Day-19th August • World Mosquito Day-20th August • Sanskrit Day-24th August • Women's Equality Day-26th August • National Sports Day-29th August September • Teacher's Day-5th September • World Literacy Day-8th September • Hindi Day-14th September • International Day of Democracy-15th September • Engineers Day-15th September • International Day of the Preservation of the Ozone Layer-16th September • International Day of Peace-21st September • World Alzheimer's Day-21st September • World Heart Day-24th September • World Tourism Day-27th September October • Mahatma Gandhi Birthday/International nonviolence day-2nd October • World Animal Welfare Day –4th October • Indian Air force Day- 8th October • World Post Day- 9th October • National Post Day- 10th October • World Food Day-16th October • United Nation's Day – 24th October November • Education Day (India) – 11th November • Children's Day (India) – 14th November • World Diabetes Day-14th November • International Student's Day- 17th November • Citizen’s Day- 19th November • Universal Children’s Day- 20th November • World Television Day- 21st November December • World AIDS Day – 1st December • World Handicapped Day- 3rd December • Navy Day- 4th December • International Volunteer Day- 5th December • Human Rights Day- 10th December • Farmer’s Day (Kishan Divas) - 23rd December • Christmas Eve – 24th December • Christmas Day –25th December • Boxing Day-26th December

Some interesting facts about life and the world: • A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! • Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. • If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. • The eye muscles are most active muscles in the whole body. • You can't kill yourself by holding your breath • There is a city called Rome on every continent. • It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland! • Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! • Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness. • The eye can process 36,000 bits of information every hour. • A normal lifespan will bring you almost 24 millions images of the world around you. • Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. • Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. • Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." • Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it. • On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute. • More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes. • The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. • More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food. • Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. • The placement of a donkey's eyes in it’s' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! • The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. • Earth is the only planet not named after a god. • It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. • You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206. • Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food! • The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London • Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people • Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe! • The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! • One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet! • Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! • The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man • Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! • Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! • Women blink nearly twice as much as men. • Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle. • Dolphins sleep with one eye open! • It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open • The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds • Slugs have 4 noses. • Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue. • A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! • The average person laughs 10 times a day! • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain • The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime! • The most difficult item for a sewerage plant to process is pubic hair as it is insoluble. • Most lipstick contains fish scales! • It takes seven minutes for the average person to fall asleep! • The bullet-proof vest, windscreen wipers, laser printers and fire escapes were all invented by women! • In the 1880s, "pants" was considered a dirty word in England! • It was the Chinese who invented sun glasses in the 13th century!