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In Scotland, New Year’s Eve is called hogmanay, and is an occasion when young people go about singing and seeking gifts.

Newly launched in cyberspace is a Web site called Godkut.com, which aims to be the world’s most advanced faith-based social network. Read the full story…

The word caddy (or caddie, as its sometimes spelled) comes from France, via Scotland, and is a corruption of “cadet.” In France a cadet was a rich man’s younger son. Since the eldest son inherited the whole estate, any males born after him often joined the army, which gives us the military sense of cadet. [...]

The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy. Suddenly an old man appeared before him. “I can see that something is troubling [...]

Antarctica is 98% ice, 2% barren rock. The average thickness of the ice sheet is 7,200 feet; this amounts to 90% of all the ice and 70% of all the fresh water in the world. If the ice cap were to melt, the sea level would rise by an average of 230 feet.

There is a house in Rockport Massachusetts, built entirely of newspapers. The Paper House at Pigeon Cove, as it is called, is made of 215 thicknesses of newspapers. Read the full story…

Anti-virus firm, BitDefender, has detected a new ad-hijacking Trojan that hijacks Google text advertisements, replacing them with ads containing malware. The threat, identified as “Trojan.Qhost.WU“, modifies the infected computer’s host file, and redirects queries sent to Google servers to rogue servers that display ads from third parties instead of from Google. Read the full story…

When people talk behind your back, what does it mean?? Simple! It means that you are two steps ahead of them!! So, Keep moving ahead in Life!!

IBM’s Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, also called the Mark I, was completed in 1944 after six years of development with Harvard University. It was the first machine that could execute long computations automatically. Over 50 feet long, 8 feet high, and weighing almost 5 tons, the Mark I took less than a second to solve [...]

The Fifth Important Lesson – “Giving When it Counts”. Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at a hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare & serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her 5-year old brother, [...]