A HISTORY OF FASTEST CARS..

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport

                 This is a progressive history of the world's fastest street-legal production car over the years (as opposed to concept cars or modified cars).
Comparing claimed speeds of the "fastest car(s) in the world", especially in historical cases, is difficult due to there being no standardized method for determining the top speed, nor a central authority to verify any such claims.

Jaguar XK120

 

Year	Make and model	Top Speed	Comment
1949	Jaguar XK120	124.6 mph (200.5 km/h)	An adapted version reached 136 mph (219 km/h) by Jaguar tester Ron "Soapy" Sutton. 12000 were produced from 1948 till 1954
1955	Mercedes-Benz 300SL	140 mph (225 km/h)	Claimed top speed 161 mph (259 km/h). In 2005 modified car reached 150 mph (240 km/h). 1400 were produced from 1954 till 1957.
1961	Jaguar E-type S1 3.8	152 mph (245 km/h)	As tested by Autocar. Different versions of Jaguar E-Type were produced from 1961 till 1975, reaching total number of over 72000 units.
1963	Iso Rivolta Grifo A3/L 327	161 mph (259 km/h)	Tested by Autocar. Over 400 units produced from 1963 to 1974.
1966	Lamborghini Miura P400	171 mph (275 km/h)	Tested by Motor. Over 750 units build in 1966-1973 period, which includes P400, P400 S and P400 SV models.
1968	Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona	174 mph (280 km/h)	Tested by Autocar.About 1400 units made in 1969-1973 production run.
1984	Ferrari 288 GTO	188 mph (303 km/h)	272 produced from 1984 till 1986.
1986	Porsche 959	197 mph (317 km/h)	The 197 mph (317 km/h) top speed was recorded by the 959 Sport of which 6 were ever made. The rest of the 337 units production run (1986-1989) were 959 Touring version that topped at 195 mph (314 km/h).
1987	Ferrari F40	202.687 mph (326.193 km/h)	As tested by Quattroruote magazine. Claimed top speed 201 mph (323 km/h). 1311 produced in 1987-1992.
1990	Lamborghini Diablo	202 mph (325 km/h)	Tested by Road & Track. Overall production of all types reached 2884 in the 1990-2001 period.
1992	Jaguar XJ220	213 mph (343 km/h)	A speed of 217.1 mph (349.4 km/h) was recorded by Jaguar in 1992 by Martin Brundle at Nardo (oval) test track. 281 were made in 1992-1994.
1993	McLaren F1	231 mph (372 km/h)	Production run of 107. At factory rev limit, it reached 231 mph (371.8 km/h) at Nardo (oval) test track. In March 31, 1998, with the rev limiter disabled, it reached 240.1 mph (386.4 km/h). It still remains the world's fastest naturally aspirated production car.
February 28, 2005	Koenigsegg CCR	241 mph (388 km/h)	Recorded at Nardo (oval) test track and verified by Guinness World Records.
April 19, 2005	Bugatti Veyron	253.81 mph (408.47 km/h)	Production run of 300. Recorded and verified by inspection officials.
September 13, 2007	SSC Ultimate Aero TT	256.18 mph (412.28 km/h)	Production run of 24, built between 2006 and 2007. Recorded and verified by Guinness World Records officials.
June 26, 2010	Bugatti Veyron Super Sport	267.856 mph (431.072 km/h)	30 to be built, of which 5 will be capable of this top speed. Top speed of customer cars will be electronically limited to 415 km/h (258 mph). Recorded and verified by Guinness World Records officials.

MY DEAR TEDDY

               The teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear. They are usually stuffed with soft, white cotton and have smooth and soft fur.  The name Teddy Bear comes from former United States President Theodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was "Teddy". The name originated from an incident on a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi in November 1902, to which Roosevelt was invited by Mississippi Governor Andrew H. Longino. There were several other hunters competing, and most of them had already killed an animal. A suite of Roosevelt's attendants, led by Holt Collier, cornered, clubbed, and tied an American Black Bear to a willow tree after a long exhausting chase with hounds. They called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot it. He refused to shoot the bear himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike, but instructed that the bear be killed to put it out of its misery, and it became the topic of a political cartoon by Clifford Berryman in The Washington Post on November 16, 1902.

CHILLED IN THIS TEA.....

         



       Iced tea (sometimes known as ice tea) is a form of cold tea, often served in a glass with ice. It may or may not be sweetened. Iced tea is also a popular packaged drink. It can be mixed with flavored syrup, with common flavors including lemon, peach, raspberry, lime, passion fruit, and cherry. While most iced teas get their flavor from tea leaves (Camellia sinensis), other herb-infused beverages are also sometimes served cold and referred to as iced tea. At the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, Richard Blechyden, an Englishman, found no takers for hot tea on a veryhot day.  So he served the tea cold and iced tea was born!

DON'T LIKE BRUSHING...?

      The toothbrush is an oral hygiene instrument used to clean the teeth and gums that consists of a head of tightly clustered bristles mounted on a handle, which facilitates the cleansing of hard-to-reach areas of the mouth.For the origin of modern toothbrush,according to a Library of Congress website, the Chinese have used the bristle toothbrush since 1498, during the reign of the Hongzhi Emperor (r. 1487–1505) of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). It is thought that the Chinese version of the toothbrush spread to Europe, brought back from China to Europe by travellers. This is the origin of modern toothbrush. Library of Congress website also adds that the toothbrush was not mass-produced until 1780, when they were sold by a William Addis of Clerkenwald, England. THINK WHAT WOULD BE USED BEFORE THIS.......

CLIP

A paper clip (or sometimes paperclip) is an instrument used to fasten sheets of paper together usually made of steel wire bent to a looped shape. According to the Early Office Museum, the first patent for a bent wire paper clip was awarded in the United States to Samuel B. Fay, in 1867. This clip was originally intended primarily for attaching tickets to fabric, although the patent recognized that it could be used to attach papers together. Fay received U.S. patent 64,088 on April 23, 1867. Although functional and practical, Fay's design along with the 50 other designs patented prior to 1899 are not considered reminiscent of the modern paperclip design known today. Another notable paper clip design was also patented in the United States by Erlman J. Wright in 1877. This clip was advertised at that time for use in fastening newspapers.

WANNA' TASTE SOME MORE...?

       Taste (also called smatch or gustation; adjectival form: gustatory) is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the ability to detect the flavor of substances such as food, certain minerals, and poisons, etc.

Humans receive tastes through sensory organs called taste buds, or gustatory calyculi, concentrated on the upper surface of the tongue.

The sensation of taste can be categorized into five basic tastes: sweet, bitterness, sour, salty, and umami. The recognition and awareness of umami is a relatively recent development in Western cuisine. MSG produces a strong umami taste.

As taste senses both harmful and beneficial things, all basic tastes are classified as either appetitive or aversive, depending upon the effect the things they sense have on our bodies.

The basic tastes contribute only partially to the sensation and flavor of food in the mouth — other factors include smell, detected by the olfactory epithelium of the nose; texture, detected through a variety of mechanoreceptors, muscle nerves, etc.; temperature, detected by thermoreceptors; and spiciness, or piquance, also called chemesthesis.

TOM & JERRY

WILLIAM HANNA, JOSEPH BARBERA

    Tom and Jerry is an American series of theatrical animated cartoon films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, centering on a never-ending rivalry between a cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases and battles often involved comic violence. Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote and directed one hundred and fourteen Tom and Jerry shorts at the MGM cartoon studio in Hollywood between 1940 and 1957, when the animation unit was closed. The original series is notable for having won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film seven times, tying it with Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies as the theatrical animated series with the most Oscars. A longtime television staple, Tom and Jerry has a worldwide
audience that consists of children, teenagers and adults, and has also been recognized as one of the most famous and longest-lived rivalries in American cinema. In 2000, TIME named the series one of the greatest television shows of all time.

    Beginning in 1960, in addition to the original 114 Hanna-Barbera cartoons, MGM had new shorts produced by Rembrandt Films, led by Gene Deitch in Eastern Europe. Production of Tom and Jerry shorts returned to Hollywood under Chuck Jones's Sib-Tower 12 Productions in 1963; this series lasted until 1967, making it a total of 161 shorts. The cat and mouse stars later resurfaced in television cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera and Filmation Studios during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s; a feature film, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, in 1992 (released domestically in 1993); and in 2001, their first made-for TV short, Tom and Jerry: The Mansion Cat for Boomerang. The most recent Tom and Jerry theatrical short, The Karate Guard, was written and co-directed by Barbera and debuted in Los Angeles cinemas on September 27, 2005.

    Today, Time Warner (via its Turner Entertainment division) owns the rights to Tom and Jerry (with Warner Bros. handling distribution). Since the merger, Turner has produced the series, Tom and Jerry Tales for The CW's Saturday morning "The CW4Kids" lineup, as well as the recent Tom and Jerry short, The Karate Guard, in 2005 and a string of Tom and Jerry direct-to-video films — all in collaboration with Warner Bros. Animation. In February 2010, the cartoon celebrated its 70th anniversary and a DVD collection of 30 shorts, Tom and Jerry Deluxe Anniversary Collection, was released in late June 2010 to celebrate the animated duo's seventh decade. It then had a rerun on Cartoon Network.

ABACUS

         The ABACUS, also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes. Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal. The abacus was in use centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants, traders and clerks in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere. The user of an abacus is called an abacist. So try a match with abacus and brig a lot of changes in your calculations......

TICKLE FOR ME.....

   Tickling is the act of touching a part of the body so as to cause involuntary twitching movements and/or laughter. The word About this sound "tickle" evolved from the Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative of ticken, to touch lightly. The idiom tickled pink means to be pleased or delighted.

In 1897, psychologists G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Allin described a "tickle" as two different types of phenomena. One type caused by very light movement across the skin. This type of tickle, called a knismesis, generally does not produce laughter and is sometimes accompanied by an itching sensation.

Another type of tickle is the laughter inducing, "heavy" tickle, produced by repeatedly applying pressure to "ticklish" areas, and is known as gargalesis. Such sensations can be pleasurable or exciting, but are sometimes considered highly unpleasant, particularly in the case of relentless heavy tickling