Livingston in California

Most of the people consider number thirteen to be an unlucky number and they have also a fear of this number which is called “triskaidekaphobia”. Do you know that hotels skip this number when numbering rooms? Even in Formula1, you can never find a car with number thirteen. Controversially, number thirteen is considered to be a special number in Sikhism, a lucky number in Italy and Colgate University. Several sports personalities like Ozzie Guille’n, Dan Marino, Shaquille O’Neal etc have worn this number during their games.

Earth hour was being observed on March 28, 2009. It was a chance for all people of the world, without any regard to the nationality and age to vote for Earth. It meant to turn off lights for an hour on Earth Day, March 28, 2009. The WWF, wanted to get 1billion votes from people all across the globe before world leaders meet at the Global Climate Change Conference in December 2009.

The group of twenty is a conference in 2009 was held in London. The G20 helps in promoting sustainable economic development and financial stability. In 2009, their major areas of discussion were the global financial crisis. They discussed the reason for this crisis and also detailed on the factors, so as to ensure it does not happen again. Besides they discussed on the severity of the issue and drew some important conclusions that affect the state of affairs of the world economy.

Google sees it as an opportunity to grow in the mobile web world by introducing ‘voice search’. This, the Vice President of engineering mentioned in the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. It is a difficult task, as every feature must be in accordance with the set standard of the English language. The Vice President further says that, if this new innovation will be carried out without any major issues, it will lay a valuable future for the company.

An ice corridor, in the size of Jamaica, which connected two islands in Antarctica, has snapped. Scientists say that this will not lead to a rise in the sea levels, but will certainly catch the attention of international organizations, as being the most susceptible continent in the entire planet. As a matter of fact, in the last 50 years, Antarctica has been affected by Climate Change the most.

Mazda motors Corp. Hiroshima, Japan, is developing an engine that is a lot cheaper. A diesel motor which aims to be far more competent and fuel efficient and which will employ less expensive electric systems. They aim to increase the global car fleet’s fuel economy by a substantial 30%, by 2015. They also aim to reduce weight of cars by 10%, before 2011. The experts say that this will aid in increaser in fuel competency.

It is feared that human activity is causing extinction. Various animal species, forest and the ecosystem that support the forest and marine life are in danger. The loss associated with extinction or vanishing ecosystem will be high. It is we the people who have to save the forest and marine life from extinction.

Over 25,000 innocent children die everyday around the world, which is equivalent to 1 child dying every 3 to 5 seconds, 17 to 18 children dying every minute. The death is due to many reasons such as poverty, easily preventable diseases and illness. Around 70 million children have died between 2000 and 2007.

Prax Sanchez who is a 72 year old man has had a nail lodged in his nose for as long as 30 years. His doctor, Jamieson Kennedy, used the magnetic force from the MRI  to remove the nail and this caused Sanchez to cough it out. Sanchez says he cannot remember ever using a nail similar to this one. He informed that he would be framing the nail.

The world’s oldest person is a woman who is celebrating her 115th birthday at a LA nursing home. The loving daughter of a slave this lady called Gertrude Baines has got a birthday letter from President Barack Obama. Her doctor has said that she is in good health but complains that the bacon in her nursing home is not crisp enough for her.