2011-05-17

10 People Most Successful due to Dropout (DO)

  1. Bill Gates
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    Bill Gates
    Harvard Crimson called him "Harvard's most successful dropout. " For more than a decade, Bill Gates became one of the richest people in the world. He is the son of a lawyer and school teacher. Gates entered Harvard in 1973, dropped out two years later. Then set up Microsoft with childhood friend Paul Allen. In 2007, co-founder of Microsoft has finally received his (honorary doctorate) from his alma mater. At the time, Gates said, "I am a bad influence, that's why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I speak at your orientation, may be much less than you present here today"
     
  3. Steve Jobs
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    Steve Jobs
    Mac, iPod, Heck, even Buzz Lightyear probably would not have existed if Steve Jobs stay in school. In the DO of Reed College after only six months of college because of financial problems. He finally found the Apple, NeXT Computer and Pixar, which became an instrumental force in shaping modern culture. However, the brief period in the academic world is not in vain. In a speech at Stanford University in 2005, Jobs was given an award by a calligraphy class at Reed College since formed the basis for the typography used in the first Macintosh computer
     
  5. Frank Lloyd Wright
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    Frank Lloyd Wright
    The most famous architect in America was to spend more time designing universities than attending lectures. Frank Lloyd Wright accepted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1886, but left after one year. He moved to Chicago and finally apprenticeship under Louis Sullivan, the "Father of modernism". At the time of his death, Wright's resume includes more than 500 works, the most famous of which is Fallingwater and New York City the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
     
  7. Buckminster Fuller
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    Buckminster Fuller
    Buckminster Fuller - architect, thinker, inventor, DO. Expelled from Harvard not once, but twice, the post-DO Fuller did not succeed. He suffered a series of failed business ventures and suffering after the death of her daughter. Fuller had even planned to commit suicide. At age 32, Fuller defined as one person who can change the world for the better. The idea of the most prevalent, such as home dymaxion (a portmanteau of the maximum dynamic voltage) and car dymaxion to attract the attention of the nation, while his iconic geodesic domes brought him on international fame and recognition
     
  9. James Cameron
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    James Cameron
    Directed by Academy Award winner, was born and raised in Canada, he and his family moved to Brea, California in 1971. It was there that young Cameron is listed in the Fullerton College to study physics. Academic life did not last long. He at-dropout, married a waitress and eventually became a truck driver for a local school district. It started when he saw Star Wars in 1977 which inspired her to create some of science fiction films of the most amazing (and expensive) at the end of the 20th century
     
  11. Mark Zukerberg
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    Mark Zukerberg
    Most students use their dorm rooms for sleeping, studying, or doing things that might not want to know their parents. However, Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook from inside his room. Originally intended only for Harvard students, but these social networking sites became popular quickly and spread to all other universities across the country. Following the explosion in popularity of Facebook, Zuckerberg pack your bags and move his small company to Palo Alto, California, and forever leave the sacred class at Harvard. So far, the decision has been managed quite well for someone his age (20s years). According to Forbes, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in the world, with wealth in 2010 of $ 4 billion
     
  13. Tom Hanks
  14.  Tom Hanks
     
    TIME magazine calls Tom Hanks as a writer in America chronicles palik; Sacramento States called it "most famous dropout. " The actor has left college to intern at the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. There, he studied various aspects of theater from lighting to set design, creating a prefix to his career as a Hollywood actor, producer director, and writer. He does not forget its own past, in 2009, Hanks helped fund and raise money to help renovate the theater Cleveland where he started it all
     
  15. Harrison Ford
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    Harrison Ford
    Apparently, a bachelor's degree is not a prerequisite to fly the "Millennium Falcon". Harrison Ford, famous in Star Wars and Indiana Jones, majored in philosophy at Ripon College, but dropped out shortly before graduation. He then landed in some small part in Hollywood production, but not happy with a small role like that, switching to a career in professional carpentry instead. Nearly ten years later, in 1973 he became a star in George Lucas on graduation night comedy "American Graffiti" and then joined with Lucas in the distant galaxy in 1977 in the blockbuster Star Wars
     
  17. Lady Gaga
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    Lady Gaga
    Before he called the "gaga", she is Angelina Germanotta Joanne Stefani, artist better known as Lady Gaga attended a class at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, but dropped out after only one year, to fully pursue her music career. He joined the New York club scene with performances ridiculous, and has signed a contract with Interscope Records at the age of 20. In 2008 her debut album
     
  19. Tiger Woods
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    Tiger Woods
    In a world where someone who has exceptional talent in sports, they tend to forget (ignore) higher education. So it happened on a pro, Tiger Woods. He chose to continue playing as a amateur golf at Stanford University majoring in Economics. After two years there, Woods turned pro and officially ending a career in college. He's going to be one that has the highest paid athletes in the world, with earnings of more than $ 100 million per year at the peak of his career
     

2011-05-10

12 Unique and Mysterious Monuments in the World

  1. Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse
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    Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse
    Known as the 'Georgia Guidestones five stone structure has a height 16 feet, weight 20 tons. In granite slab no writing in eight languages - including Egyptian hieroglyphic language, Hindi and Swahili - with instructions for the survivors to rebuild a new civilization on earth. Are the instructions in eight languages associated with doomsday predictions? It is still unclear. It is unclear also command is intended for whom. It is not clear anymore, who built this strange monument.
     
  3. Michigan Stonehenge lake
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    Michigan Stonehenge lake
    Initially, a group of researchers using sonar to search for the wreck at the bottom of Lake Michigan, the results are quite surprising. Instead they found an ancient Stonehenge structure 40 feet below the water surface. Some of these stones in a circle and one appeared to show the carving of a mastodon. Allegedly, archaeological objects were built 10,000 years ago, possibly to coincide with the post-Ice Age human presence in the region and mastodons.
     
  5. The Ruins Under Sea in Japan
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    The Ruins Under Sea in Japan
    On the south coast of Yonaguni, Japan, there are the submerged ruins, thought to have aged about 8,000 years old. Although some believe that it is a natural creation, but it now appears the voices who call it man-made. It was seen from a complex arrangement of stairs, carvings there are believed to be manmade. This site is found in 1995 by a diver who stray too far from the coast of Okinawa. Incidentally he also brought cameras to take pictures underwater.
     
  7. Miracle Below Sea Alexandria, Egypt
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    Miracle Below Sea Alexandria, Egypt
    These ruins are believed to be the city of Alexander the Great, where Cleopatra's palace is located. Sinking of the city was estimated to occur 1,500 years ago due to a devastating earthquake. Along with the setting of the palace, also submerged artifacts that decorate the palace, as well as other buildings of Cleopatra's palace. The ruins of the city that was found at the bottom of this sea, are deliberately not appointed to the mainland.
     
  9. Mystery Stones Baalbek in Lebanon
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    Mystery Stones Baalbek in Lebanon
    The largest Roman temples ever built and now lives ruined, in fact, not in Greece or Rome, but instead in Baalbek, Lebanon. The temple was destroyed by the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius, was lucky not all parts destroyed. Still there are 6 of 54 columns, which still stands today. Six column will be a witness of history and left a trail of mystery who waited revealed. Although the remains of the splendor of this temple still visible, but actually, this temple was abandoned due to the war. For decades, tourists rarely visited this place due to the war. Fortunately also, the war not to destroy this historic temple.
     
  11. Three Anchient Megalithic Stone Circles
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    Three Anchient Megalithic Stone Circles
    As In southern Turkey, just north of the border with Syria, there are three megalithic stone circles thousands of years old, older than Stonehenge stone circle. Surprisingly, the ancient stone circles were built by a group of hunters at that time. Previously, it was believed that early humans could not make the building, until they reach a certain level of progress.
     
  13. Easter Island
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    Easter Island
    Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua, is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, the most famous monumental sculptures created by the Rapanui people. The statues, called moai, are part of the island ancestor worship performed by the local community at the time. The statues were allegedly made between 1250 and 1500 AD. Moai heaviest weighing 86 tons. This illustrates just how great their achievements are able to create Rapanui, also move the statues weighing up to tens of tons.
     
  15. Stonehenge, Prehistoric Monuments in England
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    Stonehenge, Prehistoric Monuments in England
    Perhaps the ancient monument which is still in fairly good condition is Stonehenge, located in Wiltshire, England. These ancient buildings have been built 2500 BC, but later underwent revision and renovation continuously for 1400 years. Despite all theory and speculation are stated, but no one knows what the original purpose of these prehistoric monuments and remains one of the greatest mysteries of the earth.
     
  17. Machu Picchu
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     Machu Picchu
    Machu Picchu is a relic of the nation's most well-preserved Inca. This royal city hidden in the mountains of the Andes of Peru, located high in the mountains with a steep road but on a flat peak. A location, which was the place where the Inca refuge from the pursuit of the Spanish nation. The city was hidden for centuries and isolated from the outside world until then an archaeologist, Hiram Bingham, found it in 1911. Based on the research, estimated the city of Machu Picchu dibanun in 1450 AD as the Inca ruler Pachacuti hideouts.
     
  19. Great Zimbabwe Ruins
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    Great Zimbabwe Ruins
    Few people know that Zimbabwe, Africa, has an ancient stone ruins of the oldest in the world. Its location in the countryside. Allegedly, the ruins of an ancient stone building that was once inhabited by 18,000 souls. Once the traces of the ruins, then called the Great Zimbabwe Ruins. Based on research, the building was built in the 11th century, unique building was established without using cement. No one knows for sure why the site was eventually abandoned.
     
  21. Peru’s Chavin Huantar Ruins
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    Peru’s Chavin Huantar Ruins
    Although not as famous as Machu Picchu, the ruins of Chavin de Huantardi Peru is also an interesting World Heritage Site that contains the remains of artifacts that was built by the Chavin, a pre-Inca culture, around 900 BC This site serves as a meeting place for people in the area to gather and worship. It is unclear why the Chavin culture disappeared, although some believe that the ruins of Chavin de Huantar offer clues about why some civilizations disappeared.
     
  23. Coral Castle, Monuments of Love Lost, in Florida
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    Coral Castle, Monuments of Love Lost, in Florida
    How to explain a man plays with a weight of 5 feet 100 pounds, build an elaborate garden using bits of rock, each weighing many tons? Coral Castle, in Homestead, Florida, is a miracle that difficult to explain common sense. Is Ed Leedskalnin, a Latvian immigrant, who built a monument called the monument of love lost. Weird! The story, the construction of this monument like the story of a touching romance. Ed Leedskaini began building the castle in 1923, after her love was rejected by his fiancee in Latvia just days before their wedding. And he dedicated his life to finish it (the monument).
     

2011-05-03

13 Most Beautiful and Famous Caves in The World

  1. Son Doong Cave , Vietnam
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    Dong's Cave is a cave National Park, Phong Nha-Ke Bang, Bo Trach District, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam. This cave is located near the border of Laos and Vietnam. It has a large underground river rapids in it. the cave was discovered by a man named h o-Khanh in 1991. Local people fear the forest because the cave was whistling, it is an underground river. However, not until 2009 the place was known to the public when a group of British scientists from the British Cave Research Association, led by Howard and Deb Limbert, conducted a survey in Phong Nha-Ke Bang 10 to 14 April 2009. journey they were stopped by a wall of large calcite. According to Limbert, this cave is five times greater than Phong Nha cave, once considered the largest cave in Vietnam. The biggest room son dong more than five miles long, 200 meters and 150 meters wide.
     
  3. Cave of The Giant Crystals, Mexico
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    Crystal Cave, or Cave (Spain: Cueva de los Cristales) is a cave that is connected to the mine Naica 300 meters (980 feet) deep in Chihuahua, Mexico. The main room contains a giant crystal Selenite, some of the largest natural crystals ever found. Largest crystal cave discovered when it is 11 m (36 ft) long, 4 meters (13 feet) in diameter and weighs 55 tons. The cave is 27 m wide (89 feet) and 9 meters (30 feet). The cave is very hot with temperatures reaching up to 58 ° C (136 ° F) with humidity of 90 to 100 percent. The cave is relatively unexplored due to extreme temperatures and high humidity.
     
  5. Voronya (Krubera) Cave , Abkhazia
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    Krubera Cave (Cave Voronya or sometimes spelled Voronja Cave) is the deepest cave on Earth. It is located in the Arabica Massif of the Western Caucasus Range Gagrinsky, in Gagra district of Abkhazia, Georgia. Differences in altitude at the entrance of the cave and explore the deepest point is 2191 ± 20 m (7188 ± 66 ft). This has become the world's deepest cave known in 2001 when the Ukrainian Speleological Association expedition reached a depth of 1710 m (5610 ft) which exceeds the depth of the deepest cave before, Lamprechtsofen, in the Austrian Alps, with 80 m. In 2004, for the first time in the history of science of the cave, the Ukrainian Speleological Association expedition reaches depths of more than 2,000 m, and explore the cave to -2080 m (-6824 ft).
     
  7. Mammoth Cave , Kentucky , USA
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    Mammoth Cave National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system in the world. The official name of the system is the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System bulge where the caves were formed. This park was established as a national park on July 1, 1941. It became a World Heritage Site on October 27, 1981 and an International Biosphere Reserve on September 26, 1990. National Park 52,835 acres (21,382 ha) located mainly in Edmonson County, Kentucky, with small areas extending eastward into Hart County and Barren County.
     
  9. Optymistychna Cave , Ukraine
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    Mammoth Cave National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system in the world. The official name of the system is the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System bulge where the caves were formed. This park was established as a national park on July 1, 1941. It became a World Heritage Site on October 27, 1981 and an International Biosphere Reserve on September 26, 1990. National Park 52,835 acres (21,382 ha) located mainly in Edmonson County, Kentucky, with small areas extending eastward into Hart County and Barren County.
     
  11. Toca da Boa Vista, Brasil
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    Toca da Boa Vista is the longest cave in the southern hemisphere. It is located in the town of Campo Formoso in Bahia State, Brazil and has 84 km mapped in 1999. Now reported 102 km of the section make 15 of the world's longest cave.
     
  13. The Eisriesenwelt Caves , Austria
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    The Eisriesenwelt is ice natural limestone cave located in Werfen, Austria, about 40 km south of Salzburg. Tennengebirge Hochkogel cave on the mountain in the Alps. This is the largest ice caves in the world, covering more than 42km and is visited by about 200,000 tourists each year.
     
  15. Vroglavica Cave , Slovenia
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    Vrtoglavica Cave is a cave which is located on Mount Kanin in the Julian Alps of Slovenia, near the border between Slovenia and Italy. This cave holds the record for the deepest decline in the (pitch) single vertical of each cave on Earth at a depth of 603 meters (1978 feet).
     
  17. Ox Bel Ha Cave System , Mexico
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    Ox Bel Ha (from Maya means "The three paths of water") is a cave in Quintana Roo, Mexico. This is the longest explored underwater cave in the world. In August 2010 the respondent length of 182.1 km (113.2 miles) below the water.
     
  19. Wind Cave , New Mexico , USA
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    Wind Cave National Park is a United States national park 10 miles (16 km) north of the city of Hot Springs in western South Dakota. Founded in 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt, it was the seventh U.S. National Parks and the first cave designated as a national park anywhere in the world. The cave is important to be shown on calcite formation known as boxwork. About 95 percent of the world find boxwork formations found in Wind Cave. Wind Cave is also known for its ornate ice. This cave is also considered a three-dimensional maze cave
     
  21. Lascaux Caves , France
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    Lascaux cave discovered in 1940 in southern France. Lascaux is famous for its cave paintings. the cave was closed to the public in 1963 due to a decrease in the paintings of excess carbon dioxide generated by visitors. Now you can only see a virtual tour of the many rooms and cave paintings.
     
  23. Pierre Saint martin , France/Spain
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    The Pierre Saint Martin caverns in France and Spain and is famous for the depth of 4400 feet is remarkable. This is one of the largest caves in the world.
     
  25. Ochtinska Aragonite Cave , Slovakia
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    Ochtinská aragonite cave is a unique aragonite cave located in southern Slovakia, near Rožňava. Although only 300 m in length, it is famous for its rare aragonite filling. cave was discovered by chance by Jan Bystricky in 1954 and opened to the public in 1972. Along with other cave Slovak Karst, included in UNESCO World Heritage list as a component of Karst and Slovak Karst Aggtelek Cave site.
     

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