What is the world's longest definition in the English dictionary?

Although definitions of words differ with different dictionaries one word seems to have the longest definition in most of them.

The unimpressive word set, with only 3 letters, 2 consonants and 1 vowel, takes the cake when it comes to long definitions.

According to thefreedictionary.com the definition of set is as follows:

set 1
v. set, set·ting, sets
v.tr.
1. To put in a specified position; place: set a book on a table.
2. To put into a specified state: set the prisoner at liberty.
3.
a. To put into a stable position: set the fence post into a bed of concrete.
b. To fix firmly or in an immobile manner: He set his jaw and concentrated on flying the plane through the storm.
4. To restore to a proper and normal state when dislocated or broken: set a broken arm.....

Actually the definition just keeps going and going, in fact we counted 6,672 words and 37,463 characters in the definition of set, so if you really want to see the entire world's longest definition you can find it here.

National Games of famous Countries

National Games of famous Countries

Below is the list of countries and their national games:

Country	Games
Argentina	Pato
Bahamas	Sloop
Bangladesh	Kabaddi
Brazil	Capoeira
Canada	Ice Hockey (winter), Lacrosse (summer)
Chile	Chilean rodeo
Colombia	Tejo
Mexico	Charrería
Korea (Rep.)	Tae Kwon Do
Philippines	Arnis
Puerto	Rico Paso fino
Sri Lanka	Volleyball
Uruguay	Gaucho
Afghanistan	Buzkashi
Anguilla	Yacht racing
Antigua and Barbuda	Cricket
Barbados	Cricket
Bermuda	Cricket
Bhutan	Archery
China	Table Tennis
Colombia Association	Football
Cuba	Baseball
Dominican	Republic Baseball
Finland	Pesäpallo
Grenada	Cricket
Guyana	Cricket
India	Field hockey
Ireland	Gaelic games
Jamaica	Cricket
Latvia	Basketball (summer sport)
Latvia	Ice hockey (winter sport)
Lithuania	Football
New Zealand	Rugby Union
Norway Cross-country	Skiing
Pakistan	Field Hockey
Papua New Guinea	Rugby league
Peru	Paleta Frontón
Slovenia Alpine	Skiing
Switzerland	Shooting, Gymnastics
Turkey	Wrestling & Jereed
United States	Baseball
Wales	Rugby union

National Games of famous Countries

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Largest, Longest, Highest And Smallest In India

Largest, Longest, Highest And Smallest In India

Here is very important topic and post that you are looking for. I know every one want to know the what is biggest, largest, longest, highest and more. As we already gone through the details of Biggest, Highest, longest, largest in the World. Now we will get some special details about Largest, Longest, Highest And Smallest In India.

Largest, Longest, Highest And Smallest In India

Longest river	Ganges
The longest tributary river of India	Yamuna
The longest river of the south	Godavari
Highest mountain peak	Godwin Austin (k2)
Largest lake (Fresh water)	Wular lake (Kashmir)
Highest Dam	Bhakra Dam (Punjab)
Largest Mosque	Jama Masjid, Delhi
Longest Road	Grand Trunk Road
State with longest coastline	Gujarat
Largest railway route	From Jammu to Kanya Kumari
Longest tunnel	Jawahar tunnel (Jammu & Kashmir)
Longest national highway	NH-7which runs from Varanasi to Kanyakumari
Longest Dam	Hirakod Dam (Orissa)
Longest River Bride	Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna
Longest populated city	Mumbai (1.60 crore)
Largest Museum	National Museum, Kolkata
Largest Delta	Sunderban Delta, W. Bengal
Largest Dome	Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur (Karnataka)
Largest Zoo	Zoological Gardens, Alipur, Kolkata
Largest man-made Lake	Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam)
Largest Desert	Thar (Rajasthan)
Highest Tower	Pitampura Tower, Delhi
Smallest State (Area)	Goa
Smallest State (Population)	Sikkim
Highest Waterfall	Gersoppa waterfall (Karnataka)
Longest Electric railway line	From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna
Densest populated State	West Bengal
Largest cave temple	Kailash temple, Ellora (Maharashtra)
Largest animal Fair	Sonepur (Bihar)
Highest Gateway	Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri (Agra)
Biggest Hotel	Oberal –Sharaton (Mumbai)
Largest State (Area)	Rajasthan
Largest State (Population)	Uttar Pradesh
Place of heaviest rainfall	Mausinram (Meghalaya)
Largest corridor	Rameshwaram temple corridor (Tamil Nadu)
Largest cantilever span bride	Howrah Bridge (Kolkata)
Largest forest state	M.P.
Highest straight gravity Dam	Bhakra Dam
Longest Railway Platform	Kharagpur (W. Bengal)
Largest Stadium	Salt lake (Yuva Bhaeti), Kolkata
Largest Port	Mumbai
Highest Lake	Devatal (Garhwal)
Largest Lake (Saline water)	Chika lake, Orissa
Highest Award	Bharat Ratna
Highest Gallantry Award	Paramveer Chakra
Largest Gurudwara	Golden Temple, Amritsar
Deepest river valley	Bhagirathi & Alaknanda
State with longest coastline of South India	Andhra Pradesh
Longest river which forms estuary	Narmada
Largest Church	Saint Cathedral (Goa)
Longest Beach	Marina Beach, Chennai
Highest Battle field	Siachin Glacier
Highest  Airport	Len (Laddakh)
Largest river island	Majuli (Brahmaputra river, Assam)
Largest Planetarium	Birla Planetarium (Kolkata)

Chocolate Helps Lower Blood Pressure

High blood pressure is a significant concern as it significantly raises the incidence of vascular disease and stroke. As a result of stress, poor diet and lifestyle, enzymes in our body produce a substance known as angiotensin II that causes blood vessels to narrow and blood pressure to increase. Standard medical practice is to prescribe ACE inhibitors to inhibit the action of these enzymes, often with mixed results and always dangerous side effects. Researchers have now confirmed that natural flavanols found in cacao from chocolate can lower blood pressure as effectively as the Big Pharma solutions.

Natural Flavanols from Cacao Effectively Regulate Blood Pressure
Researchers have known for some time that the active catechins and procyanidines in many fruits, vegetables and green tea promote health and protect against disease through a variety of biochemical mechanisms. The results of a study published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology explains how flavanols from cacao and dark chocolate inhibit the action of angiotensin to influence the body’s fluid balance and effectively regulate blood pressure.

Study Demonstrates Blood Pressure Lowering Effect of ChocolateResearchers have known for some time that the active catechins and procyanidines in many fruits, vegetables and green tea promote health and protect against disease through a variety of biochemical mechanisms. The results of a study published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology explains how flavanols from cacao and dark chocolate inhibit the action of angiotensin to influence the body’s fluid balance and effectively regulate blood pressure.

The study involved ten men and six women aged 20 to 45 who were fed 75 grams of unsweetened chocolate with a cacao content of 72%. Blood samples were taken before and again after eating the sample chocolate to analyze the activity of the ACE enzyme. Researchers were amazed to find that the enzyme activity was reduced by 18%, effectively lowering dangerous blood pressure as well or even better than many pharmaceuticals.

The lead author concluded, “Our findings indicate that changes in lifestyle with the help of foods that contain large concentrations of catechins and procyaninides prevent cardiovascular diseases.” It`s important to note that the results were produced using unsweetened cacao as found in many specialty dark chocolates. The same benefits would not be conferred with commonly available sweetened milk chocolate and semi-sweet varieties.

Flavanols From Chocolate Increases Nitric Oxide, Relaxes Blood Vessels
Information reported in the journal BMC Medicine combines the results of 15 independent studies on the vessel dilating effects of flavanols from chocolate. Researchers found that moderate consumption of chocolate with a high percentage of cacao showed significant blood pressure reduction in people with high blood pressure, and no effect on individuals with normal pressure readings. Flavanols increase the natural formation of endothelial nitric oxide that exhibits a relaxing effect on blood vessel walls and lowered blood pressure.

Cacao from chocolate is shown to be yet another example of how a natural compound can promote health and prevent disease. Flavanols and catechins are chemical compounds found in unprocessed foods that are essential to human health. When consumed or supplemented as part of a whole food diet they demonstrate reduced risk of disease without the damaging side effects commonly seen with pharmaceuticals.

Right time to drink water when it affects better on body.

>> 1 glass after waking up in the morning, helps in activating internal organs.

>> 1 glass after taking bath, decreases blood pressure.

>> 2 glass before eating meal helps in digest system.

>> Half glass of water  before sleeping, helps to avoid heart attack and brain strokes.

Right time to drink water when it affects better on body.

Do you drink water at these times??

Facts about Banana , You Didn't Know Before ...

• A banana contains Vitamin C, potassium and dietary fiber.
• Bananas do not contain sodium, fat or cholesterol.
• The Vitamin C, which is found in bananas, helps the body to defend and heal against infections. This vitamin also proves valuable in the synthesis of the connective tissue, absorption of iron and the formation of blood.
• Not only are bananas rich in vitamin C, they also contain potassium. Potassium is a mineral that helps in the building of muscles and protein synthesis. This is done as potassium stimulates nerve impulses for muscle contraction.
• A diet rich in potassium is said to reduce the risk of hypertension and stroke. As bananas are free from sodium and very rich in potassium, they can be included in the diet to reduce the risk of high blood pressure.
• Bananas contain three natural sugars, sucrose, fructose and glucose along with fiber. A banana thus gives an instant and substantial boost of energy.
• A banana contains Vitamin B6, which helps in the synthesis of antibodies in the immune system apart from red blood formation, protein metabolism and functioning of the central nervous system.
• No other fruit contain more digestible carbohydrates than bananas. This is advantageous because, the body burns off calories from carbohydrate more easily and quickly than calories from fat or protein.
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  Interesting Facts About Bananas
  • The word banana is derived from the Arab word "banan," which means finger.
  • Bananas are harvested green because they keep ripening even after they are picked.
  • Unlike most other fruits that grow on trees, bananas grow on plants.
  • An average American is said to consume more than 28 pounds of bananas every year.
  • Brisbane holds the world record for the longest banana split, which measured 7.3 kilometers.
  • 3 medium bananas would weigh about a pound.
  • Despite that fact that bananas love a tropical climate, they are grown in Iceland too, by heating the soil with geysers.
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What the “ZIP” in “ZIP Code” Stands For & What Numbers Signify

Today I found out what the “ZIP” in “ZIP Code” stands for and what the numbers signify.

ZIP Code or “Zone Improvement Plan Code” was a system put in place by the U.S. Postal Service on July 1, 1963.  The hope was that these ZIP codes would allow the postal service to more efficiently and therefore more quickly route mail.

Before the official nation-wide ZIP code system, the U.S. Postal Service had a system of postal zones for large cities as far back as 1943.  This postal zone number would be added to the address after the city name, but before the state name. (e.g. Bilbo Baggins, 3421 Bagend, Hobbiton 27, Eriador; where “27″ is the postal zone within the city of Hobbiton)  This allowed for more efficient sorting of mail and, thus, quicker deliver times in high volume areas.                          

                                                                                                  Mr. ZIP: Official Mascot of the ZIP Code System

In 1944, post office employee, Robert Moon, submitted a proposal for a nation-wide postal zone system.  In Moon’s system, which was eventually slightly modified and then adopted, the first three digits would stand for the sectional center facility (SFC); an SFC is just a central mail processing facility in a certain region.  Specifically, the first digit ends up standing for a group of U.S. states (0-9 numbered from east to west, ascending) with the second and third digits representing a region in that group that is covered by some SFC.  The Postal System then added on to Moon’s system two extra numbers which indicate the post office or postal zone, within the region, the mail should go to.

Starting around 1983, the U.S. Postal service introduced the ZIP+4 system.  In this system, the 5 digit ZIP code number signifies the same thing as before and the extra 4 digits at the end signify an area within a certain post office’s coverage area.  Specifically, the six and seventh digits indicate a “delivery sector”, such as a group of streets; a group of office buildings; etc.  The last two numbers then indicate a “delivery segment” which could indicate a floor of an office building; the side of the street the address is on; etc.   This allows for more efficient sorting within a single post office that deals in high volumes of mail.

The new ZIP+4 system never really caught on with the general public and is somewhat superfluous as mail today is read by a multi-line optical character reader (MLOCR) that can almost always determine the correct ZIP+4 code for an address.  This machine also sprays a Postnet barcode on the face of the mail that corresponds to the full ZIP+4 code; thus, writing it in by hand before you mail something is generally no more efficient than not writing it in, because the automatic sorting systems the Postal Service has use this Postnet barcode, rather than the specific written address for sorting.

Bonus Factoids:

• Once the ZIP code system was put in place, the U.S. Postal Service only required that bulk mailers use the ZIP codes, though they wanted everyone to use them.  The Postal Service struggled, in the beginning, to get the general public to start using the zip codes.  They eventually more or less decided to give up on convincing adults and instead they created a cartoon character “Mr. ZIP” in order to try to get kids to start using ZIP codes.  They figured that the kids would then encourage parents to use the ZIP codes when they saw their parents leaving the ZIP codes out on mail.  Further, when the kids grew older, they would teach their kids to use ZIP codes.
• Mr. ZIP was based on a design by Howard Wilcox, who was the son of a letter carrier.  This was a design done for a New York bank that was a child-like sketch of a postman delivering a letter.  After AT&T acquired the rights to the design, they made it available to the Postal Service to use at no cost.  The Postal Service then made a few minor modifications and Mr. ZIP was born.
• The term “ZIP code” was originally registered as a servicemark, which is a type of trademark, by the U.S. Postal Service, but the registration has since expired allowing companies like UPS and FedEx to use the term freely.
• You can actually print the Postnet barcode directly onto your mail piece to make it slightly easier for the Postal Service to sort your mail (mainly skipping the step where they have to scan your mail and print the barcode on it).  Many word-processing programs, such as Microsoft Word, include a feature for doing this.
• Before the 1970s, the United States Postal Service (USPS) was named the United States Post Office Department (USPOD).
• Interestingly, the ZIP code system was first introduced because the Postal Service was beginning to be overwhelmed with the volume of mail they needed to process in a timely manner, most of which originally was processed by hand.  The ZIP code system made a handy way to increase efficiency in that way.  However, only a few years after the ZIP code system was introduced in the 1960s, the Postal Service began using the MLOCR system for automatic sorting.  Given the address, even without the ZIP code, the MLOCR system is almost always perfectly capable of assigning the ZIP+4 code to the address, with very little mail needing to be human-read to determine the correct address/ZIP code.  So in most cases, including the ZIP or ZIP+4 code with the written address doesn’t really increase mail efficiency much at all as the Postal Service’s initial scanning system can come up with those numbers for your written address on its own.

What the “ZIP” in “ZIP Code” Stands For and What the Numbers Signify

Wikileaks : About and History

Wikileaks : About and History

Wikileaks is an international new media non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks. Its website, launched in 2006, is run by The Sunshine Press. Within a year of its launch, the site claimed its database had grown to more than 1.2 million documents.  The organisation has described itself as having been founded by Chinese dissidents, as well as journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa.  Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its director.

Wikileaks has received praise as well as criticism. The organization won a number of awards, including The Economist's 2008 New Media Award. In June 2009, Wikileaks and Julian Assange won Amnesty International's UK Media Award, in the category "New Media", for the 2008 publication of "Kenya: The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances",  a report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights about police killings in Kenya.  In May 2010, New York City's Daily News listed Wikileaks as first in a ranking of "websites that could totally change the news".  Julian Assange was named the Readers' Choice for TIME's Person of the Year for 2010.  Several U.S. government officials have criticized Wikileaks for exposing state secrets, harming national security, and compromising international diplomacy.  Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International criticized Wikileaks for not adequately redacting the names of civilians working with the U.S. military.  Some journalists have criticized the lack of editorial discretion when releasing thousands of documents at once and without sufficient analysis.  Negative public reactions in the United States have characterized the organization as irresponsible, immoral, and illegal.

In April 2010, Wikileaks posted video from a 2007 incident in which Iraqi civilians and journalists were killed by US forces, on a website called Collateral Murder. In July of the same year, Wikileaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available for public review.  In October 2010, the group released a package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs in coordination with major commercial media organisations. In November 2010, Wikileaks began releasing U.S. State department diplomatic cables.

Wikileaks was originally launched as a user-editable wiki site, but has progressively moved towards a more traditional publication model, and no longer accepts either user comments or edits. The site is available on multiple servers and different domain names following a number of denial-of-service attacks and its severance from different Domain Name System (DNS) providers.

History

The Wikileaks .org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006.  The website was unveiled, and published its first document in December 2006. The site claims to have been "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa".

The creators of Wikileaks have not been formally identified.  It has been represented in public since January 2007 by Julian Assange and others. Assange describes himself as a member of Wikileaks ' advisory board.  News reports in The Australian have called Assange the "founder of Wikileaks ". According to Wired magazine, a volunteer said that Assange described himself in a private conversation as "the heart and soul of this organisation, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organiser, financier, and all the rest".  As of June 2009[update], the site had over 1,200 registered volunteers  and listed an advisory board comprising Assange, Phillip Adams, Wang Dan, C. J. Hinke, Ben Laurie, Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang, Xiao Qiang, Chico Whitaker and Wang Youcai.  Despite appearing on the list, when contacted by Mother Jones magazine in 2010, Khamsitsang said that while he received an e-mail from Wikileaks , he had never agreed to be an advisor.

Wikileaks states that its "primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behaviour in their governments and corporations."

In January 2007, the website stated that it had over 1.2 million leaked documents that it was preparing to publish.  An article in The New Yorker said:

One of the Wikileaks activists owned a server that was being used as a node for the Tor network. Millions of secret transmissions passed through it. The activist noticed that hackers from China were using the network to gather foreign governments’ information, and began to record this traffic. Only a small fraction has ever been posted on Wikileaks , but the initial tranche served as the site’s foundation, and Assange was able to say, "[w]e have received over one million documents from thirteen countries."

Assange responded to the suggestion that eavesdropping on Chinese hackers played a crucial part in the early days of Wikileaks by saying "the imputation is incorrect. The facts concern a 2006 investigation into Chinese espionage one of our contacts were involved in. Somewhere between none and handful of those documents were ever released on Wikileaks . Non-government targets of the Chinese espionage, such as Tibetan associations were informed (by us)". The group has subsequently released a number of other significant documents which have become front-page news items, ranging from documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war to corruption in Kenya.

The organisation's stated goal is to ensure that whistleblowers and journalists are not jailed for emailing sensitive or classified documents, as happened to Chinese journalist Shi Tao, who was sentenced to 10 years in 2005 after publicising an email from Chinese officials about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

The project has drawn comparisons to Daniel Ellsberg's leaking of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. In the United States, the leaking of some documents may be legally protected. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution guarantees anonymity, at least in the area of political discourse.  Author and journalist Whitley Strieber has spoken about the benefits of the Wikileaks project, noting that "Leaking a government document can mean jail, but jail sentences for this can be fairly short. However, there are many places where it means long incarceration or even death, such as China and parts of Africa and the Middle East."

On 24 December 2009, Wikileaks announced that it was experiencing a shortage of funds  and suspended all access to its website except for a form to submit new material. Material that was previously published was no longer available, although some could still be accessed on unofficial mirrors. Wikileaks stated on its website that it would resume full operation once the operational costs were covered.  Wikileaks saw this as a kind of strike "to ensure that everyone who is involved stops normal work and actually spends time raising revenue".  While the organisation initially planned for funds to be secured by 6 January 2010,  it was not until 3 February 2010 that Wikileaks announced that its minimum fundraising goal had been achieved.

On 22 January 2010, PayPal suspended Wikileaks ' donation account and froze its assets. Wikileaks said that this had happened before, and was done for "no obvious reason".  The account was restored on 25 January 2010.  On 18 May 2010, Wikileaks announced that its website and archive were back up.

As of June 2010, Wikileaks was a finalist for a grant of more than half a million dollars from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, but did not make the cut.  Wikileaks commented, "Wikileaks was highest rated project in the Knight challenge, strongly recommended to the board but gets no funding. Go figure”. Wikileaks said that the Knight foundation announced the award to "'12 Grantees who will impact future of news' – but not Wikileaks " and questioned whether Knight foundation was "really looking for impact".  A spokesman of the Knight Foundation disputed parts of Wikileaks ' statement, saying "Wikileaks was not recommended by Knight staff to the board." However, he declined to say whether Wikileaks was the project rated highest by the Knight advisory panel, which consists of non-staffers, among them journalist Jennifer 8. Lee, who has done PR work for Wikileaks with the press and on social networking sites.

On 17 July, Jacob Appelbaum spoke on behalf of Wikileaks at the 2010 Hackers on Planet Earth conference in New York City, replacing Assange because of the presence of federal agents at the conference. He announced that the Wikileaks submission system was again up and running, after it had been temporarily suspended. Assange was a surprise speaker at a TED conference on 19 July 2010 in Oxford, and confirmed that the site had begun accepting submissions again.

Upon returning to the US from the Netherlands, on 29 July, Appelbaum was detained for three hours at the airport by US agents, according to anonymous sources. The sources told Cnet that Appelbaum's bag was searched, receipts from his bag were photocopied, his laptop was inspected, although in what manner was unclear. Appelbaum reportedly refused to answer questions without a lawyer present, and was not allowed to make a phone call. His three mobile phones were reportedly taken and not returned. On 31 July, he spoke at a Defcon conference and mentioned his phone being "seized". After speaking, he was approached by two FBI agents and questioned.

Assange is quoted as acknowledging that his practice of posting largely unfiltered classified information online could one day lead the Web site to have "blood on our hands."

In 2010, at least a dozen key supporters of Wikileaks have left the website.

source: wikipedia

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