New York goes chasing waterfalls

New York State is home to some impressive waterfalls , New York City, not so much. The city is planning on changing that this summer with the New York City Waterfalls project. It's a big, expensive undertaking: $9 to $10 million dollars to make four waterfalls rise from the East River and New York Harbor. As you can see from the gallery below, right now the project is just a work in progress. The Public Art Fund and City of New York, both sponsors of the Olafur Eliasson-designed installation, plan for the waterfalls to run from late June through October of this year.

The City hopes that tourists will flock to see the waterfalls from water taxis. We think that the idea is pretty cool, but we also know that the East River is nowhere near as clean as it looks in the concept pictures. The water will be filtered before it goes through the falls. We just hope that the city filters it well enough that it will be safe to breath in the East River mist that they'll create.

True and Amazing 15

• A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going nowhere today - it is too lazy !.
• A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) - that's really fast! The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour).
• a cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).
• Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES
• The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
• A Zipper joins two pieces of material together. A zipper is used everywhere, on clothing, pencil cases, boots and suitcases, wallets, and a zillion other things. Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who invented the zipper but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he didn't get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a "clothing closure".
• The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.
• Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears . The smallest species of bears is called sun or Malayan bears. Male bears are called boars. Bears are native to the continents of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. Alaskan brown bears, world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms)
• No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions. Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.
• There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.

True and Amazing 14

• Large kangaroos can cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
• There are 365 steps on the front of U.S.A. capital building one for every day of the year.
• grapes explode in the microwave.
• The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch does not tick it moves smoothly.
• Babies eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
• all the gold ever mined could be moulded in to cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• The bagpipe was first made from the lever of a sheep.
• 29% of people admit they have intentionally stolen something from a store.
• Mexico has more American residents than any other country except the U.S.A.
• A full-grown bear can run as faster as a horse.
• The U.K. eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.
• Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp.
• Everyday an average person swallows about a quart of mucous.
• About 25% of population sneezes when they are exposed to light.
• The giant South African earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1 inch thick.
• The largest species of kangaroo stands nearly 7 feet tall.
• From a complete stop. A human is capable of out running a formula 1-racer car for about 30 feet.
• An average person spends three years of his\her life in a toilet.
• The liquid inside young coconut can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

True and Amazing 13

• Ants don't sleep .
• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
• The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
• There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
• A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
• The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
• Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
  
• A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
• Snakes are immune to their own poison.

True and Amazing 12

• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.
• Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
• The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
• A shrimp's heart is in their head.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

True and Amazing 11

• It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.
• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
• Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
• There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.
• Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
• Cat's urine glows under a black light .
• The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
• It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.
• Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.
• It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.
• Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.
• Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
• Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.

True and Amazing 10

• A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
• The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
• There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.
• The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
• The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
• The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
• The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
• A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
• Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
• The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
• Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
• The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

True and Amazing 9

• The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.
• Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.
• The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.
• To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.
• 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.
• Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.
• The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.
• A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
• Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
• The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
• Ants can live up to 16 years.
• In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.
• The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.
• Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.

True and Amazing 8

• Coca-Cola was originally green.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
• Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• People say "Bless you " when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

True and Amazing 7

• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts ,Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
• If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
• What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.
• The only food that doesn't spoil is HoneY.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• All polar bears are left handed.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
  
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
  
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

True and Amazing 6

• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The c!garette lighter was invented before the match.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
• Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
• A baby bat is called a pup.
• German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
• It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100 .

True and Amazing 5

• SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
• A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
• DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
• A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
• The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
• The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
• DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
• CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
• The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
• OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
• POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
• KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
• ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
• OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.

True and Amazing 4

In 24 Hours Average Human:

1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.

2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.

3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.

4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches

5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches

6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)

7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD.

8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.

9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.

10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.

11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.

12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times.

True and Amazing 3

• Human birth control pill work on gorillas.
• The right lung takes in more air than the left.
• it is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.
• A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
• Astronauts cannot burp in space.
• The snowiest city in the U.S.A. is blue canyon, California
• Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
• Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
• The great warrior Genghis khan died in bed while having sex.
• No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.
  
• 
  

True and Amazing 2

• Nearly 22,000 cheques will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
• Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.
• Some lions mates over 50 times a day.
• American did not commonly use forks until after the civil war.
• The most productive day of the week is Tuesday.
• in the 1930’s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
  
• There’s a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
• Jimmy Carter is the first U.S.A. president to have born in hospital.
• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
• Cleopatra married two of her brothers

True and Amazing

• People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
• Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white.
• People with blue eyes see better in dark.
• Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment
• The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.
• The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
• The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.
• There are more female than male millionaires in the U.S.A.
• A male baboon can kill a leopard.
• When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.
• Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.

Ultimate Dream Machine

It was thirty years ago that BMW first introduced the BMW M1 super car to the world. Now, to celebrate it’s thirty year anniversary, BMW thought it would be fun to tease us all with this updated “concept” version of the original Bavarian bombshell. Originally designed by Paul Bracq and later by famed Italian design house Giugiaro, this BMW M1 Hommage takes a clearly aggressive pose, with retro features mixing it up with very modern elements.

From the louvered rear window, to the 80’s style badging on the rear and the conspicuous (for Germans) wheel design, the 80’s are definitely in at BMW’s studios and this latest version if the M1 just might raise enough eyebrows to go into production before the 80s are officially passed.

Which Gender is Intelligent ??

A Proof of which Gender is Intelligent An English professor wrote the words:

" A woman without her man is nothing"

on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly..


All of the males in the class wrote : "A woman, without her man, is nothing."

All the females in the class wrote : "A woman: without her, man is nothing."

Punctuation is powerful!!

Words women use

Fine

This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

***********

Five Minutes

If she is getting dressed, this is half an hour.

Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given 5 more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

***********

Nothing

This is the calm before the storm. This means "something" and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with "nothing" usually end in "fine".

***********

Go Ahead

This is a dare, not permission, DON'T DO IT!

***********

Loud Sigh

Although not actually a word, the loud sigh is often misunderstood by men. A "Loud Sigh" means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you over "Nothing".

***********

That's Okay

This is one of the most dangerous statements that woman can make to a man. "That's Okay" means that she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

***********

Thanks

This is the least used of all words in the female vocabulary. If a woman is thanking you. Do not question it, just say you're welcome and back out of the room slowly.

Wedding

Attending a wedding for the first time,
A little girl whispered to her mother,
"Why is the bride dressed in white?"

"Because white is the color of happiness and today is the happiest day of her life."
Her mother tried to explain, keeping it simple.
The child thought about this for a moment,then said,
" So, why is the groom wearing black?"

~~~~~~~~~

Ouch! It's too tight.
Don't worry,sweetheart ! We'll try to do it slowly.Push it in .

Aah! I can't. It's painful.
Ok,sweetheart, Let's get another......... WEDDING RING

~~~~~~~~~

The Top 5 answ. Given by girls in India wen a boy prpose.

1)No

2)R u mad

3)I alwys looked u like a gud frnd

4)I dnt belive in love

5)Sorry I love sm1

~~~~~~~~~

A Toilet is like a committee meeting.

People come with lot of pressure, sit, create a lot of noise, and ultimately DROP THE MATTER.

~~~~~~~~~

Live a long and happy life .....

Once upon a time a married couple celebrated their 25th marriage
anniversary. They had become famous in the city for not having a single
conflict in their period of 25 years. Local newspaper editors had gathered
at the occasion to find out the secret of their well known "happy going
marriage".

Editor: "Sir. It's amazing and unbelievable. How did you make this possible?"

Husband recalling his old honeymoon days said: "We had been to Shimla for
honeymoon after marriage. Having selected the horse riding finally, we both
started the ride on different horses. My horse was pretty okay but the horse on
which my wife was riding seemed to be a crazy one.

On the way ahead, that horse jumped suddenly, making my wife topple over.
Recovering her position from the ground, she patted the horse's back and said
"This is your first time". She again climbed the horse and continued with the ride.
After a while, it happened again. This time she again kept calm and said "This is
your second time" and continued. When the horse dropped her third time, she
silently took out the revolver from the purse and shot the horse dead !!

I shouted at my wife: "What did you do you psycho. You killed the poor animal.
Are you crazy?" .
She gave a silent look and said: "This is your first time!!!"."

Husband: "That's it. We are happily married ever after. "

Honesty is the best policy....

Jack decided to go skiing with his buddy, Bob. So they loaded up Jack's minivan and headed north. After driving for a few hours, they got caught in a terrible blizzard. So they pulled into a nearby farm and asked the attractive lady who answered the door if they could spend the night.

"I realize it's terrible weather out there and I have this huge house all to myself, but I'm recently widowed," she explained. "I'm afraid the neighbors will talk if I let you stay in my house."

"Don't worry," Jack said. "We'll be happy to sleep in the barn. And if the weather breaks, we'll be gone at first light."

The lady agreed, and the two men found their way to the barn and settled in for the night. Come morning, the weather had cleared, and they got on their way.

They enjoyed a great weekend of skiing.

But about nine months later, Jack got an unexpected letter from an attorney. It took him a few minutes to figure it out, but he finally determined that it was from the attorney of that attractive widow he had met on the ski weekend.

He dropped in on his friend Bob and asked, "Bob, do you remember that good-looking widow from the farm we stayed at on our ski holiday up north AB out 9 months ago?”

"Yes, I do." said Bob

"Did you, ER, happen to get up in the middle of the night, go up to the house and pay her a visit?"

"Well, um, yes!," Bob said, a little embarrassed about being found out, "I have to admit that I did."

"And did you happen to give her my name instead of telling her your name?"

Bob’s face turned beet red and he said, "Yeah, look, I'm sorry, buddy. I'm afraid I did. Why do you ask?"

"She just died and left me everything."