Monday, November 29, 2010

Books by political Leaders, Aung San Suu Ki, APJ , Abdul Kalam,Gandhiji,Nelson Mandela,Mikhail S Gorbachev

Books by political Leaders


APJ Abdul Kalam - Wings of Fire

Annie Besant - Wake up India

Arun Shourie -A secular Agenda ,Worshipping False Gods

Atal Bihari Vajpayee -New Dimensions of India's Foriegn Policy

Aung San Suu Ki -Freedom from fear

Benazir Bhutto - Pakisthan ,The Gathering Storm,Daughter of the East

Bill Clinton -Between Hope and History

Boris Yeltsin -against the Grains

Chandra Shekar -Dynamics of Social Change

Dadabhai Naoroji - Poverty and Unbritish Rule in India

Dalai Lama -Ethics for New Millennium

Dr.S Radhakrishnan -A Hindu View of Life ,Indian Philosophy ,Bhagavat Gita

E K Nayanar -My Struggle

EMS Namboodiripad -Crisis into Chaos

Gandhiji -Conquest of self ,Hindi Swaraj ,Indian Home Rule ,My Early Life ,Story of my Experiments with truth

Henry Kissinger -Diplomacy ,White House,Years

Hillary Clinton -Living History

Indira Gandhi -Eternal India ,My Truth

J N Dixit -My South Block Years

Jaswant Singh -Defending India

Jawaharlal Nehru -Glimpses of World History ,An Autobiography,A bunch of old letters ,Discovery of India

Jayaprakash Narayanan -Prison Diary

L K Advani -A prisoner's Scrape book

Lala Lajpat Rai -Unhappy India

Manohar Joshi -A Speaker's Diary

Margret Thatcher -The Path to power

Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad - India Wins Freedom

Mikhail S Gorbachev -August Coup

Nelson Mandela -Long walk to freedom

P C Alexander -The Perils of Democracy ,India in the New Millennium

R Ramanathan -Who is Kalam ?

Rajendraprasad -India Divided

Rajesh Piolet -Flight to Parliament

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -Friends and Foes

Subash Chandra Bose -The Indian Stuggle

V S Savarkar -The war of Indian Independence

V V Giri -Job for Millions ,Voice of Conscience,Life and times

Winston Churchill -Gathering Storm, The second world war

Z A Bhutto -If I am Assasinated

P V Narasimharao -The insider

R Venkataramanan -My Presidential Years

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Batman,Desdemona,Micky Mouse,Dracula,Tarzan ,Shakespeare,Mandrake,Tintin,Mowghuli,Phantom,

Famous characters and their creators
Asterix -Gossini and Uderzo

Anna Karenina -Leo Tolstoy

Ariel -Shakespeare

Brutus -Shakespeare

Batman -Bob Kane

Christian -John Bunyan

Don Juan -Lord Byron

Don Quixote -Cervantes

Desdemona -Shakespeare

Dr.Watson -Arthur Conan Doyle

Dr.Zhivago -Boris Pasternak

Dracula -Bram Stocker

Friday -Daniel Defoe

Gora -Rabindranath Tagore

Hercule Poirot -Agatha Christie

Lago-Shakespeare

James bond -Ian Fleming

Jean Val Jean -Victor Hugo

Kim -Rudyard Kipling

Micky Mouse- Walt Disney

Mandrake -Leon Lee Falk

Mowghuli -Rudyard Kipling

Peanuts -Charles Schtluz

Phantom -Leon Lee Falk

Sancho Panza -Cervantes

Sherlock Holmes -Arthur Conan Doyle

Robinson Crusoe -Daniel Defoe

Tarzan -Edge Rice Burrough

Tintin -Herge

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Metals ,sodium,Copper,Iron,magnesium,Potassium,osmium,Mercury and gallium ,Lithium ,

Metals

Metals are lustrous ,malleable and ductile.

Molecules of metals are monoatomic .Metals are electropositive elements .

The metal present in the common salt is sodium.

Sodium is an essential element for our body .

Copper is a good conductor of electricity .

Iron is present in chlorophyll .

Metal used in car battery is lead .

Metal used in crackers is magnesium .

In torch cell the metal used is zinc.

The most abundant metal in earth's crust is aluminium .

The metal which regulates Blood Pressure in human beings is sodium .

The metal related to arthritis is Potassium .

The metal present in insulin is zinc .

The metal with highest melting point is Tungsten .

The most harmful metal to human beings is Lead .

Metals kept under kerosene are sodium ,pottassium ,caresium etc

Iron reacts with oxygen and moisture of air forming iron oxide .

Metal which has highest density is osmium .

Silver,gold and platinum are known as noble metals .

Mercury and gallium are metals which are liquid at room temperature .

Lead is the metal with lowest melting point and it is the most stable element in nature.

Lithium is the lightest metal.Hydrogen is the lightest element .

Monday, November 22, 2010

Spices,Kerala,cardamom, fenugreek,black pepper, Turmeric,hybrid variety ,Green revolution ,Hortus Malabaricus

Spices


Head office of Spices Board in Kerala is in Kochi .

Kerala is the Land of spices.

The spicy material which is extracted from the nutmeg is olioresin .

Queen of spices is cardamom

The spices which contain more amount of protiens is fenugreek .

The spices through which pollination occur through rain is black pepper.

The spice which contain more amount of iron is Turmeric .

The hybrid variety of Paddy s IR8.

The two scientific methods of cultivation of plants without soil are Hydroponics and Aeroponics .

Father of Green revolution -Dr .M S Swaminathan

Father of White Revolution -Dr. V Kurian

The state which is known as the store house of cereals is Andhra Pradesh .

The birth place of Black pepper ,Ginger , Turmeric and cardamom is in India .

The first Botanical Garden of India is in Kolkota .

Queen of Paddy is Basumati .

The mosaic disease commonly attacks on plants like tobacco and Tapioca .

H-165 is a hybrid variety ofTapioca .

The pathogen which causes Mandari disease in coconut is Virus .

The language of Hortus Malabaricus is Latin.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Histology,Tissues,Lysosomes ,Proteins,Nerve cells,Photosynthesis ,Xylem,phloem

Tissues


Study of tissues - Histology

Scientist who discovered the cell - Robert Hook (Plant Cell)

'Suicidal bags' in the cell -Lysosomes

Longest cell -Nerve cell

Scientist who discovered that the new cells are formed due to cell division -Rudolf Virchow

'Work horses of cells' are known as - Proteins

ATP (Adlenosine Tri Phosphate )gives energy for cells activities and it is known as 'Electric Power ' in the cell

Smallest cell in the human body -Sperm

Cells having longest life span - Nerve cells

The process by which plants produces the energy yeilding factors ATP - Photosynthesis

The plant tissue that helps to transport water & salt from root to leaf -Xylem

The plant tissue that helps to transport food from leaf to other parts of plant body - phloem

Power house of the cell -Mitochondria in animals and in plants it is known as -'Chloroplasts

Human Body,Bones ,Total number of bones,vertrebae,ribs,teeth,Muscles

Bones

Bones in the legs - Tibia and Fibula .

Bones in the arms - radius and ulna .

Total number of bones in the human body -206

Total number of vertrebae of new born baby -270

Number of vertrebrae in the vertebral column -33

Number of ribs -24(12 pairs)

Number of bones in the brain -22

Number of permanent bones in the ear -6(3 in each)

Number of teeth -32

Number of milk teeth -20

Number of muscles -639

Important constituents of bones -Calcium & phosphorus

Organism having large number of teeth -Opposum

In horse the number of teeth are -44

Largest muscle in the human body -Muscle in the thigh

The organ which has no muscles in the body -Lungs

The modifed form of incisors -Elephant's tusks

Important constituent in tooth paste -Calcium Fluoride

Human Body organs,Kidney ,Nephrology ,Hepatology,Phrenology,Neurology

Kidney


The part of kidney which helps to remove the waste materials from blood - 'Bowman's capsule'.

The kidney stone is formed by the accumulation of calcium salts or by the clotting of uric acid.

The pain due to kidney stone is called Renil-Colic.

The swelling that occurs in the kidney due to infection or poison effect - 'Nephritis'.

The non-functioning of two kidneys - 'Uremia

'The technique in which the waste materials from the blood is removed through machines-Dialysis .

Hepatology -Study of Liver

Phrenology -Study of Brain

Nephrology -Study of Kidneys

Neurology -Study of nerve cells

Odontology -Study of Tooth

Hormones ,Thyroid gland,Pancreas,Oxytocin,Pineal gland,Pituitary gland

Hormones


Hormones chemical messengers of the body-Hormones

Blood carries hormones to different parts of the body .

Largest endocrine gland - Thyroid gland.

Cortisol prevents allergy & inflammation .So it is used for arthritis & Asthma

Adrenal glands are seen above the kidney like a cap.

Cortex of adrenal gland secretes sex hormones like Oestrogen and androgen

Medulla of adrenal gland secretes Andrenaline and non-adrenaline.

Adrenaline is known as emergency hormone .

Pancreas consists of group of endocrine cells called islets of Langerhans.It secretes two hormones namely insulin and glucagon .These hormones maintain the level of glucose in blood .

Oxytocin helps in the contraction of uterus ,so that it helps in easy delivery and also helps in milk secretion.

Pineal gland is called the 'Biological Clock'.It secrets two hormones namely Melatonin and secrotonine .
Thyroid gland is otherwise called 'Adam's apple '.

Pituitary gland is called Master gland .

'Juvenile hormone ' ,is known as Thymus gland.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

pH Values ,Neutral Solutions,Human blood

pH Values


The pH scale is introduced by Sorrenson.

pH value generally starts from 0 and ends at 14.

Neutral Solutions are having pH exactly 7.

pH value greater 7and upto14 is basic.

Human blood has pH value-7.3 or 7.4 (Slight basic)

Acid rain pH -3.00 to 4.5Sea water pH -8.5

pH of human stomach -about 3.5

Chemistry ,Elements, Hydrogen,Nitrogen ,Oxygen,Aluminium Uranium,.

Elements

The most common element in the atmosphere -Nitrogen

The most chemically active element -Fluorine

The most common element present in earth's crust -Oxygen

The most common element in the universe -Hydrogen

The most abundant metal element on the earth's crust -Aluminium.

The element common to all acids-Hydrogen

The natural element having highest atomic weight (heavist)-Uranium

The densest element -LeadThe lighest metal element -Lithium

The element with highest melting point -carbon (diamond)(4000K)

Most abundant element present in our body -Oxygen