Longest Glaciers

Basically a glacier is a slow moving mass of ice and what better place to find a slow moving mass of ice than the frozen wastelands in Antarctica.

The world's longest glacier is the Lambert-Fisher glacier at an icy 320 miles in length and a not-so-hot 25 miles in width.

The Lambert-Fisher glacier is a speed demon as far as slow moving masses of ice go, moving over a half mile each year.

Deep sea trenches

Any long, narrow, steep-sided depression in the ocean bottom in which maximum oceanic depths (approximately 7,300 to more than 11,000 m [24,000 to 36,000 feet]) occur. The deepest known depression of this kind is the Mariana Trench, which lies east of the Mariana Islands in the western North Pacific Ocean.The Mariana Trench is located in the Pacific Ocean, just east of the 14 Mariana Islands (11"21' North latitude and 142" 12' East longitude ) near Japan. As you probably already know, it is the deepest part of the earth's oceans, and the deepest location of the earth itself. It was created by ocean-to-ocean subduction, a phenomena in which a plate topped by oceanic crust is subducted beneath another plate topped by oceanic crust.

Winter Vacations

Coool! My winter vacations have started and I have decided to go to malls, Allahabad, and to watch movie "Ghajini". Today I am going to meet C Didi and will go to R@ve 3 with her. Vi is not coming because some glass workers are coming to fit the glass .

Working Hard

Tomorrow is my annual concert that's why the teachers are making us to work hard and hard. Even today is Christmas Day , my school is opened and since morning we practicing . When the buses reached the school to take us, the teachers said that the Qawali children will stay back and we practice for Qawali at sun,s heat.

Bad Time

V Didi and I are not feeling well. When I came from the school I felt weak. I asked my servant whether I have fever or not and she said yes. Then I went to change my dress where I came to know from my Didi that even she is suffering from fever. Then I went to sleep.

Science project

Now days I am feeling boring that's why I have decided to make a science project. Finally I started making a motorboat which will run by wind energy. What I have done is that I have taken two aluminum trays and at the end I have made two holes in which two straws are going at the end of straws .I have fitted two balloons and on other side I have put two rubber band to close it. When I need to make the boat run I will take out the rubber band and it will run because of wind energy.

Hard work for 5 days

My annual function is coming closer that,s why all the study classes have been changed into pratice classes. Before the juice break we have to practice for quoir. After juice break we have to practice for dance and "Qawali" . After lunch for two periods we can study(not compulsary ). And then we have to practice for group singing.

Birthday Party

Today I am very glad because my eldest sister has come from Vellore to Kanpur because of her winter vacations. Today there was birthday of one of my best friend Preyanshu . He studies in class 8th and lives just in front of my house.His birthday party was at 7 pm where we ate roti and chola and played many games. While going I gave him birthday bomb.

Study

Because of my annual function I am not able to study , practices are going. So today in spite of going for practices I completed my work of Maths and in sports I went to mam and said that I was completing my work that,s why I did not come in the practice so mam said OK. Then when I came from my school I completed my computer work.

Preparing For Annaul Day

Now days I am very busy because the annaul function of my school is going to be on 27th of Dec , and I have participated in goa dance, play(freedom struggle),group singing and Jokes. The most bad thing is that I have missed the periods and I am not able to cover up the cource because the practice go from 11am to 4 pm. But I am enjoying goa dance and group singing.

Rivers,Waterfalls and Lakes

The source of the Nile was discovered by Europeans in 1858 when British explorer John Hanning Speke reached Lake Victoria Nyanza, in what is now Burundi. Almost a hundreds year later , in 1953, the source of the Amazon was identified as a stream called Huarco flowing from the Misuie.But geographers do not consider the entire route to be part of the Amazon basin, so the Nile, with an overall length of 6695 km, is considered the world,s longest river.

Geysers

Geysers are jets of boiling water and steam that erupt from beneath the ground where water is heated by volcanic activity. The name geysers comes from a hot spring called Geysir at Haukadalur ,Iceland. Yellowstone National Park,Wyoming, USA has more geysers than anywhere else. There are 500 active ones including Steamboat geyser, which erupts to a height of 120m and old faithful geyser which erupts about every 91 minute.

Largest Islands

The largest island in the world is Greenland.An a island is a piece of land surrounded by water. Australia is so large it is continent, not a island; otherwise it would rank first. The largest US island is Hawaii, which measures 10.456sqkm, and the largest off mainland USA is Kodiak,Alaska, at 9.510sqkm. The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn, at just4.53sqkm.

School work

Today I am very busy because the notebooks of every subject are going to principal mam for correction because my half yearly exams are starting soon. I have to work hard because I want to come first in my class but unfortunately I came second in the class which is not so bad but it's bad for me because since I had been the topper of my class some respect of the class is by my name.

FOTD(Longest Mountain Range)

A mountain range is a continuous chain of mountains---a mountain is land that rises 300m or more above it's surrounding.
Range---------------------------Location-------Approx length(km)

1. Andes--------------------South America----7242
   
2. Rocky Mountains-----------North America---6035
   
3. Himalayas -----------------Asia ------------ 3862
   
4. Great Dividing Range ------Australia---------3621
   
5. Trans-Antarctic Mountains-Antarctica -------3541
   

FOTD(Largest Deserts)

Deserts cover one fourth of the Earth's land surface. They range from extremely arid and barren sandy deserts ,through arid to semi-arid. Most deserts have features of all these, with one zone merging into the next , so the start and finish of any desert is not exact. Many of the world,s largest deserts are broken down by geographers into smaller desert regions-the Australian Desert includes the Gibson, Great sandy, Great Victoria and Simpson, for example.
Desert----------------------------Location---------------------Approx area (sq km)

1. Sahara--------------------North Africa-------------------9100000
   
2. Australian----------------Australia-----------------------3400000
3. Arabian Peninsula------Southwest Asia-----------------2600000
   
4. Turkestan----------------Central Asia--------------------1900000
   
5. Gobi-----------------------Central Asia--------------------1300000
   
6. North American Desert--US/Mexico---------------------1300000
   

school

My school is 7km away from my house .A van comes to my house to pick me up at 7.00am, but nowadays it's coming too late so I was not able to attend my first period which was English that's why I have given application to the van owner. My school's timetable is not fixed that is different periods are at different time but nowadays the periods are same throughout the week. I come back from my school at 5.00pm.

FOTD(The Highest Mountain)

The height of mountains is usually measured from sea level. Hawaii's tallest, Mauna Kea, is only 4,245m above sea level, but rises a total of 10,203 from the flour of Pacific Ocean, making its overall height 1,353m greater than Mt. Everest.

FOTD(Uluru)

The rock formerly known as Ayers Rock, Northern Territory, Australia, is believed to be the world's largest free-standing rock. It is made of sandstone and measures 335m high, 3.6 km long and 2 km wide. It was originally called after South Australian premier Sir Henry Ayers, but it is now known by the name given to it by local Aborigines, to whom it is scared.

FOTD(Giant Meteorites)

About 500 meteorites reach earth every year. Many fall in the sea and in unpopulated areas and are never seen. The Hoba meteorite,the largest in the world, was found in Namibia in 1920. It measures 2.73 multiplied 2.4m and is 82 percent iron and 16 percent nickel. It weights more than 60 tonnes. Second largest is the Tent, found in Greenland in 1894 and now known by it's original Eskimo name, Ahnighito. This meteorite weighs about 57.3 tonnes and is on displayed in the New York museum of natural history.

Timepass

Today is Sunday. I woke up at 9am. Every day I wake up early in the morning because I have to go to my school but since every school is closed on Sunday(weekend), I am going to clean my office because chacha has went yesterday so they have taken their computers and in place of that we have made a book shelf, my sports rack and a computer table.

new account

Day before yesterday I was very sad because I forgot my password .I tried a lot but worthless,so I decided to make another account. I made account by name of nishantbugs immediately I a made my account in blogger,doof,skype,orkut.When I was writing about this I forgot one thing to tell you that I got first rank in cyberolympiad among all the three sections of my class.

FOTD(Longest Space Walk)

The record for the longest-ever spacewalk was broken from 10-11 March 2001, when mission specialists James Voss and Susan Helms stepped outside space shuttle Discovery STS-102 to do construction work on the space station. Their EVA lasted 8 hours 56 minutes.

FOTD(First Telescopes)

The first telescopes were made in 1608by Dutch optician Hans Lippershey. Italian astronomer Galileo built his own soon after and use it to discover Jupiter's moon. The earliest type of telescope, known as a refracting telescope, produced a slight distortion of images. Since about 1670, astronomers have preferred to use reflecting telescopes, which use mirrors that compensate for the distortion.

FOTD(One And Only)

The only human remains on the Moon are those of geologist Eugene Shoemaker who was an expert on planetary collisions. His ashes were carried abroad NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft, which was crashed into a crater on 31 July 1999 .

FOTD(Is There A Tenth Planet)

Astronomers think they have discovered another planet .In 2005 Palomar observatory ,U.S.A, spotted a rocky object in the most distant part of the Solar system. It's official name is 2003 UB313 but it has been nick named as Xena. The planet might be 3000 km in diameter , which is larger than Pluto. It has at least one moon.

FOTD(Light Years)

A light year measures distance, not time.Distances in space are often described as light years , the distance light travels in a year.
Body | Light reaches Earth In
Moon - 1.26seconds
Sun- 8 minutes 17 seconds
Pluto- 5 hours 20 minutes
Nearest star- 4.22 years
Distance at which the sun
is not visible to us- 60 years
Most distant star in our galaxy-62,700 years
From nearest body outside our
galaxy- 174,ooo years
Furthest visible star- 2,309,000 years
Most distant known quasar- 14,000,000,000 years

FOTD(Just A Second)

A second does not sound very long, but by the time you have read this sentence, almost five of them will have gone by.Watch an average-length film and more than 5,000 seconds will tick away,In a lifetime of 80 years there are more than 2.5 billion seconds - but you will spend more than 800 million of them asleep!
Period Seconds
1 minute 60
1 hour 3,600
1 day 86,400
1 week 604,800
1 year 31,536,000

FOTD(The World In A Single Day)

Did you know that in one day (24 hours or114o minutes or 86,400 seconds) the world turns once on its axis.During that time, on average;

• 358,522 people are born
• 115,012 people died
• 203,510 are added to the world,s population
  

FOTD(Time Piramid)

The Mayan pyramid Chichen Itza, Mexico , built around 1050 has four stairways, each with 91 steps , and one platform.This makes a total 365,the number of days in a year.The stairways, also divide the nine terraces of each side of the pyramid into 18 segments, representing the 18 months of the Mayan calender.

Fact Of The Day: Leap Seconds

Today's Fact Of The Day (FOTD) is Leap Seconds:

The rotation of the Earth is slowing down.This means that a solar day(the time it takes Earth to make one complete revolution)and the time shown by atomic clocks would gradually diverge. This problem has been solved by "leap seconds" . There have been 22 leap seconds since 1972. The last one was added on 31 December 2005 , which delayed new year's day 2006 by one second!