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Aug 2, 2011

At about 2 a.m. local time, Iraqi forces invade Kuwait, Iraq’s tiny, oil-rich neighbor. Kuwait’s defense forces were rapidly overwhelmed, and those that were not destroyed retreated to Saudi Arabia. The emir of Kuwait, his family, and other government leaders fled to Saudi Arabia, and within hours Kuwait City had been captured and the Iraqis had...

Jun 27, 2011

On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea. The United States was undertaking the major military operation, he explained, to enforce a United Nations resolution calling for an end to hostilities, and to stem the...

Feb 9, 2011

Future Generali India, the insurance joint venture between India’s Future Group and Generali of Italy, has set a new Guinness World Record with its initiative – Future Generali Insurance Week (FGIW). FGIW was observed between January 29 – February 6 that was conducted across 103 Future Group retail outlets across the country and over 190...

Jan 31, 2011

The Dare Devils of the Army revved up their bikes at the Republic Day parade on Wednesday and showed why they had five world records to their credit. Their stunning stunts included a 35-man human pyramid on a single motorcycle! Over 100 Indian Army signalmen displayed breathtaking daredevilry on their well-tuned motorcycles at the Rajpath boulevard, raising...

Jan 21, 2011

The Perfect Dump Every once in a while, each of us experiences a perfect dump, it’s rare, but a thing of beauty in all respects. You sit down expecting the worst, but what you get is a smooth sliding, fartless masterpiece that breaks the water with the splashless grace of an expert diver. But that’s not the end of it. You use some toilet tissue only...

We show you how connect your BlackBerry Bold 9780 to a Wi-Fi network Using Wi-Fi can be an excellent alternative to 3G data, especially if you don’t have high-speed coverage where you live. It also comes in particularly handy if you don’t have an unlimited data plan on your device and can save you a substantial amount of money. If you haven’t...

The information below in the quotes claims that if in case you are forced by an armed robber or thief to withdraw money from ATM then you can secretly inform the police by entering your ATM PIN in reverse order. This information have been circulating over Internet, via email and I, recently, have received a SMS version conveying the same message. The message...

The recent, well-publicized cyberattack on Google was just the latest skirmish in a long war. And like most long wars, this one features an arms race, as hackers seek out new security holes, and web site administrators try to close them. Systems for detecting attacks against networked computers are commercially available, and academic and industrial researchers...

Ever wondered how Skype seems to get through most secure networks and firewalls when other applications are blocked? Find out below how these clever applications are engineered. Peer-to-peer software applications are a network administrator’s nightmare. In order to be able to exchange packets with their counterpart as directly as possible they use subtle...