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1st Day Of Bengali Year In Sydney, Australia

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Central Knowledge Of The Whole World

Central Knowledge Of The Whole World

@ Which countries calls North America?

Canada

U.S.A.

Mexico


@ Which countries calls South America?

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chili

Colombia

Ecuador

Guyana

Paragua

Peru

Surinam

Uruguay

Veneguala


@ Which countries calls Middle America?

Coastarica

El Salvador

Guatamala

Honduras

Panama

Nicaragua


@ Which countries calls Latin America?

Brazil

Argentina

Uruguay

Chili


@ Which countries calls South East Asia?

Brunai

Indonesia

Malaysia

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

Philipine

Laos

Combodia

East Timur


@ Which countries calls Far East Asia?

China

Japan

Taiwan

North Korea

South Korea

Mongolia


@ Which countries calls Middle East?

Saudia Arabia

United Arab Emirates

Kuwait

Qatar

Oman

Bahrain

Iraq

Iran

Jordan

Lebanon

Turkey

Syria

Yemen

Israel


@ Which countries calls Near East?

Syria

Lebanon

Jordan

Israel


@ Which countries calls Central Asia?

Tajakistan

Kajakistan

Turkmanistan

Kirgistan

Ujbekistan

Ajerbijan


@ Which coutries calls East Europe?

Romania

Bulgaria

Hungary

Germany

Poland

Albenia

Cheq Republic

Slovac

Croatia


@ Which are Carribean Countries?

Bahama Islands

Barbados

Dominican Republic

Granada

Heiti

Jamaica

Trinidad & Tobago

Cuba


@ Which are South Asian Countries?

Bangladesh

India

Nepal

Bhutan

Afganistan

Sri Lanka

Maldives

Myanmar


@ Which are Ocenian Countries?

Australia

New Zealand

Fiji

Papua New Guinea

Tongo

West Samaya


@ Which are Micronesia Countries?

Carolin Island

Marsal Island

Kiribeti

Nadiru

Ocean


@ Which are Melonesia Countries?

Fiji

Venuatua

Papua New

New Guine Guinea

Bismark

Solomon Islands

Santacruj Islands

Newcaligenia


@ Which are Polinesia Countries?

Samao

Tonger

Easter

Tahiti

Tubalu

Cook Island


@ Which countries calls West Indies?

Bahama

Cuba

Haiti

Granada

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Berbados

Saint Lucia

Jamaica

Trinidad & Tobago


@ Which are Bolkan Countries?

Romania

Bulgaria

Albania

Bosnia-Herjegovina

Croatia

Slovenia

Serbia

Macedonia

Montenigro


@ Which are Scandenivian Countries?

Norway

Denmark

Sweden

Finland

Island


@ Which are Central Asian Countries?

Kajakistan

Tajakistan

Ujbekistan

Turkmanistan

Kirgistan

Ajerbijan


@ Which are Arab Peninsula Countries?

Saudia Arabia

United Arab Emirates

Kuwait

Qatar

Oman

Bahrain

Yemen

Oldest Coal Mine, Sydney

Blue Mountain, Sydney, Australia

'Bin Laden' Applies For "Best Job In The World"

'Bin Laden' Applies For "Best Job In The World"

Queensland launched the "Best Job in the World" campaign on January 12, calling for video applications from people interested in a A$150 000 (R1 million) contract to relax on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef for six months while writing a blog to promote the island.



The job is part of a A$1.7 million campaign to publicise the charms of northeastern Queensland state. The employee will live free on the island, exploring the reef and posting videos and photos on a weekly blog.

A hoaxer purporting to be Osama bin Laden has applied for the "best job in the world" - as caretaker of a tropical Australian island.

More than 10,000 people have applied for the position since it was advertised by Tourism Queensland, reports the Sydney Morning Herald."I enjoy the outdoors and sandy areas," the subtitles read. "I've got experience with videos, delegating tasks and experience with large scale event coordination."

Tourism Queensland confirmed that a person using bin Laden's name had lodged an official application - but it was rejected as inappropriate.

The employee will live free on the island where light duties include exploring the reef and posting videos and photos on a weekly blog - for a £70,000 pay packet.

Environment Friendly Coffin

Environment Friendly Coffin

An Australian company has launched a personalised range of environmentally friendly coffins to make the final goodbye a little more individual.

Directors of the company said,"People are becoming increasingly aware of the impact they have on the environment and the availability of a Fair Trade funeral enables people to uphold their values through from life into death."

LifeArt offers customised designs such as an image of a surfer catching a wave, a picturesque scene or the colours of a favourite sports team.

Customers can design their own coffin or choose from a range of designs, such as a woodland glade, an open road, Sydney Harbour Bridge or a cowboy riding off into the sunset.

LifeArt coffins are manufactured from enviroboard, a form of cardboard, which meets the standards required by the funeral industry for either cremation or burial.

The company says it means their clients can "pass away safe in the knowledge that your container (and its treasured contents) can biodegrade quickly and harmlessly with less carbon emissions and without cost to timber forests".

26 Year Old Australian Boy Saved 3 People

26 Year Old Australian Boy Saved 3 People

Brett Perry, 26, was at Waitpinga beach with friends about 3.30pm yesterday when he heard four men screaming for help.


Without thinking of his own safety, Mr Perry grabbed his girlfriend's bodyboard and raced into the water to assist the men, who had been pulled about 100m offshore by a rip current.


He spent at least 15 minutes ferrying two teenage boys, 15 and 17, and their family friend, 34, to the shore.


"We weren't making much ground because the rip was so strong," Mr Perry says.
"I tried to tow them in but it was hard with the waves. As each wave came in they'd get knocked off the board."


Each time Mr Perry swam back out into the treacherous waves, the group was pulled further from the shore.


"The rip kept taking them out," he says.


"I just kept telling them to hold on to the board and not to hold on to each other."


Mr Perry was visibly shaken as he spoke of the moment the teenage boy's father, 48, lost grip of the bodyboard.


"At one stage I thought I'd got them all in but then things deteriorated," he says.


"I was extremely frustrated. I just didn't feel that I could get them all in."


Mr Perry battled to hold the man's head above the water as the Westpac rescue helicopter came into view.


"It's very lucky that the surf life saving helicopter got there in the end because I wasn't going to get in," he said.


"I don't know how much longer I could have stayed out there with him. I was exhausted."


Tragically, the man was unable to be revived by emergency crews.


Mr Perry says he did not approach the family after the heroic rescue because he did not want to intrude as they were grieving.


"I don't think it's my place to be near them when they are in that condition," he says.


He brushed aside suggestions he was a hero and said anyone who had been in the same position would have helped the stricken group.


"I don't feel like a hero," he says.


"I'd feel a lot better if I had got all of them in."


Mr Perry urged people not to swim at the notorious beach, which is littered with warning signs to alert beachgoers to the strong currents, high waves and deep gutters.


"Just don't," he says.


"Don't go in if you can't handle the waves. Don't go in alone."


Surf Life Saving state manager Shane Daw says Waitpinga and nearby Parsons beach are not safe for swimming or surfing.


"These beaches are highly dangerous and are not suitable for recreational swimming," he says.


Neither Waitpinga or Parsons are patrolled by life savers, although they are included in the Westpac Rescue Helicopter's patrols on weekends and public holidays.


Mr Daw says because of this, help can be a long way away for swimmers who do get into trouble.


"When the gentleman drowned on Australia Day we were only 10 minutes away in the helicopter," he says.


"But that can be the difference between a successful rescue and a drowning death."


The Highbury man's death is the seventh coastal drowning this summer. Twelve people drowned at South Australian beaches last summer.

What Happen on This Historical Day

What Happen on This Historical Day

1697 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time limit - solves problem before going to bed that same night


1788 - 1st settlement established by English in Australia (Sydney)


1837 - Mich admitted as 26th US state


1841 - Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain


1861 - La becomes 6th state to secede from US


1871 - American income tax repealed


1885 - Gen Gordon & troops slain by Sudanese in Khartoum


1905 - World's largest diamond found Cullinan diamond


1946 - Indian Republic Day


1950 - India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion


1954 - Ground breaking begins on Disneyland


1961 - 1st woman `personal physician to President' - JG Travell


1976 - Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon


1979 - Nelson Rockefeller former VP & 4 time governor of NY died


1980 - Islanders & Whalers had a penality free game


1982 - Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins


1984 - Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders


1986 - Chicago Bears defeat Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl 20

Icebox Preserves Fishermen

Icebox Preserves Fishermen

Two Burmese men survived 25 days at sea in a giant icebox after their fishing boat sank southeast of Indonesia.

They drifted hundreds of miles in shark infested waters before a Coastwatch plane spotted them off Australia.

They were eventually found about 60 nautical miles away in the Torres Strait, off Queensland, reports The Sun.

After being winched to safety, they told rescuers they had been forced to crew a 10m long Thai fishing boat.

When their vessel started to sink, the two survivors climbed into the icebox as other crew searched desperately for something to grab from the wreck.

It is believed the men survived by drinking rain water that gathered at the bottom of the box and by eating scraps of fish that were also in the container.

Emergency Management Queensland helicopter pilot Terry Gadenne told Channel 7 the men were ecstatic to see rescuers.

"When they got up they sculled two litres of water each within seconds. It's a bloody big ocean to be drifting around in," he said.

It is believed 11 other Burmese crew and seven Thais were on board but no others have been found.

Elvis Express

Elvis Express

The hair. The hips. The skin-tight, rhinestone suits. Hundreds of Elvis Presley lookalikes gyrated their way onto the `Elvis Express' on Friday to take part in one of Australia's biggest tributes to The King.

Some 370 devotees, many decked out with quiff hairstyles, aviator sunglasses, guitars and those infamous suits, will take part in the week-long Countrylink Elvis Festival in Parkes, a town in the Australian outback. It coincides with what would have been Presley's 74th birthday on January 8.

"There were plenty of characters at Central (train station) this morning, a good mix of people, young, old and families as well," Countrylink spokesman Metodi Jovanovski told Reuters.

During the six-hour train trip over mountains and through farming country, fans of Elvis and his actress wife Priscilla Presley will entertain each other, as well as vie for prizes that include the "best dressed on board." The Elvis Festival, which is in its sixth year, is expected to attract about 8,000 people to the town of Parkes, 357 km (222 miles) from Sydney, and nearly doubling its population for the duration of the event.

The 2009 programme features events such as an Elvis gospel church service, a street parade and for romantics, there's the "Back to the Altar with Elvis - Renewal of Wedding Vows" and the "Miss Priscilla Dinner & Big Hair Competition."

Adopt a Koala for Christmas

Adopt a Koala for Christmas

They're cute, they're cuddly and, in these times of financial woe, they make an affordable festive gift that's also good for the soul -- adopt a rescued koala.

The "Adopt a Wild Koala Program" has been in operation for 15 years and is a major source of funding for The Koala Hospital, the world's only medical facility dedicated to the care and preservation of the animals.
The annual cost of adopting a koala is A$40 (US$26) within Australia and A$50 (US$32) from overseas, which the hospital said goes toward the rescue and treatment of sick and injured koalas, the release of treated animals back into the wild, as well as the preservation and expansion of their habitat.

Adopters receive a certificate, a photograph of the animal, the story of how it ended up in the hospital as well as stickers and booklets about koalas and the hospital.

"It's an ideal gift, and particularly these days when kids have everything," Anne Walsh a volunteer at the Port Macquarie-based hospital told Reuters by telephone.

"I had a phone call from a lady in Singapore today who wanted to adopt five koalas for her relatives for Christmas. I've been delighted with the amount of people wanting to adopt."

Walsh said the rescued koalas are usually named after the area they were found in and the person who helped rescue them.

"We've got Westhaven Barry, Kempsey Carolina and Bonny Fire, she was caught up in a bushfire," she added.

Once they have recovered from their injuries or ailments, and are able to live in their natural habitat, the koalas are released back into the wild.

Koalas are native to Australia and are found in coastal regions of the east and south. Their staple diet is eucalyptus leaves.