Top 10 Best Of Wiki Leaks

1. The Wiki Leaks War Logs

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On Oct. 22, Internet-based watchdog organization WikiLeaks posted 391,832 classified U.S. military documents on the war in Iraq, the largest such leak in history. As he did with the July release of 77,000 secret documents related to the war in Afghanistan, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shared the documents with several newspapers — including the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel — in advance of making them public. Among the major revelations were many instances of the U.S. military deliberately ignoring detainee abuse by Iraqi allies and an increase of the civilian-casualty count by 15,000. The July Afghanistan papers consisted primarily of secret reports from troops in the field covering local intelligence and recounting clashes — including a number of missives that detailed civilian casualties at the hands of coalition forces. Another important (though not altogether surprising) revelation was that members of the U.S. military suspect what others have long assumed: that Pakistan’s military intelligence agency has secretly assisted the Afghan Taliban insurgency.


2. Watergate’s Deep Throat

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After five men were arrested for breaking into and trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee in June 1972, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein began their investigation into what would become the country’s biggest political scandal. Soon Watergate came to stand for far more than just the burglarized building and would lead to President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974. Aiding Woodward and Bernstein as they connected the dots between the break-in and the White House was an informant whose identity remained a secret for a good 33 years. In 2005 — decades after the journalists won Pulitzers and All the President’s Men won Oscars — former deputy director of the FBI Mark Felt revealed that he was the mysterious “Deep Throat.”


3. The Pentagon Papers

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On June 13, 1971, the New York Times ran the first of a nine-part series of excerpts from a classified study of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam completed by the Department of Defense. The papers were turned over to the Times by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, who had surreptitiously photocopied them starting as early as 1969. U.S. Senator Mike Gravel, a Democrat, also entered 4,100 pages of the study — which came to be known as the Pentagon Papers — to the Senate record, thus making their later publication in book form constitutionally sound.

So what was in the Pentagon Papers? Oh, you know, just proof that the U.S. secretly bombed Cambodia and conducted coastal raids on North Vietnam, and that four Administrations — from Truman’s to Johnson’s — had deliberately lied to the public. Ellsberg was put on trial for theft and conspiracy under the Espionage Act of 1917, but a series of legal missteps and dubious evidence-gathering tactics led the judge to dismiss all charges.


4. Plamegate

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In selling the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Administration of George W. Bush made a lot of claims — that U.N. inspections weren’t working, that al-Qaeda had Iraqi links, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Most of these ended up not being true. One of the more suspect allegations voiced by President Bush was that Iraq had sought supplies of uranium from an African nation, understood to be the West African republic of Niger. This was refuted in the summer after U.S. troops had rolled into Baghdad by Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a career diplomat who had been sent earlier to Niger to investigate rumored sales of yellowcake, a form of uranium powder. Not long afterward, right-wing commentator Robert Novak published a column outing Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA operative.

Leaking her identity to the press was no small act — it compromised her work with the agency and was seen as a slap on Wilson’s wrist for speaking out of turn. It also led many observers to believe that the White House had rushed to war using only the most politically expedient snippets of intelligence. An inquiry into the leaks went all the way to the upper echelons of the Bush brain trust — eventually, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, aide to Karl Rove, was found guilty in 2007 on counts of perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements. President Bush commuted Libby’s 30-month prison sentence.


5. Cablegate

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It’s been quite a year for whistle blowing website Wikileaks. Its latest info dump, a treasure trove of diplomatic cables spanning the world, has caused an international uproar. U.S. politicians like Hillary Clinton and New York Congressman Peter King (pictured) called the leak a threat to global security, with King going so far as calling for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act and for his site to be deemed a foreign terrorist organization.


6. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Scandal

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In 1848, news of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo — the document that would conclude the two-year Mexican-American War — was leaked to John Nugent, a reporter with the New York Herald. After its publication, an infuriated Senate had Nugent called in for questioning; the Irish-born journalist refused to disclose his source, saying only that the informant in question was not a member of the Senate. That didn’t seem to endear Nugent to any of his interrogators and he was kept under veritable house arrest in the Capitol building for a whole month.

But Nugent didn’t crack and the exasperated Senate released him, according to the institution’s own official history, on “the face-saving grounds of protecting his health.” He’d soon venture west and become editor of the San Francisco Herald. In 1858, Nugent was given a high-profile commission by then President James Buchanan to investigate developments in New Caledonia (now British Columbia). It was a fitting reward — evidence suggests it was Buchanan who, as Secretary of State, revealed the treaty’s terms to Nugent.


7. McChrystal’s War Plan

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Eight months after taking office, President Obama ordered General Stanley McChrystal, his new commander in Afghanistan, to review the entire war. From McChrystal’s report, Obama learned that without more troops and a drastic change in strategy, the war would be lost. The only problem is, we all learned that too. Watergate legend Bob Woodward proved he still had it by penetrating yet another Administration, obtaining 66 pages of the report and posting them on the Washington Post website. Caught between a rock and a hard place, the President approved nearly all of McChrystal’s requests, proving that you can bring hope and change, but keeping a lid on it all is another challenge.


8. The Apache Helicopter Shooting

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WikiLeaks has had a pretty notable year, starting with the airing in April of footage from July 2007 that showed a U.S. Apache helicopter shooting and killing Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen in Baghdad. Noor-Eldeen’s driver and 10 others were also killed after soldiers mistook his camera for a weapon and the men for insurgents. The Iraqi Journalists’ Union and the New York City–based Committee to Protect Journalists have called for an investigation into the actions of the troops on board the copter. While an early inquiry found no wrongdoing, U.S. military lawyers announced they would review the video once more, though no formal report has been released yet. The military whistle-blower responsible for releasing the classified video to WikiLeaks — 22-year-old U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning — was arrested in May and later charged with 12 counts of illegally transferring classified data onto his personal computer and then providing it to an unauthorized source. WikiLeaks has hired lawyers to defend Manning but claims they have not been allowed access to him.


9. Lil Wayne’s The Leak

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Most musicians get upset when their albums leak to the Internet, but not Lil Wayne. When several tracks off his then upcoming album Tha Carter III surfaced on the Internet in 2007, the rapper responded by pushing back Carter’s release date and issuing the leaked tracks as their own separate album, appropriately titled The Leak. The album’s cover art even incorporated the phrase “Lil Wayne Approved.” At least someone in the music industry still has a sense of humor.


10.Sarah Palin E-mail leak

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We all like to assume our e-mail is private, but Sarah Palin learned the hard way that it’s not always the case. In September 2008, someone hacked into the then vice presidential candidate’s personal Yahoo! account, gov.palin@yahoo.com, and posted some of her messages, her password and contact list to WikiLeaks. Though the messages quickly made their way around the Internet, the e-mails turned out to be little more than goofy family photos and a few letters to political colleagues.

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The hacker was found to be 22-year-old David Kernell, the son of a Tennessee legislator (and Democrat). Kernell was found guilty on April 30, 2010, of obstruction of justice and unauthorized access to a computer, but was acquitted of the greater charge of wire fraud. He is due to be sentenced Sept. 24 and will likely face up to 21 months behind bars.

On Nov. 28, WikiLeaks released a massive cache of secret diplomatic cables divulging private conversations between world leaders. Lets looks at other famous leaks that were often as damning as they were sensational.

Elizabeth Taylor's Best Movies: 10 Reasons She Was a Hollywood Legend

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How you think of Elizabeth Taylor, who died Wednesday of heart failure at 79, depends largely on your age. Younger fans might remember her as the tabloid creature whose fluctuating health was breathlessly chronicled throughout the last three decades of her life. Others may think of the gossip-rag queen who made headlines for stealing Eddie Fisher from America's sweetheart Debbie Reynolds, her eight marriages, and her tempestuous romance with (and double marriage to)Richard Burton.

If either of those descriptions fits you, though, that's a shame. Because for those who came of age in the '50s and '60s, Elizabeth Taylor was one of Hollywood's most luminous talents, one whose beauty dazzled moviegoers and who had the dramatic skills to match. Want to talk about clout? Her diva-like behavior on the set of 1963's 'Cleopatra' postponed that epic production and nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox.

But frankly, we wouldn't have cared about any of that had she not had the beauty and the talent to begin with. So, ultimately it's what she left on the screen that matters. Here are 10 of Elizabeth Taylor's best movies -- 10 reasons that clinch her place as a show business immortal.


10. 'Father of the Bride' (1950)
At the tender age of 17, Taylor had already grown into a world-class beauty. Though it was nominally Spencer Tracy's movie, Liz's role of Kay Banks provided the catalyst as daddy's little girl, whose engagement sets the whole film in motion and breaks his heart in the process.

9. 'Little Women' (1949)
In this sentimental version of Louisa May Alcott's timeless tale (a remake of the 1933 version starring Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett), Taylor played the exuberant optimist Amy, one of four sisters approaching womanhood at different rates while their father is off fighting the Civil War. Another significant step on Liz's road to greatness.

8. 'Raintree County' (1957)
As Southern belle Susanna Drake, Taylor comes off better than anything else in this more or less standard Old South epic. Playing a loud lady with traces of hereditary madness did, however, earn her her first Oscar nod for Best Actress, even though she lost out to Joanne Woodward.

7. 'National Velvet' (1944)
This wholesome charmer provided Taylor with her first major breakthrough. Only 12 years old at the time, Taylor played Velvet Brown, a horse-crazy girl who trains a wild stallion to run in England's Grand National, and exhibited a precocious gift for drama and a visceral sense of emotion. This promised great things, and fans didn't have to wait long for that promise to be fulfilled.

6. 'The Taming of the Shrew' (1967)
This was one of 11 films she made with Richard Burton, and certainly the most artsy (that Shakespeare fellow turned out to be a pretty good screenwriter). Taylor was reportedly petrified to tackle the Bard on film, especially opposite her Shakespearean-trained spouse. She worried over nothing -- Taylor acquits herself admirably with her smoldering intensity as Katharina. Whether on or off screen, Liz and Dick never failed to create sparks together.

5. 'Suddenly, Last Summer' (1957)
You wouldn't expect anything light when Tennessee Williams is writing the story and Gore Vidal is doing the screen adaptation. And you'd be right. Taylor stars as Catherine Holly, a young girl who witnesses the death of her cousin Sebastian on vacation and goes to pieces. Enter Katharine Hepburn as her imperious aunt, who seeks to have Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth about Sebastian being (shhhhh, it's 1959) gay. Another Oscar nod for Liz -- and for Kate, too. (Awkward!)

4. 'A Place in the Sun' (1951)
Boy, for a decade that's become synonymous with America's "happy days," the '50s sure turned out some dark movies, none more so than this tragic tale of moral bankruptcy and unfettered lust. Taylor's lifelong friend Montgomery Clift plays George Eastman, who falls for Taylor's glamorous society girl Angela Vickers. But being a louse at heart, he manages to impregnate a good girl (Shelley Winters), and later stand by idly as he watches her drown. As the irresistible Angela, Taylor is the elusive dream girl who makes him abandon all he knows to be good and true. A malignant story, but beautifully acted nevertheless.

3. 'Butterfield 8' (1960)
Taylor hated this melodramatic film (privately calling it "Butterball Four"), and only did it to escape her MGM contract so she could jump to 20th Century Fox for 'Cleopatra.' But her near-fatal bout with pneumonia and a well-publicized tracheotomy generated enough sympathy to earn her her first Best Actress Oscar. Taylor plays Gloria Wandrous, a disillusioned prostitute who's involved with a married man and trying to outrun the ghosts of an unhappy childhood. Taylor parlayed her success into a then eye-popping $1,000,000 for 'Cleopatra.' But climbing to the summit of Hollywood turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory -- it was on that film she met Burton, after which her personal life began to generate more ink than her dramatic gifts.

2. 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (1958)
Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman: hard to imagine a better-looking screen pairing, isn't it? But that's just a distraction; this riveting film of Tennessee Williams' classic play shows Taylor in her full dramatic glory. As Maggie Pollitt, the frustrated wife of Newman's alcoholic ex-football star, she's alternately flirtatious, angry, and desperate, showing all at once why her acting skills were as beguiling as her looks.

1. 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (1966)
The gloves come off in Mike Nichols' harrowing film version of Edward Albee's play about a drunken university professor and his equally drunken wife as they "entertain" another young couple for a deeply confrontational social engagement. Taylor and Burton play George and Martha, a boozy, frustrated couple trapped in a codependency that seems to devour both them and anyone else who's unfortunate enough to wander into their orbit. Need we say it? Worst date movie ever.

Top 5 Best Models Turned Actresses

Modeling is considered like the entrance in the showbiz. So many popular actors and actresses started their career by modeling and after that they put their steps in acting career. Actresses in the list are really special then others because after proving themselves in modeling career they also go to the peek of success in acting as well.

1. Charlize Theron

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She always saw dream of becoming a ballet dancer but when she won the contest of modeling at the age of 16 then she left all other things and start her career in modeling. She reached at the peek of success in modeling but unfortunately her knee gets fractured, then she left modeling and start acting. Nothing could stop her to prove herself a best actress. She also won the academy award for her acting.

2. Kim Basinger

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There are uncountable successes in the life of Basinger. She starts her work from the age of 16.First she won the contest of Athens Junior Miss contest, after that Prize of Junior Miss Georgia was waiting for her and at last she won contest of National Junior Miss pageant. At the age of twenty she hired by the Ford Modeling agency. She was famous due to the fact of earning $1000 per day during her modeling career. After reaching at the top in modeling she starts acting. Her two most unforgettable movies were “Starsky and Hutch" and "Charlie’s Angels". She won the academy award of best supporting actress in 1997.

3. Jennifer Connelly

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If you say that she is a born star then we will not be wrong. She starts her work at the very young age of 10. One of her father’s friend guided her in starting of her career. She worked with agency like “Ford”. After finishing her school she gets so popular in showbiz and did so many print and TV commercials. At the age of 16 she started acting. Her popular movie was “Labryrinth”. At this very young age she won the Golden Globe and Oscar awards because of her movie ” A beautiful Mind”

4. Halle Berry

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She is one of those super successful people. She won the title of Miss Teen of Ohio just at the age of 17. Later on, she stood second in the contest of Miss USA pageant. After these success she entered in modeling careerat the very start of her career she did so many print and TV commercials. Unfortunately this super model could not give her services as modeling for long time and starts her career as actress. “Living Dolls” was her first serial on TV in 1989. After that she did “Jungle Fever” in 1991. Her achievement as actress was the wining of Best actress academy award.

5. Geena Davis

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In her modeling career she first worked with the Zoli modeling agency and became a Victoria’s Secret model. After the modeling career her first movie was “Tootsie” after that she start doing movies and did hit movies like “The Fly" and "Earth Girls Are Easy". On doing her movie “The Accidental Tourist” she won the Oscar award for best supporting actress.

Top 10 Best Singers In The World

I strongly believe on the famous quote "Music is the food of soul". Music has great magical powers in it. It can make you sad or happy depend on the music. You get so much energy in you by listening any such type of song or you can get so low. Music can drive you like crazy but along with the music, the original magician behind music is the one who is singing the song. Here is the list of 10 such magical and amazing singers of year 2010. You all will surely love this collection so much.

1. Taylor Swift

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God gave us this beautiful gift on December 13, 1989 which makes her Sagittarian. She also do acting along with the Pop Singing. Her career get started when she was only 14 years old. Her talent is so pure and perfect that she don’t need anybody to praise her. She is the perfect in whatever she is doing.

2. Massari

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This amazing singer was born in the capital of Lebanon on December 10,1980. His real name is Sari Abound. he is actually a Lebanese Canadian R&B pop and hi hop singer. His most famous and super hit song was "Say you Love me".

3. Akon

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He is one of most popular singer of the time and he have so many jobs to do like singing, Song writing, Businessman, Record producer, Rapper and he is also involve in activities for helping mankind. His songs really make the listener crazy.

4. Beyonce

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She is one of those celebrities who really have manner how to dress. Her style is really awesome. You can also see her while singing and doing acting as well. Her real talent is basically singing and she is also popular due to her singing. She has really magical voice which can drive you like crazy.

5. Leona Lewis

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This multi-talented lady can sing and write the English Pop and R&B songs perfectly. People start knowing her after her wining the X Factor on British TV. Her  biggest achievement was in 2007 when she was the biggest seller of that time.

6. Alicia Keys

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She was born on January 25, 1981. Her real name is Alicia Augello cook. She is basically a recording artist, actress and musician. We don’t have much information about her father but her mother grow her up and gave us this gift. We are so thankful to her. Her love with music can be imagine by the fact that at the very young age of 7 she start playing the classical music on piano.

7. Carrie Underwood

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She started her career from American Idol. She is doing so much hard work to reach at the peeks of     success. You may don’t like all of her work but some of her songs are really soul touching  and you should must listen them. She have won more then one Grammy awards and also introduced in the Grand Old Opry.

8. Black Eyed Peas

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This is the most popular group who has seen so many successes throughout in their career. They  made this group in year 1995 and after that they did so much hard work to reach at this level. You can easily imagine the craze for them in the public that from year 2003 almost 35 millions albums and 41 million singles have been sold though out the world.

9. Lady Gaga

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She is quite different from other start. Her real name is Stefan Joanna Angelina Germanotta and born in March 28, 1986. She is basically a record artist in America. Her music is really awesome and she has hundred millions of fans.

10. Ne-Yo

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He was born on October 18, 1989. Her talents are pop and R&B song writing, Acting, record Producer, and he also do rapping on some events. The best achievement of his career came on the scene when his 5 songs were on the top 100 of the billboard hot ranking.

Top 5 Funniest People In Hollywood

There are so many people in the films or TV who want to make their viewer laugh at their best extent but mostly they remain failed. You will find so rare artist who really provide the quality comedy and we really want to watch them again and again. Here I manage to take out the 10 most funniest people in the Hollywood, you can’t keep your teeth hidden under the lips while watching them.

1. Paul Rudd

He gave some unforgettable performances in his super hit comedy movies like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”,” Role Models” and  “I Love You, Man”. He has amazing power to make you laugh and it’s totally impossible that one can get bore while watching him.

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2. Steve Carell

Carell always have a beautiful and lively smile on his face. We are enjoying his work from decades and never forget his movies such as “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”, “Little Miss Sunshine”. “Date Night” will be his upcoming movie from which his fans have so many expectations.

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3. Bill Murray

His unforgettable movie “Lost in Translation” is the best comedy and along with that it was also a soul touching. Unfortunately he could not fulfill the expectations that the fans had from his movie “Zombieland”. But, we still expect the best from him in his upcoming movie “Passion Play”.

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4. Jason Segel

This cheering, funny, and lively start has 1000’s of fans. He also wrote his super hit movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” along with doing acting in it. “I Love You, Man” in 2009 and “Knocked Up” in 2007 are his funniest creations of the time. His movie “Gulliver’s Travels” will brings millions of his fans to the cinema soon.

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5. Aziz Ansari

Last but not the least, we can’t stop ourselves to put him on this top 10 ranking because of his more memorable work and the funniest and hilarious performances “Funny People” in 2009, “I Love You Man’” in 2009 and “Observe and Report” in 2009 are his funniest movies of the time.

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Top 5 Richest Musicians In The World

1. Madonna

Net Wroth: 110 million dollar

Madonna is one of the richest musicians in the world. $ 280 million has been a 58-concert international tour in support of the Queen of Pop Hard Candy Album created: how they earned their money.

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2. Beyonce

Net Worth: 87 million dollar
As their money: Ms. Knowles her paycheck collected in many areas, including a new double album release, featuring two movies, one collection, a 110-day international tour, and new sponsors, which include Nintendo and Crystal Geyser.

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3. Bruce Springsteen

Net Worth: 70 million dollar
As his money: "The Boss" had the fourth most lucrative tour in 2008 and led half show at Super Bowl XLIII. He has also signed an exclusive agreement with Wal-Mart for a Greatest Hits album, which he sold later called "a mistake".

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4. Coldplay

Net Worth: 70 million dollar
How they choose their money: Chris Martin and Co. released their fourth studio album "Viva La Vida" which was the best selling album in 2008. A majority of the band money was a trip that earned in 16 countries.

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5. Kenny Chesney

Net Worth: 65 million dollar
As his money: The country star is not always good for record sales, but fans are loyal and Chesney is making his money on tour. In 2008 he sold more than 1 million tickets.

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World’s Strongest Earthquakes And Tsunamis

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  • October 2010: A volcanic eruption and a tsunami kill more than 500 people in Indonesia.

  • February 2010: A 8.8 magnitude quake shakes Chile, generating a tsunami and killing 524 people.

  • September 2009: A magnitude 8.0 earthquake unleashes tsunamis of up to 40 feet (12 meters) and killing 194 people in the South Pacific, including 34 in American Samoa.

  • September 2007: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake rattles Sumatra island, triggering regional tsunami alerts and damaging scores of buildings.

  • September 2007: An earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.4 near Sumatra triggers a wave in the coastal city of Padang. The tremor kills at least 25 people and injures around 50.

  • April 2007: At least 28 people in the Solomon Islands die in a tsunami and earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.1.

  • July 2006: A magnitude 6.1 earthquake triggers a tsunami off Java island’s southern coast, killing at least 600 people.

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  • March 2005: A magnitude 8.6 quake in northern Sumatra kills about 1,300 people.

  • December 2004: An Indian Ocean tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, kills 230,000 in a dozen countries.

  • August 1976: A magnitude 8.0 earthquake hits near the islands of Mindanao and Sulu in the Philippines, generating a tsunami and leaving at least 5,000 dead.

  • March 1964: A 9.2 magnitude earthquake in Prince William Sound, Alaska, kills 131 people, including 128 from a tsunami.

  • May 1960: A magnitude 9.5 earthquake in southern Chile and ensuing tsunami kill at least 1,716 people.
  • November 1952: A magnitude 9.0 quake in Kamchatka causes damage but no reported deaths despite setting off 30-foot (9.1-meter) waves in Hawaii.
  • August 1950: A magnitude 8.6 earthquake in Assam, Tibet, kills at least 780 people.
  • April 1946: An earthquake measured at a magnitude of 8.1 near Unimak Islands, Alaska, triggers a tsunami, killing 165 people, mostly in Hawaii.
  • January 1906: A magnitude 8.8 quake off the coast of Ecuador and Colombia generates a tsunami that kills at least 500 people.
  • August 1868: A magnitude 9.0 quake in Arica, Peru (now Chile) generates catastrophic tsunamis; more than 25,000 people were killed in South America.
  • April 1868: A 7.9-magnitude earthquake strikes the Big Island, Hawaii, killing 77 people, including 46 from a tsunami.
  • November 1755: A magnitude 8.7 quake and ensuing tsunami in Lisbon, Portugal, kill an estimated 60,000 people and destroy much of Lisbon.
  • July 1730: A magnitude 8.7 quake in Valparasio, Chile, kills at least 3,000 people.
  • January 1700: A magnitude 9.0 quake shakes present-day Northern California, Oregon, Washington and British Colombia and triggers tsunami that damages villages in Japan.
  • Top-10 World’s Best Reputed Universities 2011

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    In March 2011, Times Higher Education[THE] released its first World Reputation Rankings. The rankings were sourced from a survey of more than 13,000 academics from 131 countries that nominated universities as being the best in their field in teaching and research.Four Australian universities are listed among the world’s top 100 most reputable universities: University of Queensland (UQ), the University of Melbourne, University of Sydney and The Australian National University.
    A total of 15 Asian universities made their way into the world’s top 100 universities for reputation, with University of Tokyo rated 1st in Asia and 8th in the world, followed by Kyoto University (second best in Asia and 18th best in the world), National University of Singapore (third best in Asia and 27th worldwide).
    The top 10 list are:
    1. Harvard University
    2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    3. University of Cambridge
    4. University of  California, Berkeley
    5. Stanford University
    6. University of Oxford
    7. Princeton University
    8. University of Tokyo
    9. Yale University
    10. California Institute of Technology

    Webometrics Top 10 Ranking of World Universities 2011

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    The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, also known as Ranking Web of World Universities, is ranking system for the world’s universities based on a composite indicator that takes into account both the volume of the Web contents (number of web pages and files) and the visibility and impact of these web publications according to the number of external in links (site citations) they received. The ranking is published by the Cyber metrics Lab, a research group of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) located in Madrid.

    The Webometrics University Ranking is a ranking system based on university web presence, visibility and web access, This ranking system measures how strongly a university is present in the web by its own web domain, sub-pages, rich files, scholarly articles etc. The central hypothesis of this approach is that web presence is a reliable indicator of the global performance and prestige of the universities and as such, is an indirect way to measure all the university missions (teaching, research, transfer). Although the Web is universally recognized as the one of the most relevant tools for scholarly communication, it is still very rare these indicators are used for the evaluation of the scientific research and the academic performance of universities. Webometric indicators are provided to show the commitment of the institutions to Web publication.

    Top universities are publishing millions of pages produced by dozens of departments and services, hundreds of research teams and thousands of scholars. Strong web presence informs of a wide variety of factors that are clearly correlated with the global quality of the institution: Widespread availability of computer resources available, global internet literacy, policies promoting democracy and freedom of speech, competition for international visibility or support of open access initiatives, among others.

    Top-10 Lists are below:

    1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    2 Harvard University
    3 Stanford University
    4 University of California,Berkeley
    5 Cornell University
    6 University of Wisconsin Madison
    7 University of Michigan
    8 University of Minnesota
    9 University of Washington
    10 University of Pennsylvania

    Largest Nuclear Power Plant On The Earth

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    According to the source  the largest power plant in the world is Kashiwazaki Kariwa, located in  Japan and  operated by TEPCO.There are seven unit In this plant , and the 6 & & are the world’s first  [ABWR ]-Advanced Boiling Water Reactors  System.Kashiwazaki Kariwa Plant Generate 8,212 megawatts per hour With the help of the seven nuclear reactors.

    Top 10 Most Valuable Global Brands

    No.1 Google

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    Google was started in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students of Stanford University. Initially, this search engine ran with the domain Google.Stanford.Edu but due to its groundbreaking success, the domain name Google was registered on September 15, 1997 and finally on September 4, 1998, Google Inc.

    Brand Value    : 44,294 USD $ Millions

    Market Cap    : 143,016 USD $ Millions

    Rank in 2010  : 2 nd place


    No.2 Microsoft

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    Brand Value : 42,805  USD $ Millions

    Market Cap : 165,724 USD $ Millions

    Rank in 2010 : 5 th Place


    No.3 Walmart

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    Brand Value : 36,220 USD $ Millions

    Market Cap : 154,324 USD $ Millions

    Rank in 2010 : 1 st Place


    No.4 IBM

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    Brand Value : 36,157 USD $ Millions

    Market Cap : 189,717 USD $ Millions

    Rank in 2010 : 4 th Place


    No.5 Vodafone

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    Brand Value : 30,674  USD $ Millions

    Market Cap : 192,455 USD $ Millions

    Rank in 2010 : 7 th Place


    No.6 Bank of America

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    Brand Value : 30,619 USD $ Millions

    Market Cap : 120,195 USD $ Millions

    Rank in 2010 : 12 th Place


    No.7 GE

    GE

    Brand Value : 30,504 USD $ Millions

    Market Cap : 475,066 USD $ Millions

    Rank in 2010 : 6 th Place


    No.8 Apple

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    Brand Value : 29,543 USD $ Millions

    Market Cap : 244,381 USD $ Millions

    Rank in 2010 : 20 th Place


    No.9 WELLS FARGO

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    Brand Value : 28,944 USD $ Millions

    Market Cap : 136,069 USD $ Millions

    Rank in 2010 : 15 th Place


    No.10 AT&T

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    Brand Value : 28,884 USD $ Millions

    Market Cap : 235,987 USD $ Millions

    Rank in 2010 : 11 th Place