Minggu, 30 Januari 2011

50 fakta aneh di dunia

1. Queue adalah satu-satunya kata dalam bahasa Inggris yang dapat dibaca dengan cara yang sama ketika empat huruf terakhir dihilangkan.
2. Kumbang tu rasanya seperti apel, tawon seperti pine nuts (sejenis kacang), kalo cacing seperti daging babi goreng.
3. Dari seluruh kata dalam bahasa Inggris, kata ’set’ punya definisi paling banyak.
4. “French Kiss” kalo di Perancis namanya “English Kiss”
5. “Almost” adalah kata terpanjang dalam bahasa Inggris yang disusun mengikuti urutan Alfabet.



6. “Rhythm” adalah kata terpanjang dalam bahasa Inggris yang tidak ada huruf vokalnya
7. Tahun 1386, seekor babi dihukum gantung di depan publik di Perancis gara2 membunuh anak kecil
8. Kecoa bisa hidup selama beberapa minggu tanpa kepala
9. Tulang paha manusia lebih kuat daripada dinding semen.
10. Kita tidak bisa bunuh diri dengan cara menahan napas.

11. Di setiap benua pasti ada kota bernama “Rome”.
12. Jantung berdetak lebih dari 100.000 kali per hari.
13. Horatio Nelson, salah seorang Admiral (jenderal Angkatan Laut) legendaris di Inggris seumur hidupnya tidak pernah menemukan cara untuk menyembuhkan mabuk laut yang dideritanya.
14. Kerangka Jeremy Bentham selalu hadir di setiap pertemuan penting di University of London
15. Orang bertangan kanan rata2 hidup 9 tahun lebih lama dari yang kidal



16. Tulang iga kita bergerak sekitar 5 juta kali setahun, tiap kita bernapas!!
17. Gajah satu-satunya mamalia yang tidak bisa lompat
18. Seperempat tulang di tubuh kita ada di kaki
19. Sidik lidah tiap orang berbeda!
20. Transfusi darah pertama dilakukan tahun 1667, ketika Jean-Baptiste mentransfusikan darah sebanyak 2 pint (kira2 1 liter) dari domba ke orang..

21. Kuku jari tangan tumbuh 4 kali lebih cepat dari kuku jari kaki
22. Debu di rumah paling banyak terbentuk dari sel kulit mati
23. Diperkirakan taun 2080 penduduk dunia bakal mencapai angka 15 miliar
24. Cewek mengedipkan mata 2 kali lebih banyak dari cowok
25. Adolf Hitler adalah seorang vegetarian dan cuman punya satu testis!

26. Madu adalah satu-satunya makanan yang tidak bisa basi.
27. Bulan yang dimulai dengan hari Minggu selalu punya “Friday the 13th.”
28. Coca-Cola kalau tidak pakai pewarna warnanya jadi hijau.
29. Rata-rata jantung landak berdetak 300 kali per menit
30. Lebih banyak orang terbunuh tiap tahun karena disengat lebah daripada digigit ular.

31. Sebatang isi pensil (pensil kayu) bisa dipake menulis sepanjang 35 mil atau menulis 50.000 kata
32. Alergi terhadap makanan/minuman yang paling banyak diderita orang adalah alergi terhadap susu sapi.
33. Onta punya 3 kelopak mata untuk melindungi matanya dari pasir gurun.
34. Posisi mata keledai memungkinkan keledai melihat keempat kakinya setiap saat.
35. 6 Bahasa resmi PBB: Inggris, Perancis, Arab, Mandarin, Rusia dan Spanyol.

36. Panggilan bumi juga punya unsur dewa yaitu GAIA atau TERRA, earth adalah nama pengganti (nama panggilan yang umurnya masih 'muda')
37. Sendawa atau bersin di gereja di Nebraska, USA, adalah melanggar hukum
38. Kita dilahirkan dengan 300 tulang, tapi ketika dewasa tinggal 206.
39. Beberapa cacing akan makan dirinya sendiri kalau kelaperan dan tidak menemukan makanan.
40. Lumba-lumba tidur dengan satu mata terbuka.

41. Tidak mungkin bersin dengan mata terbuka
42. Potongan permen karet di dunia tertua umurnya 9.000 tahun
43. Rekor penerbangan terlama seekor ayam adalah 13 detik
44. Queen Elizabeth I menyatakan bahwa dia adalah teladan kebersihan. Dia mandi 1 kali tiap 3 bulan, tidak peduli dia butuh atau tidak.
45. Bekicot (Slug) punya 4 hidung

46. Burung hantu adalah satu-satunya burung yang bisa melihat warna biru
47. Charles Osborne mengalami cegukan selama 69 tahun!
48. Jerapah bisa mengorek kuping sendiri dengan lidahnya yang panjangnya 21 inchi
49. Rata-rata tiap orang ketawa 10 kali sehari
50. Mata burung Onta lebih besar dari otaknya

10 gitar termahal di DUNIA

10. 1949 Fender Broadcaster prototype



Price $375,000

Leo Fender's first solid body prototype became the template for one of the most popular guitars ever built (later dubbed the Fender Telecaster - sound familiar?). Although Les Paul was quicker off the mark in making the first solid body guitar, this particular model was key to the fortunes of the worlds most successful electric guitar companies, and as such is of great historical importance. Sold to a private collector in 1994, for $375,000, the highest price ever paid for a guitar at the time.



9. Eric Clapton's Gold Leaf Stratocaster



Price $455,550


Ordered by Eric Clapton in 1996, around the time of Fender's 50th anniversary. Clapton reportedly wanted something that could hang in a museum like the Louvre, and Fender delivered with a Custom Strat, plated with 23k gold. It later went into production, becoming the company's first signature guitar. The original was sold at auction by Christie's for an impressive $455,000 in 1997.


8. George and John's 1964 Gibson SG



Price $570,000


This guitar was used by The Beatles between 1966 and 1969. George Harrison used it while recording and touring the album Revolver, while John Lennon used it during sessions for the White album. It was given away by George to Peter Ham, of the rock band Badfinger, and after his death lay undiscovered until 2002. It was sold to an anonymous bidder at auction in 2004, for a staggering $570,000.

7. "Lenny" - Stevie Ray Vaughan's 1965 Fender Composite Stratocaster



Price $623,500


The great blues guitarist received Lenny from his wife in 1980 as a 26th birthday present, and named it after her. It was one of his favourite guitars, and he used it extensively until his untimely death in 1990. The SRV stickers on the body of this guitar were a trademark of the majority of Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitars, a habit he picked up from brother Jimmie who started this trend before him. In 2004 this became the first and only one of his guitars that has ever been released for sale by his estate, to raise money for charity.
It raised $623,500 at auction to benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua.


6. Eric Clapton's C.F. Martin & Co., circa 1939



Price $791,500


Another one of Clapton's guitars makes the top ten. The reason for this is that he is one of the few renowned guitarists who does actually sell their guitars - usually to raise money for the Crossroads Rehabilitation Centre. There are definitely guitars out there (belonging to Jimmy Page, Van Halen and so on) that could fetch more if they were sold, but they haven't been put up for sale as yet. This guitar was used by Clapton primarily during 1964, but only rarely after that. It fetched the highest price ever paid for a Gibson when auctioned.


5. Eric Clapton's 1964 Gibson ES0335 TDC



Price $847,500


This guitar was used by Clapton primarily during 1964, but only rarely after that. It fetched the highest price ever paid for a Gibson when auctioned.


4. Blackie - Stratocaster hybrid



Price $959,500


In 1970, due to the influence of Jimi Hendrix among others, Eric Clapton decided to make the switch from Gibson guitars to Stratocasters. Clapton bought 6 vintage Strats from a guitar shop in Texas for a hundred dollars each. He gave three away (to George Harrison, Pete Townshend and Steve Winwood) and then assembled the best parts of the remaining three (c. 1956 and 1957) into a single strat, which he christened 'Blackie' due to its dark finish. Clapton played Blackie for the first time in January 1973, and continued to do so until it was retired in 1985 due to neck issues. A tribute model was made by Fender to Clapton's exact specifications.
Blackie was sold at auction in 2004, and became the world's most expensive guitar at $959,000.

3. Bob Marley's Custom made Washburn 22 series Hawk



estimated Price $1.2 to 2 million


Classified as a national treasure by the Jamaican government, this guitar is one of only 7 guitars that the reggae icon owned in his lifetime. On the 21st of November, 1971, after a gig in Vancouver, Marley gave the guitar to his guitar tech Gary Carlsen with the words, "Take it because you'll understand later". Admirably, Carlsen took this as a sign that he should use the gift he had been given to better the world in some way, and so he set up the charity "Different Journeys, One Destination", offering the guitar as a prize in a lottery

2. Jimi Hendrix's 1968 Stratocaster



Estimated Price $2 million


Hendrix played this guitar at Woodstock in 1969.

From 1970 until 1990 it was in the possession of his drummer Mitch Mitchell, before surfacing in 1990 at the opening of the new Fender Artist Centre complete with cigarette burns on the headstock, and Jimi's trademark upside down stringing. It sold at Sotheby's in the same year for $198,000. Rumour has it that Paul Allen (Bill Gates' right hand man at Microsoft) paid 2 million dollars for this guitar in 1998. There no telling what it could be worth now.


1. Reach out to Asia Fender Stratocaster



Price $3.7 million


This guitar was sold at auction in Qatar in 2005, to raise funds for Reach out to Asia, a charity set up to help tsunami victims. Co-ordinated by Bryan Adams, it is signed by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Brian May, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend, Mark Knopfler, Ray Davis, Liam Gallagher, Ronnie Wood, Tony Iommi, Angus & Malcolm Young, Paul McCartney, Sting, Ritchie Blackmore, Def Leppard, and Bryan Adams himself. It was initially by the Qatari Royal family for $1 million and then donated back to the charity, after which it was sold again for a price of $2.7 million, meaning that this guitar has generated a total of $3.7 million dollars for charity.

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Your Call - Secondhand serenade

Waiting for your call, I'm sick, call I'm angry
call I'm desperate for your voice
Listening to the song we used to sing
In the car, do you remember
Butterfly, Early Summer
It's playing on repeat, Just like when we would meet
Like when we would meet

Cause I was born to tell you I love you
and I am torn to do what I have to, to make you mine
Stay with me tonight

Stripped and polished, I am new, I am fresh
I am feeling so ambitious, you and me, flesh to flesh
Cause every breath that you will take
when you are sitting next to me
will bring life into my deepest hopes, What's your fantasy?
(What's your, what's your, what's your...)

Cause I was born to tell you I love you
and I am torn to do what I have to, to make you mine
Stay with me tonight

And I'm tired of being all alone, and this solitary moment makes me want to come back home
x4
(I know everything you wanted isn't anything you have)

Cause I was born to tell you I love you
and I am torn to do what I have to, to make you mine
Stay with me tonight

Cause I was born to tell you I love you
and I am torn to do what I have to, to make you mine
Stay with me tonight
(I know everything you wanted isn't anything you have)

[ These are Your Call Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/your_call_lyrics_secondhand_serenade.html
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Sabtu, 29 Januari 2011

HELLO KITTY ハローキティ

Hello Kitty (ハローキティ, Harō Kiti?), is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, first designed by Yuko Shimizu. The character is a staple of the kawaii segment of Japanese popular culture. The character is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail catwith a red bow. The character's first appearance on an item, a vinylcoin purse, was introduced in Japan in 1975 and brought to the UnitedStates in 1976.[3][4] This debut came under the Sanrio company lineup, where her various products are still developed and sold.
The Hello Kitty trademark has since spread globally and developed licensing arrangements worth more than $1 billion annually. Examples of products depicting the character include dolls, stickers,greeting cards, clothes, accessories, school supplies, dishes and homeappliances. Her fame as a recurring Sanrio character has led to the creation of two officially licensed Hello Kitty theme parks, Harmonyland and the indoor Sanrio Puroland.

informations get in www.sanrio.com