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Jun 4th
Whale Wars Season 4 is back with Sea Shepherds on Animal Planet on June 3rd 2011. Whale wars is the Animal Planet’s Emmy Award winning reality documentary series documenting Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s dramatic whale defense campaign on the Antarctic.
Captain Paul Watson and his international crew of volunteers have taken to the high seas in attempt to stop the Japanese ships from illegally killing whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
Whale wars season 4 is about Sea Shepherd’s “Operation No Compromise” starting with the whaling season in early December 2010 More >
Jun 3rd
Sukanya Roy an Indian-American from Pennsylvania has won the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
The 14-year-old Miss Roy spelled the word cymotrichous correctly to win the Spelling Bee competition. The word is an adjective which means having wavy hair.
This year’s Spelling Bee brought 275 competitors ranging in age from 8 to 15 from all over the world, according to the Scripps Spelling Bee website. She won the title as well as $40,000 in cash and prizes. She is the fourth Indian-American to win the prize in as many years. Laura Newcombe, 12, from Toronto, took second place.
Jun 3rd
Dragon Boat Festival or Duanwu festival is a Chinese festival celebrated on the 5th day of 5th month in the Chinese lunar calender. It is also known as Dumpling festival as the main celebration includes the eating of rice flour Dumplings and dragon boat racing. China is the birth place of this festival but also celebrated in Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia where there is a significant amount of Chinese population.
The annual Dragon Boat Festival in Singapore invites national and international teams to race along in decorated dragon boats. The dragon boat race crew consists of 22 athletic members paddling furiously to the rhythm of a drummer sitting at the head.
The story behind the festival goes like this. More >
May 16th
Harold Camping, 89-year-old evangelist and the president christian Radio called “Family Radio” is campaigning that Jesus will return on May 21. And May 21st , 2011 will be “The Judgment Day”.
Starting from Judgment Day i.e May 21st, Camping’s Family Radio says to see a wave of earthquakes straddle the Earth from next Saturday morning, culminating in total global annihilation by 21 October 2011.
May 16th
BMW introduced a Car with concept: Vision Efficient Dynamics sports car from BMW has reached India. The BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics concept is a diesel-hybrid car built by boffins at Munich, Germany over a period of almost a year. Its a four seat sports car with a combination of performance and economy. BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics has an outstanding fuel efficiency of 26.5 kilometres/litre and an exemplary CO² emission rating of 99 grams/kilometre. It has the capability to achieve a top speed of 250 kilometres/hour with acceleration from 0 to 100 km/hr in just 4.8 seconds. More >
May 4th
Rashard Mendenhall is an American footballer and is now playing as Steeler’s running back tweeted sympathetic posts towards Osama Bin Laden’s death drawing criticism.
Tweet 1: “What kind of person celebrates death? It’s amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We’ve only heard one side . . .”
Retweeted to a comment “I’m not convinced he was even behind the attacks we have really seen no evidence to prove it other than the gov telling us”
Tweet 2 deleted later: “We’ll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style.”
Next tweet: “I believe in God. I believe we’re ALL his children. And I believe HE is the ONE and ONLY judge.” More >
May 3rd
The official royal wedding pictures of Prince William and Kate Middleton has been released.
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Apr 27th
Apple Inc. announced the release date of White iphone 4 officially and it is 28th April 2011. From tomorrow the white iphone 4 will be available on stores for sale on Apple’s retail stores, AT&T and Verizon Wireless stores and selected Apple authorized resellers.
The online purchases can be done from the Apple’s site www.apple.com. The pricing range is $199 on contract for the 16GB model and $299 for 32GB. More >
Apr 25th
Royal Wedding News: Prince William and Kate Middleton are all set to get married on Friday this week. The Royal Wedding of Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton is the most talked about event around the world. The Disney Channel has deemed this “Royal Wedding Week.” The big Royal wedding will took place at Westminster Abbey in London.
At the altar in Westminster Abbey, the Royal family will be on the right with the Middleton family on the left hand side. One interesting thing, as the BBC notes: Members of the family of William’s mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, will sit with the Middletons, not with the queen and members of the royal family.
Kate Middleton will be arriving at the Abbey in a limousine instead of the Glass Coach which was built in 1881. More >