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1 The word ''politics '' first appeared in English around 1460, as the title of a book by Aristotle. 2 By the 16th century ''politics'' referred to the administration and organisation of the state. 3 Bolivia probably has the highest rate of political turnover with almost 200 government since 1825. 4 ''Since problems are the only excuse for government, solving them is out of the question, ____ P J O'Rourke. 5 ''Politician'' originally meant ''a schemer or plotter; a shrewd, sagacious or crafty person''. 6 ''One of the penalities for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors''___ Plato. 7 Italy has had more than 50 governments and more than 20 Prime Ministers since 1945. 8 Aristotle in his politics advised governors to ''have their friends for a great number of eyes, hands, ears, and legs,'' for one m...

1 The name Guyana means ''land of many water'' in a nature American lauguage referring of the many rivers running through the country. 2 Guyana is the only country in South America to have English as its officail lauguage. 3 Guyanese cricketer may play for the west Indies. In their great teams of the 1960s and 1970s, Rohan Kanhal and Clive Lloyd were Guyanese. 4 Guyana is the only Commonwealth state on mainland South America 5 The kaleteur Falls in Guyana is the world's widest single-drop waterfall 6 Christopher Columbus claimed to have seen a mermaid called watermamma in Guyana's waters. 7 The largest mass suicide in modern history was in Jonestown , Guyana, in 1978 when more than 900 follwers of cult leader Jim Jones died. 8 The capital of GUyana is Georgetown Ascension Island also has a capital called Georgetown while George Town is the capital of the Cayman Islands. 9 Guyana is the only country in South A...

1 In february, the Winter Olypics have begin in PyeongChang in Southkorea at an estimated cost of a record $10 billion. 2 2018 will celebrate the centenary of the end of fighting in the First World War. 3 In order not to be confused with the North Korea capital Pyongyang, PyeongChang has changed its spelling, capitalising the C in its name. 4 Frankenstein will be 200 year old in 2018 Mary Shelley's book was publish in 1818. 5 The first primitive machine gun was invented in 1718 by London Lawyer James Puckle. 6 The modern fire extingulsher, containing potassium carbonate within compressed air, was invented in 1818. 7 2018 will mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Sir Walter Raleigh, beheaded in 1618 for allegedly plotting against the King Jame I. 8 2018 will be celebrating as the 250th anniversary of the first cicus, in LOndon in 1788. 9 2018 is 2X1009, or a prime number multipulied by 2. Its reverse, 8102= 2X4051, so is a...

1 According to an old superstition, bread baked on christmas Eve willnever go mouldy. 2 In much of Europe, shoes rather than stockings are left for santa to fill on Christmas Eve. 3 King John of England was born on Christmas Eve 1166. 4 Other people born on Christmas Eve include Colin Cowdrey(1932), Carol Vorderman(1960) and Ed Miliband(1969). 5 In FInland< Santa Clus delivers presents on Christmas Eve not on a reindeer driven sleigh but on a goat named Ukko. 6 Christmas Eve is Independence Day in LIbya. 7 Kirtimati, or Christmas Island, in the pacific Ocean ought really to be Christmas Eve Island. James Cook discovered it on December 24, 1777. 9 IN Bolivia, Mass of the ROOster is celebrated on Christmas Eve withroosters brought to midnight mass. Supposedly a rooster was the first to announce the birth of Jesus. 10 Italian and Americans celebrate Christmas Eve with the seafood based Freast of the Seven Fishes. ...

1 Gandhi's birthday, October 2, is celebrated by the UN as an Interntional Day of Non- Violence. 2 He was given the honoriffic title Mahatma(Sanskit for great soul) in SOuth Africa in 1914. 3 Gandhi was married at the age of 13 and had four sons before taking a vow of celibacy. 4 Gandhi was not the only leader to meet his end on January 30; that was also the date of beheading of Charles in 1649. 5 "Live as if you are to die tomorrow, Learn as if you were to live forever ____ GAUDHI. 6 Gaudhi studied law at the Inner Temple in London, where his teachers often complained about his bad handwriting. 7 Globally, there are more than 100 roads named after Gandhi of which over half are in India. 8 Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha is based on the life and Ideas of Gandhi and is in Sanskrit. It can be seen at the English National Opera from Thursday this week. 9 He wrote to hltler in 1939 urging non-violence starting "Dear friend, Frie...

1 In 2006 Australian researchers found that goat can be scared off by the smell of tiger excrement. 2 Unlike most cats, tigers are good swimmers 3 The real first names of golfer ''Tiger'' Woods are Eldrick Tont. 4 Tigers can run at speed up to 40mph. 5 Tiger not only has striped fur but its skin is striped too. 6 In 2012 Sainsbury's renamed theor Tiger Bread as Giraffe Bread after a three year old girl wrote to them to explain that it looked more like a giraffe. 7 Reaching lengths of up to 11 feet, tigers are the largest member of the cat fanily. 8 There are five species of tiger around today: Bengal, Sumatran, South Chain, Siberain, and Indochinese. Casoian, Ball and Javan tiger are now sadly extinct. 9 The first time DNA from any extinct species was successfully implanted into another organism was in 2008 when genetic material from a Tasmanian tiger was inserted into maouse embryos where it played a roles in dev...

1 George Washinton proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day, held on November 26, 1789. 2 He was percusaded to make it a hoilday by Sarah JOsepha Hale, author of Mary Had A LIttle Lamb. 3 It was then held sporadically until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving as an annual hoilday on the last Thursday in NOvember. 4 Thanksgiving dates back to a three-day feast in 1621 shared by 50 Pilgrim Fathers and about 90 native Americans to celebrate a good harvest. 5 MOre food is eaten in the USA on the Thanksgiving Day than on any other day of the year. 6 Roosevelt's opponents said the new date was disrespectful to Lincoln and called it Franksgiving. 7 Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday in Octomber. 8 ''Postprandial somnolesense'', or falling asleep after heavy meal, is also know as ''Thanksgiving food coma''. 9 Since 1947, It has been tradition for the US President to "Pardon...

1 The average of cost of a slave in America in 1850 was about $400(about $12,000 in today's money). 2 In 1452, Pope Nicholas V Issued a palpal bull allowing the King of Portugal to enslave Pagans. 3 During the ancient Roman winter festival of Saturnalla, slaves and their owners swapped roles. 4 When Britian abolished slavery, compensation was paid to 46,000 slave owners, The 800,000 freed slaves received nothing. 5 The word ''slave'' and ''slaves'' occur only once each in the KIng james Bible. 6 The word ''slave'' originally came from the Slavonic population of Eastern Europe, who were often enslaved in the middle ages. 7 Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833 but the Modern Slavery Act, outlawing human trafficking and fored labour, was only passed in 2015. 8 From 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million slaves were shipped from Africa to the Americas with on...

1 It scores 34 points. Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan share second place on 30. 2 Mozambique voted to decriminalise homosexually. 3 Half the of the people in  Mozambique are under -17 or More than half of the women have their first child before they are 19. 4  Mozambique is the only country with a single name that includes all five(5) vowels. 5 Because of poaching, rhinoceroses have three times become extinct in  Mozambique. 6  Mozambique has won two Olympic medals, both won by Maria de Laurdes Mutola in the women's 800 metres, a bronze in 1996 and a glod in 2000. 7 Spelt out in scrabble tiles,  Mozambique would score more than any othe one-word country 8  Mozambique has  the only national flag with a modern waepon on it. It shows a Kalashnikov AK47 with baynet attached crossed with a hoe. 9  The official lauguage of  Mozambique is Portuguese. 10   Mozambique is the only country in the commonwae...

1 The ancient Greek believe that amenthyst protected the wearer from drunkenness 2 In the USA, February is National Pet Dental Health month. It is also Hot Breakfast month. 3 February is named after the purification ritual Februa, which was a sort of early Roman spring cleaning festival. 4 February frequently occours in the lists of the most commonly misspelt words in English language. 5 The Americans have trouble with the word February too __ a press release from white House consistently spelt it as Feburary. 6 February is the only month that can pass no full moon. This will next occur in 2018. 7 Much Ado About Nothing is the only Shakespeare play that mentions February. 8 The birthstone for February is National Pet Dental Health month. It is also Hot Breakfast month. 9 Before Julius Caesar's calendar reform of 45BC, February was the only month with an even number of the days. All the rest had 29 or 31. 10 In Old English, Feburary was called Solmonath(Mud mon...

1 Jellyfish and cucumber are both 95 percent water. 2 In many lauguages the word for jellyfish is medusa, after the mythological Gorgon Medusa, whose snakes for hair suggested jellyfish tentacles. 3 Jellyfish do not have brain but instead have nerve nets which detect environment changes in and co-ordinates the animal's responses. 4 The earliest recorded use of the word ''jellyfish'' in English was 1707. 5 The phlaella zappal goldfish is named after US composer/guitarist Frank Zappa. 6 Jellyfish existed long before us or even the dinosaurs. They have been in the oceans for around 650million years. 7 The largest jellyfish ever found was a loin's mane jellyfish with a diameter of 7ft 6in and 120ft long tentacles. 8 If a jellyfish is cut in two , the pieces can generate and create new jellyfish. 9 A group of jellyfish is called a bloom,swrm or smack. 10 Colonies of jellyfish are either all male or all female. Bot...

1 Turkish for Turkey is ''Hindi'', meaning ''Indian'' 2 Wearing of a fez was banned in Turkey's modernisation reforms in 1925. It is still illegal to wear one in government areas. 3 Around 75 percent of the world's hazelnuts are grown in turkey. 4 St Nicholas, the original Santa Claus, was born in turkey. 5 The word ''turquoise'' came from the colour of the Mediterranean in Southern Turkey. 6 Istanbul, in Turkey, is the world's only city spanning two continents. 7 There are 29 letter in the Turkish alphabet which includes no Q or W but has an I without a dot on top as well as i with a dot. 8 The I without a dot score 2 in Turkish Scrabble.With a dot however it only delivera 1. 9 The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul comprise 61 covered street with more than 4,000 shops. With more than 91 milloin Visitor It was listed as the world's most visted tourist attraction in 2014. 10 We call i...

1 the animal we know as ''hippopotamus'' was first mentioned in English as ''ypotamus'' or ''ypotamos'' in the 14th century. 2 The abbrevation ''hippo'' was first seen in 1872. 3 The word ''hippoptamus '' comes from two Greek word meaning ''river horse''. 4 Because it is Greek not Latin, the plural is ''hippoptamuses'' not ''hippoptami''. 5 The Ramat Gan Safri in Israel is reported to export more hippos than anywhere else on Earth. 6 Since 1993 when drug lord pablo Escobar was killed, Colombia has faced increasing problems from wild hippos originating from private zoo. 7 The elephant and white rhinoceros are the only animals bigger than a hippo. 8 The usual collective nouns for group of hippos are ''pod'' or ''bloat'' but ''heard'' or ''dale'' and...

1 Rice has been found in mediaeval chinese walls where they were added for strenght and stability 2 Rice has been feeding us for 5,000 years. 3 There are more than 40,000 varieties of rice that grow across every continent execept on Antarctica 4 In India, rice is associated with prosperity and with the Hindu goddness of wealth, Lakshml. 5 Rice is the symbol of life and fertility, which is why rice was traditionally thrown at weddings. 6 In 1997, the Laotian news agency reported that farmers had successfully completed trial using pig manure as a snail repellent on rice crops. 7 More than half the labour force in Thailand is involved in rice production. 8 In Burma the average polulation consumes about 500 pound of rice a year. 9 A Talwanese artist has carved a portrait of the new chinese leader XI Jinping on a grain of rice. 10 IN 2008, a craze was started in japan for rice folled bags called ''Dakigokochl'' for new born b...

1     At the age of 15, he wrote his first song and join the junior choir of his church. 2    He is a nephew to legendary Nollywood actor, Jide Kosoko.  3     He is a member of the famous Kosoko royal house of Lagos and a prince of Lagos 4      He holds a Higher National Diploma in Arts and Design majoring in Graphics at the Lagos State Polytechnic. 5      He was a member of all boy group called “The Bridge”. Before it was disbanded, it released a couple of singles and featured artists like Skales and GT the Guitarman. 6       Adekunle Gold is also a graphic designer, painter and sculptor. 7. He is signed to YBNL Nation, founded by Olamide Baddo. He also designed the YBNL’s official logo. 8.      He went viral after photoshopping himself into photos of popular celebs which earned him the name, ‘King of Photoshop’. ...

1          Falz born as Folarin Falana (27 October 1990) hails from Lagos Nigeria, is the son to the Nigerian human activist and lawyer, Temi Falana. He is an impressive Nigerian rapper, founder of Bahd Guy Records and holds a honours degree in LLB law. There is no doubt that the 25-years-old certified lawyer-artiste has brought some justice to the Nigerian music industry. Folarin Falana (born on 27 October 1990) better known by his stage name Falz was born in Lagos, Nigeria. 2           He graduated from the Nigeria Law School in Abuja, Nigeria. After graduating with a LLB honours degree, he became a member of the University of Reading. 3             During his school years, he formed an all boy group called “The School Boys”. In 2009, while still in secondary school, he released a compilation mixtape titled “Shakara”. 4            ...

1 Google is a play on the word “googol.” On Sept. 15, 1997, over the BackRub title, Page and Brin registered the domain name of their mushrooming project as Google, a twist on “googol,” a mathematical term represented by the numeral one followed by 100 zeros. The name hinted at the seemingly infinite amount of data the brainy pair code their fledgling search engine to mine, make sense of and deliver. Many wondered if Google is a misspelling of Googol. 2  A former caterer for The Grateful Dead was Google’s first chef. In 1999, chef Charlie Ayers won a cook-off judged by Google’s employees, then only 40 in all, to clinch the position, which he held for seven years. Ayers initially cooked for the Grateful Dead in exchange for free admission to their legendary shows, but later took over catering for the jam band. At Google, he eventually served 4,000 daily lunches and dinners in 10 cafés throughout its Mountain View, Calif., global headquarters. ...

 The Most Populous State in Nigeria Though it is the smallest state in the country, Lagos remains to be the most populous state in the West African country. The country accommodates 1200 new people daily. Nollywood is Centered in Lagos Africa’s most popular film industry, Nollywood is centered in Lagos. Nearly all the acting scenes in Nigerian movies are in Lagos. It can only be compared to California in the United States. It is the Smallest State in Nigeria Of all the 36 Nigerian states, Lagos state is the smallest. It looks absurd but it’s actually true that this is the smallest Nigerian State. This is despite the fact that it hosts one of the most popular cities in Nigeria- Lagos City. Lagos Handles 80% of the Country’s Imports Lagos is the Nigerian state that handles majority of the country’s imports. Located in the Southwest beach line of Nigeria, Lagos port is responsible for processing 80% imports in Nigeria. This port of Lagos is also in th...

Your eyes are about 1 inch across and weigh about 0.25 ounce. Some people are born with two differently colored eyes. This condition is heterochromia. Even if no one in the past few generations of your family had blue or green eyes, these recessive traits can still appear in later generations. Each of your eyes has a small blind spot in the back of the retina where the optic nerve attaches. You don’t notice the hole in your vision because your eyes work together to fill in each other’s blind spot. Out of all the muscles in your body, the muscles that control your eyes are the most active. Seeing is such a big part of everyday life that it requires about half of the brain to get involved. 80% of vision problems worldwide are avoidable or even curable. The average blink lasts for about 1/10th of a second. While it takes some time for most parts of your body to warm up to their full potential, your eyes are on their “A game” 24/7. Eyes heal quickly. With proper care, it only tak...

Independence from British rule came to pass in Nigeria on the 1 st  of October, 1960. This was the year Nigeria assumed both political and military control of its territory. As at that time, Nigeria was still following the British system of government in which there is a prime minister and a ceremonial president     The ceremonial president of Nigeria then was Nnamdi Azikiwe, while the Prime Minister was Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. The two of them assumed reigns of leadership due to the partnership that was foisted between the National Congress of Nigeria and Cameroun and the Northern People’s Congress in 1959 during the general election that was held then to choose the president, prime The ceremonial president of Nigeria then was Nnamdi Azikiwe, while the Prime Minister was Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. The two of them assumed reigns of leadership due to the partnership that was foisted between the National Congress of Nigeria and Cameroun and the Northern People’s Co...