The Common basilisk, when fleeing from predators, they gather sufficient momentum to run across the water for a brief distance while holding most of their body out of the water. Basilisks have large hind feet with scaly fringes on the sides of the third, fourth, and fifth toes. These are compressed against the toes when this lizard walks on land; but if the basilisk senses danger, they can jump into the water, opening up these fringes against the water’s surface. This increases the surface area of the foot, thus allowing them to run on the water for short distances. Smaller basilisks can run about 10-20m without sinking. Juveniles can usually run farther than older basilisks, while holding more of their body above the surface.

See the national geographic video in youtube.

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Credits : Don’t know who took this amazing snaps. I collected from Internet. Cheers to the photographer..

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The project is called The Internet Bus. The aim of this project is an attempt educate people about what the Internet is, and how it may be beneficial to their lives, by taking the Internet experience to them through a customised Internet-enabled bus, which will travel to several towns and cities across India.

The Internet Bus website is available at google.co.in/internetbus[http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/landing/internetbus/]

Pigeons fly near a flame from the Taj Hotel hotel in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen have stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India’s financial capital Wednesday night, killing at least 82 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said.
Source : AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade

Pigeons fly as firemen fight a blaze at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008.  Source : AP Photo/Gautam Singh

high voltage cable inspection .  Let’s hope that this guy is better attached

The entire structure of the Chinese fishing nets is about 10 meters in height. Each fishing net spreads to about 20 meters over the water body and is operated by a team of some six fishermen. Each net has a limited operating depth. Due to this, an individual net cannot be repeatedly operated in tidal waters. The nets are operated by a very clever system of weights and pulleys. The net is lowered into the water by one or two men walking on the wooden planks, with the planks gliding down like a seesaw. The net is left in the water for a few minutes, then hauled up using a series of ropes with rocks attached to them. Each net requires 4-6 fishermen to pull it up.

Name    : Nelson Mandela (Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela)
Born    : July 18, 1918
Country : born Tembu, the Republic of South Africa
Lives   : the Republic of South Africa

Nelson Mandela was born on the 18th of July, 1918 as Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. Nelson Mandela’s father (Hendry Mphakanyiswa Gadla) was the chief of a village next to the Mbashe River. When Mandela was seven years old, he attended a school, becoming the first member of his family to do so.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela  was the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully representative democratic elections, serving from 1994–1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress and its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was convicted for crimes that occurred while he was spearheading the struggle against apartheid. He spent 27 years in prison for this, with many of those years being spent on Robben Island.

In South Africa and internationally, Mandela became a symbol of freedom and equality for his opposition to apartheid, while the apartheid government and nations sympathetic to it condemned him and the ANC as communists and terrorists.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

If you have an objective in life, then you want to concentrate on that and not engage in infighting with your enemies. You want to create an atmosphere where you can move everybody towards the goal you have set for yourself - as well as the collective for which you work.