Unbelievable Fact : World's 7th Largest Diamond was used as a paperweight!!!

              

The Jacob Diamond is a large diamond, ranked seventh in the world, known earlier as the Imperial or Great White Diamond. It is believed to be the Victoria Diamond, owned by the Nizam of Hyderabad and currently owned by the Government of India.

It is cut in a rectangular cushion-cut, with 58 facets, and measures 39.5 mm long, 29.25 mm wide and 22.5 mm deep. The diamond weighs 184.5 carats (36.90 g).

Unlike the famous Koh-i-Noor, the Jacob diamond can be branded as a non-violent diamond, one which has changed hands only twice in the history of its existence.However, it only came into the possession of India after its amalgamation of the Hyderabad state into the Republic of India.

World's Oldest Cosmetic Cream Found In London!

The world’s oldest cosmetic face cream has been found by archaeologists by excavating a Roman Temple on the banks of river Thames and what leaves one perplexed is that the cream still has the finger marks of its last user, 2000 years back!!  The cream is contained in a 5cm by 6cm tightly sealed cylindrical tin can, which seemingly was deliberately hidden and was found at the bottom of a sealed ditch in Southwark, about 2 (two) miles south of central London. 

 The site lies on the point where three roads namely Walting St from Dover, Saint St from Chichester and bridgehead road over Thames meet. This ancient site bears the foundations of two Roman-Celtic temples, a guest house, an outdoor area suitable for mass worship, plinths for statues and a stone pillar. 

This complex has been a store of discoveries. Last year, it revealed a stone tablet with the earliest known inscription bearing the Roman name of London. Known to be the first religious complex in London, it unfolds the rare evidence of organized religion in London 2000 years back.

Since the excavation is now at the stage of completion, this site will be used as a housing complex.
Nansi Rosenberg, a senior archaeological consultant of the project feels lucky to have a marshy site in London where the contents of this sealed box must have been retained and the metal preserved from corroding. Though, they are still not sure whether the cream was medicinal, cosmetic or entirely ritualistic. She even adds that the discoveries have just begun and there are more to be made as they piece together the jigsaw puzzle they have excavated.

Talking about the latest discovery, Opened at the Museum of London, this tin can revealed a pungent smelling white-cream.  According to Liz Barham, whoever used this ointment last has applied it to something with their fingers and has used the lid as a dish to take the ointment out. The cream is currently undergoing scientific analysis and guesses are that it must have been used as a beauty treatment or even face paint in temple ritual.

Federico Nappo, an expert on ancient Roman cosmetics of Pompeii calls it an extraordinary discovery. He assumes that it is likely for the cream to contain animal fats as Romans used to use donkey’s milk for skin treatment. Yet he believes that it should not be tough to find out the cream’s composition.

11 FACTS ABOUT BOB MARLEY

Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica. In 1963, Marley and his friends formed the Wailing Wailers.The Wailers got their big break in 1972 when they landed a contract with Island Records. Marley has sold more than 20 million records, making him the first international superstar to emerge from the so-called Third World. He died in Miami, Florida, on May 11, 1981.

1. He believed that smoking weed makes you free.
2. He was born Nesta Robert Marley, but a Jamaican passport official swapped his first and middle names when he was a little boy.
3. His father was white, and his mother was black, but he self-identified as a black African.
4. He was raised Catholic, but converted to Rastafari in the 1960’s.
5. When he first married his wife Rita and moved to the states, he spent time working at the DuPont and Chrysler plants under the alias “Donald Marley.”
6. In 1976 A few days before the Smile Jamaica Concert, a gunman broke into Bob's house and shot him in the arm. Bob still performed at the concert not wanting to give the gunman the benefit of the doubt. The gunman is still unknown.
7. Bob Marley has an undetermined number of children, though his official website recognizes eleven.
8. He was a vegetarian due to his devotion to the Rastafari practice Ital.
9. His favorite Reggae singer was Bunny Wailer, and he thought the rest were “skanks”.
10. His band, The Wailers, was once fired from a tour because they were more popular than the act they opened for.
11. His final words to his son Ziggy before he died of cancer at the age of 36 were “Money can’t buy life.”

16 MOST AMAZING FACTS ABOUT EMINEM

Well if you are one Eminem fan then you gonna enjoy this post.Eminem's life is as interesting as his rap songs,most of his songs are inspired by his own life.well check out these most amazing  Facts about Eminem's life.

16 MOST AMAZING FACTS ABOUT EMINEM

1. Eminem has three aliases: Eminem, The Slim Shady, and his original teenage stage name, which was M&M. His real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III.
2. Before he heard rap, he wanted to be a comic book artist.
3. Eminem's relatives used to call him 'Mickey' when he was a baby because he had big ears.
4. Eminem dropped out of school after failing 9th grade 3 times, mainly because he skipped school too many times to battle kids on the street corners
5.  Eminem cuts his own hair
6. To be signed to Shady Records,one of the requirement is you to have battle Eminem.
7. IN the video "My Name Is," Eminem was not supposed to get hit in the face with the newspaper at the beginning and was not supposed to fall of the chair.  They were both accidents but the directors decided to keep them in the video.
8. Eminem has been falsely reported dead by a car crash 4 times and a drug overdose once.
9. Eminem's all-time favorite movie is The Matrix.
10. Eminem is in the Guinness Book of world Records for being fastest selling hip-hop artist.
11. When Dre first met Eminem, Eminem was wearing a bright yellow tracksuit which he got from a sponsor because he didn't have the money to buy decent clothes. Dre thought he looked like a banana.
12. Eminem used to spend hours at night studying the dictionary so that he could expand his vocabulary for his rhymes.
13. Eminem wears glasses because he's near-sighted.
14. Lose Yourself may have topped the poll on songs that spurs ball players to victory but it also topped the poll on songs most likely to lead to car crashes.
15. For his 8 Mile role, Em dropped from 168 lbs (12 stone or 76.21kg) to 145 lbs (10.35 stone or 65.8kg).
16. He is a Spiderman fan.

The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE

So how did the famous keyboard shortcut of Ctrl + Alt + Delete come about? Incredibly, a programmer who worked on one of the first personal computers wrote it in five minutes because it was too much of a hassle to keep rebooting the computer manually.

Watch this video of Bradley recounting the creation of this now-iconic shortcut, and watch as Bill Gates does not take a jab at Microsoft with the best of graces.

The next time you terminate a program, or restart your computer using the CTRL+ALT+DEL shortcut, think of David Bradley; the IBM engineer that invented the command. During a gathering in 2004 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the IBM PC, the veteran engineer revealed that he’d created the shortcut to save time, since his work required him to frequently power down and restart his computer. He says never intended to make the combination public but was prevailed upon by IBM who found it extremely useful.