Wednesday, April 22, 2020

The botched Coca-Cola heist of 2006

On a hot summer afternoon in 2006, Ibrahim Dimson walked swiftly through Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport clutching a yellow Girl Scout cookie box stuffed with $30k in rolled-up $50 and $100 bills. Minutes earlier, he’d handed off an Armani Exchange duffle bag containing dozens of stolen Coca-Cola documents and a vial of a secret formula — all marked “highly confidential” — to “Jerry,” a man who claimed to be a Pepsi executive. Everything was going according to plan. Dimson and his inside source at Coke had hundreds of trade secrets they planned to sell to Pepsi, and this was just the beginning. But there was a just one problem: Jerry wasn’t who he claimed to be — and unbeknownst to Dimson and his accomplices, the shit was about to hit the fan.

Sunday, April 12, 2020

News Agencies of Famous Countries


United states of America
Assocciated Press (AP)

United Kingdom
Reuters

Russia
Telegraph Agency of the Sovereign States (TASS)

Malaysia
Malaysian National News Agency (MNNA)

Italy
Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associate (ANSA)

Israel
Associated Israel Press (AIP)

France
Agence France Press (A.F.P)

india
Press Trust of India (PTI)
United News of India (UNI)
Samachar Bharti
Univarta

China
Xin Hua

Japan
Kyodo

Indonesia
Antara

Iran
Islamic Republic news Agency (IRNA)

Germany
Deutsche Presse Agentur (D.P.A.)

Palestine
WAFA

Australia
Australian Associated Press (A.A.P)

Russia
Novosti

Pakistan
Pakistan Press International (P.P.I) and Associated
Press of Pakistan (APP)

Egypt
Middle East News Agency (MENA)

United States of America
United Press International

Peaks of the world (Top 10)


Everest
Nepal
8,852m


K2(Godwin Austin)
Pakistan
8,611m


Kanchanjanga
India
8,598m


Makalu
Nepal –China
8,481m


Dhaulagiri
Nepal
8,172m


Cho Oyu
Nepal
8,153m


Nanga Parbat
India
8,126m


Hidden Peak
India
8,068m


Annapurna
Nepal
8,078m


Nandadevi
India
7,813m

Amazing Sun Facts

Average Distance From Earth 14,95,98,900 km
Diameter 13,91,980 km
Temperature of the Core 1,50,00,000k
Rotation 25.38 days (with respect to equator);
33 days (with respect to poles)

Chemical Composition
Hydrogen :71%;
Helium: 26.5%;
Other Gases: 2.5%

Age 4.6 Billion Years
Total Life 10 Billion Years
Time Taken by Sunlight to reach earth 8 min. and 16.6 sec.
Speed of light (in vacuum) 3,00,000 kmps

Amazing Moon Facts

Average Distance From Earth 14,95,98,900 km
Diameter 13,91,980 km
Ratio of diameter of Moon to that of Earth 1:3.7
Rotation Period 27 days, 7hrs, 43 min & 11.47 sec
Revolution Period 27 days, 7hrs, 43 min & 11.47 sec
Time Taken by Moonlight to reach earth 1.3 Sec
Percent of surface visible from Earth 59%
First Man to reach Moon Neil Armstrong and Edvin Aldrin on
Apollo XI (1969 )



Amazing Earth Facts


Age 4,550 Million Years
Mass 5.967 x 10 to the power 24 kg
Volume 1.083 x 10 to the power liters
Mean Density 5.518 kg/lt
Total Surface Area 510 million sq. km
Land Area 29.2% of the total surface area
Water Area 70.8% of the total surface area

Equatorial Diameter 12,755 km
Polar Diameter 12, 712 km

Escape Velocity 11.2 km/sec
Highest Land Point Mount Everest (8,852 m)
Lowest Land Point Dead Sea (396m)

Greatest Ocean Depth Mariana Trench (11,033)
Equatorial Circumference 40,024 km
Polar Circumference 40,024 km
Mean Surface Temperature 14°C
Maximum distance from Sun (Aphelion) About 150 million km
Minimum distance from sun (Perihelion) About 147 million km

Rotation Speed 23 hrs, 56 min, 40.91 sec
Revolution Speed 365 days, 5 hrs, 45.51 sec

Dates when days & nights are equal
Mar, 21 (Vernal Equinox): Sept. 23 (Autumnal Equinox)

Dates of longest days and shortest nights
June 21 (Summer Solstice): Dec, 22 (Winter Solstice)