Planetaki helps you to read your favourite websites in a single page and you can make that page public or private.And moreover it is user friendly and you can create your own planet in just 2 steps.
First name your planet and then add sites you like to read.That's all.Then you can start reading the content.
There are ways to use a planet.Teachers can create a planet with sites with specific subject content,can be used for projects and many others.It's to us to use it creatively.
Convey your news,thoughts or just about anything and everything with the help of a poster.Images reach were words can't.
We have to select a photo to be used as a poster.It'll display it as a cover of a magazine.We can choose the theme of the magazine like photo journal,girlie magazine,travel journal or anything and the alignment varies with your theme.We can change the existing text and replace it with our own and it's ready.
We can download the poster or you can share with your friends through social networking sites ir just mail them.
This site offers a best way to say thank you online.It gives a hand written feeling and that's what makes it captivating.We can choose the existing themes from the menu and also we can add a personal touch by adding your photo.
Showing gratitude is a good thing but most of us feel shy to express it in person.This site fills that gap.A very useful one.
May 16,1929
The first Academy awards are held at Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.250 people attended.Tickets costs US$5 and the event lasted ten minutes..!Best Picture went to silent movie Wings.
1935
After winning the Best Actor Award for It Happened one Night,Clark GAble makes the shortest ever acceptance speech,saying,"Thank You."
1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes the first Black person to be nominated and bursts into tears when she wins her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress as the maid Mammy in Gone With The Wind.
1970 Midnight Cowboy wins Best Picture-the only X rated film to do so.
1974 For the only time in her career,Katharine Hapburn agrees to attend the ceremony to present an honorary award.After few minutes on the stage she dashes into a limo.She holds the record for the most acting oscars-4.
1992 After winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor,Jack Palance,73,drops to the floor and does one armed push ups to prove he can still compete with younger actors.Another elder was honoured that year but he was too ill to go and accept it.It was Satyajit Ray for lifetime achievement.
1998 After winning 11 oscars for Titanic James Cameron announces."I'm top of the world."
2009 Slumdog Millionaire showers Oscars on A.R.Rahman and Gulzar.Smile Pinki,also set in India,got one for Best Documentary.
The 5835 members of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominate candidates in their respective fields.The winners are chosen by a second round of voting.On the day of the ceremony the results are sealed and kept in envelopes.And by the way a duplicate set is also kept,just in case..!
The Thank you note:
Winners are told to limit thank-yous to 45 seconds or they will be drowned by the sound of the orchestra.Many ignore this.In 2001,Julia Roberts began her Best Actress award acceptance speech for her role in Erin Brokovich by making sure the conductor knew exactly how she felt:"Sir,yo are doing a great job but you're so quick with that stick.So why don't you sit,because i may never be here again."It worked,the orchestra let her finish.
What the...?
Alfred Hitchcock nominated five times Best Director never won.His movies Vertigo,The Birds and The man who knew too much weren't even nominated for Best Picture..!Stanley Kubrick and Orson Welles were turned down.George C.Scott and Marlon Brando thought so little of the Oscars that they refused to accept it.
Director David Lean once said "If you have no hope of getting one,they're despised.But if you have,then they're very important."
"Oscar Winner" is a label that means success,fame and,yes,riches.Getting a best Picture Oscar generally guarantees a film an extra US $20-50 million in ticket sales.Titanic earned a staggering further $100 million more.According to Variety,a win in any major category will boost a film's revenues by $11 million.
Anyone who wins a Best Actor or Actress award is instantly promoted to the "A List' and can exponentially increase their acting fee.It's been said that Hilary Swank upped her asking price from $1 million to $8 million a picture after winning the Best Actress in 2005 for 'The Million Dollar Baby'. How apt...?
Some interesting titbits..
Three films have tied for winning the most number of awards-11.Ben Hur(1959),Titanic(1997),The Lord of the Rings:The return of the king(2003).
300 limousines are reserved each year for the ceremony..
Michael Jackson paid $1.54 million in 1999 to Sotheby's for David Selznick's Best Picture Oscar for the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind.
Walt Disney holds the record for more Academy Award nominations than any other individual.He won 26 in his 59 nominations.
Peter O'Toole holds the record for being nominated for Best Actor 8 times and never winning.Unlucky...!
Gone with the wind is the longest film ever to win an Oscar.234 minutes.
Gandhi(1982) won 8 Oscars including Best picture.It's Costume Designer Bhanu Athaiya was the first ever Indian to win an Oscar.
Tatum O'Neal was the youngest ever Oscar winner at 10 for Paper Moon(1973).The oldest was for Jessica Tandy at 80 in Driving Miss Daisy.
In Ancient Rome,Comitia were assemblies of people which were summoned in groups to vote on proposals presented by magistrates.Dating from 500 B.C,Comitia performed different functions during various periods of Roman history.The earliest of such institution was the Comitia Curiata.
It confirmed the selection of Roman kings.Later Comitia,such as the Comitia Centuriata(organized by wealth) and Comitia Tributa(organized by Tribes) voted on laws,established titles of authority and judged criminals.By 100 A.D the Comitias' legislative and judicial power were abolished.
It is amazing that the Romans had a structured plan for everything and it greatly resembles todays governing ways.It can be called as the predecessor of modern governance.
It uses Google Maps but the cool thing about Mashspots is that one can search for a particular item in the map.For example if you need to locate hospitals near a place just choose hospitals from the drop down menu and select the place you are looking for.And it will give the location on the map.It is a cool and essential website.
You, like everybody else would have gone through the not so nice experience of untangling the wires of your earphones.Now there is a new gadget on the market which will help you out from this mess.
Earbud yoyo is like a yoyo with with chord wound around it.The unique gripper keeps the chord from unravelingThe length of the chord can be adjusted and it can also be used as a Fashion accessory....
'PPL'DIG is the most comprehensive people search on the web.It will give all the details about the person. .PPLDIG offers you access to more than 800 million profiles with advanced search and filtering options, all in one place. We access publicly available information from a variety of places - proprietary sources, social networks, public domain - to create the largest database of online and offline information to help you find anyone from anytime in your life.
As the name suggests it an online collaborative free directory of all the species known to man.As in the words of the website "Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on earth".
As we all know Google has been in the forefront of everything related to web in the last two decades.To make us understand Google better Nancy Blanchman has created Googleguide.It is an interactive online google guide..
The good thing about this is that it has been classified according to knowledge of the user.It has separate categories to a beginner, expert and for teens...
For all those people who prefer to say their ideas via charts and bubbles ,this site is a godsend.There is no need for any registration.Just visit the site an start creating your bubbles and see your ideas transform into a visual spectacle.You can create a simple one like this one below.
Or you can go for some complex one like this.
Whatever it maybe bubbl.us will make it easy.So go ahead and enjoy..
Zamzar is a very useful site for file conversion and you can also download videos in various formats.It offers a variety of supported formats which makes things even more easier and handy.
You can upload a file to convert or you can mention the URL of the required file and the rest is done..You can covert anything to anything.You can use it for free upto 100MB.For files larger than that you have to pay..
Just another human.I might as well be the one whom you cross by in the street without even looking or sparing a thought.
The little things whom we don't even bother to put into words tells a lot more about everything...
All the songs uploaded in this blog are for evaluation purpose only and it should be deleted within 24 hours.The songs are listed on external sites and uploaded by someone.
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