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Area of Afghanistan * 6,47, 500 sq km
Area of Africa 30, 065,000 Sq. km (20.3 % of the world) Area of Asia 44, 485, 900 sq. km (30% of the area of world) Area of Bahrain * 620 sq km Area of Land 57, 270, 000 sq miles Area of Oceans 70.98 % (362, 033, 000 sq km) Area of Russia 17,0 75, 400 sq. km Area of USA, 4th largest country 9,166, 601 sq km (15 % of the area of the world) Area of Vatican City 0.4 sq km (smallest country) Birthplace of Buddha Lumbini (Nepal) Birthplace of Churchill Blenheim (UK) Birthplace of Democracy Ancient Greece (500 BC) Birthplace of George Washington Wakefield Birthplace of Mussolini Romagna Birthplace of Napoleon Corsica (French island) Birthplace of Saddam Hussain Tikrit village (Iraq) His father was a peasant. Birthplace of Stalin Gori (Tiflis) Coldest place Verkhoyansk, North-East Siberia Deepest Lake of the World Lake Baikal in Southern Serbia with a depth of 1,743 m (5,714 ft) Driest continent Antarctica Driest place Atacama Desert in Chile Fastest animal Tiger Fastest bird Peregrine falcon Fastest growing tree Albizzia Falcata Fastest growing Plant Bamboo Fastest thing in the world Light Its speed is 1,87,000 miles per second. Light can take six rounds of earth within one second. First Abel Prize Jean-Pierre Serre (3rd June 2003) First acting president of USA Vice-President George Bush (For eight hours when President Reagan underwent surgery) First affiliated specialized agency of the UN International Labour Organization (ILO) First African elected female Head of State Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia ( 16 Jan 2006) First American in the orbit Senator John Herschel Glenn First animal in space Laika, the dog sent by the Russians (1957) First Arab country to recognize Israel Egypt First Arab-Israel War 1948 – 1949 First Asian games at New Delhi in 1951 First Asian Hockey Championship in Tokyo in 1958 in which Pakistan defeated India. First Asian Nobel Laureate Rabindre Nath Tagore First Bachelor President of India Abdul Kalam First Bachelor Prime Minister of India Atal Behari Vajpayee First batsman to score 15000 runs Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (30th June 2007) First black African nation to gain independence Ghana (6th March 1957) First black athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics Vonetta Flowers (2002 Olympics) First black to win Nobel Prize Ralph Johnson Bunche (USA) First black woman to win Academy Award for best actress Halle Berry (2002) First blind governor of USA David Paterson (Since Mar 2008) First blind person to scale Mount Everest Erik Weihenmayer (2000) First book for blinds Gospel of St. Mark (1833) First book of the world Printed in 1457 AD First bowler to have 4 wickets on 4 balls Malinga of Sri Lanka First boxer to win the world heavyweight championship title three different times Muhammad Ali Clay First centenarian in British royal history Queen Elizabeth (August 04, 2000) First Chancellor of Federal Germany Conrad Adenauer (1949 – 63) First Chancellor of Germany after re-union Helmut Kohl First child born of English parents in America Virginia Dare (18th Aug 1587) First Christmas celebration December 25, AD 336 in Rome First Christian Missionaries Apostles First circumnavigation of Australia Matthew Flinders (1803 AD) First colour photograph in 1861 by James Maxwell First Communist State in West Cuba (under Fidel Castro) First country to allow women the vote New Zealand (1893) First country to allow women to stand for election Norway (1907) First couple to scale Mount Everest Phil and Susan Ershler (16th May 2002) First court poet of English language John Dryden First cricketer to score more than 8,000 runs and 200 wickets in test as well as One-day International Jacques Callis of South Africa in Sep 2006 First currency note China First Czar of Russia Ivan IV the terrible First Dalai Lama Sonam Gyatso (Tibetan Buddhism Leader) First democratically elected female Head of State Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland First democratically elected president of Russia Boris Yeltsin (1991 – 1999) First Democratic Arab country Egypt (1860) First Deputy Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Khalid First dictator of Soviet Union V I Lenin First Director of FBI John Edgar Hoover (1935 – 72) First e-mail 1971 Ray Tomlinson (U.S.A.) First Emperor of China Shi Huang (221 – 210 BC) First Emperor of Japan Jimmu Tenno (7th Century BC) First Emperor of Roman Empire Augustus First Encyclopaedia “Historia Naturalis” (Natural History) by Pliny the Elder of Rome First English Dictionary “ A Table Alphabetical of Hard Words” by Robert Cawdrey First English Newspaper 29th Nov 1641 First Englishman to sail around the world Sir Francis Drake (1580) First European to see the Pacific Ocean Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1513) First FM Radio broadcast 5 Jan 1940 in USA First film of President Reagan “Lovers on the air” First film shown to public 23rd April 1896 in New York First “First Lady” of America Martha Custis Washington, First “First Lady” of USA to become Senate member Hillary Rodham Clinton First G-77 summit conference 12 – 14th April 2000 in Havana (Cuba) First general elections of South Africa April 1994 (Nelson Mandela’s ANC won) First Governor General of India after 1947 Lord Mount Batten First Governor-General of Nigeria (1960-3) Nnamdi Azikiwe First head of state China Mao Zedong First history book Great Universal History, was published by Rashid-Eddin of Persia in 1311 First Indian member of British Parliament Dada Bhai Nauru Jee First Indian Woman in space Kalpana Chawala First Indochina War 1946 to 1954 Between France and Vietnam First king of Hejaz Hussain bin Ali First King of Jordan King Abdullah Bin Hussain (1946-51) First King of UK Egbert First Labour Prime Minister of UK James Ramsay MacDonald First Latin American country to achieve independence Haiti (1st Jan 1803) First Live Internet Talk show “Tom Green Live” hosted by Tom Green First major male actor of silent films Francis X. Bushman First man in the space Yuri Gagarin a Soviet cosmonaut First Marriage of a US President while in Office John Tyler with Julia Gardiner Tyler First Mosque Quba First murderer of the world Cain (Son of Adam) killed his younger brother Abel First Muslim in US Congress Rep Keith Ellison First Muslim Dynasty in India Slave Dynasty 1206 – 1290 AD First Muslim Nobel Laureate Dr. Abdul Salam of Pakistan First Muslim Nobel Laureate of Peace Anwar Al-Sadat First Muslim Member of British Parliament Muhammad Sarwar from Glasgow (1997) First Muslim Member of New Zealand Parliament Ashraf Chaudri of Pakistan First Muslim Minister of United Kingdom Shahid Malik of Gujrat, Pakistan (Under Secretary for International Development in July 2007) First Muslim President of General Assembly Nasr-ullah Intizam (Iran) First Muslim President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain (13th May 1967 – 3rd May 1969) First Muslim scientist to win a Nobel Prize Dr. Abdul Salam First Muslim woman Chancellor Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan First Muslim woman delegate in UN Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan First Muslim woman President of UN General Assembly Sheikh Haya Rashid al-Khalifa (June 2006) First Muslim woman Ambassador of the World Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali (Netherlands 1954) First Muslim woman Chancellor Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan First Muslim woman delegate in UN Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan First Muslim woman governor of the world Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan (Sind) First Muslim Woman PM Benazir Bhutto First Muslim Woman Speaker National Assembly Dr. Fehmida Mirza of Pakistan (Mar 2008) First National Government of the world King Menes of Egypt First National Park Yellow Stone National Park USA First Nobel Prizes 10th Dec 1901 First Nobel Prize in Chemistry Jacobus H. van’t Hoff of Netherlands (1969) First Nobel Prize in Economics Ragnar Frisch of Norway and Jan Tin Bergen of Netherlands (1969) First Nobel Prize in Literature (1901) Sully Prudhomme (France) First Nobel Prize in Medicine Emil Adolph von Behring of Germany (1901) First Nobel Prize of Peace Jean Henri Dunant (Switzerland) and Frederic Passy (France) in 1901 First Nobel Prize in Physics Wilhelm C. Roentgen of Germany (1901) First novel The story of Genji, was written in 1007 by Japanese noble woman, Murasaki Shikibu First Non-Italian Pope John Paul II (Poland) First Nuclear disaster Charnubal First Oscar Awards (Academy Awards) 1929 First person on the moon Neil Armstrong of USA (20 July 1969) First person to be convicted by the process of DNA fingerprinting Colin Pitchfork (1988) First person to circumnavigate the globe Ferdinand Magellan of Portugal (1519) First person to fly an airplane over Antarctica Sir George Hubert Wilkins (Australia) in 1928 First Person to reach Antarctica Captain James Cook First person to reach both poles Robert Swan First person to reach North Pole Robert Edwin Peary (USA) on 6th April 1909 First person to reach South Pole Captain Ronald Amandsen of Norway (14th Dec 1911) First Person to scale Mount Everest Edmond Hillary (New Zealand) and Tensing Norgay (Nepal) on 29th May, 1953 First person to scale Mount Everest twice Nawang Gombu Sherpa ( 20 May 1965) First person to swim the English Channel Matthew Webb, ( 1875) First person to walk in space Aleksei Leonov (USSR) during Voskhod 2 mission (1965) First person to win a Nobel Prize twice John Bardeen First postage stamp 1st May 1840 (England) first president of Angola Agostinho Antonio Neto (1975 – 1979) First President of Afghanistan Hamid Karazai (Nov 2004) First President of Algeria Ahmed Ben Bella (1963 – 1965) First President of Botswana Khama III (1966 – 80) First President of East Timor Jose Alexander Gus Mao (April 2002) First President of Egypt Mohammed Nequib First President of German Republic Friedrich Ebert First elected President of Ghana John Agyekum Kufuor (Jan 2001) First president of Guinea-Bissau Luis de Almeida Cabral (1974) First President of India Rajendra Prasad (26th Jan 1950 – 13th May 1962) First president of Indonesia Sukarno (1945 – 1968) First President of Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova (March 2002) First President of Malawi Hastings Kamuzu Banda (1966 – 1994) First President of Mexico Guadalupe Victoria First President of Namibia Sam Nujoma (1990 – 2005) First President of Nigeria Nnamdi Azikiwe (1963 – 66) First President of Turkish Republic Mustafa Kamal Pasha (1934) First President of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh (1945 – 1969) First President of Zambia Kennith Kaunda (1961 – 91) First Presidential elections in Afghanistan 9th Oct. 2004 First Prime Minister of Algeria Ahmed Ben Bella (1962–63) First Prime Minister of Australia Edmund Barton (1901) First Prime minister of Bangladesh Mujib-ur-Rehman First Prime Minister of Canada John Alexander McDonald First Prime Minister of China Zhou Enlai (1949 – 1976) First Prime Minister of India *** Jawaharlal Nehru First Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion First prime minister of Malaysia Abdul Rahman Putra Alhaj, Tunku First Prime Minister of Sri Lanka D. S. Senanayake First Prime Minister of UK Robert Walpole First printed book in English Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye First printing press in England William Caxton First programmable computer of the world 1500-valve Colossus First radio news program 8MK in Detroit, Michigan, USA (31 Aug, 1920) First Railway Stockton to Darlington (England) First recipient of liver transplant Lichirou Tsuruyama of Japan First recipient of UN Human Rights Award Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan First Regular Television Service Deutsche Fernshefunk (1935) First Republican president of America Abraham Lincoln First SAF games Kathmandu (Nepal) First satellite in the space Sputnik 1 (1st October 1957) First Secretary Gen. SAARC Abul Ahsan of Bengladesh (Jan 1987 – Oct 1989) First Secretary Gen UN Trygve Lie Foreign Minister of Norway (1945 – 1952) First Secretary Gen UN from Africa Boutros-Ghali (Egypt) 1992 – 96 First Secretary of state USA Thomas Jefferson First sentence by telephone On 10th March 1876 Graham Bell told his assistant, “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.” First session of the General Assembly 10th Jan 1946 in London First Sikh temple Kartarpur (Pakistan) First skyscraper of the world Home Insurance Building in Chicago First socialist ruler in American continent Fiedel Castro First Song on the Sun “Happy birthday to you” First street lights Philadelphia in 1757 First talkie film , “The Jazz Singer” released on 6th Oct 1927 in a cenima of New York. First sentence of the film was “Wait a minute!”. First test match on 15-19 March 1877 at Melbourne between Australia and England First test tube baby Louis Brown First translation of Bible into English John Wickliffe First tree on earth Date-palm First Twenty20 World Cup winner India in Australia in Sep 2007 (Pakistan was runner up) First underground Railway London (1863) First united Chinese empire Shi Huangdi First untouchable President of India Kocheril Raman Narayanan (1997 – 2002) First Urdu Novel *** Mira’ at-ul-Uroos First UN member to be expelled Taiwan First US administrator for Iraq Paul Bremer First US black ambassador to UN Andrew Young (1977) First US President to die during presidency William Henry Harrison (He wore gloves to protect himself from infection, he nicknamed “Kid-glove”) First US President to be impeached Andrew Johnson (1868) First US President of win a Nobel Prize Theodore Roosevelt (1906) First US soldier to be killed in Vietnam war James Davis (22nd Dec 1961) First US state to ratify US constitution Delaware First US state to secede from union South Carolina First US Vice President to resign Spiro T. Agnew (Oct 11, 1973) First US Vice President to serve as acting President George Herbert Walker Bush, when Ronald Reagan underwent surgery for three hours First winter Olympics 1924 in Chamonix (France) First woman Air vice Marshal in India P. Bindo Padhya First US woman Ambassador Eugenie Moore First woman cabinet member in UK Margaret Grace Bondfield First woman Cabinet member in USA Frances Perkins (Secretary of labour) First woman Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel First woman Foreign Minister of UK Margaret Beckett (Since May 2006) First woman in British Cabinet Margaret Bondfield First woman in British Parliament Lady Astor First woman Mathematician in the West Maria Gaetana Agnesi First woman member of House of Commons Nancy Witcher Astor First woman member of the House of Representatives Dame Enid Lyons First woman Nobel Laureate of literature Selma Lagerlöf of Sweden (1909) First woman president in the world Isabel Peron (Argentina): a dancer First woman president of Argentina Cristina Kirchner (Dec 2007) First woman President of India Pratibha Patil (Since July 2007) First Woman President of Indonesia Megawati Sukarnoputri First Woman President of Ireland Mary Robinson First woman President of Philippine Aquino Corazon (1986 – 92) First Woman President of Serbia and Montenegro Natasa-Micic (Since Jan. 2003) First Woman President of UN General Assembly Vijayalakshmi Pandit (India) First woman Prime Minister of Bangladesh Khalida Zia widow of General Zia-ur-Rehman, former President of Bangladesh First woman Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell First woman Prime Minister of Europe Margaret Hilda Thatcher of UK First woman Prime Minister of France Edith Cresson First Woman Prime Minister of Guyana Mrs Janet Jagan First Woman Prime Minister of Israel Mrs Golda Meir First Woman Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark (Nov 1999) First woman Prime Minister of South Korea Han Myung-Sook (Mar 2006) First Woman Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Sirimavo Bandaranaike First Woman Prime Minister of Turkey Cillar Tansu (1993 – 1996) First woman Prime Minister in the Muslim world Benazir Bhutto First Woman Prime Minister of the world Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka (1960) First woman Speaker of British Lower House of Parliament Betty Boothroyd (1992) First woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air Amelia Earhart First woman to reach North Pole Mrs Fran Phipps (5th April 1971) First woman to reach South Pole Group of Six (11th Nov 1969) First woman to receive Nobel Prize in literature Selma Lagerlof (Sweden) First woman to die on Mount Everest Hannelore Schmatz First woman to sail around the world Bougainville First woman to scale Mount Everest Junko Tabei (Japan) First woman to scale Mount Everest without oxygen Lydia Bradey of New Zealand ( 14 Nov 1988) First woman to swim across English Channel Gertrude Ederle First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal Charlotte Cooper (in 1900) First woman US Secretary of State Madeleine Corbel Albright First women Cricket match Inaugurated in 1934 when Australia and England Greatest Russian poet Alexander Pushkin Greatest scientific mind of the world Ian Stein Greatest wing span of a bird Wandering Albatross (12 ft) Heaviest hailstone 1 kg hailstone fell in District Gopal Ganj (Bangladesh) Heaviest rainfall in one month Cherapoonje (India) 36, 614 inches in July 1861 Highest Military Award of Belgium Military Cross Highest Military Award of Germany Knights Cross or Iron Cross Highest Military Award of India Param-Vir-Chakra Highest Military Award of Italy Medal for the valour Highest Military Award of Japan Order of the rising sun Highest Military Award of Russia Order of the Patriotic War Highest Military Award of UK Victoria Cross Highest Military Award of USA Medal of honour (about 1000 recipients) Highest peak of Africa Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) Highest peak of Australia Mount Kosciusko (Canberra) Highest peak of North America Mount McKinley (Alaska) (6,194 m) Highest Peak of the world Mount Everest ((29028 feet / 8850 m), Highest plateau in elevation Tibetan Plateau in China Highest point of earth Mount Everest Highest waterfall in the world Salt Angel Falls in the Guiana Highlands of SE Venezuela (978 m) Hottest place of the world Dalol Danaki (Ethiopia) Largest active volcano Mauna Loa in Hawaii (USA) Largest animal Blue Whales Largest bay in the world Bay of Bengal Largest bird in the world Ostrich of N Africa is the. It can run with a speed of 65 km/h. Largest boiling river A hot spring in Deildartunguhver (Iceland) 99 C Largest delta Sundarban in Bangladesh (8, 000 sq. miles) Largest desert of the world Sahara Desert (it covers most of the North Africa) Largest Dinosaur Sauropod Largest egg Ostrich (6 to 8 inches) Largest fish Whale Shark Largest flower Rafflesia (Java, Indonesia) Largest freshwater lake in Europe and Asia Lake Baikal in southern Siberia Largest gold deposit Witwatersrand (South Africa) Largest gulf in the world Gulf of Mexico Largest island* Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) Largest island of Mediterranean Sicily Largest leaves Raffia palm and Amazonian Bamboo palm (20 m) Largest living bird Ostrich Largest Manganese producer China and South Africa Largest Mammal Blue Whale Largest mountain range Himalaya Mountain range is the, which extends 2400 km Largest natural lake Caspian Sea Largest ocean in the world Pacific Ocean Largest peninsula in the world Saudi Arabia Largest planet in the Solar System Jupiter Its size is 1300 times that of earth. Largest Pyramid Pyramid of King Khufu (533 ft high, covering 13 acre) Largest river basin Amazon Basin Largest river gorge Grand Canyon in USA Largest river of South America Amazon (2nd largest in the world) Largest river of USA Mississippi Largest rubber producer Malaysia Largest sale of land USA purchased Louisiana on 20th Dec 1803 Largest salt-water lake Caspian Sea (3, 72, 000 sq. km) Largest sea in the world South China Sea Largest sea mammal Whale fish Largest Seaport Port of New York and New Jersey Largest Star Betelgeuse Largest tides Bay of Fundy (Canada) Largest tin producer China Largest wheat exporter USA Language without alphabets Chinese Last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaeologus Last Czar of Russia Nicholas II Last drama of Shakespeare “The Tempest” Last Governor General of Hong Kong Chris Patten (1992 – 1997) Last King of Afghanistan Zahir Shah (1933 - 1973) Last return of Halley’s Comet 1986 Last Russian to leave Afghanistan Commander 40th Army General-Lieutenant Boris Gromov (On 15th Feb 1989 at 10:30 am) Last Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hameed II (1876 – 1909) Longest canal Grand Canal of China (1,794 km) Longest Cave ` Mammoth-Flint Ridge in Kentucky (U.S.A) Longest Day of the year 21st June Longest frontier ` Between USA and Canada Longest glacier Lambert-Fisher Ice Passage in Antarctica (320 miles) Longest insect Stick insect Longest irrigation canal Karakumsky Kanal in Turkmenistan Longest lasting rainbow Sheffield (UK) 6 hours in 1994 Longest mountain range Andes in South America Longest reign as Queen in British history Queen Alexandrina Victoria (1837 – 1901) Longest Reign in Europe ` Louis XIV, King of France for 72 years Longest river of Afghanistan* Halmond Longest River of Africa Nile (3600 Miles) Longest river of Asia Chang Jiang (China) Longest river of Australia Murray Darling (Australia) Longest river of Europe Volga (Russia) Longest River of North America Mississippi (USA) Longest river of the world River Nile 6,741 km in length Longest serving head of state ever Pharaoh Pepi II of Egypt 2278 – 2184 BC (94 years) Longest shipping canal White Sea Baltic Canal in Baltimore (USA) 258 km Longest solar eclipse 20th June 1955 (7 minutes and 8 seconds), West of Philippine. An eclipse of 7 minutes and 29 seconds will occur in the mid-Atlantic Ocean on 16th July 2186. Longest swimming course English Channel of UK (564 km) Loneliest Island of the World ` Tristan De Cunha Loudest animal Blue Whale (188 decibels) Lowest point of Europe Caspian Sea Lowest point of the world Dead Sea Lowest railway track @ The track passing through Seikan Tunnel (Japan) Lowest test innings total` New Zealand (26 runs against England) Lowest town The Israeli settlement of the Ein Bokek, on the shores of the dead sea. Marathon race distance * 26 miles Most abundant gas in the air Nitrogen 78 % Most abundant insect Wasp Most abundant metal in earth’s crust Aluminium Most abundant mineral in human body ** Calcium (2½ pounds) Most active volcano Kilauea in Hawaii (USA) Most active volcanoes Indonesia Most Alphabets Khmer (Cambodian) with 74 Alphabets Most billionaires USA Most Common Element Hydrogen is over 90% in the universe, 70.68 % in solar system and 36 % in the earth. Most common punctuation *** Comma Most consecutive Olympic individual Gold Medals` Al Oerter of USA (4 consecutive titles for Discus) and Carl Lewis of USA for long jump. Most consecutive Olympic Gold Medals won by Woman` Birgit Fischer of Germany (4 gold medals for canoeing) Most densely populated country ` Monaco Most densely populated territory Macao (South China) Most densely populated island ` Java, Indonesia Most difficult language Basque (spoken in Spain and France) Most extensive high plateau ` The Tibetan Plateau Most famous painting of Pablo Picasso Guermica Most infectious disease ` Pneumonic form of Plague Most intelligent animal Chimpanzee Most intelligent person Aristotle Most islands Indonesia 17000 islands Most lakes and rivers Canada (8.9 % of total area) Most land frontiers China (14, 900 miles frontier with 12 countries) Most languages Papua New Guinea Most official languages Republic of South Africa (11) Most played game of the world ` Football Most poisonous metal Platinum Most populous city ` Tokyo (Japan) Most populous continent Asia Most populous country China Most populous country in Africa Nigeria Most populous Islamic country Indonesia Most populous metropolitan Mexico City Most populous state of India Utter Pradesh Most Populous State of USA California Most Precious Metal Platinum Most prolific cannibal Ratu Udre of Fiji (He ate between 872 to 999 people) Most ribs *** Most scaling of Mount Everest Sherpa of Nepal (12 times till July 2007) Most Sculptures in world ` Lenin (1917 – 24 AD) Most sparsely populated country ` Mongolia Most sparsely populated island ` Greenland (renamed Kalaallit Nunaat) Most species of insect Beetle Most spoken language Mandarin (Chinese) Most Successful Military Commander of Rome Julius Caesar Most talented golfer of 20th century Jack William Nicklaus of USA Most valuable painting of 20th Century “Woman with crossed arms” created by Pablo Picasso (55 Million Dollars) Most Volcanoes ` Indonesia (127) most widely used metal Iron National anthem of USA “The Star-Spangled Banner” National Emblem of Austria Eagle National Emblem of Canada Maple Leaf National Emblem of China Narcissus National Emblem of Denmark Beach National Emblem of Egypt Lotus National Emblem of Finland Lion National Emblem of France Lily National Emblem of India Ashoka, Chakra, Lotus National Emblem of Iran Rose National Emblem of Kuwait Falcon National Emblem of New Zealand Kiwi National Emblem of Pakistan Crescent National Emblem of Russia Bear National Emblem of USA Eagle National flower of Britain Rose National flower of China Narcissus National flower of Italy Lily National game of USA Baseball National Motto of USA “In God we trust” National poet of Bangladesh Qazi Nazar-ul-Islam National poet of Ireland Tom Moore National poet of Scotland Robert Burns Nationalization of Suez canal by Pres. Nasir *** 1956 Nearest planet from Sun Mercury Nearest star Alpha Centauri (40 million km) Nick Name of USA Uncle Sam Nickname of UK John Bull Oldest Airline K.L.M of Netherlands Oldest Army Swiss Guard in the Vatican City (Rome,Italy) Oldest capital city Damascus (Syria) founded in 2500 BC Oldest Civilization Sumerian Civilization Oldest era of world history Precambrian era (4500 million to 590 million years ago), it was followed by Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Cainozoic. Oldest flag Denmark Oldest Language Chinese Oldest living civilization China Oldest Living Things creosote bushes (12000 years) Oldest monarchy Imperial House of Japan (Since 11 Feb 660 BC) Oldest national anthem Kimigayo of Japan Oldest of the Seven Wonders of the World Pyramids in Giza (2575 BC – 2467 BC) Oldest Parliament Iceland (since 930 AD) Oldest person in the space John Herschel Glenn of USA Oldest person to scale Mount Everest` Tamae Watanabe of Japan (63 years on 16th May 2002) Oldest president of USA James Knox Polk Oldest printed book “Hiraka Sutra” (868 AD) Oldest republic (constitutional) San Marino (3rd Sep 301 AD) Oldest Surviving Building Pyramids of Egypt Oldest town Ariha (renamed as Jericho) in Jordan Oldest US President` James Knox Polk Oldest University of the world Al-Azhar University in Cairo Oldest wooden structures Oldest World No. 1 Tennis Player` Andre Agassi (33 years) Only American Civil War battle fought on Northern soil Battle of Gettysburg only animal who doesn’t drink water Koala bear Only bird that can smell Kiwi Only island state of USA Hawaii Only land bird that can fly backward Hamming Bird Only Mammal that can fly Bat Only person to be awarded Nobel Prize and Lenin peace prize ` Mr. Seaw McBride Only US president not elected to the presidency or vice presidency ` Ford Only US President to be elected unanimously George Washington Only US President to serve more than twice Franklin D. Roosevelt Only US president to serve two non-consecutive terms Stephen Grover Cleveland Only wonder of the 7 wonders still present Pyramids in Giza (Egypt) Only world in English ending at “hth” Eighth Parliament of Afghanistan Loya-Jirga Parliament of Bahrain Consultative Council Parliament of China National Peoples Congress Parliament of Denmark Folketing Parliament of Germany Bundesrat Parliament of Iran Majlis Parliament of Israel Knesset Parliament of Japan Diet Parliament of Nepal Rashriya-Panchayat Parliament of Netherlands States General Parliament of Poland Sejm Parliament of Qatar Advisory Council Parliament of Russia Duma Parliament of Spain Corte’s Parliament of Sweden Reichstag Re-unification of Germany 3rd October 1990 Re-unification of Yemen 22nd May 1990 Sacred Scripture of Buddhism Tripitak Sacred Scriptures of Hinduism Vedas, Bhagavad-Gita, Mahabharata, and Ramayana Sacred scripture of Jews Taurat Sacred Scripture of Sikhism Granth Sahib (Revered Book) Sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism Zind-a-Besta and Avesta Second Atom bomb target Nagasaki (Japan) on 9th August 1945 Second bowler to have 400 wickets in One-day Waqar Younis (Dec. 2002) Second Grand Slam of Tennis Rod Laver (Australia) Second Highest peak *** K2 (28250 Feet / 8611 m) Second highest peak of Himalaya Kanchenjunga (28, 208 feet) Second highest peak of Karakoram Gasherbrum I (26, 230 feet) Second Holiest place for Buddhists Buddhgaya in Bihar Second Intifada Since 29th September 2000 Second largest continent Africa Second Largest country ` Canada (38, 51, 809 sq. miles) Second Largest country of Europe ` Ukraine Second largest desert Gobi (China) Second largest freshwater lake ` Victoria Lake (Africa) Second largest gold producer USA Second largest island New Guinea Second largest natural lake Superior Lake (Canada-USA) Second largest ocean Atlantic ocean (Between Europe and North America) Second Largest Oil Producer` Iraq Second Largest religion *** Islam Second Longest River ` Amazon (South America) Second most intelligent creature Spider Second most populous city Seoul (North Korea) Second most populous continent Europe Second most populous Country India Second most populous Muslim country Pakistan Second smallest continent Europe Second Person to walk on the moon Buzz Aldrin Second President of USA John Adams (1797-1801) Second US President to be impeached William Jefferson Clinton Second US president to win Nobel Prize Woodrow Wilson Secondary Colours Purple, Green and Orange Shortest coastline Monaco (3.49 miles) Shortest day of year 22nd December Shortest person Younis Edwan (2 ft 1.6 inches) Shortest Presidency of a US President ` William Henry Harrison (31 days) died of Pneumonia Shortest river Roe River (201 ft) Shortest reign as British Queen ` Lady Jane Grey (9 days) Shortest reign as Monarch ` Luis Filipe Crown Prince of Portugal20 minutes Slowest Animal Snail (2 to feet per minute) Slowest growing tree White cedar Slowest creature Conch-Shell (Shellfish-snail) Slowest planet Pluto Smallest Animal Sloth Smallest Bird Hummingbird Smallest bone in human body Stapes or Stirrup bone in middle ear Smallest continent Australia Smallest country of Africa ` Gambia Smallest country of former Soviet Republics ` Armenia Smallest Islamic Country ` Maldives (300 sq. km) Smallest mammal Pygmy Shrew (2.5 g) Smallest ocean Indian Ocean Smallest planet Pluto, diameter 2320 km Smallest state of UAE Ajman Smallest Satellite Deimos Smallest Star Neutron Stars Speed of tortoise 4.6 meter in a minute Strongest bone in human body Femur Strongest muscles in human body Jaw Tallest Animal Giraffe Tallest bird Ostrich Tallest man Robert Pershing Wadlow (8 ft 11 inches) Theory of Evolution Charles Darwin Theory of Isotopes Soddy Theory of Natural Selection Charles Robert Darwin Theory of Relativity *** Albert Einstein Theory of rise and fall of societies Ibn-e-Khaldun (In the preface of his book “Kitab-ul-Ibrar”) Third highest peak of the world Kanchenjunga (Nepal-India, 28, 208 feet) Third largest country China (36, 91, 314 sq. miles) Third largest lake Lake Victoria (Kenya-Tanzania and Uganda) Third longest river of the world *** ` Yangtze Kiang (China) Third most populous city Sao Paulo (Brazil) Third Reich (1933-1945) Dictatorship of Hitler in Germany Unit of electric current Ampere Unit of electrical resistance Ohm Unit of electric power Watt Upper house of British Parliament *** House of lords Upper house of German Parliament Bundesrat Upper house of Indian Parliament Rajia Sabha Western most point of Africa Dakar |
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Blood in human body 7 – 8 litres
Breathing of a normal man 18 times in a minute chromosomes in the human body 46 Densest planet Earth First acid to be discovered Acetic Acid First Aeroplane Flight Wilber Wright and Orwell Wright (USA) on 17th Dec 1903 First aeroplane flight across the English Channel Louis Bleriot First airplane flight over the North Pole 9th May 1926 (Floyd Bennett and Richard E. Byrd) First Alloy Bronze First analogue computer Lord Kelvin First Antibiotic Penicillin (1941) discovered by Alexander Fleming First Atom Bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer First Atomic Bomb use 6th August 1945 on Hiroshima (Japan) First British woman physician Elizabeth Garrett Anderson First Chinese astronaut in space Col. Yang Liwei (15 Oct 2003) First clone of human beings 27th Dec. 2002 First computer programmer Augusta Ada First Digital computer 1946 First draft of DNA Francis Crick and James Watson (1953) First draft of the human genome sequence February 2001 First drawings of cells Robert Hooke (In his “Micrographia”) First environment pact 10th June 2002 in Kuala Lumpur (ASEAN countries signed it) First flight around the world 16th April 1924 First Flight of Space Shuttle 4th December, 1981 manned by John Young and Robert Crippen First fruit tree Date-palm First general-purpose orbiting observatory Hubble Space Telescope (Launched on April 24, 1990, named after US astronomer Edwin P. Hubble) First Heart Transplant *** Dr. Christian Neethling Barnard (South Africa) Dec. 3, 1967 First Hydrogen bomb test (USA) Nov 1952 at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific First liver transplant recipient Lichirou Tsuruyama of Japan (July 1889) First lunar probe Luna 1, (Launched by USSR on 2nd Jan 1959) First man to walk in space Alexei Leonov (Russian Astronaut in 1965) First man to walk on the moon Neil Alden Armstrong USA on 21st July 1969 First man-made object to leave the solar system Pioneer 10 First modern woman doctor Elizabeth Blackwell First non-stop balloon journey around the world Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard (1999) First non-stop solo flight across Atlantic Ocean Charles Augustus Lindbergh (USA) First Nuclear test Alamogordo desert (New Mexico in USA) (July 16, 1945 before dawn) First person in space Yuri Gagarin (USSR) on 12th April 1961, when he orbited the Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft First person to fly in a balloon Dr. Pilatre de Rozier first person to walk on the moon Neil Armstrong (USA) on 21st July 1969 First programmable digital computer Z3, 1941 First programmable electronic computer Colossus, 1943 First programmer Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852) First Satellite in space Sputnik 1 (1st Oct 1957 by Russia) First sighting of Halley’s Comet 240 BC by Chinese First solid-state computer 1960 (USA) First space shuttle flight Columbia (1981) First spacecraft to orbit Saturn Cassini-Huygens July 1, 2004 First supersonic flight Captain Charles Elwood Yeager (14th Oct 1947) First test tube baby A girl Louise Brown (July 25, 1978) First talking film “Lights of New York” (1928) First transcontinental flight 10th Dec 1911 (Flown by Calbraith P. Rodgers) First unmanned landing on Mars 1971 by USA First US space station Skylab-I First US spacecraft to reach moon Ranger 4 First US woman in space Sally K. Ride (Challenger on 4th April 1983) First weather satellite in orbit 17th Feb, 1959 (US Navy launched it) First Woman in space Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (USSR) 16 – 19 June 1963 First woman physician of USA Elizabeth Blackwell First woman to cross Atlantic Ocean by air Amelia Earhart First woman to walk in space Svetlana Savitskaya ( 1984) “Floating bodies law” Archimedes Gas in balloon Helium hardest thing present in a human body Dental enamel Highest electrical conductivity Silver metal Joints in human body 236 Largest bone Thigh Bone Largest comet The object 2060 Chiron (discovered in 1977) Largest invertebrate Giant Squid Largest Meteor Crater New Quebec (Canada) Largest Planet Jupiter (diameter 88,844 miles) Largest Satellite ` Ganymede Largest Star Betelgeuse (500 times greater than the Sun) Least Abundant element Radio active gas Random Least dense planet Saturn Longest bone in human body Femur or Thighbone Longest cell in human body Nerve cells (Neurons) 4 feet and 3 inches Maximum duration of eclipse 7 minutes and 31 seconds Most common element in the atmosphere Nitrogen Most common element in the universe Hydrogen most easily breakable bone of human body Collar bone Most expensive metal Platinum Nearest planet from the Sun Mercury Normal blinking of human eyes 20,000 times a day Normal Blood Pressure 120/80 mm Hg. Normal breathing of human 20 times per minute Normal Pulse rate 70 Per Min Normal Temperature of human beings 98.4 F, 36.9 C Oldest known disease Leprosy Only birds that can see the blue colour Owls Only food that does not spoil Honey Only part of body without blood supply Cornea of the eyes Only planet to rotate clockwise Venus Planet nearest to the earth Venus Planet with most moons Jupiter Planet with most satellites Jupiter (39) (Diameter of 142, 800 km, 2.5 times more mass than all the other planets) Planets with no moon Mercury and Venus Planet with strongest magnetic field Jupiter Ribs in human body 24 Shortest wavelength colour Blue Smallest bone in human body Stapes or Stirrup bone Strongest muscle masseter muscle, which is located in the jaw Velocity of light 2,99,729.458 km Water in human body 85%. Weight of the brain of a man 4.8 ounces (Men) 4.4 ounces (Women) |
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One Acre 43560 sq feet or 0.4047 hectares
One Carat 200 Milligrams One Centimetre 0.3937 Inches One fathom 6 feet One Foot 0.3048 metres One Furlong 660 feet One Gigabyte (GB) 1024 Megabytes One Grain 64.799 milligrams One Hectare 2.471 Acres One Horsepower 746 Watts/ 1000 Kilowatts One inch * 2.54 Centimetres One Kilobyte 1,024 bytes One kilogram 2.205 Pounds One Kilometre 0.621 Miles One League 3 miles One Light year 9461,000 million km ( 5875,000 million miles ) One Maund 40 seer One Megabyte (MB) 1024 Kilobytes One Megawatt one-lakh watts One Meter 3.281 feet or 39.37 inches or 1.094 yards One metric ton 1,000 kg One micron One-thousandth of a millimeter One Mile 1.609 km (0.6214 × km) One nautical mile * 1853 meter One Ounce * 28.350 grams One Pound (lb) 16 ounces One Quintal 100 kg One Seer 0.9331 kg One sq centimetre 0.155 sq inches One sq inch 6.4516 sq centimeters One sq kilometer 0.386 sq miles One sq meter 10.764 sq feet One sq mile 640 Acres One sq yard 0.836 sq meter One stone 6.350 kg One Tola 11.636 grams 1000 thousands 1 million 1000 millions 1 billion 1000 billions 1 trillion 1000 trillions 1 quadrillion 1000 quadrillions 1 quintillion 1000 quintillions 1 sextillion 1000 sextillions 1 septillion 1000 septillions 1 octillion 1000 octillions 1 nonillion 1000 nonillions 1 decillion One Yard 3 Feet or 0.9144 metre |
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Abacus China
Achromatic Lens John Dolland Adding Machine Blaise Pascal Addressing Machine J. S. Duncan Air Brake George Westinghouse Air Conditioning Willis H. Carrier Air Plane with motor Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright Air Plane Jet Engine Ohain Air Pump Guericke Arc Lamp Humphry Davy Automatic Pilot Air Plane Sperry Automobiles Dainler Ball Point John Loud Balloon J. Mand and Montogolfier Barbed wire Joseph Glidden Barometer Evangelista Torricelli Bicycle Karl D Von Sauerbronn Bifocal Lens Benjamin Franklin Blast Furnace J. B. Neilson Bleaching Powder ** Tennant Blood Groups Kari Landsteiner Bottle Making Machine Michael Owens Camera (Photographic) Joseph N. Niepce Carburettor Gottlieb Daimler Cash Register James Ritty Cathode Ray Tube William Crookes Cement Joseph Aspdin Chronometer John Harrison Circuit Breaker *** Hilliard Cloud Chamber Charles Wilson Coloured Photography Frederic Ives and Gabriel Lippman Condensed Milk Gail Borden Cotton Gin Eli Whitney Cultivator Henry Burden Cylinder Lock Linus Yale Jr. Dictating Machine Charles Taintor Diesel Engine *** Rudolf C. K. Diesel Digital Calculating Machine Charles Babbage Double Chamber Donald Glaser Dynamite *** Alfred B. Nobel Electric Automobile William Morrison Electric Battery Alessandro Volta Electric Fan Wheeler Electric Flat Iron Henry Seeley Electric Generator * Hippolyte Pixii Electric Motor Michael Faraday Electric Railway Wemer Von Siemens Electric Shaver Jacob Schick Electric Stove William S. Hadaway Electric Vacuum Cleaner James Spangler Electric Welding Elihu Thomson Electrocardiogram William Einthoven Electronic Computer J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly Electromagnet William Sturgeon Electron Microscope Vladimir Zworykin Electroplating Luigi Brugnatelli Firearm Magazine Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson Flying Shuttle Johan Kay Fountain Pen *** Lewis E Waterman Frequency Modulation (FM) Broadcasting Edwin Armstrong Galvanometer Johann Scheweigger Gas Burner Robert W. Bunsen Gas Engine (four cycle) Nikolus August Otto Gas Turbine Bourdin Gramophone (disk record) Emile Berliner Hard Water Soap Berstsch Helicopter Igor Sikorsky Homeopathic treatment Samuel Hahnemann Hydraulic press Joseph Brahmah Ice Machine Jhon Gorrie Internal Combustion Automobile Gottlieb Daimler Internal Combustion Engine Jean Lenior Jet Engine Frank Whittle Judo Dr. Jigoro Kano in Japan in 1882 Kaleidoscope David Brewster Knitting Machine William Lee Kodak Camera Eastman and Walker Life Preserver John Edwards Logarithm John Napier Machine Gun Richard J. Gatling Micrometer William Gascoigne Microphone Alexander Graham Bell Miner’s Safety Lamp Humphry Davy Modern Bicycle Starley Motion Pictures (Camera) Edward Muybridge and Johan D. Issacs Mouse of computer Douglas Engel Bart Motorcycle Edward Butler Motor Scooter Greville Bradshaw Mowing Machine Peter Gaillard Multi-motored Air Plane Igor Sikorsky Nylon Hippolyte Oil Lamp with Glass Chimney Aime Argand Paper *** Egyptians (3500 BC) Paper Machine Dickinson Parachute Louis S. Lenormand passenger Elevator Elisha G. Otis Pendulum Clock Christian Huggens Photographic Paper Backeland Talbot Photography Louis Daguerre Photo phone Alexander Graham Bell Photographic Camera Joseph N. Niepce Piano *** Cristofori Pluto Clyde Tom Baugh (1930) Printing press Johann Gutenberg Radar Robert Watson Radium Mario Curie Pierre Curie Railway engine Richard Trevithick Razor blade King Camp Gillette Refrigerator Ferdinand Carre Revolver Smuel Colt Rifle August Kotter Rifle Bullet Claude E. Minie Rocket Engine Goddard Safety Match Gustave E. Pasch Safety pin Walter Hunts Scissors Leonardo Da Vinci Screw Propeller John Stevens and John Ericsson Sewing Machine Elias Howe Shorthand system Sir Isaac Pitman Slide Rule William Oughtred Spectroscope Joseph Fraunhofer Spinning Machine James Hargreaves Stainless Steel Harry Brearley Steamboat Jouffroy d’ Abbans Stereoscope Charles Whealstone Submarine Holland Switchboard Edgar T. Holmes Tank Emest D. Swinton Telegraph (Wireless) Marconi Telephone Alexander Graham Bell Telescope Galileo Television John L. Baird Thermometer Galileo Galilie Thermometer (Mercury) Gabriel D. Fahrenheit Thermos Bottle James Dewar Threshing Machine Michael Menzies Time Recorder Bundy Toaster (Automatic) Charles Strite Torpedo Submarine David Bushnell Tractor Robert Keeley Transformer (AC) William Stanley Transistor Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley Trigonometry Hipparchus Turbine Charles Parson Typewriter Henry Mill Vacuum Bottle James Dewar Vacuum Cleaner I. W. McGaffey Violin Andrea Amati Washing Machine Alva J. Fisher Weaving Machine John Kay writing 5, 500 years ago writing system for blind Luis Bralle (France) X-Ray Roentgen Zero digit Aryabhatta |
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A continent decides Lord Birdwood
A Dream Play August Strindberg A Game of Hide and Seek Elizabeth Taylor A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare A room of one’s own Virginia Woolf A study of history Arnold Joseph Toynbee A wreath of roses Elizabeth Taylor Abu Bin Adhem Leigh Hunt Adonais Shelley Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Aeneid Virgil Aerodrome Rex Warner Aladdin and the Lamp Walter Crane Alice’s adventures in the wonderland Lewis Carroll All’s well that ends well Shakespeare Ambassadors Henry James America; the beautiful Katherine Lee Bates An essay on criticism Alexander Pope Ancient Mariner Coleridge Anderson’s fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen Animal Farm George Orwell Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Anthony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare Armies of the Night Norman Mailer Around the world in eighty days Jules Verne Art of Cricket Don Bradman As you like it Shakespeare The Awakening Kate Chopin Axel’s Castle Edmund Wilson Ben Hur* Lewis Wallace Between the Acts Virginia Woolf Beyond good and evil Friedrich Nietzsche Biographia Literaria S. T. Coleridge Birth of Briton” Winston Churchill Bleak House Charles Dickens Bridge of time Sarojini Naidu Brighton Rock Graham Greene Canon of Medicine Avicenna Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer Carbury Family Anthony Trollope The castle Franz Kafka Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole Christabel S. T. Coleridge Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Civilization on Trial Arnold Toynbee Clarissa: or, The History of a Young Lady Samuel Richardson Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons Comedy of Errors* William Shakespeare Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The complete angler Izaak Walton The Conquest of Happiness Bertrand Russell Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell Creative Evolution * Henry Bergson Creditors August Strindberg Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold Daffodils William Wordsworth Daisy Miller Henry James Dance of death Wystan Hugh Auden Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell Das Capital Karl Marx David Copper field Charles Dickens The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy Decameron Boccaccio Decline and fall of the Roman Empire Gibbon Dialogues Plato Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Rousseau Divine Comedy Dante (Italy) Dr Zhivago Boris Pasternak Don Quixote Cervantes (Spanish) Dracula Bram Stoker Dynasts Thomas Hardy East to West: A Journey Round the World Arnold Toynbee Emma Jane Austin Essay on man Alexander Pope The Faerie Queen Edmund Spenser Far fetched fables George Bernard Shaw Far from madding crowd Thomas Hardy Farewell to cricket Don Bradman The father August Strindberg Flowers of evil Baudelaire For the term of his natural life Marcus Clarke For Whom the Bell Tolls Earnest Hemingway Frankenstein Mary Shelley Free Fall William Golding Freedom in exile Dalai Lama French Revolution Thomas Carlyle From Here to Eternity James Jones The Ghost Sonata August Strindberg Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore Go tell it on the mountain James Baldwin Golden Ass) Lucius Apuleius Gone with the wind Margaret Mitchell Good Soldier Ford Madox Great contemporaries Winston Churchill Great Expectations Charles Dickens Green Book Moammer Qaddafi Gulistan Sheikh Sa’adi Gulliver’s travels * Jonathan Smith Hamlet Shakespeare Hard times Charles Dickens Harry Porter and the deathly hallows Mrs. J.K. Rowling Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad The Heart of the matter Graham Greene Hellenism: The History of a Civilization Arnold Joseph Toynbee Heroes and hero-worship Thomas Carlyle Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle Hiroshima John Hersey History of Arabs Philip K Hitti History of England Thomas Macaulay History of English Literature Hippolyte Taine History of Mr. Polly H.G. Wells The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Human Comedy Honoré de Balzac The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky Iliad Homer Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde In Cold Blood Truman Capote In Memoriam Lord Alfred Tennyson The island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells The informer Liam O Flaherty Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Joan of Arc George Bernard Shaw Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy Julius Caesar Shakespeare Jungle book Rudyard Kippling Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson Kim Rudyard Kippling King Lear William Shakespeare Kipps H. G. Wells Kulliyat Faizi L’Allergo John Milton ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ John Keats Lady Chatterley’s Lover D. H. Lawrence Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby Le Morte Darthur Sir Thomas Malory Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman The legend of sleep Hollow Washington Irving Light of Asia Sir Edwin Arnold Little women Louisa May Alcott Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela Lord of rings J. R. R. Tolkien Lost generation John Dos Passos Lost Horizon James Hilton The lost world Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Love story Erich Segel Love’s cure Beaumont and Fletcher Love’s labour lost Shakespeare Love’s pilgrimage Upton Sinclaire Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Man and superman George Bernard Shaw Macbeth William Shakespeare Mansfield Park Jane Austin Masnawi Maulana Room and Hafiz Tabrizi Mayfair Michael Arien Measure for measure William Shakespeare Meeting by the River Christopher Isherwood Memoirs Richard Nixon Merchant of Venice Shakespeare The merry adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle Micrographia Robert Hooke (1665) Middle March George Eliot Mien Kemp Adolf Hitler Mill on the Floss George Eliot Miss Julie August Strindberg Moby Dick Herman Melville Moonstone Wilkie Collins The Mouse Trap Dame Agatha Christie Much Ado about nothing William Shakespeare Murder of Roger Ackroyd Dame Agatha Christie My land, my people Dalai Lama My Life Bill Clinton Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer Nakshikanthar (Bengali) Jasim-ud-din New Arabian Nights R. L. Stevenson Night and Day Virginia Woolf Nineteen Eighty – Four George Orwel Northanger Abbey Jane Austin Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad Notes from the underground Fyodor Dostoevsky Novum Organum Francis Bacon Ode to west wind P. B. Shelley Odyssey Homer Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham Old man and the sea Earnest Hemingway Oliver Twist Charles Dickens On the sublime Longinus Origin of Species Charles Darwin Oroonoko or the Royal Slave Aphra Behn Othello William Shakespeare Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens Outline of the history of the world H. G. Wells Pale fire Vladimir Nabokov Palestine; peace not apartheid Jimmy Carter Pamela Samuel Richardson Paradise lost John Milton Paradise Regained John Milton Path to power Margaret Thatcher Persuasion Jane Austin Pick wick papers Charles Dickens The picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan Pleasant and unpleasant George Bernard Shaw Portrait of a Lady Henry James Portrait of Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Pride and prejudice * Jane Austin The Prince Machiavelli Princess of Cleves Madame de La Fayette Principia Isaac Newton Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw Rape of the lock Alexander Pope The Raven Edgar Allan Poe The Recovery Avicenna The Red and the Black Stendhal The red badge of courage Stephen Crane Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust Republic Plato Resurrection Tolstoy Revelations of Divine Love Julian Revolution and independence William Wordsworth The ring and the book Robert Browning Road to freedom Bertrand Russell Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne ‘The Scholar Gipsy’ Matthew Arnold Sense and Sensibility Jane Austin Seven pillars of wisdom John Ruskin Shakuntala Kalidas The Ship of Fools Alexander Barclay "The Sleeping Beauty" Charles Perrault Social Contract Jean Jacques Rousseau Sohrab-o-Rustam * William Blake Songs of experience William Blake Songs of innocence William Blake Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill Sword of honour Even Waugh System of logic John Stuart Mill The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu Tale of two cities * Charles Dickens Tales of unrest Joseph Canvas Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare Tempest Shakespeare Tenant of Wild fell Hall Charlotte Bronte Theory of Moral Sentiments Adam Smith The Thirty Nine Steps John Buchan Three ghost stories Charles Dickens Time Machine Herbert George Well Tom Jones Henry Fielding Tragic History of Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlow Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne Turn of the Screw Henry James War of the worlds H.G. Wells Waste Land T. S. Eliot Wild Goose Chase Rex Warner Winter tales Shakespeare Tom Jones Henry Fielding Travels in Arabian deserts C. M. Doughty Treatise of human nature Allan Octavian Hume Treasure island R. L. Stevenson The Trial Franz Kafka Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Ulysses James Joyce Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry Utopia Sir Thomas Moore Vanity Fair William Thackeray Vanity of human wishes Dr. Samuel Johnson The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf War and peace * Leo Tolstoy The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells Waste Land T.S. Eliot The Waves Virginia Woolf The way of all flesh Samuel Butler Way of the world Congreve Wealth of nations Adam Smith Witness for the Prosecution Dame Agatha Christie Women in love D.H. Lawrence Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte “Ahya-e-Uloom-Ud-Din” Imam Ali Ghazali “Anwar-ut-Tanzil” Allama Baidawi “Arab Ka Chand” Swami Luxman Prasad “Aurang Shahi” Hazrat Sultan Bahu “Awarif-ul-Ma’arif” Umar Bin Muhammad Shahab-ud-din Soharwardi “Bahishti-Zewar” Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi “Chemia-e-Sa’adat” Imam Ali Ghazali “Dalil-ul-Arifin” Khawaja Qutb-ud-din Bakhtiar Kaki “Dastoor-ul-Tib” Bu Ali Sina “Fauz-ul-Kabir” Shah Wali-ullah “Fawaid-e-Fuad” Amir Hassan Sijzi “Fusus-ul-Hikmah” Ibn Arabi “Futuh-ul-Baldan” Balazari “Futuh-ul-Ghaib” Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani “Al-Futuhat-ul-Makkiya” Ibn-e-Arabi “Fuyuz-ul-Harmain” Shah Wali-ullah “Ghalba-e-Room” Maulana Zafar Ali Khan “Ghaniat-ut-Talibin” Abdul Qadir Jilani “Hidaya” Maulana Burhan-ud-din Mehmood Balkhi “Hujjat-ullah-Al-Baligha” Hazrat Shah Wali-ullah “Isbat-un-Nabuwwat” Hazrat Mujaddid Alf Sani “Itqan-Fi-Uloom-ul-Quran” Allama Jalal-ud-Din Siyuti “Iqtisad-Fil-Aitiqad” Imam Ali Ghazali “Al-jabr wa’l-muqabala” Muhammad bin Musa Al-Khawarizmi “Al-Jihad Fil Islam” Maulana Maududi “Al-Judari-wa-al-Hasbah” Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Zakaria al-Razi “Hujatulla al-Baligha” Sha Wali-ullah “Hussain o Yazid” Imam Ibn-e-Timia “Kanz-ul-Iman” Ahmed Raza Khan Brelvi “Kashf-ul-Asrar” Hazrat Sultan Bahu “Kashf-ul-Mahjoob” Hazrat Ali Hajveri Data Ganj Bux “Kitab-ul-Baldan” Yaqubi “Kitab-ul-Haiwan” Al-Jahiz “Kitab-ul-Hawi” Abu Bakar Muhammad Al-Razi “Kitab-ul-Ibrar” Ibn-e-Khaldun “Kitab-ul-Kharaj” Imam Abu Yousaf (RA) “Kitab-ul-Ma’arif” Ibn-e-Qutaiba Author of “Kitab-ul-Manazir” Ibn-ul-Haitham “Kitab-ul-Mausiqi” * Al-Farabi “Kitab-ul-Shifa” Bu Ali Sina “Kitab-ul-Tanbih” Abul Hassan Ali Masudi “Kitab-us-Surat-ul-Ard” Al-Khawarizmi “Kulliyat” Ibn Rushd “Life of the prophet (SAW)” Ibn Hisham “Mad-o-Jazar-e-Islam” Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali “Masharaq-ul-Anwar” Imam Hassan al-Saghani “Mauta Imam Malik” Imam Malik Bin Anas “Mohsin-e-Insaniat” Naeem Siddiqui “Muhammad Ki Sarkar” Sardar Godart Singh “Muhammad; the prophet” Muhammad Ali “Muqaddamah” Ibn Khaldun “Noor-ul-Quran” Mirza Ghulam Ahmed Qadiani “Personal Muhammadan Law” Justice Syed Ameer Ali Al-Qanoon-Fit-Tib” Bu Ali Sina “Qaseeda Burda Sharif” Imam Sharf-ud-din Al-Bosiri “Rahat-ul-Quloob” Khawaja Nizam-ud-din Auliya “Rasool-e-Rehmat” Maulana Azad “Reconstruction of religious thought in Islam” * Allama Muhammad Iqbal “Safar Nama Sheikh-ul-Hind” Hussain Ahmed Madni “Shah Nama” Firdausi “Shah-Nama-e-Islam” Hafeez Jalandhri “Shahadat-e-Haq” Maulana Maududi “Shamail-e-Trimzi” Imam Muhammad Tirmizi “Si’r-ul-Ajam” Shibli Nu’mani “Sir-ul-Asrar@” Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakaria al-Razi “Sirat-e-Mustaqim” Syed Ahmed Brelvi “Sirat-un-Nabi” Maulana Shibli Nomani “Sirat-ur-Rasulullah (SAW)” Ibn Ishaq “Spirit of Islam” Justice Syed Ameer Ali “Sunan Bahiqi” Abu Bakr Ahmed Al Hassan Bahiqi “Sunan Dar Qatni” Abul Hassan Ali Dar Qatni “Sunan Darmi” Abu Muhammad Abdullah Bin Abdul Rehman Darmi “Sunan Hakim” Muhammad Hakim “Tafhim-ul-Quran” Maulana Abul A’la Maudoodi “Tafseer-e-Haqqani” Maulvi Abdul Haq “Tafseer-e-Kabir” Fakhruddin Muhammad Razi “Tafseer-e-Kashshaf” Abul-Qasim Mahmud Zamakhshari “Tafseer-e-Mazahri” Qazi Sana-ullah Panipati “Tafseer-e-Tibri” Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Tibri “Tafseer Ibn-e-Kathir” Abul-Fida Ismail Ibn-e-Kathir “Taqwiyyat-ul-Iman” Shah Ismail Shaheed “Tarikh-e-Kabir” Ibn-e-Asakir “Tauhid-e-Shahudi” Hazrat Mujaddid Alf Sani “Tazkira-tul-Aulia” Khawaja Farid-ud-din Atar “Aab-e-Hayat” * Muhammad Hussain Azad “Aag Ka Darya” Qura-tul-Ain Haider “Afqar-e-Iqbal” Dr. Javed Iqbal “Akhir-e-Shab Ke Hamsafar” Qura-tul-Ain Haider “Alipur ka Aili” Mumtaz Mufti “Anarkali” Imtiaz Ali Taj “Angaray” Asmat Chughtai “Apna Greban Chak” Dr. Justice ® Javed Iqbal “Arbab-e-Sukhan” Maulana Hasrat Mohani “Azadi ka Safar: Tehrik-e-Pakistan aur Muslim Khawatin” Begum Salma Tassaduq Hussain “Azeem Almiya” Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto “Bostan” Sheikh Sahdi “Chah-e-Yousaf Se Sada” Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani “Chandni Begum” Qura-tul-Ain Haider “Chadar Char Deewari Aur Chandni” Bushra Rehman “Dast-e-Saba” Faiz Ahmed Faiz “Dasht-e-Wafa” Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi “Daughter of the East” Benazir Bhutto “Din aur Dastan” Intizar Hussain “Doosra Qadam” Bano Qudsia “Ek Chadar Maili Si” Rajindar Singh Bedi “Fasana-e-Azad” Rattan Nath Sarshar “Ghazal Dar Ghazal” Habib Jalib “Ghazliat” Hafiz Shirazi “Glimpses into the corridors of Power” Gohar Ayub (2007) “Great Tragedy” Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto “Hairat Kada” Ashfaq Ahmed “Heer Ranjha” Waris Shah “In the line of fire” Gen. Parvez Musharraf “Jangloos” Shaukat Siddiqui “Javed Nama” Allama Iqbal “Khak Aur Khoon” Nasim Hejazi “Khazan ke akhri din” Amjad Islam Amjad “Khuda Ki Basti” Shaukat Siddiqui “Khushbu” Parveen Shakir “Kulliyat (Urdu)” Akbar Hussain “London Ki Ek Raat” Sajjad Zaheer “Mati Ka Darya” Mirza Adeeb “Military Inc: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy” Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa (2007) “Mir’at-ul-Uroos” Deputy Nazir Ahmed “Mirza Sahiban” Hafiz Barkhurdar “Muqalat-e-Sir Syed” Maulana Ismail Panipatti “Muqadama-e-Kashmir” Sardar Abdul Qayum Khan “Muqaddama-e-Shi’ro-Sha’iri” Altaf Hussain Hali “Musaddas-e-Hali” Altaf Hussain Hali “My country, my life” L. K. Advani (2008) “The myth of independence” Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto “Naqsh-e-Faryadi” Faiz Ahmed Faiz “Nazaray” Krishan Chandar “Pairahan” Qateel Shifai “Pakistan: at a glance” Syed Sharif-ud-din Pirzada “Pakistan Culture aur Qaumi Tashakhus Ki Talash” Faiz Ahmed Faiz “Pakistan: the heart of Asia Liaquat Ali Khan “Punjab ka Muqadma” Muhammad Hanif Ramay “Saif-ul-Mulook” Mian Muhammad Bakhsh “Sassi Punnoon” * Hashim Shah “Shah-Jo-Risalo” Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai “Shahab Nama” Qudrat-ullah Shahab “Shuhla-o-Shabnam” Josh Malih Abadi “Sohni Mehnwal” Fazal Shah “Tauba-tul-Nusuh” Deputy Nazir Ahmed “Tazkirah” Allama Inayat-ullah Al-Mashriqi “Thoughts and afterthoughts” Altaf Gohar “Udas Naslain” Abdullah Hussain “Umra-o-Jan-Ada” Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa “Ungint Suraj” Majeed Amjad “Urdu-e-Mu’alla” Assad-ullah Khan Ghalib “Whispers of the desert” Fatima Bhutto “Ya Khuda” Qudrat-ullah Shahab “Yadgar-e-Ghalib” Altaf Hussain Hali Zindan Nama Faiz Ahmed Faiz “Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto: Bachpan Se Takhta-e-Dar Tak” Salman Tasir |
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Afghanistan Kabul
Albania* Tirana Algeria Algiers (El Djazair) Andorra Andorra La Vela Angola Luanda Antigua Barbuda St. John Argentina Buenos Aires Armenia Yerevan Australia Canberra Austria Vienna Azerbaijan Baku Bahamas * Nassau Bahrain* Manama Bangladesh Dhaka Belarus Minsk Belgium Brussels Belize Belmopan Benin Porto-Novo Bermuda Hamilton Bhutan Thimphu Bolivia * La Paz Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Botswana Gaborone Brazil Brasilia Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Bulgaria Sofia Burkina Faso Ouagadougou Burundi Bujumbura Burma (Myanmar) Yangoon (Rangoon) Cambodia Phnom Penh Cameroon Yaoundé Canada Ottawa Central African Republic Bangui Chad N’Djamena Chile * Santiago China Beijing Colombia Bogotá Comoros Moroni Congo (Zaire) Kinshasa Costa Rica San Jose Croatia Zagreb Cuba Havana Cyprus Nicosia Czech Republic Prague Denmark Copenhagen Djibouti Djibouti Dominica Roseau Dominican Republic Santo Domingo Ecuador Quito East Timor Dili Ecuador Quito Egypt Cairo El Salvador San Salvador Equatorial Guinea Malabo Eritrea A Samara Estonia * Tallinn Ethiopia Addis Ababa Fiji Suva Finland * Helsinki France Paris Gabon Libreville Gambia Banjul Georgia Tbilisi Germany Berlin Ghana Accra Greece * Athens Grenada Saint George Guatemala Guatemala City Guinea Conakry Guinea Bissau Bissau Guyana George Town Haiti Port-au-Prince Honduras Tegucigalpa Hungary Budapest Iceland Reykjavik India New Delhi Indonesia Jakarta Iran Tehran Iraq Baghdad Ireland * Dublin Israel Tel Aviv Italy Rome Jamaica Kingston Japan Tokyo Jordan Amman Kazakhstan Astana Kenya Nairobi Kiribati Tarawa Kossovo Pristina Kuwait Kuwait City Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Laos Vientiane Latvia Riga Lebanon Beirut Lesotho Maseru Liberia Monrovia Libya * Tripoli Liechtenstein Vaduz Lithuania * Vilnius Luxembourg Luxembourg Macedonia Skopje Madagascar Antananarivo Malawi Lilongwe Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Maldives Male Mali Bamako Malta Valletta Marshal Islands Majuro Mauritania Nouakchott Mauritius * Port Louis Mexico Mexico city Micronesia Palikir Moldova Chisinau Monaco Monaco Mongolia Ulan Bator Morocco Rabat Mozambique Maputo Namibia Windhoek Nauru Yaren Nepal Kathmandu Netherlands * Amsterdam New Zealand Wellington Nicaragua Managua Niger Niamey Nigeria Abuja North Korea Pyongyang Norway Oslo Oman Muscat Pakistan Islamabad Panama Panama City Papua New Guinea Port Moresby Paraguay Asuncion Peru Lima Philippines Manila Poland Warsaw Portugal Lisbon Qatar Doha Romania Bucharest Russia Moscow Rwanda * Kigali Samoa Apia San Marino San Marino Saudi Arabia * Riyadh Scotland Edinburgh Senegal Dakar Seychelles Victoria Sierra Leone Free Town Singapore Singapore City Slovakia Bratislava Slovenia Ljubljana Solomon Islands Honiara Somalia * Mogadishu South Africa Cape Town/ Pretoria South Korea Seoul Spain Madrid Sri Lanka Colombo Sudan Khartoum Suriname Paramaribo Swaziland Mbabane Sweden * Stockholm Switzerland Bern Syria Damascus Taiwan Taipei Tajikistan Dushanbe Tanzania Dar-us-Salaam/ Dodoma Thailand Bangkok Togo Lome Tonga Nuku’alofa Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain Tunisia Tunis Turkey Ankara Turkmenistan Ashgabat Tuvalu Funafuti Uganda Kampala Ukraine Kiev United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi United Kingdom London United States Washington D.C. Uruguay Montevideo Uzbekistan Tashkent Vanuatu Vila Vatican City Vatican City Venezuela Caracas Vietnam Hanoi Yemen Sana’a Yugoslavia * Belgrade Zambia Lusaka Zimbabwe Harare |
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Abadan (Iran) Shatt-al-Arab
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Afghanistan Afghani
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Albania Lek
Angola Kwanza Armenia Dram Austria Euro Bahamas Dollar Bangladesh Taka Belarus Belarusian Ruble Belize Dollar Bhutan* Ngultrum and Rupee Bosnia Herzegovina Marka Brazil * Real Bulgaria * Lev Burma Kyat Cambodia Riel Canada Canadian Dollar Chad CFA Franc China * Yuan (Renmimbi) Comoros Franc Costa Rica Colon Cuba Peso Czech Republic Czech Koruna Djibouti Djibouti Franc East Timor Dollar Egypt * Egyptian Pound Eritrea Birr Ethiopia Birr Finland Euro Gabon CFA Franc Georgia Lavi Ghana Cedi Grenada Dollar Guinea Franc Guyana Dollar Honduras Lempira Iceland Krona Indonesia * Rupiah Iraq Iraqi Dinar Israel New Shekel Jamaica Dollar Jordan Jordanian Dinar Kenya Kenya Shilling Kuwait Kuwaiti Dinar Laos Kip Lebanon Lebanese Pound Liberia Dollar Lithuania Litas Macedonia Dinar Malawi Kwacha Maldives Rufiyaa Malta Lira Mauritania Ouguiya Mexico Mexican Peso Monaco Franc Morocco Dirham Myanmar Kyat Nauru Australian Dollar Netherlands Euro Nicaragua Cordoba Nigeria * Naira Norway Norwegian Krone Panama Balboa Paraguay Guarani Philippines Philippine Peso Portugal Euro Romania Leu Rwanda Franc San Marino Italian Lira Senegal CFA Franc Sierra Leone Leone Slovakia Koruna Somalia Shilling South Africa Rand Spain * Euro Sudan Sudanese Dinar Swaziland Lilangeni Switzerland Swiss Franc Taiwan Taiwan Dollar Thailand Baht Togo CFA Franc Tunisia Dinar Turkmenistan Turkmen Manat Uganda Ugandan Shilling UAE UAE Dirham USA US Dollar Uzbekistan* Uzbekistani Soum Venezuela Bolivar Yemen Riyal Zambia Zambian Kwacha |
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“Asia Minor” Turkey
“Axis of evil” Iraq, North Korea and Iran (Declared by Bush) “Boot of Europe” Italy “Britain of South” New Zealand “Buffer State of Asia” Afghanistan “City of Angels” Bangkok (Thailand) “City of Arabian nights” * Baghdad “City of Bazaars” Cairo (Egypt) “City of Brotherly Love” Philadelphia “City of Canals” Venice “City of Conferences” Geneva “City of Cosmonauts” Moscow “City of diamonds” Ratna Pur “City of Domes” Istanbul (Constantinople) “City of Dreaming Spires” Oxford “City of eternal spring” Quito (Ecuador) “City of Gandolas” Venice (Italy) “City of Gardens” Harare (whole year only spring is there) “City of Ghosts and Temples” Veransi (Benares) “City of Golden Gate” San Francisco “City of Golden Temple” Amritsar “City of Hotels” Beirut “City of lights” Paris “City of mosques” Dhaka “City of old buildings” Ankara “City of Palaces” Calcutta “City of parks” Kiev (Ukraine) “City of Peace” Baghdad “City of Pool Nectar” Amritsar “City of Popes” Rome “City of Priests” Rome “City of Rams” Guangzhou (China) “City of roses and nightingales” Shiraz (Iran) “City of seven hills” Rome “City of silent thoroughfares” Venice “City of Sky Scrapers” New York “City of smile” Bangkok “City of Songs” Vienna (Austria) “City of Space Flights” Cape Kennedy (Florida) “City of roses and nightingales” Shiraz “Cockpit of Europe”* Belgium (because of the number of battles throughout history fought on its soil) “Country of Copper” Zambia “Cradle of civilizations” Turkey “Crossroads of Western Europe” Belgium “Dark Continent” Africa “The desert fox” Gen. Erwin Rommel (A German Field Marshal) “Down Under” Australia “Emerald Island” Ireland “Empire City” New York “Entrance to the underworld” Avernus (a lake near Naples in Italy) “Eternal City” Rome “Father of Anatomy” Andreas Vesalius (Belgian doctor) “Father of biography” Plutarch “Father of Botany” Theophrastus “Father of Civil Engineering” John Smeaton “Father of Computer” Charles Babbage “Father of Economics” Adam Smith “Father of English prose” Samuel De Champlain “Father of Genetics” Gregor Mendel “Father of historical novels” Sir Walter Scot “Father of hydrogen bomb” Edward Teller (1952) “Father of League of Nations” Hugh Grotius (Holland jurist) “father of Medicine” Hippocrates “Father of Mexican independence” Miguel Hidalgo “Father of modern Chemistry” Antoine Lavoiser “Father of modern economics” Adam Smith “Father of modern Italy” G. Garibaldi “Father of modern music” Johan Sebastian Bach “Father of modern philosophy” Rene Descartes (French philosopher) “Father of modern physical chemistry” Josiah Willard Gibbs (American) “Father of modern Political Science” Niccolò Machiavelli (Italy) “Father of modern rocketry” Robert H. Goddard “Father of moral philosophy” Thomas Aquinas “Father of natural history” John Ray “Father of science of political economy” Adam Smith “Father of Texas” Stephen Fuller Austin (Capital of Texas is Austin) “Father of Utilitarianism” John Biddle “Father of waters” Mississippi (USA) “Flower garden of Europe” Netherlands “Forbidden City” Lahaska (China) “The four elements” Earth, air, fire, and water “Garden of England” Kent “Gateway to Central Asia” Gawadar (Pakistan) “Gateway to East” Beirut “Gateway to Gulf” Abu Dhabi “Gateway to Gulf of Iran” Strait of Hormuz “Gateway to India” Bombay "George Cross Island" Malta “Gift of Nile” Egypt “Golden Ass” Lucius Apuleius (Writer) “Grandfather of Australian Cricket” Bill Brown “Grand old man of Britain” Gladstone “Granite City” Aberdeen “Great Britain of Pacific” Japan “Herring Pond” Atlantic Ocean “Homeland of Viking Empire” Denmark “Horn of Africa” Somalia “Incubator of Western Civilization” Mediterranean Sea “Island continent” Australia “Island of Hispaniola” Haiti “Isle of cloves” Zanzibar “Isle of Death” Kahoulawe “Isle of June” Bahamas “Isle of Pearls” Bahrain “Iron Duke” Duke of Wellington “Jewel of the Sky” Venus “John Bull” England and English people “Key of Mediterranean” Gibraltar “King of German Literature” Goethe “Lady with the Lamp” Florence Nightingale “Land gate of the country” Belarus “Land of Amber” Lithuania “Land of Canals” Netherlands “Land of Cloves” Zanzibar “Land of contrasts” Colombia “Land of Druk Yul” Nepal “Land of free people” Thailand “Land of fertile fields” Algeria “Land of golden Fibre” Bangladesh “Land of golden fleece” Australia “Land of golden Pagoda” Myanmar (Burma) “Land of Kangaroos” Australia “Land of Lilies” Canada “Land of the long white clouds” New Zealand “Land of many races” Colombia “Land of midnight Sun” Norway “Land of mighty rivers” Nigeria “Land of Milk and Honey” Lebanon “Land of morning calm” Korea “Land of mountains” Nepal “Land of Prophets” Palestine “Land of pure people” Pakistan “Land of Queen of Sheba” Ethiopia “Land of Rice and Teak” Myanmar (Burma) “Land of rising Sun” Japan “Land of rivers” Bangladesh “Land of seven hills” Rome “Land of South Slaves” Yugoslavia “Land of Thousand Islands” Indonesia “Land of thousand Lakes” Finland “Land of white Elephants” Thailand “Land of Windmills” Netherlands “Little Pakistan” Bradford “King Maker” Earl of Warwick “Maiden Queen” Queen Elizabeth I “Man of Blood and Iron” Bismarck “Man of Destiny” Napoleon “Manchester of Orient” Osaka “Mother of COBAL” Grace Murray Hopper “Old Hickory” Andrew Jackson, 7th President of USA “Pearl of Antilles” Cuba “Pillars of Hercules” Gibraltar (Strait) “Playground of Europe” Switzerland “Port of Five Seas” Moscow “Queen of Adriatic” Venice “Queen of Baltic” Stockholm (Sweden) “Queen of crime fiction” Agatha Christie “Queen of South” * Sydney “Queen of water” Water Lilly “Red Planet” Mars “Remnant of mighty empire” Austria “Roof of the World” Tibet and Pamirs “Scourge of God” Attila “Shock and Awe” US campaign in Iraq “Sick man of Europe” Turkey “Sick Man of Europe” Turkey “Site of Ancient Civilization” Iraq “Sorrow of China” Hawang Hoo “Sugar bowl of the world” Cuba “Switzerland of Africa” Swaziland “Uncle Sam” USA “Vegetable and fruit garden of Europe” Bulgaria “Venice of North” Stockholm “White city” Belgrade “White man’s grave” Guinea “Windy City” Chicago |
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