A leap year is a year in which an extra day is added to the calendar in order to synchronize it with the seasons. 2008 is a leap year, which means that it has 366 days instead of the usual 365 days that an ordinary year has. An extra day is added, February 29, which is called an intercalary day or a leap day.

Leap Year is announced by that last day of February that only appears every four years. Leap Year has been around for thousands of years. February usually has 28 days, but during Leap Year 29. Why is there a February 29th?

Julius Caesar first created Leap Year in 46 B.C. so that the calendar year would match the solar year. The solar year, or the amount of time it takes the earth to travel around the sun, is about 365.2422 days. The extra .2422 creates an entire extra day every four years.

Rules for Determining a Leap Year
Most years that can be divided evenly by 4 are leap years.
For example, 2008 divided by 4 = 502: Leap year..

Bangkok is one of 13 large cities at risk of being swamped as sea levels rise in the coming decades, according to the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change held in Khun Samut Chin.

The cities include Dhaka in Bangladesh, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Jakarta in Indonesia, Shanghai and Tianjin in China, Mumbai and Kolkata in India, Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe in Japan, Lagos in Nigeria, Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt, Karachi in Pakistan, and New York and Los Angeles in the United States, according to studies by the United Nations and others.

“If the heart of Thailand is under water, everything will stop, we don’t have time to move our capital in the next 15 to 20 years. We have to protect our heart now, and it’s almost too late.” -
Smith Dharmasaroja,
chair of the government’s Committee of National Disaster Warning Administration.

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The city is rumored to be sinking an average of 2 inches a year as it lies entirely on a swamp. Some reports says that the city is sinking as much as 4 inches a year, and this combined with the sea level rising will leave Bangkok under 50 cm to 100 cm of water by 2025.

Bye bye Bangkok..

In 2001, Matthew McKnight the volunteer firefighter stopped at Interstate 376 in Monroeville, to help out the victims of an accident. While trying to help the victim, he was then hit by a car and thrown in the air for 118 feet. The funny thing is, the distance entitled him to a world record called “Greatest Distance Thrown in a Car Accident” in the book’s 2008 edition.

The man lived, but suffered two dislocated shoulders plus a broken shoulder, pelvis, leg and tailbone.

So, lets see what happens to the guy who tries to break his record.

The oldest Rolls-Royce in the world was sold for a record £3.5 million at auction in London. An anonymous British bidder won the auction by telephone bid, paying twice the estimate for the car. The car was initially estimated at around £1 million but frenzied bidding left the value at £3,521,500, the highest ever paid for a car in the veteran class.

The 10bhp Rolls-Royce which is in perfect working order was built in 1905 and was the fourth car to be built by the Charles Rolls/Henry Royce partnership. Only three other 10-horsepower Rolls-Royces are known to survive.

The previous record for a veteran car was the 1.76 million pounds paid for an 1884 De Dion Bouton, while that for a Rolls-Royce was the 1.48 million pounds paid for a 1912 Silver Ghost Double Pullman Limousine.

Woww.. a 10 horsepower motor for £3.5 million. I wonder how many 2007 cars will be running and still looking presentable in 2110. Hopefully our grandchild or future generation can see first Proton Saga in 2110 with good running condition.. perghh.

Klimt’s painting of Adele Bloch Bauer was sold for $135 million. This fabulous and famous Klimt painting, from 1907, has been called “a modern-day Mona Lisa”

$135 million.. huhuhu.

One of the largest and brightest spiral galaxies found in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, this image of galaxy NGC 4569 was taken by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. Galaxy NGC 4569 is located about four million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, the nearest major galaxy cluster to our Milky Way galaxy.

Photo and text from NASA website.

I know it has been 3 month already but, just wanna share it here.

Below are pictures of the new seven wonders of the world. They have been elected by more then 100 million votes to represent global heritage throughout history by polls from the public, organized by a Swiss corporation called New Open World Corporation. The selection was made by free and paid votes, through telephone or online.
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