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What is your national flower - 3 - Canada

National Flowers of Canada The Leaf of Maple is an official symbol of Canada. The maple leaf was first used as a Canadian symbol in early 18th century and till now is depicted on its current and previous flags, the penny, and on the coat of arms. Each provinces however have their own floral emblems (I don’t [...]

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What is your National Flower - 2

The Bahamas The national flower of The Bahamas is the Yellow Elder (Tecoma stans) The flowers have an odd but pleasing fragrance and also provide nectar for bees. The Indians made bows from its wood, and in Mexico a beer was prepared from its roots; it has also been used for a variety of medicines. Also [...]

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What is your National Flower -Albania, Argentina, Australia, and Austria

I am going to post a series of posts about National flowers (floral emblem) of different countries starting with countries with first letter A. The National Flower of Albania The floral emblem of Albania is the red and black poppy. The poppy can be found everywhere in this Mediterranean country, and are recognized for their beauty, [...]

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In a 101-list aboriginal Canadians voted 102

A government sponsored list of 101 things that most define Canada missed the most Canadian thing — aboriginals. The list was commissioned by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and the Dominion Institute. Number one in the list is the maple leaf followed by Vimy Ridge and Queen Elizabeth. The Canadian Flag made it to #4. Over 2,000 Canadians as [...]

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Stephen Hawking may relocate to Canada

After almost 50 years at Cambridge University the leading physicist Stephen Hawking, 66, is considering leaving Britain and move to Canada. He attacked the British government for carrying out “disastrous” cuts in science funding totalling $160 million. Last month, Hawking said the funding cuts would “cause enormous damage both to British science and to our international [...]

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Are we giving too much attention to Google?

It made news when Google ‘forgot’ to change its logo to give a wink to Canucks on the Canada Day. Although the internet giant has a history of recognizing the Canada Day in the past (except for 2003) July 1st of 2008 brought a bit of hollowness for the Canadians [...]

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iPhone launch in Canada - nothing much to celebrate

When Rogers revealed specifics for the services plans for the upcoming iPhone 3G this Friday many Canadians were not happy. But why? Rogers has set a mandatory three-year contract. O2 offers an 18-month contract and throws in the iPhone for free and AT&T has a two-year contract. In the U.S., AT&T offers [...]

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Grandma gave birth to triplet

This is not a scientific achievement as was in this case when a grandmother gave birth to her own grandchild. An Australian grandmother has given birth to naturally conceived triplets. Janelle Perry, a week short of turning 47 years, gave brith to three boys by caesarian section at Mater Mothers’ Hospital in the east coast city [...]

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Do the Screensavers save your screen these days?

Gone are the days when screensavers save your monitors when old CRTs are replaced by flat panel screens. In an effort to save environment an Australian company, Telstra, has decided to remove all animated logo screesavers from the company laptops and computers and replaced with a black, power-saving screensaver. By removing 36,000 screensavers, they claim [...]

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Movie-Viewing World Record

People have crazy ideas to make records!! You might have heard of records of movie making, movie in theater, or movie sales but movie-viewing record is something new to me. A German lady continuously watched movies for 117 hours 4 minutes for a record. But this guy from India, Ashish Sharma, watched various movies for [...]

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