MarchAhead Teamhttp://www.marchahead.co.in.Only Site which rewards quizzers for their efforten-USTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://history1900s.about.com/od/greateventsofthecentury/a/olympicfacts.htmCreated by Pierre de Coubertin in 1914, the Olympic flag contains five interconnected rings on a white background. The five rings symbolize the five significant continents and are interconnected to symbolize the friendship to be gained from these international competitions. The rings, from left to right, are blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The colors were chosen because at least one of them appeared on the flag of every country in the world.4/25/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Ahead If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.4/25/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_RockBishop Rock is a small rock at the westernmost tip of the Isles of Scilly ( 49°52′24″N 06°26′41″W / 49.87333°N 6.44472°W / 49.87333; -6.44472), known for its lighthouse, and listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest island with a building on it in the world.4/13/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_TurinThe Shroud of Turin (or Turin Shroud) is a linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have been physically traumatized in a manner consistent with crucifixion. It is kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. It is believed by many to be the cloth placed on the body of Jesus at the time of his burial.4/13/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://news.nationalgeographic.co.in/news/2009/04/090407-birds-human-eyes.htmlThe crow-like birds known as jackdaws, may be the only animal aside from humans know to understand the role of eyes in seeing and perceiving things.4/11/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Holland_(Australia)New Holland is a historic name for the island continent of Australia. The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman as Nova Hollandia, naming it after the Dutch province of Holland, and remained in use for 180 years.4/11/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/second_moon_991029.htmlThe 3-mile-wide (5-km) satellite, which takes 770 years to complete a horseshoe-shaped orbit around Earth, is called Cruithne and will remain in a suspended state around Earth for at least 5,000 years. Cruithne, discovered in 1986, and then found in 1997 to have a highly eccentric orbit, cannot be seen by the naked eye, but scientists working at Queen Mary and Westfield College in London were intrigued enough with its peregrinations to come up with mathematical models to describe its path.4/8/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PanspermiaPanspermia is the hypothesis that "seeds" of life exist already all over the Universe, that life on Earth may have originated through these "seeds", and that they may deliver or have delivered life to other habitable bodies. There is a major possibility that none of the evidence taken will ever prove that this is a possible way life started.4/8/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RajajiCotntrary to popular belief, it is not Lord Mountbatten, but rather Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari who was the last to hold this post. During the transition of powere, he assumed office taking over from Lord Mountbatten.4/8/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://www.guimp.com/Smaller than a small fingernail, the world's smallest website measures only 18 by 18 pixels yet is packed full of fun projects including pong, pacman, space invaders, pinball, a blog and pixel art. 3/28/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English#A_coined_termThe longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word which refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano.3/27/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7634744.stmAlmost 600 years ago, Henry V created the world's first passports. They were designed to help prove who you were if you travelled to a foreign land.3/26/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Thomas_Babington_MacaulayThe term Macaulay's Children is used to refer to people born of Indian ancestry who adopt Western culture as a lifestyle, or display attitudes influenced by colonizers. The original effort was the initiative of on Thomas Macaulay whose aim had been to create a class of people who, English in all but name, would prove to be both loyal servants of the colonial regime as well as people who would act as a bridge to the general population, spreading English ideals among them.3/24/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Mobil#Revenue_and_profitsExxonMobil is the world's largest publicly traded company when measured by either revenue or market capitalization.The company has 38 oil refineries in 21 countries constituting a combined daily refining capacity of 6.3 million barrels3/23/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadwww.cricinfo.comWhile Sanath Jayasuriya is an awesome blaster of the cricket ball, he has also fallen prey to the duck as many as 29 times in ODIs!!!3/23/2009en-usTeam MarchAheadMarch Ahead>March Aheadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(solar)The terminator or twilight zone is a fictive line that delimits the illuminated day side and the dark night side of a planetary body (also known as the "grey line"). On Earth, the terminator is a circular line with a diameter that is approximately that of the Earth. Apart from polar regions, the terminator passes through any point on the Earth's surface twice a day: at sunrise and sunset.3/22/2009en-us