Pope - AJ

• Pope Francis is very famous to Catholic people because Pope is the head among all priests and is the head of the Catholic church. Pope Francis is also the Chief of state of Vatican city which is in Italy. Pope Francis was born on December 17, 1936  and now is at age 78 and Pope Francis's nationality is Argentine.
• Pope makes many speeches and Pope is able to speak Spanish, Latin and Italian fluently and has and understanding for German, Portuguese, English, Ukrainian and French.Pope soon had to stop making speeches for a while because he had to go threw surgery to get his right lung removed but now he is fine and healthy even at his old age, 78.
• Even though Pope is a pure Argentinian he still is a big fan of Tango and also is a big fan of the famous Tango dancers. Another Secular thing Pope loves is the sport soccer. He is a big fan of the San Lorenzo de Almagro Soccer club because it is his a traditional soccer team from his home neighborhood.
• Apart from his modesty and humility Pope really does have a good sense of humor.Pope was also photographed trying on a red clown nose in front of the owners of a circus.Before Pope was chosen head of the Catholic church he worked as a Bouncer in Buenos Aries bar so that it would help pay off for his studies.In the 1960s he had taught Literature, Philosophy, Psychology and Theology in many high schools in Argentine.
• Pope acts and reminds people about scenes from the Bible. One time Pope had blessed a man that was covered in Tumors.Pope is a legal citizen of three countries which are Argentine where Pope was born and raised and also in Italy, and even though Vatican city is a city it is still counted as a country so that makes three countries.
  

EA - Electronic Arts - Navo

Latest Fifa game!

• There are many ways to measure the size of each industry, no doubt both industries generate huge incomes. But the video game industry is on a constant growth trend, and doesn’t seem to be suffering from the problems of the movie industry. Pirating is much less common in the gaming industry as most video games are now online and are seen more as a ‘service’ than a product that you buy one time.
• Electronic Arts’ top selling game is “The Sims”  which have sold more than 175 million copies, making it the most successful PC game of all time! The game has been so successful that it has been awarded five world records in the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition.
• The Barcelona based mega star has signed a multi-year contract with EA, which will make him the face of their number one selling game, FIFA. Messi was previously signed with Konami (Pro Evolution Soccer), FIFA’s biggest competitor, but was snatched from them in 2012. The soccer series has been also very successful, the game has been localized and translated to 18 languages.
• 2013 was big year for EA as the stock gained almost 60% during the year and the posted revenues amounted to $3.8 Billion!
• In 2011, EA purchased the online gaming company PopCap, which is behind the addictive hit games such as – Zuma, Bejewled and Plants vs Zombies. The purchase was made at around  $1.3 billion. This deal is quite important for EA, as it is a way to reach a different type of audience than the typical EA gamer.

Chess - Navo

• Chess is called the game of kings, because for many centuries it was played primarily by nobility and the upper classes. The Isle of Lewis chess pieces are the oldest surviving complete chess set known. Discovered on they Isle of Lewis, they are made from walrus tusks and show their characters in a range of bad moods - from anger to depression. Click here to see images of the pieces.
• The names of the pieces-- the queen, king, knight, rook and bishop came about during the Middle Ages, when society was extremely oriented towards war and rigidly stratified. During the Renaissance period, society became more dynamic and rules were added to enable rapid attack techniques. These include making the queen more powerful, and permitting pawns to move two squares on the first move.
• The rook is named from an Arabic word rukh, meaning chariot. This reflects its ability to move quickly in straight lines, but not leap over obstacles. During the Middle Ages, when chariots were no longer in use, the rook was gradually modified to look more like the turret of a castle.
• The knight's role has been stable over time. Even in the earliest versions of the game, it represented the cavalry and had the unique ability to leap over its opponents.
• The word "checkmate" comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means "the king is defeated." The folding chess board was originally invented in 1125 by a chess-playing priest. Since the Church forbid priests to play chess, priests hid chess board by making one that looked simply like two books lying together.

Aristotle - Anita

• Ancient Greek Philosopher Aristotle was born 384 B.C. in Stagira, Greece. At age seventeen, he enrolled in Plato's Academy. In 338 B.C., he started tutoring Alexander the Great. In 322 B.C., Aristotle created his own school, the Lyceum, in Athens, where he spent the rest of his life studying, teaching and writing.
• Aristotle's father, Nicomachus, was the physician of the Macedonian King's court. Even at a young age, Aristotle lost his father. His older sister's husband, Proxenus of Atarneus, became his guardian and sent him to Athens to get a higher and better education. Aristotle attended Plato's Academy, a Greek learning institution, and proved to be an outstanding student. Aristotle had a close relationship with famous Philosopher Plato, student of Socrates. After Plato's death in 347 B.C., Aristotle's friend, King Hermia of  Mysia invited him to his court. During his three year stay, Aristotle feel in love with Pythias, Hermia's niece. After he married his first wife, Aristotle had a daughter who he named Pythias.
• In 338 B.C., Aristotle went back to Macedonia to tutor the King's son, Alexander the Great.In 335 B.C, after Alexander succeeded his father and concurred Athens, Aristotle moved there. After he discovered Plato's academy was still there, he got permission from King Alexander and started his own school, the Lyceum. Lyceum students researched subjects like science, math, philosophy and art. They also had outstanding libraries. In the same year the school was created, Aristotle's wife, Pythias died. Some theories state that he fell in love with a woman who was probably his slave, Herpyllis, that was given to him by the King of Macedonia. He freed Herpyllis, married her and had a son, Nicomachus, with her. In 323 B.C., King Alexander died, and the Macedonian court was overthrown. Aristotle was charged guilty, so he fled to Chalcis, where he would remain until his death. 
• Science and Philosophy were the two main subjects Aristotle studied at the Lyceum. He thought that knowledge would from interacting with physical objects. In science, he studied biology and attempted to classify animals into different groups. He put them in groups of which animals had red blood and which animal did not. He called the animals with red blood vertebrates and the animals with "no blood" were called "cephalopods." In philosophy, he created Venn Diagrams and many theories. Aristotle wrote an estimated amount of  200 works, including the books Meteorology, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Nichomachen Ethics, Edemian Ethics, Categories, On Interpretation, Metaphysics, Politics, Rhetoric, On The Heavens and On The Soul.
• In 322 B.C., Aristotle caught a disease of digestive organs and died. His work was forgotten and revived until the first century. His work built a foundation for seven centuries of philosophy. Aristotle's philosophic work continues to endure.

      

Plato [ Left ] Aristotle [ Right ]

Julius Caesar - AJ

• Julius Caesar was born in Subura, Rome in the year 100 b.c July 12 or 13. His family was not rich in the Roman standards and his full name was Gaius Julius Caesar. At the age of six Julius had started his education and had a private tutor who was named Marcus Antonius Gnipho. He learned how to read and write and he had also learned about the Roman law and how to speak in public.
• Julius's father died when Julius was sixteen and he became the head of his family and had to take care of his mother Aurelia and his sister who was named Julia. At the age seventeen Julius had married a woman who was named Cornelia, who was the daughter of a strong Roman politician.
• Julius's uncle was enemies with the dictator of Rome and then Julius was cautious because of the Roman dictators allies so he had been aware and he decided to leave Rome and he wanted to join the army and fight in war.Then when Sulla died Julius came back to his wife and the rest of his family.
• In Rome at the age 40 Julius was one of the people elected consul, consul in Rome was the highest ranking position in Roman Republic. Caesar became strong in power that politics in Rome were being held in hostile and many other leaders were jealous and others to.
• When Julius was done being consul he wanted to be it again but he had to give up his army if he wanted to be consul but he refused to give up his army so they thought he was a traitor and he did not become consul. When Caesar went to Egypt he married Cleopatra VII. The other leaders thought Julius was to powerful so they plotted to kill him and when Julius went to the senate and an amount of men came out and killed Julius with
  
   23 stabs and he died on the year 15, 44 B.C.

Asoka Maurya - Navo

• By the 3rd century B.C. the kingdom of Magadha under the hegemony of the Mauryas controlled almost the entire Indian subcontinent. Only the southern tip of India and Ceylon remained free of the Mauryas' political influence. However, Buddhist missionaries of Asoka extended religious influence into Ceylon, which became a stronghold of Theravada Buddhism through Asoka's efforts.
• In his youth Asoka served as viceroy of Taxila and later of Ujain. He came to the throne in 273 B.C., but a disputed succession delayed his coronation until 269. In 261 he annexed Kalinga, a vast tract between the Mahanadi and Godavari rivers, killing over 100,000 people and taking 150,000 captives. This was the only aggressive war of his reign, and so shocked the King's conscience that 4 years later he publicly recorded on various edicts his profound sorrow and remorse. He devoted the rest of his life to the propagation of dharma, the Buddhist law of piety.
• To bring his precepts into harmony with his personal practice, Asoka gave up hunting, royal luxuries, and the use of meat in the royal kitchen. He established and endowed hospitals for men and animals, both within his own realm and in those of the neighboring powers. On the highways banyan trees were planted to provide shade, mango groves were laid to provide fruit, wells were dug, watering places constructed, and rest houses established to comfort weary men and animals.
• He made pilgrimages to India's holy places, preaching the law of piety to his subjects along the way. Often he was absent from his capital for as long as 10 months. He appointed a special class of officers, dharma mahamatras, to propagate morality. He asked them to be teachers first, magistrates afterward. Declaring all his subjects to be his children, he considered himself to be the trustee of their welfare rather than a ruler. 
• But Asoka, while utilizing the full force of his administration, recognized frankly that permanent improvement was to be based on genuine change of heart, not on royal measures. He exhorted his subjects to meditate; to practice nonviolence and noninjury toward fellowmen and animals; to revere parents, teachers, mendicants, and elders; to be kind to inferiors such as servants, serfs, and beasts of burden; to be truthful; and to respect the beliefs of fellowmen.
• Not much is known about Asoka's family life. His inscriptions speak of two queens; Buddhist legends mention several. Very little is known about his sons, and how many they were. It is also not known how, when, and where the king-turned-evangelist died. A Tibetan tradition maintains that he died at Taxila. Two grandsons, Dasratha and Samprathi, succeeded him and divided the empire. But within 50 years of Asoka's death, a Brahmanical reaction, led by Pusyamitra, brought the dynasty to an end.

Indira Gandhi - Anita

• Indira Gandhi was born 19, 1917 in Allahabad to Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. She was later on considered a famous female politician and was third prime minister of India. She was the only child born to her parents because her younger brother died in infancy. Indira Gandhi attended Oxford University later on in her life.
• After she finished collage, Indira Gandhi joined the National Congress and took part in India's independence movement. In 1942, she married Feroze Gandhi, a lawyer also participating in the National Indian Congress. A year later, both of them were arrested by the British Parliament due to subversion.
• When India won its independence in 1947, Nehru took office as prime minster and made Indira Gandhi his official hostess, after her mother had died. She also helped him with national problems and served as his ambassador to other countries. 
• In 1955 was elected body of the congress and then in 1959, she became the president of the party. After her father's death, Indira Gandhi was appointed minister of information and broadcasting. After her father's successor's, India's congress appointed her to the post of prime minister. She was a strong leader, improving India's agriculture, helping the poor and making a peace agreement with Pakistan's prime minister.
• Later on, Indira Gandhi realized that corruption was going on in the congress. After her discovery, the high court charged her guilty because of a infraction during the election and forced her to resign. Gandhi lost the next election and was imprisoned. After she got out of the prison in the 1980s, a Sikh separatist movement begain, and Indira Gandhi tried to stop it. On October 31, 1984, two of Indira Gandhi's loyal bodyguards shot her. On the way to the hospital, Indira Gandhi died.

FIFA - AJ

• FIFA is the international organization for the sport of soccer. FIFA organizations's main building are in Zurich and Switzerland. FIFA had been established in Paris on May 21, 1905.
• FIFA's main organ is it's congress and the congress has a meeting every year so they can decide where FIFA will have their tournament that year. The FIFA in Paris has 209 of its associations. FIFA has been expanded to 208 countries big.
• FIFA can be shown on social media like Facebook, Twitter and also on your TV. The Leader of FIFA named Sep Blatter who has had leadership for 40 years and had became the leader of it in 1975. A man Named Robert Guerin was the first FIFA president. The second president of FIFA was named Daniel Burley Woolfall and then he passed it on.
• FIFA had started expanding and started becoming larger and spread over most of the world and that is when in the 1920s they started to have world wide tournaments. The first played tournament was in 1930. FIFA in the 1960s had started being on television and now a days you can see on many devices and computer tools.
• FIFA has had the duty to make the best worldwide soccer organization and they started doing that in 1920. FIFA got the job to start hiring new people and to arrange tournaments and to expand FIFA in more than one country. FIFA has some great soccer players like Lionel Messi Cristiano Ronaldo and also like Neymar Jr., and retired players who have played for a long time like Paylay and Becham. FIFA has now started women FIFA soccer.
• http://www.football-bible.com/soccer-info/what-is-fifa.html Where I got my facts from.
  

Intel - Navo

• Intel started in 1968 when physicist Robert Noyce and chemist Gordon Moore decided to start their own company.Noyce created the integrated circuit along with Jack Kirby. Initially they wanted to name the company Moore Noyce but decided against it when they realized that it sounded similar to ‘more noise’.INTEL was formed and since then it’s become a worldwide recognized brand when it comes to computers of any kind. A hotel chain had the same name and they had to pay them $15000 to use it.
• The “Intel Inside” brand campaign was launched in 1991 and it helped Intel become one of the most popular brands in the world. It holds the number one spot in the market for semiconductor manufacturers beating the second place Samsung Electronics by quite a margin. In 2009 Intel was named the 23rd most powerful brand in the world.
• Intel has a museum that houses different artifacts and interesting facts about the company and its 40+ years old history. The museum is visited by more than 80,000 people annually.Robert Noyce has always been helpful towards young tech upstarts and has mentored a lot of them to achieve success in the business world. Among the people he mentored is Steve Jobs who went on to create Apple. That’s an interesting connection between two of the leading companies in the IT industry.
• Over the years Intel has worked on acquiring lots of different companies. Intel Capital has invested over $9 billion in 1000 companies since 1991. In 1972 they acquired Microma to enter the digital watch market. They recently acquired McAfee. They also have companies in the car security systems and digital content protection services.
• Intel’s first big success came in the form of the 4004 microprocessor in 1971. It contained 2300 transistors and was a 4 bit CPU. The 8088 CPU that came ten years later had 29000 transistors and was used in IBM computers. IBM had used an outside vendor for the first time and the partnership changed the world of computers. The Core2duo processor has 100,000 times the transistors of the 4004.

DDT - Anita

•  DDT stands for Dichloro - Diphenyl - Trichloro - Ethene. DDT is an insecticide used control insect borne diseases. Though it is banned for use in the United States, DDT is still used in other tropical region countries to prevent the disease the disease Malaria, a mosquito borne disease.
• During the World War II era, DDT was thought to be "a savior for mankind." The chemicals in the spray proved to kill diseases such as Typhus and Malaria. DDT was popular because of its cheapness, availability and so - called safety. Farmers also sprayed this chemical on their plants.
• After discovering that house flys were immune to DDT, several scientists became skeptical about the safety of DDT. Two scientists then published an article about the hazardous effects on animals and plants. 
• The end of DDT's reign in the US was due to Rachel Carson's book, Silent Springs, in which the author states effects of DDT upon wildlife. She says that DDT has reduced the population of birds of prey, such as eagles. The DDT caused the eagle eggshells to become thin. These eggs rarely survived to hatch. So, the eagle population plummeted. 
•  As a result to Rachel Carson's findings along with support from the scientific community, DDT was banned in the US and will only be used if there is ever a unusual public health issue, such as a sudden widespread outbreak of Malaria.

 

Amelia Earhart - Anita

• Amelia Earhart was a famous record breaking female pilot that was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. When she was growing up, her father was a lawyer and she would always play with her little sister Muriel. While growing up, Amelia loved adventures. She would collect insects and frogs and play football and baseball. She even liked to hunt rats with a rifle! Amelia's first flight was when she was seven years old, but it didn't go well. Later on, at the age of eleven in 1908, Amelia went to the Iowa State Fair and saw many of the Wright brother's planes, but didn't find any interest in them.
• When Amelia graduated from high school, she wasn't sure what occupation to take on. At first she went to Ogontz School in Pennsylvania, but soon dropped to become a nurse for injured World War 1 soldiers. After that, she studied to become a mechanic, but went back to school to study for a career in medicine. That was until she started flying.
• On December 28, 1920 Amelia and her father went to an air show in California where she took her second flight. She loved it so much, she used her saved money to pay for flying lessons. Later on, she bought a small, bright yellow plane which she named the "Canary." She also got her pilot's license and set a new altitude record of 14,000 feet for female pilots.
• In 1928, Amelia took the plane "Friendship" across the Atlantic with pilot Bill Stultz and co - pilot Slim Gordon. Amelia was the navigator. On June 18, after twenty one hours of flying, they landed Wales. Amelia was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, but she didn't stop there. She wanted to go across the Atlantic again, but this time pilot the plane herself. On May 20, 1932, Amelia took off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland in a small, bright red, one engine, Lockheed Vega Plane. She intended to land in Paris, France. The weather was very bad, from storm clouds to ice sticking to her plane. After fourteen hours of flight, Amelia crossed the Atlantic, but had to cut the flight short, landing in a cow pasture in Londonerry, Northern Ireland. This time she was the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo.
• But Amelia still wasn't satisfied. In June of 1937, Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Miami, Florida and were determined to fly across the world. They flew a number of flights, eventually reaching New Guinea, Africa. On June 2, they took off from New Guinea to fly to Howland Island in the Pacific, but they were never seen again.

Chromecast - Navo

One of the coolest things about Chromecast is that it can turn on your TV, and even change to the right HDMI input, when you start casting music or videos from your mobile device no TV remote required. Don’t have an Android phone, or maybe you’re stuck with a handset with an older version of Android? Then you should install the Google Cast extension for Google’s Chrome browser on your PC or laptop, which lets you mirror any website to the TV screen.

If you want to experience virtual reality without shelling out money for a headset you can, provided that you not only have Google’s cardboard app installed on your Android phone, but also a 3D TV in your living room. Chromecast shows you beautiful nature photos when you are not actively watching any videos and can even add your own photos to this slideshow.

Thanks to Chromecast’s miniature size, it makes for a great companion on the road, allowing you to watch all your favorite media at Grandma’s house, in a hotel on a long business trip, or even at a cabin on the lake. 

If you’re in a hotel and are looking for an inexpensive entertainment solution, Chromecast allows you to stream via mobile as hotel networks are quite secure.

Google started to give away $20 of Google Play credit for every Chromecast bought after December 7. Want to watch a movie on the TV, but not wake up your significant other who fell asleep on the couch? Then just pipe the audio track through your phone and listen to it with earbuds.

Madison Square Gardens - AJ

• The Madison Square Garden is a one of the biggest arenas that was created in New York City and is in the borough of Manhattan.
• The arena is home to the NBA New York Kicks team and home to the New York Rangers that is apart of the NHL.It has also had many concerts and college Basketball games.
• There have actually been four arenas withe the name of Madison in the three different sights in Manhattan.
• The current Madison square had been opened in 1968, but the first open air arena was built in 1879 and then 1890 it was tore down and was replaced.
•  The arena was named after the fourth president of the United states. The arena had different sections of seats for example the New York Rangers have the blue color row.

9/11 - Navo

• The New York Times wrote about every single 9/11 victim. Al Qaeda planned on targeting nuclear power plants on 9/11 but feared things would get out of control.
• A month before the 9/11 President George W. Bush was handed a letter saying "Bin laden is determined to strike in US" saying they would hijack planes and hitting the NYC.
• After the 9/11 the Maasai tribe of Kenya gave 14 of their most important cattle to the US as an aid. 18 people were resuced from the pile or rubble or the WTC after 9/11. Micheal Jackson had a meeting on the WTC on the 9/11 but overslept.
• 9/11 wasn't the first attack on the WTC, but in 1993 a bombing occured killing six people. In 2006 Russia gifted the USA a 9/11 memorial monument which was built in Bayonne, NJ.
• The Attack on 9/11 resulted in the Largest Loss of life by a foreign attack on American soil. The 9/11 attack destroyed $100 million including Pablo Picasso's Art!

   

Amazon-AJ

• Amazon is an online store that sells CD's, movies, games, books, and other things like the Amazon Kindle.
• Amazon has so far been the biggest online store in the world and it had actually been started by a man named Jeff Bezos in 1995 and the headquarters is in Seattle. 
• The store Amazon had actually been named after the second largest river that is in Brazil.On Amazon.com they change the price more than 2.5 million times a day.
• Jeff Bezos the creator of Amazon had Amazon right inside of his garage.The two books that were first sold on Amazon.com were Fluid concepts and Analogies by Douglas Hofstadte.
• As Amazon.com grew larger employees have been forced to work no less than 60 hours a week.The amazon fulfillment center in Phoenix, Arizona was larger than 1.2 million square feet.
  
   

AJ - Osama Bin Laden

• Osama Bin Laden was a Saudi Arabian who planned the attack on the two twin towers in New York in 1911.
• Osama Bin Laden was a terrorist who sent his partners in two planes and crashed into both of the twin towers, and then another plane was about to hit the White House and the passengers got aware of what was happening and steered the plane and crashed into to a field in Pennsylvania.
• As the plane crashed in Pennsylvania another plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington D.C, this event was called the 911.
• Osama Bin Laden was 6 ft.4 to 6 ft. 6 and weighs 161 pounds or 73 kg and his religion was an Islam.
• Osama Bin Laden had been married to 5 of his wives and had about twenty children in all. Osama Bin Laden had died at age 54 and was killed by the U.S because he is the one who has created lots of damage in the U.S and has killed many american lives.

Disc Golf - Navo

• The first known instance of anyone playing golf with a flying disc occurred in Vancouver BC in 1926. A group of school age kids played a game with tin lids, which they dubbed Tin Lid Golf. They played on a fairly regular basis on a disc golf course they laid out on their school grounds.
• As they got older and into the more standard school sports, the Tin Lid Golf play faded out of the picture, only to be remembered many years later by one of the participants when they heard of the organized disc golf play of today.
• Disc Golf became popular because of modern day Frisbee. In 1965 George, a famous Frisbee player contacted Wham-O MFG to test out his new idea, Frisbee golf contest. Apparently disc golf didn't fit into the promotional plans that Wham-O had for its Frisbee brand flying discs at that time.
• But the game of disc golf did indeed exist. A small group of people from Rochester, NY who had never heard of the IFA or Goldy Norton's Handbook of Frisbee had been playing disc golf as a competitive sport on a regular basis; tournaments, league play and all. They had started in August of 1970, and by 1972 had promoted the Second Annual City of Rochester Disc Golf Championship.
• In 1973, this group of avid disc golfers found out about the IFA newsletter, and was amazed to hear of the Frisbee culture that existed beyond their little sphere of disc golf activity. They decided to make their annual City of Rochester Disc Golf Championship a big national tournament to see just how many other people were playing disc golf or would be interested in trying the game. They called the event the American Flying Disc Open put up a brand new 1974 Automobile to be awarded to the winner so as to attract the attention of the Frisbee community.
• Many players shared the dream of national tournaments and organized play. They got together and formed the PDGA to help oversee and guide the rapid growth of the sport. The game grew too fast to call it evolution; it was a revolution! The PDGA is now a worldwide force and is growing faster than ever. The sport of disc golf is becoming every bit as professional as its older brother the PGA and its traditional ball and club golf.
• LINKS : HOW TO PLAY DISC GOLF  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjo8k3ACFL4
• LINKS : HOW TO PLAY DISC GOLF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GwdghSH4rk