Monday, May 19, 2008

London Gazette description of Great Fire of London
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/London-gazette.gif

This document dates to, hold ur breaths [but not long enough to suffocate and die :)], 1666 :).

When in india Shahjahan was still alive, and Aurangzeb was busy solidifying his hold on power, when Delhi had just (few years back) added Laal Qila and Jama Masjid to its skyline (and landline :)), and Agra the Taj, the brits had a newspaper ** :).

** having been first published on 7 November 1665. - from Wikipedia, this too.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

IQ distribution across countries (as per an study by Dr Lynn)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/IQ_by_Country.png

Some interesting bits ("As per this study"):
  1. Poor French - they are < UK, Germany, and even Italy :).
  2. Surprisingly, norway and denmark dont figure in the top group.
  3. and Italy does :). I did nt know that baking pizzas improved IQ.
  4. Israel is part of the second group - may be cause it is country's average, of all inhabitants (all ethnic groups).
  5. Same for India - because of multi-ethnicity of its population, is clubbed in third group (not in second, or first).