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Steve Jobs Dies at 56 [Live Coverage, Pictures & Videos]

Apple has announced its former chief executive Steve Jobs has died. Mr Jobs, who stepped down recently as chief executive, had been suffering from pancreatic cancer.        Tributes for Steve Jobs from the people he competed against and inspired: Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder: ”People sometimes have goals in life. Steve Jobs exceeded every goal he ever set for himself.” Mark... 

Top Ten Ship Wrecks

Ships are born to face hardships, struggle and wrecks. It takes more than two years to build a normal sized economical ship capable of sailing in the normal and smooth weather, it takes a lot of time, money and man power. Hundreds of ship wrecks take place every year in the whole world covering minor to major ship wrecks. Ship wreck accidents provide a serious threat to the economy and well being... 

Top Ten Most Expensive Constructions

#10 Mon-Fayette Expressway $ 5.4 billion The Mon-Fayette Expressway from Uniontown to Brownsville project was one of the division four Mon/Fayette Transportation Projects being undertaken by different construction agencies and companies. The companies involved in the execution of the plans were Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC), The West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways... 

Top Ten Freakiest Highways

Highways are the basic necessity of modern Infra structure, no country can prosper without a properly networked highway. Sher Shah Suri a great muslim leader constructed the Grand Trunk Road in the early ages he had an eagle vision about the prosperity of his nation and thus provided the world with an awesome highway even when many of his generals opposed him that there is no need of such a humongous... 

Top 10 World’s Largest Dams

The following post is about the ranking of the world’s greatest and largest dams. Dams provide a huge bulk of renewable source of energy and is big a necessity for a country’s growth and development, no country can progress and prosper without energy resources. Dams are basically of four types Earthfill dams, Gravity dams, Buttress dam and Concrete Arch dams. Each of which has its... 

Top Ten Modern Inventions of 21st Century

The World is progressing at a very fast pace. In every generation the technology upgrades with a multiple of ten.  We are still not confirm to say the exact pace of advancements. The technology we often used to see in movies and comics have become a reality now. The following quote seems justified for recent technology  “Fiction of today is Fact of tomorrow.” #10 Robotics The concept... 

The Top Ten Tallest Steel Structures

The steel is the main constituent of construction material, due to its properties. (i.e. very tough, malleable and resistant to corrosion) The steel has a very high value for the elastic modulus making it more capable to resist strong tensile forces. Since the high rise buildings can fall prey to earthquake and its shear waves causing it to collapse down to ground, the steel provides flexibility... 

The Top Ten Worst Oil Spills

Oil reserves are the best sources of income for any country. Super powers are capturing Oil reserves in order to generate economy and wealth for its country. Philosophers predict that next World War will be fought for the oil reserves. God has enriched our earth with precious and unimaginable treasure of resources but the human consumption has exceeded the present resources and it is stated that oil... 

Top Ten NASA Failures

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 We have the  IGNITION. #10 THE OCO The Orbiting Carbon Observatory was an experimental NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder Program mission. The OCO was supposed to provide information and measurement regarding the atmospheric carbon dioxide and also provide an insight on the human sources and natural carbon activities emissions. This was done to predict and understand... 

China Launches Communications Satellite For Pakistan

A communications satellite, PAKSAT-1R, has been launched by China for Pakistan at 0:15 am Friday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China’s Sichuan province. The satellite was carried by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, as per the launch center. It happens to be China’s first in-orbit delivery to Asian customers and also the first commercial satellite export to international... 
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