background preloader

Random knowledge

Facebook Twitter

Doctor Who Timeline Infographic | CableTV.com. Check out this complete timeline of Doctor Who from 1963 to present, including episodes, seasons, companions, villains, and more. Scroll down to follow all the Doctor's adventures through time. A Fantastic resource for any Doctor Who fan. Adventure Titles An Unearthly Child The Daleks The Edge of Destruction Marco Polo The Keys of Marinus The Aztecs The Sensorites The Reign of Terror Planet of Giants The Dalek Invasion of Earth The Rescue The Romans The Web Planet The Crusade The Space Museum The Chase The Time Meddler Galaxy 4 Mission to the Unknown The Myth Makers The Daleks' Master Plan The Massacre of St. Share on Tumblr Pin It Embed this on your site: <a href=" src=" alt="Doctor Who Timeline Infographic" /></a><br />Via: <a href="

Photo-twitpic-login-future-28theyE28099re.jpg (600×4090) Your Age on Other Worlds. Want to melt those years away? Travel to an outer planet! <div class="js-required"><hr> This Page requires a Javascript capable browser <hr></div> Fill in your birthdate below in the space indicated. (Note you must enter the year as a 4-digit number!) The Days (And Years) Of Our Lives Looking at the numbers above, you'll immediately notice that you are different ages on the different planets. The earth is in motion. The top-like rotation of the earth on its axis is how we define the day. The revolution of the earth around the sun is how we define the year. We all learn in grade school that the planets move at differing rates around the sun. Why the huge differences in periods? Johannes Kepler Tycho Brahe Kepler briefly worked with the great Danish observational astronomer, Tycho Brahe.

Here you see a planet in a very elliptical orbit. Kepler's third law is the one that interests us the most. Let's just solve for the period by taking the square root of both sides: Isaac Newton. Who Are All Those People In Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - Spacious Planet. The album art from Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is one of the most popular album covers in music history. The cover is a collage of more than 60 famous people. Most of the people selected for the collage were requested by The Beatles. For example, George Harrison requested the three Hindu gurus who appear in the collage. Lennon requested Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi and Jesus Christ. However, Jesus and Hitler were rejected because the record label feared a public backlash.

The record label was nervous because of the controversy over the US Butcher Cover a year earlier. EMI needed the permission of all living persons in the collage, creating a nightmare for their legal department. The following is the complete list of all the people on the cover of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band: Top Row- from left to rightYukteswar Giri - Hindu guru Aleister Crowley - Magician Mae West - Actress Lenny Bruce - Comedian Karlheinz Stockhausen - German Composer W.

Fred Astaire - Actor. National/Iconic Animals around the world. Is Our Childrens Learning? List of legendary creatures (B) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Buraq from a 17th-century Mughal miniature. Psyche and Eros. The Story of Psyche and Eros Dr. C. George Boeree The so-called psyche or butterfly is generated from caterpillars which grow on green leaves, chiefly leaves of theraphanus, which some call crambe or cabbage.

At first it is less than a grain of millet; it then grows into a small grub; and in three days it is a tiny caterpillar. After this it grows on and on, and becomes quiescent and changes its shape, and is now called a chrysalis. The outer shell is hard,and the chrysalis moves if you touch it. Psyche was one of three sisters, princesses in a Grecian kingdom. Always obedient, Eros flew down to earth with two vials of potions.

Sure enough, Psyche, although still beautiful, could find no husband. Surrendering to the inevitable, she headed for the mountain. After some time, she grew lonely for her family, and she asked to be allowed to have her sisters for a visit. Her sisters convinced her this was best, so the next time her husband came to visit her, she had a lamp and a knife ready. Humor pages. Humor from the net... To: comic@superkids.com Subject: Trivia Who collects this stuff?? ----- Begin Included Message ----- Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950.

The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F. What's New / Buyers Guide / Reviews / Contents / Sponsors / Help Have some humor to share?