back on the yahoo answers circuit

am back on the yahoo answers circuit..

feels good :)

LOTD - ivy league collges

one of friends got into cornell university today. i knew it was an ivy league college. had checked that earlier when mridu had got thru cornell.

took out some time to further knw about the coveted ivy league

there are 8 colleges in the ivy leauge

• Harvard University
• Yale University
• University of Pennsylvania
• Princeton University
• Columbia University
• Brown University
• Dartmouth College
• Cornell University

it initially it started for excellence in sports but later on it was for all round performance of these universities....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League

LOTD - 70 mm

learned why the movies we see in hall are called 70 mm.

its coz the film strip is 70 mm wide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/70_mm_film

LOTD- Aurora

Learning of the day

Aurora - are natural light displays in the sky, usually observed atnight, particularly in the polar regions. They typically occur in the ionosphere. They are also referred to as polar auroras.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy)