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New Year's Day Hindu:  Friday 22 March, 2013 Chinese :  Sunday 10 February, 2013 Hmong:  November 2013 Persian:  Thursday 21 march, 2013 Japanese:  Tuesday 1 January, 2013 Jewsih:  Wednesday 4 September, 2013 and ends in the evening of Friday 6 September, 2013. Korean:  Sunday 10 February, 2013 Thai:  Tuesday 1 January, 2013 Tibetan:  Monday 11 February, 2013 Vietnamese:  Sunday 10 February, 2013 New Years Day for Next 10 Years 2013  - Tuesday 01 January, 2013 2014  - Wednesday 01 January, 2014 2015  - Thursday 01 January, 2015 2016  - Friday 01 January, 2016 2017  - Sunday 01 January, 2017 2018  - Monday 01 January, 2018 2019  - Tuesday 01 January, 2019 2020  - Wednesday 01 January, 2020 2021  - Friday 01 January, 2021 2022  - Saturday 01 January, 2022 There are quite a few things to look forward to this year for people around the globe. On a political front Croatia is set to join the European Union this year, the venue for the Olympic Games in 2

For all of you James Bond fans out there, this is not your typical wrist watch, this is something that you’ve always wanted: sports watch with built in camera. So if you want to feel like you want to embark on your very own secret agent career, this watch could be a start. When you first look at it, it looks like a standard sports watch, with its simple but sports looking design. But if you look  a bit closer you can see a small spy camera hiding. It’s perfect for all your spy missions because it has all sorts of interesting features. First of all it’s a sports watch, a camcorder, camera and a recorder all in one single device but it can work as PC web camera as well. It has built in rechargeable Li-ion battery and it can be connected and charged via USB cable. It can take images in 3264 x 2448 pixels resolution which just enough. For color videos that resolution is bit smaller and it goes around 1280 x 960 pixels. It’s perfect for all sorts of recordings because built in camera a

PlanetSolar - The Largest Solar-Powered Vessel in the World Built at the Knierim Yacht Club in Kiel in northern Germany, PlanetSolar is a vessels powered by photovoltaic solar panels that cover about 500 square meters of the boat's surface, making the catamaran the biggest solar-powered vessel in the world. It is worth mentioning that the boat is 31m long and 15m wide and cost 18 million euros to make (about $24.4 million). The 60-ton PlanetSolar has an average speed of 8knots (9mph or 15km/h). The solar panels installed on the vessel will be able to collect 103.4kW of energy that will power the engine. It is expected to be launched waterside in March and the sea trials will take place between June and September. In 2011, Raphael Domjan, a 38 year old Swiss, together with Gerard d'Aboville from France, who is the first one to row the Atlantic Ocean, are going to take the solar-powered boat on a journey around the world. The goal is to show that it is possible

The helmet used by the U.S. military has changed dramatically over the years.In World War I, the M1917/M1917A1 helmets,They were replaced in 1941 by the M-1 "steel pot," the standard-issue helmet in World War II, the Korean conflict and throughout the Vietnam War. By the 1980s, U.S. military helmets had evolved into a one-piece structure composed of multiple layers of Kevlar  29 ballistic fiber. The helmet of the near future, however, may contain something more than extra protection from flying shrapnel. An Arizona State University researcher, working under a grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is trying to develop a military helmet equipped with technology to regulate soldiers' brains. The technology is transcranial pulsed ultrasound, which delivers high-frequency sound waves to specific regions of the brain. Under the influence of these sound waves, neurons send impulses to their targets, exerting control over them. On the ba

More than you'd think! In 1908 Henry Ford’s foreman, William Klann, visited a slaughterhouse seeing the ‘disassembly line’. He cleverly uses the same principles in reverse to create an ‘assembly’ line for the building of cars. The idea is to have the parts flow on a line to the workers who are stationary, rather than have the workers travel to each  station to complete the cars. Henry Ford's perfection of the assembly line in 1913, allows what used to take 12.5 man hours to be reduced to 1 hour and 33 minutes. This allows Ford to make cars faster and cheaper than ever before, producing vehicles that were affordable enough to make motor car travel a possibility for everyone, not just the wealthy.

Scientists are one step closer to completing robotic arms that are controlled by the brain. A device that would allow paralyzed people to use their thoughts to move robotic limbs fluidly and realistically is now one step closer to reality. A team of scientists from Harvard, MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital led by Ziv Williams have found two groups of cells in one area of the monkey brain th at allow the animals to remember a sequence of two movements at once. The team was then able to program a computer to interpret those brain patterns, in turn moving a cursor on a screen in the planned sequence. The development is an improvement over current brain-machine interfaces, which focus on translating a single thought into a single movement in an external device.

Born:  January 1, 1894 Died:  February 4, 1974 Achievements:  Famous for "Bose-Einstein Theory". A subatomic particle Boson has been named after him. Honored with "Padma Bhushan".  Satyendra Nath Bose was an outstanding Indian physicist. He is known for his work in Quantum Physics. He is famous for "Bose-Einstein Theory" and a kind of particle in atom has been named after his name as Boson. Satyendranath Bose was born on January 1, 1894 in Calcutta. His father Surendranath Bose was employed in the Engineering Department of the East India Railway. Satyendranath was the eldest of his seven children. Satyendra Nath Bose had his schooling from Hindu High School in Calcutta. He was a brilliant student. He passed the ISc in 1911 from the Presidency College, Calcutta securing the first position. Satyendra Nath Bose did his BSc in Mathematics from the Presidency College in 1913 and MSc in Mixed Mathematics in 1915 from the same college. He topped the univer

Born:  September 15, 1860 Died:  April 14, 1962 Achievements:  Architect of Krishnarajasagar Dam; devised steel doors to stop the wasteful flow of water in dams; honored with Bharat Ratna. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was an eminent engineer and statesman and played a key role in building of modern India. Sir M. Visvesvaraya was born on September 15, 1860 in Muddenahalli village in the Kolar district of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore (present day Karnataka). His father Srinivasa Sastry was a Sanskrit scholar and Ayurvedic practitioner. His mother Venkachamma was a religious lady. He lost his father when he was only 15 years old. Visvesvaraya completed his early education in Chikkaballapur and then went to Bangalore for higher education. He cleared his B.A. Examination in 1881. He got some assistance from the Government of Mysore and joined the Science College in Poona to study Engineering. In 1883 he ranked first in the L.C.E. and the F.C.E. Examinations (equivalent to B.

Born:  November 30, 1858 Died:  November 23, 1937 Achievements:  He was the first to prove that plants too have feelings. He invented wireless telegraphy a year before Marconi patented his invention. Jagdish Chandra Bose was an eminent Indian scientist. He was the first to prove that plants and metals too have feelings. Jagdish Chandra Bose was born on November 30, 1858 in Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). His father Bhagabanchandra Bose was a Deputy Magistrate. Jagadish Chandra Bose had his early education in village school in Bengal medium. In 1869, Jagadish Chandra Bose was sent to Calcutta to learn English and was educated at St.Xavier's School and College. He was a brilliant student. He passed the B.A. in physical sciences in 1879. In 1880, Jagdishchandra Bose went to England. He studied medicine at London University, England, for a year but gave it up because of his own ill health. Within a year he moved to Cambridge to take up a scholarship to s

Born:  October 30, 1909 Died:  January 24, 1966 Achievements:  Founded Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; was the first chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission; was chairman of the first United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, held in Geneva in 1955. Homi Bhabha, whose full name was Homi Jehnagir Bhabha, was a famous Indian atomic scientist. In Independent India, Homi Jehnagir Bhabha, with the support of Jawaharlal Nehru, laid the foundation of a scientific establishment and was responsible for the creation of two premier institutions, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Homi Bhabha was the first chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission. Homi Jehangir Bhabha was born on October 30, 1909, in Bombay in a rich Parsi family. After graduating from Elphinstone College and the Royal Institute of Science in Bombay, he went to Cambridge University. He received his doctorate in 1934. During this p

'Total Earth blackout' due to alignment of Universe- NASA moves to shed light on rumours!! Rumours are rife that the Sun itself will be totally blacked out by an 'alignment' of the Universe causing those who are easily led astray to hyperventilate about doomsday - using NASA's own data! The truth is far from that. Here is a mythbuster straight from NASA's Francis Reddy. Thick dust clouds block our night-time view of the Milky Way, creating what is sometimes called the Dark Rift. The fact that -- from the viewpoint of Earth -- the sun aligns with these clouds, or the galactic center, near the winter solstice is no cause for concern. Credit: A. Fujii One of the most bizarre theories about 2012 has built up with very little attention to facts. This idea holds that a cosmic alignment of the sun, Earth, the center of our galaxy -- or perhaps the galaxy's thick dust clouds -- on the winter solstice could for some unknown reason lead to destruction. Such alig