E1 Nino...

What is E1 Nino?....

E1 Nino is a climatically significant disruption of the ocean-atmosphere system characterised by large scale weakening of trade winds and warming of the surface layers in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific region.  The term E1 Nino, Spanish for "the Christ Child" was originally used by fishermen to refer to a warm ocean current that appeared around Christmas off the west coasts of Ecuador and Peru and lasted several months.  Nowadays the term has come to be reserved for exceptionally strong warm currents that bring heavy rains.

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E1 Nino events generally occur at irregular intervals of 2 to 7 years, at an average of once every 3 to 4 years.  They typically last 12 to 18 months.  the intensity of E1 Nino events varies depending on the intensity of and area encompassed by the abnormally warm ocean temperatures.  E1 Nino influences weather around the globe and its impacts are most clearly seen in the winter.

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Grand Slam...

What is the Origin of the term 'Grand Slam'....

The term Grand Slam is used today when someone wins all the four major tennis tournaments (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US  Open) in a year.  This application of grand slam was first used by sports journalist Allison Danzig in 1938 when he referred to the achievement of Australian Donald Budge who had won all the major tennis tournaments that season.  In the North America grand slam is also known as a baseball homerun with the bases loaded.  However the term originated in the game of bridge, where it means winning all the thirteen tricks in one hand...

Environmental Performance Index...

What is Environmental Performance Index?

The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a measure of environmental health and ecosystem vitality.  It is based on an assessment of 16 indicators like air quality, water resources, biodiversity and habitat, productive natural resources, sustainable energy, etc.  According to the 2006 EPI, New Zeland, Sweden and Finland have been rated as the best performing countries in the Environmental performance Index with EPI scores of 88.0, 87.8 and 87.0 out of 100, respectively.

World's Youngest Movie Director....

Who has the distinction of being the world's youngest movie director?

As per Guinness Book of World Records 2008, world's  movie is Kishan Shrikanth (b.1996).  In 2006, the Indian prodigy at the age of 9 directed a movie C/o Footpath about an orphaned boy who wants to go to school thus breaking the record of Sydney Ling of the Netherlands who directed a movie at the age of 13.

The inventor of World Wide Web?......(www)

Who is credited with the invention of World Wide Web?....

The credit for the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW) goes to Tim Berners-Lee (later given the title of Sir) and his colleagues at CERN (Eurropean Council for Nuclear Research), an international scientific establishment based in Switzerland.  They developed HTML (hyper text markup language), the format that directs a computer how to display a web page, HTTP (hyper text markup language), the format that directs a computer how to display a web page, HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) that facilitates communication between clients and servers and URLs (universal resource locators) that identify resources like documents, images, dowloadable files, services and electronic mailboxes on the Web thereby reducing a range of complex instructions to a single mouse click.

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The World Wide Web provides the facility for all the world's computers to be linked, making it easy to send documentation electronically via the Internet.  Mr. Lee deliberately refrained from patenting his work on HTTP, HTML and URLs because he wanted to encourage as many people as possible to use the Web.  The forerunner of the Internet, however, was the ARPANET.  ARPA stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency, a division of the US Defence Department that possessed linked computers across North America to enable exchange of information.