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The Kerala Senior Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) results are going to be announced today on 3rd May 2010, at around 11-30 am.
More than 4.60 lakh students who had given the exams are eagerly waiting fot the results.
The school govt authorities have set up IT@school project to ensure students do not face any problems while checking the results.
This new project will be headed by Anwar Sadath and looks to make the reuslts easily obtainable for the students.
The Content Delivery Network System used by this portal will allow an easy access to students as the website will function normally even if there is heavy load of users looking for SSLC results.The Kerala Senior Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) results are going to be... more
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RE: http://blogs.current.com/comedy/2009/11/25/who-you-calling-a-turkey/
I've discovered more things about the naming of the so-called turkey.
The reason the English word for Meleagris gallopavo is because when turkeys were brought back to the old world, they were transported from from present day Turkey in the Ottoman Empire. They called these birds Turkey Fowl. Eventually they shortened it to it's present name.
This bird's strange appearance, has made people think the bird is exotic. People only knew where they got the bird from, so they presumed that it was from that country, and named it after that country.
In Greek gallopoulameans French Chicken.
In French poulet d’inde means Chicken of India.
The Portuguese word is Peru as in the South American nation.
In Malay, it is called either Ayam Piru from the Portuguese or Ayam Belanda which translates as Dutch chicken.
In Dutch they use the word kalkoen, which is derived from Calicut, a city in the Indian state of Kerala.
In Turkey they call the bird hindi because it relates to India.
And when you get to Vietnam, which is traditionally thought of as the exotic far east, they translate the bird as gà tây, “Western chicken”.
A reason that the New World bird is associated with the 'exotic east' is because people thought the Americas were actually part of Asia.
In parts of Eastern Asia, at least they get creative with their names for Guajolote. In Chinese 火鸡 means "fire chicken." The Japanese, シチメンチョウ / 七面鳥 and Korean 칠면조 / 七面鳥 mean "seven-faced bird."
This is a list of languages that saw the indigenous American poultry, and so these names are appropriate words for Meleagris gallopavo.
In Blackfoot, it is called ómahksipi'kssíí, meaning “big bird”.
In Lakota, it is waglekšun.
In Miami, it is nalaaohki pileewa, meaning “native fowl”.
In Ojibwe, it is mizise
In Passamaquoddy, it is nem.
In Central Mexico it is guajolote from the Nahuatl hueyxolotl.
In Mayan it is called chumpipe.
I want to give partial credit to Farsi who named the bird after it's onomatopoeic word بوقلمون, "Boogalamoon."
That is a lot of names for one bird. Which one do you like the best?
Read em all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_for_the_Wild_TurkeyRE: http://blogs.current.com/comedy/2009/11/25/who-you-calling-a-turkey/
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Coca-Cola has been asked to pay $47 million in compensation for alleged environmental damage caused at a bottling plant in southern India. The plant, one of its largest in India, was forced to close in 2005 after massive nationwide protests against the company.Coca-Cola has been asked to pay $47 million in compensation for alleged environmental... more
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800,000 people are expected to be gather in an Indian disctict of Kerala to celebrate the 26th night of the Holy Month of Ramadhan -26th of September (a day earlier than the rest of India)- where special night long prayers are going to be said.
On this day special day, when it is believed the first verse of the Holy Quran was revealed, thousands of Muslims will take an oath against terrorism and for harmony, love & tolerance.
800,000 people are expected to be gather in an Indian disctict of Kerala to celebrate... more
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