Thanks 1st of all for replying.
My background: I am US citizen and wife is conditional green card (going to apply I-571 before 2 years).
We want to bring her parents over from China to visit United States.
I read that I can apply B2 visa for them?
How long does it take, the whole process?
How much does it cost?
What do they need to do in China?
If you have experience this, your step by step procedures is greatly appreciated.
How to get vistor visa for in-laws?
You may not apply a B2 visa for your in-laws. They will have to apply for themselves in China. It takes 30 days for a visitor visa to be processed in China. They will have to prove that they will return after their visit and have to show adequate funds to go on the trip. Everything you need to know is on the link I have attached.**
Reply:You do not have to file for anything. The applicants (who want the visa) have to apply for B2 visa from China. The forms are on USCIS website and also the detailed procedure is on us consulate website for the site in china.
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Need help with something?
Need help finding direct numbers and/or e-addresses to get my green card from INS and the number to get my birth certificate from china. Respond only if you have useful info
Need help with something?
These are the only people that can help you.
http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/
Reply:Toll Free 1 + 877.898.6937
local 713.874.1420
fax 713.874.1245
email info@texastower.net
This website out of Texas says they can obtain your birth certificate from China. Good luck.
Need help with something?
These are the only people that can help you.
http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/
Reply:Toll Free 1 + 877.898.6937
local 713.874.1420
fax 713.874.1245
email info@texastower.net
This website out of Texas says they can obtain your birth certificate from China. Good luck.
Chinese student, Another cheap attempt to get americans tax money?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24176485/
The story was she was trying to console anti china and pro china crowds.
A chinese student name grace wang of duke university has a father who is a Communist Party member.
My question is :
Is this just another attempt to fool the government in giving her and her family green cards?
If her father works for the government how much money does he actually make in order to be able to send her daughter to study in Duke and live in USA
Also when the parents apartment was attack, they can just move? It takes lots of money to be able to do that.
Chinese student, Another cheap attempt to get americans tax money?
Well...I dont think so but even if it is I read it and it was hella confusing so I doubt the government cares.....theres been no active criticism lately of China....so ya know?
arenas
The story was she was trying to console anti china and pro china crowds.
A chinese student name grace wang of duke university has a father who is a Communist Party member.
My question is :
Is this just another attempt to fool the government in giving her and her family green cards?
If her father works for the government how much money does he actually make in order to be able to send her daughter to study in Duke and live in USA
Also when the parents apartment was attack, they can just move? It takes lots of money to be able to do that.
Chinese student, Another cheap attempt to get americans tax money?
Well...I dont think so but even if it is I read it and it was hella confusing so I doubt the government cares.....theres been no active criticism lately of China....so ya know?
arenas
Chinese student , grace wang, Another cheap attempt to get americans tax money?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24176485/
The story was she was trying to console anti china and pro china crowds.
A chinese student name grace wang of duke university has a father who is a Communist Party member.
My question is :
Is this just another attempt to fool the government in giving her and her family green cards?
If her father works for the government how much money does he actually make in order to be able to send her daughter to study in Duke and live in USA
Also when the parents apartment was attack, they can just move? It takes lots of money to be able to do that.
Chinese student , grace wang, Another cheap attempt to get americans tax money?
You're being completely ridiculous. She's a person with her own opinions on things, and if she doesn't agree with the overly nationalistic counter-protestors nor with the ill-informed pro-Tibet protestors, how does that give you the right to go around trashing her reputation? She's a college freshman, and it's disgusting how many idiots have decided to attack her and her family.
Why would she want green cards when her family is quite well off?!
And lots of government officials make a lot of money in China, just because you're a government official doesn't mean you're poor. No US Senators are anything even close to poor, most of them are multi-millionaires several times over, and it's no different when you're a high-ranking Communist Party official.
Seriously, get a reality check and stop dreaming up insane conspiracy theories. She's just a random college freshman behaving like an educated college student should.
Reply:well, I dont think she's after the greencard, but i REALLY believe she's after the fame.
I know people who lives in the same dorm with her, and apparently, she does not have a good reputation there within both the chinese and western circle. They say she lies all the time. Report It
Reply:I just think we need to stop giving so many green cards away ! Americans economy is currently in crises and many hard working americans who is working 2 jobs still can't keep ends meet. Report It
Reply:she just want a green card. and her family in china only have a average income so how can they support a daughter to study in US? i wander where the money come from?
did you know she also got a plastic surgery and changed her name become she come to US? Report It
Reply:wow, would you really believe a person in front of 2 mobs of people would be thinking about a greencard? Not everyone in the world is trying to abuse situations. I hope you can clarify your perspective on the world a bit as your post is so negative. I am amazed that you immediately question her families financial situation and even ability to escape harrassment. If someone attacked your families home, what would they do?
Reply:So, you read a story about persecution of Chinese protestors and the first thing you think is "I bet she's trying to cheat her way to my tax dollars"?
You're odd.
Get some perspective.
The story was she was trying to console anti china and pro china crowds.
A chinese student name grace wang of duke university has a father who is a Communist Party member.
My question is :
Is this just another attempt to fool the government in giving her and her family green cards?
If her father works for the government how much money does he actually make in order to be able to send her daughter to study in Duke and live in USA
Also when the parents apartment was attack, they can just move? It takes lots of money to be able to do that.
Chinese student , grace wang, Another cheap attempt to get americans tax money?
You're being completely ridiculous. She's a person with her own opinions on things, and if she doesn't agree with the overly nationalistic counter-protestors nor with the ill-informed pro-Tibet protestors, how does that give you the right to go around trashing her reputation? She's a college freshman, and it's disgusting how many idiots have decided to attack her and her family.
Why would she want green cards when her family is quite well off?!
And lots of government officials make a lot of money in China, just because you're a government official doesn't mean you're poor. No US Senators are anything even close to poor, most of them are multi-millionaires several times over, and it's no different when you're a high-ranking Communist Party official.
Seriously, get a reality check and stop dreaming up insane conspiracy theories. She's just a random college freshman behaving like an educated college student should.
Reply:well, I dont think she's after the greencard, but i REALLY believe she's after the fame.
I know people who lives in the same dorm with her, and apparently, she does not have a good reputation there within both the chinese and western circle. They say she lies all the time. Report It
Reply:I just think we need to stop giving so many green cards away ! Americans economy is currently in crises and many hard working americans who is working 2 jobs still can't keep ends meet. Report It
Reply:she just want a green card. and her family in china only have a average income so how can they support a daughter to study in US? i wander where the money come from?
did you know she also got a plastic surgery and changed her name become she come to US? Report It
Reply:wow, would you really believe a person in front of 2 mobs of people would be thinking about a greencard? Not everyone in the world is trying to abuse situations. I hope you can clarify your perspective on the world a bit as your post is so negative. I am amazed that you immediately question her families financial situation and even ability to escape harrassment. If someone attacked your families home, what would they do?
Reply:So, you read a story about persecution of Chinese protestors and the first thing you think is "I bet she's trying to cheat her way to my tax dollars"?
You're odd.
Get some perspective.
Some more "Useless Facts you Might Wanna Know" =D? #3?
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Dart-boards are made out of horsehair.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Octopi have gardens.
"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever home run and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever home run where thrown by the same man.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.
Swans and Ducks are the only birds with penises.
in fact, the longest bird penis on record belongs to a duck
A whale's penis is called a dork.
Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.
A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forestall curses.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Medieval knights put sharkskin on their sword handles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
Did you know that the actor Jane Seymour's birth name is:
Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.
Roy Rogers name was Leonard Slye
Dale Evans was Frances Octavia Smith.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streets in Rome, they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of"trivia."
Henry VIII only had two of his wives executed;
Anne Boleyn (#2) and Catherine Howard (#5).
Catherine of Aragon (#1) died after he had divorced her,
Jane Seymour (#3) died after childbirth (of Edward),
Anne of Cleves (#4) died after he divorced her
Katherine Parr (#6) actually outlived Henry.
Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark, and sence movement.
The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military flights. Cloud types are classified as numbers... with 'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets have to climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over 'cloud 9.
A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. I keep my toothbrush in the living room now.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was twice as long.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
All U.S. presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Turtles can breathe through their butts
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a two-way mirror?? Just conduct this simple test: Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a two-way mirror
The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska!
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...) The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter:o?=o?= Tom Sawyer.
Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
In Massachusetts - It is illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Diamonds - Julius Caesar
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month? A. Conception.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? A. Their birthplace
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laserbprinters all have in common? A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year? A. Father's Day
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? A.o?= He was allergic to carrots.
Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.o?= When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight".
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.o?= Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month we know today as the honeymoon.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop
Some more "Useless Facts you Might Wanna Know" =D? #3?
Interstate 19 in Arizona is probably the only Interstate in the US with metric, not mileage, signs over its entire length.
Tex-Mex country star Freddie Fender's real name was Baldemar Huerta.
The University of Nevada was first located in Elko, NV.
Hoyle has actually only written the rules for three card games, even though he authors the book of rules. None of those three games include poker or bridge.
Charles Goodyear discovered "vulcanization", or dry heating of rubber, by accident in the family kitchen when he dropped a piece on the stove.
The first casino/hotel on the Las Vegas Strip was the El Rancho, built in 1941.
Engelbert Humperdinck was a stage name. Eddie Rabbitt's name was not.
Nevada's third state flag design, adopted in 1929, was a failure after adoption due to the error of not having the word "Nevada" on the flag. The current design is from 1915 (the second design).
Reply:Another doubtful fact. Did you study them or did you just copy and paste them? Can you give sources for all your "facts" other than another list of "facts"? Report It
Reply::)some lip sticks are made out of fish scales:P Report It
Reply:here's some other facts:
hair and fingernails grow faster in summer than winter
Americans spend 6 times more money on video games than school supplies
a bar-headed goose can fly as high as 30,000 feet
ur heart beats about 100,000 times per day
the word most written in the English language is 'the'
a million $1 bills weighs about 2,040 lbs.
there r more creatures in ur mouth than humans on Earth
Reply:The problem is that if you post erroneous information, people are going to doubt all your "facts".
There is no USGA or PGA regulation for the number of dimples on a golf ball.
"Go." is a sentence that is shorter than "I am."
Reply:Thanks its very helpful
Reply:whoa a lot more interesting than a book!! =)
Reply:you should leave a space after each fact so its clearer to read =)
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Dart-boards are made out of horsehair.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Octopi have gardens.
"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever home run and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever home run where thrown by the same man.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.
Swans and Ducks are the only birds with penises.
in fact, the longest bird penis on record belongs to a duck
A whale's penis is called a dork.
Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.
A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forestall curses.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Medieval knights put sharkskin on their sword handles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
Did you know that the actor Jane Seymour's birth name is:
Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.
Roy Rogers name was Leonard Slye
Dale Evans was Frances Octavia Smith.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streets in Rome, they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of"trivia."
Henry VIII only had two of his wives executed;
Anne Boleyn (#2) and Catherine Howard (#5).
Catherine of Aragon (#1) died after he had divorced her,
Jane Seymour (#3) died after childbirth (of Edward),
Anne of Cleves (#4) died after he divorced her
Katherine Parr (#6) actually outlived Henry.
Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark, and sence movement.
The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military flights. Cloud types are classified as numbers... with 'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets have to climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over 'cloud 9.
A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. I keep my toothbrush in the living room now.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was twice as long.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
All U.S. presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Turtles can breathe through their butts
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a two-way mirror?? Just conduct this simple test: Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a two-way mirror
The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska!
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...) The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter:o?=o?= Tom Sawyer.
Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
In Massachusetts - It is illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Diamonds - Julius Caesar
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month? A. Conception.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? A. Their birthplace
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laserbprinters all have in common? A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year? A. Father's Day
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? A.o?= He was allergic to carrots.
Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.o?= When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight".
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.o?= Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month we know today as the honeymoon.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop
Some more "Useless Facts you Might Wanna Know" =D? #3?
Interstate 19 in Arizona is probably the only Interstate in the US with metric, not mileage, signs over its entire length.
Tex-Mex country star Freddie Fender's real name was Baldemar Huerta.
The University of Nevada was first located in Elko, NV.
Hoyle has actually only written the rules for three card games, even though he authors the book of rules. None of those three games include poker or bridge.
Charles Goodyear discovered "vulcanization", or dry heating of rubber, by accident in the family kitchen when he dropped a piece on the stove.
The first casino/hotel on the Las Vegas Strip was the El Rancho, built in 1941.
Engelbert Humperdinck was a stage name. Eddie Rabbitt's name was not.
Nevada's third state flag design, adopted in 1929, was a failure after adoption due to the error of not having the word "Nevada" on the flag. The current design is from 1915 (the second design).
Reply:Another doubtful fact. Did you study them or did you just copy and paste them? Can you give sources for all your "facts" other than another list of "facts"? Report It
Reply::)some lip sticks are made out of fish scales:P Report It
Reply:here's some other facts:
hair and fingernails grow faster in summer than winter
Americans spend 6 times more money on video games than school supplies
a bar-headed goose can fly as high as 30,000 feet
ur heart beats about 100,000 times per day
the word most written in the English language is 'the'
a million $1 bills weighs about 2,040 lbs.
there r more creatures in ur mouth than humans on Earth
Reply:The problem is that if you post erroneous information, people are going to doubt all your "facts".
There is no USGA or PGA regulation for the number of dimples on a golf ball.
"Go." is a sentence that is shorter than "I am."
Reply:Thanks its very helpful
Reply:whoa a lot more interesting than a book!! =)
Reply:you should leave a space after each fact so its clearer to read =)
U.S.A. Vs. Kyoto?
Why does America still refuse to ratify Kyoto?
As one of the richest nations in the world, I don't understand why they still refuse to fight climate change. Given that 137 countries have signed inclusive of India and China, the USA remains the only notable exception from the treaty.
America is a very rich nation and could quite easily afford to turn 'green'. Imagine the ramifications if America curbedtheir military spending and used that money to help turn America 'green'.
Only recently, Australia signed Kyoto, to my disappointment it hadnt happened any earlier. How do Americans feel about this?
Are you keen to turn 'green'?
U.S.A. Vs. Kyoto?
Global warming is happening. The debate on this, by any intelligent being, is over. There is still some debate over how much human activity has contributed to it and how much can we change what is happening.
I, for one, believe we should err on the side of caution and do all we need to do to try to lessen the adverse effects of global warming. Should it later be found that mankind did not contribute to global warming, then the financial costs associated with this will be far less than costs associated with the global warming being a disaster to mankind and we could have lessened its effects. I would rather be wrong and recoup the costs later than to be right and have no chance at recouping the cost at all.
Reply:USA does not believe Al Gore even when he already won an Oscar. Americans do not believe that global warming is caused by pollution.
Reply:Typical of the "green crowd" you have left of a good bit of information. 174 countries have ratified Kyoto. 137, including China (2nd largest emissions) and India (4th largest emissions) have to do nothing more than monitor and report their levels of emissions. All Kyoto does is create a worldwide market for carbon credits, hence Al Gore's involvement, and force developed economies to foot the bill for the so-called un-developed economies. I'm glad Bush is sticking to his guns on this one.
Reply:It isn't just a Bush thing. Even before he took office, Clinton did not submit the treaty for ratification because Senate Republicans made it clear that it would not happen. And it's not just a Republican thing. Democrats haven't demonstrated much initiative either; they haven't even made it that high a priority.
The two main reasons offered by pols are: (1) it isn't fair for the U.S. to have to cut emissions while India and China are exempted from the treaty and (2) it would "seriously harm" the economy.
Conflicting economic analyses show that the latter point is debateable; as for the first, even if India and China signed on, the U.S. probably still would not ratify. First, the nations likely to suffer the most detrimental effects from global warming would be low-laying island nations -- not the U.S. Second, greenhouse gases result in large part from the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, et al.) -- and we already know about the power wielded by energy industry lobbyists. Third, some legislators claim that global warming is not occuring, or that human activities do not contribute significantly enough to the problem to mandate any action.
I have always been a strong proponent of 'green' policies. Maybe the U.S. would take an economic hit at first but I think over time, the benefits (in terms of pollution, energy costs, and maybe even national security) would outweigh the costs.
Reply:From the different analyses of the Kyoto agreement that I've read, it seems to be as dubious as some of the "free trade" agreements we've entered or considered. Just as with some of the bills that get considered in congress, the stated goal isn't necessarily best met by the actual contents. I think there are sufficient reasons to doubt the effectiveness and appropriateness of the Kyoto agreement. That doesn't mean I don't think there should be actions taken -- just that I'm not convinced Kyoto is the smart way to do that.
Reply:Welcome to the Bush years.
Reply:The reason the US hasn't ratified Kyoto yet is that we elected a Republican president who values the US economy more than the environment. This is especially true since the Bush family and their friends made their fortune in the oil industry.
I'm keen to turn green. I'd love to see our dependence on oil replaced with bio-fuels. The advantage is that the carbon that is burned in bio-fuels is pulled out of the atmosphere by plants, instead of being extracted from underground where it hasn't been part of the carbon cycle for millions of years.
Reply:Of course India and China signed it. They were largely exempted from it's provisions.
Now, look at the nations that did sign and ratify it; Denmark (currently 35% above its target), Austria (34% above), Spain (22% above), Finland (21% above) and Italy (19% above), Canada (32% above) New Zealand (22% above), Japan (20% above).
And then there's the craziness that no one has demonstrated that CO2 is actually a problem or that reducing it will have any significant effect. The most "powerful" (assuming the measures that have been accepted for this are even remtely reflective of reality) greehnouse gas is water vapor. No one's talking about reducing that.
As one of the richest nations in the world, I don't understand why they still refuse to fight climate change. Given that 137 countries have signed inclusive of India and China, the USA remains the only notable exception from the treaty.
America is a very rich nation and could quite easily afford to turn 'green'. Imagine the ramifications if America curbedtheir military spending and used that money to help turn America 'green'.
Only recently, Australia signed Kyoto, to my disappointment it hadnt happened any earlier. How do Americans feel about this?
Are you keen to turn 'green'?
U.S.A. Vs. Kyoto?
Global warming is happening. The debate on this, by any intelligent being, is over. There is still some debate over how much human activity has contributed to it and how much can we change what is happening.
I, for one, believe we should err on the side of caution and do all we need to do to try to lessen the adverse effects of global warming. Should it later be found that mankind did not contribute to global warming, then the financial costs associated with this will be far less than costs associated with the global warming being a disaster to mankind and we could have lessened its effects. I would rather be wrong and recoup the costs later than to be right and have no chance at recouping the cost at all.
Reply:USA does not believe Al Gore even when he already won an Oscar. Americans do not believe that global warming is caused by pollution.
Reply:Typical of the "green crowd" you have left of a good bit of information. 174 countries have ratified Kyoto. 137, including China (2nd largest emissions) and India (4th largest emissions) have to do nothing more than monitor and report their levels of emissions. All Kyoto does is create a worldwide market for carbon credits, hence Al Gore's involvement, and force developed economies to foot the bill for the so-called un-developed economies. I'm glad Bush is sticking to his guns on this one.
Reply:It isn't just a Bush thing. Even before he took office, Clinton did not submit the treaty for ratification because Senate Republicans made it clear that it would not happen. And it's not just a Republican thing. Democrats haven't demonstrated much initiative either; they haven't even made it that high a priority.
The two main reasons offered by pols are: (1) it isn't fair for the U.S. to have to cut emissions while India and China are exempted from the treaty and (2) it would "seriously harm" the economy.
Conflicting economic analyses show that the latter point is debateable; as for the first, even if India and China signed on, the U.S. probably still would not ratify. First, the nations likely to suffer the most detrimental effects from global warming would be low-laying island nations -- not the U.S. Second, greenhouse gases result in large part from the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, et al.) -- and we already know about the power wielded by energy industry lobbyists. Third, some legislators claim that global warming is not occuring, or that human activities do not contribute significantly enough to the problem to mandate any action.
I have always been a strong proponent of 'green' policies. Maybe the U.S. would take an economic hit at first but I think over time, the benefits (in terms of pollution, energy costs, and maybe even national security) would outweigh the costs.
Reply:From the different analyses of the Kyoto agreement that I've read, it seems to be as dubious as some of the "free trade" agreements we've entered or considered. Just as with some of the bills that get considered in congress, the stated goal isn't necessarily best met by the actual contents. I think there are sufficient reasons to doubt the effectiveness and appropriateness of the Kyoto agreement. That doesn't mean I don't think there should be actions taken -- just that I'm not convinced Kyoto is the smart way to do that.
Reply:Welcome to the Bush years.
Reply:The reason the US hasn't ratified Kyoto yet is that we elected a Republican president who values the US economy more than the environment. This is especially true since the Bush family and their friends made their fortune in the oil industry.
I'm keen to turn green. I'd love to see our dependence on oil replaced with bio-fuels. The advantage is that the carbon that is burned in bio-fuels is pulled out of the atmosphere by plants, instead of being extracted from underground where it hasn't been part of the carbon cycle for millions of years.
Reply:Of course India and China signed it. They were largely exempted from it's provisions.
Now, look at the nations that did sign and ratify it; Denmark (currently 35% above its target), Austria (34% above), Spain (22% above), Finland (21% above) and Italy (19% above), Canada (32% above) New Zealand (22% above), Japan (20% above).
And then there's the craziness that no one has demonstrated that CO2 is actually a problem or that reducing it will have any significant effect. The most "powerful" (assuming the measures that have been accepted for this are even remtely reflective of reality) greehnouse gas is water vapor. No one's talking about reducing that.
Question for environmentalists?
This has been on my mind for some time now. China, India, North Korea, and all these other 3rd world countries in Africa and Asia are so filthy, so wasteful, and release SO MANY CARBOn emissions, but you never hear any environmentalists complain about them. Why not??
All you hear about is America. But the fact is, compared to most of the world, America is as pristine as a bar of soap compared to many of these places. We recycle, preserve many natural resources, consistently and constantly find ways to reduce energy spending, have innovations that are "green" or environment friendly, and we ourselves generally do our part to keep things nice.
Hell, China can't even make toys without loading volatile toxins in them. So where are your objections about the other countries that are so wasteful and immensly releasing about 50times the carbon emissions that we do????
Question for environmentalists?
You raise a worthwhile point.
Something you may not know is that the rules of the World Trade Organization treaty (which replaced the GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) don't allow countries to add restrictions or taxes on goods from other nations based on their environmental, labor or other practices. This makes a certain amount of sense (imagine trying to make even a cell phone to meet a patchwork of contradictory requirements!), but when China emits (by one estimate) 3.4 times as much carbon per unit of GDP than the US does, it's time to reconsider.
Reply:If you're talking greenhouse gas (specifically carbon) emissions, your facts are incorrect. China and the USA are essentially tied for the most total CO2 emissions. On a per capita basis, the US is by far the worst CO2 polluter of any major country. There are a few worse ones - mostly Middle East countries and US territories. These numbers are a bit old (2003), but give you a good idea what I'm talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...
If you want to talk about other types of pollution, then China is worse than the USA. However, other types of pollution can have large particulates which block sunlight and cause global dimming which offsets a little bit of global warming. Bad for health, but good for slowing climate change.
As for the USA being green due to our innovations, what about our cars? We drive a bunch of gas guzzling SUVs around, while in other countries they drive little tiny fuel efficient cars. Hybrids are great, but only 1% of new car sales in the US are hybrids.
Sorry, but your perceptions of the US and other countries are simply inaccurate.
Reply:Interesting, isn't it? Do you realize that the reason President Bush refused to sign the Kyoto Accord (to limit CO2 emissions) was because China was exempt from it?
Reply:You must also consider capability. We get the majority of our taxes in the U.S. from rich people, while many poor people pay no taxes. Its not treating them equally because the poor have no money. China and North Korea have trouble feeding their people, providing energy etc. Making them follow the same rules as the developed countries is impossible for them. So should we not fight global warming because they can't?
Reply:You know we are the only country that matters. :)
Why do tree-huggers like myself focus on our country? Because it all starts at home. We have the technological and monetary ability to make our air, water and soil cleaner and safer.
Reply:You make valid points here, but I can make my preferences felt here, in my own country, through how my dollars are spent, how I vote, how I recycle and so on.
How do you propose that we force these other countries to go green, when many of them cannot ensure their own people their basic rights?
Reply:A lot of Americans, especially those in Hollywood have told about wrongs committed against the environment in other countries. I think that individual Americans should focus on their own habits. About the toxic toys, Americans buy them, and that is wasteful, along with the junky toys in Kids Meals.
Reply:All you hear about is America because it's the only country that matters. All the people that talk about China are being censored. No one talks about India because they are too busy talking in outsourced call centers. Anyone that talks about North Korea are executed.
Reply:"However, other types of pollution can have large particulates which block sunlight and cause global dimming which offsets a little bit of global warming."
Does this guy really believe this crap...or does he just post this stuff to a rise out of people like me. I can't believe that anybody would post such nonsense and actually believe it.
Reply:Having spent a considerable time in very poor places like Indonesia where they do not have a rubbish collection recycling is done at a local level not out of concern for the planet but because rubbish has value.These are countries with no social support for the very poor. Plastics and other man made materials have replaced local bio degrable packaging materials such as banana leaves and plastic waste can be found all over or be seen being burnt. The majority of the people i met had little education and could not understand why it was bad to burn plastic. Plastics etc have risen in 3rd world countries as developed countries send products over as they are cheaper for us never mind the impact it has on the local population. 200 years ago in the UK in our industrial revolution the uk polluted rivers, exploited people and generally acted in many of the ways in which these developing countries act. When they argue that they are being pressuirzed into developing in a more sustainable way which is more costly i can see their point. Many of these " bad" countries arent worried about the environment only about feeding themselves and their families, environmental concern is a pergotive of only the rich!!
Reply:If we never hear about 3rd world polution, then how is it that you can quote it and everyone immediately believes you?
The reason is that 3rd world pollution is well documented, and of great concern to environmentalists.
Bush didn't sign the Kyoto agreement for good reason, but that reason wasn't China. The Kyoto agreement would put a heavier burden on the U.S. than other countries because we are the highest per capita.
Instead of rewarding improvement, the Kyoto agreement punished those of us that are advanced enough to drive cars and use air conditioning.
I'm for change, but not Kyoto, it was blatantly unfair the the U.S.
Gumps
All you hear about is America. But the fact is, compared to most of the world, America is as pristine as a bar of soap compared to many of these places. We recycle, preserve many natural resources, consistently and constantly find ways to reduce energy spending, have innovations that are "green" or environment friendly, and we ourselves generally do our part to keep things nice.
Hell, China can't even make toys without loading volatile toxins in them. So where are your objections about the other countries that are so wasteful and immensly releasing about 50times the carbon emissions that we do????
Question for environmentalists?
You raise a worthwhile point.
Something you may not know is that the rules of the World Trade Organization treaty (which replaced the GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) don't allow countries to add restrictions or taxes on goods from other nations based on their environmental, labor or other practices. This makes a certain amount of sense (imagine trying to make even a cell phone to meet a patchwork of contradictory requirements!), but when China emits (by one estimate) 3.4 times as much carbon per unit of GDP than the US does, it's time to reconsider.
Reply:If you're talking greenhouse gas (specifically carbon) emissions, your facts are incorrect. China and the USA are essentially tied for the most total CO2 emissions. On a per capita basis, the US is by far the worst CO2 polluter of any major country. There are a few worse ones - mostly Middle East countries and US territories. These numbers are a bit old (2003), but give you a good idea what I'm talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...
If you want to talk about other types of pollution, then China is worse than the USA. However, other types of pollution can have large particulates which block sunlight and cause global dimming which offsets a little bit of global warming. Bad for health, but good for slowing climate change.
As for the USA being green due to our innovations, what about our cars? We drive a bunch of gas guzzling SUVs around, while in other countries they drive little tiny fuel efficient cars. Hybrids are great, but only 1% of new car sales in the US are hybrids.
Sorry, but your perceptions of the US and other countries are simply inaccurate.
Reply:Interesting, isn't it? Do you realize that the reason President Bush refused to sign the Kyoto Accord (to limit CO2 emissions) was because China was exempt from it?
Reply:You must also consider capability. We get the majority of our taxes in the U.S. from rich people, while many poor people pay no taxes. Its not treating them equally because the poor have no money. China and North Korea have trouble feeding their people, providing energy etc. Making them follow the same rules as the developed countries is impossible for them. So should we not fight global warming because they can't?
Reply:You know we are the only country that matters. :)
Why do tree-huggers like myself focus on our country? Because it all starts at home. We have the technological and monetary ability to make our air, water and soil cleaner and safer.
Reply:You make valid points here, but I can make my preferences felt here, in my own country, through how my dollars are spent, how I vote, how I recycle and so on.
How do you propose that we force these other countries to go green, when many of them cannot ensure their own people their basic rights?
Reply:A lot of Americans, especially those in Hollywood have told about wrongs committed against the environment in other countries. I think that individual Americans should focus on their own habits. About the toxic toys, Americans buy them, and that is wasteful, along with the junky toys in Kids Meals.
Reply:All you hear about is America because it's the only country that matters. All the people that talk about China are being censored. No one talks about India because they are too busy talking in outsourced call centers. Anyone that talks about North Korea are executed.
Reply:"However, other types of pollution can have large particulates which block sunlight and cause global dimming which offsets a little bit of global warming."
Does this guy really believe this crap...or does he just post this stuff to a rise out of people like me. I can't believe that anybody would post such nonsense and actually believe it.
Reply:Having spent a considerable time in very poor places like Indonesia where they do not have a rubbish collection recycling is done at a local level not out of concern for the planet but because rubbish has value.These are countries with no social support for the very poor. Plastics and other man made materials have replaced local bio degrable packaging materials such as banana leaves and plastic waste can be found all over or be seen being burnt. The majority of the people i met had little education and could not understand why it was bad to burn plastic. Plastics etc have risen in 3rd world countries as developed countries send products over as they are cheaper for us never mind the impact it has on the local population. 200 years ago in the UK in our industrial revolution the uk polluted rivers, exploited people and generally acted in many of the ways in which these developing countries act. When they argue that they are being pressuirzed into developing in a more sustainable way which is more costly i can see their point. Many of these " bad" countries arent worried about the environment only about feeding themselves and their families, environmental concern is a pergotive of only the rich!!
Reply:If we never hear about 3rd world polution, then how is it that you can quote it and everyone immediately believes you?
The reason is that 3rd world pollution is well documented, and of great concern to environmentalists.
Bush didn't sign the Kyoto agreement for good reason, but that reason wasn't China. The Kyoto agreement would put a heavier burden on the U.S. than other countries because we are the highest per capita.
Instead of rewarding improvement, the Kyoto agreement punished those of us that are advanced enough to drive cars and use air conditioning.
I'm for change, but not Kyoto, it was blatantly unfair the the U.S.
Gumps
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