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                                           September 2007
                                              Vol. I | No.9 Ensuring that you stay ahead

 

 
Why CRM? The Business case for CRM
Silence is golden. Not always!!!
Biz Quiz
Cool Links
Kartik's Corner
Puzzles
This Month in History
We Heard from u
Holiday Destination
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Saket Jalan ,
IBS Bangalore ('99)
Sudha, IBS Mumbai ('98)
Manish Jain,
IBS Pune, (’98)
Ajay Nahar,
IBS Chennai ('99)
Did U Know
Book Wormz
Star Speak
in Photos
        Alumni Meet,            Bhubaneswar
        Alumni Meet,            Bangalore
Just Jokin'

DID U KNOW??

Enjoy these wonderful and amazing hard to believe facts.
  • The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.


  • Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years - but so does winter.


  • The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.


  • The largest iceberg ever recorded was 335km (208 miles) long and 97km (60 miles) wide.


  • Planets, meaning wanderers, are named after Roman deities: Mercury, messenger of the gods; Venus, the god of love and beauty; Mars, the god of war; Jupiter, king of the gods; and Saturn, father of Jupiter and god of agriculture; Neptune, god of the sea. Pluto, god of dark and cold world.


  • Earth is the densest planet in the solar system and the only one not named after a god.


  • The deepest mine in the world is Western Deep Levels near Charletonville, South Africa. It is 4,2km (2.6 miles) deep.


  • Earth is slowing down - in a few million years there won't be a leap year.


  • There are more than 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth.


  • Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres.


  • The Vatican is the world's smallest country, at 0.44 square km (0.16 square miles).


  • The first city in the world to have a population of more than one million was London.


  • Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agency in the world, was founded in 1850.
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