The Seven Seas

This list of the seven seas is believed by many to be the original seven seas as defined by the sailors of ancient and Medieval Europe. The majority of these seven seas are located around the Mediterranean sea, very close to home for these sailors. Heard of Simbad and the seven seas?

The Mediterranean Sea
This sea is attached to the Atlantic Ocean and many early civilizations developed around it, including Egypt, Greece, and Rome , and it has been called 'the cradle of civilization' because of this.

The Adriatic Sea 
This sea separates the Italian peninsula from the Balkan peninsula. It is part of the Mediterranean sea.

The Black Sea 

This sea is an inland sea between Europe and Asia. It is also connected to the Mediterranean sea.

The Red Sea

This sea is a narrow strip of water extending south from North east Egypt and it connects to the gulf of Aden and the Arabian sea. It is connected today to the Mediterranean sea via the Suez canal and is one of the most heavily traveled water ways in the world.

The Arabian Sea

This sea is the North western part of the Indian ocean between India and the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia). Historically, it was a very important trade route between India and the west and the remains such today

The Persian Gulf

This sea is a part of the Indian Ocean, located between Iran and the Arabian peninsula. There has been dispute as to what its actual name is, so it is also sometimes known as the Arabian Gulf, The Gulf, or the Gulf of Iran, but none of those name are recognized internationally.

The Caspian Sea

This Sea is located on the Western edge of Asia and the Eastern edge of Europe and It's the largest lake on planet. It is called a sea because it contains salt water.

Facts About Your Heart.

Here are seven great things you probably never knew about your heart.

Many people think the heart is on the left side of their chest, but the heart is actually located almost in the center of the chest, between the lungs. It's tipped slightly so that a part of it sticks out and taps against the left side of the chest , which is what makes it seem as though it is located there.

Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze you're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body. Even at rest, the muscles of the heart work hard - twice as hard as the leg muscles of a person sprinting.

The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose. Capillaries, on the other hand are so small that it takes ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.

The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime- that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers.

A woman's heart typically beats faster than a man's. The heart of an average man beats approximately 70 times a minute, whereas the woman has a heart rate of 78 beats per minute.

Because the heart has its own electrical impulse , it can continue to beat even when separated from the body , as long as it has an adequate supply of oxygen.

Seven Great Women Inventors

We are bombarded by so much impressive new technology that it's easy to forget that many of the simple items we use everyday were once considered breakthroughs. It's probably not suprising that women had a hand in creating many of these ubiquitous items. Although the times in which these ideas were conceived prevented many of the inventors from reaping full benefits of their genius,the tools and products we rely on today may not have been possible without their pioneering work.

MARGARET KNIGHT
Margaret Knight, remembered as 'the female Edison -received some 26 patents for such diverse items as a window frame and sash, machinery for cutting shoe soles, and improvement to internal combustion engines. Her most significant patent was for machinery that would automatically fold and glue paper bags to create square bottoms, an invention which dramatically changed shopping habits.

SARAH BREEDLOVE WALKER
Sarah Walker, the daughter of former slaves, was orphaned at seven and widowed by 20. Madame Walker is credited with inventing hair lotions, creams, and improved hair styling hot comb. But her greatest achievement may be the development of the walker system, which included a broad offering of cosmetics, licensed walker agents and walker schools, which offered meaningful employment and personal growth to thousands of walker agents, Sarah walker was the first American woman self made millionaire.

MARY ANDERSON
During a trip to New York city Mary Anderson noticed that street car drivers had to open the windows of their cars when it rained in order to see, as a solution she invented as a swinging arm device with a rubber blade that was operated by the driver from within the vehicle via a lever. Her invention could clean snow, rain, or sleet from a windshield and it became standard equipment on all american cars by 1916. Mary Anderson patented the windshield wiper in 1905.

BETTE NESMITH

Bette Nesmith, an American typist and commercial artist, discovered something she couldn't live without: liquid paper. She used it secretly to correct mistakes she and co-workers made on the job, but eventually started her own company and began selling the products as 'liquid paper'. The company was sold to the Gillette corporation in 1979 for $47.5 million.

GERTRUDE B. ELION

Gertrude Elion, 1988 Nobel laureate in Medicine, and scientist emeritus with Burroughs Welcome company, is credited with the synthesis of two of the first successful drugs for leukemia, as well as imuron, an agent to prevent the rejection of kidney transplants, and zovirax, the first selective antiviral agent against herpes virus infections. Researchers who discovered AZT, a breakthrough treatment for AIDS , used Elion's protocols. Elion was included into the National Inventors Hall of fame in 1991, the first woman inductee.

STEPHANIE KWOLEK

Stephanie kwolek, one of dupont's leading chemists, discovered the 'miracle fiber' Kevlar, which has five times the strenght of steel by weight -uses for kevlar are seemingly endless, including ropes and cables for oil drilling rigs, boat sails, etc. Many Vietnam veterans and police officers are alive today because of protection provided by bullet-proof vests made from Kevlar. Kwolek was inducted into the National Inventors hall of fame in 1995.

JOSEPHINE COCHRAN

When Josephine Cochran ordered her servants aside and began washing her own dishes, she had a revelation : washing dishes was true drudgery. This realization is what led Cochran to invent the first practical dishwasher that used water pressure for cleaning. She succeeded in creating a working model, and patented it in 1886. The dishwasher included a larger model, and the model could clean 240 dishes in two minutes, as a result, it became popular with hotels and restaurants.

Seven Wonders of the Natural World

GRAND CANYON:
The Grand Canyon is a rocky gorge (ravine) in Arizona, USA. It was created by millions of years of wind and water erosion from Colorado River, which cut through layer after layer sediment. The rocks of the canyon walls range from 250 million years old at the top to over 2 billion years old at the bottom. Each layer of rock represents a distinct geological period of earth's past.

PARICUTIN VOLCANO
It erupted out of a cornfield on February 20, 1943, located just outside a city called Michoacan, about 200 miles of mexico city, Paricutin grew to 10,400 feet in just nine years, making it the fastest growing volcano ever recorded in history.

THE HARBOR AT RIO DE JANEIRO
On the east coast of Brazil lies a picturesque scene of towering mountains and beautiful beaches. Portuguese explores were the first Europeans to see the harbor, also known as Guanabara Bay, on January 1, 1502. They thought they had reached the mouth of an immense river and named it Rio de Janeiro which means River of January
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NORTHERN LIGHT
Northern lights, also called Aurora Borealis, are nature's fireworks. This spectacular light show takes place in the northern regions, but can be seen from many parts of the world. They occur when solar particles from the sun collide with gases in earth's atmosphere. The collision energy between the solar particle and the atmospheric gas is emitted as a photon (light particle). When there are many collisions, you have an aurora,- lights that seem to dance across the sky.

VICTORIA FALLS
On the African border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, the tranquil Zambezi river suddenly plummets 420 feet over a cliff to form the world's largest waterfall. David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary was the first white man to see the waterfall in 1855. Although he named it after the queen of England, native Africans continue to call it Mosi-ao-tunya which means the smoke that thunders, because the water makes thunderous spray clouds as it falls.

MT EVEREST
About 60 million years ago, India was a separate continent that rapidly moved northward and collided with Asia. The crash pushed up the northern rim of India to create the highest mountain range in the world known as the Himalayas (Mt Everest). It stands above the other mountains at 29,035 feet, making it the tallest on the planet.

GREAT BARRIER REEF
The world largest coral reef is located in the coral sea off the coast of Queensland in Australia. It stretches over 1,400 miles in length and can be seen from space. An estimated 1,500 species of fish and 350 types of coral live and grow on the Great barrier reef.

Seven Super Healthy Foods!

These 7 superfoods are proven, expert- beloved disease fighters and energy boosters. Add them to your meals and get on the fast track to a super healthy body.

LEMONS
Just one lemon has more than 100 percent of your daily intake of vitamin c , which may help increase 'good' HDL cholesterol levels and strengten bones.
Citrus flavonoids found in lemons may help inhibit the growth of cancer cells and act as an anti-inflammatory.

BROCCOLI
One medium stalk of broccoli contains more than 100 percent of your daily vitamin k requirement and almost 200 percent of your recommended daily dose of vitamin c - two essential bone building nutrients.

DARK CHOCOLATE
Just one fourth of an ounce daily can reduce blood pressure in otherwise healthy individuals. Cocoa powder is rich in flavonoids antioxidants shown to reduce 'bad' LDL cholesterol and increase 'good' HDL levels.

POTATOES
One red potato contains 66 micrograms of cell building folate-- about the same amount found in one cup of spinach or broccoli. One sweet potato has almost eight times the amount of cancer-fighting and immune boosting vitamin A you need daily.

SALMON
A great source of omega-3 fatty acids which have been linked to a reduced risk of depression, heart disease, and cancer. A 3-ounce serving contains almost 50 percent of your daily dose of niacin, which may protect against alzheimer's disease and memory loss.

SPINACH
Spinach contains lutein and zeaxanthin, two immune-boosting antioxidants important for eye health. Recent research found that among cancer fighting fruits and veggies, spinach is one of the most effective.

GARLIC
Garlic is a powerful disease fighter that can inhibit the growth of bacteria including E.coli. Allicin, a compound found in garlic works as a potent anti-inflammatory and has been shown to help lower cholesterol and blood pressure levels.

Seven Things About Nigeria!!!

The highest point in Nigeria is the Chappal Wadi Mountain in Taraba State (which means mountain of death). It is 2419m high.
The lowest point is the Atlantic ocean.

The town Gembu in Sardauna Local Government Area is the coldest in Nigeria, and arguably in West Africa. Gembu is nestled in the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba State. The average day temperature is 21.1 Degrees Celsius, and it hardly ever exceeds 25 Degrees. In August the temperature is usually 11 degrees.

The lowest temperature ever recorded in Nigeria was 2.8 degrees Celsius in Potiskum. The highest temperature recorded was 46 degrees Celsius at Yola in 2010. The lowest Temperature recorded in Jos is 4.4 Degrees.Check for more details here.

The National Animal for Nigeria is the black crowned crane. In some places the crane is considered a symbol of good luck. Due to many environmental problems, the Black-Crowned Crane is considered an endangered species.

The exact geographic centre of Nigeria is said to be at Minna, Niger State. Not even Abuja. Exact coordinates  Latitude: 9°38'08.87"N, longitude: 6°30'58.76"E (of Greenwich).

The Jos Plateau Indigobird (Vidua maryae), a small reddish-brown bird, is found nowhere else on the planet but Plateau state, Nigeria.The Jos Plateau Indigo bird is a species of bird in the Viduidae family. It is endemic to Nigeria. It lays its eggs in the nest of the Rock Fire finch which is also restricted to Nigeria.

The Anambra waxbill (Estrilda poliopareia), a small bird of many beautiful colours, is found only in Southern Nigeria and nowhere else on earth. The Anambra Waxbill is a species of estrildid finch found in wetter land of southern Nigeria. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 38,000 km²

Seven Animals You never Knew Existed!

ZEBRA DUIKER
The Zebra Duiker is a small antelope found in Ivory Coast and other parts of Africa. They have gold or red brown coats with distinctive Zebra stripes (hence the name). Their prong-like horn are about 4.5 cm long in males and half that in females. They live in lowland rain forests and mostly eats leaves and fruits.

PANTAGONIAN MARA
The Pantagonian Mara is a relatively large rodent found in parts of Argentina. This herbivorous somewhat rabbit like animal has distinctive long ears and long limbs and its hind limbs are longer and more muscular than its forelimbs.

THE MANED WOLF
The maned wolf is the largest Canid in South America resembling a large Fox with reddish fur. It's the tallest of the wild canids and its long legs are most likely an adaptation to the tall grasslands of its native habitat.

SUNDA COLUGO
Also known as Sunda flying lemur, it is not actually a lemur and does not fly. Instead it glides as it leaps among trees. Its strictly arboreal..it can be found throughout southeast Indonesia, Thailand , Malaysia and Singapore.

THE GERENUK
The Gerenuk, also known as the water gazelle, is a long necked species of antelope found in dry thorn bush scrub in eastern Africa  The word Gerenuk comes from Somali language meaning 'giraffe-necked'. They can reach higher branches and twigs than other gazelles and antelope by standing erect on their rear legs and stretch their elongated necks.

LAMPREYS
lampreys are a type of jaw-less fish that live mostly in coastal and fresh waters. The adults are characterized by a toothed , funnel like sucking mouth. They attach themselves to fish and suck their blood. Lampreys have been around for nearly 300 million years and their body structure has remained unchanged.

IRRAWADDY DOLPHIN
It is a species of oceanic dolphin found near sea coasts , in estuaries and rivers in parts of bay of Bengal in southeast Asia. Genetically the Irrawaddy dolphin is closely related to the killer whale.