Top 10 Most Famous People

While your address book or Rolodex might be filled up with plenty of phone numbers of friends and family, you may want to add to your contacts the following world famous individuals who provide their phone number to the public.
Of course, to save on long distance charges, make sure to call them from your computer using an internet phone service and not from your land line. The most widely-known provider Skype has low monthly subscription plans and free video call capabilities. Other providers, including MediaRing Talk offer free calls to landlines and mobile phones in many countries.
So, regardless if you want to call the leader of the free world or just your buddy in another state, you can definitely benefit from choosing to call from your computer instead of your home phone.
Now, here’s your VIP call list for your dialing pleasure:

10. Barack Obama

So you were sadly left off of the invitation list for the recent state dinner, and you’re not one for crashing parties. You can still communicate with the White House when you feel the need to express your support or dislike for how the President is spending your hard-earned tax dollars. To chat with President Obama or perhaps one of his aids, dial 202-456-1111.

9. The Pope

Feel compelled to confess your sins or just want to let Pope Benedict XVI know that you really like his stylish red shoes? Why not give His Holiness a jingle? Yes, the Pope and his clergy maintain a busy switchboard and welcome calls from the public. To dial the world’s smallest country’s most famous resident, dial 39-06-6982.

8. Queen Elizabeth

Since 1952, Queen Elizabeth has proudly reigned over the Commonwealth with a level of dignity not commonly found in many of today’s leaders. Undoubtedly, the Queen has stoically weathered countless challenges including the death of Princess Diana and a fire that nearly destroyed her beloved Windsor Castle. Yet, the Queen has remained steadfast in her dedication. Buckingham Palace is now readying itself for the 60th anniversary of her coronation in 2012. Want to wish the Queen congratulations on a job well done? Give her a call at 44-020-7930-4832.

7. The Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama travels the world to promote human values and religious understanding. He has won the Nobel Peach Prize, a U.S. Congressional Gold Medal and over 100 other awards, honorary doctorates, and honors. He’s also authored over 70 books. It’s fair to say that he’s busier than most of us. Even though he’s visiting dignitaries and foreign leaders most of the time, he still maintains an office in India, the country that took him in as a refugee half a century ago. If you’d like to say, “Hi” to His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, you can call him at 91-1892-221343.

6. Santa Claus

Tired of the kids telling you what they want this Christmas? Let them call in their wish list directly to Santa instead. As a free holiday service, the team at TollFreeForwarding.com offers a handy holiday service called Tel Santa. The free service provides users with a toll-free number to call and record what they want for Christmas. Then, the voice-recorded message is sent via email so that you can store it on your computer, iPod, or any device that plays music files.

5. Bill Gates

Though he’s no longer manning the helm of Microsoft, this self-professed nerd is still making news with his foundation that is focused on helping impoverished children throughout the world. If you’d like to talk with him about receiving a grant or partnering with him on a global health program, give him a call at 206-709-3100.

4. Tiger Woods

Ok, Tiger isn’t even taking calls from State Troopers right now. And, he’ll probably be sorting out problems at home for quite some time. However, you can probably get a message to him via the PGA National Headquarters switchboard at 904-285-3700.

3. Oprah Winfrey

Want to secure your seat in the audience for one of Oprah’s giveaway shows? Have an idea for a show that you’re sure she’ll love? If so, try calling her at her studio in Chicago at 312-633-1182.

2. Bono

As the leader of one of the world’s most famous and long-lasting rock bands, Bono has become equally known for his music and his dedication to philanthropy. If you’d like to personally thank him for all of his efforts, you can communicate with him through his manager’s office in Dublin at 01 6777330.

1. Donald Trump

Do you think you have what it takes to be the next “Apprentice”? Maybe, you should give “The Donald” a ring. Try him in his New York office at 212-832-2000.
Julie Trade, Sourdough Communications, a Scottsdale PR Agency.

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Top 10 Most Dangerous Animals in the World

The top ten most dangerous and most violent animals in the world. With high quality pictures and the amount of fatalities a year. And yes, humans would take the number one spot but I have not included them in this list.

10. The Bear

As humans, we share our world with many different species and animals. I am going to take you on adventure showing you the 10 most dangerous animals in the world! 10. The Bear Like Yogi Bear, bears can be your best friend and make you just want to cuddle with them. But in the wild, are they the same way? Bears are extremely dangerous met 1 on 1 in the wild which gets them the #10 spot in most dangerous animal.
Fatalities a year: 5-10

9. The Shark
As children, we were all raised to be scared of sharks. From the blood and teeth in the movies, we would hate them. Well, sharks aren’t as bad as they are in the movies but they sure are nasty killers.
Fatalities per year: About 100

8. The Jellyfish

Jellyfish are interesting but extremely scary creatures. From big and annoying jellyfish to extremely small, deadly ones, jellyfish make their way to #8. When making contact, the jellyfish’s tentacles can paralyze a human and manifests itself as cardiac arrest.

Fatalities a year: About 100

7. The Hippopotamus
Mostly found in Africa, the hippopotamus is a large ruthless animal that lives in water and land. Its mouth can open up to 4 feet and can crush like a sledgehammer. With these characteristics, it is bound to make it into the #7 spot.
Fatalities a year:100-150

6. The Elephant

Despite their friendly appearance and cleverness, elephants have been known to attack without warning, sometimes killing zookeepers whom they’ve known for 15 years. With their size and huge tusks, it is easy to imagine why the elephant made it to spot #6.
Fatalities a year:300-500

5. The Crocodile
Mostly found in Africa and Australia, the crocodile is one of the world’s most deadliest animals. The crocodile has an amazing speed and bone-crushing jaw force. One meal will last it a while so it can wait under water to plan it’s next attack.
Fatalities a year: 600-800

4. Big Cats

Animals such as lions, tigers and jaguars all fall into #4. With outrageous speeds, you are sure to be caught if you take the risky chance and run(if you do ever fall in to that situation, do not turn and run and rather look it in the eyes and open your coat to make you look bigger).
Fatalities a year: About 800

3. The Scorpion

Though much smaller than most of the creatures behind it, the scorpion has a venomous sting. The scorpion most likely causes more fatalities than recorded due to the fact that the attacks occur in isolated places as it is their habitat.
Fatalities a year:800-2000

2. Venomous Snakes

More than 450 species of snakes are venomous and 250 capable of killing a man enlarging the chance of a snake you encounter to be extremely dangerous. Attacks occur mostly in Africa, Asia and North America. Humans are a great prey for venomous snakes due to the bloodstream. Once injected with venom, it runs through your whole body.
Fatalities a year:50-125,000

AND THE MOMENT YOU’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR…….

1. The Mosquito
I bet you were expecting the most vicious most scary animal but the biggest killer in the whole world… is the mosquito. Thanks to its ability to spread diseases with an alarming efficiency, the mosquito makes its way into #1. Best known for spreading Malaria, mosquitoes also spread elephantiasis, yellow fever and West Nile Virus.
Fatalities a year:2-3 million (wow)

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Top 10 Sports Heroes

Top 10 Sports Heroes

The world of sports is full of players, but precious few go on to become bona fide heroes--those that inspire the fans and future players. Here is a list of ten of the biggest sports icons of the modern age.

Published 26th February 2011, updated 28th February 2011

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   Michael Jordan

   The undisputed leader of sports celebrities, Michael Jordan is widely regarded the best professional basketball player of all time. He has endorsed Nike, Hanes, and hundreds of other products. Best known for his winning smile, shaved head, and gravity-defying slam dunks, Michael Jordan rules the roost as a sports hero.
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   Joe Montana

   During the 1980s, the San Francisco 49ers were seemingly unstoppable, winning four Super Bowls during the decade. Their quarterback, Joe Montana, was voted MVP three of those four games. One of the best of all time, Montana is a true sports hero.
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   Babe Ruth

   Unquestionably one of the founding fathers of modern baseball in America, Babe Ruth was an inspiration to his and future generations. Known as the "Sultan of Swat", Ruth belted out home runs like none other, even calling a shot before the pitch! Besides, what other baseball player has a candy bar named after him?
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   Shaquille O'Neal

   Without question, one of the biggest sports figures today is Shaq--quite literally. Standing well over seven feet tall, O'Neal has been one of the more personable stars of the National Basketball Association for years. His image and name are instantly recognizable and he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars to manufacturers who use him to promote their products.
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   David Beckham

   A true international star, David Beckham is perhaps the best-known soccer player in the world since Pele. His bad-boy image and undeniable skills with the ball have elevated him to rock-star-like status on multiple continents. Add in a few endorsement deals and a post-career career in American soccer and a movie ("Bend It Like Beckham", anyone?), and his star power cannot be denied.
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   Rocky Marciano

   Widely regarded as the best boxer of all time, Rocco Francis "Rocky" Marciano is the only heavyweight champion to retire without a defeat at 49-0. "The Rock", as he was known by his fans, was an inspiration to thousands of Americans who would cheer him on every time he stepped into the ring. Throughout his entire career, he was only knocked down twice.
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   Bobby Orr

   Considered by many to be a living legend in the sport of ice hockey, Bobby Orr played a total of ten years for the Boston Bruins and an additional two for the Chicago Blackhawks during his illustrious career. He currently holds records for just about everything involving a puck.
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   Jesse Owens

   When it came to making Adolf Hitler look like a complete ninny, nobody did it better than Owens. In the 1936 Olympic Games in Munich, he won four gold medals, besting all the Nazi athletes and making Hitler skip all medal presentations following day one!
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   Peyton Manning

   Coming from a football family, Peyton Manning is one of the best active sports heroes today. Not just pin-point accurate when throwing the ball, Peyton is a true student of the game as well, getting into his opponent's heads and outwitting defenses like a battlefield general. Plus, he's a nice guy, too. That helps.
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    Muhammad Ali

    Perhaps no other sports figure is as immediately recognizable as Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay). The fast talking, fast moving heavyweight champ was as famous for his memorable, rapid-fire diatribes as he was for putting his opponents on the mat. Whether he was floating like a butterfly or stinging like a bee, there can be no doubt Muhammad was the greatest.

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Top 10 Horror Movies

Horror films have been criticized for their graphic violence and are often dismissed as low budget B-movies and exploitation films. Nonetheless, some major studios and respected directors have made forays into the genre. This is a list of the ten greatest horror films of all time.

10. Ringu

After the death of her cousin Tomoko, reporter Reiko hears stories of a videotape that kills everyone who sees it exactly one week after viewing. At first she discounts the rumors, but when she learns that Tomoko’s friend (who watched the video with her) died at exactly the same time, she begins to investigate. After viewing the tape herself, strange things start happening, and so she teams up with her ex-husband to try to stop the death clock that has once again begun ticking.
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9. Jaws

A Great White Shark decides to make the small beach resort town of Amity his private feeding grounds. This greatly frustrates the town police chief who wants to close the beaches to chase the shark away. He is thwarted in his efforts by the town’s mayor who finally relents when nothing else seems to work and the chief, a scientist, and an old fisherman with revenge on his mind take to the sea to kill the beast.
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8. Poltergeist

While living an an average family house in a pleasant neighborhood, the youngest daughter of the Freeling family, Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), seems to be connecting with the supernatural through a dead channel on the televison. It is not for long when the mysterious beings enter the house’s walls. At first seeming like harmless ghosts, they play tricks and amuse the family, but they take a nasty turn- they horrify the family to death with angry trees and murderous dolls, and finally abduct Carol Anne into her bedroom closet, which seems like the entrance to the other side
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7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

En route to visit their grandfather’s grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home… where they’re plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills…
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6. Carrie

Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn’t make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the whole school. What she doesn’t realise is that Carrie is … gifted, and you really don’t want to get her angry.
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5. Les Diaboliques

The wife and mistress of a sadistic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school’s filthy swimming pool… but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared – and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his ‘killers’ (and the audience) up the wall with almost unbearable suspense…
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4. Rosemary’s Baby

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a building with a bad reputation. They discover that their neighbours are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a lot of time with them. Strange things start to happen: a woman Rosemary meets in the washroom dies a mysterious death, Rosemary has strange dreams and hears strange noises and Guy becomes remote and distant. Then Rosemary falls pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbours have special plans for her child.
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3. Psycho

Marion Crane is a Phoenix, Arizona working girl fed up with having to sneak away during lunch breaks to meet her lover, Sam Loomis, who cannot get married because most of his money goes towards alimony. One Friday, Marion’s employer asks her to take $40,000 in cash to a local bank for deposit. Desperate to make a change in her life, she impulsively leaves town with the money, determined to start a new life with Sam in California. As night falls and a torrential rain obscures the road ahead of her, Marion turns off the main highway. Exhausted from the long drive and the stress of her criminal act, she decides to spend the night at the desolate Bates Motel. The motel is run by Norman Bates, a peculiar young man dominated by his invalid mother. After Norman fixes her a light dinner, Marion goes back to her room for a shower…
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2. The Exorcist

Blatty’s novelization of a real case of possession that happened in a Washington Suburb (Mt. Ranier, MD) puts Regan, an adolescent girl, Living with her mother in Georgetown in Washington, into a more and more difficult situation. She exhibits strange symptoms, including levitation and great strength. When all medical possibilities are exhausted, her mother is sent to a priest who is also a psychiatrist. He becomes convinced that Regan is possessed and he and a second priest experienced in exorcism try to drive the spirit from Regan before she dies. Very graphic for its time.
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1. The Shining

Jack Torrance becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel up in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Jack, being a family man, takes his wife and son to the hotel to keep him company throughout the long and isolated nights. During their stay strange things occur when Jack’s son Danny sees gruesome images powered by a force called “The Shining” and Jack is heavily affected by this. Along with writer’s block and the demons of the hotel haunting him Jack has a complete mental breakdown and the situation takes a sinister turn for the worse.

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Top 10 Social Networking websites of 2010

Top 10 Social Networking websites of 2010

Social networking and business networking websites are springing up on a daily basis at the moment, here at DigitalPercept we are compiling a list of the best social networking websites and the best business networking websites we have found. We are also offering the webmasters of networking sites to add their
information to DigitalPercept. If you would like to add your networking site please Contact us ensuring you mention DigitalPercept Social Networking in the subject line.

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These are the DigitalPercept’s choice of Top 10 Social Networking websites of year 2010.
1 | twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict
delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
Link: http://www.twitter.com

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2 | myspace
MySpace is a social networking website. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, US, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media, owned by News Corporation. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to comScore, MySpace was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors. MySpace employs 1,000 employees, after laying off 30% of its workforce in June 2009; the company does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation. The 100 millionth account was created on August 9, 2006, in the Netherlands.
Link: http://www.myspace.com

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3 | facebook
Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.
Link: http://www.facebook.com

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4 | bebo
Bebo is a popular social networking site which connects you to everyone and everything you care about.It is your life online — a social experience that helps you discover what’s going on with your world and helps the world discover what’s going on with you. Bebo combines community, self-expression and entertainment, enabling you to consume, create, discover, curate and share digital content in entirely new ways. Bebo has sites all across the globe — US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, India and the Netherlands.
Link: http://www.bebo.com/

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5 | friendster

Friendster is a privately owned social networking website.Its headquarters are in Sydney, Australia. The service allows users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website is also used for dating and discovering new events, bands, and hobbies. Users may share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via their profile and their network.
Link: http://www.friendster.com/

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6 | Hi5

Hi5 is a social networking website. As of January 2009, Hi5 claims to have over 60 million active members.In Hi5, users create an online profile in order to show information such as interests, age and hometown and upload user pictures where users can post comments. Hi5 also allows the user to create personal photo albums and set up a music player in the profile. Users can also send friend requests via e-mail to other users. When a person receives a friend request, he may accept or decline it, or block the user altogether. If the user accepts another user as a friend, the two will be connected directly or in the 1st degree. The user will then appear on the person’s friend list and vice-versa.
Link: http://www.Hi5.com/

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7 | orkut
Orkut is a free-access social networking service owned and operated by Google. The service is designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten.
Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil.In fact, as of May 2009, 49.83% of Orkut’s users are from Brazil, followed by India with 17.51%.
Link: http://www.orkut.com

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8 | Zorpia
Zorpia was founded in 2003 with a goal of bringing people together from all over the world and allowing them to share their ideas and interests. Since then the Zorpia Team has worked ceaselessly to reach people’s heart and provide the best features in order to maximize our users’ satisfaction. Our primary features are photo album, online journal, social networking, customized homepage, comment system and discussion forum.
Link: http://www.Zorpia.com

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9 | Netlog
Netlog (formerly known as Facebox and Bingbox) is a Belgian social networking website specifically targeted at the European youth demographic.The site was founded in July 2003 in Ghent, Belgium, by Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens, and as of December 2009 has 59 million registered users across 25 languages.On Netlog, members can create their own web page, extend their social network, publish their music playlists, share videos, post blogs and join groups.
Link: http://www.Netlog.com

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10 | propeller
Propeller is a social news portal, meaning that it is programmed by you – the audience. Our members post links to stories from all over the Web. Many of these stories originate from the websites of traditional media, including newspapers and magazines. But you will also find many stories that seldom pop up in the mainstream. Perhaps it does take a village – or at least a large community of news-hungry citizens – to nudge certain stories into the limelight.
Link: http://www.propeller.com

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