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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #3366ff; font-family: arial">Q</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #3366ff; font-family: arial">. China has built and launched a satellite for which African nation?<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #3366ff; font-family: arial"><br />A</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #3366ff; font-family: arial">. Nigeria contracted <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">China</country-region></place> to build and launch a communications satellite for them after Western nations declined</span><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: arial">.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #3366ff; font-family: arial"><p></p></span></p><span dir="rtl" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #3366ff; font-family: arial; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><a href="http://www.sciam.com/"><span dir="ltr"><br />www.sciam.com</span></a></span>

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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><b><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Books<p></p></span></b></p><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><br />History<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana"><br />It is widely accepted that the <b>earliest mechanically printed full-length book</b> is the Gutenberg Bible, printed in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Mainz</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Germany</country-region></place>, around 1455 by Johannes Gutenberg. There are five complete, intact copies in the <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">United States</country-region></place>. They are in the Pierpont Morgan Library in <state w:st="on">New York</state>, the Library of Congress, Harvard and <placename w:st="on">Yale</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Universities</placetype> and the <placetype w:st="on">University</placetype> of <placename w:st="on">Texas</placename>, in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Austin</city></place>.<br />Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_book" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #98cb00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none">Guinness World Records</span></b></a></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Person</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana"><br /><b>Joanne Kathleen Rowling</b> wrote her first book when she was six, and 20 years later wrote the first wizard-filled Harry Potter book in a cafe during her young daughter's naps. She sold her first manuscript for a pretty small sum after being rejected by a few publishers – who must be very sorry now! By the year 2000, the first three Harry Potter books had sold over 35 million copies in 35 languages and had made about $480 million. Rowling is now one of <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Britain</country-region></place>'s wealthiest women. Her net worth increased from £65 million ($93 million) in 2001 to £226 million ($325 million) in 2002. The increase was largely as a result of royalties from the hit film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but book sales and merchandising also contributed. Rowling's fortune now makes her <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Britain</country-region></place>'s wealthiest woman in showbiz – and she sits 11 places above Queen Elizabeth II!<br />Source: <a href="http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #98cb00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none">Guinness World Records</span></b></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Film</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana"><br /><b>The Book and the Rose</b> (2001): directed and written by Jeffrey Bemiss and starring Chris Kennedy and Patrick Tuttle. Tagline: In 1942, one letter can change your life. Plot Outline: A hunky young math teacher comes across a first edition of Anna Karenina and falls in love with the previous owner based on her extensive scribblings in the margin.<br />Source: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278366/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #98cb00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none">IMDb</span></b></a><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Numbers</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana"><br />In April 2003, British actor Jim Dale created and recorded <b>134 </b>different and distinguishable character voices for the audio book Harry Potter and the Order of the <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Phoenix</city></place>.<br />An original four-volume subscriber set of J. J. Audubon's The Birds of America was auctioned for <b>$8,802,500</b> (<b>£5,739,000</b>) by Christie's of <place w:st="on"><state w:st="on">New York</state></place> in March 2000.<br />The most overdue library book was returned after <b>288 </b>years! It was borrowed from a British university library in 1668 and was found elsewhere centuries later. The book was returned but no fine was charged!<br />British "head-balancer" John Evans once balanced a staggering <b>62 </b>books on his head, weighing a total of <metricconverter w:st="on" ProductID="217 lb"><b>217 lb</b></metricconverter>.<br />In 1991, Millie, US President George Bush's dog, earned <b>$900,000</b> (<b>£587,000</b>) from her autobiography Millile's Book, an "under the table look at life in the Bush family". President Bush's own biography earned only <b>$2,700</b> (<b>£1,760</b>)!<br />Source: <a href="http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #98cb00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none">Guinness World Records</span></b></a><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Thing</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana"><br /><b>Domesday Book</b> (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror, that was similar to a census by a government of today. He needed information about the country he had just conquered so he could administer it.<br />Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_book" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #98cb00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none">Wikipedia</span></b></a><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Song</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana"><br /><b>The Book</b> by Sheryl Crow<br style="mso-special-character: line-break" /><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Wordplay</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana"><br />The following imaginary book titles are all <b>puns</b>:<br />Off to Market by Tobias A. Pigg <br />Cloning by Ima Dubble <br />Fallen Underwear by Lucy Lastic <br />House Construction by Bill Jerome Home <br />Why Cars Stop by M. T. Tank <br />Look Younger by Fay Slift <br />40 Yards to the Latrine by Willy Makeit and Betty Wont<br />Source: <a href="http://www.jokesnjokes.net/funny.jokes.amusing.humor.laughs/General/bktitles001.htm" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #98cb00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none">jokesnjokes.net</span></b></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left" align="left"><p> </p></p>