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Country --- Name of parliaments Pakistan Majlis-e-shoora India Lower house ----- Lok Sabha Upper House ----- Rajya Sabha Britain Lower House ----- House of commons Upper House ------House of Lords USA Lower House ----- House of Representative Upper House ------Senate Germany Lower House ------Bundesra Upper House ------Budestag Malaysia Lower House ----- Dewan Rakyat Upper House ----- Dewan Negara Russia Dumas Iceland Althing (World’s oldest parliament) Spain Cortes Holland States General Israel Knesset Iran Majlis Japan Diet Sweden Ricksdag Norway Storting Denmark Folketing Poland Sejm China National People’s Congress Nepal National Panchayat Bhuttan Tsongdu Some Facts about Earth Distance of the earth from the sun ......... 93,000,000 miles Distance of moon from earth ................. 238,857 miles Diameter of the sun .............................. 864,000 miles Diameter of the earth ............................ 8,000 miles Diameter of the moon ........................... 2190 miles Circumference of the earth .................... 25,000 miles Time taken by earth 4 one rotation ........ 24 hours Time taken by earth 4 one revolve ......... 365-1/4 Longest day in Northern. Hemisphere .... 21st June Shortest day in Northern. Hemisphere ... 22nd Dec Equal days and nights ......................... 21st March and 23rd Sep Equal days and nights round the year ... Equator __________________ "When Allah leads you to the edge of the cliff, Trust Him Fully, only 1 of 2 things will happen either He will catch you when you fall or He will teach you how to fly" Popular Names..................... Titles Florence Nightingale .............. Lady of the lamp Duke of Wellington ................ Iron Duke England and English people ... John Bull Earl of Warwick ..................... King Maker Napolean .............................. Little Corporal Napolean .............................. Man of Destiny Queen Elizabeth I .................. Maiden Queen Joan of Arc ............................ Maid of Orleans Inhabitants of USA ................. Yankee Shakespeare ......................... Bard of Avon Prince of Bismarck ................. Man of Blood and Iron Kitchener of Khartoum ............ K of K Richard Cobden ..................... Apostle of Free Trade Gen Rommel (Germany) ......... Desert Fox Geoffrey Chaucer ................... Father of English Poetry Hitler .................................... Feuhrer Gen. Eisenhower (USA) ......... Ike English Soldier ...................... Tommy Atkins French Soldier ....................... Poolu American Soldier ................... G. I. Sir Walter Scott ..................... Wizard of the North Sigmand Freud ...................... Father of Psychology Official Books Blue Books ...................... Official reports of the British Government Yellow Books ................... French official books White Books .................... Official Publications of Portugal and China. White Paper ..................... Short Pamphlet formerly issued by British Parliament Grey Books ...................... Official reports of Japan and Belgiam Governments Green Books .................... Official Italian and Persian Publications Orange Books .................. Netherland Publications Seven Wonders of the Medieval World Closseum of Rome Great Wall of China (Visible from moon also) Porcelain Tower of Nanking Stonehenge of England Mosque at St. Sophia (Costantinopole) Catacombs of Alexandria Leaning Tower of Pisa Seven Wonders of Ancient World Hangning Gardens of Babylion Temple of Diana at Epheus (Rome) Statue of Jupiter at Olympia Mausoleum of Mausolus (Ruler of Halicarnassus) Pyramids of Egypt Light House at Alexandria Colossus at Rhodes 912ft statue of Helos, The Sun God, stands at one side of the harbour. Geographical Surnames Bengal's Sorrow ......................... Damodar River Blue Mountains .......................... Nilgiri Hills City of Palaces .......................... Calcutta China's Sorrow ........................... Hwang Ho City of Eternal Springs ................. Quito (South America) City of Severn Hills ..................... Rome Eternal City ................................Rome City of Skyscrapers ..................... New York Emrald Isle ................................. Ireland Forbidden City .............................Lhasa Gift of the Nile ............................ Egypt Gateway of India ......................... Mumbai Gateway of Tears .........................Strait of Bab-el-Manded (Jerusalem, Palestine) George Cross Island ..................... Malta Granite City ................................. Aberdeen Holy Land ................................... Jerusalem Hermit Kingdom ............................ Korea Island of Cloves ........................... Zanzibar Key to Mediterranean .................... Gibraltar Pillars of Hercules ......................... Straits of Gibraltar Manchester of the Orient ............... Osaka (Japan) Playground of Europe .................... Switzerland Queen of Adriatic ......................... Venice Rose - Pink City ........................... Jaipur Roof of the World ......................... Pamirs in Central Asia Sickman of the Europe .................. Turkey Venice of North ........................... Stockholm Windy City .................................. Chicago Whiteman's Grace ......................... Guinea (West Coast of Africa) World's Lonliest Island ................... Tristan De Cunha (Mid - Atlantic) Land of midnight Sun ..................... Norway Land of rising Sun ......................... Japan Land of Thousand Lakes ................. Finland Land of Golden Fleece .................... Austrailia Land of Morning Calm ..................... Korea Land of Maple Leaf ........................ Canada Land of White Elephants ................. Siam (Thialand) Land of Thunderbolts ...................... Bhutan Land of fiver rivers ........................ Punjab