- Eat a Bedtime Snack
- Avoid Caffeine, Alcohol and Tobacco
- Sleep in a Well-Ventilated Room
- Sleep on a Good Firm Bed
- Sleep on Your Back
- Get Some Physical Exercise During the Day
- Keep Regular Bedtime Hours
- If You Can't Sleep, Get Up
- Don't Sleep In
- Get Up Earlier in the Morning
- Keep Your Bed a Place for Sleep
- Avoid Naps
- Avoid Illuminated Bedroom Clocks
The purpose of my blog is to provide English students with a great deal of practice and reference material from all over the web in just one place!
ABOUT ME AND THIS BLOG.
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- Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Argentina
Blog Archive
13/01/2013
Insomnia tips
Did you know...???
Ø Milk contains traces of tryptophan - the amino acid
also found in turkey that induces sleep - and this, in combination with the
psychological association of warmth with relaxation, can induce sleep.
Ø Upper-level ozone (in the stratosphere) protects us
from dangerous UV rays; lower-level ozone (in the troposphere) contributes to
smog.
Ø Chocolate contains the alkaloid stimulants caffeine
and theobromine, the latter being highly toxic to dogs.
Ø Though England's Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792) wasn't
the first to eat meat between two slices of bread, his fondness for it
generated its famous name.
Ø Coffee likely originated in Ethiopia around the 15th
century.
Ø Bangalore, India's third-largest city, is world famous
as a center of information technology.
Ø Bones fuse together over time, decreasing the number
of bones from about 350 in a newborn to 206 in an adult.
Stuff worth knowing.
- A 12-carat gold piece is considered half gold.
TRUE (Harder)Pure, 100-percent gold is considered 24 carat; something 12 carat, therefore, would be half gold. - 2.The first feature film produced entirely with CGI (computer-generated imagery) was Toy Story.
TRUE (Harder)Toy Story (1995) was also the first feature film by Pixar, the noted producer of animated films. - 3.In Dante's Inferno, the deepest ring of Hell is reserved for murderers.
FALSE (Hardest)The ninth (and deepest) ring of Hell was reserved for individuals guilty of treachery. - 4.Batman fights crime in retaliation for the destruction of his planet.
FALSE (Easier)Bruce Wayne (a.k.a., Batman) turned to fighting crime after witnessing the murder of his parents. - 5.Michael Jackson's Thriller is the greatest-selling album of all time.
TRUE (Medium)Estimates of the worldwide sales of the 1982 album vary greatly, some topping 100 million. - 6.St. Valentine's Day is a holiday invented by the greeting card industry.
FALSE (Easier)Celebrated since the 1300s, the holiday is largely based on St. Valentine (martyred AD 270) who fell in love with his jailer's daughter and signed notes to her "from your Valentine."
Interesting information I learnt from taking a quiz...
- Dubai is home to the tallest man-made structure ever built.
TRUE (Harder)The 162-floor skyscraper named Burj Khalifa opened in 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. - 2.Apartheid was the political system dismantled in South Africa at the end of the 20th century.
TRUE (Easier)Apartheid - the system of legal, racial segregation - governed South Africa from 1948-1994. - 3.In her novel The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand promoted the virtues of communal efforts over individualism.
FALSE (Harder)In her 1943 novel, which reflects Rand's anticommunist philosophy of "objectivism," a genius architect battles conformist mediocrity. - 4.Oxygen makes up two-thirds of Earth and also two-thirds of the human body.
FALSE (Harder)Water is the most common substance at roughly these amounts. - 5."E Pluribus Unum," on the seal of the United States, means "one, out of many."
TRUE (Easier)It's a motto that emphasizes national unity. - 6.The sport saved from extinction by President Theodore Roosevelt was football.
TRUE (Hardest)Until his 1905 call for regulation of the sport, football was dwindling in support due to its violence - 18 football players died that year. - 7.The bear has caused more human deaths than any other mammal in history.
FALSE (Easier)The rat, a frequent carrier of disease, has been the deadliest mammal. - from : http://www.merriam-webster.com/true-or-false/index.htm#quiz-top
NEW YEAR stories, jokes, quotes.....
- Quotations for the New Year
- Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey
- The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. G.K. Chesterton
- Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin
- A New Year Prayer For the Elderly
God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do,
And the eyesight to tell the difference.
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do,
And the eyesight to tell the difference.
- A New Year's Wish
On New Year's Eve, Marilyn stood up in the local pub and said that it was time to get ready. At the stroke of midnight, she wanted every husband to be standing next to the one person who made his life worth living.
Well, it was kind of embarrassing. As the clock struck - the bartender was almost crushed to death.
- A Bad Dream?
Jemima was taking an afternoon nap on New Year's Eve before the festivities. After she woke up, she confided to Max, her husband, 'I just dreamed that you gave me a diamond ring for a New Year's present. What do you think it all means?'
'Aha, you'll know tonight,' answered Max smiling broadly.
At midnight, as the New Year was chiming, Max approached Jemima and handed her small package. Delighted and excited she opened it quickly. There in her hand rested a book entitled: 'The meaning of dreams'.
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