Top 10 People

The richest men in the world are known to everyone, while the richest woman in the world are almost anonymous. Believe it or not, top 10 richest women in the world do not come from the entertainment industry, but from business branch. Although these wealthy ladies can not boast of great popularity, what they can boast of are huge bank accounts. And who needs fame with all that money ?

10. Birgit Rausing
Bridgit is a widow of Gad Rausing, the Swedish "king of packaging", who died in 2000. Gad was the son of Ruben Rausing, a founder of the famous company Tetra Pak. After Gad’s death she and her 3 children inherited the company Tetra Laval, and her net worth today is around US$13 billion.

9. Savitri Jindal
This 61 year-old woman is the widow of O. P. Jindal who was one of the most powerful people in the steel industry of India. After he had had a plain crash in 2005, Savitri became the non-executive member of the Jindal Steel, and the owner of  US$13.2 billion wealth.

8. Susanne Klatten
Susanne was born in Germany in 1962. She is a daughter of late Herbert Quandt who held a 50.1% stake in pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturer Altana, and a 12.5% stake in the company BMW. The richest woman in Germany is the owner of US$13.2 billion.

7. Anne Cox Chambers
Anne Cox Chambers was born in 1919. Her father was James Middleton Cox, a founder of a media empire which consists of numerous TV and radio stations, 17 newspapers and a cable TV. After the death of her sister with whom he shared the ownership over her father’s empire, she became its owner. Her wealth is US$13.4 billion worth.

6. Jacqueline Mars
Jacqueline is the successor of the famous Mars candy and pet-food factory, established by her father Forrest Edward Mars and her grandfather Frank C. Mars. With her net worth of about US$14.0 billion, she takes the 44th place on the list of the richest people in the world.

5. Abigail Johnson
Abigail Johnson is a $15 billion worth businesswoman. She is the President of Fidelity Investments, a financial services company founded and led by her father Edward Johnson III. At the age of 25 she joined her father’s company and with a lot of hard work she contributed to the progress of the company, which led to her personal prosperity as well.

4. Yang Huiyan
She is only 30, and she is the richest woman in China. Her father Yang Guoqiang was one of the founders of Country Garden Holdings. In 2007 he transferred 70 % of his shares to his daughter while he remained the chairman of the company. Yang Huiyan is about US$16 billion worth.

3. Alice Walton
Another heiress of the Wal-Mart empire is Alice Walton. She is a daughter of the founder of Wal-Mart- Sam Walton. The worth of her wealth is estimated at US$22 billion. Wal-Mart is one of the largest market chains in the world with about 8,500 stores and a turnover of 400 billion dollars.

2. Liliane Bettencourt
This 89 year-old Franch lady is the owner of US$23.5 billion. Her father Eugene Schuellerm set up a company L’oreal. This business tycoon is the owner of the main share of capital of the famous brand L’oreal. She is also a founder of Beterkurt Foundation, which supports development of medicine, culture and humanism.

1. Christy Walton
She is a widow of the son of Sam Walton – John Walton, and one of the inheritors of Wal-Mart wealth. Her husband died in the plain crash in 2005, after which she inherited US$15.9 billion. One part of her total US$26.5 billion wealth comes from Wal-Mart shares, while the other comes from First Solar, a corporation which was invested by her late husband.

In every coutry killing is considered the most serious crime. That's because it's in human nature to value the life of a human being more than anything else in this world. Through the history we could see many serial killers spreading fear among the people after every new victim. Although we sometimes secretly admire their skills,we lok at them as the heartless monsters who can't see the life as a sanctity. Here's the list of the most ipressive serial killers of all times.

10. Mary Ann Cotton
Known as: Black widow
Murders: 21
Mary, proffered to kill husbands, lovers, or those in her way. Her victims were mainly poisoned. Mary Ann Cotton was hanged at Durham County Gaol on 24 March, 1873.

9. Gary Leon Ridgeway
Known as: Green River Killer
Murders: 71
Ridgeway would later become known as the “Green River Killer” for his killing spree throughout the 1980s which will result in him becoming one of the most prolific serial killers in history of American. He would kidnap prostitutes and murder them after sexually attacking them. Ridgeway later said that murdering young women was his “career”.

8. Andrei Chikatilo
Known as: The Butcher of Rostov
Murders: 53
Butcher of Rostov was a Ukranian murderer found guilty of the murder of 53 kids and women in a span of twelve years. He used alcohol and cash to attract woman prostitutes and toys and candies to lure kids of both sexes. And then, they would go to a woods and it would be the place for accomplishing his sick needs. He was found guilty of fifty-two murders and sentenced to death.

7. Elizabeth Báthory
Known as: Blood Countess
Murders: around 80
Take a look at probably the worst female serial killers ever known, even if a few hundreds of years happened. Victims was treated to torture, maiming, and beatings. Her accomplices were executed, and she got house arrest. Elizabeth was found dead on August 1614.

6. John Wayne Gacy
Known as: The killer clown
Murders: more than 29
Clowns bring a smile to the faces. Yes but not this one, he brought terror, instead. He was one of the most killers in the history of America. By day he loved to entertain children as Pogo the Clown. But at night his character was completely changed. This deeply disturbed psychopath and a murderer of young children was finally caught when his last victim escapes after a night of horrendous torture. Police found 29 bodies in his house. In 1994, he was executed.

5. Theodore Bundy
Known as: The Poster Boy of Serial Killers
Murders: 36
Ted really was a poster boy. He was really good-looking and intelligent. In college, he fell in love. He loved her so much that he wanted to marry her. But she felt that he wasn't the right guy for her. A separation changed everything in Ted’s life forever. Ted felt extreme anger against all the women in the world. After committed 36 murders, he was executed in the electric chair.

4. Gilles de Rais
Known as: Gilles de Rais
Murders: 80 to 600
Gilles de Rais was a military captain. He was convicted of raping and killing hundreds of young children, mainly young boys with blond hair and blue eyes.
He tortured and mutilated the poor kids. Most of the time, he would ejaculate over the body of the dying victim.
Most of the bodies were burnt or buried and the exact number of his victims is still unknown.

3. Pedro Alonso Lopez
Known as: Monster of the Andes
Murders: more than 300
One of the most monstrous serial killers that ever lived. Lopez (Monster of the Andes) mutilated, raped and killed enough people to fill a small town. After killing more than 300 girls in South America he was finally caught in 1980. Eighteen years later he was released for “good behavior”. Is he dead or alive, to this day no one knows.

2. Zodiac killer
Name: uknown
Murders: 37
His victims were murdered via stabbings and shootings. Various scenarios were joined because of the Zodiac letters sent to newspapers. The letters included unusual symbols, many of which remain unsolved. For example “Me=37 ; SFPD=0” This means he killed 37 person's, and no points for the police.
We still do not know who the Zodiac was.

1. Jack the ripper
Name: uknown
Murders: 5
Known as: Jack the ripper
Jack the Ripper might be famous, but he is still nameless. His personal identity has never been discovered. Attacks ascribed to the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. A letter supposedly deliver to the press from the killer ignited a press frenzy around the image of Jack the Ripper.

An important part of human nature is aspiration for progress. A man changes the environment with scientific and technical innovations. Everyday, a new patent is introduced somewhere in the world. Some inventions were invented long time ago and made our lives so much easier, that we got used to them as if the nature itself had made them. For example, we use our computers everyday, check the mail and make contacts with people throughout the world, in a few minutes, not being aware of the one who enabled us to do that.

10. The Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell while experimenting with "harmonic telegraph" discovered he could hear the sound of a twanging clock spring over a wire on June 2nd 1875. March 10, 1876 brought the greatest success to Bell - the  birth of the telephone, as well as the death of the multiple telegraph.

9. The Steam Engine
A military engineer and inventor Thomas Savery, patented the first steam engine in 1893 and demonstrated it to the "Royal Society" on 14 June 1699. The steam engine was described  in his book "An Engine to Raise Water by Fire"

8.  Wireless Energy
Wireless energy is defined as a Transmission of electrical energy from a power source to an electrical load without wires in 1893. Nikola Tesla demonstrated wireless energy transfer to power electronic devices. A lot of aspirations on intercontinental wireless transmission of industrial power can be found in his unfinished "Wardenclyffe Tower" project.

7. Antibiotics
In 1877 Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch observed that an airborne bacillus could inhibit the growth of Bacillus anthracis and that process was named antibiosis. Later on, In 1928, Alexander Fleming observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus 'Penicillium'. Prontosil was The first commercially available antibacterial antibiotic and it was developed by Gerhard Domagk and his research team in 1932. He recieved the 1939 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his efforts.

6. The Internet
Donald Davies, Leonard Kleinrock, Paul Baran, J.C.R. Licklider, Lawrence Roberts and other scientists were the ones who started thinking about the way to create a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could easily and quickly access data and programs from any site. The dream came true and Internet began in 1962. The term INTERNET was invented later.

5. The Laser
Albert Einstein established the theoretic foundations for the laser in 1917. Gordon Gould published the term LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) in 1959. The first time the functioning laser was operated was in May 1960.

4. The Television
John Logie Baird was inventor of the world's first practical television system. He was the one who demonstrated the transmission of moving silhouette images in London in 1925. BBC transmitted the world's first public regular high definition service from the Victorian Alexandra Palace in north London in 1935.

3. The Plane
The first successful test flights were made by The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur on 17 December 1903. The Wright Flyer III was capable to perform fully controllable stable flight for substantial periods By 1905. The first person to exceed the speed of sound was Chuck Yeager in 1945.

2. The Printing Press
The books were  hand-written until Gutenberg built his revolutionary printing press in 1439. They were very expensive since it was very difficult and time-consuming to create and to copy them. All of that made them limited to personal notes and to very important texts, mostly on religion or science.

1. The Computer
The machine that we can't picture modern world without. Everything started long time ago when Blaise Pascal started working on mechanical calculator. It took three years and 50 prototypes until he got the perfect one. The computing hardware was developed through evolution of machines with separate manual action  in order to perform arithmetic operations, following punched card machines and finally stored-program computers. Stored program computers started as computer architecture as an organization of units to perform input and output up to store data and operation as an integrated mechanism.