How to say I Love You in 100 Languages !

English - I love you
Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief
Albanian - Te dua
Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian - Yes kez sirumen
Bambara - M'bi fe
Bangla - Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi
Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian - Obicham te
Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah
Cantonese Chinese - Ngo oiy ney a
Catalan - T'estimo
Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse
Chichewa - Ndimakukonda
Corsican - Ti tengu caru (to male)
Creol - Mi aime jou
Croatian - Volim te
Czech - Miluji te
Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch - Ik hou van jou
Esperanto - Mi amas vin
Estonian - Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian - Afgreki'
Faroese - Eg elski teg
Farsi - Doset daram
Filipino - Mahal kita
Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua
French - Je t'aime(to male), Je t'adore(tofemale)
Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort
Georgian - Mikvarhar
German - Ich liebe dich
Greek - S'agapo
Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw
Hawaiian - Aloha wau ia oi
Hebrew - Ani ohev otah (to female)
Hebrew - Ani ohev et otha (to male)
Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw
Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
Hmong - Kuv hlub koj
Hopi - Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hok kian - wa ai lu
Hungarian - Szeretlek
Icelandic - Eg elska tig
Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu
Inuit - Negligevapse
Irish - Taim i' ngra leat
Italian - Ti amo
Japanese - Aishiteru
Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene
Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili - Nakupenda
Konkani - Tu magel moga cho
Korean - Sarang Heyo
Latin - Te amo
Latvian - Es tevi miilu
Lebanese - Bahibak
Lithuanian - Tave myliu
Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Mandarin Chinese - Wo ai ni
Marathi - Me tula prem karto
Mohawk - Kanbhik
Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl - Ni mits neki
Navaho - Ayor anosh'ni
Norwegian - Jeg Elsker Deg
Pandacan - Syota na kita!!
Pangasinan - Inaru Taka
Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo
Persian - Doo-set daaram
Pig Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay
Polish - Kocham Ciebie
Portuguese - Eu te amo
Romanian - Te ubesk
Russian - Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic - Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian - Volim te
Setswana - Ke a go rata
Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
Sioux - Techihhila
Slovak - Lu`bim ta
Slovenian - Ljubim te
Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo
Swahili - Ninapenda wewe
Swedish - Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di
Tagalog - Mahal kita
Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li
Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai - Chan rak khun (to male)
Thai - Phom rak khun (to female)
Turkish - Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese - Anh ye^u em (to female)
Vietnamese - Em ye^u anh (to male)
Welsh - 'Rwy'n dy garu
Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba - Mo ni fe

'New proof' of Japan Sex Slaves !

About 200,000 women worked as Japanese sex slaves in WWII

Reports from Japan say documents have been found that suggest the Japanese authorities forced women to work as sex slaves during World War II.

They come from the Dutch government archives and include the testimony of a 27-year-old Dutch woman from May 1946.

The Kyodo news agency says the documents show women were coerced into prostitution in occupied Indonesia.

PM Shinzo Abe had claimed there was no evidence of Japanese officials forcing women into prostitution.

The documents are reported to have been found by a Japanese journalist investigating Japan's wartime crimes in Asia.

'Comfort women'

The Dutch woman's testimony says she had her clothes ripped off her by Japanese military police.

She says she was taken to a brothel and forced to work as a prostitute, despite her efforts to resist.

That testimony, it is claimed, was submitted to the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal as evidence of forced mass prostitution in Magelang, in what is now Central Java, in 1944.

Other documents are said to include further allegations that the Japanese forced women into prostitution.

Earlier this year Prime Minister Abe said that investigations had failed to find any documentary evidence that the Japanese authorities in wartime had issued orders to soldiers to coerce women into sex slavery.

He said though that he stood by a Japanese government apology to the women, known in Japan as "comfort women".

The journalist who found these documents says they contradict the prime minister's denial that the authorities were directly involved in coercion.

The Japanese Foreign Ministry says it is aware of his claims but has not seen the documents so cannot comment on what they might contain.

It says the Japanese government has investigated its wartime activities in Indonesia thoroughly and acknowledges and apologises for the country's wartime use of sex slaves.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6646297.stm

The Yakuza Enterprises !

The yakuza's tentacles reach into many different areas, principally corporate extortion, gambling, smuggling, loan sharking, money laundering, narcotics, real-estate, sports, entertainment, stock manipulation, tourist scams, sex tours, prostitution, slavery, pornography, and gun running.

Sex-related enterprises are the yakuza's bread and butter, and they cater to the wild side of Japan's overworked, buttoned-down "salary men." The yakuza smuggle truckloads of pornographic films and magazines into Japan from Europe and America. They control prostitution rings throughout the country, commonly holding young women from other Asian countries captive as indentured servants and forcing them to work as "comfort workers." The Japanese euphemistically refer to the act of prostitution as "selling spring," and Japanese johns have a taste for very young women, as demonstrated by the national obsession with young women in school-girl outfits complete with short pleated skirts and knee socks. The yakuza buy unwanted female children from China--where the law restricts couples to only one child and the cultural preference is for boys--for as little as $5,000 and put them to work in the mizu shobai (literally the "water business"), the yakuza's network of bars, restaurants and nightclubs.

Asian prostitutes in a brothel (CORBIS)

China is not the yakuza's only source of young women. Many of the yakuza's prostitutes come from the Philippines, where girls from impoverished villages are tricked into going overseas with promises of respectable jobs at good wages. Once they arrive in Japan they are put to work as strippers and hookers by their yakuza masters. Frequently these girls succumb to the demands of their yakuza pimps because they can earn much more money than they ever could in the Philippines. The running joke among the Philippino streetwalkers in Japan's big cities is that whenever they send money home to their unknowing families, they write glowing letters, describing in detail their jobs as "receptionists."

Sex tours are also popular in East Asia, and the yakuza have their hands in that trade as well, organizing vacation tours to cities like Bangkok, Manila, Seoul and Taipei, where sex hotels offer prostitutes to suit any fantasy.

Yakuza also satisfy the desire of would-be gun owners in Japan, where guns of all kinds are prohibited. Yakuza members themselves are the prime market for firearms, and they favor the sleekest automatic handguns from Europe and America, often trading drugs for weapons. The yakuza specialize in the production and sales of methamphetamine (given the frenetic pace and competitive atmosphere of Japanese society, speed is the national drug of choice) and the yakuza frequently use it to barter with Western arms suppliers.

The yakuza also make millions of dollars a year through corporate extortion, and the sokaiya (shareholders' meeting men) are the masters of this enterprise. Sokaiya will buy a small number of shares in a company so that they can attend shareholders' meetings. In preparation for the meeting, the sokaiya gather damaging information about the company and its officers; secret mistresses, tax evasion, unsafe factory conditions, and pollution are all fodder for the sokaiya. They will then contact the company's management and threaten to disclose whatever embarrassing information they have at the shareholders' meeting unless they are "compensated." If management does not give in to their demands, the sokaiya go to the shareholders' meeting and raise hell, shouting down anyone who dares to speak, making a boisterous display of their presence, and shouting out their damaging revelations. In Japan, where people fear embarrassment and shame much more than physical threats, executives usually give the sokaiya whatever they want.

But Japan is also a society where directness is considered rude, and even the criminals make their threats known in a circuitous, outwardly polite manner. Threats come in many disguises. Some sokaiya pose as business magazine publishers who encourage their targets to take out ads or buy subscriptions in exchange for favorable reporting about the company. Since these sokaiya will follow through on their threats and print a magazine or newsletter filled with condemning articles, company executives usually pay up rather than face the bad press.

Another sokaiya scam is to set up booster clubs that solicit donations for non-existent causes. They also throw gala events to which the invited businessmen are expected to bring cash gifts for their hosts. Such events have been known to net more than $100,000 in a single night. The sokaiya have also organized beauty pageants for the purpose of shaking down corporate "sponsors," and sokaiya golf tournaments come with pricey entrance fees for their corporate players. These corporate racketeers have also been known to sell blocks of tickets to theater events at grossly inflated prices. Anything to extort money out of legitimate companies in the most polite and indirect way possible.

World's Most Luxurious Queen Mary 2 !

PREAPARE to meet royalty as we take you on a luxury tour of the world's largest and most glamourous passenger liner.

Grand entrance ... guests are greeted in the Grand Lobby Atrium with sweeping staircases and elegant music.

Luxury lounging ... the ship is decorated in luxury furnishing so you can relax in style.

Star spotting ... the Planetarium offers a variety of constellation shows and virtual reality rides through the skies.

Soothing sail ... there's even a spa club for those after a spot of pampering.

Dark room ... and a private corner for a more intimate spa.

Fit for a Queen ... Queen Mary 2's Grand Duplexes are the most lavish suites afloat.

Sleep easy ... spacious and gracious, the Duplex is a popular option on the QM2,

Slots and lots ... the Empire Casino has over 120 slot machines.

Plenty in your belly ... there are 10 dining venues spread over the ship.

Immortalised Through Wax !

They are the icons for their zillion fans who are spread across on both sides of the Pacific. They come from different walks of life and have been role-models for their fans. Take a look at great personalities like Brian Charles Lara , Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Barack Obama among others who have been immortalised through wax. Check out the list of great personalities in wax..

One of the leading ladies of the Hindi film industry, Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan, burst into the limelight in the year 1994 when she won the coveted Miss World Title. She has often been touted as the most beautiful women under the sun. She grabbed eyeballs with her movie, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. Her performance in the film won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award.

In photos: Aishwarya Rai poses at the 'Bollywood 4 Beginners' photocall at Madame Tussauds in London, England.

Lindsay Dee Lohan is an American actress, model and pop music singer. She rose to stardom with her roles in the films, 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen', Mean Girls and lately with her movie, Just my luck.
In photos: The Lindsay Lohan wax figure debuts at Madame Tussauds in New York City.

Beyonce Giselle Knowles is an American R&B and an actress. In the year 2004, she bagged four Grammy Awards. In the year 2006, she tried her hand in movies and featured in the movie, The Pink Panther. Knowles is heavily into philanthropy since a young age.
In photos: Madame Tussauds New York launches its newest interactive Beyonce Knowles wax figure in New York City.

Salman Khan is one of the three tridents of the Khans that rule the Hindi film industry. He was voted the 7th best-looking man in the world by People magazine. He has won numerous awards, which includes Filmfare Best Male Debut Award for his movie, Maine Pyar Kiya.

In photos: Indian actor, Salman Khan, poses with his new waxwork at Madame Tussauds, London.

David Robert Joseph Beckham and Victoria Beckham are the most fashionable and talked about celebrity couple under the sun. David made frenzy waves across the globe with his ever changing hairstyles, which were quite a hit all over the world, especially Japan. Posh spice aka Victoria Beckham has added glamour to David's already spiced–up life.

In photos: Wax figures of David and Victoria Beckham are displayed at Madame Tussauds Shanghai inside the New World Department Store in Shanghai, China.

Barack Hussein Obama II created history in the USA by becoming the first black person to enter the Oval office. He is the 44th president of the United States of America and was sworn–in on January 20, 2009.

In photos: A wax figure of President Barack Obama is seen after it was unveiled at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Brian Charles Lara (nicknamed 'The Prince of Port-of-Spain') is touted as the best south paw to have ever graced the game of cricket after Sir Gary Sobers. This former Windies skipper topped the ICC rankings for the best Test batsman a plethora of times.

In photos: Brian Lara meets his wax work during net practice prior to the second Test at Lords against England.

Bruce Jun Fan Lee is widely regarded as the best martial art expert of all time. Lee is widely regarded as the cultural icon for many of his fans. He is best known for his martial arts expertise in the movie, Enter the dragon. He is also the founder of the Jeet Kune Do combat form.

In photos: A wax figure of Bruce Lee is displayed at Madame Tussauds Shanghai inside the New World Department Store in Shanghai, China.

Lance Armstrong is a seven time winner of the Tour de France, a record that he achieved after surpassing the previous best shared by Miguel Indurain and Bernard Hinault, Eddy Mercky and Jacques Anquetil. His illustrious career was halted for a brief moment when in the year 1996 he was diagnosed with cancer. In the year 1999, he was adjusted the Athlete of the year by the Wide World of Sports.

In photos: A wax figure of seven-time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, stands on display in Madame Tussauds' Lance Armstrong Experience in New York City.

Infamous for her glitzy lifestyle and appearance on a sex tape, Paris Hilton, is the ultimate desire of a man. She has few minor movies credited to her name that includes 'House of Wax.' She even wrote a tongue–in–cheek autobiography in the year 2004.

In photos: A wax figure of Paris Hilton is displayed at the opening of Club MTNY featuring Justin and Christina at Madame Tusssauds Times Square, New York City.

The Most Amazing Oscar Night Ever !

Actor Madhur Mittal, center, along with the cast and crew celebrate after the film "Slumdog Millionaire" won best picture of the year during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.



Spanish actress Penelope Cruz accepts the Oscar for best supporting actress for her work in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.


Oscar host Hugh Jackman performs a skit with actress Anne Hathaway during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black accepts the Oscar for best original screenplay for his work on "Milk" during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Greg Cannom accepts the Oscar for achievement in makeup for his work on "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" accepts the Oscar for achievement in makeup for his work on "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Anthony Dod Mantle accepts the Oscar for achievement in cinematography for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire" during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.


Oscar host Hugh Jackman performs with Beyonce during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Oscar host Hugh Jackman performs with Beyonce during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Comedian Ben Stiller, portraying Joaquin Phoenix, left, and actress Natalie Portman make the award presentation for achievement in cinematography during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Oscar host Hugh Jackman opens the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Sally Bell, mother of Heath Ledger, speaks after his family accepted the Oscar for best supporting actor on his behalf who won for his work in "The Dark Knight" during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Looking on are Heath's father, Kim Ledger, left, and sister, Kate Ledger.

Philippe Petit, the subject of the documentary "Man on Wire," balances an Oscar on his chin as James marsh looks on after the film won for best documentary feature during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.


A.R. Rahman, left, accepts the Oscar for best original song "Jai Ho" from the motion picture "Slumdog Millionaire" from Alicia Keys during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Producer Christian Colson, along with the cast and crew, accept the Oscar after the film "Slumdog Millionaire" won best motion picture of the year during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Producer Christian Colson, right, and Anil Kapoor celebrate after the film "Slumdog Millionaire" won best motion picture of the year during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.


Director Danny Boyle, facing camera,right, hugs Freida Pinto as they celebrate after the film "Slumdog Millionaire" won best motion picture of the year during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

How Facebook Changed Our Culture !

The internet is now the platform on which most of us live our lives, finds Nicholas Blincoe in two histories of the electronic age .

Over the summer of 2007, Facebook exploded across London. By the autumn, one-in-seven Londoners had posted their pictures and profiles online, proving that the web was no longer an arena for geeks and gossip hounds, music buffs, porn-addicts and lonely hearts. Or, at least, it was no longer just for them. It was for everyone. On a mass impulse many of us jumped on-board the electronic merry-go-round. Did we do it in a spirit of adventure or resignation? Was it inevitable or had we gone mad?

Cyburbia by James Harkin is a swift-moving history that provides a concise answer: yes, we are nuts and worse, we can no longer opt out. Click, by the self-proclaimed internet data junkie Bill Tancer, only reinforces this fact: our lives have changed irrevocably.

If one single factor changed the face of the internet, it was broadband. Once the internet was switched on all the time, everyone from toddlers to maiden aunts became intimate with it. We began bidding on eBay, playing contract bridge or World of Warcraft, singing along to CBeebies, sharing photos and rewriting Wikipedia. By this time, the history of computing had already moved through two distinct phases.

In the Eighties, computers were little more than fancy calculators with added typewriter functions. The Nineties brought email and online shopping to create a kind of alternative electronic reality. With broadband, there came a third phase. The world that computing makes possible could no longer be thought of as parallel to the real world: the two had merged. The web is now the platform on which we live our lives. From this point on, the story of computing is no longer the history of a machine. It is the story of a culture – our culture – though it is barely five years old.

Bill Tancer’s job is selling intelligence to businesses. His big claim is that he is not dealing in predictions but arbitrage: he knows when the market has moved before you do because he gets his information at an earlier stage. His company, Hitwise, has access to millions of internet searches. He is the guy to go to if you want to know the number one question in America (“How to tie a tie”; the 51st question in more dapper Britain).

In Click, he describes how he honed his arbitrage skills predicting the winner of the American version of Strictly Come Dancing. Tancer noticed the high number of searches for one of the last remaining dancers and took this as a sign of interest in her dancing skills. But he failed to notice the interest came from young men searching for hot pictures of a female wrestler competitor. Since then, Tancer has learnt to pay closer attention to the trail of clicks that take internet users from one site to another and his arbitrage talents have significantly improved as a result.

The trail of connections is the key feature of the new web. This is because we are no longer consumers of product – browsing sites as we may once have browsed shops or television channels. Many of us actively produce and pass on information, thus letting everyone else know what we find interesting. Search engines such as Google rank sites by popularity and so exponentially increase the responsiveness of the web to new information. Tancer suggests only one per cent of us regularly produce content, but another nine per cent do it irregularly; for instance, older people tend to edit Wikipedia, passing on their knowledge to callow youths.

Harkin’s Cyburbia leaps off from this idea: that the new web is an endlessly responsive source of information. The word for this process is “feedback”, a term invented by the mathematician Norbert Wiener, who developed the idea while attempting to improve air defences during the blitz. Wiener began to think of the theatre of war as a single system – he saw the business of tracking bombers, plotting coordinates, and aiming anti-aircraft guns – all the while, the Luftwaffe would alter their courses in response – as part of the same big picture. Harkin argues that the maths that developed out of Wiener’s insight – known as cybernetics – now underpins the internet.

He also argues that Wiener was responsible for a cultural shift that led his followers to see feedback loops everywhere, and then develop the tools to make the loops tighter and the feedback swifter.

According to Harkin, Wiener’s earliest disciples were hippies of San Francisco and his book tracks their path from kitchen‑table publishing to huge software companies, arguing in the process that it is no accident that San Francisco is the Hollywood of computing.

By charting the story of our new lives from the London blitz to the summer of Facebook, Harkin is inclined to see the web as a kind of warfare, a place where we are twitchily avid for information, devouring it as though our lives depended on it.

If war is his starting point, it is little wonder his conclusion suggests we are all shell shocked. But Cyburbia is a persuasive book, and a brave step in thinking about the mess we may have all got ourselves into.

http://www.13above.com/2009/02/how-facebook-changed-our-culture.html

Australia's 12 Deadliest Creatures !

TOURISTS beware - here are Australia's 12 deadliest creatures. Avoid at all costs! Check out the list !

1. CONE SNAIL

This underwater snail has a tooth-like stinger which acts like a harpoon. It has enough venom to kill a human as it paralyses the respiratory muscles.

The cone snail's shell is pretty and colourful, so tourists often unknowingly pick them up.

Where:

Located in the coastal waters of Australia, cone snails live in mud, sand flats and shallow reef waters.

2. STONEFISH

The most venomous fish in the world, the stonefish is not aggressive, however its proximity to shores and ability to camouflage itself in coral makes it easy for people to accidentally touch or brush against.

It has 13 dangerous spines and a dorsal fin, and when humans are stung it causes death to tissues.

Where:

The stonefish is mainly found in the coral reefs, mud, rocks and sand of Western Australia and Queensland.

3. BOX JELLYFISH

This jellyfish has a venom that attacks a human's cardiac and nervous systems and if it stings you, you have virtually no chance of surviving unless treated straight away.

It's tentacles have the ability to sting even when separated from the jellyfish, making it a very dangerous creature.

Where:

Box jellyfish are more numerous after rain and move towards the shore in calm waters when the tide is rising. They are commonly found across the northern top of the country as well as Queensland and the northern Western Australia coast.

4. BLUE-RINGED OCTOPUS

The tiny octopus changes from a muddy orange colour to a vibrant blue when it strikes.

It has venom 10,000 times more toxic than cyanide and can kill in 90 minutes. The size of a golf all, its beak can penetrate a wetsuit.

Where:

The blue-ringed octopus resides in rock pools and coral reefs around the nation .

5. SALTWATER CROCODILE

With a jaw this size the crocodile doesn't need venom.

The largest reptile in the world, it is fiercely predatory and has the ability to keep its body concealed underwater until it's ready to strike.

Where:

These crocodiles are found on the northern coast of Australia and inland for up to 100 kilometres or more.

6. RED-BACK SPIDER

This spider hides in the dark corners of back sheds, wardrobes and gardens. It's venom blocks nerve impulses, causing severe pain, vomiting, muscular weakness and sweating.

Where:

Red-back spiders are found throughout the country, commonly in disturbed and urban areas .

7. FUNNEL-WEB SPIDER

The funnel-web sets up a trip-wire so it knows when prey is passing by, and its venom can kill a human in 15 minutes.

Where:

These spiders live in burrows or stumps, tree trunks or ferns. They are found in all states except for Western Australia, but primarily exist along the coast of eastern Australia .

8. TIGER SNAKE

The tiger snake's venom contains neurotoxins which attack the nervous system, paralysing the muscles and causing asphyxiation.

Anti-coagulants also in the venom causes heavy, uncontrollable bleeding.

Where:

Found in coastal environments, wetlands and creeks around Australia .

9. DEATH ADDER :

The bite of a death adder causes paralysis and can kill in under six hours.

If you're unlucky enough to step on one you've very likely to be bitten, with the death adder having the fastest strike of any Australian snake at a quater of a second.

Where:

The death adder is found everywhere in the country except for Victoria and Tasmania .

10. TAIPAN :

The taipan snake's venom is one of the most potent of all snake venoms.

They generally stay away from humans but defend themselves fiercely if cornered or threatened. It typically attacks repeatedly, injecting as much venom as possible into the victim's body. This is in contrast to most snakes, who typically flee after attacking.

Where:

The common taipan is found in the far north of the country, Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

The very rare inland taipan is the most venomous snake in the world, 50 times more toxic than a rattlesnake.

11. EASTERN BROWN SNAKE :

The second most venomous snake in the world, the eastern brown is responsible for the most deaths by snakebite in Australia.

In 2007 a 16-year-old boy and nine-year-old girl died after being bitten by eastern brown snakes.

Where :

Its tendency to stay close to homes makes it one of the most common snakes humans encounter.

This snake is found along the east coast of Australia, Northern Territory and Western Australia.

12. GREAT WHITE SHARK :

The world's largest predatory fish, a typical specimen weighs between 700kg and one tonne and is 4 to 5 metres long.

Attacks on humans are rare, but few survive an encounter.

On average there are 15 shark attacks a year in the nation, with about one death each year.

Where :

The great white is found along the east and south-west coasts of Australia.

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