Sunday, December 4, 2011

50 Wiki's 21-30

21. Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004. As of July 2011 Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account.





22. The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Minnesota Twins are my favorite Baseball team because they are my home team.












23. Bert Blyleven is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1970 to 1992, and was best known for his curveball. Blyleven was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011. He is currently one of the Broadcasters for the Minnesota Twins on Fox Sports North.








24. Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Nearly 60% of Minnesota's residents live in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area known as the "Twin Cities". This is my home state and I love it. 










25. Monta Ellis a professional basketball player who plays the shooting guard and point guard positions for the Golden State Warriors of the NBA. Ellis entered the 2005 NBA Draft after graduating from Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi. and the Warriors drafted him in the second round. He is known for his spectacular speed and also for being a prolific scorer, capable of taking difficult shots. He scored a total of 4,167 points in his prep career, making him second all-time in Mississippi history. 



26. Twitter is an online social networking and miniblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, also known as "tweets". Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. Twitter rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million 
users as of 2011. Twitter is very popular on “smart-phones”.








27. House is an television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network in 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), as an unconventional and medical genius who heads a team of diagnostician. House often agures with his fellow doctors  including his own medical team, because many of his diagnostics  about patients' illnesses are controversial.










28.Google- Google is an American Internet and software corporation.  Google has been estimated to run over one million servers in data centers around the world, and process over one billion search requests. Ninety-nine percent of Google's revenue is derived from its advertising. 








29. MacBook Pro- It is my dream computer, it is so nice and doesn't get viruses that often unlike PC's. It is so expensive compared to other computers but it is so worth if if I had some spare cash. The MacBook pro is also very state of the art with its light weight and very clear graphics wise. The MacBook pro was first introduced in 2006.
















30. G-Shock- G-Shock is a brand of watches manufactured by Casio, known for its resistance to shocks . They were, and continue to be, designed primarily for sports, military, and outdoor adventure oriented activity. The G-shock watch is my favorite watch because I do not like the way metal watches feel on my wrist.


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