2./ His schoolteacher gave him the English name of Nelson when he was younger, thought to be in honour of Lord Nelson.

3./ He was born on July 18, 1918 in Mvezo, Umtata.

4./ He spent 27 years in jail.

5./ Mandela became the 466th prisoner at the jail on Robben Island in 1964 where he spent the next 18 years. His prisoner number was 46664.

6./ Madiba was the honorary name given by the elders of his South African clan.

7./ He was the first person in his family to go to school.

8./ While on Robben Island the visitor terms of his imprisonment allowed for One visitor a year, for 30 minutes.

9./ In 2004, Mandela famously said “Don’t call me, I’ll call you”. He was referring to his retirement from public life.

10./ What accolade does the fact that both Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu own homes on the same Soweto’s Vilakazi Street, give the road? It is the only street in the world to have housed two Nobel Peace Prize winners.

11./ Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. Four years later he became South Africa’s first ever black president, he served in office till 1999.

12./ Mandela lived on the run for a total of seventeen months. He disguised himself as a chauffeur to allow him to move around undetected by the authorities.

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Played a great game of the chess yesterday against an opponent in Turkey.
Possibly my best Check Mate ever, the game was wide open and I finished in style!

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The total global internet audience (age 15 and older from home and work computers) has surpassed 1 billion visitors in December 2008, comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, reported on Friday.

Based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service, the Asia-Pacific region accounted for the highest share of global internet users at 41%, followed by Europe (28% share), North America (18% share), Latin-America (7% share), and the Middle East & Africa (5% share).

“Surpassing one billion global users is a significant landmark in the history of the internet,” said Magid Abraham, President and Chief Executive Officer, comScore, Inc.

“It is a monument to the increasingly unified global community in which we live and reminds us that the world truly is becoming more flat.

Google Sites ranked as top internet property

“The second billion will be online before we know it, and the third billion will arrive even faster than that, until we have a truly global network of interconnected people and ideas that transcend borders and cultural boundaries.”

China represented the largest online audience in the world in December 2008 with 180 million internet users, representing nearly 18% of the total worldwide internet audience, followed by the US (16.2% share), Japan (6.0% share), Germany (3.7% share) and the U.K. (3.6% share).

The most popular property in the world in December was Google Sites, with 777.9 million visitors, followed by Microsoft Sites (647.9 million visitors), Yahoo! Sites (562.6 million visitors).

Facebook.com, which has grown a dramatic 127% in the past year to 222 million visitors, now ranks as the top social networking site worldwide and the seventh most popular property in the world.