Doctor kadambini Ganguly 150 years birth anniversary

India’s first lady Doctor kadambini Ganguly 150 years birth anniversary 26-02-2011

Ganguly, Kadambini (1861-1923) first female graduate and female medical practitioner of Bengal. She was born on 18 July 1861. Her father Brajakishore Basu was an enthusiastic supporter of women's education. In the second half of the 19th century, women's education became a hotly debated issue among members of the Bengal Brahma Samaj. Radical Brahmas, including Sivanath Sastri, Durga Mohan Das, Dwarakanath Ganguly, and others criticised keshab chandra seN because he was against higher education for women. Many eminent Brahma families broke away from Keshub Sen's group and formed the Sadharan Brahma Samaj in 1876. This group worked with the English Utilitarian Annette Susannah Akroyd beveridge to establish the Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya, which merged with the Bethune School in 1878 to become bethune college. Kadambini Basu, along with Sarala (daughter of Durga Mohan Das), Binodmoni (sister of Monomohan Ghosh), Swarnaprabha (sister of Acharya Jagadish Bose) were beneficiaries of a newly emerged educational philosophy that believed that women should be given access to the same kind of knowledge as was available for men.
As a result of Dwarakanath Ganguly's fight for women's emancipation, Sarala Das and Kadambini were considered eligible in 1877 to sit for the entrance examination for Calcutta University. Ultimately, only Kadambini took the exam and passed in the second division. In 1883, Kadambini Basu and Chandramukhi Basu, a Bengali Christian from the United Provinces, received their BAs from Bethune College, becoming the first women graduates in the British Empire. Kadambini now decided to study medicine at the University.

Shortly after entering the medical college in 1883, Kadambini, only 21 years old, married her teacher and mentor Dwarakanath Ganguly, a 39-year-old widower. The marriage was apparently a happy one, based as it was on a sense of equality and meaningful companionship.
Kadambini passed in all the written papers for the final examination, but failed in one essential component of the practicals. In 1886, she was awarded a GBMC (Graduate of Bengal Medical College) degree, which gave her the right to practise. She thus became the first Indian woman doctor qualified to practice western medicine. Earlier, in 1884, Kadambini was awarded a government scholarship of Rs 20 a month for women medical students. She established a successful private practice and in 1888 was appointed to the Lady Dufferin Women's Hospital on a salary of Rs 300 per month.
Soon after the foundation of the Indian National Congress in 1885, Dwarakanath started agitating for women's representation at the annual sessions. As a consequence, six women including Kadambini attended the 1889 session. She moved a vote of thanks and was hailed by Annie Besant for being 'a symbol that India's freedom would uplift India's womanhood'. A conservative section of Hindu society launched a slander campaign against her and though she combined her role of a doctor and a good wife and responsible mother very successfully, she was indirectly called a whore by the conservative journal Bangabasi in 1891. Kadambini won a libel case against the editor of the journal, Mohesh Chandra Pal, who was fined 100 rupees and also sentenced to six months' imprisonment. In 1893, Dwarakanath sent Kadambini to Edinburgh for higher studies in medicine.
Kadambini combined her work as a doctor with social philanthropy and political activities. She was one of the organisers of the Women's Conference held in Calcutta in 1906. In 1908 she also organised and presided over a meeting organised in Calcutta to express sympathy with Satyagraha workers of Transvaal, South Africa. She soon started an association and collected money to help the workers. In 1914 she presided over the meeting of the Sadharan Brahma Samaj, held in Calcutta in honour of Gandhi during his visit to Calcutta.
Kadambini was aware of the exploitation of tea garden labourers by their employers and supported the views of her husband who condemned the existing system of recruitment of labourers in the tea gardens of Assam. In 1922, a year before her death on October 3, 1923, she accompanied poet Kamini Roy on a visit to Bihar and Orissa to inquire into the conditions of women labourers employed in the coal mines on behalf of an Enquiry Commission set up by the Government.

Aurobindo Ghose Biography

Born: August 15, 1872
Died: December 5, 1950
Achievements: He was a freedom fighter, poet, scholar, yogi and philosopher. Worked towards the cause of India’s freedom, and for further evolution of life on earth.

Aurobindo Ghose was a multifaceted person. He was a freedom fighter, poet, scholar, yogi and philosopher. He spent his life working towards the cause of India’s freedom, and for further evolution of life on earth.

Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was born on August 15, 1872 at Calcutta. His father was Krishnadhan and his mother was Swamalata. Aurobindo Ghose had an impressive lineage. Raj Narayan Bose, an acknowledged leader in Bengali literature, and the grandfather of Indian nationalism was Sri Aurobindo’s maternal grandfather. Aurobindo Ghosh owes not only his rich spiritual nature, but even his very superior literary capacity, to his mother’s line. His father was an M.D. from England.

When Sri Aurobindo was five years old, he was sent to Loretto Convent School at Darjeeling. Two years later in 1879, Aurobindo Ghose, was sent to England along with his brothers for higher studies. Aurobindo completed his schooling from St. Paul's in London. In 1890, at the age of eighteen, Sri Aurobindo got admission into Cambridge. Here, he distinguished himself as a student of European classics. To comply with the wish of his father, Sri Aurobindo Ghose also applied for the ICS while at Cambridge. He passed the Indian Civil Service Examination with great credit in 1890. He, however, failed to stand the required test in horsemanship and hence was not allowed to enter the Covenantal Service of the Indian Government.

In 1893, Aurobindo Ghose, returned to India, and became the Vice-principal of the State college in Baroda. He drew a salary of Rs.750/-. He was held in great respect by the Maharaja of Baroda. Aurobindo was an accomplished scholar in Greek and Latin. From 1893 to 1906 he extensively studied Sanskrit, Bengali literature, Philosophy and Political Science.

In 1906, in the wake of partition of Bengal, resigned his job and joined the Bengal National College on a salary of Rs.150/-. He plunged headlong into the revolutionary movement. Aurobindo Ghose played a leading role in India’s freedom struggle from 1908. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was one of the pioneers of political awakening in India. He edited the English daily Bande Mataram and wrote fearless and pointed editorials. He openly advocated the boycott of British goods, British courts and everything British. He asked the people to prepare themselves for passive resistance.

The famous Alipore Bomb Case proved to be a turning point in Sri Aurobindo Ghosh’s life. For a year Aurobindo was an undertrial prisoner in solitary confinement in the Alipore Central Jail. It was in a dingy cell of the Alipore Jail that he dreamt the dream of his future life, the divine mission ordained for him by God. He utilized this period of incarceration for an intense study and practice of the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. Chittaranjan Das defended Sri Aurobindo, who was acquitted after a memorable trial.

During his time in prison, Aurobindo Ghosh, had developed interest in yoga and meditation. After his release he started practicing pranayama and meditation. Sri Aurobindo Ghose migrated from Calcutta to Pondicherry in 1910. At Pondicherry, he stayed at a friend’s place. At first, he lived there with four or five companions. Gradually the number of members increased and an Ashram was founded.

In 1914 after four years of concentrated yoga at Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo launched Arya, a 64 page monthly review. For the next six and a half years this became the vehicle for most of his most important writings, which appeared in serialised form. These included Essays on The Gita, The Secret of The Veda, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, The Upanishads, The Foundations of Indian Culture, War and Self-determination, The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, and The Future Poetry. In 1926, Sri Aurobindo Ghose retired from public life.

Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy is based on facts, experience and personal realisations and on having the vision of a seer or Rishi. Aurobindo’s spirituality was inseparably united with reason. The goal of Sri Aurobindo was not merely the liberation of the individual from the chain that fetters him and realization of the self, but to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down the divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity.

Sri Aurobindo passed away on December 5, 1950 at Pondicherry at the age of 78.

Career Counseling to Your Personality

Finding a dream job that is appropriately compatible with your personality is an important part of your life. No matter, how simple does it sound, in reality, nothing can be more stressful than this. Very often people find tangled themselves in a career, which does offer neither enjoyment nor satisfaction. As a result, increasing number of job seekers are taking resort to career counseling as the only convenient way to find the right career path for them. Using the resources available by career counseling, you will be able to find a career that suits to your personality and thus it provides enough interest to you. Check out here, how career counseling helps you in taking up the career according to our personality and preference.

Objective of career counseling
One of the important aspects is to find what is important to you, or simply what you prefer, when it comes to find jobs or career options. Since, this is utterly simple, hardly a few can do this, but a career counselor helps you in finding something you prefer. Professional career counselors do this by following a few simple tips.
First, they list out all the things you think are important to you in a job and then placing them in a format from most important to least important. Considering these, a counselor will help in accessing jobs in the database and reviewing thousands other jobs and careers in order. By doing this, it would be easy for you to locate those that suitably match your preferences.
Career tests and Career Counseling
The process of finding jobs through database sometimes seems engulfing much of your time, the career counselors may ask you to take career test. Such a test, can determine your job preferences and simultaneously your personality traits. Considering all these important factors, the counselor will provide you a list of the jobs suited to your personality as well as preference. Most of such career tests make an in-depth research of your personality and thus can provide a good guide to you, so that you can embrace the most desired career option.
Make sure that, the career tests you are taking is of high quality. Many career tests or "Quizzes" available on the internet today are fun to play around with but the career advice offered by these is hardly reliable. A career counselor will help you find to find a reliable career test and depending on that result, the job suited to your personality.
Career counseling via these career personality tests should be backed by solid research data. A trained and experienced career counselor can only perform such research. The mostly used career test is the Strong Interest Inventory, which has been used by professional career counselors worldwide for years. Through research on this test has brought up many new ideas, which are now incorporated in the test , to make it more effective.
Myriad of revisions and updates in the career tests, help to determine the students personality and preference more effectively and thus it helps in offering them good career option.

21st February International Mother Language Day

International Mother Language Day is an observance held annually on 21 February worldwide to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. It was first announced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999. Its observance was also formally recognized by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution establishing 2008 as the International Year of Languages. International Mother Language Day originated as the international recognition of Language Movement Day, which has been commemorated in Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) since 1952, when a number of University of Dhaka students were killed by the Pakistani police and army in Dhaka during Bengali Language Movement protests.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced /juːˈnɛskoʊ/ yew-NESK-oh) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945. Its stated purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and the human rights along with fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the UN Charter. It is the heir of the League of Nations' International Commission on Intellectual Cooperation. UNESCO has 193 Member States and seven Associate Members.The organization is based in Paris, France, with over 50 field offices and many specialized institutes and centres throughout the world. Most of the field offices are "cluster" offices covering three or more countries; there are also national and regional offices. UNESCO pursues its objectives through five major programs: education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information. Projects sponsored by UNESCO include literacy, technical, and teacher-training programmes; international science programmes; the promotion of independent media and freedom of the press; regional and cultural history projects; the promotion of cultural diversity; international cooperation agreements to secure the world cultural and natural heritage (World Heritage Sites) and to preserve human rights, and attempts to bridge the worldwide digital divide. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2008 as the International Year of Languages, pursuant to a resolution of UNESCO. The resolution also reaffirmed the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages on United Nations websites.

On 21 March 1948, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Governor general of Pakistan, declared that Urdu would be the only official language for both West and East Pakistan. The people of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), whose main language is Bangla, started to protest against this. On 21 February 1952, (8 Falgun 1359 in the Bangla calendar), students in the present day capital city of Dhaka called for a provincial strike. The government invoked a limited curfew to prevent this and the protests were tamed down so as to not break the curfew. The Pakistani police fired on the students despite these peaceful protests and a number of students were killed.

World’s Tallest Woman

Sandy Allen - Standing tall amidst all odds

Standing at more than 232 cm, Sandy Allen was the world’s tallest woman during her lifetime, as recognized by the Guinness book of world records. Allen, the world’s tallest woman, grew to abnormal proportions due to an abnormal condition in her pituitary gland, which secreted more growth hormones than a normal child would. She was treated for this condition at the age of 22, but she had grown well beyond the proportions of a normal human female by then. Sandy Allen has been nothing short of superstar through out her life, which sadly ended in the wee hours of the morning of 13 August 2008. The world’s tallest woman has been showcased in the award winning flick- Casanova Di Federico Fellini. She has also been featured on various reality shows and has had a song sung in her name “Hello Sandy Allen”, by the New Zealand band Splint Enz. Because there are some peculiar conditions of atrophy and other diseases associated with gigantism, Allen used a wheelchair almost all through her life and was literally bed-ridden for the latter half of her life. The world’s tallest woman had to spend the last years of her life in a retirement center in Indiana, which ironically, was the same rehabilitation center where the world’s oldest living woman- Edna Parker is housed. Sandy lived for a span of 53 years, which by most standards is far more than her total life expectancy, as predicted by most doctors. She was known to be a gentle lady, who responded to all the queries rather warmly for someone that size and for someone suffering from so many additional problems that are associated with the condition of gigantism. Apart from being the world’s tallest woman, Sandy was known to be a great motivator too. She would go at length talking about her experiences of being left out and made fun of. She has been seen many times talking to children and telling them to face the obstacles they face in life and to turn them into stepping stones for success. In most of the real-life programs and chat shows that she was interviewed at, Sandy, the world’s tallest woman was seen as an optimist; quoting examples form her life to motivate others, especially young children. After Sandy’s death, a lot of people are proclaiming that a Chinese woman- Yao Defen is the world’s tallest woman at present. Her claims are disputed as of now, but she has similarities to Sandy for sure. Defen’s condition of gigantism is also due to the same pituitary gland secretion that Sandy suffered from. A lot is unknown about Defen and her life as of now, except the fact that she belongs to a poor farming family in China. She had her tumor removed when she grew to almost 7 feet by the age of 15. Many companies and sponsors then tried to train her to become an athlete, but since her condition was due to an illness, and her body had not grown naturally, she wasn’t able to adapt to sports. Later her tumor had reappeared and she had been treated for it again at Guangzhou and later at Shanghai in 2007. Currently she travels to different places and performs in front of crowds to generate income for living. Her claims for being the new world’s tallest woman are under the scanner and are being looked at closely by the concerned officials and federations. Since she has been suffering from a condition known as Acromelagy, she needs to be treated frequently in order to survive. In order to raise money, some British film makers and collaborators have come together and made a documentary featuring her in order to raise money for her treatment. A lot of initiatives are being taken in order to help the possible next world’s tallest woman survive and live the life she deserves.

World most Wanted

We all know Osama Bin Laden as the worlds most wanted man. There are more aspects to him then being the founder of the jihadist organization- Al Qaeda, which literally means the “base”.
Born on March 10, 1957, the Worlds most wanted man, as we see him today, was not a radical from the inception. Born into a family of Arab-businessman, Osama was the 17th (or 25th according to some reports) son of Muhammad Bin Laden, a Saudi Business man having close ties with the Royal Saudi Family. Osama was born with a silver spoon and after his birth, his father’s construction business catapulted to newer heights and his family was one of the richest in the whole of the Saudi world.

Osama’s father bore almost 50 children in a society where more than one marriage was allowed. His mother then divorced and re-married Muhammad Al-Attas and the couple bore four more children where Osama had to live with three step brothers and one step sister.

Osama got the best education a Saudi child could get. He is a master of management and economics, which he had studied at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Some analysts and historians say that it was during his study period at Jeddah, that this student was influenced by radical teachers and scholars of Islam. From then on, the road map for Osama to become the worlds most wanted man had started being carved.

According to some reports, it was the soviet invasion of Afghanistan that actually radicalized and galvanized Osama Bin Laden to wage a war. Bin Laden supported Afghanistan’s resistance to the Soviet invasion, which was backed by the USA at that point in time. This resistance later turned into a Jihad or a holy war. The schools of thought that were set by the US in Pakistan in consonance with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were initially used as shelter spaces for Afghan refugees. These schools later evolved into training grounds for radicals and this is where Osama gained ground over both the US and Russia.

By the 1980s, Laden had established the MAC or the Maktab Al Khidimat, which was a military outfit in Afghanistan. Having recruitment offices in Detroit and Brooklyn till as late as the 1980s, The MAC invited Islamic soldiers from around the world to join this movement. This whole set-up proved to be a part of an international network that exists today.

After the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Afghanistan during the early 1990s, there was an internal conflict between the various factions that have erupted within the Mujahideen. This led to the arousal of the Taliban, which was only a part of the initial Mujahideen, but later took control over the whole territory of Afghanistan within a couple of years.

After the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan, Osama, the worlds most wanted man as of today is said to have gone back to Saudi Arabia and assisted in his family business of construction. It is suggested that it was during this period that Osama founded and organization to help and fund the veterans of the Afghan war, who had been stationed at various places such as Chechnya and the Philippines. These veterans are said to be the worlds most wanted man’s main international support.

During his period in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Government had allowed American troops to be stationed on its soil during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. This led Osama to speak openly against the ‘un-Islamic’ activities of the Saudi Government. The Saudi anarchy banished Osama due to his anti-governmental views, and he went to Sudan, where he got along with like minded radicals and jotted out various attacks on the US, Israel and the Saudi Government. This was one of the most vital turning steps that led the scholar to follow the road map to becoming the worlds most wanted man.

It was after his attacks at the US embassy in Kenya in 1998 that he was declared an ‘enemy of the United States’. As we all know, after being named as the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on the twin towers in New York City, Osama Bin Laden has officially been named as the worlds most wanted terrorist.

World’s Most Wanted

Osama Bin Laden - Book on Terrorism We all know Osama Bin Laden as the worlds most wanted man. There are more aspects to him then being the founder of the jihadist organization- Al Qaeda, which literally means the “base”. Born on March 10, 1957, the Worlds most wanted man, as we see him today, was not a radical from the inception. Born into a family of Arab-businessman, Osama was the 17th (or 25th according to some reports) son of Muhammad Bin Laden, a Saudi Business man having close ties with the Royal Saudi Family. Osama was born with a silver spoon and after his birth, his father’s construction business catapulted to newer heights and his family was one of the richest in the whole of the Saudi world. Osama’s father bore almost 50 children in a society where more than one marriage was allowed. His mother then divorced and re-married Muhammad Al-Attas and the couple bore four more children where Osama had to live with three step brothers and one step sister. Osama got the best education a Saudi child could get. He is a master of management and economics, which he had studied at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Some analysts and historians say that it was during his study period at Jeddah, that this student was influenced by radical teachers and scholars of Islam. From then on, the road map for Osama to become the worlds most wanted man had started being carved. According to some reports, it was the soviet invasion of Afghanistan that actually radicalized and galvanized Osama Bin Laden to wage a war. Bin Laden supported Afghanistan’s resistance to the Soviet invasion, which was backed by the USA at that point in time. This resistance later turned into a Jihad or a holy war. The schools of thought that were set by the US in Pakistan in consonance with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were initially used as shelter spaces for Afghan refugees. These schools later evolved into training grounds for radicals and this is where Osama gained ground over both the US and Russia. By the 1980s, Laden had established the MAC or the Maktab Al Khidimat, which was a military outfit in Afghanistan. Having recruitment offices in Detroit and Brooklyn till as late as the 1980s, The MAC invited Islamic soldiers from around the world to join this movement. This whole set-up proved to be a part of an international network that exists today. After the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Afghanistan during the early 1990s, there was an internal conflict between the various factions that have erupted within the Mujahideen. This led to the arousal of the Taliban, which was only a part of the initial Mujahideen, but later took control over the whole territory of Afghanistan within a couple of years. After the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan, Osama, the worlds most wanted man as of today is said to have gone back to Saudi Arabia and assisted in his family business of construction. It is suggested that it was during this period that Osama founded and organization to help and fund the veterans of the Afghan war, who had been stationed at various places such as Chechnya and the Philippines. These veterans are said to be the worlds most wanted man’s main international support. During his period in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Government had allowed American troops to be stationed on its soil during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. This led Osama to speak openly against the ‘un-Islamic’ activities of the Saudi Government. The Saudi anarchy banished Osama due to his anti-governmental views, and he went to Sudan, where he got along with like minded radicals and jotted out various attacks on the US, Israel and the Saudi Government. This was one of the most vital turning steps that led the scholar to follow the road map to becoming the worlds most wanted man. It was after his attacks at the US embassy in Kenya in 1998 that he was declared an ‘enemy of the United States’. As we all know, after being named as the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on the twin towers in New York City, Osama Bin Laden has officially been named as the worlds most wanted terrorist.

World's most expensive home receives record electricity bill

Mumbai - A private residence in India, which is believed to be the world's most expensive home, has received its first utility bill of 7 million rupees.

The house “Antilia” – which belongs to the Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, and has been described as “Godzilla-sized” and the “Taj Mahal of the 21st century” – is thought to be the most expensively built private residence in the world.

As reported by Digital Journal, Ambani, his wife and his three children moved into their new home in Mumbai (Bombay) in September.

Since then, according to the Times of India, the house has generated an electricity bill amounting to over Rs 7 million (70,69,488 rupees, to be exact, or US $155,000 (£99,000)), making it the city's highest individual residential electricity bill. The paper says:

According to the bill [. . .] “Antilia” consumed 6,37,240 units of power. To put it in perspective, an average household equipped with all electronic amenities consumes 300 units per month. Ambani was, in fact, given a discount of Rs 48,354 for prompt payment [. . .] Experts say it is roughly equivalent to the monthly power bill of 7,000 homes!

Ambani, 53, is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, India's largest private-sector enterprise and one of the largest private-sector conglomerates in the world. His personal stake amounts to 48 per cent.

The New 7 Seven Wonders of the World are Named

7 Wonders of the World, CHRIST THE REDEEMER STATUE, COLOSSEUM, GREAT WALL OF CHINA, JORDAN, MACHU PICCHU, PETRA, PYRAMID AT CHICHEN ITZA, PYRAMIDS OF GIZA, TAJ MAHAL |

The winners of the contest to name the new seven wonders of the world. The pyramids in Giza will retain their status as one of the original seven wonders of the world.

PYRAMIDS OF GIZA, EGYPT
The only surviving structures of the original seven wonders, the three pyramids were built as tombs for 4th dynasty pharaohs about 4,500 years ago. The largest of the three pyramids, the 452-foot-high Great Pyramid, was built for King Cheops. Nearby is the Great Sphinx, a limestone statue with the face of a man and the body of a lion.

COLOSSEUM, ITALY
The giant amphitheater in Rome was inaugurated in A.D. 80 by the Emperor Titus in a ceremony of games lasting 100 days. The 50,000-seat Colosseum, which has influenced the design of modern sports stadiums, was an arena where thousands of gladiators dueled to the death and Christians were fed to the lions.

GREAT WALL OF CHINA
The 4,160-mile barricade running from east to west in northern China is the longest man-made structure in the world. The fortification, which largely dates from the 7th through the 4th century B.C., was built to protect the dynasties from invasion by the Huns, Mongols, Turks and other nomadic tribes.

TAJ MAHAL, INDIA
The white marble-domed mausoleum in Agra was built by Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan between 1632 and 1654 for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died in childbirth. The complex - an example of Mughal architecture combining Indian, Persian, and Islamic styles - houses the graves of the emperor and his wife, as well as those of lesser royalty.

PETRA, JORDAN
The ancient city of Petra in southwestern Jordan, built on a terrace around the Wadi Musa or Valley of Moses, was the capital of the Arab kingdom of the Nabateans. It also flourished under Roman rule after the Nabateans were defeated in A.D. 106. The city is famous for its water tunnels and numerous stone structures carved in rock, the most impressive of which is probably Ad-Dayr, an uncompleted tomb facade that served as a church during Byzantine times.

CHRIST THE REDEEMER STATUE, BRAZIL
The 125-foot-tall statue of Christ the Redeemer with outstretched arms overlooks Rio de Janeiro from atop Mt. Corcovado. The statue, which weighs more than 1,000 tons, was built by Polish-French sculptor Paul Landowski in pieces in France starting in 1926, then shipped to Brazil. The pieces were carried by cogwheel railway up the mountain for assembly. The statue was inaugurated in 1931.

MACHU PICCHU, PERU
Built by the Incan Empire in the 15th century, the giant walls, palaces, temples and dwellings of the Machu Picchu sanctuary are perched in the clouds at 8,000 feet above sea level in the Andes mountains. It remains a mystery how the huge stones were moved into place for the construction of the remote city.

PYRAMID AT CHICHEN ITZA, MEXICO
This step-pyramid surmounted by a temple survives from a sacred site that was part of one of the greatest Mayan centers of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. Built according to the solar calendar, it is placed so that shadows cast at the fall and spring equinoxes are said to look like a snake crawling down the steps, similar to the carved serpent at the top.

First Cell phone with 4 SIM Cards in the World

If you have 2 dual cell phones or 4 cell phones with different caller Ids and you feel sick carrying 2 or 4 hand phones everywhere, it is good for you to buy another 1 phone which will be a perfect house for your 4 hand phone numbers. The brand of the phone is Flying F160 Quad SIM Phone and same as the name, it will accommodate everyone who needs mobility and simplicity. This is the first 4 SIM cards cell phone in the world.

Flying F160 Quad SIM Phone

It will be perfect for travelers, business owners, agents, or anyone who never enough with one caller ID.
The price is only $75 and is already unlocked. Beside capability to save 4 hand phone numbers at once, the cell phone is also featured with 2 inches touch screen display, include TV receiver, FM Radio, 0.3 mega pixel camera and different colors. Flying F160 Quad SIM Phone is running over GSM networks and it is completed with QWERTY keyboard. Since it is already unlocked, you don’t have to confuse whether it will be working on your area or not. With this phone, you can stop switching different numbers or carrying different cell phones on your pocket. It will be saving your money and in the same time, you can enjoy the TV show on your hand as well. It is pretty efficient and effective right.

Flying F160 Quad SIM Phone

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20 Suggestions for Success

They are really very good, and I think that everyone could benefit by them.

Enjoy them ...

1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90 of your happiness or misery.

2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.

3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.

6. Be generous.

7. Have a grateful heart.

8. Persistence, persistence, persistence.

9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.

10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.

11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.

12. Commit yourself to quality.

13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power, or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

14. Be loyal.

15. Be honest.

16. Be a self-starter.

17. Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong.

18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.

19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

20. Take good care of those you love.

Japan makes bid for world’s fastest train

The competition for the world’s fastest train is heating up.

Last December, a Chinese passenger train achieved a new record by traveling 302 miles per hour during a test run on a still-unopened line between Beijing and Shanghai. Now, Japan’s Central Japan Railway Company has announced that it plans to beat that record by building a new train between Tokyo and Nagoya, to be completed by 2027.

The new line, which is estimated to cost about $64 billion, will extend for about 178 miles. The company expects trains running on it to reach speeds up to 310 miles per hour. The line will cut travel time between the two cities by 40 minutes.

It currently takes an hour and a half using trains that run at about 167 miles per hour.

The trains increase their speeds by using magnetic levitation — where friction is reduced because powerful magnets raise the train above the track.

On the flip side, Florida governor Rick Scott announced today that his state would be rejecting $2 billion in federal funds to build a proposed high-speed rail line linking Tampa to Orlando. Scott, a Republican elected in last November’s election, will be the third Republican governor to return funds allocated for high-speed rail.

John Kasich of Ohio and Scott Walker of Wisconsin have also rejected high-speed rail funds, citing cost overruns.

In his State of the Union speech earlier this month, U.S. president Barack Obama said he would give 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail within 25 years.

Considering that Amtrak’s Acela Express line is the only version of high-speed rail in North America — and even then, trains travel at just 150 m.p.h. along the Northeast Corridor — we clearly have so much to learn from Asia.

Thomas Beatie Pregnant Man Again

Thomas Beatie Is First and only transgender man in the world who had given a birth to the baby girl, Susan on June 29.

Now he is pregnant again with his second child. He and his wife Nancy Beatie is very excited with another pregnancy. It was possible because he had not started to take male sex hormone. He is having regular hormone checking and it is all right on the way. When he was pregnant first time he wrote e-mail with his photograph of pregnant belly and his bearded face to the national gay magazine. Soon the news spreads on internet and he became hot topic for media, photographer. He had also suffered from many e-mail regarding hate and threats.

Thomas beatie was born as beautiful girl in Hawaii. But he never felt girl in him. He was also finalist of Miss Teen Hawaii USA contest, but it was very uncomfortable with him. In 1998 he went for gender change. Medical science helps him with hormone therapy. His breast was removed and legally allowed to change female from male. He was pregnant with donor’s sperm, and became father who had given birth to his child.

Amazing Strange City in Greece

Amazing Strange City situated between rocks in Greece

Are Friends better than Relatives

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. -Oliver Hudson

Are friends better then relatives, These words clearly indicate that strangers can also make our lives better than the ones who we are associated with ever since we are born. Traditions advocate family systems and values and require people to live together in big ‘havelis’ and our grandparents still cherish those happy times. But with the course of time there were clashes and conspiracies within the families against each other for money and land which compelled this old custom to split into smithereens. And this broken system urged people to live in their small families and discover people with whom they can share their thoughts and can trust even if it means intimacy with strangers. This way friendship got underway and these aliens are termed as friends. These are the people with whom we are happy unconditionally and can rely upon. Now let’s see what makes them better than blood relatives. First of all, they are not imposed upon anyone by someone else and are chosen with careful thought judiciously and after that this bond of friendship is cemented with affection, trust, love and care. And most importantly this acquaintance is not corrupted by the unholy mess of money and physical assets, if indeed friendship is true between concerned people. Friends are not like our blood relatives who pretend to be happy in our glory and splendor and feel jealous of us from inside but these associates are truly supportive and understanding. They act as stress-busters and morale boosters in many situations. We can unwind all our hectic daily work just by chatting with our friends. In money matters too, friends are more helpful because in immediate problem they can be of greater help because they are closer geographically whereas our rich relatives may not lend a great help because of their not so close proximity. There is no one like best relative but there is definitely a best friend who is there for us. But all this certainly does not outshine the importance of relatives as well because in a situation where we find that our friend is mean and befriend with us for his/her selfish whims; in that case relatives are last resort. Friends need not be permanent and clashes are a usual phenomenon and cannot be avoided. So having a good friend does not mean that there is no importance of our relatives and there should be a subtle interplay and balance of both these important figures in our life.