Saturday, October 2, 2021

World GDP - Shares of Sectors


2021




2019 total GDP  87.798 trillion




Ud 3.10.2021
pub 23.9.2014
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Monday, July 15, 2019

Bangladesh - Digital Economy

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Sunday, April 21, 2019

Jupiter - Roman and Greek Religion



Jupiter , also known as Jove, was the god of the sky and thunder and king of the gods in Ancient Roman religion and mythology. Jupiter was the chief deity of Roman state religion throughout the Republican and Imperial eras, until Christianity became the dominant religion of the Empire. In Roman mythology, he negotiates with Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, to establish principles of Roman religion such as offering, or sacrifice.

Jupiter is usually thought to have originated as an aerial god. His identifying implement is the thunderbolt and his primary sacred animal is the eagle, which held precedence over other birds in the taking of auspices and became one of the most common symbols of the Roman army (see Aquila). The two emblems were often combined to represent the god in the form of an eagle holding in its claws a thunderbolt, frequently seen on Greek and Roman coins. As the sky-god, he was a divine witness to oaths, the sacred trust on which justice and good government depend. Many of his functions were focused on the Capitoline Hill, where the citadel was located. In the Capitoline Triad, he was the central guardian of the state with Juno and Minerva. His sacred tree was the oak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome


http://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-114

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/pagans-christians-jews/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Roman-religion

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/modules/hist6113.page
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Sunday, July 23, 2017

Queen Elizabeth - Britain's Biggest Ever Warship


To be commissioned in 2018

It is aircraft carrier,
Will carry 40 planes
crew 1600
expected service life 50 years

cost 3.5 billion pounds ($4.5 billion)
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Record World Cereal Production in 2016-17


2.6 billion metric tonnes of cereal crop was produced in 2016-17.
Surplus production 682 million tonnes.

India also will produce record 250 millions compared to earlier high of 246 million tonnes in 2013-14.
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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Knol Month of Regional Content - August

Based on India Independence Day on 15 August, August month was promoted as Knol Month of Regional Content on Knol in 2010. Knol Month of Regional Content - August

Knol Month of Regional Content - August

Knol has very good content on many countries in the world. Knol also has lot of interesting and popular content in many languages. Browse various collections to find all the interesting content. Click on the search link and you can see up to 800 knols on the topic.

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http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/4866
Narayana Rao - 20 Jul 2011


Updated on 31 July 2016, Prompt was given by FaceBook,
Earlier update  30 April 2012
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

China - Reforms and Growth from 1979



http://www.discourseinprogress.com/age-of-ambition/


China's GDP since 1980
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/mar/23/china-gdp-since-1980




                                                1980 -     1990 -     2000 -          2011 -          2016

Real GDP growth (annual %) 7.9          3.8 8.4
Gross domestic product,
current prices (US$, billions) 202.46 390.28 1198.48 6988.47 11779.98
Gross domestic product
per capita,
current prices (US$)              205.12 341.35 945.6 5183.86 8522.86
Industry,
value added (% of GDP)         47.10     42.83          45.76          46.75



China Economic rise
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33534.pdf



Updated 8 March 2016, 4   Jan 2015
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Global - Internationally Famous Persons - Birthdays, Biographies and Videos

Famous Artists - Authors - Businessmen - Engineers and Industrial Engineers - Inventors - Managers and Administrators - Politicians - Professors and Philosophers - Public Service Officials - Religious Leaders - Society Developers and Reformers - Scientists (Physical, Natural and Social) - Sportsmen


January




  1 - Eugene Anatole Demarcay (1852) - Europeum, Harriet Brooks (1876) - Radon, Satyendranath Bose (1894)
  2 - Rudolf Clausius (1822) - Entropy,  (Issac Assimov (1920)
  3 - Cicero (106 BC),
  4 - Louis Braille (1806), Aristid Victor Grosse (1905)
  5 - Shah Jahan - Builder of Taj Mahal  (1594), Joseph Erlanger (1874), Parama Hamsa
       Yogananda (1893) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
  6 - Joan of Ark (1412), Kapil Dev (1959) - A. R. Rehman (1976) - Music Composer
  7 - Millard Fillmore (1880) - US President, Nicolas Cage, Nick Clegg,
  8 - Elvis Presley (1935), Stephen Hawking, Kim Jong-Un (North Korea),
  9 - Richard Nixon (1913) - US President, Kate Middleton,
10 - Grigori Rasputin (1869), Frank Sinatra Jr.,
11 - Alexander Hamilton (1757), Rahul Dravid
12 - Maharshi Mahesh Yogi
13 -
14 - Albert Schweitzer (1875), Vikram Pandit,
15 - Martin Luther King Junior (1929), Mayawati
16 - Andre Michelin (1853),
17 - Benjamin Franklin (1706), Muhammed Ali,  Jim Carrey, Michelle Obama (First lady USA),
18 - Oliver Hardy (1892), Kevin Costner,
19 - James Watt (1736), Edgar Allan Poe (1809),
20 -
21 - Charles V of France (1338), Geena Davis,
22 - Francis Bacon (1561), Lord Byron (1788)
23 - Subhash Chandra Bose - 1897 Congress President - Founder Azad Hind Fouz
23 -
24 - Luis Suarez (Football)
25 - Virginia Woolf (1882)
26 -
27 - Mozart (1756)
28 - Nicolas Sarkozy
29 - William McKinley (1843) - US President,
30 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882) - US President
31 -

http://iit-jee-chemistry.blogspot.in/2012/07/chemistry-knowledge-history-january.html


February

  1 - Clark Cable (1901), Boris Yeltsin (1931)
  2 - Ayn Rand (1905), James Joyce (1882)
  3 -
  4 - Bhimsen Joshi, Charles Lindbergh
  5 - cristiano ronaldo,
  6 - Ronald Regan (1911)
  7 - Alfred Adler (1870)
  8 - Jules Verne (1828), Dr. Zakir Hussain (1897),  Mohammed Azahruddin
  9 - Joseph Stiglitz (1943)
10 -
11 - Thomas Alva Edison (1847)
12 - Swami Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Abraham Lincoln (1809), Charles Darwin (1809)
13 - Thomas Malthus (1766), Sarojini Naidu (1879)
14 -
15 - Galileo Galili (1564), Jeremy Bentham (1748),  Alfred North Whitehead (1861),
16 - John McEnroe (1959)
17 - Thomas John Watson Sr. (1874)
18 - Rama Krishna Paramahamsa (1836)
19 - Nicolas Copernicus (1473), Shivaji, Guruji Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar
20 - Alexei Kosygin (1904), Cindy Crawford (1966),
21 - Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
22 -  George Washington (1732), Edward Kennedy (1932), Drew Barrymore (1975)
23 - Michael Dell (1965)
24 - Steve Jobs (1955)
25 -
26 - Victor Hugo (1802)
27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Elizabeth Taylor (1932)
28 - Linus Pauling (1901)
29 - Herman Hollerith (1860), Morarji Desai (1896),

http://www.thefamouspeople.com/famous-people-born-in-february.php

March
1 -  Mary Kom (1983), Justin Bieber (1994)
2 - Mikhail Gorbachev (1931)
3 - Alexander Graham Bell (1847), Jamshetji Tata, Ragnar Frisch (1895)
4 - Rohan Bopanna
5 - James Tobin (1918), Daniel Kahneman (1934),
6 - Alan Greenspan (1926)
7 - Vivian Richards (1952)
8 - Otto Hahn (1879), Warren Bennis (1925)
9 - Bobby Fischer (1943) - Chess, Shashi Tharoor,
10 - Sharon Stone (1958), Osama Bin Laden (1957)
11 -
12 - Gustav Kirchhoff (1824)
13.
14 - Albert Einstein
15 - Andrew Jackson (1767)
16 -  George Ohm (1789), Nawab of Pataudi (Cricket)
17 -  Kalpana Chawla, Saina Nehwal
18 -
19 - Glenn Close (1947)
20 - F.W. Taylor (1856), B.F. Skinner (1947)
21 -
22 -
23 - Akira Kurosowa (1910),  Roger Bannister (1929)
24 -
25 -
26 - Rajeev Motwani (Professor Computer Science), Larry Page (1973) - Google
27 -
28 - Polly Umrigar,
29 - Sam Walton (1918)
30 - Vincnet Van Gogh (1853)
31 - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685)



April
  1 - William Harvey (1578), Bismarck (1815), Dr. Hedgewar, Guru Tej Bahadur, Fauza Singh, Abraham Maslow (1908)
  2 - Charlemagne (742)
  3 - Washington Irving (1783), Sam Manek Shaw, Helmut Kohl (1930), Marlon Brando (1924)
  4 - Kundan Lal Saigal
  5 - Thomas Hobbes (1588), Joseph Lister (1827)
  6 - Dilip Vengsarkar, Prof K.S.S. Nambooripad
 7 - William Wordsworth (1770), Pandit Ravishankar (1920) - Sitar player
 8 - Edmund Husserl (1859), John R. Hicks (1904), Kofi Annan (1938)
  9 -
10 - G.D. Birla
11 - Kasturba Gandhi,
12 - Jan Tibergen (1903), Vinoo Mankad
13 - Thomas Jefferson (1743)
14 - Arnold J. Toynbee (1889), B.R. Ambedkar
15 - Leonardo Da Vinci (1452), Guru Nanak (1469), Leonhad Euler (1707), Emile Durkheim (1858),                 Nikita Khrushev (1894)
16 - Chalie Chaplin (1889)
17 -
18 -
19 - Mukesh Ambani
20 - Adolf Hitler (1889)
21 - Queen Elizabeth II (1922), S. Venkataraghavan (Cricket)
22 - Immanuel Kant (1724), Henri La Fontaine (1854), Vladimir Lenin (1870)
23 - William Shakespeare (1564), James Buchanan (1791), Max PlancK (1858)
24 - Sachin Tendulkar (1973),
25 - Oliver Cromwell (1599), Wolfgang Pauli (1900)
26 - David Hume (1711), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889)
27 - Herbert Spencer (1880)
28 - Saddam Hussein (1937) - President Iraq - USA went and defeated him and he was executed.
29 - Raja Ravi Varma (1848) - painter, Emperor Hirohito (1901),  Andre Agassi (1970)
30 - CArl F. Gauss (1777), Simon Kuznets (1901), John P. Kotter (1905)

May
  1- Arthur Wellesley - Duke of Wellington (1769), Anand Mahindra
  2 - Catherine the great (1729),  Satyajit Ray (1921), David Beckham (1975)
  3 - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469), Golda Meir (1898)
 4 - Tyagaraja
 5 - Karl Marx (1818)
 6 - Sigmund Freud (1856), Tony Blair (1953), Gagan Narang
 7 - Johannes Brahms (1833), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Josip Broz Tito (1892)
 8 - Harry S. Truman (1884), Benjamin Graham (1894), Friedrich Von Hayek (1899),
      Swami Chinmayananda
 9 -
10 -
11 -
12.  Florence Nightingale, Jiddu Krishna Murty (1895),
13 - Ronald Ross, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,
14 - B.R.Ambedkar
15 - Madhuri Dixit
16 -
17 - B.S. Chandra Sekhar,
18 -
19 - Nanasahib Peshwa (1824) - Freedom War Leader
20 -
21 - G.S. Maddala (Econometric Book author)
22 - E.A.S. Prasanna
23 -
24 -
25 -
26 -
27 - Ravi Shastri
28  V.D. Savarkar
29 -
30 - Jag Mohan Dalmiya
31 -  Pankaj Roy

June
  1 -
  2 - Steve Waugh (1965)
  3 -
  4 -
  5 - Adam Smith (1723)
  6 -
  7 - Mahesh Bhupati - Tennis - Grand Slam events Champion
  8 -
  9 -
10 - Rahul Bajaj, Prakash Padukone
11 -
12 - E. Sridharan
13 - Raj Reddy
14 - Kumar Mangalam Birla, Vic Gundotra (Google G+)
15 - Anna Hazare (1937)
16 -
17 - Leander Paes
18 -
19 - Rahul Gandhi,Salman Rushdie
20 -
21 -
22 -
23 -
24 - Anita Desai,
25 - V.P. Singh,
26 -
27 -
28 - P.V. Narasimha Rao, Jaspal Rana
29 - P.C. Mahalanobis
30 - C.N.R. Rao

July
  1 -
  2 -
  3 -
  4 -
  5 -
  6 - Syama Prasad Mukherjee - Founder, Bharatiya Jana Sangh
  7 - MS Dhoni, Frank Gilbreth (1868)
  8 - Jyoti Basu
  9 -
10 - Sunil Gavaskar, (1949)
11 -
12 - Sanjay Manjrekar
13 -
14 - Shiv Nadar
15 -
16 -
17 - Angela Merkel (1954)
18 - Nelson Mandela (1918), Dennis Lillee (1949)
19 - Jayant Narlikar
20 -
21 -
22 -
23 - Balagangadhara Tilak (1856)
24 - Azim Premji,
25 -
26 - Jagdish Bhagwati (Prof, Economics)
27 - Allan Border (1955)
28 - Garfield Sobers (1936)
29 -
29 - J.R.D. Tata
30 - Henry Ford (1863)
31 -

August

  1 -
  2 -
  3 - Balwindersingh Sandhu - bowled Gordon Greenidge in World Cup 1983
  4 - Kishore Kumar,  Barack Obama (1961)
  5 -
  6 -
  7 - Greg Chappell (1948)
  8 - Roger Federer (1981)
   
  9 -
10 -
11 -
12 -
   
13 -
     -
14 -
15 - Aurobindo
16 -
16 -
 
17 -
18 -
19 -
20 - Rajiv Gandhi
20 -
21 - Usain Bolt (1986),
22 -
23 -
24 -
25 - General Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnam - Won the freedom war against France and USA troops
26 - Mother Teresa
27 - Donald Bradman (1908)
28 -
29 -
30 -
31 - Clive Lloyd (1944)

September
1 -
2 -
3 -
4 -
5 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
6 -
7 -
8 -
9 - Leo Tolstoy
10 -
11 -
12 - Eiji Toyoda (1913),
     -
13 -
14 -
15 - Bharat Ratna Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Subramanian Swamy
16 - P. Chidambaram - Finance Minister, Home Minister, Commerce Minister - GOI
    -  M.S. Subbu Lakshmi
    -
17 - Narendra Modi (1950)
18 -
19 -
20 - Akkineni Nageswara Rao - Telugu films top hero - Biography and films
21 -
22 -
23 -
24 -  Mohinder Amarnath
25 - Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Bishen Singh Bedi (1946)
26 - Manmohan Singh,, Ina Chappell (1943)
27 - Mata Amritanandamayi,
28 - Abhinav Bindra - First Olympic Gold Medal for India - Shooting
     - Lata Mageshkar
   
29 -
30 -


October
  1- Jimmy Carter
  2- Mahatma Gandhi - International Day of Non-violence
  5 -Kate Winslet
  6- Le Corbusier (1887), George Westinghouse (1846)
  7 - Vladimir Putin (1952) , Yukta Mookhey (1977), Niels Bohr (1885)
  8 - Otto Warburg (1883, 1931 Nobel-Medicine), Rodney Porter (1917 - 1972 Nobel - Medicine)  Matt Biondi (Olympic Gold 100m - 1984,88, 92), Matt Damon (1970 Film actor)
  9 - David Cameron
10 -
11 - Amitabh Bachchan
12 - Eugenio Montale (1975 Nobel-literature), Sir Arthur Harden (1929 Nobel-chemistry)
13 -  Margaret Thatcher (1925)
14 - Gautam Gambhir, Roger Moore, W.Edwards Deming (1900), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890), Le Duc Tho (1911)
15 - Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen, Dr. Kalam (1931), Akbar (1542), Lee Iacocca (1924), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), P.G. Wodehouse (1881)
16 - Eugene Gladstone O'Neel (Nobel-litarature 1936), Gunter Grass (1999 Nobel Literature), Sir Austen Chamberlain (Peace Nobel - 1925)
17 - Anil Kumble, Zhao Ziyang (1919)
18 - Henri Bergson (Nobel Literature, 1927)
19 - Jean Dausset (Nobel Medicine, 1980), Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (Nobel Physics, 1983), Miguel Angel Asturias (Nobel Literature, 1967)
20 - Navjot Sidhu, Virender Sehwag
21 - Alfred Nobel (1833)
22 - Deepak Chopra,
23 - Ilya Mikhalovich Frank (Nobel Physics, 1958)
24 - Robert A. Mundell (Nobel Economics, 1999)
25 - Pablo Picasso (1881)
26 - Hillary Clinton,  François Mitterrand (1916)
27 - James Cook (1728), Theodore Roosevelt (1858), Isaac Singer (1811)
28 - Dr. Jonas Salk (1914), Indra Nooyi, Bill Gates, Julia Roberts, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956)
29 - Charles Bedaux (Industrial Engineering, Rating in Time Study),Vijender Vijinder
30 - Homi J Bhabha, Diego Maradona
31 - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Christopher Columbus (1451), John Keats (1795)


November
  1 - Aishwarya Rai (1973) - Miss World 1994, Alfred Wegener (1880), Prof Markus Venzin (1968)
  2 - George Boole - Boolean Algebra (1815), George Sorel - French Socialist Thinker (1847),
        Ken Rosewall - Tennis (1934)
  3 - Amartya Sen (1933) - Nobel Laureate - Bharat Ratna, James Rothman (1950)
  4 - G.E. Moore (1873),
  5 - Mahmud Ghajani (1271), Will Durant (1885), Vivien Leigh (1913)
  6 - Jerry Yang (1968)
  7 - C.V. Raman
  8 - Michael Jackson (1970) - Singer and Dancer
  9 -  Imre Kersetz - Nobel Author (1929)
10 - Martin Luther (1483), Richard Burton (1925)
11 - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821),Demi Moore, Leonardo Dicaprio
12 - Nadia Comaneci (1961) - Olympic Gymnast
13 -
14 - Jawaharlal Nehru - Prime Minister, India, Nonaligned Movement
15 - Sania Mirza - Women Tennis - Grand Slam Event Champion
16 - Pullela Gopichand (All England Badminton Champion)
17 -
18 -
19 - Rani Lakshmibai  (1835) - Fought in the 1857 India Independence War - Indira Gandhi (1917) - Prime Minister of India, Peter Drucker (1909),  Jack Welch - CEO, General Electric
20.
21.
22 - Charles De Gaulle, Billie Jean King, Oscar Pistorius, Boris Becker,
23 - Franklin Pierce - President USA (1804), Johannes van der Waals (1837),1888 – Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (d. 1955),  Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897),  Puttaparti Satya Sai Baba (1926), 1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian author and activist
24 -
25 -
26 - Norbert Wiener (1894) - Scientist
27 - Bruce Lee (1940) - Film Actor - Enter the Dragon
28 - Friedrich Engels   - Collaborator of Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto
28 - William Blake - Philosopher
29 - Ambrose Fleming (1849) - inventor (diode)
30 - Mark Twain (1835) - Author

December
  1 - Arjun Ranatunga (1963) - Cricket - Sri Lanka
  1 - Safraz Nawaz (1948) - Fast bowler - Pakistan
  2 - Britney Spears
  3 - Julianne Moore
  4 - Roh Tae Woo
  4 - Thomas Carlyle
  5 - John Wayne - Actor
  6 - Andrew Flintoff - Cricketer, England - Boxer
  7 - Richard W. Sears
12 - Krishnamachari Srikant - Indian opener - Cricket
14 - Charlie Griffith (1938) - Fast bowler - West Indies
15 - Carl Hooper (1966) - West Indies - Cricket
16 - Jane Austen,  Joel Garner - Fast Bowler - West Indies
18 - Brad Pitt,   J.J. Thomson,  Joseph Stalin,  Steven Spielberg
19 - Ricky Ponting (1974) -Austrlia - Cricket team captain, Anne Anastaci (1908,Psychologist), George Davis Snell (1903, Immunogenetics, Nobel Laureate), Albert Abraham Michelson (1852, speed of light, Nobel Laureate)
20 - Kim Young Sam
21 - Hanif Mohammed (1934) - Cricket - Pakistan
21 - Jane Fonda - Actress
22 - Thomas Suedhof or Sudhof (1955)
24 - Colin Cowdrey - Cricket - England
24 - James Prescott Joule (1818)
25 - Anwar Sadat
25 - Atal Behair Vajpayee
25 - Issac Newton (1642)
26 - Rohan Kanhai - Cricket - West Indies
27 - Johannes Kepler (1571)
27 - Louis Pasteur (1822) - Steriization and Pasteurization
28 - John Von Neumann
28 - Ratan Tata  - Acquired Corus Steel, UK
28 - Woodrow Wilson
30 - Tiger Woods, Rudyard Kipling,  Randy Schekman (1948)
31 - Anthony Hopkins






Nobel Prize Winner 2013

Medicine

James Rothman
Randy Schekman
Thomas Suedhof


Physics

Peter Higgs
Francois Englert


Miss Universe
2013 - Miss Venezuela Gabriela Isler was crowned Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow on Saturday 9 Nov 2013.



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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Martin Luther King Jr. - Biography and Contribution to Social Transformation


Quotes




“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”

  “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”




King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams King.

As a child, King liked singing and music. He became a member of the junior choir in his church.

King's father used to  protest segregation and insults to black people.  In his adolescent years, King also felt  resentment against whites due to the "racial humiliation" that he, his family, and his neighbors often had to endure in the segregated South.


King attended Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta. He became known for his public speaking ability and was part of the school's debate team. During his junior year, he won first prize in an oratorical contest sponsored by the Negro Elks Club in Dublin, Georgia. . At age 15, King passed the entrance examiantion and entered Morehouse. In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse with a B.A. degree in sociology, and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a B.Div. degree in 1951. King married Coretta Scott, on June 18, 1953 They became the parents of four children: Yolanda King ( 1955), Martin Luther King III ( 1957), Dexter Scott King ( 1961), and Bernice King (1963).


King received his Ph.D. degree on June 5, 1955, with a dissertation on "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman".


Civil Rights for Blacks Movement


Southern Christian Leadership Conference

In 1957, King  founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a  group  created to harness the moral authority and organizing power of black churches to conduct nonviolent protests in the service of civil rights reform.  King led the SCLC until his death.  The SCLC's 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom was the first time King addressed a national audience.

In 1958, King published the book "Stride Toward Freedom."  In 1959, he published a short book called The Measure of A Man, which contained his sermons "What is Man?" and "The Dimensions of a Complete Life". The sermons argued for man's need for God's love and criticized the racial injustices of Western civilization.

Harry Wachtel, helped  King to  found  a tax-exempt fund to cover the expenses of the nonviolent civil rights movement and this organization was named the "Gandhi Society for Human Rights". King served as honorary president for the group.  King and the Gandhi Society produced a document in 1962 calling on the President John Kennedy to follow in the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln and use an Executive Order to implement rights for Blacks - a kind of Second Emancipation Proclamation - Kennedy did not accept it.



King  organized, nonviolent protests against the system of southern segregation known as Jim Crow laws and they received extensive media coverage. Journalistic accounts and televised footage of the daily deprivation and indignities suffered by southern blacks, and of segregationist violence and harassment of civil rights workers and marchers, produced a wave of sympathetic public opinion that convinced the majority of Americans that the Civil Rights Issue  was the most important issue in American politics in the early 1960s.

King organized and led marches for blacks' right to vote, desegregation, labor rights and other basic civil rights. His efforts succeeded despite his murder and most of these rights were successfully enacted into the law of the United States with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was shot and killed by a sniper in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

The World's Most Reputable Companies In 2015 - Forbes Sites Article

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Monday, April 20, 2015

John Calvin - Calvinism

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Monday, January 12, 2015

Roger Federer - Great Tennis Player



11 January 2015

Roger Federer won 1000th match in ATP career. He won the finals of Brisbane International on 11 Jan 2015.

Two players earlier to him have that distinction. Jimmy Connors (1,253) and Ivan Lendl (1,071) had achieved that distinction.

Federer won 17 Grand Slam titles, 83 ATP titles and stayed for 302 weeks as World No.1 so far in his career. He is 33 now.
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Monday, January 5, 2015

MIss World 2014 - Rolene Strauss



Rolene Strauss, fourth year medical student and model hailing from sunny South Africa is the new Miss World 2014.






              Picture Source: Media Gallery   http://www.missworld.com/Gallery/MissWorld2014Final/


Crowning Moment
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Officialmissworld upload
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Miss Universe 2014



Miss Universe 2014, (63rd Miss Universe pageant) will  be held on January 25, 2015 at the FIU Arena at Florida International University in Doral, Miami, Florida, USA. 88 contestants from all over the world will compete for the crown. Gabriela Isler of Venezuela (Miss Universe 2013) will crown her successor at end of the event.

The winner of the pageant will get to wear the new crown made by Diamonds International Corporation, a Czech based jeweller, the newest official jewelry maker of Miss Universe.



Contestants of 2014.
You can see their photos
http://www.missuniverse.com/members/contestants


Trailer for Miss Universe 2014
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Miss Universe upload
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                                                 Gabriela Isler of Venezuela (Miss Universe 2013)          
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Miss Universe 2013





                                                    http://press.missuniverse.com/presskit.php

Gabriela Isler from Venezuela was crowned as Miss Universe 2013 at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia. Patricia Yurena Rodriguez from Spain finished as the first runner-up.
Constanza Baez from Ecuador was the second runner up.

Gabriela Isler, who stands 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in), entered the competition as Miss Guarico and participated in the country's national beauty pageant Miss Venezuela 2012, held on August 30, 2012 in Caracas. She became the ninth Miss Venezuela winner from Guarico, gaining the right to represent her country in Miss Universe 2013.

Recap video
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Miss Universe uplaod
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Sunday, January 4, 2015

About Old Horses - How long do horses live?



4 January 2015

Orchid 49 may be oldest horse living now. She is now in Remus Horse Sanctuary in Brentwood, Essex.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/549874/Is-this-49-year-old-nag-the-world-s-OLDEST-horse

2013
Shayne, at age 51 stood at 15 hands and weighed 480kg and was put to sleep after he collapsed on February 22, 2013
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2288910/Worlds-oldest-horse-trots-final-furlong-Irish-draught-Shayne-51-sleep-Essex-sanctuary-reaching-120-human-years.html


1822
Old Billy, a working barge horse, was 62 years old when he died on November 27 1822.

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Monday, November 24, 2014

Cricket Players - Australia - Biographies and Birthdays List


Current  Players

Australia
Andrew Symonds 09 Jun 1975
Brad Haddin 23 Oct 1977
Brad Hodge 29 Dec 1974
Brad Hogg 06 Feb 1971
Brad Williams 20 Nov 1974
Brett Dorey 03 Oct 1977

Cameron White 18 Aug 1983
Damien Martyn 21 Oct 1971

James Hopes 24 Oct 1978
Jason Gillespie 19 Apr 1975
Justin Langer 21 Nov 1970
Matthew Hayden 29 Oct 1971
Michael Clarke 02 Apr 1981
Michael Hussey 27 May 1975
Michael Kasprowicz 10 Feb 1972
Mick Lewis 29 Jun 1974
Mitchell Johnson 02 Nov 1981
Nathan Bracken 12 Sep 1977
Nathan Hauritz 18 Oct 1981
Phil Jaques 03 May 1979
Ricky Ponting 19 Dec 1974
Shane Lee 08 Aug 1973

Shane Watson 17 Jun 1981
Shaun Tait 22 Feb 1983
Simon Katich 21 Aug 1975
Stuart Clark 28 Sep 1975
Stuart MacGill 25 Feb 1971


Australia
Adam Gilchrist 14 Nov 1971
Andrew Symonds 09 Jun 1975
Ashley Mallett
Bill Lawry
Brad Haddin 23 Oct 1977
Brad Hodge 29 Dec 1974
Brad Hogg 06 Feb 1971
Brad Williams 20 Nov 1974
Brett Dorey 03 Oct 1977
Brett Lee 08 Nov 1976
Cameron White 18 Aug 1983
Damien Martyn 21 Oct 1971
Dennis Lillee
Doug Walters
Glenn McGrath 09 Feb 1970
Greg Chappel
Ian Chappel
Ian Redpath
James Hopes 24 Oct 1978
Jason Gillespie 19 Apr 1975
Justin Langer 21 Nov 1970
Keith Stockpole
Matthew Hayden 29 Oct 1971
Michael Clarke 02 Apr 1981
Michael Hussey 27 May 1975
Michael Kasprowicz 10 Feb 1972
Mick Lewis 29 Jun 1974
Mitchell Johnson 02 Nov 1981
Nathan Bracken 12 Sep 1977
Nathan Hauritz 18 Oct 1981
Phil Jaques 03 May 1979
Ricky Ponting 19 Dec 1974
Shane Lee 08 Aug 1973
Shane Warne 13 Sep 1969
Shane Watson 17 Jun 1981
Shaun Tait 22 Feb 1983
Simon Katich 21 Aug 1975
Stuart Clark 28 Sep 1975
Stuart MacGill 25 Feb 1971




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Saturday, November 1, 2014

Ken Rosewall - Tennis Champion - Biography



Birthday 2 November 1934

Winner of 8 Grandslam Championships


http://www.historyorb.com/people/ken-rosewall
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Monday, October 6, 2014

Edward Kennedy - Senator - USA


Mr,. Edward Kennedy, one of the Kennedy brothers to survive long and die of natural causes, spent almost 47 years in Senate. He is the third-longest serving senators in the Chamber's history after Sen. Robert Byrd and late Sen. Strom Thurmond..

In July 2009, he was awared the Presidential Medal of freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

He was born on 22 February, 1932 as the fourth son and ninth child of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Kennedy.

Mr. Kenndy went to University of Vrginia Law School. After Kenndy became President, he became senator of Massachusetts at the age of 30.

In 1980, he ran for nomination of Presidential candidate from Democratic party. But jimmy Carter routed him in primaries.

He died in August 2009. (Add  the date)
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Syria - The Crisis from 2011


Hafez al-Assad (6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian statesman, politician and general who was President of Syria from 1971 to 2000, Prime Minister from 1970 to 1971, Regional Secretary of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch and Secretary General of the National Command of the Ba'ath Party from 1971 to 2000.  Al-Assad is a title with the meaning of lion.


In November 1983 Assad, a diabetic, had a major heart attack complicated by phlebitis. On 13 November, after visiting his brother in the hospital,Rifaat al-Assad, brother of Hafez al-Assad reportedly announced his candidacy for president as he felt Hafez would not be able to continue ruling the country.But  he did not receive support from Assad's inner circle, despite "abominably lavish" promises to win them over.


He did not abandon the hope of succeeding his brother, opting to take control of the country through his post as Commander of Defense Companies. In what became known as the "poster war", personnel from the Defense Companies replaced posters of  Hafez Assad in Damascus with those of Rifaat al-Assad. The security service, still loyal to Assad, responded by replacing Rifaat al-Assad's posters with Assad's. The poster war lasted for a week, until Assad's health improved.

Shortly after the poster war, all Rifaat al-Assad's proteges were removed from positions of power.This decree nearly sparked a clash between the Defense Companies and the Republican Guard on 27 February 1984, but conflict was avoided by Rifaat al-Assad's appointment as one of three Vice Presidents on 11 March. He acquired this post by surrendering his position as Commander of Defense Companies to an Assad supporter. Rifaat al-Assad was succeeded as Defense Companies head by his son-in-law. During the night of 30 March, he ordered Defense Company loyalists to seal Damascus off and advance to the city. The Republican Guard was put on alert in Damascus, and 3rd Armored Division commander Shafiq Fayyad ordered troops outside Damascus to encircle the Defense Companies blocking the roads into the city.Rifaat al-Assad's plan might have succeeded if Special Forces commander Ali Haydar supported him, but Haydar sided with the president.Assad punished Rifaat al-Assad with exile, allowing him to return in later years without a political role.The Defense Companies were reduced by 30–35,000 people, and their role was assumed by the Republican Guard. Makhluf, the Republican Guard commander, was promoted to major general, and Bassel al-Assad (Assad's son, an army major) was given more influence in the guard.

Hafez  gave a larger role to Bassel al-Assad, who was rumored to be his father's planned successor.  There was some opposition to this dynastic succession.

Bassel al-Assad became a security officer at the Presidential Palace in 1986, and a year later he was appointed Commander of the Defense Companies. Bassel al-Assad went on his first foreign mission representing his country, traveling to Saudi Arabia to visit King Fahd.  On 21 January 1994, Bassel al-Assad died in a car accident. Almost immediately after Bassel's death, Assad began to groom his 29-year-old son Bashar al-Assad for succession.

Bashar al-Assad  was enrolled in the Homs Military Academy. He was quickly promoted to Brigadier Commander, and served for a time in the Republican Guard. He studied most military subjects, "including tank battalion commander, command and staff" Bashar al-Assad was promoted to lieutenant general in July 1997, and to colonel in January 1999.  Along with Bashar's training, Assad appointed a new generation of Alawite security officers to secure his succession plans.  By 1998 Bashar al-Assad had made inroads into the Ba'ath Party, taking over Lebanon portfolio.  By December 1998 Bashar al-Assad had replaced Rafiq al-Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon with Selim Hoss.

Several new appointments were made. Among the new appointees (Bashar loyalists) were Bahjat Sulayman, Major General Halan Khalil and Major General Asaf Shawkat (Assad's son-in-law).

By the late 1990s, Assad's health had deteriorated. But, he visited Moscow in July 1999. On 10 June 2000, at age 69, Assad died of a heart attack while on the telephone with Lebanese prime minister Hoss. His funeral was held three days later.Assad was buried  in a mausoleum in his hometown of Qardaha.

Bashar al-Assad was confirmed as president by an unopposed referendum in 2000 after his father's death. On 27 May 2007, Bashar was approved as president for another seven-year term, with the official result of 97.6% of the votes in a referendum without another candidate.

The Assad family comes from the minority Alawite religious group, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that comprises an estimated 12 percent of the total Syrian population. It has maintained tight control on Syria's security services, generating resentment among some Sunni Muslims,a religious group that makes up about three-quarters of Syria's population. Ethnic minority Syrian Kurds have also protested and complained over ethnic discrimination and denial of their cultural and language rights.

The present Syrian crisis is the fight between Sunni majority and the government headed by a minority community even though Sunnis have a share of power in it especially in civil political positions.

The opposition was initially secular and democratic and therefore received some support from USA. But subsequently, Islamic fundamental groups have gained an upper hand making things difficult for USA.

Russia which had earlier relations with communist party and socialist parties of Syria (Baath is a socialist party and Hafez al- Assad is a member and leader of this party) still support Bashar al-Assad and it is of the opinion that overthrowing Bashar will only increase terrorism in the region and the world.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez_al-Assad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/30/syria-civil-war-critical-monents
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33487.pdf



American Point of View

Bashar al-Assad is critical of USA and its allies in the West Asia and Arab World. He also has a socialist past. Hence it wants to support forces which are against him. Also, the civil war created a human problem by displacing millions of people in total population of 22 million. But it is in a dilemma because there is no opposition force which is in favor of democracy and secularism. It is providing humanitarian assistance and also providing some arms to some groups. But its strategy is weak in the area.

Russian Point of View

Russia is an old friend of Syria as the present government came out of the socialist party of the country the Baath party. Russia is also currently fighting muslim terrorism in its territory. It feels overthrowing Bashar al-Assad's regime will only aggravate terrorist problem in the world. Hence it is supporting Bashar to remain in power. But as at the time Bashar is in control of 40% territory only and the rebel forces have control of the rest of the area, the conflict is not coming to an end.

The actual situation is that both Russia and USA do not have winning options in Syria. The crisis seems to linger for a longer period.


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