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« on: February 18, 2010, 08:30:12 PM »
A marriage can be a wonderful and joyous occasion full of happiness, laughter and unicorn farts for two very lucky people. In other cases, it can be an exercise in full-blown insanity, as evidenced by these bizarre marriage traditions from every corner of the globe.5.Bride Kidnappings.
Practiced in: The Roma communities (all over the world)
The Romani, also known as Gypsies, for centuries have had this tradition, that if you manage to forcefully kidnap a girl and keep her by your side for 2-3 days, she officially becomes your wife. Long ago this probably made a lot sense, as it helped you avoid buying the bride off the parents or having Thanksgiving dinner with them every year. But even in this day and age it’s not viewed as anything strange in the Roma culture, and many women simply go with the fact that the overweight guy, who cornered them with a bottle of chloroform at a McDonald’s lady’s bathroom, is now the love of their life.
Some of you are probably wondering, how in the **** is this legal? Well, it’s a cultural practice of a large ethnic minority and most governments would rather start flossing with razor wire than to commit the PR equivalent of suicide by banning a minority tradition.4.Marrying animals to exorcise ghosts
Practiced in: some regions of IndiaThe Santhal tribe in India believe that if a baby girl has a tooth rooted to her upper gum, it’s the obvious sign she will be eaten by a tiger or something in the near future, because ghosts hate her. Therefore, she must marry a dog. Such was the story of Karnamoni Handsa, a 9-year-old Indian girl who “married” the local stray calf amidst the dancing and cheers of her 100 guests getting shitfaced on home-made booze. Huh… Somehow the presence of moonshine in a cross-species wedding is not surprising in the least…
The good news is, this is nothing but a mock ceremony and the couple don’t have to consummate the wedding. It’s just to ward off the evil spirits so the girl can marry a real boy some time later. Thank God, otherwise this exorcism ritual between a child and a canine would have been really weird.3.Blackening of the bride
Practiced in: Scotland
This custom is called the “blackening of the bride”, a very old Scottish tradition; some say even older than Sean Connery himself. It’s part of a hazing ritual that actually happens before the wedding. The bride is taken by surprise, by hands down the crummiest friends you could have, and covered from head to toe with all kinds of crap. It can be anything: spoiled milk from the back of your fridge right down to tar and feathers. It serves 2 possible purposes. Either it gets the men in the proper mood, (assuming all Scots have a fetish of homeless chicks who never bathe), or it helps the women deal with the prospect of marriage, because nothing that will happen to them from that point on will be as cruel or humiliating as the blackening.
2.Fat Farms
Practiced in: Mauritania (Africa)
Fat Farms are sort of the opposite of Fat Camps – a place where brides as young as five are sent to gain weight under the watchful eyes of wrinkled old crones, in order to become more attractive and get married as soon as possible. In the practice known as Leblouh, the girls are force fed a truckload of food—which might include more than 4 pounds of millet and 5 gallons of camel milk a day—and if they vomit, the supervising hags force them to eat it up. Failure to comply is reportedly often met with torture. So OK, maybe those places are not that different from Fat Camps.
The sad part is, this practice has virtually disappeared until a couple of years ago when a military junta took over the country and reinstated it, probably hoping that fatter women will be easier to catch or something. 1.No shitting
Practiced in: parts of MalaysiaThere is nothing more beautiful than a wedding. It is after all the couple’s first day as two happily married people, surrounded by friends, flowers and fancy foods. But for the tribes of the Tidong community in northern Borneo, a wedding is the first day of a grueling journey to the deepest levels of Hell and back. It’s the day when the couple must stop pooping for 72 hours.
The Tidong tradition dictates that a newly married couple be confined to their house and not empty their bowels or urinate under any possible circumstances for the entirety of 3 nights and 3 days. That’s why they are often carefully watched over by family members and given very little food or water. The Tidong people believe that if the couple makes it, they will lead a happy and long life with lots of non-dead children, so the stakes are pretty high here.
When you think about it, there is a spark of genius in this practice. Nothing binds 2 people for life like going through difficult times together, and there is nothing more difficult than being denied to go to the bathroom for nearly half a week. When the 3 days are up, these people will be closer to each other than ever before, because they will no longer be just husband and wife… They will be poop buddies.
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« on: February 18, 2010, 04:30:45 PM »
What makes this Military excercise unique is that US Marines are being trained to survive on diet of snakes, lizards and scorpions etc. Have a look :mean:
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« on: February 18, 2010, 03:55:46 PM »
Ter Sami (2 people)
Te Sami language is almost a dead language, there are only two people who can speak it and after them this language shall disappear from the face of earth. It was spoken in the northeastern part of the Kola Peninsula, Russia. USSR is accused to be the culprit who had its focus on Russian language only which ended up wiping out smaller languages.
Kayardild language (10 people)
Same like Ter Sami, Kayardild language is also guest on the earth and is going to be disappeared soon. The language was mostly spoken on Bentinck Island and surrounding islands such as Sweers Island, North West Queensland, Australia
Ume Sami (approximately 10)
Ume Sami language is spoken along Ume River (one of the main rivers in northern Sweden). New Testament was translated into Ume Sami language in 1775; after few years nobody will be able to read that translation and shall be saved like antique.
Pite Sami (approximately 20)
There are approximately 20 native speaker of Pite Sami language in Sweden and Norway. Pite Sámi is one of the four Sámi languages that do not have an official written language
Votic language (20)
World’s fifth dying language is spoken by Votes in Ingria, northwestern Russia. Votic has six tenses, two of which are basic: present, imperfect; and the rest of which are compound tenses: present perfect, past perfect, future and future perfect
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« on: February 17, 2010, 09:02:23 PM »
This has to be one of the coolest illusions ever!
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« on: February 17, 2010, 08:44:54 PM »
When you type in the famous blank white search page, did it every strike you, what in God's name are people searching for? Well have a look :happy:
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« on: February 17, 2010, 06:07:12 PM »
Looking back here a few instances of things that have made a lasting impact on our culture and lifestyle of today.
There are many things in history that shape our views and values for generations, if not centuries ahead. Looking back here a few instances of things that have made a lasting impact on our culture and lifestyle of today. This is a peek in on the beginning of some of the things we take for granted every day.
10. The Magna Carta Simply stated, the Magna Carta was a document written in 1215 that did not limit the King of England’s powers, but instead made him accountable to the law. This is one of the first examples of government, particularly a monarchy, being held to a standard by the people. Without this document, habeas corpus would not have come about. This is what only keeps me in jail over the weekend and not indefinitely without charges. 9. Communism in China In 1927 the Chinese Communist Party was founded. How does this affect us today? I dunno, how about 1.3 Billion (yeah with a capitol “B”) all under one flag? That’s pretty impressive when you consider our family of 3(me & parents) can’t decide on dinner some nights. 8. The Treaty of Paris The American Revolution marked the beginning of the end of imperialism in the world. Though it could be argued that imperialistic government reigned another 100 years or so, this is monumental is size and scope. 7. The Printing of the Gutenberg Bible Before 1452 all print presses were painstaking affairs and just not practical. Most books were hand copied and thus vulnerable to mistakes being made. Books were rare, but the invention of the print press with movable type by Gutenberg changed that and the Bible he printed helped spread Christianity even further.6. The Invention of Plumbing The Romans might have conquered a vast portion of the world, but it was their need for cleanliness and order that left their marks on the these times. The roads have faded, and a majority of their far flung monuments have long since vanished, but fittingly enough, their cisterns and aqueducts remain. 5. Penicillin November 26, 1941, penicillin was perfected. By the time the war was in full swing prices dropped from $20 a dose to $2.0 a dose. With a viable way to fight infection, millions of lives were saved. 4. First Written Text The Sumerians from ca. 3000 BCE are credited with the first standardized written language. The idea was to help in government and with keeping tally on the public coffers and with tribute. So yes, wealth is the root of all evil, but most likely the root of writing as well. Oddly enough, this form of writing looks a lot like my own handwriting. Hmm. Maybe I am a Sumarien! I’d rather be a Cimmerian, but never mind. 3. Flight The first manned flight was reported to have taken place in Paris in Paris by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes in 1783. Another 120 years passed before the Wright brother, Orville and Wilbur made their historical heavier than air powered flight in Kittyhawk, NC. 2. The Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and August 9th on Nagasaki. The first nuclear test was held months before the first bomb was dropped on human beings. This was the first use of a true “super weapon” and forever changed how we view ourselves and each other.
1. The Invention of the Telephone It puts the “tele” in telecommunications. Telephones, and consequently telephone lines have no doubt established more to bring the world together than anything else. Why? Without it we’d still be getting mail 3 weeks late , but we also would most likely get through eating diner without interruptions. So there is some good with the bad.
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« on: February 17, 2010, 05:13:46 PM »
The level of detail preserved in the fossils is amazing, said paleontologist Paul Selden of the University of Kansas and lead author of the study appearing Feb. 6 in Naturwissenschaften. “You go in with a microscope, and bingo! It’s fantastic.”
The fossils were found at a site called Daohugou in Northern China that is filled with fossilized salamanders, small primitive mammals, insects and water crustaceans. During the Jurassic era, the fossil bed was part of a lake in a volcanic region, Selden said.
Spider fossils from this period are rare, because the arachnids’ soft bodies don’t preserve well. The pristine fossil pictured in these photos was probably created when the spider was trapped in volcanic ash. The ultrafine clay particles squashed the spider without breaking up the animals’ delicate cuticle as more coarse sediment would, Selden said.
E. gertschi shows all the features of the modern members of the family, found in North America, suggesting it has evolved very little since the Jurassic period, Selden said. “The scimitar-shaped structure you notice out of the male is so distinctive,” he said. “Looking at modern ones, you think, well, it’s just a dead ringer.”
The findings also suggest this family of spiders, the Plectreuridae, was once much more widespread than it is today. Currently, the family has only been found living in California, Arizona, Mexico and Cuba. Yet 165 million years ago, they lived on a small continent called the North China Block.
“At some point something caused their range to contract to this part of southern North America,” Selden said. He speculates that changes in vegetation during an ice age or other climactic event wiped them out in other areas, “but they were still happy in these arid areas of the Southwest.”
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« on: February 17, 2010, 05:01:14 PM »
Carol Yager (peak weight 727 kg/ 1,600 lbs) Her peak weight reached up to 727 kg (16, 00 lbs). She was also famous for losing most weight by natural means. Carol Yager lost 521 lbs weight in just three months. Her skin was breaking down due to a bacterial infection that’s why she was admitted in Hurley Medical Center. She spent terrible time till her death. Carol Yager was unable to stand or walk because of her muscles were not strong enough. She died in a young of 34. Main causes of her death were kidney failure, multiple organ failure and morbid obesity. Jon Brower Minnoch (peak weight 635 kg / 1400 lbs) Likewise Carol Yager, Job Brower was also fat in his childhood. In the age of 12 his weight was 132 kg (292 lbs). He married to Jeannette, a woman of normal weight and had two sons. Minnoch was admitted to hospital for 16 months where he lost 419 kg but after being discharged, his weight doubled. He couldn’t improve any better and died on September 10, 1983, at age 42. Manuel Uribe (597 kg / 1,316 lb) Like other heavy people, Manuel Uribe is also living a hard life. He spends 9 years in bed from 2001 to 2009. Even he got married in bed with Claudia on October 26, 2008. On his wedding, he spoke loud and clear to all disheartened people saying “I am proof you can find love in any circumstances. It’s all a question of faith. I have a wife and will form a new family and live a happy life”. Walter Hudson (544 kg / 1,200 lb) World’s fourth heaviest power house was born in Brooklyn, New York. Walter came into lime light when he was trapped inside of his room’s door. Rescue team had to break the wall to take him out. He loved to eat as once he said and I quote “”I just ate and enjoyed it”. Although he announced his wedding plans but that remains a dream for his. He died few weeks later. Rosalie Bradford (544 kg / 1,200 lb) Rosalie Bradford was Foodaholic since her childhood. Like all other weight giants, she gained weight in young age. At the age of 14 her weight was 92 kg and 140 kg at the age of 15. Rosalie married and had one son. After her marriage, she mostly spent her time at home and gain more weight. All that depressed her much and she tried to kill her using painkillers. Her weight eventually reduced to 136 kg (300 lb). She died on November 29, 2006 in the age of 63.
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« on: February 16, 2010, 07:17:32 PM »
A series of successful rocket tests in the Mojave desert recently marks another step in the development of a car built to reach 1000 mph. The British team Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) is comprised of some legendary land speed experience. Richard Noble was the man behind the Thrust SSC—the car that set the current land speed record. And the man that will slide behind the wheel of the Bloodhound is Andy Green, the former fighter pilot who holds the land speed record for the fastest diesel vehicle in the world (just over 350 mph, back in 2006).
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« on: February 16, 2010, 06:43:41 PM »
GILROY, Calif., Feb. 16 -- The U.S. Geological Survey said sensors picked up a 3.0 earthquake in California's Santa Clara County, but authorities said no one called to report the temblor.
Dispatchers with Gilroy, Calif., police said they usually receive at least a few calls, even about small quakes, but no one seemed to notice the earth move at approximately 6:39 p.m. PST Monday about 7 miles east-southeast of the city, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday.
"Usually we get flooded with call from people wanting to make sure we knew there was a quake," a dispatcher who identified herself as Mary said. "But we got nothing."
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« on: February 16, 2010, 06:42:08 PM »
DENVER, Feb. -- Passengers on a Delta Airlines flight from Puerto Rico to Denver said they arrived in Colorado to find their bags had been soaked in jet fuel.
Kathy Shoemaker and other passengers on the Sunday flight from Puerto Rico to Denver International Airport said they were told by Delta representatives to wash everything in their luggage and submit reimbursement forms for ruined items within 24 hours, KUSA-TV, Denver, reported Tuesday.
"I'm not sure what to do with baggage that smells like jet fuel, because to me that seems like a hazard and I should just dump it in my trash can. I don't really know how to handle it," Shoemaker said.
Shoemaker said the Delta workers told them the bags were likely sprayed by jet fuel on the tarmac in Puerto Rico.
"I don't think anyone wants luggage that's been soaked in fuel in the luggage compartment of their flight," she said. "I don't ever want to think that would ever happen again cause it seems to me there was enough luggage that was soaked that any kind of spark would have blown up our plane."
KUSA said its calls to Delta representatives for comment went unreturned.
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« on: February 16, 2010, 06:33:30 PM »
The skin we are in
is first formed
then stretched
then dried and shrivelled
then decomposed
and eaten by worms.
Lasting beauty is a legacy,
not a face.
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« on: February 16, 2010, 06:07:34 PM »
What would you like pass on from yourself to your faraway descendants ?
How would you dream our world ?
Who are you ? KEO is the name of a proposed space time capsule that will be launched in 2010 or 2011. There have been previous spacecrafts carrying time capsules of earth’s existence sent into space but what makes the KEO Satellite different is it will be designed to return back to earth 50,000 years later. The KEO project was conceived in 1994 by French artist-scientist Jean-Marc Philippe. If this ambitious project is realized the KEO will carry a drop of human blood chosen at random encased in a diamond, samples of air, sea water and earth and the DNA of the human genome. The satellite will also carry an astronomical clock, photographs of people of all cultures and an encyclopedia of current human knowledge. Sorry, the deadline to post messages ended on 31st Dec., 2009 The messages and library will be encoded in glass-made radiation-resistant DVDs. Symbolic instructions in several formats will show the future finders how to build a DVD reader.
The satellite itself is a hollow sphere 80 cm in diameter. The sphere is engraved with a map of Earth and surrounded by an aluminium layer, a thermal layer and several layers of titanium and other heavy materials intertwined with vacuum. The sphere is resistant to cosmic radiation, atmosphere re-entry, space junk impacts etc. For its first few years in orbit, KEO will sport a pair of wings 10 meters across that will aid in its spotting from Earth. As the satellite enters the atmosphere, the thermal layer will produce an artificial aurora to give a signal of the satellite’s re-entry. The passive satellite will not carry any communications or propulsion systems. It will be launched by an Ariane 5 rocket into an orbit 1,800 km high, an altitude that will bring it back to Earth in 500 centuries, the same amount of time that has elapsed since early humans started to draw in cavern walls.
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« on: February 16, 2010, 05:58:58 PM »
Bush under shoe attack, Bagdad, Iraq It was the last official visit of American President Gorge W Bush to Bagdad, Iraq. At the end of his press conference, he was gifted two pair of shoes; luckily he managed to move down humbly avoid “made in Italy” gift. Italian Prime Minister got a slap Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lost two of his teeth and then rushed to hospital in emergency after he was attacked at the end of a public rally. Maybe from now on, the president will avoid appearing in public gathering or learn how to control his tongue. Mr. Berlusconi was called clown by few groups of people while he shouted “shame on you” back Traian Basescu attacked 10 year old guy The president of Romania, locked in a dead heat with his rival in a run-off election, is facing questions from opponents after video surfaced of him hitting a 10-year-old boy in the face during a campaign rally in 2004. The boy in question, Bogdan Istrotaiu, now 16, initially backed up the claim that Basescu hit him in 2004, when Basescu was mayor of Bucharest and running for the presidency for the first time. The Associated Press reports Istrotaiu first told a Romanian newspaper that Basescu had hit him, but a day later he retracted his claim, saying he didn't want to be part of the growing controversy. Every action has a reaction, Muntadar al-Zeidi, Iraqi Journalist in Paris Newton third law of motion states “To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” something like that happened to Iraqi journalist who tried to hit Gorge W Bush. When he appeared in a press conference in Paris, France, he was welcomed with a flying shoe. He managed the same way as Bush did. Copycat isn’t? Shoe attack on Indian minister, New Dheli Palaniappan Chidambaram was speaking in Delhi about 1984 riots in which hundreds of Sikhs were killed. A Sikh journalist got mad on his reply and thrown a shoe on the minister saying “I protest”.
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« on: February 14, 2010, 09:08:11 PM »
Shocking news circulated in China. A town in Canton is now on trend taking baby herbal soup to increase health and sexual performance/stamina. The cost in China currency = approx $ 4000. A factory manager was interviewed and he testified that it is effective because he is a frequent customer. It is a delicacy whereby expensive herbs are added to boil the baby with chicken meat for 8 hours boiling/steaming. He pointed to his second wife next to him, who is 19 (he is 62), and testified that they have sex everyday.Warning: More photos are extremely disturbing and horrifying.
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« on: February 14, 2010, 06:57:49 PM »
A kiss is a sign of affection. We give kisses to family, friends and even pets. Parents affectionately kiss their children, siblings kiss upon greeting and other relatives regularly receive an expected kiss upon greeting. Kissing out of admiration and non-romantic love often travels outside of family members and may include close friends. If we see technically, kissing takes a bit of coordination with your partner, but a passionate kiss lets you exchange some of the greatest pheromones, triggering a natural response from your mate. Frequent kissing in committed couples has been found to reduce stress and cholesterol while increasing a more satisfying relationship. Just take a look below at some really amazing facts about kiss.I dun understand logic behind this.
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« on: February 14, 2010, 06:14:29 PM »
Buraidah, Saudi Arabia (TML) – Saudi women’s rights advocates are outraged after a 12-year-old girl was sold by her father into marriage with an 80-year-old man.
A Saudi father, whose name has not been released, sold his 12-year-old daughter to his 80-year old cousin for the equivalent of $22,600. The elderly man, who lives in the city of Buraidah, stands accused of raping the girl after the wedding. He has previously married three other young girls.
The girl’s mother, who had objected strongly to the marriage, took the case to local media after her lawyer’s efforts to get it legally annulled failed.
After the case was publicized, the public prosecutor of Al-Qassim Province is said to have set up a special committee to look into the case.
“They say they’re going to look into it but nothing will really happen,” Eman Al Nafjan, a Saudi blogger and women’s rights advocate told The Media Line. “Even if they solve this case, they are not going to recommend a new law to the king. We should set a legal minimum age at which girls can be married.”
“Without a law we get people like this 80 year old guy who takes advantage of the system to fulfill his sick obsession with little girls,” she wrote on her blog. “Where else in the world can a man openly say that he is in a polygamous marriage with four underage girls and not get arrested? At this rate we might as well start a tourism industry to attract rich Muslim pedophiles.”
The girl’s parents are divorced and the marriage is understood to have been arranged on the initiative of the father, who told the local newspaper that he did so on the basis of the girl’s physical development, not her age.Child marriages in Saudi Arabia have made international news a number of times over the past year. In April there was international outcry when a Saudi judge refused to grant a divorce to an eight-year-old girl who had been married off by her father to a 47-year-old man as part of a loan repayment agreement, and in August a 10-year-old bride ran away from her 80-year-old husband and sought refuge at her aunt’s house. After ten days in hiding, the girl was returned to her husband by her father.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Saudi Arabia has signed and ratified, defines a child as any person under the age of 18 and Article 16.2 of The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, states that “The marriage of a child shall have no legal effect, and all necessary action, including legislation, shall be taken to specify a minimum age for marriage and to make the registration of marriages in an official registry compulsory.”
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« on: February 14, 2010, 03:18:00 AM »
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« on: February 14, 2010, 02:43:19 AM »
Romeo & Juliet Romeo and Juliet, 16th Century, English, literary. Star-crossed lovers immortalized in Shakespeare’s 1596 play. With Romeo dead, Juliet takes her own life rather than live without her young husband.Peter Abelard and Heloise: Peter Abelard and Heloise, 12th Century, French, historical. Theologian and lecturer Abelard was 17-year-old Heloise’s teacher. They secretly married, but her uncle found out and had him castrated. Too late — she had a son. Separated by their families and the church, she entered a convent, he became a monk, and their love letters still exist. They are buried together in Paris.Shah Jahan and Arjumand Bann Begum: Shah Jahan and Arjumand Bann Begum, 17th Century, Indian, historical. Consumed with sorrow when his beloved wife died at age 39 giving birth to their 14th child, he commissioned the Taj Mahal to be built in her memory. His son later imprisoned him and he spent the rest of his life staring out the window of his room at the Taj, pining for Arjumand.Kermit and Miss Piggy: Kermit and Miss Piggy, 20th Century, American, cultural. She hogs the limelight every chance she gets, but her love springs eternal for her froggy beau. His disinterest and the cross-species problem are no deterrents to this determined pig.Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 19th Century, English, historical. Pale little Elizabeth bucked her dogmatic family and married a fellow poet. They spent their life in Italy amid sunshine and poetry, inspiring her to write a masterpiece, “Sonnets from the Portugese.”Tristan and Isolde: Tristan and Isolde, 12th Century, English, French, German, literary. Based on an ancient Celtic legend as stubborn as the intertwined vines that grew over the lovers’ graves, the story of the knight who gave up his true love for a king has been told in many forms. Despite duty and other marriages, the lovers remain true to each other, and are reunited in death.Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara: Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara, 20th Century, American, literary. Their fiery romance set amid the Civil War showed the pitfalls of pride and selfishness. He really did give a damn, and so did she.Cinderella and Prince Charming: Cinderella and Prince Charming, 17th Century, French, literary. Based on Eastern European legends, this archetype of romantic love sent the message to women that if you keep your eyes open, someday your prince will come.Dante Alighieri and Beatrice: Dante Alighieri and Beatrice, 13th Century, Italian, historical. The writer met his muse when they were children. She inspired his greatest works although the pair never married. Beatrice is Dante’s guide through Paradise in “The Divine Comedy” and was the inspiration for 31 love poems, “La Vita Nuova.”Guinevere and Lancelot: Guinevere and Lancelot, 14th Century, English, literary. Based on the Arthurian legend, the doomed love between the gallant knight and beautiful queen caused the downfall of the Round Table.
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« on: February 14, 2010, 01:41:48 AM »
Bill Gate The godfather of Microsoft is no doubt world’s most famous person. This godly gifted man has changed the concept of computer and bright new horizons into this field of pioneers. Although Bill has been accused for idea thefts but nobody could ruled out his contribution in his entitled field. His charity foundation ‘Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’ is ranked as world richest organizationMichael Dell
Michael Dell started his company which at that time was called as PC Limited on twenty seventh stories. He was dropped out of university in age of 19 and from there he never looked back. Today he is one of the greatest successful businesses of all times. His net worth of year 2009 is estimated as $12.2 billion dollarsLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva The current president of Brazil couldn’t even read or write until the age of 10. He was not as blessed as he is now. Lula had to quit school after forth grade and searched a job and eventually he became a shoe shiner and street vendor. His hard word and commitment to the cause paid off finally; Lula’s successful political carrier leads him to most powerful office in the country which he assumed in 2003Henry Ford Special thanks to Mr Henry Ford who gave a new dynamics to car industry. Although he couldn’t complete his high school education but yet his name is above most of the successful people of last century. The company he started (Motor Ford Company) with initial investment of $28,000 in 1903 is now a company of worth $188.1 billionSimon Cowell Yet another successful man who we all see frequently on TV and especially as judge in American Idol. Simon attended independent school Dover College but left early before attending the sixth form. Simon appears in different TV shows as judge including American Idol, Britain’s Got Talent, The X Factor, and Pop Idol. He earn around £54.25m per year
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