INTERESTING LIVES and INTERESTING FACTS

arjay · March 1, 2008, 12:05pm

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Laws of Work

**- A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the pants. **

- Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

- The more of it you put up with, the more of it you're going to get.

**- You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard. **

- Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

- Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested in, and say nothing about the other.

**- When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves. **

**- If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a darn fool about it. **

arjay · March 2, 2008, 3:11pm

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~~OSCAR'S FIRST BOW~~

**The first ever Academy Awards were presented in 1929,
with Emil Jannings the first winner, Best Actor for both
THE LAST COMMAND an THE WAY OF ALL FLESH. Best
Picture went to WINGS. Achievement in Directing {Comedy}
went to Lewis Milestone for TWO ARABIAN KNIGHTS, while Achievement
in Directing {Drama} went to **
**Frank Borzage for 7th HEAVEN. Janet Gaynor
won Best Actress for 7th HEAVEN, STREET ANGEL and SUNRISE. **
**And..Special Awards went to **
Charles Chaplin
for 'versatility and genius in acting,
writing, irecting an proucing THE CIRCUS..
**and to Warner Bros for 'producing
the JAZZ SINGER, **
***the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has
revolutionized the industry'..

arjay · March 3, 2008, 12:45pm

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VERY INTERESTING *FACT!*

**The foolish actions of others can leave you (hopelessly) frustrated if you
allow them to do so. **

Keep in mind, however, that there's nothing to be
gained by working yourself into a knot of frustration and resentment.
Instead, accept whatever comes your **way and commit yourself to finding the value in it and making the best of it, there's no limit to what you can achieve, even when conditions are less than ideal. **

Greet each new day and each new turn of events with confidence and enthusiasm. *And you'll emerge a winner no matter what.*

(Raju Jamil)

Hum_Hain_Lajawab · March 3, 2008, 5:41pm

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^ Very good post. Esp where you said Keep in mind, however, that there's nothing to be gained by working yourself into a knot of frustration and resentment. Instead, accept whatever comes your way :)

This reminds of some lines:

Buj jaye shamma to jal sakti hai
Kashti hadd-e-tofaan se guzar sakti hai
Himmat na haar, iraadey na badal
Taqdeer kisi wakt bhi badal sakti hai

arjay · March 4, 2008, 11:40am

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**CONFIDENCE **
Once, all village people decided to pray for rain.
On the day of prayer all people gathered and only one boy
came with an Umbrella,
***that’s Confidence ***

TRUST
***Trust should be like the feeling of a one year old baby ***
***when you throw him in the air, ***
***he laughs… because he knows you will catch him; ***
***that’s Trust ***

**HOPE **
***Every night we go to bed, ***
***we have no assurance to get up alive in the next morning ***
***but still you have plans for the coming day ; ***
***that’s Hope ***

HAVE CONFIDENCE, TRUST & NEVER LOSE HOPE

arjay · March 5, 2008, 1:54pm

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Why flu strikes in cold weather

***Flu’s protective coat must melt to infect a cell
Scientists believe they have uncovered a key reason why flu viruses tend to strike in cold weather. ***
***They found the viruses coat themselves in fatty material that hardens to a gel, protecting them in the cold. ***
***This coating melts in the higher temperatures of the respiratory tract, allowing the virus to infect cells. ***
***The US National Institutes of Health team hope their study, which features in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, could lead to new treatments. ***
***The study results open new avenues of research for thwarting winter flu outbreaks ***
***Dr Duane Alexander
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

However, a UK expert said the discovery did not explain why some flu viruses also thrived in tropical climates.
The hard rubbery coating around the virus which forms in colder temperatures gives it the protection it needs to pass from person to person. The coating is so robust it can even resist to certain detergents. ***
***However, once inside a host the virus can only infect a target cell once the coating has melted. ***
***But this liquid phase is not tough enough to protect the virus against the elements, and so if the protective coating melts when the virus is outside the host, it dies. ***
***Detailed fingerprint ***
***Dr Duane Alexander, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said: "The study results open new avenues of research for thwarting winter flu outbreaks. ***
***“Now that we understand how the flu virus protects itself so that it can spread from person to person, we can work on ways to interfere with that protective mechanism.” ***
***The researchers used a sophisticated magnetic resonance technique to create a detailed fingerprint of how the flu virus’s outer membranes responded to variations in temperature. ***
***I don’t think this study provides anything like a definitive answer on the spread of the virus ***

arjay · March 5, 2008, 1:58pm

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~~THE LONGEST WORD IN ENGLISH~~

FLAUCIPAUCINHLIHILIFICATION...
is termed as the longest word in English, meaning **
**"The action of assessing the value of something as worthless"

arjay · March 6, 2008, 2:18pm

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A GREAT DEBT

**During forty-seven years of intermittent government service, Herbert
Hoover turned all of his federal salary checks over to charitable causes
and institutions, including his 20,000$ annual pension as a former
President. He made his fortune as **
**a mining engineer early in his career. **

He has given away all his governmental income, he once explained,
to acknowledge "a great debt" to his country for the many advantages and opportunities that it has conferred upon him.

arjay · March 7, 2008, 9:17am

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Could be a repeat!

***Julie Andrews Turns 69, this is funny ....

**To commemorate her 69th birthday on October 1, **
***actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews
made a special appearance at Manhattan's Radio City
Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP.

One of the musical numbers she performed was ***
**"My Favorite Things"
from the legendary movie **
***"Sound Of Music".

Here are the lyrics she used:

Maalox and nose drops and needles for knitting,

Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,

Bundles of magazines ti ed up in string,

These are a few of my favorite things.

Cadillacs and cataracts, and hearing aids and glasses,

Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,

Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,

These are a few of my favorite things.

When the pipes leak,

When the bones creak,

When the knees go bad,

I simply remember my favorite things,

And then I don't feel soOOOOOOOOO baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,

No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,

Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring,

These are a few of my favorite things.

Back pains, confused brains, and no need for sinnin',

Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin',

And we won't mention our short shrunken frames,

When we remember our favorite things.

When the joints ache,

When the hips break,

the eyes grow dim,

Then I remember the great life I've had,

And then I don't feel so bad.

(Ms. Andrews received a standing ovation from the crowd that lasted over four minutes and repeated encores.)

Please share Ms. Andrews' clever wit and humor with***
others who would appreciate it.

arjay · March 8, 2008, 5:40pm

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LAST OF THE SURVIVORS OF TITANIC DIES

**Miss Elizabeth Gladys Dean, better known as Millvina, was born on 2 February 1912. She was the daughter of Bertram Frank Dean and Georgette Eva Light Dean. In April, 1912 she was only nine-weeks-old and was, with her parents and elder-brother Bertram, about to emigrate to Wichita, Kansas where her father hoped to open a tobacconist shop.
**
Elizabeth was 2 months old at the time of the Titanic sinking, is now the disaster’s only remaining survivor. Millvina boarded the Titanic at Southampton with her parents and brother.

Millvina, her mother and brother were all rescued. They returned to England aboard the Adriatic. It was on the Adriatic that Millvina became quite a spectacle: that such a tiny baby could have came through the ordeal alive. First and Second Class passengers on the Adriatic queued to hold her, and many took photographs of her, her mother and brother, several of which were published in contemporary newspapers.

“[She] was the pet of the liner during the voyage, and so keen was the rivalry between women to nurse this lovable mite of humanity that one of the officers decreed that first and second class passengers might hold her in turn for no more than ten minutes”
(Daily Mirror, 12 May 1912)

Millvina and her brother were raised and educated on various pension funds. Millvina attended Greggs School, Southampton. In her younger years Millvina did not know that she was on the Titanic, and only found out when she was eight and her mother was planning to remarry.

Millvina never married, working for the government during World War II by drawing maps, and later serving in the purchasing department of a Southampton engineering firm. It wasn’t until Millvina was in her seventies that Millvina became a Titanic celebrity: she has since been in great demand to appear at conventions, exhibitions, in documentaries, radio and TV programs, etc. In 1997 she was invited to travel aboard the QE2 to America to complete her family’s voyage to Wichita, Kansas.

**In April, 1996 she visited Belfast for the first time, as guest of honour for a Titanic Historical Society convention. Millvina is now one of only five living-survivors and, it may be said, possibly the only one still active in any Titanic activities. She still lives in retirement in Southampton, England and is kept very busy attending conventions; appearing in documentaries, TV series and radio shows; signing huge amounts of autographs; **
**and relating her tales to school groups. **

arjay · March 9, 2008, 11:02am

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Fun Facts About the Fifty U.S. States

*Alabama George Washington Carver,who discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts *
*Alaska The longest coastline in the U.S.,6,640 miles,greater than that of all other states combined *
*Arizona The most telescopes in the world,in Tucson *
*Arkansas The only active diamond mine in the U.S. *
*California "General Sherman,"a 3,500-year-old tree,and a stand of bristlecone pines 4,000 years old are the world's oldest living things *
*Colorado The world's largest silver nugget (1,840 pounds) found in 1894 near Aspen *
*Connecticut The first American cookbook,published in Hartford in 1796:American Cookery by Amelia Simmons *
*Delaware The first log cabins in North America,built in 1683 by Swedish immigrants *
*Florida U.S. Spacecraft launchings from Cape Canaveral,formerly Cape Kennedy *
*Georgia The Girl Scouts,founded in Savannah by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912 *
*Idaho The longest main street in America,33 miles,in Island Park *
*Illinois One of the tallest buildings in the world,Sears Tower,is in Chicago *
*Indiana The famous car race: the Indy 500 *
*Iowa The shortest and steepest railroad in the U.S.,Dubuque: 60° incline,296 feet *
*Kansas Helium discovered in 1905 at the University of Kansas *
*Kentucky The largest underground cave in the world: 300 miles long,the Mammoth-Flint Cave system *
*Louisiana The most crayfish: 98% of the world's crayfish *
*Maine The most easterly point in the U.S.,West Quoddy Head *
*Maryland The first umbrella factory in the U.S.,1928,Baltimore *
*Massachusetts The first World Series,1903: the Boston Pilgrims vs. The Pittsburgh Pirates *
*Michigan The Cereal Bowl of America, Battle Creek, produces most cereal in the U.S. *
*Minnesota The oldest rock in the world,3.8 billion years old,found in Minnesota River valley *
*Mississippi Coca-Cola,first bottled in 1894 in Vicksburg *
*Missouri Mark Twain and some of his characters,such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn *
*Montana Grasshopper Glacier,named for the grasshoppers that can still be seen frozen in ice *
*Nebraska The only roller skating museum in the world, in Lincoln *
*Nevada Rare fish such as the Devils Hole pup,found only in Devils Hole,and other rare fish from prehistoric lakes;also the driest state *
*New Hampshire Artificial rain, first used near Concord in 1947 to fight a forest fire *
*New Jersey The world's first drive-in movie theater,built in 1933 near Camden *
*New Mexico "Smokey Bear,"a cub orphaned by fire in 1950,buried in Smokey Bear Historical State Park in 1976 *
*New York The first presidential inauguration: George Washington took the oath of office in New York City on April 30, 1789. *
*North Carolina Virginia Dare,the first English child born in America,on Roanoake Island in 1587 *
*North Dakota The geographic center of North America,in Pierce County,near Balta *
*Ohio The first electric traffic lights,invented and installed in Cleveland in 1914 *
*Oklahoma The first parking meter,installed in Oklahoma City in 1935 *
*Oregon The world's smallest park,totaling 452 inches,created in Portland on St. Patrick's Day for leprechauns and snail races *
*Pennsylvania The first magazine in America: the American Magazine,published in Philadelphia for 3 months in 1741 *
*Rhode Island Rhode Island Red chickens,first bred in 1854;the start of poultry as a major American industry *
*South Carolina The first tea farm in the U.S.,created in 1890 near Summerville *
*South Dakota The world's largest natural,indoor warmwater pool,Evans' Plunge in Hot Springs *
*Tennessee Graceland, the estate and gravesite of Elvis Presley *
*Texas NASA,in Houston,headquarter s for all piloted U.S. Space projects *
*Utah Rainbow Bridge,the largest natural stone bridge in the world,290 feet high,275 feet across *
*Vermont The largest production of maple syrup in the U.S. *
*Virginia The only full-length statue of George Washington,placed in capitol in 1796 *
*Washington Lunar Rover,the vehicle used by astronauts on the moon;Boeing, in Seattle,makes aircraft and spacecraft *
*West Virginia Marbles;most of the country's glass marbles made around Parkersburg *
*Wisconsin The typewriter,invented in Milwaukee in 1867 *
*Wyoming The "Register of the Desert,"a huge granite boulder covering 27 acres with 5,000 early pioneer names carved on it *
*Hawaii The only royal palace in the U.S. (Iolani) *

Michelle_Ali · March 10, 2008, 8:55am

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Interesting indeed. Thanks for sharing.

arjay · March 10, 2008, 10:29am

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You are welcome Michelle!

arjay · March 10, 2008, 2:10pm

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On this day...9th March

*1452 Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III
Roman Catholic-German emperor *

*1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria *

1497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation,
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*1500 Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
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*1522 Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit
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*1551 Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne
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*1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
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*1617 Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa
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*1640 Pierre Corneilles "Horace" premieres in Paris France
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*1642 English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Netherlands
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*1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe
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*1701 France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance
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*1721 English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
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*1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
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*1745 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
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*1791 George Hayward, Us, surgeon, 1st to use ether
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*1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
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*1798 Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy
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*1820 James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House
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*1820 Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
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*1822 Charles M Graham of New York patents artificial teeth
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*1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
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*1841 US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident)
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*1842 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco" premieres in Milan
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*1844 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani" premieres in Venice
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*1849 Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" premieres
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*1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
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*1860 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington DC
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*1861 Confederate currency authorized-$ 50, $100, $500, $1,000
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*1862 "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
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*1864 Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
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*1868 The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris France
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*1873 Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded
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*1889 Battle at Gallabat (Metema); Mahdi's beat Abyssinian
emperor John IV
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*1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
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*1893 Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
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*1895 Stanley Cup: Montréal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ontario) loses to Montréal AAA, 5-1
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*1897 Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot
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*1897 Indian fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official)
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*1897 Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin)
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*1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna
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*1904 Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal
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*1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
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*1907 Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon" premieres in Dublin
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*1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
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*1914 US Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
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*1916 General Fransisco "Pancho" Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM (17 killed)
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*1916 Germany declares war against Portugal
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*1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
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*1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
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*1918 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens
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*1922 Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape" premieres in New York NY
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*1922 KJR-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions
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*1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
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*1923 Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine" premieres in New York NY
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*1923 NHL Championship: Montréal Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2
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*1924 Italy annexes Fiume
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*1924 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
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*1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
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*1929 Marcel Pagnol's "Marius" premieres in Paris France
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*1932 Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland
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*1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Up-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
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*1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
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*1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, & began its "100 days"
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*1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
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*1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
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*1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
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*1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
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*1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb
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*1945 Japanese proclaim the "independence" of Indo-China
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*1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
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*1946 Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses
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*1947 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill
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*1947 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button
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*1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
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*1949 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
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*1949 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
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*1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York NY
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*1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
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*1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
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*1954 1st local color TV commercial WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York NY (Castro Decorators)
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*1954 Edward R Murrow criticizes Senator Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)
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*1954 WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester NH (ABC) begins broadcasting
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*1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles
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*1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
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*1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
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*1958 George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season
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*1959 "Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances
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*1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
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*1959 Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
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*1961 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik

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*1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
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*1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
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*1961 Supremes release "I Want A Guy" & "Never Again"
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*1962 Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
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*1962 US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
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*1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez
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*1964 1st Ford Mustang produced
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*1964 Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Oklahoma
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*1964 Supreme Court issues New York Times vs Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel & recover damages
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*1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black Governor of Federal Reserve Board
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*1967 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
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*1968 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win
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*1971 J M Noreiga takes 9-95 West Indies vs India at Port-of-Spain
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*1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
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*1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
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*1975 "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances
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*1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
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*1976 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0
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*1977 Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche
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*1977 Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington DC, siege ended March 11th
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*1978 World Ice Dance Championship in Ottawa Canada won by Natalia Linichuk & Gennadi Karponosov (USSR)
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*1978 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Irina Rodnina & Alexandr Zaitsev (USSR)
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*1978 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (German Democratic Republic)
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*1978 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA)
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*1979 Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
1979 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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*1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
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*1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament
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*1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
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*1983 Caryl Churchill's "Fen" premieres in London
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*1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
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*1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
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*1984 John Lennon's "Borrowed Time" is released
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*1984 Philadelphia 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record
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*1984 Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
*1985 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) & Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
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1986 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
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*1986 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
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*1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
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*1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
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*1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
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*1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
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*1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
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*1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60 meter hurdles indoor (7.36 seconds)
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*1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
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*1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
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*1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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*1990 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female US surgeon general
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*1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
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*1991 5th American Comedy Awards: Dennis Wolfberg
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*1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit MI) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
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*1991 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
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*1993 19th People's Choice Awards
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*1993 7th Soul Train Music Awards
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*1993 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
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*1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
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*1994 IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
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*1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
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*1995 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
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*1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
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*1996 Javed Miandad's last international in Pakistan's WC QF loss to India
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*1996 Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) vs England in WC QF
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*1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands
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*1997 Senior Golf Slam
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*1997 Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open
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**2008 Meesaq-e-Bhurbun between PPP and PML (N) at noon.

arjay · March 10, 2008, 2:25pm

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TEA
by
RAJU

When the world is all at odds,
And the mind is all at sea,
Then cease the useless tedium
And brew a cup of tea.

There is magic in its fragrance,
There is solace in its taste,
And the laden moments vanish
Somehow into space.

And the world becomes a lovely thing,
There's beauty as you'll see;
All because you briefly stopped
To brew a cup of tea.

arjay · March 11, 2008, 7:24pm

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The 'Be' Attitudes

Be understanding to your enemies.
Be loyal to your friends.
Be strong enough to face the world each day.
Be weak enough to know you cannot do everything alone.
Be generous to those who need your help.e frugal with that you need yourself.
Be wise enough to know that you do not know everything.
Be foolish enough to believe in miracles.
Be willing to share your joys.
Be willing to share the sorrows of others.
Be a leader when you see a path others have missed.
Be a follower when you are shrouded by the mists of uncertainty.
Be first to congratulate an opponent who succeeds.
Be last to criticize a colleague who fails.
Be sure where your next step will fall, so that you will not tumble.
Be sure of your final destination, in case you are going the wrong way.
Be loving to those who love you.
Be loving to those who do not love you; they may change.

Above all, be yourself.

arjay · March 12, 2008, 10:39am

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UNDERSTAND

***A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about Nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he Felt a tug on his overalls.

He looked down into the Eyes of a little boy.
Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies."

"Well," said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, "these puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money." ***
***The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer. "I've got thirty-nine cents. Is that enough to take a look?"

"Sure," said the farmer.

And with that he let out a whistle,"Here,Molly!" he called.

Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Molly followed by four little balls of fur. The little boy pressed his face against the chain link fence. His eyes danced with delight. ***
***As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else stirring inside the doghouse.
Slowly another little ball appeared; this One noticeably smaller.
Down the ramp it slid.
Then in a somewhat awkward manner the little pup began hobbling toward the others, doing its best to catch up....

"I want that one," the little boy said, pointing to the runt.
The farmer knelt down at the boy's side and said, "Son, you don't want that puppy. He will never be able to run and
play with you like these other dogs would."

With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe.
Looking back up at the farmer, he said, "You see sir, I don't run too well myself, and he will need Someone who understands."

The world is full of people who need someone who understands.

arjay · March 13, 2008, 8:47am

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Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world.
If you do so, you are insulting yourself

You are not responsible for what people think about you but you are responsible for what you give them to think about you.

Write your sad times in Sand; Write your Good times in Stone.***

Behind every successful man, there is an untold pain in his heart.***

Without your involvement you can't succeed.
With your involvement you can't fail.

Love your job but don't love your Company because you may not know when your company stops loving you

You may get DELAYED to reach your Targets,
But every step you take towards your target is EQUAL to Victory.

It's better to loose your Ego to the one you Love, than to loose the one you LOVE because of EGO.***

Don't make promise when you are in JOY.
Don't reply when you are SAD.
Don't take decisions when you are ANGRY.
Think twice, Act wise. BE happy.

What is the Secret of SUCCESS...? 'RIGHT DECISIONS'
How do you make Right Decisions...? 'EXPERIENCE'
How do you get Experience...? 'WRONG DECISIONS'***

(RAJU JAMIL)

arjay · March 14, 2008, 8:21pm

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~~A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS~~

In Rodger and Hammerstein's musical
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Maria and the chilren sing about
their favorite things;

Rainrops on roses
Whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles
Warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Cream colored ponies
Cris apple strudels
Doorbells
Sleigh bells
Schnitzel with noddles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings....

THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS.......

arjay · March 15, 2008, 10:00am

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