top row, from left, are: Steve Wood, Bob Wallace and Jim Lane;
second row, Bob O’Rear, Bob Greenberg, March McDonald and Gordon Letwin;
and front row, Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood and Paul Allen.
Taken in 1978… the 11 founding members of Microsoft

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The Adventures of Tintin and its lovable characters. I finally found this picture…

Characters includes:

Tintin and his dog, Snowy

Captain Haddock

Nester, the butler

Thomson and Thompson, the detectives

Professor Calculus

Bianca

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And i finally found a list of the major castles in the Loire Valley, France:

Château d’Amboise
Château d’Angers
Azay-le-Rideau
Château de Beauregard
Château de Blois
Château de Brézé
Château de Chambord
Château de Chenonceau
Chinon
Château de Chaumont
Château de Cheverny
Château de Fougères-sur-Bièvre
Château de Menars
Château de Montgeoffroy
Château de Valençay
Château de Villandry
Château de la Bourdaisière
Château du Plessis-Bourré
Château du Rivau
Château de Clermont
Château des Ducs de Bretagne
Château [...]

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Place: Zaanse Schans beside river Zaan, North Netherlands
Famous: Windmills… there are still 6 working mills there
Best Time to go: anytime
How to go: some suggestions…

Amsterdam Central station to Koog-Zaankijk station
15 min walk from the station by following the signs

or

Take bus 91 from Amsterdam Central station in 50 min

Cost: Round-trip in train costs about 7.5 Euro. Viewing [...]

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Place: Keukenhof, near Lisse, Netherlands
Famous: Flowers - tulips - flower garden of Europe… how can we forget Tulips when we are in Netherlands
Best Time to go: Mid March to Mid-May open only
How to go:

Rotterdam or Amsterdam Central Station to Leiden Station in 40 min
Connexxion Bus 54 (Keukenhof Express) in 30 min

Cost: Entry into Keukenhof and the [...]

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Some links on visa…

UK Visa
Schengen Visa for Europe countries
US visa

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Name: Grand Place
Object: Central Market place and Town Centre
Artist: Jacob van Thienen (probably)
Date of creation: 1402 to 1455 and more buildings are added on later
Style: combination of Gothic, Baroque and Louis XIV styles
Description: Centre of the city’s commercial activies
Where to find it: Brussels, Belgium
 
image source: wiki

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Each day I live
I want to be
A day to give
The best of me
I’m only one
But not alone
My finest day
Is yet unknown
I broke my heart
Fought every gain
To taste the sweet
I face the pain
I rise and fall
Yet through it all
This much remains
I want one moment in time
When I’m more than I thought I could be
When all of [...]

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Name: La Chambre
Object: Painting
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Dimension: 72 × 90 cm
Date of creation: 1888
Method: oil on Canvas
Description: Van Gogh’s Room at Arles
Where to find it: Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

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some examples that i can see… mainly in politics (but not all)

Indira Gandhi - Jawaharlal Nehru
Benazir Bhutto - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo - Diosdado Macapagal
Megawati Sukarnoputri - Sukarno
Aung San Suu Kyi - Aung San
Laila Ali - Muhammad Ali
Sheikh Hasina - Mujibur Rahman
Irene Joliet-Curie - Pierre Curie

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Book Title: Einstein, Picasso - Space, Time and the Beauty that causes Havoc
Author: Arthur I. Miller
Year written/published: 2001
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Biography of Einstein and Picasso - the 2 geniuses who lived around the same time and created revolution in science and arts
Some extracts:
solitude…

Nor were the 2 men’s personal working styles dissimilar. Both came [...]

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Name: The Scream
Object: Painting
Artist: Edvard Munch
Dimension: 91 × 73.5 cm
Date of creation: 1893
Method: Oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard
Where to find it: National Gallery, Oslo

image source

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some links about city tours… and i’ll update it as and when i find some other links. Google “city sightseeing tours” to know many related links.
France:

Loire, Normandy, Brittany - acc-dispo
Mont Blanc - excursions

Britain

Londond - sightseeing

Netherlands
Amsterdam
Germany
Austria
Belgium

 Brussels - Open tours

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Book Title: Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!
Author: Richard P. Feynman
Year written/published: 1985
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Colletion of very short stories about Feynman’s adventures of being an inquisitive person.
My Comments: This book is so humorous that instead of being in the physics section of the library, it must be in the  fun section. Through these [...]

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Name: Eiffel Tower
Object: Observation tower for broadcasting
Artist: Gustave Eiffel
Dimension: 324m tall with antennae
Date of creation: 1889
Method: Iron tower
Where to find it: Champs be Mars beside Seine River, Paris, France
one of my fav pics of the Eiffel tower has to be its construction pictorial…

image source
 

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Book Title: S.U.M.O. Your Relationships - How to handle not strangle the people you live and work with
Author: Paul McGee
Year written/published: 2007
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Dealing with People
Contents page:
Part 1:

reality Rules
E+R=O
A Bit about the Beachball
Stress makes you stupid
Investment Pays
Give yourself the VIP Treatment
Beware of Light Bulbs

Part 2:

Arouse your interest - The Ditherer
Humility Helps - [...]

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Some really short clips from Brian Tracy…

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Name: Priest King
Object: Statue
Artist: from the Indus valley Civilisation period
Dimension: 18cm tall
Date of creation: Mature Harrapan Period (2600BC - 1700BC)
Method: statue made of fired steatite
Where to find it: National Museum, Karachi, Pakistan

image source

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Mughal Empire (1526 – 1857) rulers…

1526-1530 Babur
1530–1539 and after restoration 1555–1556 Humayun
1556–1605 Akbar
1605–1627 Jahangir
1628–1658 Shah Jahan
1659–1707  Aurangzeb
Later Emperors = 1707-1857

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Name: Water-Lily Pond
Object: Painting
Artist: Claude Monet
Dimension: 90 x 90 cm
Date of creation: 1897
Style: Impressionism
Method: oil on Canvas
Where to find it: The Art Museum Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey USA

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