Book Title: The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Year written/published: 2008
Book Source: Google Books
Summary: Life stories… head fakes from Randy Pausch
My Comments: I loved Randy’s funky funny wise words. He’s an inspiration… 
Some extracts:
For his kids…
These lectures are routinely videotaped. I knew what I was doing that day. Under the ruse of giving an academic lecture, I was [...]

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Read this story a few times here and there…
T. J. Watson, one of IBM’s influential pioneer leaders had this talk with his employee (a highly efficient one) in 1915.
The employee probably did a big blunder that cost the company thousands of dollars. So when he came to meet Mr. Watson, he was naturally expecting to [...]

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Randy Pausch’s 2 amazing lectures…
Time Management

Last Lecture: Achieving your Childhood Dreams

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I’m in love with this little podast from the QDT network - Grammar Girl by Mignon Fogarty. SO who’s she in real life?

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I have been wanting to find such a list for a long time. A lot of Christian names are very similar with Muslim/Arab names and they are still used in the world till today! I found a really great list of examples…

Aaron / Harun
Abel / Habil
Abraham / Ibrahim
Adam (pronounced eh-duhm) / Adam (pronounced ah-dumb)
Adel / [...]

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Name: Mount Rushmore
Object: Monumental granite sculture
Artist:  Gutzon Borglum
Dimension: 18m high sculture
Date of creation: 3 March 1925
About: it has the sculture head of 4 Presidents of United States depicting the first 150 years of history.

George Washington (1732–1799)
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

Where to find it: Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, United States
 

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Bourbon Family has an important monarchy and ruling history in Europe. According to the wiki:
The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty.  By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples & Sicily, and Parma. Spain and Luxembourg currently have Bourbon [...]

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the mythological twins, Romulus and Remus are considered as the founding fathers of Rome, with Romulus as the first king during 700 BC period. Like any mythology, their story is intriguing.

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so the first prime minister of Britian was in 1740, Sir Robert Walpole! I found a long list of the Prime Ministers since then… the 20th century list includes…

Arthur Balfour
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
H. H. Asquith
David Lloyd George
Andrew Bonar Law
Stanley Baldwin
Ramsay MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Clement Attlee
Sir Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Alec Douglas-Home
Edward Heath
Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Anthony Blair
Gordon Brown

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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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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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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: 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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Found this list while reading a book…
1. Bellini
2. Bernini
3. Blake, William
4. Bosch
5. Botticelli
6. Braque
7. Brueghel
8. Brunelleschi
9. Cellini
10. Cezanne
11. Chagall
12. Cimabue
13. Claudel
14. Constable
15. Courbet
16. Cranach
17. da Vinci
18. Dali
19. Daumier
20. Durer
21. El Greco
22. Fabriano
23. Fra Angelico
24. Fragonard
25. Gainsborough
26. Gaugin
27. Gericault
28. Ghiberti
29. Giancometti
30. Giorgione
31. Giotto
32. Goya
33. Guardi
34. Hals
35. Hogarth
36. Ingres
37. Kandinsky
38. Kirchner
39. Klee
40. Manet
41. Mantegna
42. Matisse
43. Michelangelo
44. Millet
45. Miro
46. Mondrian
47. Monet
48. Murillo
49. Newman
50. Parmigianino
51. Picasso
52. Pissarro
53. Pollock
54. Renoir
55. Reynolds, Sir Joshua
56. Titan
57. Toulouse-Lautrec
58. Van Dyck
59. Van Gogh

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Loved this pic that one of my friends put us… view large. SO how many people can you indentify??

and ok this is my list… some might be ambiguous actually… but let’s have some fun anyway

Pele
Stalin
Bill Clinton
Audrey Hepburn
Hitler
Saddam Hussein
Vladimir Putin
Einstein
Elizabeth II
Sun Yat Sen
Margaret Thatcher
Bruce Lee
Winston Churchill
Shakespeare
Prince Charles
Yao Ming
Rabindranath Tagore
Picasso
Gandhi
Moses
George Bush
Arafat
Marylin Monroe
Osama
Mother Theresa
Gengis [...]

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Book Title: Discovery of India
Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
Year written/published: 1933
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary:Father of Indira Gandhi and Grand Father of Rajiv Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India in 1947. He wrote this book while in prison. Discovery of India talks about the history and transition of India to what it is today… [...]

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A young boy.
At the age of 2 or 3, he was seperated from his mom becasue she got captured by the Gestapo and got sent to the Nazi Concentration camp. And so for the next few years he spent his life being hungry and stealing and suffering from malnutrition.
But what became of him today? He’s [...]

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The list is out:

Physics: Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”
Chemistry: Gerhard Ertl “for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces”
Physiology or Medicine: Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies “for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic [...]

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