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• Tiwanaku

  06 April 2013 ( #South America, #Ingavi Province, #Qullasuyu, #La Paz Department, #Lake Titicaca, #Tiwanaku, #Inca Empire, #Bolivia )

  Tiwanaku Tiwanaku , ( Spanish : Tiahuanaco and Tiahuanacu ) is an important Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia , South America. Tiwanaku is recognized by Andean scholars as one of the most important precursors to the Inca Empire , flourishing...

• Catherine Ashton

  06 April 2013 ( #Baroness Ashton, #Lisbon Treaty, #House of Lords, #European Union, #Catherine Ashton, #Labour, #European Commission, #High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy )

  English: Baroness Ashton of Upholland, British politician (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, PC (born 20 March 1956) is a British Labour politician who in 2009 became the High Representative of the Union for Foreign...

• Dubai International Airport

  06 April 2013 ( #Antarctica, #Qantas, #Emirates, #Emirates SkyCargo, #Middle East, #Flydubai, #Dubai International Airport, #Dubai )

  This is a photo showing airplanes from Emirates Airline at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB) (Arabic: مطار دبي الدولي ) is an international airport serving Dubai. It is a major...

• Tokyo Skytree

  06 April 2013 ( #Tokyo Skytree, #Burj Khalifa, #Tokyo Tower, #Tobu Railway, #Japan, #Canton Tower, #Tokyo, #List of tallest buildings and structures in the world )

  Tokyo Skytree (東京スカイツリー , Tōkyō Sukaitsurī ? ) is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010 [2] and reached its full height of 634.0 metres (2,080 ft) in March 2011, making...

• The Empire State Building

  06 April 2013 ( #New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, #New York, #United States, #America's Favorite Architecture, #New York City Board of Estimate, #Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, #Empire State Building, #New York City )

  The Empire State Building. The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (381 meters), and with its antenna...

• Muhammad Yunus

  06 April 2013 ( #Nobel Peace Prize, #United States, #Glasgow Caledonian University, #Yunus, #Muhammad Yunus, #Grameen Bank, #Chittagong University, #Bangladesh )

  Muhammad Yunus in Houston Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a angladeshi anker, economist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. He previously was a professor of economics where he developed the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are...

• Lula Da Silva

  06 April 2013 ( #Bolsa Família, #Fome Zero, #Workers Party, #Lula, #São Paulo, #Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, #Brazil, #Dilma Rousseff )

  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Portuguese: [luˈiz iˈnasju ˈlulɐ dɐ ˈsiwvɐ] born 27 October 1945, known popularly as Lula, [2] is a Brazilian politician. He was a founding member of the Workers' Party (PT – Partido...

• Alexander The Great

  06 April 2013 ( #Adriatic Sea, #Philip II of Macedon, #Alexander the Great, #Philip, #Macedon, #Alexander, #Greece, #Macedonia )

  Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας, Aléxandros ho Mégas iii[›] from the Greek ἀλέξω alexo "to defend, help" + ἀνήρ aner "man"), was a king of Macedon, a state...

• Space Shuttle Challenger

  06 April 2013 ( #Orbiter Vehicle Designation, #Columbia, #Space Shuttle orbiter, #Space Shuttle Discovery, #Space Shuttle Endeavour, #DuPont, #Space Shuttle, #NASA )

  Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia having been the first. The shuttle was built by Rockwell International's Space Transportation Systems Division...

• Martial arts

  02 December 2013 ( #Sports, #United States, #Martial arts, #Schools and Instruction, #Donn F. Draeger, #Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, #Physical fitness, #Muay Thai )

  Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practices, which are practiced for a variety of reasons: self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, entertainment, as well as mental, physical, and spiritual development. Although...

• FAITH IN HUMANITY= RESTORED

  29 November 2013 ( #Health, #Delhi, #Rajesh, #India, #New Delhi, #Asia, #Government, #Embassies and Consulates )

  These two guys, Rajesh Kumar Sharma and Laxmi Chandra, have been running a free school under a metro bridge in New Delhi, India for the last 3 years. Rajesh and Laxmi have about 30 students - they are kids who live in the nearby slums and cannot afford...

• The Hubble Space Telescope

  24 November 2013 ( #Hubble, #Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, #Hubble Space Telescope, #Space Shuttle, #European Space Agency, #NASA, #Chandra X-ray Observatory, #James Webb Space Telescope )

  The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in operation. [7] A 2.4-meter (7.9 ft) aperture telescope in low Earth orbit, Hubble's four main instruments observe in the near ultraviolet,...

• Amazing Beauty of Venice

  21 November 2013 ( #Italy, #Terraferma, #Marghera, #World Heritage Site, #Venice, #Padua, #Veneto, #Venetian Lagoon )

  Venice is a city in northeastern Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges. [2] It is located in the marshy Venetian Lagoon which stretches along the shoreline, between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers....

• Why The Faisaliya Tower was not affected by the lightning strike?

  18 November 2013 ( #Sunday, #Earth Sciences, #Alarabiya, #Lightning, #Lightning rod, #Thunderstorm, #Riyadh, #Lightning strike )

  The Faisaliya Tower was not affected by the lightning strike that hit it during a severe thunderstorm on Saturday in Riyadh, the management said. The tower is equipped with lightning protection system that conducts electrical currents away from the tower...

• The Roman Empire

  20 October 2013 ( #Roman Empire, #Rome, #Julius Caesar, #Augustus of Prima Porta, #Roman Republic, #Pax Romana, #Roman Senate, #Augustus )

  The Roman Empire (Latin: Imperium Romanum ) was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean in Europe, Africa, and Asia. [6] The...

• Phan Thị Kim Phúc - Picture that change the course of Vietnam War

  19 October 2013 ( #Kim Phuc, #Vietnam, #Denise Chong, #Trang Bang District, #Pulitzer Prize, #Nick Ut, #Phan Thi Kim Phuc, #Vietnam War )

  Phan Thị Kim Phúc, O.Ont (born 1963) is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The iconic photo taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut shows...

• The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

  12 October 2013 ( #Salford Quays, #Television, #Television licence, #BBC Studios and Post Production, #British Government, #BBC World Service, #Channel Islands, #BBC )

  The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcasting statutory corporation. [2] Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man....

• The Nobel Prize

  12 October 2013 ( #Nobel Peace Prize, #Nobel Prize in Physics, #Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, #Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, #Nobel Prize in Chemistry, #Nobel Prize, #Alfred Nobel, #Stockholm )

  The Nobel Prize (Swedish pronunciation: [noˈbɛl] , Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Norwegian: Nobelprisen) is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of cultural...

• Harvard University

  10 September 2013 ( #Massachusetts, #United States, #American Civil War, #Drew Gilpin Faust, #Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, #Harvard University, #Harvard, #Boston )

  Massachusetts Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities...

• The University of Cambridge

  10 September 2013 ( #Cambridge University, #University of Oxford, #Oxford, #Oxbridge, #Pope John XXII, #England, #Homerton College Cambridge, #Cambridge )

  Trinity College graduands entering the Senate House during a University of Cambridge graduation ceremony. The University of Cambridge (informally known as "Cambridge University" or simply as "Cambridge") is a public research university located in Cambridge,...

• History of Wikipedia

  24 August 2013 ( #Larry Sanger, #comScore, #Rick Gates, #Project Xanadu, #Wikipedia, #Paul Otlet, #Richard Stallman, #Denis Diderot )

  The earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1993, [2] but the concept of an open source web-based online encyclopedia was proposed by Richard Stallman in December 2000. [3] Wikipedia was formally launched on 15 January...

• History of PayPal

  24 August 2013 ( #Peter Thiel, #PayPal, #United States, #Confinity, #Business, #Elon Musk, #Billpoint, #eBay )

  PayPal is a global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders. PayPal is...

• History of eBay International

  24 August 2013 ( #United States, #Meg Whitman, #Jeffrey Skoll, #Echo Bay Mines, #eBay, #Pierre Omidyar, #Omidyar, #StubHub )

  eBay Inc. is an American multinational internet consumer-to-consumer corporation, headquartered in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations...

• Hisorty of Amazon.com, Inc

  24 August 2013 ( #United States, #Amazon.com, #Wall Street, #Amazon Kindle, #Jeff Bezos, #Amazon, #Bezos, #Seattle )

  Amazon.com, Inc. is an American international multibillion dollar electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. [9] [10] [11] Amazon.com started as an online bookstore,...

• Bangladesh war ‘tribunal’

  29 July 2013 ( #Jamaat-e-Islami, #Dhaka, #Ghulam Azam, #Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, #European Union, #Bangladeshi, #Bangladesh, #Sheikh Hasina )

  Karwan Bazar, one of the most important business centres in Dhaka ACCORDING to media reports, Bangladesh’s special 1971 war investigation tribunal sentenced to life another Jamaat-i-Islami activist, Ghulam Azam. He is 90 years old and can’t walk. The...