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ATTITUDE
QUESTIONS :
1) You are going to delhi for an interview, but realized after one hour that you have boarded a wrong train. Then your game over ?? or you will ---------------------------------------
2) You are going on a bicycle in thick jungle . It is already dark and your destination is 10km away. Your cycle got punctured . Then you ------------
3) Due to financial difficulties your father can’t support you for further studies after you passes your 10th class examination . You will ----------------
4) Demand of a loan from your close relative is urgent whereas you need the same money for your son’shostel admission. You will ----------------
5) You enter the bathroom and notices a black cobra hanging from the ceiling of the roof . Then you will ----------------
6) While you are watching cinema and you suddenly noticed smoke coming out of cinema hall. The viewers started running causing stampede. Then you will ------------
7) At the time of interview ,you found that your certificates were missing , then you will -------------
8) You hear your neighbor screaming ‘thief –thief ‘ at mid night , then --------------
9) While travelling by train you go for toilet . On return to your seat you find your briefcase missing. Then you ---------------
10) You hit a car in a parking area but no one was around , what would you do ?
11) If someone gave you too much change (money) at a store , and you knew they did. What would you do ?
12)If you find a wallet with 5000 rupees in the college campus. What would you do ??
13)You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus :
i=An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
ii= An old friend who once saved your life
iii=The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there could be only one passenger in your car ? which of these would be your choice ?
14)You are having a pistol with only one bullet in your hand and two situations are happening .
i=An enemy is selling your country’s secret to a terrorist.
ii=An women is being harassed .
which one would you like to save first knowing that you could save only one of them.
LINCOLN
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, guided his country through the most devastating experience in its national history--the CIVIL WAR. He is considered by many historians to have been the greatest American president.
Abraham Lincoln Biography:
1860 - South Carolina Secedes
1861 - Confederacy Formed
1861 - Fort Sumpter Attacked
1862 - Battle at Antietam
1863 - Emancipation Proclamation
1863 - Gettysburg
1864 - Homestead Act
1865 - Wade Davis Bill
1865 - Lee Surrenders
1865 - Lincoln Assassinated
Abraham Lincoln - ( 1809 - 1865 )
| Term of Office: | 1861-1865 | |
| Admin. Policy: | To Preserve the Union | |
| Famous Quote: | "I . . . consider . . . the Union is unbroken. . . I shall take care . . . that laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all States." | |
| Political Affiliation: | Republican | |
| Achievement: | Preserved the Union |
"Honest Abe" Lincoln was born in Kentucky, USA along the frontier. Lincoln worked on a farm, and in a store in Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, served in the Illinois legislature, and was a circuit judge.In 1858 the Lincoln-Douglas debates gave him national fame, though he lost the election for Senator. Abraham Lincoln became President and said in firm words that the fate of the Union would rest in the hands of the South, and that he would obey his oath, "the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend" the Union. Lincoln detested war, but when it came, he accepted the inevitable as the only means of preserving the Union. Following the war, Lincoln viewed the ex-Confederate States as states who had tried to secede, but never left the Union. On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln is often considered the greatest President in U.S. history.
President Lincoln stated in his Inaugural Address that he would do his duty and preserve the Union. It was all too clear that the nation was moving towards civil war as he took his oath of office. To Lincoln, secession was illegal. When the Civil War began, Lincoln abandoned his personal life, and fought to defend the Union.
The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln is well known for the Civil War. Lincoln considered to breakaway states to be in rebellion, and not separated from the Union, which accounts for his lenient policies for readmitting states into the Union after the war was over.
1809 - Abraham Lincoln was born on a stormy morning on February 12, l809 in a log cabin on the Kentucky frontier. He was born on a bed of poles covered with corn husks. Lincoln was named after his grandfather. His parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. He had one sister, Sarah.
1834 - Lincoln, age 24, served in the state government of Illinois. He was elected to the legislature as a Whig, where he denounced slavery, saying it was "founded on both injustice and bad policy."
1836 - On September 9, Lincoln received his law license and is a leader of the Whig party. He first practices law in Springfield, Illinois. He needed a place to keep his important papers handy, so he tucked them into his tall black hat.
1842 - On November 4, Lincoln married a lively girl from Kentucky, Mary Todd. She was born in Lexington, Kentucky on December 13, l8l8 to a prominent family. She and Lincoln became good friends. During their courtship, their relationship waxed and waned, but in the fall of 1842 they decided to get married.
1860 - Lincoln is elected the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote, with the South voting almost solidly against him. This was a difficult time to be president, since many Southern states did not agree with Lincoln on slavery, and declared they were not a part of the United States.
1761 - The South leaves the Union and the Civil war begins on April 12, with shots fired on Fort Sumpter. The U.S. struggled in a Civil War, but Lincoln was the glue that held our nation together. Fort Sumpter eventually was surrendered to South Carolina.
1863 - On January 1, President Lincoln issues the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates and emphasizes the enlisting of black soldiers in the Union Army. The war to preserve the Union now becomes a revolutionary struggle for the abolition of slavery.
1864 - Lincoln is reelected President. He won the election defeating Democrat George B. McClellan. He carried 22 of the 25 participating states. He received 55 percent of the popular votes and 2l2 of 233 electoral votes. Lincoln told supporters, "I earnestly believe that the consequences of this day's work will be to the lasting advantage, if not the very salvation, of the country."
1865 - Civil War ends. General Lee's troops were surrounded and on April 7, Grant called upon Lee to surrender. The two commanders met on April 9, and agreed on the terms of surrender.
1865 - On April 13, Abraham Lincoln attended a play at Ford's Theatre and was shot. John Wilkes Booth, who hoped the throw the country into political chaos, had shot the President. Lincoln died on the morning of April 15. American's grieved at the loss of their President. Lincoln is buried in Springfield, Illinois. Americans will long remember President Abraham Lincoln, whose friends and enemies praised his selflessness and kindly spirit after his death.
Chronology of Abraham Lincoln
1860 - Lincoln Elected1860 - South Carolina Secedes
1861 - Confederacy Formed
1861 - Fort Sumpter Attacked
1862 - Battle at Antietam
1863 - Emancipation Proclamation
1863 - Gettysburg
1864 - Homestead Act
1865 - Wade Davis Bill
1865 - Lee Surrenders
1865 - Lincoln Assassinated
QUOTES:
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
Sir my concern is not whether God is on our side. My great concern is to be on God's side.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back
Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the lord makes so many of them.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally
You're about as happy as you make up your mind to be
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great god who made him
I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what light I have
SHAH JAHAN
The Reign of Shah Jahan, 1628-1658
Prince Khurram was 35 years old when he ascended the throne as Shah Jahan (King of the World). Succeeding Jahangir in 1627, Shah Jahan enjoyed the support of experienced administrators and advisors -- like his father-in-law Asaf Khan -- who were holdovers from the previous reign.
Shah Jahan, notes Hambly, revived Akbar's policy of pressing southward against the independent Muslim Sultanate of the Deccan. But almost all of his expansion expeditions were unsuccessful. The expenditures resulting from Shah Jahan's failed attempts at frontier expansion, as well as his insatiable appetite for new and grand architecture, were appreciable factors in the empire's eventual financial crisis.
During the early years of his reign, Shah Jahan preferred Agra to Delhi as a place of residence. This preference is reflected in his selection of Agra as the site for a number of building ventures including the world's most famous and beautiful mausoleum, Taj Mahal. Many historians have -- perhaps unfairly -- accused Shah Jahan of building the glorious tomb as a tribute to himself and his rule rather than as a tribute to his wife.
Shah Jahan was an exceedingly able man -- although less able than his father Akbar and less conscientious than his son Aurangzeb. Still, Shah Jahan is in the first rank of Indian rulers. Endowed with all the qualities required of a medieval Muslim ruler, he was a brave and competent commander; a generous master who treated his servants with respect, dignity and affability; and a far-sighted leader with a strict sense of justice.
Shah Jahan was an active patron of palaces and mosques. Blair and Bloom write that upon Shah Jahan's accession, the fort at Agra was renovated to include three major courts: Halls of Public and Private Audience (Diwan-i Khass wa 'Am); an area for treasures and private audience (Machhi Bhavan); and a residential court known as the Garden of Grapes (Anguri Bagh). The first court, note Bloom and Blair, is close to the entrance, while the other two courts, which were used by the emperor and his entourage, overlook the river.
Inside the fort, write Blair and Bloom, is a congregational mosque known today as the Moti (Pearl) Mosque because of the translucent white marble used on the interior. The mosque, continue Blair and Bloom, comprises a rectangular prayer hall, about 53 by 21 yards, divided by cruciform piers into three aisles of seven bays supported on cusped arches and surmounted by three bulbous domes. The additive system of vaulted bays used in the Moti Mosque at Agra is the type of plan favored for smaller mosques constructed under imperial patronage.
According to Blair and Bloom, the single-aisled plan that had been used for Shir Shah's mosque in Delhi was preferred for large, urban congregational mosques which have immense courtyards with narrow prayer halls fronted by pishtaq and surmounted by three or five domes. The mosque of Vazir Khan at Lahore, constructed by the court physician Hakim Ali of Chiniot in 1635, is but one example of this group. The congregational mosque at Agra, continue Blair and Bloom, was completed in 1648 under the patronage of the emperor's daughter Jahanara. Constructed of red sandstone, the mosque used white marble sparingly for calligraphic bands.
In 1638, Shah Jahan moved his capital from Agra to a city in Delhi. Known as Shahjahanabad, the new capital city was laid out under the emperor's auspices from 1639-1648. According to Blair and Bloom, the massive project was designed by Ahmed Lahwari, the chief architect of the Taj Mahal, and by the architect Hamid. Ghayrat Khan and Makramat Khan, who also worked on the Taj Mahal, supervised the construction. The walled city, note Bloom and Blair, included broad avenues with water channels, souqs (markets), mosques, gardens, houses of the nobility, and the fortified palace known as the Red Fort or Lal Qala. Twice the size of the fort at Agra, the Red Fort was named for the high, red sandstone wall that surrounded the white marble palaces.
From Shah Jahan to the end of the Mughal line the famous Red Fort was heart of the empire and the principal residence of the emperors. Hambly writes that in the 17th century, at the height of the Mughals' power, the Red Fort constituted not only the esidence of the emperor and his court but also housed the central dministrative machinery of the empire, a military garrison, an arsenal, the imperial treasury, factories (karkhaneh) for the manufacture of luxury commodities, and much more.
Shah Jahan, like his father Jahangir, was a notable patron of gardens, write Blair and Bloom. Jahangir had developed Kashmir as a summer residence for the court where he constructed a garden around the natural spring at Vernag south of Srinagar. Shah Jahan received an order from his father to dam the stream around Shalimar on Lake Dal at Srinagar. This garden, known as Farah Bakhsh (Joy Giving), became the lower garden of Shah Jahan's famed Shalimar Garden. In 1634, Shah Jahan, note Blair and Bloom, added another quadri-partite garden named Fazd Bakhsh (Bounty Giving) to the northeast. Water was supplied by a canal linking the Ravi River to the city. The canal was dug by Ali Mardan Khan, an Iranian nobleman and engineer who had defected to the Mughal court in 1638.
Lahore is also another site of the greatest of the Mughal water gardens known as Shalimar (Abode of Bliss), Brend (1991) notes. The garden was constructed in 1642 . Water flows under the bluster-legged throne and into the tank, whose edge is treated with a lotus ornament. The patform in the center of the tank, called a mahtabi or place for viewing moonlight, might be used for musicians. The gangways from it lead to pavilions on graceful sandstone columuns.
According to Blair and Bloom, these gardens contained more than a hundred species of plants, including evergreens, screwpines and other trees, roses, violets, sunflowers, cockscombs, and several varieties of jasmines. The gardens were not only enchanting places of repose but also yielded a substantial revenue in roses and musk mallow. In the eyes of contemporary French travelers these gardens were the equal of Versailles.
During Shah Jahan's reign, the Mughals penetrated deeper into the Deccan and the successful campaign in 1636 forced the state ruled by Adil Shah to acknowledge Mughal dominance. Shah Jahan returned north to concentrate on his new capital at Shahjahanabad, while his son, the young prince Aurangzeb, was appointed viceroy and commander-in-chief of Mughal forces in the Deccan.
During the following two decades, note Blair and Bloom, the Adil Shahis at Bijabur enjoyed peace, and the dynasty's prosperity in the mid-17th century is exemplified by the tomb built for Mohammed Adil Shah. The tomb, known as the Gol Gumbaz, is famous for its formal simplicity, write Blair and Bloom. The tomb has a gigantic hemispherical dome (with an exterior diameter of 46 yards) and rests on an almost cubical mass with a staged octagonal turret at each corner. The dome is supported internally by arches set in intersecting squares. The floor area covered 1,725 square yards, exceeding that of the Pantheon in Rome. At the time of its construction, the tomb was the largest space in the world covered by a single dome, continue Blair and Bloom.
From an early age, Shah Jahan's four sons, Dara Shukoh, Shah Shuja, Aurangzeb, and Murad Bakhsh, grew up in an atmosphere of bitter rivalry, writes Hambly, even though they were all children of the same mother, Mumtaz Mahal. In 1657, Shah Jahan became seriously ill. The expectation of an early death provoked the four sons into making a desperate bid for the throne. Only two candidates, writes Hambly, stood much chance of success -- Dara Shukoh, who was 42 years old, and Aurangzeb, who was 39.
Dara Shukoh, Shah Jahan's favorite and his heir, was a man of broad intellectual interests, writes Hambly. He was a Sufi and a religious eclectic who had translated the Upanishads into Persian.
Aurangzeb, notes Hambly, was well educated, knowledgeable in the traditional spectrum of Islamic studies, and strict in his religious orthodoxy. Aurangzeb had an acute sense of political realism and a fierce appetite for power. Although Aurangzeb's personality was considered less attractive than that of Dara Shukoh, writes Hambly, Aurangzeb was the superior in both military talent and administrative skills.
Aurangzeb easily outclassed his brothers in the bid for power. In the summer of 1658, Aurangzeb held a coronation durbar, or reception, in the Shalimar-Bagh outside Delhi on the Karnal road. This probably was done in order to strengthen the morale of his supporters. It was not until the summer of 1659 that a second and more glorious ceremony was performed in the Red Fort at which time Aurangzeb became the new emperor and assumed the title of Alamgir (World Conqueror).
During his 30-year reign, Shah Jahan had never expected that his last days would be so utterly tragic. With his old age and his poor health, Shah Jahan could only helplessly watch the serious outbreak of hostility among his sons. Shah Jahan was a mere spectator at the savage contest. The emergence of Aurangzeb as the undisputed victor led to the father's imprisonment in the Agra fort.
Tended by Jahanara, his eldest daughter, Shah Jahan was confined to the fort for eight years. According to legend, writes Hambly, when Shah Jahan was on his death-bed, he kept his eyes fixed on the Taj Mahal which was clearly visible from his place of confinement. After his death, Shah Jahan was buried there beside his dead queen, Mumtaz Mahal
My GOAL is No where BEHIND Me Till NOW
I am 21years old...Just done my Graduation (B.Tech)..Till now in my life I couldn't make a goal from the time of my Birth..
Now at this stage I understood how life would be boring without setting any goals...Now i am in confusion about what to do next...Now i am not able to decide what to do next..I was not used make small goals and try to reach them ever...If was used to that I would have decided by this time what to do next and planned my career properly. So I would like to advice you people to keep setting new GOALS every time and try to reach them regularly...So that you would not become LAZY and CONFUSED like me in IMPORTANT situations of life..Life would be very Interesting on fighting..This fighting spirit would develop in one only when one FIGHTS for his own set GOALS..so please
For yourself not for anyone else...
Thank YOU........................................BYK999(me)...
Now at this stage I understood how life would be boring without setting any goals...Now i am in confusion about what to do next...Now i am not able to decide what to do next..I was not used make small goals and try to reach them ever...If was used to that I would have decided by this time what to do next and planned my career properly. So I would like to advice you people to keep setting new GOALS every time and try to reach them regularly...So that you would not become LAZY and CONFUSED like me in IMPORTANT situations of life..Life would be very Interesting on fighting..This fighting spirit would develop in one only when one FIGHTS for his own set GOALS..so please
For yourself not for anyone else...
Thank YOU........................................BYK999(me)...
Rajesh Khanna: The superstar
Mumbai: As thousands thronged the streets of Mumbai, India’s first superstar Rajesh Khanna made his final journey from his cherished home ‘Aashirwad’ in Carter Road in Mumbai towards Paramhans crematorium in Vile Parle...
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