The Pataudi Palace

After being home to two generations of the Nawabs of Pataudi, cricketers Iftikhar Ali Khan and Mansur Ali Khan, the actress Sharmila Tagore entered the Pataudi Palace. Today, the Pataudi Palace is known as the home of two generations of Bollywood stars, including Sharmila and her children Soha and Saif Ali Khan. Pataudi Palace is a former palace of the Nawabs of Pataudi, in Haryana, India, which is now a heritage hotel of Neemrana Hotels. According to recent reports, it is being readied for the wedding celebration ofSaif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor and all the bookings are on hold for renovations. According to the official web site of the Pataudi Palace, "it was here, among others, where Mangal Pandey, Veer Zaara, Rang De Basanti, Gandhi My Father and now Eat, Pray, Love were filmed."

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Obama's Cadillac: 20 things you didn't know

Presidential Cadillac: 20 Things you (probably) didn’t know !! 1 - Power comes from a 6.5-litre diesel engine that's fitted with a supercharger to help haul this beast around. Yet despite this mammoth power plant, the top speed is only 60mph and it takes around 15 seconds to reach this. 2 - It is based on a GM truck chassis and weighs a staggering 6,350kg. To put that in context, the Rolls-Royce Phantom, one of the biggest cars on the road, weighs a paltry 2,550kg in comparison. This will be why the Obamobile only averages 8mpg. 3 - A lot of the weight comes from the Armour protection. The body is made up of steel, aluminum, titanium and ceramic. 4 - The glass is five-inches thick and only the windscreen opens, to allow the driver to talk to secret service running alongside or to pay a toll. It is also hermetically sealed to secure it from chemical attack. 5 - Should the worst happen, The Beast has its own oxygen supply 6 - The military-grade Armour means the doors are eight-inches thick and weigh as much as a Boeing 747's. 7 - The doors are so thick that Obama can't hear any outside noise, so speakers are built in to play the ambient sound of the crowd. 8 - The underside is reinforced with a Kevlar mat to protect Caddy One from bomb attacks. 9 - The fuel tank is leak proof and filled with special foam that prevents it from exploding, even in a direct hit. 10 - There are two holes in the front bumper that can emit tear gas and fire smoke grenades. 11 - There is also an infrared video system for the driver to drive through smoke and night vision cameras for driving in darkness without lights. 12 - Cadillac One normally flies two flags, the American flag and the Presidential Standard, which are lit up at night with LEDs. When Obama is on a state visit, the Presidential Standard is replaced by the flag of the country he is visiting. 13 - The Beast has a firefighting system located in the boot. 14 - Also in the boot is a bank of the president's blood that iscarried at all times and w! hen he goes out an ambulance always follows close behind. 15 - Obama gets a presidential limo built to this specification every four years and the old ones are handed down to vice presidents and visiting heads of state. 16 - The Obamobile can seat seven, with two seats up front, three rear-facing ones in the middle, and two at the very back, one for the president and the other for a guest. 17 - Inside, Obama isn't deprived of his creature comforts; a 10-disc CD player is among the features, as well as sophisticated electronic communications with direct phones to the White House and internal Internet. 18 - Defence systems include a pump-action shotgun in a compartment beside the driver. 19 - The tyres are reinforced with Kevlar and can run when flat. If the tyres are missing, the steel rims have been designed to allow the car to keep on driving at speed. 20 - Unlike previous presidential cars, Caddy One has no specific model name. but it is known everywhere as Narcissist One

What fun God must have had the day he designed these beauties.

1. Himalayan Mona



2. Formosan Magpie


3. Flamecrest









4. Golden Pheasant




5. Green Jay



6. Kingfisher






7. Lady Amherst's Pheasant



8. Bleeding Heart Pigeons


9. Nicobar Pigeon











10. Quetzal





11. Winson's Bird Of Paradise




12. No Idea What Bird This Is, But It's Totally Rad
13. Peacock



14. Su

OUR MPS AND AAM JANATA

Dear Friends,

Parliament Secretariat must be having email send it for circulation to all MPs

An Important Issue! Indian government approves 200% MPs’ salary hike , Still some MP's are unhappy.
Now , MP's take home salary is Rs 45 lakh per annum + other allowances.


TOTAL expense for a MP [having no qualification] per year : Rs.60,95,000
For 534 MPs, the expense for 1 years:

Rs. 325,47,30,000

3254730000 X 5 years =

Rs.1627,36, 50000 ( One Thousand six hundred crores plus..)


This is the present condition of our country:








1627 crores could make their lives livable!!

Think of the great democracy we have…

Do Mp's really need salary hike? Do they really wait for 30th of every month for salary credits to their bank accounts, like we do every month?

NOTE THIS IS WHAT OUR GOVT. OF INDIA is DOING TO COMMON CITIZENS OF MOTHERLAND !!

This is an appeal by Aziz Noorani.

What a sensible way to explain the hatred that such idiotic few do in this world!

Dear Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Jews,

You're living in the age of the Internet. Your religion will be
mocked, and the mockery will find its way to you. Get over it.
If you don't, what's happening this week will happen again and again.
A couple of idiots with a video camera and an Internet connection will
trigger riots across the globe. They'll bait you into killing one
another.
Stop it. Stop following their script.
Today, fury, violence, and bloodshed are consuming the Muslim world.
Why? Because a bank fraud artist in California offered people $75 a
day to come to his house and act out scenes that ostensibly had
nothing to do with Islam. Then he replaced the audio, putting words in
the actors' mouths, and stitched together the scenes to make an
absurdly bad movie ridiculing the Prophet Mohammed. He put out fliers
to promote the movie. Nobody -literally nobody-came to watch it.
He posted a 14-minute video excerpt of the movie on YouTube, but
hardly anyone noticed. Then, a week ago, an anti-Muslim activist in
Virginia reposted the video with an Arabic translation and sent the
link to activists and journalists in Egypt. An Egyptian TV show aired
part of the video. An Egyptian politician denounced it. Clerics
sounded the alarm. Through Facebook and Twitter, protesters were
mobilized to descend on the U.S. embassy in Cairo. The uprising
spread. The U.S. ambassador to Libya has been killed, and violence has
engulfed other countries.
When the protests broke out, the guy who made the movie claimed to be
an Israeli Jew funded by other Jews. That turned out be a lie. Now he
says he's a Coptic Christian, even though Coptic Christian leaders in
Egypt and the United States despise the movie and want nothing to do
with him. Another guy who helped make the movie claims to be a
Buddhist. The movie was made in the United States, yet Sudanese mobs
have attacked British and German embassies. Some Egyptians targeted
the Dutch embassy, mistakenly thinking the Netherlands was behind the
movie.. Everyone is looking for a group to blame and attack.
The men behind the movie said it would expose Islam as a violent
religion. Now they're pointing to the riots as proof. Muslims are
"pre-programmed" to rage and kill, says the movie's promoter. "Islam
is a cancer," says the director.
According to the distributor, "The violence that it caused in Egypt is
further evidence of how violent the religion and people are and it is
evidence that everything in the film is factual."
Congratulations, rioters. You followed the script perfectly. You did
the propagandists' work for them.
And the provocations won't end here. Laws and censors won't protect
you from them. Liberal democracies allow freedom of expression. Our
leaders and people condemn garbage like this video, but we don't
censor it. Even if we did, the diffusion of media technology makes
suppression impossible. The director of this movie was forbidden,
under his bank-fraud probation rules, from using computers or the
Internet without approval. That didn't stop him. Nor did it stop the
Arabic-language distributor from reposting the video and disseminating
it abroad.
Online propaganda is speech. But it's also part of the global rise of
lethal empowerment. It's easier than ever to kill people. In Muslim
countries, mass murderers favor bombs. In the United States, they
prefer guns. In Japan, they've tried sarin nerve gas. The Oklahoma
City bomber used fertilizer. The Sept. 11 hijackers used box cutters
and passenger planes. Then came the letters filled with anthrax.
Derision is that much harder to control. The spread of digital
technology and Internet bandwidth makes it possible to reach every
corner of the globe almost instantly with homemade video defaming any
faith tradition. It can become an incendiary weapon. But it has a
weakness: It depends on you. You're the detonator. If you don't
cooperate, the bomb doesn't explode.
This isn't just a Muslim problem, though that's been the pattern
lately. On YouTube, you can find videos insulting every religion on
the planet: Jews, Christians, Hindus, Catholics, Mormons, Buddhists,
and more. Some clips are ironic. Others are simply disgusting. Many
were posted to bait one group into fighting another. The baiters are
indiscriminate.. The promoter of the Mohammed movie founded a group
that also protests at Mormon temples.
The hatred and bloodshed will go on until you stop taking the bait.
Mockery of your prophet on a computer with an Internet address
somewhere in the world can no longer be your master. Nor can the
puppet clerics who tell you to respond with violence. Lay down your
stones and your anger. Go home and pray. God is too great to be
troubled by the insults of fools. Follow Him.
Aziz Noorani

Amazing Just Sit Back And Enjoy The World

This is just fantastic. Pick out any interesting location around the world and click on it. A page will come up with a photo. In the centre is a circle with a triangle. Click on the triangle. Now you get a full picture. If it's not a full screen, click on the 4 dots in the lower right corner. Now with full screen, place your cursor anywhere on the screen and slowly drag the picture in any direction you want. Left, right, up, down, slow or stop. Try the Egyptian Pyramids in Egypt or Moscow, Kremlin to get started. This is a one e-mail you will want to save. Enjoy. Panoramas and 3D Tours of the Most Beautiful Places Around the World! Click on the below City Names & Enjoy ! • Victoria Falls, Zambia • Venezuela, Surroundings of Angel Falls, Venezuela • Angel falls, Venezuela • Kalyan Minaret, Bukhara, Uzbekistan • Miami, USA • Las Vegas, USA • Lake Powell, USA • Manhattan, New York, USA • Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA • Millennium UN Plaza Hotel, New York, USA • Oahu, Hawaii, USA • Las Vegas, Nevada, USA • Millennium UN Plaza Hotel, New York, USA • Golden Gate Bridge, USA • Statue of Liberty, New York, USA • Manhattan, New York, USA • Hollywood, California, USA • San Juan and Colorado rivers, USA • Goosenecks, Utah, USA • Mono Lake, California, USA • Millennium UN Plaza Hotel, New York, USA • Chicago, Illinois, USA • Los Angeles, California, USA • Kiev, Ukraine • Ay-Petri, Ukraine • Dubai, UAE • Dubai, Islands, UAE • Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE • Bangkok, Thailand • Sankt-Moritz, Switzerland • Cape Good Hope, South Africa • Cape-Town, South Africa • Moscow, MSU, Russia • Moscow, Kremlin, Bolotnaya Square , Russia • Moscow, Russia • Moscow Kremlin, Russia • 55.748765;37.540841, Russia • Moscow City, Russia • Kremlin, Moscow, Russia • Moscow City, Russia • Trinity Lavra of Sait Sergius, Russia • Saint-Petersburg, Russia • New Jerusalem Monastery, Russia • Saint Petersburg, Russia • Novodevichy Convent. Moscow, Russia • Ramenki,Moscow, Russia • MKAD, Moscow, Russia • Moscow, Russia • Moscow, Russia • Krokus Expo Center, Moscow, Russia • Moscow Region, Russia • Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand • Fiordland, New Zealand • Nepal, Nepal • Maldives, Maldives • Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia • Grimsvotn, Iceland • Amsterdam, Holland • Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany • Egyptian Pyramids, Egypt • Hong Kong, China • The Iguassu Falls, Brazil • Twelve Apostles Marine National Park, Australia • Sydney, Australia • Buenos Aires, Argentina • Egyptian Pyramids, Egypt

slowing the speed of light

This is awesome. MIT developed camera, 1 trillion frames a second!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_9vd4HWlVA