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USA Guinness World Records: Longest Swing Set

USA Guinness World Records: Longest Swing Set

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA – May 24, 2016 – In the spirit of changing lives, the largest U.S. swing set manufacturer Backyard Discovery partnered with the largest youth mentoring network Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) to build the longest swing set; the swing set was was over 562 feet long, which is almost twice the size of a football field and sets …

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Dubai Guinness World Records: Largest painted wooden block mosaic

Dubai Guinness World Records: Largest painted wooden block mosaic

Dubai, UAE – May 17, 2016 – Employees from Majid Al Futtaim – the shopping mall, retail and leisure giant across the Middle East and North Africa – painted 930 wooden blocks in four hours – measuring 45.5 m2 (489.75 ft2), thus setting the new world record for the the largest painted wooden block mosaic. Photo: Employees from Majid Al …

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Sunil Dutt Biography

Sunil Dutt Biography

Sunil Dutt (Hindi: सुनील दत्त, June 6, 1928 – May 25, 2005), born as Balraj Dutt was an Indian Hindi movie actor, producer, director and politician. He was the cabinet minister for Youth Affairs and Sports in the Manmohan Singh government (2004-2005). His son, Sanjay Dutt, is currently also a Bollywood star. In 1984 he joined the Congress party and …

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As Boys Become Men – Mukul Kumar Book Review

As Boys Become Men - Mukul Kumar Book Review

Publisher: Rupa Publications India Pages: 232 Price: Rs. 250 For millions of young Indians, it is the ultimate test of their calibre. If after months and years of arduous and intensive preparations, disrupted lives and other sacrifices, they qualify in the civil service examinations, they may think they are now well set in life. But are they? And are their …

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भ्रम (Kannitverstan) Johann Peter Hebel Short German Story in Hindi

भ्रम (Kannitverstan) Johann Peter Hebel Short German Story in Hindi

Kannitverstan is a short story by the German author Johann Peter Hebel, which first appeared as a calendar story in 1808 in Rheinländischer Hausfreund (Rhenish family friend). एक जरमन यात्री घूमते हुए नीदरलैंड की राजधानी एमस्टर्डम पहुंचा वहां बहुत शानदार इमारत पर उस की नजर पड़ी। उस ने अपनी पूरी यात्रा में इस अधिक शानदार इमारत नहीं देखी थी। वह …

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Myth Breaker: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw & the Story of Indian Biotech – Seema Singh Book Review

Myth Breaker: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw & the Story of Indian Biotech - Seema Singh Book Review

Publisher: Collins Business Pages: 324 Price: Rs.599 Start-ups may have become a familiar term in India in the past decade, but this lady dared to delve into such a mission — a domain dominated by men even today — more than three decades ago. The fact that she will be different from her peers was also evident rather early. For …

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A Biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton – Karen Blumenthal Book Review

A Biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton - Karen Blumenthal Book Review

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 449 Price: Rs.499 In 1969, the Wellesley College for women, near Boston, agreed to have a student speaker at its graduation ceremony – and the very first one abandoned most of her prepared text for an impromptu, impassioned rebuttal of the chief guest’s (a Massachusetts senator) address, and to outline her generation’s divergent goals and vision of …

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Sigmund Freud – Biography

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital. Upon completing his habilitation in …

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