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Pigeons fly near a flame from the Taj Hotel hotel in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen have stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India’s financial capital Wednesday night, killing at least 82 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said.
Source : AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade

Pigeons fly as firemen fight a blaze at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008.  Source : AP Photo/Gautam Singh

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This job is pretty hardcore

high voltage cable inspection .  Let’s hope that this guy is better attached

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A very unusual method of fishing, operated from the shore. They are fixed land installations, which are used for a very unique and unusual method of fishing. Operated from the shore, these nets are set up on bamboo and teak poles and held horizontally by huge mechanisms, which lower them into the sea. They look somewhat like hammocks and are counter-weighed by large stones tied to ropes.

The entire structure of the Chinese fishing nets is about 10 meters in height. Each fishing net spreads to about 20 meters over the water body and is operated by a team of some six fishermen. Each net has a limited operating depth. Due to this, an individual net cannot be repeatedly operated in tidal waters. The nets are operated by a very clever system of weights and pulleys. The net is lowered into the water by one or two men walking on the wooden planks, with the planks gliding down like a seesaw. The net is left in the water for a few minutes, then hauled up using a series of ropes with rocks attached to them. Each net requires 4-6 fishermen to pull it up.

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Name    : Nelson Mandela (Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela)
Born    : July 18, 1918
Country : born Tembu, the Republic of South Africa
Lives   : the Republic of South Africa

Nelson Mandela was born on the 18th of July, 1918 as Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. Nelson Mandela’s father (Hendry Mphakanyiswa Gadla) was the chief of a village next to the Mbashe River. When Mandela was seven years old, he attended a school, becoming the first member of his family to do so.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela  was the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully representative democratic elections, serving from 1994–1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress and its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was convicted for crimes that occurred while he was spearheading the struggle against apartheid. He spent 27 years in prison for this, with many of those years being spent on Robben Island.

In South Africa and internationally, Mandela became a symbol of freedom and equality for his opposition to apartheid, while the apartheid government and nations sympathetic to it condemned him and the ANC as communists and terrorists.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

If you have an objective in life, then you want to concentrate on that and not engage in infighting with your enemies. You want to create an atmosphere where you can move everybody towards the goal you have set for yourself - as well as the collective for which you work.

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Smashing through the country’s “colour line”, Barack Hussein Obama was elected as 44th president of the United States, a position that will vest unparalleled global power in the son of a Kenyan father and a white American mother.

Against all odds Barack Obama has done something that no one expected in their lifetime. So there is hope for those who have been struggling for years with some kind of problems. Those who were thinking that there’s no hope for them,be of good cheer.

Barack Obam is the first African American to be elected President of the United States, and was the first to be nominated for President by a major U.S. political party.  He was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Although reared among Muslims, Obama, Sr., became an atheist at some point.

Some of his famous quotes. 

• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
• If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
• I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

  
  Barack Obama with his mother

Barack with his wife michelle

Barack Obama, his wife Michelle Obama and two daughters, Malia and Sasha During an Election campaign

Barack Obama with a boy

U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama waves following his speech

President-elect Barack Obama kisses his wife Michelle Obama

More details : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

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