Friday, July 23, 2010

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If you ever plan Agra travel India we strongly recommend you for Taj travel. Visit Taj Mahal, Agra-India, the epitome of love, to make your India tour complete. Just by clicking on the relevant links in the hotel review section, the tourist who would like to visit India can get detailed list of car rental companies and affordable accommodations like list of luxurious and budget hotels.
The beauty and elegance of the Taj cannot be expressed in words alone. Although the corpses of Shah Jahan and his better half lie silent, the Taj speaks loud and clears of their immortal love story.


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The grave of Mumtaz Mahal is located at the lower chamber, while the grave of Shah Jahan was added to it later. Four minarets rising to a height of 162.5 feet surround the 213 feet high central dome. The architectural intelligence lies in tilting the four towers of the Taj Mahal at a 2-degree angle. In the face of any natural calamity like earthquake the minarets surrounding the dome would not fall and destroy the dome but would fall away from it.

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Meanwhile, there are thousands of children in our State’s foster system in need of families, and the cost of adopting is free because the State pays for it (and in some cases even pays you to adopt them). Let alone all of the poor babies who never see the light of day due to abortion in our country (around 3,500 per day I have heard, a sickening number).





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International adoption is wonderful and a beautiful call from God. Domestic private adoption is, too. Foster adoption is also a call, one that–like the other two–can have significant challenges, but if such barriers are being put up by countries like China, I hope that many families will explore their other options and see that there are children living right there in the same city as they are, waiting for a family to love them.

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The Red Fort was the palace for Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's new capital, Shahjahanabad, the seventh Muslim city in the Delhi site. He moved his capital from Agra in a move designed to bring prestige to his reign, and to provide ample opportunity to apply his ambitious building schemes and interests.

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The Red Fort was originally referred to as \"Qila-i-Mubarak\" (the blessed fort), because it was the residence of the royal family. The layout of the Red Fort was organised to retain and integrate this site with the Salimgarh Fort. The fortress palace is an important focal point of the medieval city of Shahjahanabad. The planning and aesthetics of the Red Fort represent the zenith of Mughal creativity which prevailed during the reign of Emperor Shah Jahan. This Fort has had many developments added on after its construction by Emperor Shahjahan. The significant phases of development were under Aurangzeb and later Mughal rulers. Important physical changes were carried out in the overall settings of the s... more

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quli qutub shah







"This is first comprehensive and profusely illustrated book which brings under one cover almost all the existing antiquities of heritage of the multi-faceted Qutb Shahi culture of Golconda - Hyderabad. The Qutb Shahi Kingdom was one of the five off-shoots of the Bahmani Kingdom (1347-1518). Sultan - Quli Qutbul Mulk, an emigrant from Hamadan (Iran), who was appointed governor of the Bahmani province of "Telangana" in 1496, assumed autonomous rule, on the disintegration of the Bahmani Kingdom. But he never declared independence nor he assumed royal titles even when the parent state had disappeared.

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Roshan Mall is another of the destination malls of Jeddah. It is so big I still haven't seen all of it and I've been there several times. One of its anchor stores is HyperPanda, similar again to Super Target in the states. It also has a popular family entertainment and amusement area, and a big underground parking garage.

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Heraa International Mall is an enormous bright and shiny single level mall with about 240 stores and offering a food court and an extensive children's playground. Its numerous arched entrances are adorned with yellow smiley faces, which is eye-catching but I think it looks a little cheesey. But once inside, it is a shopper's haven with an abundance of stores to delight anyone, including Laura Ashley, Diesel and Mothercare.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

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"Even if by some miracle the Rose Art Museum is kept open, who in the future is going to donate works of art, to donate any money, is going to believe in the potential of the Rose. Even if we prevail and this precious museum remains open, who in the future is going to give their money and their beloved art to an institution that could always be on the brink of annihilation? Who would do that. Even if we prevail, this would be a pyrrhic victory."

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Scientific classification: Parrots make up the family Psittacidae. The buff-faced pygmy parrot is classified as Micropsitta pusio, the hyacinth macaw as Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus, the short-tailed palm cockatoo as Probosciger aterrimus. The monk parakeet is classified as Myiopsitta monachus, and the African gray parrot as Psittacus erithacus. Amazons make up the genus Amazona.

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Parrot, common name applied to any of about 340 species of brightly colored birds that make up the parrot family. Groups of parrots that have their own common names include the cockatoos, lories, lovebirds, macaws, and parakeets. In length, parrots range from the buff-faced pygmy parrot of New Guinea at 8.4 cm (3.3 in) to the hyacinth macaw of South America at 100 cm (39.4 in). A large part of the macaw's length is attributable to its long tail, and it is probably outweighed by the very large (60 cm/23.6 in) but short-tailed palm cockatoo of New Guinea.