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Charles Dickens

2011-12-13T02:08:00.003+05:30

Charles Dickens

Full Name : Charles John Huffam Dickens

Period : 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870

Occupation : Writer

Nationality : British

He was an English novelist

He was considered the
greatest of theVictorian
period.

You Can Read It : A Christmas Carol

Novels

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837)
The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 25 April 1840, to 6 February 1841)
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 13 February 1841, to 27 November 1841)
The Christmas books:
- A Christmas Carol (1843)
- The Chimes (1844)
- The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
- The Battle of Life (1846)
- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844)

Dombey and Son (Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848)

David Copperfield (Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850)

Bleak House (Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853)

Hard Times: For These Times (Weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854)

Little Dorrit (Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857)

A Tale of Two Cities (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859)

Great Expectations (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861)

Our Mutual Friend (Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870. Only six of twelve planned numbers completed)

Short story collections

Sketches by Boz (1836)
The Mudfog Papers (1837) in Bentley's Miscellany magazine
Reprinted Pieces (1861)
The Uncommercial Traveller (1860–1869)

Christmas numbers of Household Words magazine:

What Christmas Is, as We Grow Older (1851)
A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (1852)
Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (1853)
The Seven Poor Travellers (1854)
The Holly-Tree Inn (1855)
The Wreck of the "Golden Mary" (1856)
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857)
A House to Let (1858)

Guru Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore

Date Of Birth : 7 May 1861

Date of Die : 7 August 1941

Called As : Gurudev

He was a

Bengali polymath
Author of Gitanjali
First non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature.

In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial

His "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Poetry

Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light, heart-sweetening light!

Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the centre of my life; the light strikes, my darling, the chords of my love; the sky opens, the wind runs wild, laughter passes over the earth.

The butterflies spread their sails on the sea of light. Lilies and jasmines surge up on the crest of the waves of light.

The light is shattered into gold on every cloud, my darling, and it scatters gems in profusion.

Mirth spreads from leaf to leaf, my darling, and gladness without measure. The heaven's river has drowned its banks and the flood of joy is abroad.

एक-एक कर अपने
खोलो तार पुराने, खोलो तार पुराने
साधो यह सितार, बॉंधकर नए तार।

खत्‍म हो गया दिन का मेला
सभा जुड़ेगी संध्‍या बेला
अंतिम सुर जो छेड़ेगा, उसके
आने की यह आ गई बेला--
साधो यह सितार, बॉंधकर नए तार।

द्वार खोल दो अपने हे
अंधेरे आकाश के ऊपर से
सात लोकों की नीरवता
आए तुम्‍हारे घर में।

इतने दिनों तक गाया जो गान
आज हो जाए उसका अवसान
यह साज है तुम्‍हारा साज
इस बात को ही दो बिसार
साधो यह सितार, बॉंधकर नए तार।

Some more poetry in hindi

http://www.hindigitanjali.blogspot.com/

Premchand

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Munshi Premchand

Date Of Birth : July 31, 1880 – October 8, 1936

He was a famous writer of modern Hindi-Urdu literature.
He is generally recognized in India as the foremost Hindi-Urdu writer of the early twentieth century.
A novel writer,
story writer and a dramatist.
He is known as "Upanyas Samrat" ("Emperor of Novels") among the Hindi writers.

Munsi Premchand 's Story

1) Do Bailo ki katha

2) Devi

3) Mamta

4) Maa (Audio)

5) Edgaah

6) Puss Ki Raat (Audio)

Linus Torvalds

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Name : Linus Benedict Torvalds

Linus Torvalds


Born	December 28, 1969 (age 41) Helsinki, Finland
Residence	Portland, Oregon
Nationality	Finnish American
Ethnicity	Swedish-speaking Finn
Occupation	Software engineer
Employer	Linux Foundation
Known for	Linux kernel, Git
Spouse	Tove Torvalds née Monni
Children	3
Parents	Nils Torvalds (father) Anna Torvalds (mother)^[4]
Relatives	Ole Torvalds (grandfather)

He is :

Software engineer and hacker

Chief architect of the Linux kernel

He also created the revision control system Git.

Do you know

Linus wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds' directory linux.

PS, I Love You

2011-05-30T01:14:00.000+05:30

Cecelia Ahern

This is one of the most romantic movie I have ever seen.Then seeing this movie I thought who is the writer of this
romantic movie,and googled it and found Cecelia Ahern.

Book : PS, I Love You

Writer : Cecelia Ahern (Irish writer)
Date of birth : September 30, 1981 in Dublin, Ireland

P.S. I Love You is a 2007 American drama film directed by Richard LaGravenese .
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

Cast

Hilary Swank as Holly Kennedy
Gerard Butler as Gerry Kennedy
Lisa Kudrow as Denise Hennessey
Gina Gershon as Sharon McCarthy
James Marsters as John McCarthy
Kathy Bates as Patricia Reilly
Harry Connick Jr. as Daniel Connelly
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as William Gallagher
Nellie McKay as Ciara Reilly

Download

Here you can download the e-book of this book.

For downloading please click on this image.

Sachin Tendulkar

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Name : Sachin Tendulkar
Full name : Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Nick name :The Master Blaster, The Little Champion, The Bombay Bomber
Height : 5′4”

Sachin Tendulkar

Born : 24-04-1973
Birth place: Bombay, India
Test Debut: Pakistan at Karachi, 1st Test, 1989/90
ODI Debut: Pakistan at Gujranwala, 2nd ODI, 1989/90
1st Class Debut: 1988
Major Teams: Mumbai, Yorkshire, India
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break, Leg Break, Right Arm Medium, Leg Break Googly
Marital Status: Married

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Runs scored:

Most runs in an ODI Innings: Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for maximum number of runs scored in one ODI innings. He is the only batsman to score 200 runs (147ball 25x4 3x6) in an ODI against South Africa.

Most runs: 17,598 Runs at the rate of 45.12 runs for every time he has gotten out (as of 18 October 2010). He is the leading run scorer in the ODI format of the game and the only player ever to cross the 14,000-15,000-16,000 and 17,000 run marks.

First player to reach 10,000-11,000-12,000-13,000-14,000-15,000, 16,000 and 17,000 ODI runs.

Centuries and Fifties record:

Most centuries: 46
- Only cricketer to ever score a double hundred in the ODI format - against South Africa at Gwalior, India.
- Most centuries against an opponent - 9 vs. Australia.
- Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Pakistan.
- Most centuries in Final Matches 6 & India Win All Matches
- Most centuries against One Team - Australia 20 (11 test+9 ODI)
Most Fifties: 93.
- Highest number of 50+ scores in ODIs - 139 (46 Centuries and 93 Fifties).
- Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs along with Ricky Ponting
- Most Fifties in World Cup Matches(13)

ODI awards:

Most Man of the Match Awards: 61 Man of the Match Awards

Most Man of the Series Awards: 15 Man of the Series Awards

Calendar Year record:

Most ODI runs in a calendar year: 1,894 ODI runs in 1998.

Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	177	290	32	14692	248*	56.94			51	59		64	106
ODIs	444	433	41	17629	200*	44.97	20456	86.18	46	93	1929	185	134
T20Is	1	1	0	10	10	10.00	12	83.33	0	0	2	0	1
First-class	280	442	48	23585	248*	59.86			78	105			174
List A	531	518	55	21181	200*	45.74			57	111			169
Twenty20	44	44	5	1516	89*	38.87	1171	129.46	0	11	201	21	19

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	177	135	4096	2388	45	3/10	3/14	53.06	3.49	91.0	0	0
ODIs	444	267	8020	6817	154	5/32	5/32	44.26	5.10	52.0	4	2
T20Is	1	1	15	12	1	1/12	1/12	12.00	4.80	15.0	0	0
First-class	280		7461	4280	70	3/10		61.14	3.44	106.5		0
List A	531		10196	8445	201	5/32	5/32	42.01	4.96	50.7	4	2
Twenty20	44	8	93	123	2	1/12	1/12	61.50	7.93	46.5	0	0

Some more Record By Sachin

Sachin has scored 1796 runs with average rate of 57.93 in 36 matches.
This also includes 4 centuries and 13 half centuries
Sachin is the only man who can achieve 2000 runs in world cup
Master Blaster SachinTendulkar name has been selected for the official Brand Ambessdor of World Cup
Highest Run Getter in a Single Calendar Year = 1894.
He is the only player having 150 ODI Wickets and more than 15000 runs.
Tendulkar is the first batsman to score over 50 & then 75 centuries in International Cricket.
In 2002, Wisden rated Sachin as the 2nd Greatest Test Batsman after Sir Donald Bradman of Australia.
In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 player in all time Greatest ODI Players List.
Sachin is the only player to be in ICC Top 10 ranking for 10 years.
Tendulkar is the only Indian Cricketer to be facilitated by all the 3 Sport Awards i.e. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government.
In 1992, Sachin at 19 became the first overseas player capped Yorkshire County Cricket, England.
He is the highest earner among all cricketers of the world.

Tendulkar' IPL Record :

Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test pl during the course of his knock of 89 not out in the game against Rajasthan at Jaipur on 11.04.10. At the end of the game his aggregate stood at 512.
He became the sixth batsman to aggregate 500 plus runs in a single edition of IPL
SR Tendulkar became the second batsman after JH Kallis to aggregate 500 plus runs in the ongoing edtion of IPL 2010
SR Tendulkar’s 512 runs have come from 11 matches, 11 innings of which two were not outs.
Five Plays: Kamala; Silence! The Court Is in Session; Sakharam Binder; The Vultures; Encounter in Umbugland (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Orkut Büyükkökten

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A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident....

but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy

grew up n became IT technical architect in his late 20?s, achievement in itself!!.

He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a

software where he could search for his gf through the web..

Things went as planned... And he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!

It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a word with this guy n took over this application, This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year, which we today know as ORKUT .
and, The guy's name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN . Yes its named after him only. .

ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 to

monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps!!!

Some other Cool Facts about this guy:

* He gets $12 from Google when every person registers to this website.

* He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.

* He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if

anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.

* He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.

* He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.

* He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.

* He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.

* He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.

* He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.

* He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.

* He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time

NEWS ABOUT Orkut Buyukkokten
Orkut Buyukkokten, creator of Orkut is married to his boyfriend Derek Holbrook recently. It was expected as the California Supreme Court has made gay marriages legal recently. The ceremony was witnessed by Marissa Mayer, the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google.

Marilyn Monroe

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Name : Marilyn Monroe ( June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)
Born : Los Angeles County Hospital

Birth Date : June 1, 1926
Birth Name : Norma Jeane Mortenson
Parents Name : Gladys Pearl Baker , Née Monroe

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Career

Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early film appearances were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) were well received.
Marilyn Monroe's career as an actress spanned 16 years. She made 29 films, 24 in the first 8 years of her career.

Movies

Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!, Fox, April 1948, with June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan, Ann Revere, Natalie Wood
Dangerous Years, Fox, December 1947 (filmed after Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay! but released first), with William Halop, Ann Todd, Darryl Hickman, Jerome Cowan
Ladies of the Chorus, Columbia, October 1948, with Adele Jergens, Rand Brooks, Nana Bryant
Love Happy, United Artists, April 1950, with Marx brothers, Ilona Massey, Eric Blore, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr
A Ticket to Tomahawk, Fox, May 1950, with Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Marion Marshall
The Asphalt Jungle, MGM, May 1950, with Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore
All About Eve, Fox, October 1950, with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Gregory Ratoff

Bus Stop, Fox, August 1956, with Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Eileen Heckart, Betty Field, Hope Lange

The Prince and the Showgirl, Warner Bros., June 1957, with Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Jeremy Spenser, Richard Wattis, Esmond Knight, Maxine Audley

Some Like It Hot, United Artist, March 1959, with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee

Let's Make Love, Fox, September 1960, with Yves Montand, Wilfrid Hyde White, Tony Randell, Frankie Vaughan, Madge Kennedy

The Misfits, United Artists/Seven Arts, Febuary 1961, with Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter, Kevin McCarthy, Estelle Winwood, Ralph Roberts

Something's Got to Give (Incompleted), with Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse, Phil Silver, Wally Cox. Production was shut down on June 12, 1962. Marilyn Monroe died on August 4, 1962. The film was rewritten and recasted with Doris Day and James Garner as "Move Over Darling"