| Popularly known by their names of color as much as their historical designations — the ancient Blue City known as Jodhpur, neighboring Jaipur known as the Pink City, its former capital the Amber City, and Morocco’s Red City of Marrakech — are as much astonishingly beautiful as they are remarkably unusual. Jodhpur Jodhpur — known as the Blue City for the color of its buildings — is the second largest city in Rajasthan, the largest state of the Republic of India, standing at the edge of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert (Thar Desert), which has an edge paralleling
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| A girl born with two faces rests in the village of Saini near New Delhi in this March 15, 2008 file photo. The family of the baby has refused special medical treatment for the infant, saying she is the incarnation of a Hindu goddess. The month-old girl suffers from what appears to be craniofacial duplication, an extremely rare congenital disorder in which part of the face is duplicated on the head. Media reports said she ate with both mouths and blinked all four eyes. The anomaly gave the newborn god-like status in the village, with hundreds of people flocking to the family's dilapidated brick
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| There is a cool ritual in India. Infants are thrown 50 feet on a mattress. Devotees believe it to be good for the baby. Personally I don't mind because there has been no case of the baby getting hurt or crippled so it must be ok.
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| There are places on our planet, which literally resemble hell on earth a place that you’d think was conceived by minds of apocalyptic science fiction writers… but is however quite real… A place, closed off to the tourists, a place where no photographers are allowed to go… and those that do, get their cameras taken away and arrested by the police….. Today we shall travel to India, Chittagong. Chittagong has a territory of 144 000 ΠΊΠΌ² and population of 144 million people. Several beaches around the area bear strange ships, parked in sand as seen from space: [link]
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| Barefoot, shirtless men work to make manhole covers for New York's Department of Environmental Protection and Con Edison. The only safety equipment, are a few eye goggles.Officials at Con Edison were very surprised by the photographs and said that he takes safety of worked very seriously. Now they are rewriting international contracts to include safety requirements.Inside the foundry, men wearing sandals carry iron ore in baskets on their heads and place in the smelter. On the ground floor, barefoot, shirtless men with big ladles and catch the molten metal. There are a few women working there,
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| Sarojini Naidu was born February 13, 1879 in Hyderabad . Her father, Aghorenath Chattopadhyaya, was a celebrated scientist, poet and social reformer whose brilliance foreshadowed that of his daughter's. Dr. Chattopadhyaya was a gifted student, earning a scholarship to study at the University of Edinburgh where he earned his Doctorat in Science (the first Indian to do so) before continuing his education in Bonn, Germany, where he continued to earn praise.1 Upon his return, he founded the Nizam College at Hyderabad devoting his life's work to education, very much following
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