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Friday, November 4, 2011

Events of the twentieth century .. from 1909-2000


1909

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CHANAKYA


"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply
and find satisfactory answers to thesequestions, go ahead."

"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them.
By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."

"Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."
"Education is the best friend. 
An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."
 
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Amazing site.

WWW.rome2rio.comAmazing site, to find out your route of journey and air fares and the whole lot of infotmation nessesary when travelling. 
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The Pakistan cricket spot-fixing controversy


The Pakistan cricket spot-fixing controversy centres on allegations that members of Pakistan's Cricket team took bribes from a bookmaker, Mazhar Majeed, to deliberately under-perform at certain times in the 4th Test match at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, in 2010.
Undercover reporters from News of the World, led by Mazher Mahmood, secretly video-taped Majeed accepting money and informing the reporters that fast bowlers Asif and Amir would deliberately bowlno-balls at specific points in an over. This information could be used by gamblers to place bets with inside information (a process known as spot-fixing). In response to these allegations, Scotland Yard arrested Majeed on the charge of match-fixing. The International Cricket Council (ICC) banned three players—Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir—for terms of between 5 and 10 years. In November 2011, Butt and Asif were found guilty by a London court on criminal charges relating to spot-fixing. Amir and Majeed had entered guilty pleas on the same charges. All four were given prison sentences, ranging from six months to 32 months.
Mazher Mammood.
Welcome 'Fake Sheikh' Fans
These are the pictures of 'Fake Sheikh' Mazher Mahmood, an unscrupolous reporter that considers himself above the law when suborning MP's, offering people drugs to entrap them and gives journalism in the whole a bad name as he has no ethics or morals and is not above 'helping' the story along.

Mahmood sees himself above British law, using entrapment in many cases such as John Fashanu and of curse George Galloway, his flagship "case" relied solely on the testimony of a petty criminal and poor quality audio tapes, the case collapsed but in a later damages suit, the judicary took the side of Mahmood. As Gashi the witness was to be relied upon in not just one case but two previously as well, it was revealed that he had been convicted for crimes of fraud and deception in Europe which would have made him unreliable under British law.

Salaman Butt with his wife.

Mohammed Asif at his wedding
Mohammed Amir..from hero to zero

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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Napolean"s war with Russia

Napoleons retreat from moscow.jpgNapoleans withdrawal from Russia.
 Map of the war.

As irregular cavalry, the Cossackhorsemen of the Russian steppes were best suited to reconnaissance, scouting, and harassing the enemy's flanks and supply lines. Seldom were they committed to execute a conventional charge in battle.

Napoléon and General Lauriston — Peace at all costs!

Historical assessment

A hall of military fame in the Winter Palace with portraits of the Russian war heroes.
The Russian victory over the French army in 1812 marked a huge blow to Napoleon's ambitions of European dominance. This war was the reason the other coalition allies triumphed once and for all over Napoleon. His army was shattered and morale was low, both for French troops still in Russia, fighting battles just before the campaign ended and for the troops on other fronts. Out of an original force of 615,000, only 110,000 frost-bitten and half starved survivors stumbled back into France.[62] The Russian campaign was the decisive turning-point of theNapoleonic Wars that ultimately led to Napoleon's defeat and exile on the island of Elba.[1] For Russia the term Patriotic War (an English rendition of the Russian Отечественная война) formed a symbol for a strengthened national identity that would have great effect on Russian patriotism in the 19th century. The indirect result of the patriotic movement of Russians was a strong desire for the modernization of the country that would result in a series of revolutions, starting with the Decembrist revolt and ending with the February Revolution of 1917.
Napoleon was not completely defeated by the disaster in Russia. The following year he raised an army of around 400,000 French troops supported by a quarter of a million French allied troops to contest control of Germany in an even larger campaign. Despite being outnumbered, he won a large victory at the Battle of Dresden. It was not until the decisive Battle of Nations (October 16–19, 1813) that he was finally defeated and afterwards no longer had the troops to stop the Coalition's invasion of France. Napoleon did still manage to inflict heavy losses and a series of minor military victories on the far larger Allied armies as they drove towards Paris, though they captured the city and forced him to abdicate in 1814.
The Russian campaign had revealed that Napoleon was not invincible, putting an end to his reputation as an undefeated military genius. Napoleon had made many terrible errors in this campaign. One of the worst that he refused to quit his campaign in Spain while trying to campaign in Russia. Historian F.G. Hourtoulle perhaps says it best: "One does not make war on two fronts, especially so far apart."[63] In trying to have both he gave up any chance at either. Napoleon had foreseen what it would mean, so he fled back to France quickly before word of the disaster became widespread, allowing him to start raising another army.[62] Metternich began to take the actions that would take Austria out of the war with a secret truce.[64]Sensing this and urged on by Prussian nationalists and Russian commanders, German nationalists revolted in the Confederation of the Rhine and Prussia. The decisive German campaign likely could not have occurred without the message the defeat in Russia sent to the rest of Europe.

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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in north western Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements in the island ofHispaniola, initiated the process of Spanish colonization, which foreshadowed the general European colonization of the "New World".

Columbus before the Queen, imagined by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1843

Santa María, Columbus' flagship in first voyage, at hisValladolid house.

Tomb in Seville Cathedral. The remains are borne by kings ofCastile, Leon, Aragon andNavarre


~ Christopher Columbus ~
U.S. Columbian Issue of 1893.
Replicas of Niña, Pinta and Santa Mariasailed from Spain to the Chicago Columbian Exposition.
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