tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18204806222646358022024-03-14T14:40:33.455+05:30PROMINENT PEOPLE OF THE WORLDTHERE ARE GOOD GREAT MEN AND BAD GREAT MEN.ONE MAN'S DEVIL IS GOD FOR SOME OTHER. I LEAVE IT TO READER'S DISCRETION TO SELECT HIS OWN GODS AND DEVILSSurinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-6225876203865536492012-09-28T06:05:00.000+05:302012-09-28T06:05:03.230+05:30HERBERT LOM [11 Sep, 1917-27 Sep, 2012]
HERBERT LOM PASSES INTO HISTORY AT 95
Herbert Lom was a
familiar face on the big screen for more than 60 years, playing a
variety of exotic characters, most notably Chief Inspector Dreyfus,
long-suffering boss of Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau in the Pink
Panther films.
He was born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru, in Prague in 1917, of aristocratic parentsSurinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-42323716522065774632012-04-14T01:54:00.002+05:302012-04-14T01:54:52.569+05:30GENIUS AND MYSTERY
ETTORE MAJORANA
Ettore Majorana was born in Sicily in 1906. An extremely gifted
physicist, he was a member of Enrico Fermi's famous group in Rome in the
1930s, before mysteriously disappearing in March 1938.
Ettore Majorana
The great Sicilian writer, Leonardo Sciascia, was convinced that
Majorana decided to disappear because he foresaw that nuclear forces
would lead to nuclear Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-56436853331655257822012-04-14T01:02:00.000+05:302012-04-14T01:02:17.093+05:30FOUR YEAR OLD PRODIGY
SHE MAY BE FUTURE EINSTEIN OR STEPHEN HAWKING
HEIDI HANKINS: IQ 159
Heidi Hankins taught herself to read
A four-year-old girl from
Hampshire has been accepted into Mensa with an IQ just one point below
Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Heidi Hankins from Winchester has a 159 IQ. She taught herself to read and was able to count to 40 at two years old.
Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-7212789506274603742012-04-13T02:30:00.000+05:302012-04-13T02:30:55.201+05:30JUAN GRIS
José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez i.e. Juan Gris
was a Spanish painter and one of the pioneers of 'Cubist' movement
He was born in Madrid. Gris studied mechanical drawing at the Escuela de Artes y Manufacturas (School of Arts and Manufactures) in Madrid from 1902 to 1904, during which time he contributed drawings to local periodicals. From 1904 to 1905 he studied painting withSurinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-46341098369969414232012-04-13T02:10:00.000+05:302012-04-13T02:27:43.219+05:30FOUNDER OF SOUTH SUDAN
JOHN GARANG
John Garang de Mabior was born in June 23, 1945 in Wanglei village in Bor – South Sudan.
Education: John Garang went to secondary education
in Tanzania. He achieved a B.A. in economics in 1969 from Grinnell
College in Iowa, USA. Garang studied East African agricultural economics
as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow at the University of Dar es Salaam
(UDSM), and received a Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-24286664633564499722012-04-13T01:05:00.000+05:302012-04-13T01:05:00.344+05:30ALGERIAN FOUNDING FATHER
AHMED BEN BELLA
Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria's first president and one of the leading
figures in its independence struggle against France, has died at the age
of 95.
Ben Bella, whose death comes just weeks after the 50th anniversary of
Algerian independence, passed away at his family home in Algiers on
Wednesday, Algerian state media reported.
No cause of death was reported, butSurinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-77720212367965918152012-02-22T01:36:00.000+05:302012-02-22T01:48:48.537+05:30HEINRICH RUDOLF HERTZ
I
HEINRICH RUDOLF HERTZ
Born: 22 Feb 1857 in Hamburg, Germany
Died: 1 Jan 1894 in Bonn, Germany
Heinrich Hertz's parents were Gustav Ferdinand Hertz and Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn. Gustav Hertz was a Jew who converted to become a Lutheran. Anna, the daughter of a Frankfurt doctor, came from a Lutheran family, so Heinrich was brought up as a Lutheran. He was the oldest of his parents' Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-67465074431248931022012-01-11T03:54:00.000+05:302012-01-11T03:55:46.261+05:30NICOLAUS STENO
NICOLAUS STENO Nicolas Steno, Latinized to Nicolaus Steno , (born 11 January, 1638-died 25 November 1686) was a Danish pioneer in both anatomy and geology. His given name was Niels Stensen, but he is generally referred to by the Latinized version, Nicolas Steno. His name also has a variety of other spellings, such as Steensen, Stenonis (Latin), Stenone (Italian) and Stenon (French). Already Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-80961501893507015072011-12-23T21:57:00.000+05:302011-12-23T22:02:18.761+05:30MARY WOLLSTENCRAFT
It is a challenge to write about
Mary Wollstonecraft, an 18th century English writer and women's rights
advocate whose life is overshadowed by her famous daughter, Mary
Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, among other works.The
challenge is twofold: While Wollstonecraft would seem to be a founding
feminist, she would not have considered herself such. And Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-39346397796561765042011-12-08T02:21:00.001+05:302011-12-08T03:05:32.515+05:30FRIDA KAHLO
FRIDA KAHLO-I
On
a rainy day in September 1925, Frida Kahlo and her boyfriend Alejandro
Gómez Arias were in Mexico City waiting for a bus that would take them
to her home in Coyocán, Mexico. The bus came, and they Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-67450293920690149642011-10-21T22:42:00.000+05:302011-12-08T03:00:51.282+05:30
MARY BLAIR
Mary Blair (October 21, 1911 – July 26, 1978), born Mary Robinson, was an American artist who was prominent in producing art and animation for The Walt Disney Company, drawing concept art for such films as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South and Cinderella. Blair also created character designs for enduring attractions such as Disneyland's It's a Small World, the Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-69709909192380902952011-09-09T22:53:00.001+05:302011-09-09T23:26:17.320+05:30ਸਾਂਝੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦਾ, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਦਾ ਅਣਖੀਲਾ ਲੋਕ ਕਵੀ:
100ਵੇਂ ਜਨਮ ਦਿਵਸ 3 ਸਤੰਬਰ ’ਤੇ
ਵਿਸ਼ੇਸ਼
ਚਿਰਾਗ ਦੀਨ
ਦਾਮਨ
ਉਜਾਗਰ ਸਿੰਘ
ਚਿਰਾਗ ਦੀਨ ਦਾਮਨ
ਸਾਂਝੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-46430469360351255932011-03-13T01:26:00.001+05:302011-03-13T02:20:09.343+05:30PUNJABI PAINTERS SOHAN QADRI
Sohan Qadri (born November 2, 1932, in Punjab, India) is a yogi, poet and a painter from India who has lived in Copenhagen for the past 30 years. His paintings result from states of deep meditation, and are informed by the colors of India: luminous, dye-infused works on meticulously serrated paper. Over his long career, Qadri has interacted with a wide array of cultural Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-77100785190612245342011-01-18T23:46:00.000+05:302011-01-18T23:46:53.166+05:30FRANZ KAFKA-IIIKafka Biography
A Little Fable
Franz Kafka was born into the flux of social discord and bureaucratic dead weight that was otherwise known as Prague. With both God and father wielding hammers above his head, Kafka came of age in a city which had, under the assault of the modern world, ceased to make any sense. It was a city that had lost its own cultural identity. Burdened Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-50433463438043612122011-01-18T23:17:00.000+05:302011-01-18T23:17:18.259+05:30FRANZ KAFKA-IIFranz Kafka – Vegetarian Activist
<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-63955163690508755982011-01-18T21:42:00.002+05:302011-01-18T21:52:30.316+05:30FRANZ KAFKA [1883-1924]Kafka was a Czech-born, German novelist whose writing had tremendous influence on western literature and art. His many books include The Castle , The Trial , and The Great Wall of China . His novels have been translated into many languages and have been adapted for movies, plays, and operas. The plot in his books generally center around the hero`s search for identity.
Kafka was Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-87293259864874644562010-10-31T23:44:00.000+05:302010-10-31T23:44:33.803+05:30HEROES OF 1857 GHADARAhmadullah Shah : Freedom Fighterby Dr. SAIYID ZAHEER HUSAIN JAFRI
That Ahmadullah Shah was one of the central figures in the popular uprising of 1857 in Awadh becomes clear when we reconstruct his life and activities. Using hitherto lesser-used sources, such as personal memoirs of the British officers who participated in crushing the uprising, daily official despatches and Urdu biographies, Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-33529629258734664412010-10-09T20:18:00.006+05:302010-10-09T21:20:41.315+05:30SIKH NAAMDHARI GURUSPARTAP SINGH JI, SHRI SADGURU
[NAAMDHARI]
Baba Jassa. Singh Ji (father of Sri Satguru Ram Singh Ji) once asked Suba Sahib Singh,, to relay to Sri Satguru Ram Singh Ji, that he desired for a grandson, to which Satguru Ram Singh Ji had replied that although he will not have any sons but his younger brother Budh Singh will be bestowed with sons and his elder son will be a Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-486995095450288302010-10-09T20:10:00.000+05:302010-10-09T20:10:39.968+05:30JAMMU & KASHMIR RULERSPARTAP SINGH, MAHARAJA OF JAMMU
Maharaja Pratap Singh was born in the year 1850 at Reasi and ruled Jammu & Kashmir State from 1885 to 1925 A.D. He was a wise ruler with great concern for the people and a keen interest in the development of the state. He completed works by his illustrious father Maharaja Ranbir Singh.
He established high schools for boys and girls at every Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-19430905917077844362010-10-09T20:04:00.001+05:302010-10-09T20:05:36.795+05:30SIKH SPIRITUALISTSPARTAP SINGH ,Brig.(Retd.)
On a divine mission
Retd. Brigadier Partap Singh ji
With an aim to break the caste/ class barriers and promote the concept of “All are children of one God”, Brig Partap Singh Jaspal (retd) founded the Guru Nanak Data Baksh Lai Mission in 1999. A direct disciple of Sikh saint Baba Nand Singh, Brigadier Jaspal’s soleSurinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-65282916826997763432010-10-09T19:44:00.001+05:302010-10-09T20:03:34.972+05:30PROMINENT 20 th CENTURY SIKHSPARTAP SINGH, JATHEDAAR
Partap Singh was born on October 27, 1882 to Shrimati Jaswant Kaur and Shri Deva Singh of the village Moelawahidpur, Dist. Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India. He got his primary education in his village, middle school at Garhshankar and high school from Govt. High School, Rahon, Dist. Jallandar. He was very interested in history and geography. He had read that America and Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-36200874457661903582010-10-09T00:37:00.000+05:302010-10-09T00:37:03.677+05:30PROMINENT 20 th CENTURY SIKHSARJAN SINGH "GARGAJJ"
Revolutionary and Journalist (1905-1963)
Was born the son of Sundar Singh Ramgarhia, an artisan of Tarn Taran, in Amritsar district of the Punjab, in 1905. In 1919, when he was studying in class VI, young Arjan Singh was expelled from school for refusing to salute the Union Jack, imperial standard of the British rulers. Undaunted, he plunged into the Akali agitation Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-21370713853924898022010-10-08T23:42:00.000+05:302010-10-08T23:42:06.101+05:30PROMINENT 18 th CENTURY SIKHSAJMER SINGH (CHHATTEANA)
AJMER SINGH was the name given a seventeenth century Muslim recluse of Chhatteana, a village in present day Faridkot district of the Punjab, as he received the initiatory rites of the Khalsa. His original name was Ibrahim, popularly shortened to Brahmi or Bahmi. According to an old chronicle, Malva Desh Ratan di Sakhi Potbi, Ibrahim had himself dug a grave, duly lined Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-87669512771029488052010-10-08T23:34:00.000+05:302010-10-08T23:34:30.859+05:30PUNJABI POETSJASBIR SINGH AHLUWALIA
AHLUWALIA, JASBIR SINGH Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia,(1935 - ) born in 1935, is a leading radical Punjabi poet. He had a post-graduate degree in English and got his doctorate for his thesis on New conception of Reality, and got into the Punjab Civil Service. He came on deputation to Punjabi University, Patiala for some time as Director, Planning and Development (Punjabi). He Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820480622264635802.post-49614059524201311502010-10-08T00:03:00.000+05:302010-10-08T00:03:14.510+05:30MAVERICKS OF HISTORYABDUL RASUL KASHMIRI
ABDUL RASUL KASHMIRI, a native of Srinagar who was in trade at Amritsar as a shawl merchant, was for a time a close confidant of Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last Sikh King of the Punjab deposed by the British in 1849. Kashmir! acted as the deposed Maharaja`s liaison man with governments of Turkey and Egypt. In 1860, `Abdul Rasul moved from India to Egypt, and thence to London Surinder Singh Darveshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516871944152908712noreply@blogger.com0