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Business

"In the end,all business operations can be reduced to three words: People, Product and Profits. People come first."

- Lee Iacocca

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General Thimmaiah
The birth centenary of late General Kodandera S. Thimmaiah will be organised by the Federation of Kodava Samajas here on March 31, 2006, honorary president of the Federation of Kodava Samajas and president of the Akhila Kodava Samaja Matanda C. Monnappa has said.
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Success

"Success is a journey, not a destination."

- Ben Sweetland

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Total Solar Eclipse of 2006 March 29
On Wednesday, 2006 March 29, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in Brazil and extends across the Atlantic, northern Africa, and central Asia where it ends at sunset in western Mongolia. A partial eclipse will be seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes the northern two thirds of Africa, Europe, and central Asia.
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Truth

"Truth angers those whom it does not convince."

- Unknown

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Air Deccan
I was a victim of the Fog in the North. I was set to take off from Delhi on the 24th of December morning, after spending 02 hours traveling by road in Delhi, 06 hours between the airport terminal and the aircraft , I was promptly offloaded at 11pm due to bad weather. Then the journey began again the next day morning and I managed to get back to Bangalore eventually on the afternoon of 25th. The fog that enveloped the North had a crippling effect on the aviation Industry with ripple effects being felt across various cities. It impacted millions of lives. Overcrowded terminals, ruffled passengers as well as employees, passengers sleeping in the terminal, long queues on the taxiway were some of the sights. You would of course have seen it all live on your televisions. The national media was there in attendance braving the cold- to ensure live telecast and flight updates.
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Truth

"Truth is often eclipsed, but never extinguished."

- Levi

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Sir Henry Royce
Some readers will know very little about Sir Henry. Some will know quite a lot about him - but it is worth recording again some of his history and, in consequence, the history of Rolls-Royce.
Frederick Henry Royce was born in 1863. He was not born into a wealthy family - his father was a miller. He was firstly a telegraph boy and then apprenticed to the Great Northern Railways. He was interested in electricity and developed his knowledge of this industry at night school. He formed F H Royce and Co. in 1884 when he was twenty one. That Company manufactured dynamos and electric cranes; parts of one of the latter were recently acquired by the Foundation.
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Faith

"Believe that you have it, and you have it."

- Desuderuys Erasnys

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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
/Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, on the West Hills of Long Island, New York. His mother, Louisa Van Velsor, of Dutch descent and Quaker faith, whom he adored, was barely literate. She never read his poetry, but gave him unconditional love. His father of English lineage, was a carpenter and builder of houses, and a stern disciplinarian. His main claim to fame was his friendship with Tom Paine, whose pamphlet Common Sense (1776), urging the colonists to throw off English domination was in his sparse library. It is doubtful that his father read any of his son's poetry, or would have understood it if he had. The senior Walt was too burdened with the struggle to support his ever-growing family of nine children, four of whom were handicapped.
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Ambition

"High aims form high character and great objects bring out great minds."

- Tyron Edwards

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Paints
How many of these types of painting have you tried did you ever paint a local landscape or draw a self-portrait? Some paintings combine types. For example, a portrait might also include details of a still life.
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Ambition

"Attempt the Impossiblein order to improve your work."

- Bette Davis

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World Meteorological Day
This year the theme is Weather, climate, water and sustainable development”. WMD 2005 will focus on the vital contribution of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services to sustainable socio-economic development, environmental protection and poverty alleviation.
As the authoritative voice of the United Nations system on weather, climate and water, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has responsibility for contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and other global commitments related to sustainable development.
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Faith

"Faith is the royal path to unbounded power, immeasurable wisdom and limitless love."

- Christian D. Larson

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Rashtrakavi M. Govind Pai
Mangalore Govind Pai was a rare genius Karnataka had ever seen. A frontline poet in Kannada, thinker, historian, researcher and a polyglot, all put together. He could not complete his Bachelor's degree exam due to his father's sudden death but won a gold medal in English, for the paper he was able to write in that exam of Madras University. Nearly sixty years of his life he spent in a small village of Manjeshwar, now in Kasargod Taluk of Kerala State, and taught himself several subjects and languages.
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Learning

"Learning history is easy; learnig its lessons is alomost impossible."
- Mckenzie EC

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World Day for Water
World Day for Water, or unofficially World Water Day, occurs each year on March 22, as designated by United Nations General Assembly resolution.

This day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Observance was expected to begin in 1993 and has grown significantly ever since.

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Scientific Management

"Supreme Loyalty is Loyalty to Conscience."
- Sai Bindu

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Ustad Bismillah Khan
Ustad Bismillah Khan is a legendary shehnai maestro, a man of tenderness, a man who believes in remaining private and who believes that musicians are supposed to be heard and not seen.
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Intelligence

"An intelligence person not only knows how to take advice, but also how to reject it."

- Mckenzie

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Sir Issac Newton
South east of an area that was to become the English industrial heartland, in a little village called Woolsthorpe, Issaac Newton made his entry into the world. He was prematurely born, and, was so small at his birth, his mother used to say that "he might then have been put into a quart mug."1 His widowed mother - Newton's father had died several months before his birth - was to re-marry; and - there apparently being no room for a two year old in the new Newton household - this small misplaced child passed into the care of his grandmother.
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Scientific Management

"Scientific Management, the spiritual way is the eternal cure for all the management ills."

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History of Signature
Little is known of the life of TThere’s no place like Signature! It’s become a theatrical force of nature through the reinvention of classic musicals and the invention of new voices. Combining Broadway-quality productions with all the beauty of an intimate playing space, Signature provides experiences that are powerful and insightful, intense and uplifting. Through its work on stage and in schools, Signature creates an escape for the community, the nation’s capital and each person who dares to take the enriching journey.
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LAWS

"Men fight for freedom and then start making laws to get rid of it"
- McKenzie

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ROWLATT ACT
The Rowlatt Act was passed on 18th March 1919, indefinitely extending wartime "emergency meaures" in order to control public unrest and root out conspiracy. This act effectively authorised the government to imprison without trial, any person suspected of terrorism living in the Raj.

Mahatma Gandhi, among other Indian leaders, was extremely critical of the Act...
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Contentment

"All the world lives in two tent: content and discontent."
- E.C.Mckenzie

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Tukaram
Little is known of the life of Tukaram, who was born in 1608 in the village of Dehu on the banks of the river Indrayani into a low-caste Sudra family. Since it was common in Maharashtra at that time for the Brahmins to refer to all non-Brahmins as "Sudras", it is not commonly realized that Tukaram’s family were landowners, and that they made their living by selling the produce of the land. Tukaram’s father had inherited the position of mahajan, or collector of revenue from traders, from his father, and Tukaram in turn was the mahajan of his village Dehu.
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Imagination

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
- Albert Einstein

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Holi festival of India

The Holi Festival is known as the "Festival of Color" and is a celebration of Lord Krishna and God's Creations. The colorful festival of Holi, literally means 'burning', is celebrated on the full moon day in the month of Phalguna and heralds the onset of spring season. Holi is the time when people from all castes and social strata come together forgetting all past differences and grievances.
Originally the festival was primarily for the Shudras who were otherwise not allowed to participate in festivals. This is specially significant in the rural areas where in many places, there still exists a clear demarcation between each caste and community.
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Research

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
- Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein Biography
Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich and he began his schooling there at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained his doctor's degree.
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Imagination

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

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Aamir Khan
Date of birth (location)
14 March 1965
India
Mini biography
Aamir was first introduced as a child artiste in the 1970's hit Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973)... (show more)
Sometimes Credited As:Aamir Khhhan
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Questioning

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein

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Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and is the third largest in the solar system. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1781. It has an equatorial diameter of 51,800 kilometers (32,190 miles) and orbits the Sun once every 84.01 Earth years. It has a mean distance from the Sun of 2.87 billion kilometers (1.78 billion miles). It rotates about its axis once every 17 hours 14 minutes. Uranus has at least 22 moons. The two largest moons, Titania and Oberon, were discovered by William Herschel in 1787.
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Power

"Prayer Provides Power,Poise,Peace,and Purpose."
- McKenzie

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Peter Senge
Peter Senge is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants committed “to increase our capacity to collectively realize our highest aspirations and productively resolve our differences” through the mutual development of people and institutions. The Journal of Business Strategy named him a “Strategist of the Century,” one of twenty-four men and women who have “had the greatest impact on the way we conduct business today” (September/October 1999). His special interest is on decentralizing the role of leadership in organizations so as to enhance the capacity of all people to work productively toward common goals. Senge's work places human values at the cornerstone of the workplace, proposing that vision, purpose, reflectiveness, and systems thinking are essential for organizations to realize their potentials
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Riches

"Be kind people until you make your first million.After that, people will be kind to you."
- McKenzie

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L N Mittal
Steel tycoon Lakshmi mittal is the richest Indian and Microsoft Corporation Chairman Bill Gates with an estimated net worth of $50 billion retains his title as the richest man in the world for the twelfth consecutive year.
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Promises

"Promises may get friends, but it is the performance that keeps them."
- McKenzie

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MAZZINI AND ITALY.
THE rarest produce of this world of ours is not its mines of ore, its jewelled Indies, its fruitful lands and overflowing granaries; but its great hearts and great minds, these are its riches beyond price. The great and veritable history of this world, also, is to be found written in the lives of its noble women and great men. If it were possible to cancel the existence of those Greek and Roman heroes whose lives and deeds are chronicled in old Plutarch, with the chief painters and sculptors, and writers of ancient Greece and Rome, how miserably mean would be the remains of those illustrious nations!
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Hope

"Hope for the best, be ready for the worst."
- Mc. Kenzie

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Ustad Zakir Hussain
Zakir Hussain is today appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large as an international phenomenon. A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order, his consistently brilliant and exciting performances have not only established him as a national treasure in his own country, India, but gained him worldwide fame.
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Heart

"If there is a smile in your heart, your face will show it."
- Mc. Kenzie

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International Women's Day
International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

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Humor

"Humor is truth in an intoxicated condition."
- Mc. Kenzie

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Chhatrapati Shivaji
Chhatrapati Shivaji was the founder of the Maratha empire in western India in 1674 which was instrumental in the downfall of the Mughal Empire. He is also remembered for being the only secular king in medieval India.
Using guerrilla tactics superbly suited to the rugged mountains and valleys of the region, he annexed a portion of the then dominant Mughal empire. He is still considered a hero in the present-day state of Maharashtra, and stories of his exploits have entered into folklore. He was one of the pioneers of commando actions, though the term is modern
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Money

"Money is a good servant, but a poor master."
- Mc. Kenzie

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Mathematicians who were born or died on 6th March
Mathematicians born on this day:
1866 : Bortolotti
1901 : Akhiezer


Mathematicians who died on this day:

1939 : Lindemann
1944 : Kotelnikov

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Worry

"Worry Can't Change the Past, But it Can Ruin the Present."
- Mc. Kenzie

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Windows Vista
Windows Vista introduces a breakthrough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience
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Freedom

"Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you ought."
- Mc. Kenzie

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Lala Hardayal
Lala Hardayal (b. 1884, Dehli, India - d. March 4, 1939 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an Indian freedom fighter and founder of the Ghadar Party.

He received his bachelor's degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, India and his master's degree from Punjab University. In 1905, he received scholarships to Oxford University, but in 1907 resigned the scholarships and returned to India to live a life of austerity.

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Opportunity

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
- Mc. Kenzie

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Gol Gumbaz
Gol Gumbaz is the mausoleum of Muhammad Adil Shah II (1627-57) of the Adil Shahi dynasty of Indian sultans, who ruled the Sultanate of Bijapur from 1490 to 1686..
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Knowledge

"Wisdom is Knowledge in Action."
- Mc. Kenzie

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Meera Bhai
Mira was a queen of Rajasthan who is known more for her devotion than her political position. There are so many stories about Mira Bai that it is very difficult to tell the facts of her life from legend.
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Progress

"The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comfort."
- Swami Chinmayananda

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Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Ramakrishna Parmahamsa is perhaps the best known saint of nineteenth century India. He was born in a poor Brahmin family in 1836, in a small town near Calcutta, West Bengal. As a young man, he was artistic and a popular storyteller and actor. His parents were religious, and prone to visions and spiritual dreams. Ramakrishna's father had a vision of the god Gadadhara (Vishnu) while on a religious pilgrimage. In the vision, the god told him that he would be born into the family as a son.
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