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Memory

"An Autobiography is a book that reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."

- Mckenzie.

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World Toboco Day 31st May
The 2002 World No Tobacco Day campaign - "Go Tobacco-Free with Your FD" focused on helping local fire fighters across the country to quit tobacco use on May 31st, with the support they need so that they are in good physical shape for their job of saving lives.

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Learned Optimism by Martin E.P Seligman

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Kindness

"Kindness is the ability to love people more than they really deserve."

- Mckenzie.

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TODAY IN SCIENCE HISTORY - MAY 30 - BIRTHS
Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov
Born 30 May 1934
Soviet cosmonaut, the first man to climb out of a spacecraft in space. On 18 Mar 1965, Voskhod 2 was launched into space carrying Leonov with Pavel Belyayev aboard. On the second orbit Leonov left the spacecraft through the air lock while still tethered to the vessel. He took motion pictures and practiced moving outside of the spacecraft for 10 minutes. Voskhod 2 made 17 orbits at about 110 miles (177 km) above earth. Ten years later, on 17 Jul 1975, Leonov commanded the Soviet Soyuz craft that linked in orbit with a U.S. Apollo craft.
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Life

"Finding a way to live what we put into it - that's the trouble."

- Mckenzie.

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1953 29 May: Hillary and Tenzing conquer Everest

The New Zealander Edmund Hillary, and the Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, have become the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the Nepal-Tibet border.
They reached the top of the world at 1130 local time after a gruelling climb up the southern face.

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They Made America

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Obedience

"Every great people first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey."

- Mckenzie.

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TODAY IN SCIENCE HISTORY

Born 27 May 1909; died 23 May 1949.
American physicist who contributed to the development of radar and is regarded as the founder of microwave technology. He developed the klystron, a vacuum tube essential to radar technology (1937). Based on amplitude modulation of an electron beam, rather than on resonant circuits of coils and condensers, it permits the generation of powerful and stable high-frequency oscillations. It revolutionized high-energy physics and microwave research and led to airborne radar. The klystron also has been used in satellite communications, airplane and missile guidance systems, and telephone and television transmission. After WW II, working with three graduate students, Hansen demonstrated the first 4.5 MeV linear accelerator in 1947.
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Mind

"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes ."

- Mckenzie.

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User Experience Microsoft 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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FEAR

"The greatness of our fears shows us the littleness of our faith."

- Mckenzie.

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Rash Behari Bose

Rashbehari Bose (1885-1945) was a revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and was one of the organisers of the Indian National Army.

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Bill Gates Speaks

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Compliments

"A compliment is the soft soap that wipes out a dirty look."

- Mckenzie.

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Born in Danzig (now Gdansk), then part of Poland, Fahrenheit settled in Amsterdam in 1701 looking for a trade. He became interested in the manufacture of scientific instruments, specifically meteorological apparatus, and travelled around Europe, meeting scientists and other instrument makers before returning to Amsterdam to begin trading in 1717. He published his method for making thermometers in the Philosophical Transactions in 1724 and was admitted to the Royal Society the same year.

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Principles of Services Marketing

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Life

"Life is like a mirror - we get best results when we smile."

- Mckenzie.

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Bachendri Pal

Bachendri Pal summited Everest on May 23, 1984 via the standard south east ridge route. She was the first woman from India to summit Everest.

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Exemplary Ceos

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Mind

"Minds are like parachutes; they only function when they're open."

- Mckenzie.

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Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Raja Rammohan Roy has come to be called the ‘Maker of Modern India’. Without giving up what was good and noble in the past, he laid the foundations for a great future. He put an end to the horrible custom of burning the living wife with the dead husband. He was a great scholar and an independent thinker. He advocated the study of English, Science, Western Medicine and Technology. He spent his money on a college to promote these studies.

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Hard Facts

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Mind

"Small Minds are the first to criticize large ideas."

- Mckenzie.

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, and mathematician, working mostly in the 20th century. A prolific writer, Bertrand Russell was also a populariser of philosophy and a commentator on a large variety of topics, ranging from very serious issues to the mundane. Continuing a family tradition in political affairs, he was a prominent liberal as well as a socialist and anti-war activist for most of his long life. Millions looked up to Russell as a prophet of the creative and rational life.
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Listening

"God still speaks to those who take the time to listen."

- Mckenzie.

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World Information Society Day
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in November 2005, adopted the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, which recognized that there is a need to build more awareness of the Internet. It specifically called upon the United Nations General Assembly to declare 17 May World Information Society Day.
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Knowledge

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."

- Mckenzie.

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SIKKIM
FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT SIKKIM
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Time

"Killing time is not murder, it's suicide."

- Mckenzie.

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International Day of Families
Augustinians of the Midwest are encouraged to mark the United Nations' International Day of Families, May 15, 2006, in their communities and ministries. The Augustinians invite and encourage all who identify with Augustinian spirituality and traditions to do likewise.
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Discipline Without Punishment

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CHANGE

"New Ideas hurt some minds the same as new shoes hurt some feet."

- Mckenzie.

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Mother's Day
The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600's, England celebrated a day called "Mothering Sunday". Celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter*), "Mothering Sunday" honored the mothers of England'.
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Leaders

"Education can't make us all leaders - but it can teach us which leader to follow.."

- Mckenzie.

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Buddha Jayanti

Prince Siddharth born around 543 BC is believed to have lived a very sheltered life till the age of 29 under his father's instructions and was kept completely ignorant of the tragedies of everyday life. Once he persuaded one of his charioteers to take him out of the palace walls to the outside world and was shocked to the harsh realities of life when he viewed an old man, a sick and disabled person and a dead body for the first time in his life. The fourth vision was of an ascetic who looked at peace with himself, which led Siddharth to search for the true meaning of life, renounce the luxury and worldly pleasures and look for enlightenment. He wandered to many places and ultimately attained attainment in Bodhgaya under a 'pipal' tree. Since then he was known as Gautam Buddha or the 'Enlightened One'.
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ACHIEVEMENT

"Every accomplishment, great or small, starts with the right decision, "I'll Try."

- Mckenzie.

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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, the daughter of the wealthy landowner, William Nightingale of Embly Park, Hampshire, was born in Florence, Italy, on 12th May, 1820. Her father was a Unitarian and a Whig who was involved in the anti-slavery movement. As a child, Florence was very close to her father, who, without a son, treated her as his friend and companion. He took responsibility for her education and taught her Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, history, philosophy and mathematics.More Details

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Money

"If you want to know the value of money, try and borrow it."

- Mckenzie.

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May 1998 Pokhran Tests
India conducted five nuclear tests1 on May 11 and 13, 1998 at the Pokhran range in Rajasthan Desert. The details are given in Table 1. The first three detonations took place simultaneously at 15=45 hrs. IST on May 11. These included a 45 kt thermonuclear device, a 15 kt fission device and a 0.2 kt sub-kiloton (i.e. less than one kiloton) device. The two nuclear devices detonated simultaneously on May 13 were also in the sub-kiloton range - 0.5 kt and 0.3 kt. The necessity for the simultaneous detonation of the thermonuclear device and the fission device on May 11 was due to the fact that the two shafts where these detonations were carried out were separated by only 1 kilometer . There was a concern that otherwise the shock wave from a detonation in one shaft may damage the second shaft and the equipment located therein. The inclusion of a sub-kiloton device in the third shaft a few kilometers away in the May 11 tests and the simultaneous detonation of the two sub-kiloton devices on May 13 were dictated by the advantages of convenience and speed.
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Optimists

"Optimism is man's passport to a better tomorrow."

- Mckenzie.

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Santosh Yadav
Santosh Yadav is the only woman to stand twice on the top of the World ?the summit of Everest.
Enough for most to rest one's ice-axes. But not for Yadav, who plans to be on the top for a third time next winter. For a woman born in an obscure village in Haryana, her life has been a hard climb. As the world celebrates the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Sify.com caught up with Yadav on the journey past and her burning desire to better the life of girls in the villages of India. Excerpts follow:
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In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century by Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria

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Management

"“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

- Peter F. Drucker.

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NITIN NOHRIA
Nitin Nohria is Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty Development at the Harvard Business School.
His research centers on leadership, corporate accountability, and organizational change
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In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century by Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria

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Behavior

"Behavior is what the man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."

- McKenzie E.C.

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Redcross Day
In 1922, just after World War I, there was a general yearning for peace. In the Czech Republic and Slovakia - then one State, Czechoslovakia - the National Society proclaimed a three-day truce at Easter to promote peace. An eminent government leader of the time summed up the underlying aspirations of that initiative as follows: "Our Red Cross wants to prevent disease so that it will not be obliged to give care; it also wants to encourage our society to prevent wars rather than having to bear the serious consequences involved. We all know the importance of the moral potential it brings into being and extends to all sections of the community. If its annual action could take hold in the whole world, this would certainly be a major contribution to peace." This was an intimation of what was to become World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day.
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Patriotism

"True patriotism should make the heart beat faster and the tongue wag slower."

- McKenzie E.C.

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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. The theories distinctive of this school generally included hypotheses that (1) human development is best understood in terms of changing objects of sexual desire, (2) the psychic apparatus habitually represses wishes, usually of a sexual or aggressive nature, whereby they become preserved in one or more unconscious systems of ideas, (3) unconscious conflicts over repressed wishes have a tendency to manifest themselves in dreams, parapraxes ("Freudian slips"), and symptoms, (4) unconscious conflicts are the source of neuroses, and (5) neuroses can be treated through bringing the unconscious wishes and repressed memories to consciousness in psychoanalytic treatment.
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Patience

"True Patience means waiting without worrying."

- McKenzie E.C.

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Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883 London) was an immensely influential German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues, he is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." While Marx was a relatively obscure figure in his own lifetime, his ideas began to exert a major influence on workers' movements shortly after his death. This influence was given added impetus by the victory of the Marxist Bolsheviks in the Russian October Revolution, and there are few parts of the world which were not significantly touched by Marxian ideas in the course of the twentieth century. The relation of Marx's own thought to the popular, "Marxist" interpretations of it during this period is a point of controversy. While Marx's ideas have declined somewhat in popularity, particularly with the decline of Marxism in Russia, they are still very influential today, both in academic circles, and in political practice, and Marxism continues to be the official ideology of numerous states and political movements.
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Excuses

"If you have an excuse, don't use it."

- McKenzie E.C.

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Tipu Sultan [1750-1799]
Tipu Sultan, the eldest son of Haider Ali, was born on December 10, 1750 at Devanhalli. Right from his early years he was trained in the art of warfare and at the age of 15 he used to accompany his father Haider Ali, the ruler of Mysore, to different military campaigns. In Addition, he also learnt different languages, mathematics and science. Tipu Sultan had a fascination for learning. His personal library consisted of more than 2,000 books in different languages. He was an extremely active man and worked hard for the welfare of his subjects. He took over the kingdom of Mysore after the death of his father in 1782, who died of a carbuncle in the midst of a campaign against the British. He continued fighting the British and defeated them in 1783.
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Opportunity

"An opportunist hears opportunity at the door before it knocks."

- McKenzie E.C.

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Krishna Menon, Vengalil Krishnan
Krishna Menon, Vengalil Krishnan (vengä'lel krish'nun krish'nu men'in) [key], 1897–1974, Indian diplomat. He was educated at the Presidency College and the Law College of Madras and at the London School of Economics and University College, London. During his long stay (1924–47) in England he joined the Labour party, was admitted (1934) to the English bar, and served (1934-47) as borough councilor of St. Pancras, London.
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Confusion

"An expert can take something you already know and make it sound confusing."

- McKenzie E.C.

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Ramanuja
In the year 1017 A.D., Ramanuja was born in the village of Perumbudur, about twenty-five miles west of Madras. His father was Kesava Somayaji and his mother was Kantimathi, a very pious and virtuous lady. Ramanuja's Tamil name was Ilaya Perumal. Quite early in life, Ramanuja lost his father. Then he came to Kancheepuram to prosecute his study of the Vedas under one Yadavaprakasha, a teacher of Advaita philosophy.
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