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Life span

After a gestation periods of 13 months, a camel cow usually bears a single calf, and occasionally twins. The calves walk within hours of birth, but remain close to their mothers until they reach maturity at five years of age. The normal life span of a camel is 40 years, although a working camel retires from active duty at 25.

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PLEASE SHOW US THE FAMILY OF DAYANIDHI MARAN -WIFE -PRIYA OF "THE HINDU" AND THE FAMILY OF DIGVIJAY SINGH -ALL SKELETONS OF A FILTHY TOILET SAGA.
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the king's horses,
And all the king's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again - usual version

Hympty Dumpty and his brother
Were as like as one another,
Couldn't tell one from t'other
Humpty Dumpty and his brother. - Somerset version

Humpty Dumpty sat on a spoon,
Humpty will goin the egg cup soon;
And all the paste and all the glue
Will not make Humpty look like new. -Schoolchild version

Humpty Dumpty went to town,
Humpty Dumpty tore his gown;
All the needles in the town
Couldn't mend Humpty Dumpty's gown. - American version

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Wife: Priya Dayanidhi Maran
Date of Marriage 26 August 1994

As of 2004, he was an Indian millionaire having declared assets of 16 million Indian rupees (approx. 360,000 US dollars).Dayanidhi Maran reduced the mobile and landline call rates drastically during his tenure as Union IT and Communications minister. He brought in investments well in excess of $30b for the IT sector alone and set the ball rolling for making India a chip manufacturing hub.
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Have You Heard of a Wedding Wreath?

A wreath is a symbol of unity. A gorgeous wreath as a centerpiece on the table at a wedding reception, rehearsal dinner, bridal shower, bridesmaid luncheon/brunch/tea, etc. is a great old-fashioned idea. A wreath is a nice addition at the bottom of a footed cake stand or with a punch bowl in the center of the wreath. You can also hang the wreath on the entrance door of the church on your wedding day (then move it to the reception site). The wreath can be made of fresh or silk (dried or preserved) flowers. If you like the idea of fresh flowers and live greenery for the wreath, here are instructions for a "living" wreath: http://www.englishcreekgardens.com/livingwreath.htm. The bride can preserve the flowers used in the wreath or even re-plant the greenery. Use the charms with the wreath - you can have the bridesmaids pull the charms from the wreath. If you are hosting a bridal shower/luncheon/tea etc., hang a wedding wreath on your front door to greet guests - then, give the wreath to the bride as a gift for her to take home.

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Post-eradication

The last cases of smallpox in the world occurred in an outbreak of two cases (one of which was fatal) in Birmingham, England in 1978. A medical photographer, Janet Parker, died from the disease on 11 September 1978,^[39] after which the scientist responsible for the unit, Professor Henry Bedson, committed suicide.^[2] In light of this accident, all known stocks of smallpox were destroyed or transferred to one of two WHO reference laboratories; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States and the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR in Koltsovo, Russia where a regiment of troops guard it. In 1986, the World Health Organization recommended destruction of the virus, and later set the date of destruction to be 30 December 1993. This was postponed to 30 June 1995.^[40] In 2002 the policy of the WHO changed to be against its final destruction.^[41] Destroying existing stocks would reduce the risk involved with ongoing smallpox research; the stocks are not needed to respond to a smallpox outbreak.^[42] However, the stocks may be useful in developing new vaccines, antiviral drugs, and diagnostic tests.^[43]

In March 2004 smallpox scabs were found tucked inside an envelope in a book on Civil War medicine in Santa Fe, New Mexico.^[44] The envelope was labeled as containing the scabs and listed the names of the patients they came from. Assuming the contents could be dangerous, the librarian who found them did not open the envelope. The scabs ended up with employees from the CDC who responded quickly once informed of the discovery. The discovery raised concerns that smallpox DNA could be extracted from these and other scabs and used for a biological attack.

[edit] Biological warfare

The British may have used smallpox as a biological warfare agent during the French and Indian Wars (1754–63), against France and its Native American allies (see more information at Siege of Fort Pitt). It has been alleged that smallpox was also used as a weapon during the American Revolutionary War (1775–83).^[45] During World War II, scientists from the United Kingdom, United States and Japan were involved in research into producing a biological weapon from smallpox.^[46] Plans of large scale production were never carried through as they considered that the weapon would not be very effective due to the wide-scale availability of a vaccine.^[45] The Soviet Union established a smallpox weapons factory in 1947 in the city of Zagorsk, 75 km to the northeast of Moscow.^[47]

An outbreak of weaponized smallpox may have occurred during its testing in the 1970s. General Prof. Peter Burgasov, former Chief Sanitary Physician of the Soviet Army, and a senior researcher within the Soviet program of biological weapons described the incident:

“On Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea, the strongest recipes of smallpox were tested. Suddenly I was informed that there were mysterious cases of mortalities in Aralsk. A research ship of the Aral fleet came 15 km away from the island (it was forbidden to come any closer than 40 km). The lab technician of this ship took samples of plankton twice a day from the top deck. The smallpox formulation—400 gr. of which was exploded on the island—”got her” and she became infected. After returning home to Aralsk, she infected several people including children. All of them died. I suspected the reason for this and called the Chief of General Staff of Ministry of Defense and requested to forbid the stop of the Alma-Ata—Moscow train in Aralsk. As a result, the epidemic around the country was prevented. I called Andropov, who at that time was Chief of KGB, and informed him of the exclusive recipe of smallpox obtained on Vozrazhdenie Island.”^[48]^[49]

Others contend that the first patient may have contracted the disease while visiting Uyaly or Komsomolsk, two cities where the boat docked.^[50]

In Europe, deaths from smallpox often impacted dynastic succession. Louis XV of France succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV through a series of deaths of smallpox or measles among those earlier in the succession line. He himself died of the disease in 1774. The only surviving son of Henry VIII, Edward VI, likely died from complications shortly after apparently recovering from the disease, thereby rendering his sire's infamous efforts to provide England with a male heir moot. (His immediate successors were all females.) William III lost his mother to the disease when he was only ten years old in 1660, and named his uncle Charles as legal guardian: her death from smallpox would indirectly spark a chain of events that would eventually lead to the permanent ousting of the Stuart line from the British throne.

Both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Presidents of the United States, contracted and recovered from the disease. Joseph Stalin, who was badly scarred by the disease early in life, often had photographs retouched to make his pockmarks less apparent. Crime figure Lucky Luciano contracted disease in 1907 at the age of ten, upon coming to New York from Sicily.

Indian actress Geeta Bali died of small pox in 1965.

Baaz (1953)

Overview

Director:

Guru Dutt

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Priya 'Rajni' Tendulkar passes away

Yogesh Pawar in Mumbai

Fiery actor-activist and daughter of well-known playwright Vijay Tendulkar, Priya aka 'Rajni', passed away following a heart attack on Thursday afternoon at her Prabhadevi residence.

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She had been diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago, but, true to her screen image, had fought right back into life, acting in three TV serials and hosting a show on SABe TV.

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Her widowed sister-in-law Seema Tendulkar and her son Aditya were the first to reach her residence, followed by Vijay Tendulkar.

As news of her death spread, the who's who of Marathi theatre and the literary fraternity came calling.

After leaving instructions that the body should be taken to the electric crematorium at Shivaji Park, Vijay Tendulkar left with just a nod at all those gathered. He did not attend the funeral.

Priya's estranged husband and yesteryear's TV actor, Karan Razdan, who made a brief appearance at her residence, also stayed away from the rites.

He told rediff.com: "She was my worst critic. However, in those days, when I was struggling to establish myself, she encouraged and recommended me in a big way."

Veteran actress Sulochana fought tears as she spoke of how she had known Priya from the days when she would run around in frocks and pigtails. "While seniors like me drag on, I don't how destiny can take away someone so young and full of life?" she asked and wondered, "there seems to be a curse on Marathi theatre and literature. In less than two months we have lost so many gems. First Shantabai (poetess Shanta Shelke), then Babuji (singer Sudhir Phadke), then Vasant Bapat and Shivaji Sawant and now Priya."

The body was accompanied by Seema Tendulkar, Aditya Tendulkar and director and script-writer Vijay Kenkre to the crematorium around 7.30 pm.

A crowd of recognisable faces along with a battery of journalists were present to bid the actress adieu. Shekhar Navre, Reema Lagoo, Neelu Damle, Jabbar Patel, Aruna Raje, Nirmala Samant-Prabhavalkar, Dilip and Neena Kulkarni were among those present.

Aruna Raje, who directed "a terribly nervous" 15-year-old Priya shooting for her first commercial (a sewing machine brand), said: "My heart goes out to Priya's father who has seen so many tragedies one after the other."

Director Jabbar Patel spoke glowingly about how Priya had carried on with her father's literary legacy. "Not many know of Priya Tendulkar the short story writer who wrote very moving stories about ordinary women caught up in extraordinary situations," he said adding "along with being an aggressive feminist and anti-victimisation activist, she was also a great human being. Her dynamism was infectious."

Neena Kulkarni wept as she spoke: "Jeevachi sakhi gelyavar kai bolnaar (what does one say when one loses a bosom pal like her)?" she asked. "I have to say that between us she was more generous with her praise -- one moving expression here, a flick of the hand there."

Given the literary atmosphere at home it was no surprise that Priya grew up to become the kind of person she was. A rebellious teen, she had taken to compering music shows for Doordarshan, taking trouble to wear high-heels and heavy saris with a huge bindi to look grown-up.

The sewing machine commercial made her a known face and Marathi film offers started coming. "She would often laugh at some of the silly parts she played in commercial movies like Mumbaicha Faujdar and Gondhalat Gondhal -- both of which went on to become golden-jubilee hits and still make decent collections whenever exhibited in the interiors.

Fame came calling when she was offered the role of housewife-avenging angel 'Rajni' in a TV serial by the same name. In 'Rajni' she starred with Karan Razdan, whom she was to later marry. It was a role she could never outlive. The image stuck despite her sensitive portrayal of Sharada in the overtly feminist and sensitive Swayamsiddha made by Gulzar.

Though she did continue acting in TV serials, it was her talk show - 'The Priya Tendulkar Show' -- and the controversies it courted that brought her back into the limelight. She did bit parts in Hindi films too which she herself liked to call "forgettable."

When 'The Priya Tendulkar Show' was at its peak, several political parties -- including the Shiv Sena -- approached her. Her proximity to Matoshree, given the acrimonious relationship her father shared with Bal Thackeray, raised many eye-brows. In the end, she declined the offer, but would often think aloud to friends, "Maybe I should have tried." Now, she never will.

The Demon in the Freezer

Richard Preston

Random House | History - Military - Chemical; Science - Biochemistry | October 2002 | $24.95

8,000 – 1,000 B.C.E.	Trans-species jump of smallpox virus (variola) from an unknown animal host into the human species.
1157 B.C.E.	Death of Pharaoh Ramses V, possibly of smallpox
430 B.C.E.	The Plague of Athens during the Pelopponesian War. May have been smallpox.
340 C.E.	The Chinese medical doctor Ho Kung gives an exact description of smallpox and says it came into China “from the west” around C.E. 40.
300-400 C.E.	Smallpox may have caused a decline in the population of Italy, weakening the Roman empire and making it more vulnerable to Barbarian attacks.
910 C.E.	The Persian medical doctor al-Razi (Rhazes) sees a lot of smallpox while he’s the director of the Bagdhad Hospital.
1000 C.E.	Smallpox becomes endemic in Japan.
1520	Captain Panfilo de Narvaez lands in Mexico near Veracruz. Smallpox escapes from an African slave who is a member of his party and begins to spread through Mexico, central America, and south America, ultimately killing roughly half the native American population of those areas.
1763	During the Siege of Detroit (part of the French and Indian War), British commander Sir Jeffrey Amherst orders his men to infect the Ottawa tribes under Chief Pontiac with smallpox. Smallpox then rages down the Ohio Valley, killing many innocent civilian native Americans. This is the first known deliberate use of smallpox as a strategic biological weapon.
May 14, 1796.	English doctor Edward Jenner demonstrates the efficacy of his smallpox vaccine.
1801	Edward Jenner predicts the eradication of smallpox.
1958	Soviet public health doctor Viktor Zdanov calls for the eradication of smallpox at the annual meeting of the World Health Assembly.
1965	Evolutionary biologist Rene Dubos, in his famous book Man Adapting, confidently predicts that no virus or microbe will ever be eradicated from nature.
1966	Donald Ainslie (D. A.) Henderson appointed head of the Smallpox Eradication Program (SEP) of the World Health Organization, in Geneva, with a ten-year mission to eradicate smallpox.
November, 1966.	Dr. William H. Foege of the SEP pioneers the surveillance and ring-vaccination containment strategy for controlling outbreaks of smallpox. He does this during a smallpox outbreak in Nigeria when he and his team run out of sufficient vaccine to mass vaccinate everyone in the area.
1970.	Devastating typhoon hits Bhola Island in the Bay of Bengal, in what is now Bangladesh.
1970-71.	Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant and Wavy Gravy and their wives set out in two buses to drive across Asia and deliver medical supplies to Bhola Island. They end up leaving their buses in Katmandu, Nepal.
1972	Larry Brilliant joins the Smallpox Eradication Program.
1974	The Tatanagar Station outbreak of smallpox, epicentered in Bihar, India.
January – May, 1975	The last large outbreak of variola major on earth, in Bangladesh.
November, 1975.	Dr. Stanly O. Foster finds the world’s last natural case of variola major: a three-year-old girl named Rahima Banu, on Bhola Island, Bangladesh.
Christmas, 1975	CDC pox virologist Joseph Esposito freezes six scabs from Rahima Banu in the smallpox reference freezer at the CDC in Atlanta. This is the Rahima strain of smallpox.
October, 1977	Ali Maow Maalin of Somalia has the last case of variola minor—the last natural case of smallpox on earth.
August, 1978.	Janet Parker, of Birmingham, England, contracts smallpox from the laboratory of Henry Bedson, a smallpox researcher.
September, 1978.	Henry Bedson commits suicide by slitting his throat with a pair of scissors. Janet Parker and her father die.
December 9, 1979	Official date of the WHO certification of the global eradication of smallpox.
1987-1990	Soviet missile tests of a MIRV ICBM missile system for delivering weapons-grade smallpox in warheads to cities in North America.
1980? -1989	Soviet military biologists are storing at least one, and possibly two, twenty-ton stockpiles of frozen smallpox for use as a strategic weapon, in bombs and ICBM missile warheads
October 27, 1989	Dr. Christoper J. Davis, an analyst with British intelligence, has the first major insight into the fact that the Soviet Union has a strategic biological weapons program, with the contagious weapons smallpox and plague. He will receive an Order of the British Empire for his insight.
1990	Scientists at Vector, a Soviet virology complex in Siberia, allegedly develop a new method for mass-producing tonnage quantities of smallpox for loading into weapons systems.
1990	U.S. public health officials debate whether the known stocks of smallpox should be destroyed, which would presumably make smallpox extinct as a species. (They don’t know about the Soviet biowarfare program with smallpox.)
1991	The WHO destroys 99.75 % of its stockpile of smallpox vaccine, leaving the WHO with a total of one dose of vaccine for every twelve thousand people on earth.
January, 1991	Secret team of biological weapons inspectors from the United States and Britain tours some of the scientific facilities of Biopreparat, the Soviet Union’s vast, secret biowarfare program. They discover evidence that scientists at Vector, the Biopreparat virology facility in Siberia, have been working with smallpox as a biological weapon.
December, 1991	Fall of the Soviet government and breakup of the Soviet Union. Establishment of the Russian Federation.
1991	By the account of Russian scientists, North Korea acquires a Russian strain of smallpox, either by theft or by buying it from an expatriate Russian scientist.
1991	J. Craig Venter, Joseph Esposito, and other sequence the entire DNA of the Rahima strain of smallpox.
1973 – present day	Iraqi scientists are thought to be developing and working with smallpox as a biological weapon. The Iraqi research may include the technique of genetic engineering of the smallpox virus’s DNA, to make smallpox more deadly or evasive of the vaccine.
1994	The year in which Vector scientists claim to have moved smallpox from a WHO repository in Moscow, without the permission of the WHO, to Vector, in Siberia. (In fact, smallpox has been at Vector all along.)
1996	The WHO votes again to destroy all the public stocks of smallpox, with a deadline of June 30th, 1999
September, 1998	Lisa Hensley goes to work as a post-doc at Usamriid, at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and will end up working in the group led by Peter Jahrling, a prominent virologist there.
January 14, 1999	The Ad Hoc Committee on Orthopoxvirus Infections (the WHO’s expert advisory panel on smallpox) meets to decide whether to destroy the stocks. D. A. Henderson passionately argues for the destruction of the stocks. The panel votes to destroy smallpox.
Spring, 1999	The U.S. government reverses its position and pushes for the retention of smallpox stocks for research—principally so that Peter Jahrling and his colleagues at USAMRIID can work on new drugs and vaccines for smallpox.
January 12, 2000	Lisa Hensley nearly infects herself with Ebola Zaire.
Spring, 2000	First monkey model experiment with smallpox by Peter Jahrling and John Huggins at the Maximum Containment Laboratory (the MCL) at the CDC in Atlanta. The experiment does not yield any useful result.
September 2-3, 2000	Peter Jahrling and Richard Moyer learn of the Jackson-Ramshaw IL-4 mousepox experiment and object to its publication on grounds that it is a blueprint for the biological equivalent of a nuclear bomb—a recipe for a possibly vaccine-proof engineered smallpox.
February, 2001	The Jackson-Ramshaw experiment is published in the Journal of Virology.
May 30, 2001	Start of the second monkey model experiment at the Maximum Containment Lab in Atlanta.
June 4, 2002	Lisa Hensley and Mark Martinez observe monkeys dying of hemorrhagic smallpox in the Maximum Containment Lab. This is the first time any species other than man has been seen to die of smallpox virus.
June 6, 2002	A monkey nicknamed “Harper” develops classical ordinary smallpox in the MCL. He survives his disease.
September 11, 2001	The World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks by al-Qaeda. The entire CDC is evacuated during the terror event.
September 16	D. A. Henderson goes to work for the U.S. government as a bioterrorism expert.
September 18	Someone mails letters full of crumbly granular anthrax to media figures in New York City—to Tom Brokaw of NBC, and to CBS, ABC, and the New York Post.
October 5	Robert Stevens, a photo editor at The Sun, in Boca Raton, Florida, dies of inhalation anthrax (from a letter that went through his mail bin).
October 6	CDC epidemiologist Brad Perkins and his team of investigators determine that Robert Stevens was infected through the mail, and Perkins asks for the FBI to be brought in “full force.”
October 9	On or slightly before this date, someone mails letters full of finely powdered weapons-grade anthrax to Senators Daschle and Leahy.
October 15	The Daschle letter containing powdered anthrax is opened in the Hart Senate Office Building. Usamriid scientist John Ezzell starts analysis of the powder in the letter and finds it has the characteristics of a biological weapon.
October 16	Usamriid scientists continue with analysis. Peter Jahrling and Tom Geisbert are drawn into the case, fearing that the Daschle letter may contain smallpox.
October 17	Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson asks Congress for enough money so that every American can have a dose of smallpox vaccine.
October 19	Tom Geisbert obtains the first very clear images of the Daschle powder in its dry state, and discovers, to his shock, that it looks like “moon rocks” and “skulls.”
October 21-22	Postal workers from the Brentwood mail-sorting facility are dying of anthrax.
October 24	Top-security meeting at the Roosevelt Room in the White House to discuss the anthrax terror emergency. Peter Jahrling first begins to think that the anthrax terrorist(s) could conceivably have been American, and could have manufacture the anthrax in a small lab somewhere.
January, 2002	Dr. Alfred Sommer, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, strongly objects to Peter Jahrling’s monkey model experiments with smallpox, calling Jahrling and his colleagues “idiots of the worst sort.”
June 25, 2002	FBI teams search the apartment of former Usamriid scientist Dr. Steven Hatfill, in Frederick, just outside the gates of Fort Detrick. The FBI says Hatfill is not a suspect in the anthrax terror event. Hatfill strongly denies any involvement in the anthrax attacks and says that he is cooperating with the FBI in order to clear his name.
January – July 2002	The FBI investigation into the anthrax terror attacks—Amerithrax—appears to stall out.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

KAMAL AMROHI'S PAKEEZAH ,KHALISTAN AND DOVE ON THE DOME OF BETHLEHEM

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

KAMAL AMROHI'S PAKEEZAH ,KHALISTAN AND DOVE ON THE DOME OF BETHLEHEM

Intra-Family Political Strife Shakes DMK Party in Tamil Nadu