Photo contest 2011 by national geographic traveler – Win a Trip

National geographic photography competition is started for this year 2011. This is the 23rd Annual Photo Contest by national geographic.

Photo Contest categories: like Travel portraits: Local working, playing, celebrating, outdoor scenes: Landscapes, aerials, wildlife, waterscapes, Scene of place: Pictures that evoke the essence of a destination, Spontaneous moments: Fun, quirky, surprising, and unrehearsed moments.

By winning in this contest you can win a trip to British and Irish isles. Entry fees for this contest are $15 per entry. The last date for the submission of the entry into this contest is June 27 2011.if you cannot make it to this date then you can pay $10 and join the contest before July 11 2011.

Prizes : you can win 1st prize for 14 day expedition for two to British and Irish,2nd price for nine night in trident hotel in India,3rd price for 2 and a half day photo workshop with Santa Fe Workshops and 7 more merit prices are also there.


Photography competition rules:

To know more about the rules of this photo contest conducted by national geography traveler hit www.nationalgeographic.com/travelerphotocontest

Bill Gates facts, the World’s richest man’s facts - year by year

Some of the facts about Bill Gates, the world’s richest man are below. Bill Gates all facts are interesting, his way of life is remarkable with lot of achievements as a very young boy.

Bill Gates Born as an American. Here you can see some facts about Bill year by year. Bill Gates has three 3 Children . His Parents are William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates

1955 – The World’s No.1 Man Bill Gates born on October 28, 1955.(1955-10-28)

1967 – Gates enrolls at 13 at Lakeside school. Programs tic-tac-toe in a General Electric computer.

1968- At 14 he starts programming with Paul Allen.

1968 – Gates get banned from computing center for manipulating bugs to get free computing time blocks.

1973 – Bill gates scored 1590 out of 1600 in SAT.

1975 – At 21 Bill gates move to Albuquerque to work at MITS with Paul Allen on BASIC.

1975 – They name their company as MICRO-SOFT.

1980 – Bill Gates sells DOS for the IBM PC for $80,000.

1985 – Bill gates launched Windows1.0.

1990 – Windows 3.0 and MS office 1.0 were launched.

1994 – Bill Gates married Melinda.

1995 – Bill Gate’s Microsoft stuns the world with his Windows 95 launch.

2000 – Bill and Melinda Gates created the own foundation to help development across the world.

2001 – Windows XP launched.

2007 – Windows vista launched.

2008 – Bill Gates left his daily work at Microsoft.

2008 – Bill Gates last day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008.

2010 - Gates was awarded the 2010 Bower Award for Business Leadership

2010 – Bill Gates was honored with the Silver Buffalo Award by the Boy Scouts of America.

2010 – Bill gates earns US$250 every day.

2011 – The Net worth of Bill Gates is US $ 56 billion.

Interesting facts about Gandhi

Some of the interesting facts about Gandhi ...........

Gandhi’s Birth:

• Gandhi’s full name is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
• Gandhi is famously called as Bapu, Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhiji, and Father of India.
• Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948 in Porbandar
• He was born for Karamchand Gandhi (Father) and Putlibai Gandhi (Mother).
• He was born a Hindu and practiced Hinduism all his life

Marriage life of Gandhi:

• In May 1883, the 13-year old Mohandas was married to 14-year old Kasturbai Makhanji.
• When Gandhi was 15, the couple's first child was born, but survived only a few days
• Mohandas and Kasturbai had four more sons.
  

Gandhi fighting for Indian independence:

• In 1893, Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment.
• Gandhi was a prolific writer.
• Young India is a journal published by Gandhi.
• Gandhi employed non-cooperation, non-violence and peaceful resistance.
• The Salt Satyagraha, which began with the Dandi March on March 12, 1930, was an important part of the Indian independence movement by Gandhi
• Gandhi is a lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian
• Gandhi revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
• Gandhi is well know for his simplicity
• He only wear kathar dress which is made by himself.
  
• Gandhi become barrister in University College London, University of London

Gandhi Assassination:

• On 30 January 1948, Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer meeting.
• Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, he was a Hindu nationalist

Gandhi’s awards and Global recognition:

• Time magazine named Gandhi the Man of the Year in 1930.
• Gandhi was also the runner-up to Albert Einstein as Person of the Century at the end of 1999.
• "Christ gave us the goals and Mahatma Gandhi the tactics." – Martin Luther King Jr
• Mahatma Gandhi was on a 1969 postage stamp of the Soviet Union.
• Mahatma Gandhi District in Houston, Texas
• Monument to Mahatma Gandhi in New Belgrade, Serbia. On the monument is written "Non-violence is the essence of all religions"

Biography of Mahatma Gandhi :

• Gandhi wrote several books including his autobiography, An Autobiography of My Experiments with Truth.
• Biography of Mahatma Gandhi is taken as a film in 1982.
• The film Gandhi won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
• The film Gandhi Grossed $52,767,889 revenue.