Photo contest 2011 by national geographic traveler – Win a Trip

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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.