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General Discussion / Re: The Hidden Meaning Of Your Eye Color

« on: April 25, 2019, 06:12:11 am »

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General Discussion / The Hidden Meaning Of Your Eye Color

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General Discussion / Re: What Does Your Handwriting Say About You

« on: April 25, 2019, 06:00:44 am »

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General Discussion / Re: What Does Your Handwriting Say About You

« on: April 25, 2019, 06:00:28 am »

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General Discussion / Re: What Does Your Handwriting Say About You

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General Discussion / Re: What Does Your Handwriting Say About You

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General Discussion / Re: What Does Your Handwriting Say About You

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General Discussion / What Does Your Handwriting Say About You

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Festival Day Wishes / Re: Wish You Happy Easter 2019

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General Discussion / The Grand Old Lady of Indian Weightlifting

« on: April 18, 2019, 06:45:33 am »

Kunjarani Devi, at 46, is the grand old lady of Indian weightlifting.

She was the first woman weightlifter to win the Arjuna award, way back in 1990, and shared the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award with Leander Paes in 1996-1997.

The bespectacled Manipuri, the most decorated lifter of the country, competed well past her prime.
For the diminutive lady, the climb to the top was arduous. When she first took up the sport she faced a lot of resistance, not only from her family but others as well in her native Manipur.

But, having decided on making weightlifting a career, she worked tirelessly and tasted success early.
She started winning almost everything at the national level, which encouraged her to strive for honours internationally.

She put Indian weightlifting on the world map by winning a gold medal in the 48 kg category at the 18th Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, with a record overall lift of 166 kg, which included 72 kg in snatch and 94 kg in the clean and jerk.

In recognition of her accomplishments, the International Weightlifting Federation named her as one of the finest lifters of the 20th century.

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General Discussion / First Female Olympic Boxing Champion

« on: April 18, 2019, 06:42:46 am »

Nicola Adams OBE is a British professional boxer. The first woman to win an Olympic boxing title, she is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medalist in the women's flyweight division. As of 27 May 2016 she is the reigning Olympic, World, Commonwealth Games and European Games champion at flyweight.

On being asked how it all began Nicola says: “I was good at it, I was the only girl and I suppose I was the little star, and I loved it. I loved it when people said I boxed like a boy. It gave me a lot of confidence and street cred.” A routine developed. Nicola went to Agnes Stewart School each day, came home, did her homework, went to the gym, came back home, went to bed.” “What mum wouldn’t be happy with that?” says Dee. At the age of 13, she won her first competitive fight – there was a problem though: practically everybody hated the idea of women boxing, and it was another four years before she found a second opponent. The situation was this: the women’s sport was completely banned in the UK until 1996. You’re probably wondering why. Well, it was on the grounds that premenstrual syndrome made women too unstable to box.

“It’s hard to believe that ban carried on until 1996, and the reason is like something from a hundred years before,” she says. “But women have had to fight for everything, they had to fight for the vote, they had to fight to compete in the marathon, it’s always been a fight.”

Adams represented Haringey Police Community Club at boxing. She is openly bisexual, and was named the most influential LGBT person in Britain by The Independent in 2012. She also became the first openly LGBT person to win an Olympic boxing Gold medal, after her win at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Stories - கதைகள் / Re: 10 Success Stories That Started With Failure

« on: April 18, 2019, 06:41:20 am »

10. Oprah Winfrey grew up in poverty, was raped at age nine and thirteen, ran away from home and gave birth at 14 to a son who died soon after. She still went on to become the world’s first African-American billionaires.

Oprah Winfrey was born into a poor home in Mississippi to a single teenage mother. She was raped at the age of nine when she left her grandmother’s home to live with her mother. The sexual abuse did not stop and continued through the ages of ten through fourteen.

Her mother sent her out of the house at fourteen and she went to live with her father. It was at this point that she realized she was pregnant. She lost her son two weeks after delivery. Oprah and her father turned the experience around, and he made sure she became an excellent student.

After moving to Chicago to become a talk show host, she was told she could not compete with talk show host, Phil Donahue. But she proved her supervisors wrong and she surpassed him in ratings.

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Stories - கதைகள் / Re: 10 Success Stories That Started With Failure

« on: April 18, 2019, 06:34:25 am »

9. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche was kicked out of industrial design school for not being talented enough. The design director of Porsche rejected his ideas and he had to outsource it to an external contractor to build his design.

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche decided not to follow the steps of his engineering father and grandfather. He chose to study design instead of engineering. The designer of the Porsche 911 was kicked out of industrial design school in his first year as his talent was not recognized. He went on to work for his father at Porsche.

The design director of the company rejected his design ideas also, so he went to an external contractor and had the prototype of the Porsche 911 built. The car is still a bestseller today.

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Stories - கதைகள் / Re: 10 Success Stories That Started With Failure

« on: April 18, 2019, 06:32:12 am »

8. Colonel Sanders went broke at the age of 65 when his restaurant started losing business and he had to sell it. He slept in his car for two years and was rejected by restaurant owners 1,009 times when he tried selling his chicken recipe.

Colonel Sanders had a fairly successful life. He had a very successful restaurant business, but it took a blow once the Interstate 75 was built. The road took traffic off Route 25 where his business was situated. Once Colonel Sanders noticed his business was going downhill, he sold the restaurant at an auction and used the money to pay his debts.

At the age of 65, after he received his first social security check of $105, he started looking for restaurants to which he could sell his chicken recipe. Colonel Sanders got rejected 1,009 times and slept in his car for two years before he found a restaurant owner who bought his recipe.

Nine years later, his chicken was sold at 600 restaurants in Canada and the USA. He sold Kentucky Fried Chicken for $2 million.

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Stories - கதைகள் / Re: 10 Success Stories That Started With Failure

« on: April 18, 2019, 06:30:04 am »

7. Jim Carrey was born into a poor home. He worked at a factory as a teenager to provide support for his family. He was also an undiagnosed dyslexic who struggled with school and did not have a lot of friends.

Hollywood actor Jim Carrey came from a poor family. As a teenager, he had to work eight-hour shifts at a factory to support his family. He left school at the age of 16 as he found it difficult to cope with school and his job at the factory.

Carrey started performing stand-up comedy at the age of 15 and was encouraged by his father not to give up on his gift. He once gave himself a post-dated check for $10 million. He got his big break with the movie Dumb and Dumber and was finally able to cash it. Jim Carrey became the face of comedy in Hollywood and even became the highest paid actor, earning over $20 million per movie.