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Share the informations which are unbelievable , Amazing , Exciting & interesting , If you have such kina stuff which looks good and interesting to read than this is the right place to share the excitement : <br><b>18 Years old G.Uday Shanker from Andhra Pradesh set a record in Guiness Books by recalling a 30 numbers Odd figures thrown on computer for 30 seconds..His memorising power is just wonderful....Congrats to G.Uday Kumar.<b>

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Shanti Devi: An old women from haryana in her younger days to get rid of stomach ache used to suck ice cubes since then till now everyday she sucks 3-4 Kilograms of Ice Cubes Daily no matter whatever the wheather is.

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What is his name actually ?

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Just heard Paul Harvey talking about a guy in Bhopal, India who can type 60 words/minute (Don\'t know if on a typewriter or a computer keyboard). Heh, no big deal? Take this. He does that with one finger.

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His name is Farhat khan.
http://www.navakal.com/news/picture/2003010702.asp

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The flawless Kohinoor has evoked more bloodshed and treachery than any other stone in the history of the world. Nadir Shah plundered Delhi for two months just to get a hold of it.

Thereafter, Sher-e-Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh got it back to India after considerable bloodshed from Shah Shoojah, Nadir Shah’s descendant. Maharaja Ranjit Singh passed it on to his 11-year-old son Duleep Singh at the time of his death.


The Kohinoor in the Queen Mother’s crown

It was from this infant king that Lord Dalhousie procured the Kohinoor and presented it to Queen Victoria. It has been in England since then.

Last Sunday the Kohinoor triggered another war, diplomatic in nature, between India and Britain. Two years back, the Rajya Sabha initiated a bid to get the Kohinoor back to India — where it rightfully belongs.

A daily poll last Tuesday (December 31), asked readers “Should the Indian government take up the Kohinoor issue with Britain?” This time round none of the readers chose the middle path, all off them either wanted it back or did not want to rake up the issue.

A whopping 83 per cent wanted the Indian government to take up the issue with Britain while a mere 17 per cent said “No”. The issue has also been discussed on the Internet and figures under the heading “Stolen Art or Finders Keepers” at http://home.att.net/~tisone/problem.htm by Dede Tisone-Bartels.

Much mystery surrounds the origin of the Kohinoor. But most legends agree that it was found in the mines of South India. There is much debate over the exact location though.

One legend has it that it was found in the mines of Golconda, present day Andhra Pradesh. Another account bases the origin of the Kohinoor during the same time as the Mahabharata took place.

People subscribing to this point of view believe it was found in a mine along the Godavari river and belonged to Karna, the step-brother of the Pandavas. A third version maintains that the diamond was quarried from the Kollur mines on the banks of the river Krishna.

The first recorded owner of the Kohinoor were the Malwas, who got the diamond in 1304. It is also agreed that Allaudin Khilji came to possess the precious stone in 1304 when he became the emperor of Delhi.

Thereafter it was passed on, in turn, to the rulers of Delhi including, the Ghoris, Tughlaqs, Syed and the Lodhis. The great Mongolian warrior Timur the Lame took the Kohinoor to Samarkand in 1399 when he successfully attacked Delhi.

Babur got the diamond back to Delhi in the 16th century when he set up the Mughal empire in India.

However, another version contradicts the assumption that Babur got the stone from Timur’s descendants. It says that Allaudin Khilji defeated the last defeated the last king of Gujarat and got the Kohinoor.

Yet another legend has it that the precious gem was given to Humayun by the wives of Raja Bikramjit of Gwalior in 1526 after the Battle of Panipat. Humayun, in turn, gave the stone to his father Babur.

It his here that the first authentic reference to the Kohinoor is found as recorded in the Baburnama. In his memoirs, Babur wrote that they (the people of Gwalior) presented the diamond to Humayun as a tribute. Humayun presented the Kohinoor to Babur when he (Babur) reached but he returned it to Humayun as a present.

From this point on, the Kohinoor was passed on to each succeeding Mughal emperor who occupied the throne until 1739, when Nadir Shah conquered India and seized all the jewels of Mughals.

Nadir Shah plundered Delhi for two months to get hold his hands on the Kohinoor. But he failed. In the end, just before he was to leave the city, a harem girl told him that Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah always carried the gem in his turban.

By trickery Nadir Shah obtained Muhammad Shah’s turban and when he spotted the diamond, he exclaimed “Kohinoor!” or the “Mountain of Light” in Persian. [Since then the diamond has come to be known as the Kohinoor.]

Nadir Shah took the diamond back to Iran with him. After Nadir Shah’s assassination, the diamond came into his son’s possession who gave it to Ahmad Shah Durrani of Afghanistan as a present and there it remained till 1813.

In 1813, Sher-e-Punjab Maharaja Ranjeet Singh took Shah Shoojah prisoner and took the Kohinoor from him. After the second Anglo-Sikh war in March 1849 Maharaja Ranjeet Singh died.

The East India Company annexed the region of Punjab and confiscated everything of value, including the Kohinoor, Darya-i-Noor and Timur’s Ruby.

Lord Dalhousie, then the governor-general of India, confiscated all the property of the State of Lahore for use by the East India Company except the Kohinoor, which he saved for Queen Victoria.

This gem was brought to England under heavy protection. The Kohinoor was, in the end, gifted to Queen Victoria by Maharaja Duleep Singh, the son of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh, who was eight-years-old when he was brought to England and sign over his kingdom to the British.

British businessman Trilok Singh Wouhra, who started the Maharaja Duleep Singh Project, a registered charity, in an interview in 1997 said, “Lord Dalhousie sent the Kohinoor to Queen Victoria as a present from the East India Company on a ship under the watchful eyes of three attendants. When Duleep Singh came to England, Queen Victoria saw the minor Maharaja standing in the palace and playfully twisting and turning the jewel in his hand. It looked like Duleep Singh was about to throw away the gem but instead turned around and gave the Kohinoor to the Queen as a gift.”

Wouhra added that Lord Dalhousie was furious when he heard about this incident as he did not see any point in giving the Kohinoor back to the young Maharaja and then taking it back as a gift.

In 1852, Queen Victoria had the Kohinoor recut from its original 186 carats to bring out its inner fire. The recutting reduced the Kohinoor to 109 carats and, most unfortunately, also reduced the diamond’s brilliance instead of enhancing it.

Nevertheless, Queen Victoria wore it as a brooch until her death, whereupon it was transferred to the crown of Queen Mary. It was later set in the crown made for the coronation of Elizabeth II.

Queen Elizabeth has never worn the Kohinoor, The gem was last donned by the Queen Mother at the 1937 coronation of her husband, King George VI.

Presently the Kohinoor lies in the Crown Jewels section of the Tower of London.

In 1997, a lot of controversy over the 105.6 carat diamond shrouded Queen Elizabeth’s visit to India.

That year, just before the Queen’s visit to the country, Punjab farmer Beant Singh Sandhawalia claimed to be the last-surviving heir of Maharaja Duleep Singh, through adoption.

He wrote to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and to the Buckingham Palace to restore the Kohinoor to him. He contended that he did not want the gem for personal spoils but for the country as it was a part of India’s national heritage and he wanted it to be kept at the museum at the Golden Temple in Amritsar if he succeeded in getting the Kohinoor back to India.

Around the same time an Englishman claimed to be a great-nephew of Maharaja Duleep Singh said he had first claim the Kohinoor. Art dealer James Birch, the White Maharaja of Clerkwell who claimed to be the descendent of the last Sikh emperor, however wanted the diamond to remain in London as a part of the Queen Mother’s crown.

However last Saturday, Indian high commission spokesman Navdeep Suri said in London that the Indian government has a legitimate claim on the Kohinoor diamond. “We hope to resolve this issue as soon as possible.”

“The Indian high commission is watching closely the evolving position of the British government on the issue, both in the context of Kaufman’s report and on the ongoing controversy pertaining to the Greek demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles currently lying in the British Museum.” Kaufman’s report was not in favour of returning the diamonds to India.

Two years back, the Indian MPs had launched a demand for the Kohinoor to be returned to India. The Taliban had also staked claim to the Kohinoor as they claimed that it was an heirloom of the Afghan monarchy.

At one point of time even Pakistan had staked its claim over the diamond saying it was taken by the British from the state of Lahore which was ruled by Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab. Not much has come of any of these demands as Britain is firm that the Kohinoor will stay where it is right now.

The Kohinoor diamond is not the only treasure that still remains in the hands of the British Crown. Last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar’s crystal throne, his gold crown and the jewelled “Huma” bird that had once decorated the throne of Tipu Sultan are still in Britain and yet to be returned to India where they rightfully belong.

The Mughal spoon of gold studded with priceless rubies, Emperor Shah Jahan’s jade wine cup, the Padishahnama of Shah Jahan and the original manuscript of the Badhshahnama are also lying behind glass cases in the museums of Britain where numerous visitors pay a fee to catch a glimpse of the world’s glorious past.

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Dudaram Gujjar from Madhya pradesh want to pull an Airplane with the help of his hairs and want to set a record in guiness..He already pulled a car and a tractor in a show recently..Best of luck to Gujjar...