Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Wine - The divine drink

A holy obsession

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Wine and woman have always remained as man’s two great desires. While a woman is a part of a man; wine prevails as his biggest obsession. This unearthly drink has admirers from people of classes; emperors to laymen. The impact of wine on human body is nothing less than the ecstatic state achieved by saints and other holy people; (calling liquor spirit is not without cause). This comparison has made wine a holier drink leaving poor beer the other beverage to remain always as its poor cousin. Read More...


Sunday, November 30, 2008

The Southern Cross Flight

The ‘Southern Cross’, the first flight across the Pacific (Eightieth Anniversary),

First trans-Pacific flight celebrates its 8oth anniversary in August 2008.

The Southern Cross inside the Kingsford Smith Memorial, a climate-controlled sealed glass building

The Southern Cross inside the Kingsford Smith Memorial, a climate-controlled sealed glass building

Our commercial flight operation is eighty years old.

Smith and Ulm were youngsters from the Imperial Air Force of Australia with un-satiable desire for flying over un-chartered territories; and taking risks was for them a way of life. This mission was not just risk taking; it was history in the making. At present when the age commercial aircraft operations is counted this land-mark flight is taken as the starting point and our commercial flights are eighty years old; as this Southern Cross flight occurred on 1928; crossing the mighty Pacific for the first time in an aircraft; covering a distance of 11588 km! Read More...

Monday, July 28, 2008

Golden Temple of Dambulla Srilanka

Dambulla Cave Temple (Golden Temple of Dambulla) Sri Lanka

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Dambulla Caves one of the largest and undoubtedly the best preserved cave temple did not have to be discovered as they were always there as place of visit and worship. It was in 2nd century BC King Valagam bahu modified the caves as shrines but there were signs of human inhabitations in these caves since 6th century BC far before the advent of Buddhism; as human skeletons of more than 2700 years were discovered from nearby caves suggest. Read more....

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