JALLIKATTU Or Taming The Bull, An Evenment Happening with Poongal

Fight with Bulls - A new challenge.

One killed, 36 hurt in jallikattu

Youth trying to tame a bull at a jallikattu, organised as part of the 85th birthday celebrations of CM M Karunanidhi at Anna Stadium in Tiruchy on Sunday.

JALLIKATTU: extreme wild bull taming

In Jallikattu, an agitated bull is set to run in an open space. Several people, empty handed, try to tame it by controlling its horns. The winner gets a prize, which is generally tied to the horns of the bull. Only men take part in this game. Sometimes, more than one bull is loose at the same time. The village farmers take this game as a display of their masculine strength. Betting is also common during the game.

Famous Jallikattu locations include:

* Alanganallur
* Tiruvapur near Pudukottai
* Thammampatti in Salem, Tamil Nadu
* Palemedu near Madurai
* Sravayal near Karaikudi
* Kanduppatti near Sivagangai

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Funny Photos - Over WEIGHT

“Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.”

A passenger waits for a delayed flight at Heathrow airport's terminal four in London

What A Smile

WHAT A SMILE

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

Love Quotes...More than kisses, letters mingle souls

* Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ~ Alan Watts

* Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. ~William Penn

* More than kisses, letters mingle souls. ~ John Donne

* Loving you is like breathing, how can I stop. ~ Unknown

* Love leads to devotion and devotion is the key to success. ~ Anonymous

* Love knows not its depth till the hour of separation. ~ Khalil Gibran

* Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~ Jean Anouilh

* Love is when you look into someone's eyes, and see everything you need. ~ Unknown

* Love is when you give 60% and take 40%. ~ Unknown

* Love is trembling happiness. ~ Khalil Gibran

Biggest Snakes Ever! - Amazing Video

Giant Killer Snakes

The History Channel had a program tonight called “MonsterQuest.” It was about pet snakes that were turned loose in the wild. Photos and video below.

The “MonsterQuest” crew researched reports of escaped or released pet pythons in the Florida Everglades. Supposedly they’ve grown in “super snakes” that could eat an entire alligater. Then they headed to Venezuela to look for giant anacondas.

Helicopter Crash Landing

And it looked like he was going to stick the landing too!

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Fountains outside Bellagio

AMAZING VIDEO

The fountain show outside the Bellagio as viewed from the top of the Eiffel tower across the street in Las Vegas

1010 Girls On One Photo...Don't Miss

More than a thousand girls gathered on a beach in Sydney (Australia) to establish a new record of having as many girls in bikini on one photo as possible.






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CHINA WALL....

The Great Wall of China (simplified Chinese:traditional Chinese: pinyin: Chángchéng; literally "Long wall") or (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng; literally "The long wall of 10,000 Li " is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 6th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire from Xiongnu attacks during the rule of successive dynasties. Several walls, referred to as the Great Wall of China, were built since the 5th century BC. The most famous is the wall built between 220–200 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang; little of it remains; it was much farther north than the current wall, which was built during the Ming Dynasty.

The Great Wall stretches over approximately 6,400 km (4,000 miles)from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia, but stretches to over 6,700 km (4,160 miles) in total. At its peak, the Ming Wall was guarded by more than one million men.It has been estimated that somewhere in the range of 2 to 3 million Chinese died as part of the centuries-long project of building the wall.

World's Deepest Swimming Pool

World's deepest swimming pool with 2 pools, 3 pits (5, 10 and 33m) and 2,500,000 liters of spring water.

The recreational diving center Nemo 33 near Brussels, Belgium is home to the world's deepest swimming pool. The pool has two large flat-bottomed areas at depth levels of 5 m (16 ft) and 10 m (32 ft), and a large circular pit descending to a depth of 33 m (108 ft)

Nemo 33 is a recreational diving center in Brussels, Belgium that is home to the world's deepest swimming pool. The pool itself consists of a submerged structure with flat platforms at various depth levels. The pool has two large flat-bottomed areas at depth levels of 5m (16 ft) and 10m (32 ft), and a large circular pit descending to a depth of 33m (108 ft). It is filled with 2,500,000 litres of non-chlorinated, highly filtered spring water maintained at 30°C (86°F) and contains several simulated underwater caves at the 10m depth level. There are numerous underwater windows that allow outside visitors to look into the pools at various depths. The complex was designed by Belgian diving expert John Beernaerts as a multi-purpose diving instruction, recreational, and film production facility, and opened in 2004.

Pictures of the World's deepest Swimming Pool

Love Quotes....Love can give fresh inspiration

1. Romance is like chess-one false move and you're mated. ~

2. Perhaps LOVE is the process of me leading you gently back to yourself. ~

3. People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~

4. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. ~

5. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ~

6. One must learn to love and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul... ~

7. One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love. ~

8. One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. ~

9. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~ Charles M. SchulzNobody is perfect until you fall in love with them. ~

10. Never underestimate the amazing power of love to change hearts and mindsets. Love can even give fresh inspiration to tackle what seems to be impossible. ~

Shadow Art

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Cute Cate Feelings - Funy Photos

* In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat. - Warren Eckstein

* There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. - Tay Hohoff

* One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do. - Barbara Webster

* The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. - Jules Reynard

* Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner. - Stephen Baker

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Indian Family Waiting On The Bus - Funny Photos

This was shot on a hot day in Delhi… I was wondering if they were thinking it was hot… probably not… they seemed not to notice at all and were just having fun talking to one another.



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Silly Teenage boy - Funny Photos

Teenage Quote

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.

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Love Quotes -

(1) The heart is on the left but always right. ~

(2) The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. ~

(3) The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

(4) That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

(5) Sometimes somebody says something really small and it just fits into this empty place in your heart.

(6) Sometimes it's hard to love someone because you're so afraid of losing them. ~

(7) Sometimes I wonder if life is really worth it, then I look at your smile and I know it is. ~

(8) Someone has stolen my heart and you are the highest on my list of suspects. ~

(9) Some joys are better expressed in silence as a smile holds more meaning than words. I was asked if i enjoy having you in my life..I just smiled! ~

(10) Shake hands and rancor will disappear. Give presents to each other and love each other and enmity will disappear. ~

Fun Photos

" He is your friend, your partner,
your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader. He will
be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat
of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of
such devotion."

Shocking Sensitive Photos That Shook The WORLD

1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels2001. An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan

1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola

2002. Soldiers and villagers in IRan are digging graves for the victims of the earthquake. A kid holds his father's pants before he is buried

2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child

February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain . The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.

1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut , Lebanon

1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.

1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms

1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger

1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier

1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses

1973. A few seconds before Chile 's elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup

February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan sho ts a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier

1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier

1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States . Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.

January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.

1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.

1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs

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Love Quotes vs Love Thoughts

See your face.
I know that the time is right.
And i wanted.
One more day.
I know that the time is right.
And you were so lost.
For all the times i tried to find the reasons why
And i found you instead.
Of this lie.
The reasons why i will not forget

The Most Expensive Cruise In World

Destinations: Caribbean, Mediterranean, Northern Europe, South America, Transatlantic.
Cost: around $2000 per person/night.
Ship Information
Tonnage: 10,000, Length: 440 feet, Width: 63 feet, Draft: 16.5 feet, Speed: 18 knots
Passenger Capacity: 208 guests
Crew Capacity: 150

Funny Photos

DOG QUOTES

* Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
--- Robert A. Heinlein.

* Obesity is really widespread.
--- Joesph O. Kern II.

* A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
--- Zsa Zsa Gabor.

* When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
--- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

* You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, "Wov, You are right! I never would have thought of that- Dave Barry

* A barking dog is more useful than a sleeping lion-
----Washington Irving.

Sardarji Jokes...

* This sardarji goes to see Jurassic Park and when the Dinosaurs start
approaching, he was hiding under his seat when his friend asks him ;kyon
sardarji, kya baat hai? Dar kyon lag raha hai cinema hi to hai.; Sardarji
replies ;Aadmi hoon aur akkal hai, pata hai ki cinema hai, lekin voh to
janwar hai, usko kya pata"kunjava

* There's a funeral procession of a sardar going on a busy street. All the
sardars in the 'mayyat' are dancing the bhangra and singing and general
'balle balle' is on. The people on the street find it strange that instead mourning everyone is celebrating as if its marriage baraat. So one of
them asks Santa Singh, ;Singh Saab, aapka koi sage wala gujar gaya hai aur
aap naach rahe ho?; .....comes the reply, ;Haan ji! Hai hi baat badi kushi
ki!!! Aaj paheli baar ek sardar brain tumour se mara hai!!!; kunjava

* Sardar Apni Wife Ke Sath Coffee Shop Gaya, hot Coffee order Ki, Coffee Atte Hi wife Se Bola Jaldi Jaldi pee. Wife Boli Kyu? Sardar Bola Hot coffe Rs. 5 and Cold Coffee Rs. 10.00

Love Quotes - There is no remedy for love but to love more.

1. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
2. There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~ Henry David Thoreau
3. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
4. The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. ~ Unknown
5. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ~ G. K. Chesterton
6. The virtue of true love is not finding the perfect person, but loving the imperfect person perfectly. ~ Unknown
7. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
8. The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ~ Anais Nin
9. The less we look with our eyes, the more we will see with our hearts. ~ Lyndsey Albrecht
10. The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Torture Others With Your Smoking Habit….

Quit Smoking,Protect Cockroaches

This picture is really funny and having a great message in it. After all, cockroaches are also creation of God and there is no need to kill them or torture them with your smoking habit….


Well i just do not smoke. Hope that someday these cockroaches will give an honor for that…… HA HA HA

Fun Photos....

You learn to love by loving - Love Quotes

1. Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ~ Leo Buscaglia
2. To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray
3. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~ David Viscott
4. To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. ~ Mark Twain
5. To be in Love is the best way to see the life at it's best! ~ Unknown
6. To be able to say how much love, is love but little. ~ Petrarch
7. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke
8. There's only one place in the world I call home, and it's because you're there. ~ Unknown
9. There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
10. There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving. ~ Aldous Huxley

Love Is One Of The Greatest Feelings....

Romance And Romantic Thoughts


Being in love is one of the greatest feelings. It is exhilarating. It is a dream, which come true for few of us. If you have not professed your love, how will the person you love know that you love him/her?

What are your outer signs that will tell the other person about your feelings? Giving. In love a person gives to make the beloved happy. If you have tried to find out what your beloved likes, you must have tried all your best to give that to him/her. You must have crossed all barriers and used all the means at your disposal to give that to him/her. Am I making sense? Let us discuss little more. For example, if you come to know that your beloved is an avid collector of coins. What will you do? If you are in true love, you will begin searching the rare coins and getting them for him/her. The cost will be no consideration in terms of time or money. You will forget your own work and will be obsessed only with coins. Search, buy and present coins will be your main occupation. To see happiness on your beloved's face when you keep giving coins to him/her you will go to any extent possible. That is love. And that will tell your beloved that you are in love with him/her.


Now, how to know if the person we love is in love with us? How to know that my beloved reciprocates my love? Isn't the answer obvious? She/he will try to please me. She/ he will not be satisfied by getting the coins, but give me what I like. My darling would rather ask me not to bother with the coins at all, but get happiness from what she/he is giving me. Say for example, I love to add gadgets in my car. My darling will get me as many gadgets as my car can carry. On the other hand, I will on a coin-searching spree. That is love all about. It may sound crazy to those who have not experienced it, but it is the only way a person in love behaves.

Love is obsession. Romantic love recognizes no boundaries or logic. It is beyond all that. If you are in romantic love, your only goal will be please your beloved, and if your beloved reciprocates your love, his/her attempts will only be towards making you happy.

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'Human Statue of Liberty'

Photo by Arthur S. Mole & John D. Thomas (1918)
Source of scanned image unknown

Human Statue of Liberty

Netlore Archive: Circulating via email, a vintage 1918 photograph by Mole & Thomas captures an aerial view of 18,000 enlisted men and officers forming a 'Human Statue of Liberty'

An Awesome Patriotic picture


During the WW I years, Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas made some incredible human pictures by using 18K (thousands) sailors or soldiers in uniform to create images.

The Sultan’s Elephant

The Sultan’s Elephant is one of the biggest piece of free theater and it stopped the traffic and captivated everyone who saw it. An earlier post, ‘The Giant Girl Doll‘ is a part of the Sultan’s Elephant show as well. The elephant is made mostly of wood and operated by over ten puppeteers using a mixture of hydraulics and motors. Weighing as much as 7 elephants, a replica was built in Nantes France in 2007. A spectacle on a huge scale, this is one of the most stunning shows which is created by the Royal deLuxe - a French mechanical marionette street theater company. Check out 10 more pics of the Sultan’s Elephant after the jump.

The Sultan’s Elephant Grand Finale In London - Video

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In Thick Fog - Jokes Today

A photographer from a well know national magazine was assigned to cover the fires at Yellowstone National Park. The magazine wanted to show some of the heroic work of the fire fighters as they battled the blaze.

When the photographer arrived, he realized that the smoke was so thick that it would seriously impede or make it impossible for him to photograph anything from ground level. He requested permission to rent a plane and take photos from the air. His request was approved and arrangements were made. He was told to report to a nearby airport where a plane would be waiting for him.

He arrived at the airport and saw a plane warming up near the gate. He jumped in with his bag and shouted, "Let's go!" The pilot swung the little plane into the wind, and within minutes they were in the air.

The photographer said, "Fly over the park and make two or three low passes so I can take some pictures."

"Why?" asked the pilot. "Because I am a photographer," he responded, "and photographers take photographs."

The pilot was silent for a moment; finally he stammered, "You mean you're not the flight instructor?"

FRIENDSHIP Is Like A Needle Of A Clock - FRIENDSHIP SMS QUOTES

WE ARE LOVELY FRIENDS

Gud relationz doesn't need any promises, any terms or conditions.......
It just need two wonderful people.
One Cool like me...One Sweet like u...
---------------
FRIENDSHIP is like a needle of a clock.
Though we r in same clock, we r not able 2 meet.
Even if we meet, itz only 4 few seconds.
But we always stay connected
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Stars r far away,d sun\\\'s 2hot to touch,
n moons unapproachable so i broght u in my life s a Frnd
bcoz i alwys wntd 2hav my own littl Universe...
Happy frndshp day
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we r ;-/)) , driving
(@)<=(@) in our own STREET called LIFE & im so glad dat in 1 of intersections i met nice "Fri?d" like U! HAPPY FRIENDSHIP डे
---------------
ur look made my hour,
ur smile made my day,
ur laugh made my month,
ur touch made my year,
&
ur friendship made my life!!!

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General Quotes - Mahatma Gandhi quotes

Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

* “When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator”
* “Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected”
* “What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.”
* “We must become the change we want to see.”
* “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong”

Jokes Today

CAN I COME IN PLEASE?