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  Stories on lord Ganesh series...

  Anusha HS

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  Lord Ganesh is the son of Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva. He is the first one to get worshipped before worshipping any other god. We can say in short that there is no Hindu who doesn't perform Lord Ganesh’s worship. In Ramayana Lord Rama had worshipped Lord Ganesh. 
  In Mahabharata Lord Krishna had also worshipped Lord Ganesh. They have become the role models to the whole world. Before the beginning of any work it is common to worship Lord Ganesh. There are many Holy hymns on Lord Ganesh. Lord Ganesh’s favorite food is modak. 
  He gets pleased if we offer Durva grass to him. He also loves red Hibiscus flower. He is called the vighnaharta because he wards off all the obstacles in our life. He is also called vighnaraja. There are infinite names to Lord Ganesh which we cannot explain. He ties a snake around his waist. 
  The vehicle of Lord Ganesh is mouse in Hindu culture. Lord Ganesh is worshipped all over India. His miracles have been described in all of the 18 Puranas. There are many forms of Lord Ganesh. 
  He has got two wives one is riddhi and the other is siddhi.Lord Ganesh has got 32 forms of incarnations. The modak which you offer to Lord Ganesh will give you good results. Lord Ganesh does not bias among his devotees. He is specially worshipped on sankashti days. On Ganesh Chaturthi people fast and perform vrath.On this day it is forbidden to see Chandra the moon.

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  Wish I Were Here - Boredom and...

  Mark Kingwell

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  Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for. Offering a timely meditation on the profound effects of constant immersion in technology, also known as the Interface, Wish I Were Here draws on philosophical analysis of boredom and happiness to examine the pressing issues of screen addiction and the lure of online outrage. Without moralizing, Mark Kingwell takes seriously the possibility that current conditions of life and connection are creating hollowed-out human selves, divorced from their own external world. While scrolling, swiping, and clicking suggest purposeful action, such as choosing and connecting with others, Kingwell argues that repeated flicks of the finger provide merely the shadow of meaning, by reducing us to scattered data fragments, Twitter feeds, Instagram posts, shopping preferences, and text trends captured by algorithms. Written in accessible language that references both classical philosophers and contemporary critics, Wish I Were Here turns to philosophy for a cure to the widespread unease that something is amiss in modern waking life.

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  Storming the Heavens - African...

  Gerald Horne

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  The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African Americans to gain the right to fly. This struggle involved pioneers like Bessie Coleman, who traveled to World War I–era Paris in order to gain piloting skills that she was denied in her U.S. homeland; and John Robinson, from Chicago via Mississippi, who traveled to 1930s Ethiopia, where he was the leading pilot for this beleaguered African nation as it withstood an invasion from fascist Italy, became the personal pilot of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie, and became a founder of Ethiopian Airways. Additionally, Horne adds nuance to the oft told tale of the Tuskegee Airmen and goes further to discuss the role of U.S. pilots during the Korean war in the early 1950s. He also tells the story of how and why U.S. airlines were fought when they began to fly into South Africa—and how planes from this land of apartheid were protested when they landed at U.S. airports.

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  Vietnam Green Berets SOG Medal...

  Keith McKim

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  The stories that i write and tell are about the extraordinary men of sog, macvsog, military assistance command, vietnam, special operations group, code named the studies and observation group.sog was the best kept secret of the vietnam war, so secret that is was labeled a “black” operation, meaning that its very existence was concealed, even denied by the united states government. this top secret unit existed for only eight years; january 1964 thru may 1972.   during that time it established tactics that are still in use today and in the eight years of its existence it garnered nine medals of honor for the green berets. 23 sog men received the distinguished service cross, the second highest medal awarded for valor in combat. most sog medals were downgraded by at least one degree in order to keep attention away from their top secret operations.   operations that were conducted “across the fence”, that is to say, across the international borders of laos, cambodia and north vietnam. there were 248 medals of honor awarded during the vietnam war. most of these medals were awarded posthumously, in fact 156 (62.9%) were awarded posthumously.  army soldiers received the most medals of honor with 161, followed by the marines with 57, 16 went to the navy and 14 to the air force. of the 161 medals of honor awarded to the army 21 went to special forces, the green berets, representing over 13% of all medals of honor awarded.   of the 21 awarded to special forces nine went to sog. at the height of the vietnam war there were over 600,000 american soldiers serving in uniform in vietnam. of that six hundred thousand, only four thousand were special forces, the green berets, representing less than 1%, yet they garnered 13% of the medals of honor. consider also that of those four thousand green berets fewer than 10% a year volunteered for macvsog’s top secret operations. when you eliminate the administration, training and support personal, that number shrinks to about 108,

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  The Voyage of the Beagle

  Charles Darwin

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  Charles Darwin was just twenty-two when he went on his first voyage around the world in 1831. Darwin's father at first refused to allow his young son to go on the voyage. Fortunately, his father relented, and Darwin's journal is now considered by many to be the greatest scientific travel narrative ever written.  
   
  Revised by the author in 1860, this is an account of his experiences on the HMS Beagle, a ship that was mapping the coast of South America. What was set to be a two- or three-year voyage stretched out to a five-year adventure. Darwin took copious notes during the voyage, notes that would later lead to his formulation of the theory of evolution. He was able to observe coral reefs, fossil-filled rocks, earthquakes, and more, firsthand, and then make his own deductions.

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  Anxiety Relief Coaching sessions...

  Think ThinkAndBloom

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  Anxieties arrive when we are uncertain about our lives. We have panics and fears that we don’t know what to do. During anxiety moments, we lose track of focus and center. We need tools to help us to get out of the anxiety state.  
  We will go through a “personal coaching session” addressing the root cause of your anxieties. We rewire our brains to present the moment and solutions. We let go of the emotional cause of the anxiety. We allow ourselves to safely receive guidance and support from the universe.  
  In this course, you willhave a “personal coaching session”Release self-sabotaging patternCalm our mind deeplyBring back our attention to the present moment Finding solutions from divine guidance Finding the emotional root cause Feel safe in moving forward in life  
  By finding the root cause of your anxiety, we release the emotions and attachments to it. We bring back solutions hope and faith in the present moment.

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