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Buildings: AdobleA house made from sun-dried bricks of clay and straw - usually built in warm, dry climates like the south western U.S. ApartmentA set of rooms in a building which usually contains other similar sets of rooms. BarracksA building or set of buildings used to house soldiers. BoardinghouseA house in which rooms are rented and meals are served in a common dining room. BungalowA small house with a low,wide roof and a porch. It is usually one story high. ChaletA mountain house with a wide,overhanging roof and posts and beams. The style originated in Switzerland. ChateauA home for nuns. CottageA small country home or summer house used for vacations. Duplex ApartmentAn apartment with two floors of living space. Duplex HouseA house divided into two living units. EstateA large country house with seperate buildings on a large tract of land. FarmhouseThie dwelling for people who live and work on a farm raising animals or crops. FlatAn apartment on one floor of a building. Geodesic DomeA large, flat-bottom boat used as a home. HoganA building made of logs and mud, used by the Navaho Indians. IglooA house built by Eskimos of blocks of ice. The name means "hot house". JacalA thatched hut made of intertwined branches and mud, built in Mexico. KonahA large home in Turkey. LodgeA house usually located in a remote place and used for hunting or skiing. LoftAn apartment in a warehouse or business building. Log CabinA small house made of unhewn timber. ManseIn Scotland, a house in which a minister lives. Mobile HomeA trailor used as a permanent home and made without a permanent foundation. Nissen HutA premade shelter with a semicircular arching roof of corrugated iron, and containing a cement floor. Octagon HouseA house with eight sides. PalaceA large, grand building in which royally live. PenthouseA large apartment located at the top of building. Quonest HutA premade, portable circular hut made of metal and used by the U.S. Army. RectoryThe house in which a Roman Catholic priest or Episcopal cergyman lives. ShantyA shack. Sod HouseA house made of bricks of sod, which is earth with grass and its roots. In the 19th century, these were built on the American prairie where there were no trees. Just grassy land. Studio ApartmentA one-room apartment with a kitchen and bathroom. TentA portable house made of skins, Canvas, or nylon. Tepee, TipiA cone-shaped portable home made of buffalo skins and tree saplings, used by the American Indians of the Great Plains. Tenement`A rundown, low-rent apartment building. Underground HouseAn earth shelter built below the ground. The earth keeps the house warm in the winter and cool in the summer. VillaA large country or resort home. WigwarmA hut with a frame made of poles and covered iwht bark,rush mats, or hides, used by American Indians. YurtA circular, portable, hut used as a home by asian shepherds. It is similar to the American wigwarm. ZarebaAn African fort made of thorny bushes.
Airlines of the world: No.AirlineCountry 01B.O.A.C.ENGLAND 02Air FranceFRANCE 03Lufthansa German AirlinesW.GERMANY 04Pan American World Airways SystemU.S.A. 05Trans-world AirwaysU.S.A. 06Aero-flotU.S.S.R. 07AlitaliaITALY 08Quantas Empire AirwaysAUSTRALIA 09Air-IndiaINDIA 10SabenaBELGIUM 11Arana Afghan AirlinesAFGHANISTAN 12Cathay PacificHONGKONG 13FinnairFINLAND 14IberiaSPAIN 15Japan AirlinesJAPAN 16Garuda AirwaysINDONESIA 17KLM Royal DutchNETHERLANDS 18BruathensNORWAY 19Scandinavian Airlines SystemNORWAY 20SwissairSWITZERLAND 21Pakistan International AirlinesPAKISTAN 22Royal Nepal AirlinesNEPAL 23Air-CeylonSRI LANKA 24Thai Airways InternationalTHAILAND
Bharat Ratna: Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi Year: 2008State / Country: Karnataka - India Notes: Hindustani classical singer Ustad Bismillah Khan Year: 2001State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Classical Maestro Lata Mangeshkar Year: 2001State / Country: Maharashtra Notes: Play back singer. Ravi Shankar Year: 1999State / Country: west bengal Notes: Classical sitar player. Amartya Sen Year: 1999State / Country: West Bengal Notes: Nobel Laureate (Economics, 1998), Economist. Gopinath Bordoloi Year: 1999State / Country: Assam Notes: Posthumous, freedom fighter Jayaprakash Narayan Year: 1998State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Social Reformer. Chidambaram Subramaniam Year: 1998State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Freedom Fighter, Minister of Agriculture(Father of Green revolution). M. S. Subbulakshmi Year: 1998State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Classical singer. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Year: 1997State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Former President, Scientist. Gulzarilal Nanda Year: 1997State / Country: Punjab Notes: Freedom Fighter, former Prime Minister. Aruna Asaf Ali Year: 1997State / Country: West Bengal Notes: Posthumous, Freedom Fighter. Satyajit Ray Year: 1992State / Country: West Bengal Notes: Legendary Indian Film Director J. R. D. Tata Year: 1992State / Country: Maharashtra Notes: Industrialist and philanthropist. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Year: 1992State / Country: West Bengal Notes: Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Educator. Morarji Desai Year: 1991State / Country: Gujarat Notes: Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Year: 1991State / Country: Gujarat Notes: Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, First Home Minister of India. Rajiv Gandhi Year: 1991State / Country: New Delhi Notes: Posthumous, Former Prime Minister Nelson Mandela Year: 1990State / Country: South Africa Notes: Second non-citizen and first non-Indian, Leader of Anti-Apartheid movement. B. R. Ambedkar Year: 1990State / Country: Maharashtra Notes: Posthumous, Architect-Indian Constitution, Leader of Buddhist people of India M. G. Ramachandran Year: 1988State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Posthumous, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu, Actor. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Year: 1987State / Country: Pakistan Notes: First non-citizen, Freedom Fighter. Acharya Vinoba Bhave Year: 1983State / Country: Maharashtra Notes: Posthumous, Social Reformer, Freedom Figher. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) Year: 1980State / Country: West Bengal Notes: Naturalized Indian citizen, Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1979). K. Kamaraj Year: 1976State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu. V. V. Giri Year: 1975State / Country: Andhra Pradesh Notes: Former President, Trade Unionist. Indira Gandhi Year: 1971State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri Year: 1966State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Posthumous, Second Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter Pandurang Vaman Kane Year: 1963State / Country: Maharashtra Notes: Indologist and Sanskrit scholar Zakir Hussain Year: 1963State / Country: Andhra Pradesh Notes: Former President, Scholar. Rajendra Prasad Year: 1962State / Country: Bihar Notes: First President, Freedom Fighter, Jurist Purushottam Das Tandon Year: 1961State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Freedom Fighter, Educationalist. B. C. Roy Year: 1961State / Country: West Bengal Notes: Physician, Politician Dhondo Keshav Karve Year: 1958State / Country: Maharashtra Notes: Educationist, Social Reformer Govind Ballabh Pant Year: 1957State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Freedom Fighter, Home Minister Bhagwan Das Year: 1955State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: Philosopher, Freedom Fighter Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya Year: 1955State / Country: Karnataka Notes: Civil Engineer Jawaharlal Nehru Year: 1955State / Country: Uttar Pradesh Notes: First Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter, Author. C. V. Raman Year: 1954State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Nobel-prize winning Physicist Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Year: 1954State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Last Governor-General, Freedom Fighter. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Year: 1954State / Country: Tamil Nadu Notes: Second President, First Vice President, Philosopher.
Country to Language Listing: Country NameLanguages AfghanistanAfghan Persian or Dari, Pashtu, Turkic languages, 30 minor languages with much bilingualism AkrotiriEnglish, Greek AlbaniaAlbanian, Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects AlgeriaArabic, French, Berber dialects American SamoaSamoan, English, Tongan AndorraCatalan, French, Castilian Spanish, Portuguese AngolaPortuguese, Bantu, other African languages AnguillaEnglish Antigua and BarbudaEnglish, local dialects ArgentinaSpanish, English, Italian, German, French ArmeniaArmenian, Yezidi, Russian ArubaDutch, Papiamento, English, Spanish AustraliaEnglish, Chinese, Italian, other indigenous languages AustriaGerman, Slovene, Croatian, Hungarian AzerbaijanAzerbaijani, Russian, Armenian, other indigenous languages BahamasEnglish, Creole BahrainArabic, English, Farsi, Urdu BangladeshBengali, English BarbadosEnglish BelarusBelarusian, Russian, other indigenous languages BelgiumDutch, French, German BelizeEnglish, Spanish, Mayan, Garifuna, Creole BeninFrench, Fon and Yoruba, tribal languages BermudaEnglish, Portuguese BhutanDzongkha, Tibetan, Nepalese BoliviaSpanish, Quechua, Aymara Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnian, Croatian, Serbian BotswanaSetswana, Kalanga, Sekgalagadi, English, other and unspecified BrazilPortuguese, Spanish, English, French British Virgin IslandsEnglish BruneiMalay, English, Chinese BulgariaBulgarian, Turkish, Roma, other and unspecified Burkina FasoFrench, native African languages belonging to Sudanic family BurmaBurmese, minority ethnic groups have their own languages BurundiKirundi, French, Swahili CambodiaKhmer, French, English Cameroon24 major African language groups, English, French CanadaEnglish, French, other indigenous languages Cape VerdePortuguese, Crioulo Cayman IslandsEnglish Central African RepublicFrench, Sangho, tribal languages ChadFrench, Arabic, Sara, more than 120 different languages and dialects ChileSpanish ChinaMandarin, Yue, Wu, Minbei, Minnan, Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages Christmas IslandEnglish, Chinese, Malay Cocos IslandsMalay, English ColombiaSpanish ComorosArabic, French, Shikomoro Congo, Democratic Republic of theFrench, Lingala, Kingwana, Kikongo, Tshiluba Congo, Republic of theFrench, Lingala and Monokutuba, many local languages and dialects Cook IslandsEnglish, Maori Costa RicaSpanish, English Cote d'IvoireFrench, 60 native dialects with Dioula the most widely spoken CroatiaCroatian, Serbian, other and undesignated (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) CubaSpanish CyprusGreek, Turkish, English Czech RepublicCzech DenmarkDanish, Faroese, Greenlandic, German; NOTE: English is the predominant second language DhekeliaEnglish, Greek DjiboutiFrench, Arabic, Somali, Afar
Countries and their Parliaments: Country NameParliament Name AfghanistanShura ArgentinaNational Congress AustraliaThe Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia BahamasGeneral Assembly BangladeshJatiyo Sangsad BhutanTshogdu BrazilNational Congress BulgariaNarodno Sabranieye (National Assembly) CambodiaNational Assembly CanadaParliament of Canada China (Mainland)National People's Congress China (National)Li Fa Yuan (Legislative Yuan) ColombiaCongress of the Republic CubaNational Assembly of People's Power DenmarkFolketinget EgyptConsultative Council and People's Assembly EthiopiaShergo FinlandEduskusta / Riksdagen FranceParlement GermanyBundestag (Lower House), Bundestrat (Upper House) GreenlandLandstinget HungryNational Assembly IcelandAlthingi IndiaSansad [Lok Sabha (Lower House) and Rajya Sabha (Upper House)] IndonesiaPeople's Consultative Assembly and House of Representives IranMajles IraqNational Assembly IsraelThe Knesset JapanThe Diet LaosNational Assembly LibyaGeneral People's Congress MaldivesMajlis MangoliaGreat Hural MyanmarPyithu Hluttaw NepalSansad NetherlandsStaten General New ZealandHosue of Representatives NorwayStortinget Papua New GuineaNational Parliament PolandSejm South AfricaHouse of Assembly SpainCortes Generales (General Courts) SurinamStaten SwedenRiksdagen United Kingdom (UK)Parliament (House of Commons and Hosue of Lords) United StatesCongress (House of Representatives and Senate)
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