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Rose – Wallpapers and Quotes

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. – -Turkish Proverb
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Oh, my luve’s like a red, red rose,
That ’s newly sprung in June;
Oh, my luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.
-Robert Burns

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses – -Oscar Wilde

My heart is a red rose. When happy, it sparkles brillianly. When sad it bleeds and forms a dark puddle under it. When my heart dies, the soft fragile petals fall. So you might want to put your rose in a vase – Claire Charmont

 

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
John Boyle O’Reilly

Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
-Arthur Miller

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
-Robert Browning Hamilton

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
-W. Somerset Maugham

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
– J. M. Barrie

I cast my heart into my rhymes,
That you, in the dim coming times,
May know how my heart went with them
After the red-rose-bordered hem.
– William Butler Yeats

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still aflying,
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
– Robert Herrick

 

Rain – Quotes and Wallpapers

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. (James Dickey)

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. (Langston Hughes) Continue reading Rain – Quotes and Wallpapers

Eiffel Tower in Pictures

The Eiffel Tower (French: La Tour Eiffel) also called by its nickname (La dame de fer, the iron lady) is a “puddle iron lattice tower” in Paris. This historic structure was Built in 1889. It has since become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The tower is the tallest building in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was built as the entrance arch to the 1889 World’s Fair.

Eiffel Tower 1878
Eiffel Tower 1878 during construction

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The Breathtaking Jasper National Park – Alberta – Canada

Jasper National Park is the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies, spanning 10,878 km² (4200 mi²). It is located in the province of Alberta, north of Banff National Park and west of the City of Edmonton. The park includes the glaciers of the Columbia Icefield, hot springs, lakes, waterfalls and mountains. Wildlife in the park includes elk, caribou, moose, mule deer, white-tailed deer, mountain goat, bighorn sheep, grizzly bear, black bear, beaver, Rocky Mountain pika, hoary marmot, grey wolf, mountain lion, and wolverine. It is considered one of the most beautiful places on earth.

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Most Expensive Cities to Live in

Various factors contribute into a city’s cost-of-living for expatriate employees, such as monetary value, consumer confidence, investment, interest rates, exchange rates of the country’s currency, and housing costs. Combine all these and some living standards and you get these lovely but expensive cities. Almost all of them are in the US, Europe, China, Japan and the UAE.

Singapore

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Hurricane – Amazing | Beautiful | yet Deadly

Hurricanes, which are also known by other names such as cyclones, tropical storms, tropical cyclone, typhoon and tropical depression is an amazing act of our Earth’s atmospheric system. Stunning and beautiful as it seems to the eye, when seen from distance, this is an enormously powerful natural behavior which may leads to a widespread destruction, such as the famous Hurricane Katrina. Mostly there is a Hurricane active anywhere on earth which is the center of attention such as Hurricane Irene. But we would like to analyze the beauty, hidden behind this.

Isidore-sunset taken from 7000 ft altitude

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Tallest Clock Tower of the World – Makkah Royal Clock Tower

The Abraj Al-Bait Towers

The Abraj Al-Bait Towers also known as the Mecca Royal Hotel Clock Tower breaks several world records in the construction world, including: the tallest hotel in the world, constructed with the tallest clock tower in the world and displaying the world’s largest clock face, the world’s largest building floor area, and is the second tallest building in the world upon completion, surpassed only by Dubai’s Burj Khalifa.

 

Kaba view from clock tower
Kaba view from clock tower