Taj Mahal - Worldest top third landmark

Not only does Taj Mahal is the India's highest number of tourist grosser, its also the top third global landmark. this historic monument also call monument of love receives about 15 per cent of the total foreign tourist visitors to India. Ahead from Taj Mahal are Eiffel Tower in Paris who is the number...

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New Years Eve 2009

Hello,Good day for a 5k wouldn’t you say?  The race is the Central Vermont Runners First Night Montpelier 5k and it is all set to start at 3pm.  I am excited I don’t have any expectations as far as running a good time in this one… I have been so busy with work over the last couple of weeks...

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Wednesday, day of too many sweets

So, today has not gone well.  Too much sweet junk food.  I’m actually throwing the reese’s pb cup xmas trees in the trash, and topping them with soap.  I bought them to use as stocking stuffers this weekend, and instead I’m shoving them down my piehole like I’m preparing...

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INCREDIBLE WAR IMAGES

This one is from the Second World War. The American plane had a lousy landingThese German soldiers had a bad end tooUS soldiers go boom in Afghanis...

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German soldiers in Russia: Part 4

A German soldier with a MG-34 machine gun with optical sights. German technology at workThis man has a bite to eat. He has a machine gun and a hand grenade by his sideGerman sniper in camouflage mask, armed with a carbine Mauser 98 K with an optical sight.A soldier catches his dead colleague on filmHaving...

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German soldiers in Russia: Part 3

The pictures in this article are rather grim. They show the brutal side of German soldiersThe Soviet POW stands glumly in a German army truck. Wonder what happened to the man laterGerman flame-thrower all set for actionThese men are trying out the gallows before it is used on RussiansKilling RussiansA...

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German soldiers in Russia (Eastern Front): Part 2

Taking a break after a hard day. Or has the bad news started coming in?This man is reading a letter from home. His mother or his girlfriend or wife?This German is writing backBonding together. Hard to imagine that these men were made out to be monsters. They look like just a bunch of, say American soldiers...

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German soldiers in Russia (Eastern Front): Part 1

This is a dismal picture from the Russian Front. A dull, foggy day. German soldiers bid farewell to their departed colleaguesSocialising. A relaxed lull in the warCaptured guns from the Russians?Seems like there is a Soviet soldier around. The German soldier is alert and nervous. The officer is calm...

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Snowboarding = Confidence Booster

Last Wednesday, I went snowboarding for the first time in my life.  I’d actually never gone skiing either, so the whole concept of going down a hill with my feet strapped into purposely slippery objects was completely new to me.Yeah, I didn't really look like this. Not at all.Sure, it was fun. ...

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Allow me to introduce myself...

My name is (The Venture Boy) and this is my world.  This page will expose my non-business adventures and unbelievable, but entirely true stories, along with occasional tidbits of entrepreneurial experience and updates thrown in.  This is my educational background:  I dabbled in high school and struggled through college.  During these times I acquired many entertaining...

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Defining Blog Positions within the Text

Benefits Adding your location to a blog post makes it easy for other readers to discover the location you are describing. Other tools can extract this information and automatically build maps like on our sailing blog (both in-blog and interactive). Friends can see where you are and fellow cruisers will be able to use your blog as a personal cruising guide.Blurbbits can extract a lat/lng position from...

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Kalbimin Kapılarını Kapattım…

Geçtiğimiz günlerde internette dolaşırken yukarıdaki resmi gördüm ve takıldım kaldım. Gerçekten tek bir karede anlatılmak istenen herşeyi anlatan bir çizim. Hisslerime tercüman olan, yüreğime ayna tutan bu resmi zihnimin en kalıcı yerine yerleştirdim.Herşeyi anlatıyor aslında bu kare. Benim için yüklendiği...

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From Mists to Mysts, Part 14: Night Visit

Darkness came more slowly in the city of tents, because it was higher ground and no trees blocked the sky. Fortis and George had slipped into the academy, one of two permanent structures in the area. The ancient stone building was simple, though quite large. They had been placed in a room on the third floor, and Fortis sat on the tiny balcony. The wind was cool, but the night dampness had not yet...

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Some dramatic images from Second World War

German soldiers do a house-to-house search in Ukraine in the earlier days of the war in RussiaFrench 370-mm howitzer M1915, manufactured by Schneider and used by the Germans as a coastal artillery, captured by the Americans.The German soldiers sprang a surprise on the Americans in Ardennes in 1944American...

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