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"Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose" - Most Dynamic and Influential Leader... The Young Subhas Subhas Chandra Bose was born on January 23, 1897. His father was Rai Bahadur Janakinath Bose, a prominent lawyer of Cuttack, Orissa. His mother was Prabhavati Bose, a remarkable example of Indian womanhood. Later, the world came to know him as Netaji. After completing his early studies at the European Protestant Collegiate School in Cuttack, he came to Calcutta to study at Presidency College in 1913. Upon completing his graduation, he left India for England to appear at the Indian Civil Service Examination, but he was reluctant to work under the British Government. Thus he resigned and returned to India on the call of Chittaranjan Das. More Information Bose (second from left) and the team of volunteers for medical mission in China Arriving for the Congress meeting in 1938 After the European tour Arriving for the All India Congress Committee meeting in 1939 Netaji reviewing INA troops in Singapore after formally taking command Subhas with Mahatma Gandhi in 1938 Netaji in Germany Bose along with Rommel, the famous German field marshal Cabinet members of the Provisional Government of Azad Hind, 1943 George Lansbury (1859-1940) the Labour politician greets the Indian nationalist leader and President of the All-India Congress Subhas Chandra. Subhas Chandra Bose in a Tokyo speech in 1945 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose during his house arrest at Kurseong Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose' elder Sarat Chandra Bose with his wife and children at their Giddepahar Bungalow in Kurseong Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at Gidhepahar, Kurseong flanked by young Indian nationalists Amiya Basu and Shishir Basu

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Sankore Mosque "TIMBUKTU" - Amazing Photos... Posted: 02 Aug 2010 08:30 AM PDT Timbuktu (Timbuctoo) (Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu; French: Tombouctou) is a city in Tombouctou Region, in the West African nation of Mali. It was made prosperous by the tenth mansa of the Mali Empire, Mansa Musa. It is home to Sankore University and other madrasas, and was an intellectual and spiritual capital and centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its three great mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahya, recall Timbuktu's golden age. Although continuously restored, these monuments are today under threat from desertification. Populated by Songhay, Tuareg, Fulani, and Mandé people, Timbuktu is about 15 km north of the Niger River. It is also at the intersection of an east–west and a north–south Trans-Saharan trade route across the Sahara to Araouane. It was important historically (and still is today) as an entrepot for rock-salt originally from Taghaza, now from Taoudenni. Its geographical setting made it a natural meeting point for nearby west African populations and nomadic Berber and Arab peoples from the north. Its long history as a trading outpost that linked west Africa with Berber, Arab, and Jewish traders throughout north Africa, and thereby indirectly with traders from Europe, has given it a fabled status, and in the West it was for long a metaphor for exotic, distant lands: "from here to Timbuktu." Timbuktu's long-lasting contribution to Islamic and world civilization is scholarship. Timbuktu is assumed to have had one of the first universities in the world. Local scholars and collectors still boast an impressive collection of ancient Greek texts from that era.By the 14th century, important books were written and copied in Timbuktu, establishing the city as the centre of a significant written tradition in Africa.