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Think or blink!!!

46. Ring a Ring o’ Roses



Ring-a-Ring o’Rosies
A Pocket full of Posies
“A-tishoo! A-tishoo!”
We all fall Down!

This innocent looking rhyme first appeared in 1881, in the book Mother Goose. In reality it goes back in time to the 1660s, when The Great Plague ravaged humanity.

Bubonic plague or Black Death prevailed in London in 1665. It had claimed the lives of 70,000 people out of the 4,60,000 residents of London!

Doctors attending on the plague affected people had to wear protective outfits and a huge bird like mask, to protect themselves from being infected by the disease!

Nothing could stop the spread of this deadly disease. Only The Great Fire of London in 1666 could check the spread of Plague, by killing all the rats.

“Ring a Ring o’ roses” refers to the rosy colored rash, appearing on the affected person, as an early symptom of Plague!

“A pocket full of posies” refers to the medicines and herbs people used to carry in their pockets-hoping to keep off the plague!

“Achoo! Achoo! We all fall down” refers to the last sneezes of the affected person before he falls down, quite dead!

So the sad story of The Great Plague lies concealed in the most popular rhyme-which children love most. They love to play in groups, holding hands and running in circles!

Visalakshi Ramani

​https://visalakshiramani.wordpress.com/articles/xii-nursery-rhymes/1-ring-a-ring-o-roses/
 
Looks like it is a global affair and not just a local or a national affair!


  • NewsANI
    Tripura Health Min raises concern over increasing HIV cases in 3 northeastern states

    Agartala (Tripura) [India], Dec 01 (ANI): Tripura Health Minister Sudip Roy Barman has expressed concern over the increase of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection cases, particularly in three northeastern states- Mizoram, Tripura and Manipur. Delivering a lecture while attending an awareness campaign against HIV- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) organised by the Tripura AIDS Control Society (TACS) on the eve of World AIDS Day, the minister said, "It is a matter of concern because when the overall number of HIV infected persons in the country is declining, there is a spurt in the number of infected persons in Tripura, Manipur, and Mizoram." Barman asserted that keeping this in view, the government of Tripura has declared a war against HIV- AIDS.
 
Smitten is the right word- since most Indian fathers will not hug their grown up daughter in this manner.

A Man hugging a woman must do it from the side - without coming into contact with her breasts either with his chest or his arms.



StyleLatestly
Shah Rukh Khan is Completely SMITTEN By Suhana's Exceptional Performance as Juliet in a Play

Shah Rukh Khan never misses an opportunity to spend time with his kids and the world knows how attached he is to the three of them.


 
Invisible strings were being pulled!





  • StyleThe Independent
    Cambridge Analytica 'used people's fashion tastes to help Trump into power'

    Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie has claimed that the political consulting firm used Facebook data on people's fashion tastes to encourage them to vote for Donald Trump during the 2016 US election. The 29-year-old researcher, who exposed his former employer's severe misuse of data during the election earlier this year, alleged the tactic also boosted the profile and ideologies of Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist. “Fashion data was used to help Bannon build the alt-right,” he said at The Business of Fashion’s annual Voices conference in Oxfordshire on Thursday, claiming that examining Facebook “likes” for American heritage brands, such as Wrangler and LL Bean, helped the company identify people’s political leanings and see who might be most susceptible to pro-Trump messaging.
 
Rowboating is OK. :thumb:

Showboating is NOT! :nono:





  • NewsThe Guardian
    G20 summit: can world leaders find unity - or is it simply showboating?

    Vladimir Putin, Melania Trump, Mauricio Macri and Angela Merkel attend a banquet at the 2017 G20 summit in Hamburg. The leaders from the world’s 20 biggest economies converge on Buenos Aires on Friday looking for consensus on the global flows of trade and investment - at a time when such consensus has been increasingly difficult to come by. Ten years on from the first G20 summit - convened in an effort to alleviate the global financial crisis - the Argentinian hosts are struggling to find common ground among the heads of state and government representing 19 of the biggest national economies and the EU - 85% of global economic output.
 
One can never be too careful!

[COLOR=#198FFF !important]GoodReturns

Fake Rs. 2000 Currency Note On The Rise: How To Know If Its Fake Or Not?

Roshni Agarwal,GoodReturns Sat, 1 Dec 10:54 AM IST
Not only having fake currency notes amount to you losing value of the money but it may be also taken by the authorities as you being involved in some unscrupulous activity such as promoting black money or engaged in money laundering. So, herein you need to be now very careful as reports have brought to light massive increase in fake or counterfeit currency notes in Rs. 2000 denomination.
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Also when you know of the currency note being fake, the process of exchanging is no easy a process and involves a lot of investigation. And in a case you happen to come across one of these fake notes, you need to report it at the nearby RBI headquarters or police station.

To note and know the authenticity of the Rs. 2000 bank note you possess or happens to come to you, you need to give heed to the following features present in the authentic Rs. 2000 note:

In its obverse front, you need to make sure that the bank note has these features-

1. See through the currency to note the numeral 2000

2. Numeral 2000 in devnagari script

3. Latent image highlighting the 2000 numeral which signifies the bank note denomination

4. Note should bear at the centre the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi

5. On the left side, bank note features '2000' and 'RBI' in micro letters

6. Towards the right, the note has the governor's signature, guarantee clause as well as promise clause and RBI emblem.

7. On the right Ashoka pillar emblem and the right Mahatma Gandhi portrait and electrotype (2000) watermarks.

8. Numeral 2000 in colour changing ink in green and blue colour on the bottom right.

9. Windowed security threat that bears the inscriptions of RBI, 2000 and 'भारत' and colour shift. The thread changes in colour as and when the note is tilted from green to blue.

10. On the right, Horizontal rectangle with ₹2000 in raised print

11. On both the sides, Rs. 2000 bank currency notes features in raised print 7 angular bleed lines.

12. Numeral growing on the bottom right and top left side from small to large.

For visually impaired Intaglio or raised printing of Mahatma Gandhi
portrait, Ashoka Pillar emblem, bleed lines and identity mark.

THANKS for detailing all the special features!

The counterfeiters will produce notes with greater care in the future!! :moony:
 
To be praised by one's 'enemy' is a great achievement indeed!

Gorbachev hails late George H.W. Bush's role in ending Cold War ...

https://www.reuters.com/...bush-gorbachev/gorbachev-hails-late-george-hw-bushs-rol...

21 hours ago - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, on Saturday hailed the late George H.W. Bush’s role in helping end the Cold War and an arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. ... The result was the end of the Cold War and the nuclear arms race ...


 
Wise before this event or after another event? :decision:

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[h=3]Trump orders US flags at half-staff for month in honour of Bush Sr.[/h][FONT=&quot]Washington, Dec 2 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered the flags at the White House and in all US territories to wave at half-staff for the next 30 days in honour of former President George H.W. Bush, who died on Thursday night at the age of 94. "I...do hereby direct that the flag of the US be displayed at half-staff at the White House and o
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