Amelia Earhart " The Final Flight "

In June 1937, Amelia embarked upon the first around-the-world flight at the equator. On July 2, after completing nearly two-thirds of her historic flight -- over 22,000 miles -- Amelia vanished along with her navigator Frederick Noonan. They took off from Lae, New Guinea, bound for tiny Howland Island in the vast Pacific Ocean. The distance from Lae to Howland was about equal to a transcontinental flight across the U.S. A great naval, air and land search failed to locate Amelia, Noonan, or the aircraft, and it was assumed they were lost at sea. To this day, their fate is the subject of unending speculation.
Some theorized the pair ran out of fuel looking for Howland Island, and had to ditch in the Pacific. Others thought they may have crash landed on another small island. Some speculated they were captured by the Japanese, accused of espionage, then held as bargaining chips in the event war erupted between the U.S. and Japan.
In 1939, George authored Amelia's biography, entitled Soaring Wings , as a tribute to his beloved wife.

The Kilt

No wonder, for decades, people, mostly ladies have been debating, arguing, chatting, talking and guessing about"What actually is the Scottish guys wear under their kilt"?                                                                       People could discuss and argue and finally make an  educated guesses, but the truth was just already unveiled when a spring breeze on April 1997, during the daily ceremony of the lowering of the flag  at Hong Kong War Memorial.

The Scottish Black Watch Regiment which arrived in Hong Kong in February 1997 is  the last British unit to serve there until the July 1 transfer to the sovereignty of China. Seem, that there is no firm rules regarding under kilt apparel, nor wear nothing. So, it just a matter of practical and preference as well. It's human, isn't it ?

The Black Gold

Oil and Rockefeller is just like fish and water, where there is an oil, Rockefeller will always there. John D Rockefeller started his oil business in 1800 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He began to build his Oil Kingdom by renting his transportation fleet 'The Union Tanker Car' to ship crude oil from oil wells which just discovered in Ohio to the refinery factory in New York.
During 1900 - 1910, The Standard Oil controlled almost all oil fields in California. In the beginning of the twentieth century, his company was the only oil company which controlled oil supply in the world.
In 1911, his giant company was splitted into 35 smaller companies, because the US Government declared The Anti Trust Act. To protect his wealth, he invested his money in banking, he also established 12 banks which finally all of them sold to  the US Government, and then became The Federal Reserve (The Feds).
Although he did not take control fully in oil companies anywhere, he still strong enough to control the American politics during the twentieth centuries.
According to Marshall Douglass Smith in 'Black Gold, Hot Gold' (2001), both the WW1 and WW2 were actually happened because of the conspiracy of The Standard Oil, Shell, and British Petroleum, to share the world oil wells in their control. Who knows? Even the Iraqi war recently was just the result of a conspiracy upon the need of oil.
Think about it !

Madoff's "Ponzi Scheme"

It just unthinkable and unbelievable as well, a list of the rich and famous people in Hollywood, like Steven Spielberg and other well known actors and actress, Larry King of CNN, and several financial institutions like UBS of Switzerland could be deceived in a Ponzi Scheme like in Madoff's mouse trap, which actually had been happening from time to time since long time ago.

The fact is that Madoff never put all the investors' money in either NASDAQ of NYSE, instead he just deposit them in The Chase Manhattan Bank. The high rate of interest paid by Madoff's firm "Bernard Investment Securities LLC" is just a trick to attract more investors, where actually it just impossible illusion to have an average profit 0.4% over the LIBOR. In 2009 Madoff, a Jewish descendant, born in Queens, NY, in 1938, sent to jail for life. The message is clear, do not be greedy buddy!!! and watch out your step !!!

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned. The Ponzi scheme usually offers returns that other investments cannot guarantee in order to entice new investors, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. The perpetuation of the returns that a Ponzi scheme advertises and pays requires an ever-increasing flow of money from investors in order to keep the scheme going.

The system is destined to collapse because the earnings, if any, are less than the payments. Usually, the scheme is interrupted by legal authorities before it collapses because a Ponzi scheme is suspected or because the promoter is selling unregistered securities. As more investors become involved, the likelihood of the scheme coming to the attention of authorities increases. While the system eventually will collapse under its own weight, the recent example of Bernie Madoff powerfully illustrates the ability of a Ponzi scheme to delude both individual and institutional investors as well as securities authorities for log periods: Madoff's variant of the Ponzi Scheme stands as the largest financial investor fraud in history committed by a single person. Prosecutors estimate losses at Madoff's hand totalling $64.8 billion.

The scheme is named after Charles Ponzi,^[1] who became notorious for using the technique in early 1920. He had emigrated from Italy to the United States in 1903. Ponzi did not invent the scheme (Charles Dickens' 1857 novel Little Dorrit described such a scheme decades before Ponzi was born, for example), but his operation took in so much money that it was the first to become known throughout the United States. His original scheme was in theory based on arbitraging international reply coupons for postage stamps, but soon diverted investors' money to support payments to earlier investors and Ponzi's personal wealth.( Wikipedia)

Reinwardt (1773-1854)

Reinwardt Memorial Monument was just established in the opposite side of the front pond of the Presidential Palace of Bogor, Indonesia, in its 189th inauguration of the Bogor Botanical Garden (May 18, 2006).
It is not just a huge plantations collections, but also the world's center of scientific research, especially in plantations. It consists of Bibliotheca Bogorienses (1842), Herbarium Bogoriense (1844), Cibodas Botanical Garden (1860), Treub Laboratory (1884), and Museum & Laboratory Zoology (1894).
This monument itself and the contribution of the institution in the world's science is reflecting the solid as well as close relationship between Germany and Indonesia more then a half century.
Reinwardt was born in 1773 in Luttringhaussen, Germany, he then finished his study in medical and botanical in Amsterdam, where he then became a professor in the University of Harderwijk in his vey young age, 27. In 1816 he was appointed to be Director of Agricultural Affairs, Education & Science on Java. In May 18, 1817 he started to build Bogor Botanical Garden in the former of Buitenzorg Palace.
He returned to Holland in 1823, lectured in the universities an wrote some books before died in 1884. Bravo Herr Reinwardt !!!

Aston Martin

The 007 secret service agent, James Bond, created by Ian Fleming and starred by Sean Connery in Goldfinger (1964), drove DB5 Aston Martin, equipped by machine gun and ejected seat. In the new version, the 007 secret agent starred by Daniel Craig in 'Casino Royale', created by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Brocolli, again, drive a new version of DBS Aston Martin, while the other 007's production series like 'Die Another Day' also supported by special Aston Martin 'Vanquish'.


Here some special cars, which made the stories more interesting and thrilling as well :
-Goldfinger (1963) Aston Martin DB5
-From Russia with Love (1964) Aston Martin DB
-On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) Aston artin DBS
-Diamond are Forever (1971) Ford Mustang Mach 1
-The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) AMC Hornet
-The Spy who Love Me (1977) Lotus Esprit
-From your eyes only (1981) Lotus Esprit Turbo/Citroen 2CV
-Golden Eye (1995) Z3
-Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) BMW 750iL
-The World is not Enough (1999) BMW28
-Die Another Day (2002) Aston Martin V12 Vanquish
Not to mention some special cars produced by Bentley, like R-type Bentley Continental.

The Great Communicator

For over than a century, there were no President in the US who was elected in the years ended with zero, could survive to finished his term.
Harrison (1840), Lincoln (1860), Garfield (1880), Mc Kinley (1900), Harding (1920), Roosevelt (1940), and Kennedy (1960), who also shot to death. It had been a kind of an irrational belief in the Whir House, tyhat nobody could survive to finish the presidential term if he was elected to be a President in thre USA, in the years which ended with zero.
But this superstitious minds were broken when Ronald Reagan could finiish his s econd term in 1988, although he had a lot of problems in finishing his second term, but he survived safely.
Some crucial problems like the domination of Democratic Party in Congress, the insider trading scandal in Wallstreet, the Irangate which made Colonel North and Admiral Poindexter resigned, and William Casey, the Director of CIA died languishly. Not to mention the budget deficit , included the deficit in International Trade, and the falling index of both the capital and financial market.
Beside those problems, his health track record showed that he suffered the alzheimer syndrome which degradated his mind ability rapidly.
Amazingly he survived and finished as well safely his seaond term.
Ronals Reagan was also a' Great Communicator'
Bravo Ron !