May this year brings all the desired success and happiness in your life that you can cherish always. Happy New Year 2015!!!!
Friday, January 2, 2015
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
2014 Ending!!!
2014 (MMXIV) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar (dominical letter E), the 2014th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 14th year of the3rd millennium, the 14th year of the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2010s decade.
By the United Nations, 2014 is designated the:
- International Year of Family Farming and Crystallography.[1]
- International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.[2]
January[edit]
- January 1 – Latvia officially adopts the euro as its currency and becomes the 18th member of the Eurozone.[3]
February[edit]
- February–ongoing – The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa begins, infecting over 20,000 people and killing at least 7,000 people, the most severe both in terms of numbers of infections and casualties.[4][5]
- February 7–23 – The XXII Olympic Winter Games are held in Sochi, Russia.[6][7]
- February 13 – Belgium becomes the first country in the world to legalise euthanasia for terminally ill patients of any age.[8]
- February 22 – The Ukrainian parliament votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from office, replacing him withOleksandr Turchynov, after days of civil unrest left around 100 people dead in Kiev.[9]
- February 26–ongoing – The pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine leads to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and an insurgency in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
March[edit]
- March 5 – Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, severs diplomatic and political ties with Panama, accusing Panama of being involved in a conspiracy against the Venezuelan government.[10]
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- March 8 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 airliner en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board. The aircraft is presumed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.[11]
- March 16 – A referendum on the status of Crimea is held.[12]
- March 21 – Russia formally annexes Crimea after President Vladimir Putin signed a bill finalizing the annexation process.[13]
- March 24 – During an emergency meeting, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, andCanada temporarily suspend Russia from the G8.[14]
- March 27 – The United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 68/262, recognizing Crimea within Ukraine’s international borders and rejecting the validity of the 2014 Crimean referendum.[15]
- March 31 – The United Nations International Court of Justice rules that Japan's Antarctic whaling program is not scientific but commercial and forbids grants of further permits.[16][17]
April[edit]
- April 10 – In response to the 2014 Crimean crisis, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) passes a resolution to temporarily strip Russia of its voting rights; its rights to be represented in the Bureau of the Assembly, the PACE Presidential Committee, and the PACE Standing Committee; and its right to participate in election-observation missions.[18]
- April 14 – An estimated 276 girls and women are abducted and held hostage from a school in Nigeria.[19]
- April 16 – Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks after an unmanageable cargo shift, killing 304 people, mostly high school students.[20]
- April 27 – The Catholic Church simultaneously canonizes Popes John XXIII and John Paul II.[21]
- April 28 – United States President Barack Obama's new economic sanctions against Russia go into effect, targeting companies and individuals close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.[22]
May[edit]
- May 5
- The World Health Organization identifies the spread of poliomyelitis in at least 10 countries as a major worldwide health emergency.[23]
- Boko Haram militants kill approximately 300 people in a night attack on Gamboru Ngala.[24]
- May 20 – Terrorists in Nigeria detonate bombs at Jos, killing 118 people.
- May 22 – The Royal Thai Army overthrows the caretaker government of Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan after a failure to resolve the political unrest in Thailand.[25][26]
June[edit]
- June 5–ongoing – A Sunni militant group called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (also known as the ISIS or ISIL) begins an offensive through northern Iraq, aiming to capture the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and overthrow the Shiite government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.[27]
- June 12 – July 13 – The 2014 FIFA World Cup is held in Brazil, and is won by Germany.
- June 19 – King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, who ascends the Spanish throne as King Felipe VI.
July[edit]
- July 8–August 26 – Amid growing tensions between Israel and Hamas following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June and the revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager in July, Israel launches Operation Protective Edge on thePalestinian Gaza Strip starting with numerous missile strikes, followed by a ground invasion a week later. In 7 weeks of fighting, 2,100 Palestinians and 71 Israelis are killed.
- July 17
- After a five-hour humanitarian ceasefire, Israel confirms the beginning of a ground offensive in Gaza.[28]
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes in eastern Ukraine after being shot down by a missile. All 298 people on board are killed.[29]
- July 21 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2166 in response to the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.[30]
- July 24 – Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashes in Mali, killing all 116 people on board.[31]
August[edit]
- August 7 – Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are found guilty of crimes against humanity and are sentenced to life imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.[32]
- August 8 – The United States military begins an air campaign in northern Iraq to stem the influx of ISIS militants.
September[edit]
- September 22 – The United States and several Arab partners begin their airstrike campaign in Syria.[33][34]
- September 26 – The 2014 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, to be held in Cape Town from 13 to 15 October, is suspended after a boycott of Nobel Laureates to protest the third time refusal of a visa to the 14th Dalai Lama by a South African Government "kowtowing to China".[35][35][36][37]
October[edit]
- October 19 – The Roman Catholic Church beatifies Pope Paul VI.[38]
- October 31 – Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré resigns after widespread protests in response to the attempt in abolishing presidential term limits.[39]
November[edit]
- November 2 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the final part of its Fifth Assessment Report, warning that the world faces "severe, pervasive and irreversible" damage from global emissions of CO2.[40]
- November 12 – The Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe successfully lands on Comet 67P, the first time in history that a spacecraft has landed on such an object.[41]
December[edit]
- December 17 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces the resumption of normal relations between the U.S. and Cuba.[42]
- December 28 – Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 disappears on a flight between Surabaya, Indonesia and Singapore with 162 people aboard.[43] The plane is later found to have crashed in the Java Sea off the coast of Borneo.
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Fløibanen Funicular Railway, Bergen | Norway
Fløibanen funicular railway in Bergen - one of the most famous tourist attractions in Norway. Funicular is located in the heart of Bergen, 150 meters from the fish market Fisketorget and Bryggen. Fløibanen Funicular quickly takes you from the city center to the top of Mount Floyen, at 320 meters above sea level.
Floibanen was officially opened on 15 January 1918. The idea to build transport to Fløyen was put forward in 1895 by John Lund, a member of the Norwegian legislature. Work to build Fløibanen started in 1914. The line was ready in 1918. Today the company is owned 44% by the municipality of Bergen, the rest spread on various private interests.
Two cars, each with room for approximately 80 passengers, operate between the center of Bergen and Fløyen throughout the year. The length is 850 m or 2,789 ft and the height difference is 300 m or 984 ft. Fløibanen is a narrow gauge railway, with a gauge of 1,000 mm or 3 ft 3 3/8 in. Each car is named and individually painted - Blåmann is blue, whilst Rødhette or equivalent to Little Red Riding Hood in English, is red. The cars were named by the winners of a naming competition. [First Image credit Bergenseren]
Image credit Michael Hanisch
The trip takes approximately seven minutes with stops at all stations, and 3 min. 20 secs. non-stop. Service travel speed is either 4 or 6 m/s (13.12 or 19.69 ft/s) depending on traffic load. Typically, 6 m/s (19.69 ft/s) is selected when there are eight or more departures per hour, including two calling at all stations. The funicular operates a basic schedule with departures every 30 minutes from opening until 10 o'clock, then every 15 minutes until 20:30 when half-hour service resumes until closing.
Bergen, Norway-Fløibanen Funicular to Mount Fløyen. Image credit Wayne Hopkins
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The funicular is fully wheelchair-accessible at the bottom and top stations only. Small, manual wheelchairs may be carried on and off the funicular by staff at the intermediate stations. Electric wheelchairs up to 900 mm wide enjoy full access to both the funicular and the facilities at Fløyen.
The Fløibanen funicular railway, this is the view from the top of Fløyen Mountain
Bergen, Norway. Image credit 261066
Source — Wikipedia
Photos: The highs and lows of MS Dhoni's roller-coaster Test career
In that same tour, he scored his maiden Test century off just 93 balls. Overall, this is the third fastest in test cricket by a wicketkeeper/batsman. Reuters
Dhoni with his flowing mane during the Test series against Sri Lanka in which he made his debut. He went on to play in 90 Tests. AFP
Andrew Symonds of Australia survives a stumping attempt by MS Dhoni of India during day one of the Second Test match between Australia and India at the Sydney Cricket Ground on January 2, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. But not many have been as lucky as Symonds. Dhoni holds the world record for number of stumpings in international cricket - with 134. Getty Images
Dhoni was skipper when India drew the series in South Africa in 2010 1-1. He was in the middle with Sachin Tendulkar when the little master brought up his 50th Test ton. Reuters
But he has struggled as a skipper overseas. In India's last two series against England, the visitors lost 1-3 and 0-4. In this picture, Dhoni trudges off dismissed for a duck during the fifth cricket test match against England at the Oval cricket ground in London August 17, 2014. Reuters
Dhoni's low points were not just overseas - where he lost eight consecutive Tests overseas. England beat his side in India too — but Dhoni continued to lead the team. Probably the series loss against Australia was too much - and Dhoni called it a day from Test cricket. The flowing mane has now turned to a greying crop and he will still go down as one of India's greatest test players. Getty Images
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