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Top 5 Expensive Dolls Of All Times

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:55:39 +0000

Doll collecting has been a favorite hobby of toy and doll lovers since many centuries. The early dolls were made out of porcelain, with delicately painted features and wigs made of real hair. Dolls were made by hand in those days and collected for their beauty, cultural representation and uniqueness. Today, people collect dolls in America for various reasons. One is to flaunt the most expensive doll in one’s collection. This is an expensive hobby, however. Whatever you like to collect – priceless vintage dolls, dolls covered in diamonds, or extremely hard to get first editions – you will have to shell out a pretty penny. Here are the five most expensive dolls of all time.

1. Most Expensive Doll #1

Price: $ 6,250,000

Name: The bird Trainer, L’oiseleur in French

This doll stands a mere 2 meters high, and is dressed in renaissance clothing embroidered in the designs popular during the French renaissance. This luxury doll plays “The March of Rois” composition, with its fingers actually moving on a flute. The doll holds two birds, which sing the song at the same time. The birds add to the beauty of the doll by moving flapping their heads and moving their heads, creating a cacophony of orchestrated beauty. The beauty of this doll is that it doesn’t operate using electricity. You’ll need a golden key to turn this doll on, and all the synchronized movements take place because of spring-driven gears and cogs.

2. Most Expensive Doll #2

Price: $ 5,000,000

Name: Madame Alexander’s Eloise

Some great names got involved in the creation of this exquisite doll, which is one of a series of 5 hand-made toys meant for charity. 9 carats of diamonds were provided by Harry Winston, the watch manufacturer. The prominent designer Oscar de la Renta designed doll-size creations out of precious furs, while the dress was made by none other than Christian Dior himself! The accessories were designed by Katherine Baumann using Svarowsky crystals.

3. Most Expensive Doll #3

Price: $500,000

Name: Diamond Barbie

This famous Barbie is the most expensive Barbie that was ever created. This doll wasn’t meant for any little girl’s doll house; it was meant to be a collector’s item. Stefano Canturi designed this Barbie; gifting her 1 carat pink diamond heckles. This Barbie is dressed in a stunning black strapless gown. Sold at the famous auction house Christie’s 2010, the diamond is what makes this doll the costliest doll ever sold at an auction. The proceeds of the auction were given to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

4. Most Expensive Doll #4

Price: $200,000

Name: Original G.I. Joe

Every little boy’s dream – to own a G.I. Joe. This tough looking military character, made to represent the quintessential American combat hero was first created during the 1970s. Hasbro, famous toy manufacturer brought this G.I. Joe to life. The very first G.I. Joe is called the ‘original G.I. Joe’ and is now part of a private collector’s enviable collection. The reason this doll is priced at $200,000, way more than the $4 that the newer G.I. Joes are sold for, is because this is the very first G.I. Joe ever made. G.I. Joes come in different avatars: there’s the Navy Sailor, the American Soldier, A Navy Sailor, the Marine and the Air Force Pilot.

5. Most Expensive Doll #5

Price: $ 8,000

Name: Kestner’s Hilda

Kestner, the world famous doll maker made this ridiculously expensive baby doll, quaintly named Hilda, in 1914. Both its hair and teeth are from human origin. This doll still has its original clothes and has been maintained excellently. This close to a century old Hilda baby is probably one of the costliest dolls ever made by the German artist Kestner.

Marina is a freelance writer and co-owner of authentic nesting dolls website located at MatryoshkaNestingDolls.com

Top 14 Twitter Applications

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:03:55 +0000

As Twitter popularity and its users are increasing at exploding rate, we are going to discuss Top 15 twitter application according to their popularity, and the monthly unique visitors they get

Twitpic: -With More than 4,634,093 unique monthly visitors Twitpic gives you the ability to share photos on your twitter. If you have twitter account then you also have an account on Twitpic. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, our API, or through the site itself. All Twitter Clients support Twitpic

TweetDeck: – TweetDeck is your Personal browser to contact with your friends. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organized and up to date.

Twhirl: – Twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform. It runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista/Win7) and Mac OSX. It connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic Video accounts and displays notifications for new messages and much more.

TwitterFeed: -TwitterFeed Offers to tweet the last posts published in a blog via the RSS feed. It’s very popular twitter client and currently feeding 538663 feed to twitter.

Tweetie: – Tweetie is the most popular client to run twitter in your iphone. It Handle multiple twitter accounts and helps you to View your timeline, replies, direct messages and favorites. It implements Full twitter API and Use secure connections to connect.

TwitterFox: – TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ tweets on Twitter. This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar which notifies you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets.

TwitterFon: – TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use, and is a superfast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch. You can also search tweets, get twitter trends, upload photos to twitpic.com, and update your location information.

Power Twitter: – Power Twitter make your twitter experience much better by adding more features to it like playing videos and music, sharing photos and lots of stuff like Facebook updates, expanded links, peek, and more.

Twitthat: – Twitthat is a simple button which you can drag to your Firefox toolbar. Then you can share interesting links to twitter easily.

TweetScan: – This application is similar to Google Trends .You can set up your Email alerts and get email when your keywords are mentioned on Twitter.

Tweetburner: – Tweetburner allows you to keep track of what happens to the links in tweets shared with you, by you, by your friends and every other twitterer.

Twitterfall: – Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest ‘tweets’ of upcoming trends and custom searches. Updates fall from the top of the page in near-real time.

Twittervision: – Twittervision is very cool applications that show you a real-time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter.
Twitbin: – Twitbin is a Firefox extension that allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations right from your browser sidebar.

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Top 10 Countries Censoring the Web 2009

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:25:07 +0000

Internet is now the most important Part of life and most of people like me can’t think life without internet.But there are lot of countries which have rules to censor the internet and they only allow those websites in country which they feel are good of them .Below are top 10 countries which are far ahead in this field of Censorship

1. China :- This Country has the most sophisticated System to censor the internet which is also referred as the ” The Great Firewall of China”. They can Block any blog or website which they think as non appropriate, They had blocked lot of events like tibet protest or even twitter various times, They have big workforce of around 30,000 heads to monitor all the internet activities in country which is biggest in all world .

2.Iran :- The Government has advanced Semantic Filter System to block all anti-islamic websites in Country.The Government also tries to slow down the speed of broadband from time-to-time to prevent users from western influences like music , movies etc .

3.Saudi Arabia :- They Have complex Censorship in Country and even have criminal laws for people who access any such website. The Censorship is Done by Internet Service Unit(ISU) while controls all gateways of country and also monitor activities of all ISP in county

4.United Arab Emirates :- All the telephone and Internet services are owned by government Company Etisalat,which they use to Filter traffic over internet . All websites which are against political, moral or regional issues of country get banned.A survey conducted in 2006 show that 60% of population approve this censorship.

5. Cuba:- Cuba Controls the internet to large extent.All ISP are owned by government which bans all the content which is against the Political social ideology.The punishment is so severe that no body try to access the prohibited Content Because of Fear.All the emails are checked before any body could access them . Selling/buying a personal computer was illegal few months back

6. Syria:- Journalists Consider it as most repressive country in field of internet. Only 2% of whole population has access to internet which is also controlled by Government . All Pornographic and political sensitive websites are banned automatically. You can use only Port 80 to access the internet.If you need FTP or any other service like Skype and VOIP you need to pay extra fees to get authorized.

7. North Korea:- This Country Don’t have internet at all . Only few members of government Have internet connection through satellite link. Few people in country use 3G mobiles and Chinese connections which are censored according to Chinese rules. The country registered .kp as its national extension for TLD but I could not find google.kp anywhere

8. Yemen:- The Government don’t allows freedom of media.The telecommunication infrastructure is under developed and major ISP are owned by Government. Only 1% of Population has access to internet with several limitations.No audio or video data is allowed as it put more load on network.All anti-islamic and Pornographic content is blocked in country.

9. Burma :- Only 1% of population had access to internet. The Price of internet connection is out of reach from major part of population and Broadband connection does not exist for general public.Only pre-approved websites are available to most of the subscribers.Free mail service is blocked compelling people to use state owned email service which could be monitored easily.

10. Pakistan:- Pakistan start Censoring the web in 2000.The main goal is to block all anti-islamic websites. There are only 3 gateways in country which are monitored by government to block all unwanted traffic.

Top 10 Dangerous Countries of World 2009

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:53:43 +0000

There are around 195 Countries in the World Out of Which We are Mentioning Top 10 dangerous Countries to Live in :-

1 . Liberia :- It is A country On West Coast Of Africa The Nation Has Been Effected very Badly by its civil war . First Civil war took place in 1989–1996 and Second Civil war took place in 1999-2003. Crime is a major problem, with theft, sexual assault and murder common.

2. Afghanistan :-Known Officially as Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is located approximately in center of Asia and the leading opium producer in World.one of the world’s poorest and least developed. Two-thirds of the population lives on fewer than 2 US dollars a day. Its economy has suffered greatly from the 1979 Soviet invasion and subsequent conflicts, while severe drought added to the nation’s difficulties in 1998–2001.

3. Somalia:- Officially known as Republic Of Somalia. Mos of the Population Follows Islam. Piracy at Somalia Coast is a big threat to international community. The Us don’t have any embassy in Somalia Inter clan fighting and attacks on foreigners are frequent, as are abductions.

4. Sudan:- Sudan Is the the largest Country in Africa and Arab World. It is ranked at the third most politically unstable of country in world according to Failed stats index.The two civil wars took place in sudan From 1955-1972 and 1983-2005. Clashes are common between different communities in Various parts of country

5. Zimbabwe(formerly known as Rhodesia):-Landlocked Country in Souther Part of Africa. Politically unstable Zimbabwe is under the control of President Robert Mugabe, who has been in power since the country’s long war for independence. His rule has been characterized by economic mismanagement, hyperinflation, and widespread reports of human rights abuses.

As on 2 feb,2009 1 USD = 300,000,000,000,000 ZWD

6. Chad:- Interlocked Country in center of Southafrica.The country is one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world; most Chadians live in poverty as subsistence herders and farmers. Since 2003 crude oil has become the country’s primary source of export earnings, superseding the traditional cotton industry.As of 2008, the country of Chad hosts over 280,000 refugees from the Sudan’s Darfur region, over 55,000 from the Central African Republic, as well as over 170,000 internally displaced persons.

7. Guinea:- Officially known as Republic of Guinea.An estimated 170,000 adults and children were living with HIV/AIDS at the end of 2004. The spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Guinea was attributed to factors such as proximity to high-prevalence countries, a large refugee population, internal displacement and subregional instability.

8. Democratic Republic of Congo:- It is the third largest country (by area) in Africa.In eastern Congo, the prevalence and intensity of rape and other sexual violence is described as the worst in the world. A 2006 report by the African Association for the Defence of Human Rights prepared for that committee provides a broad overview of issues confronting women in the DRC in law and in daily life. Women have been raped during warfare and kept as slaves for soldiers. When the women are released, most killed themselves or checked into a hospital where they would die.

9. Central African Republic(CAR):- It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the east, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west.The CAR is heavily dependent upon multilateral foreign aid and the presence of numerous NGOs which provide services which the government fails to provide.In 2006 due to ongoing violence, over 50,000 in the country’s north-west were at risk of starvation,and this was only averted thanks to United Nations support.

10. Federal Republic of Nigeria :-Nigeria’s human rights record remains poor and government officials at all levels continue to commit serious abuses.According to the U.S. Department of State, he most significant human rights problems are: extrajudicial killings and use of excessive force by security forces; impunity for abuses by security forces; arbitrary arrests; prolonged pretrial detention; judicial corruption and executive influence on the judiciary; rape, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners, detainees and suspects; harsh and life‑threatening prison and detention center conditions; human trafficking for the purpose of prostitution and forced labor; societal violence and vigilante killings; child labor, child abuse and child sexual exploitation; female genital mutilation (FGM); domestic violence; discrimination based on sex, ethnicity, region and religion; restrictions on freedom of assembly, movement, press, speech and religion; infringement of privacy rights; and the abridgement of the right of citizens to change the government.

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