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Sherlock Holmes - Puzzle Sherlock Detective reviewed the information they had on the case so far. A lady named 'himanshi' was found shot and they already had a list of suspects - Ankit, Tarun, Harish, Manoj and Manish. Killer is a fan of Sherlock and challenge him by leaving notes ad various places. * The first was found in a toilet room. * The second was found in an art room. * The third was in a restroom. * the fourth in an underwater room. * The fifth at the no smoking room. All of the notes read the same thing, 'The clues are where you find the notes.' Yet, nothing was found at any of the place the notes were found. Sherlock the genius, immediately solved the case. Who was the killer?

The Reason A man was sitting outside the house in which he was about to be evicted from, his wife divorces him, lost his children & his job. He picks up the empty bottle of beer near him, smashes it into the wall as he shouts; “You’re the reason I don’t have a wife” To the 2nd bottle he says “You’re the reason I lost my children & my job” then smashes it! He sees the 3rd bottle is sealed & still full of beer. He puts it aside & says to it “Stand aside my friend; I know you were not involved”

Sherlock Holmes - Brain Teaser One snowy night, Sherlock Holmes was in his house sitting by a fire. All of a sudden a snowball came crashing through the window, breaking it. Holmes got up and looked out just in time to see three neighbourhood kids who were all brothers run around the corner. Their names were John Crimson, Mark Crimson and Paul Crimson. The next day Holmes got a note on his door that read: "? Crimson. He broke your window." Which of the three Crimson brothers should Sherlock Holmes question about the incident?

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True or False Game I am going to post something about the next poster. The person who posts after me will say "true" or "false" regarding my statement about them. Then they will post something about the person who will be posting after them and so on and so forth. Please only one reply per statement. Just reply only to the most recent post. OK here we go: The next person grinned at a total stranger in a car next to them during this past week.

Which travels faster? Hot or Cold………...Hot is faster, because you can catch a cold.

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Keep a word - drop a word Very simple. I will start with 2-word phrase. The next person will then keep one of those words and add another to make a different phrase. There must also be a post by someone other than yourself in between your posts. Me: happy Halloween You: happy birthday Me: birthday cake And so on... Starting with: Broken Glass.

True next person has a daughter

8 Challenging Brainteasers no 2 How many did you figure out on my own? Tell us in the section below!

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Man: I want a divorce. My wife hasn’t spoken to me in six months.........Lawyer: Better think it over. Wives like that are hard to get!

A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation in Jerusalem. While they were there, the wife passed away. The undertaker told the husband, “You can have her buried here in the Holy Land for 1500 or we can have her shipped back home for 50000.” The husband thought about it and told the undertaker he would have her shipped back home. The undertaker asked him, “why would you spend 50000 to have her shipped home when you could have a beautiful burial here, and it would only cost 1500?” The husband replied, "Long ago, a man (JESUS) died here, was buried here, and three days later, rose from the dead. I just can’t take that chance!"

10 excuses for being late to work It happens to everyone at some point—time slips away from you, and all of a sudden you’re late for work. You’ll need an explanation. Traffic, sleep schedules, and weather conditions are the top three excuses given for arriving late for work: Traffic - 51% Oversleeping - 31% Bad weather - 28% Too tired to get up - 23% Forgetting something -13% Most of the time when people are late, the excuses are pretty common: I overslept. I had to get the children to school first. My cat has gone missing. I got stuck in traffic. The bus broke down. I’m running late because I spent the night in urgent care after being beaten up and stabbed I’ll be late because I fell asleep on the train home and missed my stop, only to wake up three hours further down the track and not able to get back the same evening. I tried to cut my own hair and made a horrible mess of it, so I had to find a salon that was open and could fit me in to fix it. My children locked me out of the house and wouldn’t let me in. I had to call a locksmith and get him to open the door, so I could retrieve the keys, get the children to school, and then come to work. I was late because there was police activity and they made us stay in the house so I couldn't leave. Consultant and founder of the Interview Expert Academy, Jonathan Burston says he has heard a lot of excuses over the years, but warns that your reputation at work can dictate whether you get the benefit of the doubt when offering up a unique explanation. “Whether someone is believed or not depends on who they are as a person, and their general work ethic and past experience.” But sometimes the story gets so strange it can make it harder to believe. I’m running late because I spent the night in urgent care after being beaten up and stabbed. “Yes, this was an excuse used by someone on my team,” Burston says. Is honesty the best policy? Everybody’s human and makes mistakes, so own up to yours and move on, says Sheila Dramis, CEO of HR Partners. “If you are late, be honest. Did you oversleep, forget to set the alarm, kids made you run late? Integrity is what every company wants. When you lie, you break that trust and that will upset an employer even more.” It’s important to apologise as well, says Dramis. “Acknowledge that you understand it sets a bad example, impacts the team, and that you are taking steps to correct it. This is better than spewing out excuses. Your manager wants to know you understand the implications and are taking steps to change.” Besides, chronic lateness can end up hurting you in the long run. “At some point the business will decide they have to move on without you,” she says. Does the reason even matter? Maria Katrien Heslin, owner of GPS to Success Coaching & Development, says she’s heard a lot of excuses why people are late to work, “from menstrual cramps and oversleeping to carpool problems and car trouble. To me, the reason is not important because sometimes completely legitimate reasons are also private, personal matters while silly reasons may cause an employee to lie.” Heslin says she’d rather not know the reason and instead focus on whether the lateness is a chronic issue. “That has proven to be a respectful and effective method.”

The Pastor Preach Husband comes home from Church, greets his wife, lifts her up and carries her around the house. The wife is so surprised and asks smiling, "Did the Pastor preach about being romantic"? Out of breath the husband replies, "No, he said we must carry our burdens..."

How a Pregnant Rhino Named Victoria Could Save an Entire Subspecies Sudan, the last male member of the northern white rhino subspecies, while being shipped to Kenya in 2009 The last male northern white rhino died at a conservancy in Kenya earlier this year, prompting fears that the subspecies was finally done for after decades of heavy poaching. Scientists say there's still hope, though, and they're banking on a pregnant rhino named Victoria at the San Diego Zoo, according to the Associated Press. Victoria is actually a southern white rhino, but the two subspecies are related. Only two northern white rhinos survive, but neither of the females in Kenya are able to reproduce. Victoria was successfully impregnated through artificial insemination, and if she successfully carries her calf to term in 16 to 18 months, scientists say she might be able to serve as a surrogate mother and propagate the northern white rhino species. Victoria is actually a southern white rhino, but the two subspecies are related. Only two northern white rhinos survive, but neither of the females in Kenya are able to reproduce. Victoria was successfully impregnated through artificial insemination, and if she successfully carries her calf to term in 16 to 18 months, scientists say she might be able to serve as a surrogate mother and propagate the northern white rhino species. But how would that work if no male northern rhinos survive? As the AP explains, scientists are working to recreate northern white rhino embryos using genetic technology. The San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research has the frozen cell lines of 12 different northern white rhinos, which can be transformed into stem cells—and ultimately, sperm and eggs. The sperm of the last northern white male rhino, Sudan, was also saved before he died. Scientists have been monitoring six female southern white rhinos at the San Diego Zoo to see if any emerge as likely candidates for surrogacy. However, it's not easy to artificially inseminate a rhino, and there have been few successful births in the past. There's still a fighting chance, though, and scientists ultimately hope they'll be able to build up a herd of five to 15 northern white rhinos over the next few decades.

16 Things You Might Not Know About Chewbacca Even if you don't know the name Peter Mayhew, you surely know about Chewbacca — the seven-foot tall Wookiee he has played onscreen for over three decades. Here are 16 things you might not know about Han Solo's BFF. 1. HE WAS INSPIRED BY GEORGE LUCAS'S DOG. George Lucas and Indiana The character of Chewbacca was inspired by George Lucas’s big, hairy Alaskan malamute, Indiana. According to Lucas, the dog would always sit in the passenger seat of his car like a co-pilot, and people would confuse the dog for an actual person. And in case you're wondering: yes, that same dog was also the inspiration behind the name of one of Lucas’s other creations, Indiana Jones. 2. HIS NAME IS OF RUSSIAN ORIGIN. The name “Chewbacca” was derived from the Russian word Sobaka(собака), meaning “dog.” The term “Wookiee” came from voice actor Terry McGovern; when he was doing voiceover tracks for Lucas's directorial debut, THX 1138, McGovern randomly improvised the line, “I think I just ran over a Wookiee” during one of the sessions. 3. HE'S REALLY, REALLY OLD. In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Chewbacca is 200 years old. 4. PETER MAYHEW'S HEIGHT HELPED HIM LAND THE ROLE. 5. HIS SUIT IS MADE FROM A MIX OF ANIMAL HAIRS, AND EVENTUALLY INCLUDED A COOLING SYSTEM. For the original trilogy (and the infamous holiday special), the Chewbacca costume was made with a combination of real yak and rabbit hair knitted into a base of mohair. A slightly altered original Chewie costume was used in 1999's The Phantom Menace for the Wookiee senator character Yarua, and a new costume used during Episode III included a specially made water-cooling system so that Mayhew could wear the suit for long periods of time and not be overheated. 6. ONE OF STANLEY KUBRICK'S CLOSEST CREATORS DESIGNED THE COSTUME. To create the original costume for Chewbacca, Lucas hired legendary makeup supervisor Stuart Freeborn, who was recruited because of his work on the apes in the “Dawn of Man” sequence in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Freeborn had also previously worked with Kubrick on Dr. Strangelove to effectively disguise Peter Sellers in each of his three roles in that film.) Freeborn would go on to supervise the creation of Yoda in The Empire Strike Back and Jabba the Hutt and the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi. Lucas originally wanted Freeborn’s costume for Chewie to be a combination of a monkey, a dog, and a cat. According to Freeborn, the biggest problem during production with the costume was with Mayhew’s eyes. The actor’s body heat in the mask caused his face to detach from the costume's eyes and made them look separate from the mask. 7. FINDING CHEWBACCA'S VOICE WAS BEN BURTT'S FIRST ASSIGNMENT. The first sound effect that director George Lucas hired now-legendary sound designer Ben Burtt for on Star Wars was Chewbacca’s voice (this was all the way back during the script stage). During the year of preliminary sound recording, Burtt principally used the vocalization of a black bear named Tarik from Happy Hollow Zoo in San Jose, California for Chewbacca. He would eventually synchronize those sounds with further walrus, lion, and badger vocalizations for the complete voice. The name of the language Chewbacca speaks came to be known in the Star Wars universe as “Shyriiwook.” 8. ROGER EBERT WAS NOT A FAN. Roger Ebert was not a fan of the big guy. In his 1997 review of the Special Edition of The Empire Strikes Back, Ebert basically called Chewbacca the worst character in the series. “This character was thrown into the first film as window dressing, was never thought through, and as a result has been saddled with one facial expression and one mournful yelp," the famed critic wrote. Much more could have been done. How can you be a space pilot and not be able to communicate in any meaningful way? Does Han Solo really understand Chewie's monotonous noises? Do they have long chats sometimes? Never mind. 9. HE WAS ORIGINALLY MUCH MORE SCANTILY CLAD. In the summary for Lucas’s second draft (dated January 28, 1975, when the film was called “Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode I: The Star Wars”), Chewbacca is described as “an eight-foot tall, savage-looking creature resembling a huge grey bush baby-monkey with fierce ‘baboon’-like fangs. His large yellow eyes dominate a fur-covered face … [and] over his matted, furry body he wears two chrome bandoliers, a flak jacket painted in a bizarre camouflage pattern, brown cloth shorts, and little else.” 10. HIS DESIGN WAS BASED ON RALPH MCQUARRIE'S CONCEPT ART. Chewbacca’s character design was based on concept art drawn by Ralph McQuarrie. Lucas had originally given McQuarrie a photo of a lemur for inspiration, and McQuarrie proceeded to draw the character as a female—but Chewbacca was soon changed to a male. McQuarrie based his furry design on an illustration by artist John Schoenherr, which was commissioned for Game of Thrones scribe George R.R. Martin’s short story “And Seven Times Never Kill a Man.” Sharp-eyed Chewbacca fans will recognize that Schoenherr’s drawing even includes what resembles the Wookiee’s signature weapon, the Bowcaster. 11. HE WON A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. Fans were angry for decades that Chewie didn’t receive a medal of valor like Luke and Han did at the end of A New Hope, so MTV gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 MTV Movie Awards. The medal was given to Mayhew—decked out in full costume—by Princess Leia herself, actress Carrie Fisher. His acceptance speech, made entirely in Wookiee grunts, lasted 16 seconds. When asked why Chewbacca didn’t receive a medal at the end of the first film, Lucas explained, “Medals really don’t mean much to Wookiees. They don’t really put too much credence in them. They have different kinds of ceremonies.” 12. Not everyone was happy with Chewbacca's look Not everyone was happy with Chewbacca's look. 20th Century Fox wanted to put clothes on Chewbacca, because they were concerned that he was essentially naked. Executives from the company kept sending over notes and concept designs with Chewbacca wearing shorts and baggy pants. But George Lucas insisted on keeping Chewie au naturel. 13. HE HAS A FAMILY BACK HOME. According to the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, Chewbacca had a wife named Mallatobuck, a son named Lumpawaroo (a.k.a. “Lumpy”), and a father named Attichitcuk (aka “Itchy”). In the special, Chewie and Han visit the Wookiee home planet of Kashyyyk to celebrate “Life Day,” a celebration of the Wookiee home planet’s diverse ecosystem. The special featured appearances and musical numbers by Jefferson Starship, Diahann Carroll, Art Carney, Harvey Korman, and Bea Arthur, and marked the first appearance of Boba Fett. Lucas hated the special so much that he limited its availability following its original airdate on November 17, 1978. 14. MAYHEW'S BIG FEET ARE WHAT KICKSTARTED HIS CAREER. Mayhew’s path to playing Chewbacca began with a string of lucky breaks—and his big feet. A local London reporter was doing a story on people with big feet and happened to profile Mayhew. A movie producer saw the article and cast him—in an uncredited role—as Minoton the minotaur in the film Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. One of the makeup men on Sinbad was also working on the Wookiee costume with Stuart Freeborn for Star Wars and suggested to the producers that they screen test Mayhew. The rest is Wookiee history. 15. MAYHEW KEPT HIS DAY JOB WHILE SHOOTING STAR WARS. During the shooting of Star Wars, Mayhew kept working his day job as a deputy head porter in a London hospital. Though he was let go because of his sudden varying shooting schedule at Elstree Studios, he was eventually hired back after production wrapped. 16. DARTH VADER COULD HAVE BEEN CHEWBACCA. David Prowse, the 6’5” actor who ended up portraying Darth Vader—in costume only—originally turned down the role of Chewbacca. When given the choice between portraying the two characters, Prowse said, “I turned down the role of Chewbacca at once. I know that people remember villains longer than heroes. At the time I didn’t know I’d be wearing a mask, and throughout production I thought Vader’s voice would be mine.”

Fifty years ago this month, student protests in Paris morphed into huge demonstrations across the country, in scenes recorded in iconic images by Gilles Caron, Bruno Barbey, and Claude Dityvon Half a century on, the events of May ‘68 still burn in the memories of its provocateurs. Morphing from a frenzy of student protests into a nation-wide revolt, embroiling seven million people at its height, France was dragged out of its post-war complacency that summer and into seven weeks of turbulent action and police brutality. The fire of the rebellion was first sparked on Valentine’s Day, when students of Nanterre University in the Western suburbs of Paris, held a residents’ strike to promote the right to move freely between male and female dorms. The university hesitated over making any change, so on 22 March, 600 frustrated students gathered to occupy an administration building in protest against the old institution’s ageing values. By 02 May, after months of boycotted exams, vandalism, and campus protests, the administration shut down the university. It was a move that reeked of hostility to hundreds of students all across the city, and on 03 May they rallied in the courtyards of Sorbonne University central Paris, hurling whatever they could find at police – who waded in with batons and handcuffs. By the end of the first night of rioting, the police had locked up over 600 students. At the centre of this revolt was Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a young man famously photographed by Gilles Caron (1939 – 1970). Caron’s iconic images of May ’68 – and of other major conflicts of the 60s – are on show at Photo London this weekend, including this portrait of Cohn-Bendit. The rebel stands, with a small but confident grin, opposite the looming figure of a CRS officer [French riot police] in a portrait that Olivier Castaing, curator of the show, describes as an image of confrontation between youths and authority. The image made it to the front pages of the national press the morning after the first night of the barricades but, while they were originally made for the press, Castaing says that Caron’s photographs now find themselves in the artistic field too, giving “importance to photojournalistic images and their aesthetic qualities”. According to Castaing, Caron was a short man of around 5’4”, and in 1968 he was only 28 years old. Naturally he fit in with the protestors, and he also sympathised with them. Tragically, by 1970 he had disappeared on the road between Cambodia and Vietnam, but in five years he had made his mark in the history of photography, says Castaing – producing iconic images of five of the major conflicts of the 60s, including the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring, and of course, May ‘68. Portraits of students flinging cobblestones became a symbolic element in Caron’s photography, but the violence quickly escalated. Parked cars were flipped over to create barricades against the police, who responded by firing swarms of tear gas. Over just a week, what had been a student demonstration had grown to encompass 20,000 people, including teachers, artists, filmmakers and civilians, who flowed out onto the streets of the Latin Quarter demanding that Nanterre University be reopened, and that the charges on the detained students be dropped. “I’ve never seen such violence in a western capital as I saw in Paris that month,” Magnum photographer Bruno Barbey has said – another image-maker whose coverage of May ’68 has become iconic. Shots of the police’s heavy-handed response sparked sympathy for the protestors, he told The Guardian in an article published on 21 August, but it also meant that the photographers became targets. Journalists were chased down the street for their cameras, says Barbey, and – after images of people throwing stones were used as evidence for arrest – the protestors began to view the cameras with suspicion, making it increasingly difficult to document what was happening. Boulevard St Michel Gay Lussac Street, Paris, France Barricade built out of movie posters, Rue de Lyon, near the Bastille, Paris, France On the Barricades on Boulevard St Germain Medic, Boulevard St Germain

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