memorable day....observe 2 mins silence
If you used to give more respect, you can also stand up.
kindly observe 2 mins silence for all those mosquitoes that bite you yesterday night. Because their survival became a question mark this morning at ICU due to heavy diabetes after biting you, because you are all cho sweeeeeet.
Concluding with a famous quote:
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
James Arthur Baldwin quotes (American Essayist, Playwright and Novelist, 1924-1987)
This novelist name has won a "Bald", so this has to be true experience.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
Hacked: Email inboxes of Indian missions in US and China; NDA, DRDO officials too
Taking a dig at cyber security preparedness levels, a hacker, who claims to be based in Sweden, posted online on the evening of August 30,2007 the passwords of 100 email accounts of embassies and government offices across the world, including 13 Indian accounts, containing classified information and correspondence.
Top on the list of passwords that have been posted on http://derangedsecurity.com give access to email accounts of Indian Ambassadors to China, US, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Oman, Finland besides officials of the National Defence Academy (NDA) and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
Other accounts include those of the embassies of Uzbekistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Japan, China, UK and Russia.
To check the authenticity, The Indian Express sent a test mail to the Indian Ambassador in China on her official email ID and, using the password posted online, was able to access it. The email account of the Indian Ambassador to China contained details of a visit by Rajya Sabha member Arjun Sengupta to Beijing earlier this month for an ILO conference. There was also a transcript of a meeting this evening which a senior Indian official had with the Chinese Foreign Minister.
Similarly, accounts of NDA and DRDO officials reveal phone numbers, commercial documents, official correspondence and personal mails. The account of the Indian embassy in Germany contains a query by two IIM (Calcutta) students about safety in the wake of recent racial abuse cases in West Germany.
While it remains unclear how the passwords were accessed by the hacker — he has posted his name on the website as Dan Egerstad from Malmo in Sweden and even gave contact details — Indian experts said that loopholes in POP (post office protocol) mail servers could have been exploited to gain access.
“A POP server that had not been updated for security could have been exploited by the hacker to get usernames and passwords,” said a cyber security expert who did not wish to be named.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Some Interesting & True Facts...
The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long
Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert
in Chile
A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
A boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's
first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)
There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny
The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English
language;192
Slugs have four noses
Sharks can live up to 100 years
Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other
color.
Kangaroos can't walk backwards
About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in the U.S. everyday
The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It
fell in Montana in 1887
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is
actually a tiny sonic boom.
Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8
year presidency
Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery
had in it to begin with.
The world's largest Montessori school is in India , with 26,312
students in 2002
Octopus have three hearts
If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange
The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light
to change.
1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116orold
The body has 2-3 million sweat glands
Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs
Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The
survivor is born.
Most cats are left pawed
250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant
You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours
An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce
Bone is five times stronger than steel.
Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert
in Chile
A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
A boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's
first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)
There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny
The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English
language;192
Slugs have four noses
Sharks can live up to 100 years
Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other
color.
Kangaroos can't walk backwards
About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in the U.S. everyday
The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It
fell in Montana in 1887
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is
actually a tiny sonic boom.
Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8
year presidency
Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery
had in it to begin with.
The world's largest Montessori school is in India , with 26,312
students in 2002
Octopus have three hearts
If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange
The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light
to change.
1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116orold
The body has 2-3 million sweat glands
Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs
Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The
survivor is born.
Most cats are left pawed
250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant
You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours
An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce
Bone is five times stronger than steel.
Friday, October 5, 2007
You cannot hold your laugh
You cannot hold your laugh................... Must Read.. :)
A little boy wanted Rs.50 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. Finally he decided to write God a letter requesting the Rs.50.
When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, INDIA, they decided to forward it to the President of India as a joke.
The President was so amused, that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy Rs.20. The President thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy, and he did not want to spoil the kid.
The little boy was delighted with Rs.20, and decided to write a thank you note to God, which read:
"Dear God: Thank you very much for sending the money. However, I noticed that you sent it through the 'Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi', and those donkeys deducted Rs.30 in taxes ....."
A little boy wanted Rs.50 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. Finally he decided to write God a letter requesting the Rs.50.
When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, INDIA, they decided to forward it to the President of India as a joke.
The President was so amused, that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy Rs.20. The President thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy, and he did not want to spoil the kid.
The little boy was delighted with Rs.20, and decided to write a thank you note to God, which read:
"Dear God: Thank you very much for sending the money. However, I noticed that you sent it through the 'Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi', and those donkeys deducted Rs.30 in taxes ....."
TAX STRUCTURE IN INDIA.
TAX STRUCTURE IN INDIA............
Who said its complex....just check this out!!
1) Qus. : What are you doing ?
Ans. : Business.
Tax : PAY PROFESSIONAL TAX !
2) Qus. : What are you doing in Business ?
Ans. : Selling the Goods.
Tax : PAY SALES TAX !!
3) Qus. : From where are you getting Goods ?
Ans. : From other State/Abroad
Tax : PAY CENTRAL SALRES TAX, CUSTOM DUTY & OCTROI !
4) Qus. : What are you getting in Selling Goods?
Ans. : Profit.
Tax : PAY INCOME TAX !
5) Qus. : Where are you Manufacturing the Goods?
Ans. : Factory.
Tax : PAY EXCISE DUTY !
6) Qus. : Do you have Office / Warehouse/ Factory ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY MUNICIPAL & FIRE TAX !
7) Qus. : Do you have Staff ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY STAFF PROFESSIONAL TAX !
8) Qus. : Doing business in Millions ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY TURNOVER TAX !
9) Qus. : Are you taking out over 25,000 Cash from Bank ?
Ans. : Yes, for Salary.
Tax : PAY CASH HANDLING TAX !
10) Qus. : Where are you taking your client for Lunch & Dinner ?
Ans. : Hotel
Tax : PAY FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT TAX !
11) Qus. : Are you going Out of Station for Business ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY FRINGE BENEFIT TAX !
12) Qus. : Have you taken or given any Service/s ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY SERVICE TAX !
13) Qus. : How come you got such a Big Amount ?
Ans. : Gift on birthday.
Tax : PAY GIFT TAX !
14) Qus. : Do you have any Wealth ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY WEALTH TAX !
15) Qus. : To reduce Tension, for entertainment, where are you going?
Ans. : Cinema or Resort.
Tax : PAY ENTERTAINMENT TAX !
16) Qus. : Have you purchased House ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY STAMP DUTY & REGISTRATION FEE !
17) Qus. : How you Travel ?
Ans. : Bus
Tax : PAY SURCHARGE !
18) Qus. : Any Additional Tax ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY EDUCATIONAL, ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL &
SURCHARGE ON ALL THE CENTRAL GOVT.'s TAX !!!
19) Qus. : Delayed any time Paying Any Tax ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY INTEREST & PENALTY!
Who said its complex....just check this out!!
1) Qus. : What are you doing ?
Ans. : Business.
Tax : PAY PROFESSIONAL TAX !
2) Qus. : What are you doing in Business ?
Ans. : Selling the Goods.
Tax : PAY SALES TAX !!
3) Qus. : From where are you getting Goods ?
Ans. : From other State/Abroad
Tax : PAY CENTRAL SALRES TAX, CUSTOM DUTY & OCTROI !
4) Qus. : What are you getting in Selling Goods?
Ans. : Profit.
Tax : PAY INCOME TAX !
5) Qus. : Where are you Manufacturing the Goods?
Ans. : Factory.
Tax : PAY EXCISE DUTY !
6) Qus. : Do you have Office / Warehouse/ Factory ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY MUNICIPAL & FIRE TAX !
7) Qus. : Do you have Staff ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY STAFF PROFESSIONAL TAX !
8) Qus. : Doing business in Millions ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY TURNOVER TAX !
9) Qus. : Are you taking out over 25,000 Cash from Bank ?
Ans. : Yes, for Salary.
Tax : PAY CASH HANDLING TAX !
10) Qus. : Where are you taking your client for Lunch & Dinner ?
Ans. : Hotel
Tax : PAY FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT TAX !
11) Qus. : Are you going Out of Station for Business ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY FRINGE BENEFIT TAX !
12) Qus. : Have you taken or given any Service/s ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY SERVICE TAX !
13) Qus. : How come you got such a Big Amount ?
Ans. : Gift on birthday.
Tax : PAY GIFT TAX !
14) Qus. : Do you have any Wealth ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY WEALTH TAX !
15) Qus. : To reduce Tension, for entertainment, where are you going?
Ans. : Cinema or Resort.
Tax : PAY ENTERTAINMENT TAX !
16) Qus. : Have you purchased House ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY STAMP DUTY & REGISTRATION FEE !
17) Qus. : How you Travel ?
Ans. : Bus
Tax : PAY SURCHARGE !
18) Qus. : Any Additional Tax ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY EDUCATIONAL, ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL &
SURCHARGE ON ALL THE CENTRAL GOVT.'s TAX !!!
19) Qus. : Delayed any time Paying Any Tax ?
Ans. : Yes
Tax : PAY INTEREST & PENALTY!
*Life in a violent world
*Life in a violent world
**For the very young, *
*Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi *
*is an icon of sorts. *
*They are very unclear about what he stood for. *
*Somewhere in the recess of their minds, *
*they understand that*
* he had something to do with our freedom struggle. *
*But for older generation, *
*Gandhi *
*is irrevocably associated*
* with non-violence, communal harmony, and tolerance.*
* Today *
*all these concepts are fading *
*so fast from the country's collective memory.*
* Our political leaders *
*who will be paying a lot of lip service *
*to the father of the nation in a couple of days,*
* have stopped thinking about him many years ago.
Otherwise how can one explain*
* the growing culture of violence and intolerance? *
**
*Just look at some of the headlines in the past few weeks.*
* How does one explain such a seasoned *
*and experienced politician like *
*Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi's statement on Rama?*
**
* Whatever may be his personal belief and his party's ideology,*
* he surely knows it will hurt the sentiments *
*of the silent majority,*
* which is also his constituency.*
* In the atmosphere of intolerance prevailing in the country,*
* reaction is swift. *
*Activists allegedly belonging to *
*the particular set a **Tamil Nadu State Transort Corporation *
*bus on fire **near Bangalore and two innocent commuters died. *
**
*They had also stoned the house of *
*Karunanidhi's daughter in Bangalore. *
*The lunatic fringes of the Sangh Parivar also got into the act.*
* Swami Vedanti*
* apparently said *
*that anyone beheading Karunanidhi will be weighed*
* in gold by the saints of Ayodhya. *
*He later claimed that he had simply quoted the religious books *
*on the punishment prescribed for blasphemy.
Retribution was equally swift.*
* The DMK cadres decided to show their solidarity *
*to their leader by attacking the BJP offices and the leaders' houses in the
state.*
* Didn't Gandhi famously say once*
*that eye for an eye would make the world go blind!*
*But *
*who remembers all this anymore.*
* INDIA*
*** is slowly seeing more and more mob violence everywhere. *
*If the TV group*
* decides to launch their Direct To Home (DTH) operations, *
*cable operators go on the rampage. *
*Cables are cut and wild threats are issued, *
*instead of accepting market realities*
* and figuring out how to stay in the business.
Intolerance is rampant everywhere.*
* If Karunanidhi's grand nephew publishes*
* a survey report that is not flattering to his son,*
* the son's followers choose to throw petrol bombs*
* in the office of the publication.*
* We cannot single out alone for unjustifiable violent reactions.*
* Outlook magazine calls *
*Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray *
*a villain and the office is attacked immediately.*
* In West Bengal,*
* both Nandigram and Singur have seen *
*police firing and mob violence.*
* We cannot laugh at our leaders,*
* lampoon them or utter a word of criticism.*
* Their loving cadre will make our lives not worth living.
There is intolerance at all levels. *
*Suddenly we are emerging as a nation committed to moral policing. *
*Political parties tell us how to behave and *
*what is right and acceptable. *
*Harmless celebrations like Valentine's Day*
* become symbols of western influence and moral corruption.*
* In our country *
*we very rarely expose our leaders *
*with their pants down unlike in the West. *
*So their followers find it easy to preach about morals of young people. *
*Police have taken it as their bounden *
*duty to round up lovers in parks *
*and the beach and humiliate them. *
*In a state with a huge consumption of alcohol*
* (the excise duty on alcohol fills the state's coffers)*
* police regularly conduct raids on hotels which *
*serve wine for private parties. *
*Couples are scared to drive down the *
*East Coast Road after sunset, *
*as they get hauled up to the police station.
Our ruling classes seem to have forgotten,*
* that Gandhi fought to win our freedom, *
*so that India will emerge a democracy and not a fascist dictatorship. *
*Let me give you the definition of fascism.*
* "A system of government marked by centralisation *
*of authority under a dictator,*
* stringent socioeconomic controls, *
*suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, *
*and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism."*
* Aren't we moving towards a rule,*
* which closely resembles this definition?
Gandhi enters our psyche periodically,*
* thanks to the entertainment industry. *
*Richard Attenborough's Gandhi released almost *
*25 years ago made waves all over the world.*
* Last year,*
* the entire country fell in love with the Hindi film,*
* Lage Raho Munnabhai ,*
*with its message of Gandhigiri. *
*Young people went to the film in droves. *
*Which surely means, *
*Gandhi is still able to touch hearts, *
*and connect somewhere. *
*That he cannot be written off as irrelevant.
**For the very young, *
*Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi *
*is an icon of sorts. *
*They are very unclear about what he stood for. *
*Somewhere in the recess of their minds, *
*they understand that*
* he had something to do with our freedom struggle. *
*But for older generation, *
*Gandhi *
*is irrevocably associated*
* with non-violence, communal harmony, and tolerance.*
* Today *
*all these concepts are fading *
*so fast from the country's collective memory.*
* Our political leaders *
*who will be paying a lot of lip service *
*to the father of the nation in a couple of days,*
* have stopped thinking about him many years ago.
Otherwise how can one explain*
* the growing culture of violence and intolerance? *
**
*Just look at some of the headlines in the past few weeks.*
* How does one explain such a seasoned *
*and experienced politician like *
*Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi's statement on Rama?*
**
* Whatever may be his personal belief and his party's ideology,*
* he surely knows it will hurt the sentiments *
*of the silent majority,*
* which is also his constituency.*
* In the atmosphere of intolerance prevailing in the country,*
* reaction is swift. *
*Activists allegedly belonging to *
*the particular set a **Tamil Nadu State Transort Corporation *
*bus on fire **near Bangalore and two innocent commuters died. *
**
*They had also stoned the house of *
*Karunanidhi's daughter in Bangalore. *
*The lunatic fringes of the Sangh Parivar also got into the act.*
* Swami Vedanti*
* apparently said *
*that anyone beheading Karunanidhi will be weighed*
* in gold by the saints of Ayodhya. *
*He later claimed that he had simply quoted the religious books *
*on the punishment prescribed for blasphemy.
Retribution was equally swift.*
* The DMK cadres decided to show their solidarity *
*to their leader by attacking the BJP offices and the leaders' houses in the
state.*
* Didn't Gandhi famously say once*
*that eye for an eye would make the world go blind!*
*But *
*who remembers all this anymore.*
* INDIA*
*** is slowly seeing more and more mob violence everywhere. *
*If the TV group*
* decides to launch their Direct To Home (DTH) operations, *
*cable operators go on the rampage. *
*Cables are cut and wild threats are issued, *
*instead of accepting market realities*
* and figuring out how to stay in the business.
Intolerance is rampant everywhere.*
* If Karunanidhi's grand nephew publishes*
* a survey report that is not flattering to his son,*
* the son's followers choose to throw petrol bombs*
* in the office of the publication.*
* We cannot single out alone for unjustifiable violent reactions.*
* Outlook magazine calls *
*Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray *
*a villain and the office is attacked immediately.*
* In West Bengal,*
* both Nandigram and Singur have seen *
*police firing and mob violence.*
* We cannot laugh at our leaders,*
* lampoon them or utter a word of criticism.*
* Their loving cadre will make our lives not worth living.
There is intolerance at all levels. *
*Suddenly we are emerging as a nation committed to moral policing. *
*Political parties tell us how to behave and *
*what is right and acceptable. *
*Harmless celebrations like Valentine's Day*
* become symbols of western influence and moral corruption.*
* In our country *
*we very rarely expose our leaders *
*with their pants down unlike in the West. *
*So their followers find it easy to preach about morals of young people. *
*Police have taken it as their bounden *
*duty to round up lovers in parks *
*and the beach and humiliate them. *
*In a state with a huge consumption of alcohol*
* (the excise duty on alcohol fills the state's coffers)*
* police regularly conduct raids on hotels which *
*serve wine for private parties. *
*Couples are scared to drive down the *
*East Coast Road after sunset, *
*as they get hauled up to the police station.
Our ruling classes seem to have forgotten,*
* that Gandhi fought to win our freedom, *
*so that India will emerge a democracy and not a fascist dictatorship. *
*Let me give you the definition of fascism.*
* "A system of government marked by centralisation *
*of authority under a dictator,*
* stringent socioeconomic controls, *
*suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, *
*and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism."*
* Aren't we moving towards a rule,*
* which closely resembles this definition?
Gandhi enters our psyche periodically,*
* thanks to the entertainment industry. *
*Richard Attenborough's Gandhi released almost *
*25 years ago made waves all over the world.*
* Last year,*
* the entire country fell in love with the Hindi film,*
* Lage Raho Munnabhai ,*
*with its message of Gandhigiri. *
*Young people went to the film in droves. *
*Which surely means, *
*Gandhi is still able to touch hearts, *
*and connect somewhere. *
*That he cannot be written off as irrelevant.
Ten Commandments For The Over 35 Years Olds
1. Focus on enjoying people, not on indulging in oraccumulating material things.
2. Plan to spend whatever you have saved. You deserveto enjoy it and the few healthy years you have left.Travel if you can afford it. Don't leaveanyything for your children or loved ones to quarrelabout. By leaving anything, you may even cause moretrouble when you are gone.
3. Live in the here and now, not in the yesterdays andtomorrows. It is only today that you can handle.Yesterday is gone, tomorrow may not even happen.
4. Enjoy your grandchildren (if you are above 60 andblessed with any) but don't BE THEIR full time babysitter. You have no moral obligation to take care ofthem.! Don't have any guilt about refusing to baby sitanyone's kids, including your own grandkids. Yourparental obligation is to your children. After youhave raised them into responsible adults, your dutiesof child-rearing and babysitting are finished. Letyour children raise their own off-springs.
5. Accept physical weakness, sickness and otherphysical pains. It is a part of the aging process.Enjoy whatever your health can allow.
6. Enjoy what you are and what you have right now.Stop working hard for what you do not have. If you donot have them, it's probably too late.
7. Just enjoy your life with your spouse, children,grandchildren and friends. People, who truly love you,who love you for yourself, not for what you have.Anyone who loves you for what you have will just giveyou misery.
8. Forgive and accept forgiveness. Forgive yourselfand others. Enjoy peace of mind and peace of soul.
9. Befriend death. It's a natural part of the lifecycle. Don't be afraid of it. Death is the beginningof a new and better life. So, prepare yourself not fordeath but for a new life with the Almighty.
2. Plan to spend whatever you have saved. You deserveto enjoy it and the few healthy years you have left.Travel if you can afford it. Don't leaveanyything for your children or loved ones to quarrelabout. By leaving anything, you may even cause moretrouble when you are gone.
3. Live in the here and now, not in the yesterdays andtomorrows. It is only today that you can handle.Yesterday is gone, tomorrow may not even happen.
4. Enjoy your grandchildren (if you are above 60 andblessed with any) but don't BE THEIR full time babysitter. You have no moral obligation to take care ofthem.! Don't have any guilt about refusing to baby sitanyone's kids, including your own grandkids. Yourparental obligation is to your children. After youhave raised them into responsible adults, your dutiesof child-rearing and babysitting are finished. Letyour children raise their own off-springs.
5. Accept physical weakness, sickness and otherphysical pains. It is a part of the aging process.Enjoy whatever your health can allow.
6. Enjoy what you are and what you have right now.Stop working hard for what you do not have. If you donot have them, it's probably too late.
7. Just enjoy your life with your spouse, children,grandchildren and friends. People, who truly love you,who love you for yourself, not for what you have.Anyone who loves you for what you have will just giveyou misery.
8. Forgive and accept forgiveness. Forgive yourselfand others. Enjoy peace of mind and peace of soul.
9. Befriend death. It's a natural part of the lifecycle. Don't be afraid of it. Death is the beginningof a new and better life. So, prepare yourself not fordeath but for a new life with the Almighty.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Beethoven's town...Bonn, a city of culture
Beethon
The concrete sculpture "Beethon" in front of the Beethovenhalle, created by the Düsseldorf artist Klaus Kammerichs has become a modern emblem of Beethoven’s city Bonn.Beethoven Monument
The Beethoven Monument on the Münsterplatz was unveiled in August 1845 in honour of Beethoven's 75th birthday at the first Beethoven Festival. The statue's stance and symbolism characterise the "inspired composer" who, with an upward-turned gaze, seems to receive a creative inspiration to record it in his notebook with his stylus.Old City Hall at the Markt
Visitors often climb the famous stairway in front of the facade to the platform where famous guests of the state, queens and kings once stood and made their speeches to thousands of people standing on the market place. Only a few steps away there's the Beethoven house where the composer was born in 1770. The nice building is a museum about life and works of Beethoven now.Guided Tour about Beethoven in Bonn
A walk with 13 stops familiarizes you with key situations of Beethoven’s childhood and youth in Bonn. It was developed by a working group around the society "Citizens for Beethoven” and co-sponsored by Glasfachschule Rheinbach, City Parkraum GmbH and Stadtwerke Bonn.The stops include Beethoven’s home at Bonngasse 20 with its Chamber Music Hall, Haus zum Mohren (House named "The Moor”), Saint Remigius Parish Church in Brüdergasse, the house at Rheingasse 24, the University Main Building (Lecture Hall 17) Schlosskirche (Palace Church), Zehrgarten/Markt (at the Old Town Hall), the Minster Church, (the former Minster School), the Beethoven Monument in the Münsterplatz, Kaufhof Department Store (former Breuning-House), the Beethoven Concert Hall, the Beethon Monument (a play on words of Beethoven and Beton = concrete), the tomb of Beethoven’s mother in the Old Cemetery (Alter Friedhof), the ancient ball room La Redoute and the Lippe Palais.
The Beethoven - Haus
The Beethoven-Haus, a landmark of Bonn, is supported by the Beethoven House Trust (founded in 1889) and encompasses a Museum, the Beethoven Archives and the Chamber Music Hall. The Museum displays a representative selection from the trust's collections, the largest privately-owned Beethoven collection in the world. Portraits, original manuscripts, instruments and everyday objects convey a lively and authentic glimpse into the life and work of the composer. The Beethoven Archives founded on the 100th anniversary of Beethoven's death in 1927 as a scientific research institute, are the central repository of documents relating to Beethoven's life, work and intellectual circle and own also a special library. The Chamber Music Hall, inaugurated in 1989, not only has outstanding acoustics, but is also considered to be a particularly beautiful modern concert hall. Alongside the special emphasis on the music of Beethoven and his contemporaries, music of modern times is also performed and promoted here. In the years to come it is planned to open the Beethoven Haus round the clock to the world’s public: In the virtual ‘Digital Beethovenhaus’, Internet users will find everything about the composer, his work, his life and his time. To the sound of Beethoven’s music, they will be able scroll original editions and manuscripts which are exhibited nowhere else.
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