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12 years ago
Healthy Living
8 Grossest Spa Treatments
By Chumma Time Pass. Trying formatting: Bold Underline Italics <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.deccanherald.com">Hyperlink</a> Passing time. Snails, snakes and vats of leeches: the recipe for a relaxing day at the spa.
12 years ago
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Yogesh's Test Slideshow - Irish Personalities Least Suspected
Who would have guessed these personalities had Irish blood in them. The Irish people (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a>: Muintir na hÉireann or na hÉireannaigh; <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Scots_dialects" title="Ulster Scots dialects">Ulster-Scots</a>: Airisch or Airish fowk)<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people#cite_note-8">[9]</a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people#cite_note-9">[10]</a> are an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_group" title="Ethnic group">ethnic group</a> who originate in <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years (according to archaeological studies, see <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Ireland" title="Prehistoric Ireland">Prehistoric Ireland</a>). The Irish people's earliest ancestors are recorded in legends - they are claimed to be descended from groups such as the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemedians" title="Nemedians">Nemedians</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomorians" title="Fomorians">Fomorians</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fir_Bolg" title="Fir Bolg">Fir Bolg</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann" title="Tuatha Dé Danann">Tuatha Dé Danann</a> and the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milesians_%28Irish%29" title="Milesians (Irish)">Milesians</a>.<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people#cite_note-10">[11]</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a>, a book of Irish mythology tells that <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann" title="Tuatha Dé Danann">Tuatha Dé Dananns</a> were <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian" title="Scythian">Scythian</a> descendants.<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people#cite_note-11">[12]</a> The main groups that interacted with the Irish in the Middle Ages include the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts" title="Picts">Picts</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_People" title="Scottish People">Scots</a> (themselves of Irish origin), and the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Vikings</a>. Due to this contact, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelanders" title="Icelanders">Icelanders</a> are noted for having some Irish descent. The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman" title="Anglo-Norman">Anglo-Norman</a> invasion of the High Middle Ages, the English plantations and the subsequent English rule of the country introduced the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans" title="Normans">Normans</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_people" title="Flemish people">Flemish</a> into Ireland. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_people" title="Welsh people">Welsh</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts" title="Picts">Picts</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_people" title="Breton people">Bretons</a>, and small parties of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauls" title="Gauls">Gauls</a> and even <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxons</a> are known in Ireland from much earlier times. There have been many notable Irish people throughout history. The 6th century Irish monk and missionary <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbanus" title="Columbanus">Columbanus</a> is regarded as one of the "fathers of Europe",<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people#cite_note-ColumbanusZenit-12">[13]</a> followed by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Kilian" title="Saint Kilian">Kilian of Würzburg</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergilius_of_Salzburg" title="Vergilius of Salzburg">Vergilius of Salzburg</a>. The scientist <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boyle" title="Robert Boyle">Robert Boyle</a> is considered the "father of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a>". Famous Irish explorers include <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_the_Navigator" title="Brendan the Navigator">Brendan the Navigator</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McClure" title="Robert McClure">Robert McClure</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton" title="Ernest Shackleton">Ernest Shackleton</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Crean_%28explorer%29" title="Tom Crean (explorer)">Tom Crean</a>. By some accounts, the first European child born in North America had Irish descent on both sides;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people#cite_note-Smiley630-13">[14]</a> and an Irishman was the first European to set foot on American soil in <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus" title="Voyages of Christopher Columbus">Columbus' expedition</a> of 1492.<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people#cite_note-MacManus343-14">[15]</a> Large populations of people of Irish ethnicity live in many western countries, particularly in English-speaking countries. Historically, emigration has been caused by politics, famine and economic issues. An estimated 50 to 80 million people make up the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_diaspora" title="Irish diaspora">Irish diaspora</a> today, which includes Great Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada, Argentina, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a>, Jamaica, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad" title="Trinidad">Trinidad</a>, South Africa, New Zealand, Mexico, France, Germany and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>. The largest number of people of Irish descent live in the United States-about ten times more than in Ireland itself. However, it had been recognised that the estimated numbers of the Irish diaspora may be highly inaccurate; one reason is that the majority of ancestral censuses conducted within the United States and Canada record self-reported ancestry, which is often unreliable. [<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The majority of people living within immigrated populations (i.e. Australia, United States, Canada etc.) are of mixed ancestry due to decades, at times centuries, of inter-marriage with other immigrants or indigenous populations, hence claiming one specific ancestry is often personal preference or perceived ancestry rather than fact. The author <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Webb" title="Jim Webb">Jim Webb</a> suggests that a large number (he suspects near half) of those claiming Irish-American ancestry, especially among Protestants, may be <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_American" title="Scotch-Irish American">Scots Irish</a> (that is, descendents of Scottish people who populated the Irish <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" title="Provinces of Ireland">province</a> of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a>). <h3> Surnames </h3> The Irish were among the first people in Europe to use surnames as we know them today.<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people#cite_note-44">[45]</a> It is very common for people of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaels" title="Gaels">Gaelic</a> origin to have the English versions of their surnames beginning with "O'" or "<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_name#Scotland_and_Ireland" title="Family name">Mc</a>" (less frequently "Mac" and occasionally shortened to just "Ma" at the beginning of the name). "O'" comes from the Gaelic Ó which in turn came from Ua, which means "<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandson_%28son_of_a_child%29" title="Grandson (son of a child)">grandson</a>", or "<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship" title="Kinship">descendant</a>" of a named person. Names that begin with "O'" include Ó Briain (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Brien" title="O'Brien">O'Brien</a>), Ó Cheallaigh (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_%28name%29" title="Kelly (name)">O'Kelly</a>), Ó Conchobhair (O'Connor), Ó Domhnaill (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Donnell" title="O'Donnell">O'Donnell</a>), Ó Cuilinn (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullen_%28surname%29" title="Cullen (surname)">Cullen</a>), Ó Máille (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Malley_%28surname%29" title="O'Malley (surname)">O'Malley</a>), Ó Néill (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_%28surname%29" title="O'Neill (surname)">O'Neill</a>), Ó Sé (O'Shea), Ó Súilleabháin (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Sullivan" title="O'Sullivan">O'Sullivan</a>), and Ó Tuathail (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Toole_%28family%29" title="O'Toole (family)">O'Toole</a>). "Mac" or "Mc" means "son". Names that begin with Mac or Mc include Mac Diarmada (MacDermott), Mac Cárthaigh (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthy_%28surname%29" title="McCarthy (surname)">MacCarthy</a>), Mac Domhnaill (MacDonnell), and Mac Mathghamhna (MacMahon, MacMahony, etc.). Mac is commonly anglicised Mc. However, "Mac" and "Mc" are not mutually exclusive, so, for example, both "MacCarthy" and "McCarthy" are used. While both "Mac" and "O'" prefixes are Gaelic in origin, "Mac" is more common in Scotland and in <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a> than in the rest of Ireland; furthermore, "Ó" is far less common in Scotland than it is in Ireland. The proper surname for a woman in Irish uses the feminine prefix ní (meaning daughter) in place of mac. Thus a boy may be called Mc Domhnaill whereas his sister would be called Ní Domhnaill. A son has the same surname as his father. A female's surname replaces Ó with Ní (reduced from Iníon Uí - "daughter of the grandson of") and Mac with Nic (reduced from Iníon Mhic - "daughter of the son of"); in both cases the following name undergoes lenition. However, if the second part of the surname begins with the letter C or G, it is not lenited after Nic[citation needed]. Thus the daughter of a man named Ó Maolagáin has the surname Ní Mhaolagáin and the daughter of a man named Mac Gearailt has the surname Nic Gearailt. When anglicised, the name can remain O' or Mac, regardless of gender. There are a number of Irish surnames derived from Norse personal names, including <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Sweeney" title="Clan Sweeney">Mac Suibhne</a> (Sweeney) from Swein and McAuliffe from "Olaf". The name <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotter_family" title="Cotter family">Cotter</a>, local to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Cork" title="County Cork">County Cork</a>, derives from the Norse personal name Ottir. The name <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_%28surname%29" title="Reynolds (surname)">Reynolds</a> is an Anglicization of the Gaelic Mac Raghnaill, itself originating from the Norse names Randal or Reginald. Though these names were of Viking derivation some of the families who bear them appear to have had Gaelic origins. "Fitz" is an old Norman French variant of the Old French word fils (variant spellings filz, fiuz, fiz, etc.), used by the Normans, meaning son. The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans" title="Normans">Normans</a> themselves were descendants of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Vikings</a>, who had settled in <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy" title="Normandy">Normandy</a> and thoroughly adopted the French language and culture.<a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people#cite_note-45">[46]</a> With the exception of the Gaelic-Irish <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_%28name%29" title="Fitzpatrick (name)">Fitzpatrick</a> (Mac Giolla Phádraig) surname, all names that begin with Fitz - including <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitzGerald" title="FitzGerald">FitzGerald</a> (Mac Gearailt), <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzsimons" title="Fitzsimons">Fitzsimons</a> (Mac Síomóin/Mac an Ridire) and FitzHenry (Mac Anraí) - are descended from the initial Norman settlers. A small number of Irish families of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goidelic" title="Goidelic">Gaelic</a> origin came to use a Norman form of their original surname-so that Mac Giolla Phádraig became Fitzpatrick - while some assimilated so well that the Gaelic name was dropped in favor of a new, Hiberno-Norman form. Another common Irish surname of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-Norman" title="Hiberno-Norman">Norman Irish</a> origin is the 'de' habitational prefix, meaning 'of' and originally signifying prestige and land ownership. Examples include de Búrca (Burke), de Brún, de Barra (Barry), de Stac (Stack), de Tiúit, de Faoite (White), de Londras (Landers), de Paor (Power). The Irish surname "Walsh" (in Gaelic Breathnach) was routinely given to settlers of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_people" title="Welsh people">Welsh</a> origin, who had come during and after the Norman invasion. The Joyce and Griffin/Griffith (Gruffydd) families are also of Welsh origin. The Mac Lochlainn, Ó Maol Seachlainn, Ó Maol Seachnaill, Ó Conchobhair Mac Loughlin and Mac Diarmada Mac Loughlin families, all distinct, are now all subsumed together as MacLoughlin. The full surname usually indicated which family was in question, something that has being diminished with the loss of prefixes such as Ó and Mac. Different branches of a family with the same surname sometimes used distinguishing epithets, which sometimes became surnames in their own right. Hence the chief of the clan Ó Cearnaigh (Kearney) was referred to as An Sionnach (Fox), which his descendants use to this day. Similar surnames are often found in Scotland for many reasons, such as the use of a common language and mass Irish migration to Scotland in the late 19th and early to mid-20th centuries. 
12 years ago
Frangela
SpaceID issue for Blogpost created from PD2
Space Id Issue for Blogpost created from PD2
12 years ago
Green
Slideshow for Eva and Arden
I can embed pictures here <img src="http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/partner/470_2216043.0" title="Yogesh Rao" id="2216043" name="2216043" width="470" height="281" >
12 years ago
Green
This is a Post for Eva Lu and Arden Chiu
Adding a picture.
12 years ago
Fashion
This is a Test for Slideshows with 1,500 Characters
Formatted description. Bolded Text is great for heading. Italicized text is great if you want to have things stand out. Underline text is great if you want to stress on parts of the document. A combination of all these three go a long way. Embed pictures to pain a rich story: <img src="http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/partner/470_2209107.0" title="OMG Screen shot" id="2209107" name="2209107" width="470" height="162" > 
12 years ago
Fashion
Here is a Blog Post with Slidsshows
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13 years ago
Author Blog Posts
Testing right aligned images
Creating a blog post that's long: Copy/pasting the following content from a random website (credit: http://www.lipsum.com/): Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown print
13 years ago
Healthy Living
Tour of Nilgiris 2010
December is a great month for bicyclists in India. Here is a pictorial journey of a road trip from December 2010. Adding new text to test date on blog post.
13 years ago