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TATA NANO - World’s Cheapest Car

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Ratan Tata showcased the world’s cheapest car in the Auto Expo 2008. Auto Expo is the biggest auto exhibition of India where the world’s top automobiles companies come to showcase their automobiles and auto components. This year Tata Motor’s unveiled their much waited world’s cheapest Rs One Lakh or $2500 car Nano. Ratan Tata said “It fulfills the need of the common Indian who aspires to move from a two-wheeler to a four-wheeler”.

Here are few pictures taken from the Auto Expo

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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Extra Facts Revealed

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In an interview, online chat, Wizard of the Month section of her website, and during her 2007 U.S. Open Book Tour, J.K. Rowling revealed additional character information that she chose not to include in the book. She stated that:

  • Harry becomes an Auror for the Ministry of Magic, and is later appointed head of the department. He keeps Sirius’s motorcycle, which Arthur Weasley repaired for him, but he can no longer speak Parseltongue after Voldemort’s soul Read the rest of this entry »

Adolph Hitler’s Blood Relatives are Alive & Well in N.Y.!

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Adolph Hitler never had kids, so we tend to take for granted the idea that no one alive is closely related to him. But historians have long known that he had a nephew who was born in Britain and moved to the United States. Alois Hitler, Jr., was Adolph’s older half-brother (their common parent was Alois Sr). Alois Jr. — a waiter in Dublin — married an Irish woman, and, after moving to Liverpool, they had a son, William Patrick Hitler.

Pat, as he was called, moved to Germany as a young adult to take advantage of his uncle’s rising political stature, but Adolph just gave him minor jobs and kept him out of the limelight. After being subtly threatened by Rudolph Hess to become a German citizen, and having gotten tired of being dissed by Adolph, Pat came to America in 1939 and went on a lecture tour around the US, denouncing his uncle. (For his part, Adolph referred to his nephew as “loathsome.”) While World War II was raging, Pat joined the US Navy, so he could fight against Uncle Adolph. Afterwards, he changed his last name, and this is where the trail goes cold.

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