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Literature / JK Rowling Shares Rejection Letters She Received 4rm Top Publishers by tunderoc(m): 9:35pm On Mar 25, 2016
Award-winning author JK Rowling, has published two rejection letters she received from top publishing bosses, where they suggest that the best-selling author go on a writing course and pop into a 'helpful book shop' for a novelist's guide.

Rowling said, she decided to share the rejection letters to encourage and inspire other writers. The best-selling author was pitching her first novel, The Cuckoo's Calling, under her Robert Galbraith pseudonym when she got the replies from Constable and Robinson and Creme de la Creme publishers.

The Cuckoo's Calling, a post-war detective novel, went on to be a number one bestseller, and in order to inspire other writers the Harry Potter author has posted the letters on Twitter.

Rowling had chosen to write under a different name in order to publish without hype or expectation, after the phenomenal success she enjoyed with her magical Harry Potter series.


In the letter from British house, Constable and Robinson an executive tells the author that the company could not take the novel on due to its expectation that it would be a commercial flop.
The correspondence then outlays an almost step-by-step guide on how she could work to achieve success in the future.

In perhaps the most amusing part of the letter the publisher advises the writer to get advice from a magazine writing guide and not to give away the ending of her book in the summary.


It reads: 'Double check in a helpful bookshop, on Amazon or in the twice yearly 'Buyer's Guide' of Bookseller Magazine precisely who are the publishers now of your fiction category/genre.

'Then send to each editor an alluring 200-word blurb (as in book jackets; don't give away the ending!) the first chapter plus perhaps two others and an S.A.E.'

The letter then goes on to offer tips that could send the writer in the right direction, including making sure it is clear what genre the book is and suggesting she goes on a course.


It says: 'The covering letter should state as precisely as you can the category/genre of fiction you are submitting.'

Adding: 'Owing to pressure of submission, I regret we cannot reply individually or provide constructive criticism (a writers' group/writing course may help with the latter).'

The second letter from crime publishers, Creme de la Crime shows a much shorter response simply stating the firm does not wish to accept new submissions.

Both companies are no doubt kicking themselves now as the novel went on to top Amazon's best selling list and received critical claim, with plans in the pipeline for a TV series.

However, it was not an initial hit. It sold only 1,500 copies and was languishing at 4,709 in Amazon’s bestsellers list, after it first hit the shelves in July 2013.

Sales rocketed after Rowling was revealed as the novel's author by Jude Callegari, a lawyer at a firm that represents her, via a message posted on Twitter, much to the author's dismay.

Rowling said she posted the letters after aspiring writers asked her how she dealt with rejection from publishers.
- See the letters and more on: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/03/jk-rowling-shares-rejection-letters-she.html#sthash.GkJ9oK55.dpuf

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Foreign Affairs / BRUSSELS UNDER ATTACK: 23 Dead As Terrorist Attacks Airport And Metro Station by tunderoc(m): 12:04pm On Mar 22, 2016
At least 23 people has been declared dead in Brussels, at suspected terrorist lay siege on the city. First was a suicide attack close to the American Airlines check-in desk at Brussels Airport, and then a second terror attack hits the Metro station near EU headquarters.


Witnesses described apocalyptic scenes with blood and 'dismembered bodies everywhere' after two blasts rocked the American Airlines check-in desk at Brussels Airport at 8am (7am GMT) in a suspected suicide bombing. At least 13 people have died and 35 were injured.


Around 90 minutes later, ten people are believed to have been killed when an explosion hit a Metro station just 400 metres from the EU headquarters in the city centre in another suspected terror attack.

The explosions come just a day after the Belgium Interior Minister warned of possible revenge attacks after the arrest of Paris massacre suspect Salah Abdeslam in the city last week.
At the airport, shouts in Arabic were reportedly heard before the explosions which sent shockwaves through the terminal building, shattering windows, knocking roof tiles off the ceiling and sending terrified passengers running for their lives. (Warning Graphic Photos below)...
- See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/03/brussels-under-attack-23-dead-as.html#sthash.QwBEWMJq.dpuf

Webmasters / TECH NEWS: Facebook And Whatsapp Withdraws Support For Blackberry by tunderoc(m): 9:39am On Mar 22, 2016
Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian tech company that makes Blackberry, whose market price has been on a decline in the market suffers yet another big blow, as social media giant Facebook and her subsidiary WhatsApp withdraws support for the Blackberry platform.

Initially it was WhatsApps, that announced that it would withdraw support for the older mobile operating systems including BlackBerry devices (BB10 included), Symbian 40, Symbian 60, Android 2.1 and 2.2 and Windows Phone 7.1. and now Facebook is also discontinuing its API, the essential support for the BlackBerry, by the end of the year.


Unhappy with the latest development, BlackBerry tried to approach both the social media platforms to try and renew support. However, there has been no positive response from either of the Mark Zuckerberg-owned companies.

And in a bid to counter the move and remain relevant, BlackBerry has launched an update with its own Facebook app for its devices. The company did same for WhatsApp as well. The API supports help the device sync with the activities on Facebook. This means that with the new update, BlackBerry users will not get any instant updates of new messages, notifications or even contact synchronisation with the phonebook of your device.
- See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/03/tech-news-facebook-and-whatsapp.html#sthash.8bHerDWh.dpuf

Car Talk / Check Out The First Made In Nigeria Toyota Vehicle by tunderoc(m): 10:13pm On Mar 21, 2016
Wow another BIG PLUS for Nigeria! Check out the first Toyota Vehicle made in Nigeria. The vehicle a Toyota Hiace bus was unveiled in Lagos on Monday, March 21, by Toyota Nigeria.

According to Daily Mail, the Hiace bus was assembled locally at a vehicle assembly plant in Lagos.

Speaking during the unveiling, "Kunle Ade-Ojo, the managing director of Toyota Nigeria, informed that the new Hiace was assembled in the company’s plant in Lagos, built with 30,000-unit production capacity every year."


According to him, the Hiace was assembled as a test case as the firm looks forward to a mass production in coming months.

This breakthrough is coming just after two and a half years after the announcement of the Automotive Industry Development Plan by Nigeria’s federal government, which raised the import duty on cars from 22 per cent to 70 per cent in order to discourage vehicle importation.
- See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/03/check-out-first-made-in-nigeria-toyota.html#sthash.RD0sT56e.dpuf

Webmasters / ADBLABLA: Grow Your Blog Traffic With Free Advertisement In Nigeria by tunderoc(m): 9:26pm On Mar 20, 2016
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4. design and upload your own adverts. And your adverts will start displaying on the network as soon as it's approved.

It is as simple as that and a win win story for all parties involved.
- See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/03/adblabla-grow-your-blog-traffic-with.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook#sthash.oHHec44q.dpuf

Foreign Affairs / Re: SATURDAY DIGEST: World's Most Infamous Murders 'cannibal Of Oshodi' by tunderoc(m): 12:28pm On Mar 20, 2016
shocked shocked
duketunde:
Good Afternoon lovelies, So sorry for bringing today's edition of SATURDAY DIGEST a little behind schedule. Today the 'Cannibal of Oshodi' joins our growing list of World's Most Infamous Murders at number 9.

Once upon a time in the city of Lagos, there lived a ruthless murderer who feigned madness to capture and gruesomely kill his victims under the bridge at Toyota Bus Stop along the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway. His name is Clifford Orji but i refer to him as the 'CANNIBAL OF OSHODI.'

Clifford's mode of operation is to act like someone who's mad and when it's late he hacked unsuspecting citizens who strayed into his dark corner under the bridge to death. He allegedly killed over 50 people in the late 90's.

After hacking his victims to death, the Cannibal of Oshodi, will drag them into his shanty built with tires and scrap metals and there he will dis-member their bodies, roast them, eat some and allegedly sell human parts to ritualist who patronize him on a regular basis.

Clifford was arrested by the Nigerian Police in February 1999, after a pregnant victim managed to escape from the serial murderer. Items found on him at the time of his arrest was a cheque for the sum of N88,000, a cell phone, women underwear and fresh and roast human flesh and bones.

His arrest was widely celebrated and was a trending headline in most African media houses then.

The Courts and Judiciary system in most African states known for prosecuting cases at a snail pace, resulted in the case not being followed diligently, though Clifford Orji was remanded in Prison at the time but no serious investigation or further arrest were made. After spending 13 years in prison without trial Mr. Orji died in his sleep on August 17, 2012. He was 46 years old when he died.
- See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/03/saturday-digest-worlds-most-infamous-clifford-orji.html#sthash.dKA650zW.dpuf
Foreign Affairs / NASA Is Sending A 3D Printer To Space That You Can Use by tunderoc(m): 10:31pm On Mar 19, 2016
3D Printing company Made in Space is partnering with NASA to send the first commercial manufacturing facility to the International Space Station (ISS). The Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF) will be launched next Tuesday.

According to Techcrunh, After the launch, Users on Earth can pay to use AMF, a 3D printer specially designed to operate in a microgravity environment, to print products on the space station. Once it arrives, Made in Space will be able to command AMF remotely from their headquarters in the NASA Ames Research Park.

Spencer Pitman, head of product strategy at Made in Space, told TechCrunch that the company has already secured 20 paying customers for AMF. Their customers include high schools that are hosting space-related design challenges, universities that will print medical research components, and companies that will print commercial parts for satellites and other spacecraft.

“We will even be printing a 3D printable exercise device for Autodesk and wrenches for Lowe’s,” Pitman said.

AMF has been a few years in the making. Made in Space first demonstrated the capability to 3D print objects in a weightless environment in 2011 using parabolic flights. The company also sent an earlier version of their 3D printer to the ISS back in 2014. Known as the 3D Printing in Microgravity Experiment, their first printer conducted a series of tests with over a dozen different 3D printing materials.

Pitman stated that AMF improves on the 3D Printing in Microgravity Experiment in terms of robustness and longevity. AMF also includes a number of technology expansions and is able to manufacture products with over 30 different materials.

So why does NASA need a 3D printer on the space station in the first place? It has mostly to do with the amount of time and money it takes to send something into space. According to NASA, it costs roughly $10,000 to send just 1 pound of payload into orbit.

But Pitman says that the true cost is likely far higher than this because “all materials, parts, and hardware going to the station have to go through a lengthy and costly certification process.”

In addition to the hefty price tag, it takes over half a year to ultimately get your hardware on station. Even if you’re NASA, the wait times aren’t much better, which can be problematic if, for example, an ISS crew member misplaces or breaks a tool and quickly needs a replacement. In fact, the first tool that was uplinked to be 3D printed on the space station was a ratchet that would replace one that was lost.#sthash.G5kOvp9G.dpuf

Literature / Tram 83 Wins Etisalat Prize For Literature 2015. by tunderoc(m): 9:05pm On Mar 19, 2016
Truly a Grand Finale to remember! with loads of side attraction and appearances. The three-way literary battle on who will win Africa's most prestigious literature Prize went down tonight in Lagos. Check out the list of Winners at the 2015 edition of the Etisalat prize for literature. The shortlisted books are The Story of Anna P, as Told by Herself by South Africa’s Penny Busetto, Tram 83 by Democratic Republic of Congo’s Fiston Mwanza Mujila and What Will People Say? by another South African, Rehana Rossouw.

Winner of Etisalat Prize for Literature 2015:

Fiston Mwanza Mujila (Democratic Republic of Congo) for Tram 83. The winning author gets £15,000, an engraved Montblanc Meisterstück pen and a high end device. The winner will also attend the Etisalat Fellowship at the University of East Anglia under the mentorship Giles Foden.

FLASH FICTION CATEGORY.

Flash Fiction: Kuti-Ojuolape Modupe.(Nigeria) The winning author gets £1,000, High end device and a published e-book promoted online and vis SMS. See the winning story below:

GONE.
Her beauty was unfair, un-fair, an ebony thing, but that wasn’t the reason I loved her. It was not the way she curled her finger around her hair when she was nervous or how she flicked my nose when she was upset with me.
It was not her voracious appetite for trouble which seemed to always have a way of finding her, nor the way she always made me late for work with her morning shenanigans.
It was not even the soft feel of her hands when we touched or the butterflies I felt when when kissed.
No, it was that I had fallen for her at all. I wasn’t sure if I had fallen all at once or if I had like a thousand crystal shards of broken glass. It was the way she made me feel things I had never felt before. Love. A strangeness. An uncertainty. Yet, my love for her was a jumping thing, never stable, like her. And that was why when her cupboard was bereft save for a note, I already knew what it would say.
She was gone.

Runners-up:
Gets £500 cash prize (each), High end device.

Mehn i love that guy miming All of me in Fuji, Africans are truly talented and very creative. Thank you Africa, Thank you Etisalat.
- See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/03/tram-83-wins-etisalat-prize-for.html#sthash.PRxNDSI2.dpuf

Foreign Affairs / Photos: Replica Of Doomed Dream Liner 'TITANIC II' To Sail In 2018 by tunderoc(m): 1:16pm On Feb 13, 2016
On 15 April 1912, RMS Titanic, the British dream Passenger liner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, more than 100 years after the doomed Ship dubbed 'Indestructible' or 'ship of dreams' sank an Australian billionaire Clive Palmer and his company Blue Star Line have announced plans to unveil a ship the is physically identical to the Titanic.


At 882 feet long by 100 feet high, the fully functioning replica will be the same size as the original but will include modern safety and navigational features.


When all is said and done, the “Titanic II” will cost nearly $434 million.

The ship is expected to set sail in 2018 from Jiangsu in eastern China to Dubai. The first Titanic originally set sail from Southampton on its way to New York.

Until then, take a look at proposed photos next to original archive photographs of the actual Titanic. If the project is completed, it looks like passengers are in for a really luxurious ride. - See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/02/photos-replica-of-doomed-dream-liner.html#sthash.skpy1qlg.dpuf

Literature / Travails Of A Grave Tender By Olorunyomi Akintunde by tunderoc(m): 9:01pm On Feb 09, 2016
September 17, 2010….

Lying on his sick bed and staring into nothingness, General Obaseki whispered in his barely audible voice “Oh how beautiful?” Adebola his eldest daughter whom had just returned from the United Kingdom with her husband John, to be with her critically ill father, asked him ‘Daddy what is it’. Oh my darling he answered, I can see angels and they’re so beautiful. An uneasy silence fell over the room as everyone looked bewildered and tears started welling up in Adebola's eyes.
- See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/02/short-story-travails-of-grave-tender.html#sthash.rlTMvqC1.dpuf

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Literature / Re: Literature/Writing Section's "Chat Central!" by tunderoc(m): 8:59pm On Feb 09, 2016
Read 'Travails of a Grave tender' a short story series off my book that will soon be available on KINDLE here http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/02/short-story-travails-of-grave-tender.html

Literature / Re: Blogs Of Famous Nigerian Writers/Authors by tunderoc(m): 2:52pm On Feb 09, 2016
http//:www.duketundesblog.com Best blog for Literary opportunities, Articles, Stories and News in Nigeria. Visit the page now for all the latest writing/poetry opportunities and many more juicy updates
Foreign Affairs / All You Need To Know About The Entrepreneur Side Of Cristiano Ronaldo by tunderoc(m): 5:12pm On Feb 07, 2016
Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo is 31 years old, with his playing career still in full swing and, while he has been wowing the world with his inimitable skills on the ground, elsewhere too he has been making a name for himself - we are talking about Ronaldo the entrepreneur and how he has been raising his entrepreneurial profile with each passing year and capitalising globally on his brand value. The billionaire status of Cristiano Ronaldo, his status as a global star and his ambition in business contrast with his modest origins in Madeira, where he was born 31 years ago in a humble family. Here are top 10 points to note.

In just a matter of months, Cristiano Ronaldo has strengthened his presence outside soccer grounds by launching a line of footwear and signed an alliance with a Portuguese hotel chain, which adds to his original forms of promotion, such as the release of a film about his life and the creation of a traveling museum with his most precious "treasures", reports EFE. The agreement with the Portuguese chain is expected to bear fruit in the opening of four new hotels, located in Funchal (the capital of his native Madeira), Lisbon, Madrid and New York.

The IPAM calculated, using data from 2014, the value of Cristiano Ronaldo as a trademark at 54 million euros ($60 million), a figure that 'has not stopped rising' because his popularity is growing.
- See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/02/all-you-need-to-know-about-entrepreneur.html#sthash.VxEZnCAs.dpuf

Crime / Read 'the World's Most Infamous Murders Series On DTB SATURDAY DIGEST by tunderoc(m): 3:53pm On Feb 06, 2016
Don't miss the series on Duketundesblog...read it here: www.duketundesblog.com excerpts from today's post below:

Today's SATURDAY DIGEST on the 'World's Most Infamous Murders' series is about "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity" who made headlines world over between July 1963 and October 1965.Ian Brady, 27 at the time and Myra Hindley, 22 who became known as the 'MOORS MURDERS' killed five children aged between 10 and 17; Four of the victim were believed to have been sexually assaulted by the cold blooded murders.

They got the moniker 'Moors murders' because two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was however discovered on the moor in 1987, some 20 years after the duo were tried in 1966. The body of the fourth victim, is also believed to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remained undiscovered.
- See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/02/saturday-digest-worlds-most-infamous.html#sthash.xnxGlTXG.dpuf
Foreign Affairs / Hidden From Modern World: Stunning Images Of The Mentawai People In Indonesia by tunderoc(m): 10:07pm On Feb 05, 2016
Wow! Check out the stunning images of the Mentawai tribe, from Indonesia that has managed to keep their traditions and way of life away from modern society. The Mentawai tribe are famous for their decorative tattoos and for living a semi-nomadic life on the Mantawai Islands in West Sumatra.

The tribe, according to sources consist of around 64,000 people, living in homes which are known as Umas and built using bamboo, wood and grass, and are furnished with the skulls of hunted prey.
The Mentawaian's social life revolves around their clans, and at the centre is the communal long house. The clans vary in size between 30 to 80 members.

It is claimed that the tribe members believe that all living objects including plants are supposed to have spirits.
The only specialist in the community is the medicine man that is responsible for communication with the spirits and the souls - in case of misfortune or illness, he is called in to restore harmony within the group.

Mentawai woman walk around with no clothes on and their lives depend entirely on natural resources.

Shot by professional photographer Mohammed Saleh Bin Dollah, the series captures a glimpse of life on the island, where the tribe clan is everything and any problem can be solved by a medicine man.
- See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/02/hidden-from-modern-world-stunning.html#sthash.JgQIdMVl.dpuf

Foreign Affairs / English Speaking Child Jihadi Behead Man In New ISIS Video by tunderoc(m): 5:57pm On Feb 05, 2016
Another barbaric video has emerge allegedly by the ISIS, which shows a young, English speaking boy sawing off the head off a man in orange jumpsuit.

The propaganda video which is thought to have been filmed in Aleppo, Syria shows the boy armed with a dagger pointing down the camera lens, the child issues a chilling threat to the United States for arming rebel groups to fight the terror group in Syria.
He says: 'Oh America, these are the soldiers you armed and you spent money on to fight the Sharia of Islam.

He further declared that, ISIS will meet their enemies 'on the hills of Dabiq' - a small Syrian town where some Muslims believe the final, apocalyptic battle against the West will be fought.

The ISIS's hostage, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, was thought to be a fighter for the Levant Front rebel faction - a coalition of groups who came together to destroy the fanatics.

He is forced to give an interview entirely in Arabic before he is shackled and marched to an area of woodland.

In the 17 minute long video, the boy leads the man through the trees and forces him to kneel on the ground.
Finally, he reaches down to pull the man's neck up towards him and cuts his head off with a sharpened dagger. - See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2016/02/english-speaking-child-jihadi-behead.html#sthash.QWHnMeyX.dpuf

Foreign Affairs / NASA Invites Public To Send Names To Mars by tunderoc(m): 1:11pm On Aug 20, 2015
NASA's new Mars exploration slated for 2016, promises to be the most insightful research of the red's planet as it will be the first ever launch that will be committed to research the deepest corners of MARS.During the research the first seismometer will directly be placed on the surface of Mars to calculate the Martian quakes. This information will help researchers to know about details of the planet.The launch will take place from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and NASA is looking for Volunteers to add their names to a silicon microchip that will be added to the cargo of its Insight MARS lander to the red planet. The director of planetary science at Washington’s NASA Headquarters, Jim Green says, “These and other Insight investigations will improve our understanding about the formation and evolution of all rocky planets, including Earth.” - See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2015/08/nasa-invites-public-to-send-names-to.html
Foreign Affairs / Re: Not Again Another Fishing Boat Carrying 600 Migrants Capsizes North Of Libya by tunderoc(m): 4:14pm On Aug 18, 2015
Well said
cyprus000:
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This is what happens when there is failure of leadership.
No enabling enviroment for upcomming generation.
Africa have suffered in the hands of self-centered,asslicking,nitwitty brainscoop-lummox.

We call leader'sangry.
This same leaders were part of UN resolution which voted for the intervention NATO in libya despit their failure in their respective countries.
They even armed rebels. getting the arms back is a problem.

Now libya is a failed state and a safe haven for. Smuggler's,illegal migrants and illegal arm dealer's(number one supplier of arms to boko haram).



On the flipside: the said rescuers are the primariy cause of this accident.

This is not the first time,this kind of thing has happened.
They know this are desperate people striving to survive.
You don't just drive a rescue vessle to the the boat you want to rescue. Without sending crew members to co-ordinate the boat/vessle you want to rescue.
So has not to make the people disorganized and make them move to one side of the boat,which will cause it to topple.

Hypocritesangry..I just feel pained right now.
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Foreign Affairs / Is This D Next Big Thing Or Another Tower Of Babel by tunderoc(m): 4:11pm On Aug 18, 2015
Is this another Babel or the next big thing in space travel and exploration..A Canadian company just got patent to build a 20-Kiliometre high free standing tower, that will serve as Space elevator to allow Astronauts launch into space from a platform high above the Earth.. - See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2015/08/is-this-another-tower-of-babel-or-next.html
Literature / CALL FOR ENTRIES: Africa Book Club Monthly Short Story Competition by tunderoc(m): 6:56pm On Aug 15, 2015
Are an African writer? Do you want to be heard, earn $100 each month and be discovered by potential publishers..Then this is an opportunity you don't want to miss..

Submit your Short stories (Fiction and Non-Fiction) to the Africa Book Club monthly short story writing competition. See more here - http://www.duketundesblog.com/2015/08/call-for-entries-africa-book-club.html?m=1
Foreign Affairs / TERRORISM: ISIS Threathens To Sell Kidnapped Christian Women by tunderoc(m): 5:35pm On Aug 15, 2015
ISIS recently posted disturbing images three Assyrian Christian women they abducted earlier in the year.
In the three leaked images shared on social media by the dreaded terror group shows the women holding pieces of paper on which their names and a date "July 27, 2015" are written.

It is generally feared that this means the Christian women are to be sold if their families or charities do not pay ransom for their release, although no figure appears on the signs they hold.

- See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2015/08/terrorism-isis-threathens-to-sell.html
Literature / SATURDAY DIGEST: World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries (day 6) by tunderoc(m): 11:24am On Aug 15, 2015
Series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in Southern Peru, The high arid Pleateau stretches more than 80 km between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana which lies about 400km south of the capital Lima. The geoglyphs is known as the "NAZCA LINES" Scholars believe the Nazca lines were created by the Nazca culture between 400BC and 500BC. The hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds. spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, orcas, and lizards. - See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2015/08/saturday-digest-worlds-greatest_15.html
Foreign Affairs / SATURDAY DIGEST: World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries (day 6) by tunderoc(m): 10:56am On Aug 15, 2015
Series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in Southern Peru, The high arid Pleateau stretches more than 80 km between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana which lies about 400km south of the capital Lima. The geoglyphs is known as the "NAZCA LINES" Scholars believe the Nazca lines were created by the Nazca culture between 400BC and 500BC. The hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds. spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, orcas, and lizards - See more at: http://www.duketundesblog.com/2015/08/saturday-digest-worlds-greatest_15.html
Webmasters / Re: New Bloggers To Watchout For In Nigeria..post Your Blogs In The Thread by tunderoc(m): 10:08pm On Aug 14, 2015
U need to understand coding in sorting most issue blog issue..tho u can select a new template n layout 4 starter then ur metatag n description is too short, must search engine will not pick it up #SEO..n you will need to submit ur blog to crawlers like Google,bing n more
goldenone:

Thanks a lot but pls advice on the kind of template to use and also expanciate on the blog body...tnx again
Webmasters / Re: New Bloggers To Watchout For In Nigeria..post Your Blogs In The Thread by tunderoc(m): 12:19pm On Aug 11, 2015
duketunde:
Thanks peeps...Duke Tunde's blog is about Global news, African content, Nigeria news, Entertainment, Literary prize and book reviews www.duketunde..com
Webmasters / Re: Free Blogger Followers And Blog Comments by tunderoc(m): 10:57am On Aug 11, 2015
check out my blog www.duketunde..com
Celebrities / Re: Meet Selfie Stick Millionaire "Wayne Fromm" The Dude Who Invented Selfie Stick by tunderoc(m): 11:15pm On Aug 09, 2015
grin thumps up to him, God let my gifted hands ride too
duketunde:
Selfie sticks are, depending on who you talk to, either a useful invention well on its way to ubiquity, or an annoying fad that needs to be stopped.
The gadgets have been banned from places like Apple meetings and theme parks, but continue to proliferate on street corners and in Best Buys, throughout the United States and the rest of the world.
Someone is making money off these things, but the question is, who? Well meet Wayne Fromm the dude behind selfie sticks who's now a millionaire Read more - http://duketunde..com/2015/08/meet-wayne-fromm-selfie-stick-inventor.html
Foreign Affairs / Re: Childhood Destroyed: ISIS Shows Off New Child Soldier Recruit (Photos) by tunderoc(m): 11:09pm On Aug 09, 2015
May the Almighty God save this world
duketunde:
Islamic states recently released photos of new child soldiers recruits, the young boys between the ages of 10 and 15 were seen in the pictures been train for combat and how to maneuver in battle..The childhood of these young boys has been stolen and their left looking bleak. See more photo and full article here - http://duketunde..com/2015/08/childhood-destroyed-isis-shows-off.html
Foreign Affairs / Re: Air Disaster Averted At Nashville Airport by tunderoc(m): 7:21pm On Aug 07, 2015
tunderoc:
another would be air disaster was averted just before take-off of a Delta operated aircraft at Nashville airport in the US today..the pilot had just turned on the plane when the auxilliary engine caught fire. he quickly turned off the engine right there on the tarmac and every passenger was safely De-boarded from the aircraft...
If the incident happen midair it would have been so disastrous and believe me everyone will blame ISIL that they most have hijacked and bomb the plane
read more here - http://duketunde..com/2015/08/delta-flight-catches-fire-just-before.html
Foreign Affairs / Air Disaster Averted At Nashville Airport by tunderoc(m): 5:27pm On Aug 07, 2015
another would be air disaster was averted just before take-off of a Delta operated aircraft at Nashville airport in the US today..the pilot had just turned on the plane when the auxilliary engine caught fire. he quickly turned off the engine right there on the tarmac and every passenger was safely De-boarded from the aircraft...
If the incident happen midair it would have been so disastrous and believe me everyone will blame ISIL that they most have hijacked and bomb the plane
read more here - http://duketunde..com/2015/08/delta-flight-catches-fire-just-before.html
Celebrities / Beach Cleaner Who Found MH370 Wreckage Becomes A Star In Reunion by tunderoc(m): 9:54am On Aug 07, 2015
The man who found wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 washed up on Reunion has become something of a celebrity on the island, with a growing list of social media tributes and memes.
Johnny Begue, 46, is in charge of the beach cleaning team in Saint Andre, on the east of the island. Last week he told how he had come across the wing fragment while looking for stones to use as a pestle and mortar, to crush spices.
"We wanted to set it on the lawn and plant flowers around it," he said. See more and photos here - http://duketunde..com/2015/08/beach-cleaner-who-found-mh370-wreckage.html

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