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                                                    A Ukrainian young lady with very long hair.   The tresses of 16-year-old Nilanshi Patel (India, b. 16 August 2002) had achieved a length of 1.75 m (5 ft 8 in) by 21 November 2018. She has been growing her hair since the age of six, and calls it her "lucky charm". It is washed once a week – drying takes half an hour, combing twice that. Nilanshi usually wears her hair in a braid, but ties it in a bun to play table tennis. The world's longest documented hair belongs to Xie Qiuping (China) at 5.627m (18 feet 5.54 in) when measured on 8 May 2004. She has been growing her hair since 1973 from the age of 13. "It's no trouble at all. I'm used to it," said Xie Qiuping. "But you need pat...

    The Beylerbeyi Palace, Beylerbeyi meaning "King of Kings", is located in the Üsküdar district in Istanbul, Turkey, at the Asian side of the Bosphorus. An Imperial Ottoman summer residence built between 1861 and 1865, it is now situated immediately north of the first Bosphorus Bridge. It was the last place where Sultan Abdulhamid II was under house arrest before his death in 1918.   I visited this Palace in May 2022. Sadly photography is prohibited inside the Palace. The photos that I have put up here are from their brochure.

   With the onset of short summer come lots of mosquitoes in Greenland forcing one to put on a net cover.

    Dragon Fruit, also referred as Kamalam, is grown in countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, the US and Vietnam. Its production commenced in India in early 1990s. Earlier this year in July the National Conclave on Kamlam (Dragon Fruit) was organized on Jul 7, under the Chairmanship of Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture. The objective of the Dragon Fruit conclave was to give thrust to increase the area, production and productivity, marketing, branding of Kamlam (Dragon Fruit) and also to enhance the farmer's income. In a first, India has exported the fibre and mineral-rich exotic Dragon Fruit, the government said Saturday. The first consignment was shipped to Dubai.