Mother Teresa a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, died on September 5, 1997, in her convent in India. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje, Yugoslavia, she joined the Sisters of Loreto in 1928. She took the name “Teresa” after St. Teresa of Lisieux, patroness of the Missionaries.

Mother Teresa created many homes for the dying and the unwanted from Calcutta to New York to Albania. She was one of the pioneers of establishing homes for AIDS victims. For more than 45 years, Mother Teresa comforted the poor, the dying, and the unwanted around the world.

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Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) community has opened a huge Hindu temple in Atlanta on a 29 acre site, which is the largest in the US. BAPS is known for its traditional hand-carved stone Hindu temples, and for its social work and humanitarian services offered around the world.

The white temple is Built at a cost of $19 million in the Lilburn suburb of Atlanta,USA.

Murti Pratishtha Swaminarayan temple Atlanta, USA

The temple is built from marble, limestone and sandstone and are designed to last more than 1,000 years. Their stones interlock; no nails, screws or other metal that one day could corrode are used in construction.

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As you know a social network is a social structure made of nodes which can be individuals or organizations that are tied by one or more specific types of relations, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, like, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, and relations or could be anything.

People have used the social network to connote complex sets of relationships between members of social systems at all scales, from interpersonal to international.

Today there are thousands of Social Networking Sites exists in internet space, But as obvious some are popular.

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In Picture : A special coin commemorating the life of Diana, the Princess of Wales. It is one of the millions of souvenirs featuring her image, known among collectors as Dianabilia.

TEN years ago this day August 31 1997 one of the saddest moment of the decade took place,that was the death of Princess Diana. Here is a look at what happened that night to England’s Rose, Princess Diana