BEAUTIFUL PLACES ON EARTH

Backyard Pool, Bora Bora, French Polynesia

Cappadocia, Turkey

Chandelier Tree, Leggett, California

Colosseum, Rome, Italy

Credit River, Ontario, Canada

Twilight before dawn, Paris, France

Flatt's Harbour, Smith's Parish, Bermuda

Flume covered bridge in autumn, Franconia Notch State Park, New Hampshire

Glade Creek Grist Mill, Babcock State Park, West Virginia

Gustavia, Saint-Barthelemy, Guadeloupe

Heceta Sunset, Devil's Elbow State Park, Oregon

In amongst the rocks, Goreme, Turkey

Japanese Garden, Washington Park, Portland, Oregon

Legislative Building, Victoria, British Columbia

Rock Tombs, Dalyan, Turkey

Plaza De Cibeles, Madrid, Spain

Niagara Falls at night, Canada

The moon over San Francisco

London Evening, Tower Bridge, England

Sunbeams, Percy Warner Park, Tennessee

Sunrise, Malibu, California

Toronto, Canada

Trinita dei Monti Church, Spanish Steps, Rome, Italy

(Thanks Smitha for pics)

Akhil-Babu's letter to the Railway Department

Akhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. It is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi. It was also reproduced under the caption Travelers' Tales" in the Far Eastern Economic Review.

"I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with lotah in one hand and dhoti in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on platform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station.

This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honor to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers."

Any guesses why this letter was of historic value?
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It apparently led to introduction of toilets in trains.

Thanks Kash