This book is a compilation of places that I have experienced visiting. I collaborated all the historical aspects, famous people's marks on society, the attractions, as well as its sports legends and figures. It offers its infamous notes that have plagued its history, such as race riots, social issues, and deaths that have transpired throughout a changing course of time

To enhance this book's appeal, and not just listing names, places, and places to go, it is written in a poignant, lighthearted, humorous, factual account and is all in prose form.               
      These are places that everyone should experience, from the Freedom Trail in Boston, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the Sears Tower in Chicago, or Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. There is beauty and history in just about every one of these destinations. Places to enjoy, unwind, or just take in a stunning view unmatched anywhere, such as the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, or seeing the Eternal Flame in Arlington National Cemetery.
      In what took a year to complete, was really 300 years in the making. The making of this was a labor of love in expressing my passion for traveling and seeking new experiences and beautiful splendor.
      Have you ever been to Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, or Wrigley Field? Any baseball fan worth his salt should take in a ballgame at one of these hallowed grounds. The sights, the smells, the skyline in its shadow, and if you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of baseball when its purity and innocence was its hallmark.
     All proceeds from this book will go to the ASPCA for the continuing fight for the welfare of all animals.
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A New Era of New Beginnings Each article in this book is a portion of Indian prehistory in the Ancient Near East. The gate to this ancient world was opened the day to Professor Cyrus H. Gordon offered his congratulations to me (June 1995) for my discovery of Canaanite words in Bengali and traces of that language in other Indian dialects. I did not anticipate the consequences while toying with these newly discovered Dešì or Native Indian words and matching them against words of ancient Near Eastern texts. These ancient words have been collected, deciphered, transliterated, and published by many scholars, which took many centuries of hard toil. It was astounding to realize how the Egyptian terms of a fourteenth century BC Amarna letter for particular vessels and ornaments and the name of a common Indian spice would crop up as cognates of Dešì words in Bengali (Article 1). A few of them are not only alive in common, everyday language, but all of them are almost intact in form and meaning. After finding out the existence of a massive number of Canaanite and Egyptian words in Bengali, I realized the need to uncover the historical connections. The exploration of ancient ethnic names, names of countries of the mythical cosmology, names of divinities, and their innumerable synonyms and epithets in early Indian literature unleashed a torrent of information. The data was overwhelming, unbelievable, and even traumatic. Everything I learned was against my conventional notions. Confused and terrified, I ran to Professor Gordon. Professor Gordon devoted his precious time to further investigate the Rigveda in an attempt to pave the path for my research. Today, I remain thankful for his short article The Near East Background of the Rigveda (see References), but time did not permit him to do more. After he passed away, I realized that the Rigveda contains many Ancient Near Eastern place names, but they are hidden within the proper names. This characteristic of toponymical names (names containing a place name) is elaborated in each article of this book. These ancient names proved to be the most important tools to decode the geographical settings and historical backdrops of the Epic-Puranic myths, events, and even the context of some hymns of the Rigveda and Atharvaveda. This very tool also helped to reveal the identity of the priest poets of the Rigveda as well as of the ancient Pali writers.

This book is a compilation of places that I have experienced visiting. I collaborated all the historical aspects, famous people's marks on society, the attractions, as well as its sports legends and figures. It offers its infamous notes that have plagued its history, such as race riots, social issues, and deaths that have transpired throughout a changing course of time

To enhance this book's appeal, and not just listing names, places, and places to go, it is written in a poignant, lighthearted, humorous, factual account and is all in prose form.               
      These are places that everyone should experience, from the Freedom Trail in Boston, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the Sears Tower in Chicago, or Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. There is beauty and history in just about every one of these destinations. Places to enjoy, unwind, or just take in a stunning view unmatched anywhere, such as the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, or seeing the Eternal Flame in Arlington National Cemetery.
      In what took a year to complete, was really 300 years in the making. The making of this was a labor of love in expressing my passion for traveling and seeking new experiences and beautiful splendor.
      Have you ever been to Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, or Wrigley Field? Any baseball fan worth his salt should take in a ballgame at one of these hallowed grounds. The sights, the smells, the skyline in its shadow, and if you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of baseball when its purity and innocence was its hallmark.
     All proceeds from this book will go to the ASPCA for the continuing fight for the welfare of all animals.
< B R > & n b s p ; & n b s p ; & n b s p ;