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There are some amazing tombs in Delhi and people travel from all over the world to see them. They are featured as masterpieces in the world of architecture and they have amazing stories surrounding their existence. One of the most visited tombs is the Humayun Tomb which is a 16th century, Mughal style masterpiece. It was built to be the grave of the Mughal emperor Humayun by his wife Hamida Banu Begum. It was the first in a few categories such as being the first garden tomb in the area. This building was the first to have used so much of the beautiful red sand with such a large building. This tomb houses a number of the Humayun family as well as some of the Emperors who followed. There are a few other tombs that are along the path that leads to the Humayun Tomb. There is the Tomb and Mosque of Isa Khan, Bu Halima’s Tomb and Garden, Afsarwala Tomb, Arab Sarai and Nila Gumbad or Nila Buri. These are not far from the Delhi hotels .  

Other tombs are found with the buildings for Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya who was alive from 1238 to 1325. His mausoleum, Nizamuddin Dargah is another ancient masterpiece of architecture. Nizamuddin Auliya was a Sufi saint and the Muslims still visit his Dargah everyday. People travel from all over the world and from all kinds of faiths to see this mausoleum. Surrounding the mausoleum are the tombs of Amir Khusro who was a musician, poet and scholar and Jehan Ara Begum who as the daughter of Emporer Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal.  

All of the building and grounds surrounding the many tombs and other historical sights are outstanding. They have been well preserved and continually groomed and they are full of interesting stories of rich history.

Las Vegas is well known for its contemporary cultural atmosphere and the unique casino giant city that it is. And while millions of people flock to the resorts every year for the gambling and incredible shows that take place on a nightly basis, the history of this incredible town can be just as interesting as what is taking place onstage. And surprisingly, much of the area was originally settled by Mormons who had traveled from Salt Lake City. Much of the city’s early history is overshadowed by the glitz and glamour of the contemporary society, though many of the stories are fascinating as well as informative and worth looking into if you plan to visit, or simply enjoy history.

In the mid 1800s the Mormon settlers were arriving from Utah to protect the Salt Lake-Los Angeles mail route. By 1855 they had begun construction on an adobe building that was about 150 square feet of sun dried clay bricks and grass. Around the fort they planted vegetables, fruit and mined for lead for bullets though they left the settlement by 1858 in large part due to Indian raids. A large portion of this early fort remains and was re-discovered during an archeological dig in 1992. Today the sight stands as an historical landmark.

The Las Vegas hotels are great places to acquire information on this and other interesting historic attractions in the city, in addition to the prime headliner show venues and gambling establishments in the city. This brings up another interesting aspect of the city’s history, its gaming industry. Nevada was the first state in the nation to legalize casino style gambling and the last to make it illegal, which occurred in October of 1910. However, underground games soon popped up and gambling activities occurred in the city until it was officially legalized again during the Great Depression. Part of the argument for legalization was the necessary tax money it would bring it for schools and other social services. The Hoover Dam Project soon began, which brought an additional population of over 5,000 to the city, and this was the beginning of Las Vegas being a national fascination and popular tourist destination.

In the past many companies did not see the importance of maintaining good customer service skills . They relied solely on the price and quality of their product. Fortunately in many businesses that is changing; they are beginning to see there is more to running a successful business than just offering good prices and quality products. Making sure the customer feels important and appreciated is also an important part of running a successful business.

One company that has consistently put customers first and maintained superb customer service is Next Day Blinds . One story that is particularly inspiring is the story of Kristin. She had read some positive reviews about them and decided that she would use their services to replace her existing blinds. She ordered the blinds and had them installed without any problems. A couple of days later she received a surprise visit from a company representative. The gentleman asked her how the ordering and installation process had gone, how her new blinds were working, and whether or not she was pleased with the final product. She explained to him that everything had gone quite well, that she received exactly what she paid for, and generally speaking, she was pleased. Her only problem, which was not the fault of Next Day Blinds but her own error in judgment, was that the look didn’t fit quite as well as she originally thought. The next day she received another surprise when her customer service rep called and explained that the visitor the day before had been the a company VP and that he often did surprise visits to see how customers liked the products. To top it off, the rep explained that they would like to replace her blinds and correct the problem even though the fault did not lie with Next Day Blinds. The phenomenal customer service that Next Day Blinds displayed inspired Kristin so much that she decided to keep her blinds and take all of her future business to the company.

It is stories like that and companies like Next Day Blinds that inspire consumers to become loyal customers. Companies that offer customer service that goes above and beyond are the companies that are much more likely to succeed. Perhaps by encouraging these companies to greatness, others will follow suit.

There are so many exciting cultural attractions that are a part of the overall atmosphere of Atlanta, that it can be easy to forget that there are also numerous beautiful, harmonious, quiet and peaceful aspects as well. And these are some of the favorite features of many people’s vacation there. And while the great nightclubs, theatres, music venues and other popular entertainment features are a common item on most tourists’ agendas, places like the Atlanta Botanical Gardens are a great alternative and sometimes are even more enticing. All of the diverse elements of Atlanta’s culture can be combined to create an extremely dynamic and fulfilling trip.

Plans to develop the Atlanta Botanical Gardens were originally developed in 1973 when civic minded residents proposed the idea to the city. It was officially incorporated in 1776 and the gardens have become a major source of pride and contentment as well as beauty and environmental satisfaction for residents and guests to the city. It is one of the most popular places for guests in the hotels Atlanta, USA and it is also one of the favorite aspects of their city for many of the residents.

There are some incredible indoor and outdoor plant collections at the garden and demonstrate an extremely diverse horticultural make up. In addition there are great special engagement events and ongoing classes presented by the gardens. Many plant and environmental experts hold lectures and these are always greatly informative as well as interesting. Some of the classes for adults include water color painting, floral design and gardening workshops. There are also classes structured for children and these are a mix of fun topics that not only engage their interest and imaginations but also help to develop an early appreciation for plants and flowers as well as a respect for the environment.

Trinity Nightclub in Seattle is an ornately adorned 2-level labyrinth, housing 3 rooms: The Main Room, the Blue Room, The Card room and a large private VIP room. Each room has a unique theme and decor with 2 spacious dance floors, full lounge, state of the art sound and lighting, plus internationally acclaimed DJ’s.

The Main Room, is a majestic room featuring Seattle’s top sound and lighting systems. It also has one of the largest dance floors on the west coast. Many of the room’s features are from a Seattle area church, including the DJ booth, which was constructed from its pulpit. This design gives The Main Room a classic, old-world feeling with all the modern amenities, including fully appointed VIP room with full bar and private restroom.

The Blue Room, is the fun, flirty side of Trinity. Royal blue with white accents, including a sparkle-infused blue dance floor. It’s reminiscent of the 50′s, but with aretro-modern style, and a pinch of an overdone Roger Moore James Bond film style. The Blue Room also features computer-controlled LED lighting system suspended from the ceiling and a custom designed DJ booth.

The Card Room, is an eclectic Asian themed lounge side of Trinity. Featuring pieces rescued from the Asian room at the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. The Card Room is very exotic and relaxing, a place to enjoy dim sum, drink and a good conversation.

The VIP Room, is a private and intimate area with up-matched elegance. The perfect setting for professional and personal entertaining. This sophisticated room offers a fully stocked bar, plush seating, a private restroom, a climate-controlled atmosphere and the VIP guests get to enjoy an unsurpassed service, which includes table-side premium service made available by your personal host and professional staff. Reservation are necessary.

You’ll find Trinity at 111 Yesler Way, not far from a downtown boutique hotel Seattle, USA offers its fine international guests.

It is probably one of the most spectacular ways to end a journey as a poet, to be allowed that your ashes be interred with Shelley’s in Rome. Shelley was one of the great Romantics, in the true sense of the word. Broody, delighted, and utterly in love with the world, but also afflicted with personal tragedies. For Shelley, it was TB that led him to an early exit, and for Gregory Corso , it was cancer.

Corso lived one of the perfect poet’s lives. Although it’s not a life that anyone would willingly accept, if they knew the conditions ahead of time, it makes for some fantastic stories, and a biography that only gets better with time. He was born in Manhattan, in Greenwich Village, in 1930, and lived a lot longer than anyone would have suspected he could have. At age 71, the disease took him in his sleep, in what seems to be a rather peaceful ending to a life that was anything but that.

He was considered by many to be a kind of 4th wheel to the Beat generation inner circle. The only reason he never made it in as a full-fledged member was probably because of his age. He was ten years younger than the next youngest, and still green around the gills as a poet. However, his street cred was absolutely solid, with a history of petty theft and break-ins, and time spent in the Tombs, the scariest prison in all of New York. He even spent time in Bellevue , and that, for the Beats, was as good as serving in the Foreign Legion to the New Romantics.

His footprints here are not as easy to find as some of the other poets of his time, but the search makes them all the more beautiful. Visiting the city, staying at a boutique Manhattan hotel , and looking for signs of poetry and roses, the trail of Corso leads somewhere close enough to call it home.

Visiting Florida is almost a catch phrase for enjoying time at the beach and relaxing in a lush paradise. The cities are bright and sultry during the day, and at night they come alive with vivacious activity. The music never stops, and, as any good travel directory will tell you, there’s always something new to see and hear. It’s difficult to escape the ocean here, and even inland cities have a love affair with the sea that cannot be denied. It’s estimated that 1/3 of the planet’s population lives close to an ocean, so deep is its mysterious pull that we can’t seem to get away from it.

Stories of Atlantis, the mythical island of warriors that sank into the sea thousands of years ago, seem to experience rises and falls in popularity. There are plenty of possible and fascinating reasons for this, where it might come from a deep cultural need for belief in the ethereal. Whatever the reasons, the island that Plato wrote about continues to have a hold on our imaginations. Many of the theories of the city have been discounted as wishful thinking, but it’s still something rather charming to think about when staying at the state’s 5 star hotels. Florida is a great place for daydreaming.

There are plenty of things to daydream about, too. Over the past century, there have been lots of interesting stories about remnants found on the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Florida. Every find seems to bring out more claims that this is, indeed, the lost city of Atlantis , but they always warrant further investigation. There have been reports of glowing pyramids on the ocean floor, and plenty of other pyramid-shaped structures. Many of these have been verified in photographs as “something,” but the details of the something are hard to pin down. There are also reports of finding parts of old highways, with images of streets under the ocean from 12,000 years ago. Perhaps it is another renaissance of ideas and obsessions about the lost city, or perhaps it’s another dream to dream, but it still adds up to another great reason to visit Florida.

One of the most difficult transitions to make when visiting European countries is learning that the definition of a cafe there is very different than what is expected in the U.S. In the states, when people go to cafes, they expect baristas, fresh baked goods, and a free wi-fi connection, especially in the places that aren’t chains. It’s become a part of life, and for some people, these places are their home offices away from home. So it’s always surprising that, even in places that are as super-connected as Zurich, this idea is still seen as a new phenomenon.

Here, the idea of a cafe is something entirely different. There’s often coffee, and sometimes there’s even an espresso machine, but more often than not the clientele will be drinking beer rather than the caffeine-infused concoctions. These are the alternate spaces where residents gather, and it’s not unusual to spend hours at one table, eating and drinking and talking deep into the night. These are the real cafes, and it’s important to distinguish them from Zurich coffee shops . And while just a few years ago it was difficult to find one where one could get online in Zurich , it is becoming much more commonplace today.

There are a number of excellent coffee shops where it’s always been easy to find a way to spend a lovely afternoon outside of one’s hotel in Zurich to meet locals and fellow travelers and spend some time chatting about recent events and the Zurich cultural scene. There are also a number of hotspots in other locations around town, because it is a city that’s very progressive in terms of contemporary culture and technology. It still seems to be the norm, however, to be social in these semi-public meeting places, and although the online community in Zurich is substantial, it’s still not making the shift toward turning coffee shops into places for work. The separation of work and social life is very guarded here, but it’s perfectly acceptable for travelers to hole up in these places and get connected.

Growing up and wondering if one should become an actor or a musician is a memory that is shared by a rather large number of people. Most kids think about it for a little while in their search for what to want to be when they grow up, and some kids never grow up and get to be the artists that others dream of. When the first version of “Fame” came out in the theaters, there were thousands of people who were suddenly vindicated in seeing their own stories on the screen.

It didn’t only appeal to teenagers and adults who had attended performing arts schools, because at the time, there were very few, including the high school the movie was based on. This was called PA, and is now folded back into the school La Guardia Arts in New York City . It still functions today, and has a rather high reputation for turning out the next generation of highly trained performers. Visitors to New York can see the school, as well as the site that the film was based on, and there are a number of other excellent arts schools in New York that meet the needs of different populations.

Some of these are for youth and teenagers, and the others are for adults. As it might be expected, New York City has some of the finest universities for acting and music in the world. Many great hotels in New York are close enough to Tisch to visit, and there are plenty of familiar landmarks here that most people have seen in films and television long before they see them in person. Of all the arts schools in the city, Julliard could very well be the oldest. It was founded by the godson of Franz Liszt, Dr. Frank Damrosch, in 1905, so that students of music in the city could have a formal education in classical music without having to move to Europe.

The schools here have vision, and have visionaries in the past and at the present, working to bring out the visionary in today’s upcoming talents. The dream of pursuing this difficult life did not begin with the film, but it has certainly helped to bring visibility to the thriving artistic life available in the city.

Fionn Downhill is an experienced speaker and the CEO of SEO and online reputation management company Elixir Interactive. Fionn’s impressive presenter bio includes over 23 renowned search marketing events including Search Engine Strategies as well as the Online Marketing Summit (OMS) — which kicked-off its 23-City tour May 20th in Phoenix, Arizona.

OMS isn’t the typical summit. With its focus on education,speakers must adhere to strict guidelines aimed at closely limiting the self-promotion and advertising typically seen at many search marketing events.

Fionn Downhill’s presentation at OMS Phoenix this May offered interesting insight into digital asset optimization for search in 2010. To find out more about Fionn or other OMS speakers visit visit www.onlinemarketingsummit.com/speakers/