Let's Explore America. Raj Boone's Gadasalli

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      Enrico Fermi.

      Physicist and team leader for producing the first Atom bomb. Italy.

      St Francis Cabrini.

      First American Catholic Saint. Italy.

      Felix Frankfurter.

      Justice of the US Supreme Court. Austria.

      George Soros.

      Money Manager. Hungary.

      Henry Kissinger.

      US Secretary of State. Germany.

      Indra Nooyi.

      CEO of PEPSICO. Billed among the 50 most powerful women in America by FORTUNE. India.

      Irving Berlin.

      Composer who wrote God Bless America and other famous songs. Russia.

      Joseph Pulitzer.

      Publishing magnate. Hungary.

      Dr. Kalpana Chawla.

      Astronaut. India.

      Kirk Douglas.

      Hollywood superstar. Russia.

      Dr. Kumar Malavalli.

      Storage Technology Guru. Inducted to the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame. India.

      Levi Strauss.

      Inventor of Blue Jeans. Russia.

      Madeleine Albright.

      US Secretary of State. Czechoslovakia.

      Martina Navratilova.

      Tennis super - star. Czechoslovakia.

      Dr. Michael DeBakey.

      The ‘Doctor colossus’, who revolutionized heart surgery and medical treatment. Lebanon.

      Omar Sheriff.

      Thespian. Egypt.

      Paramahamsa Yogananda.

      Yogi. India.

      Peter Drucker.

      Management Guru. Austria.

      C.K. Prahalad.

      Management Guru. India.

      Pandit Ravi Shankar.

      Sitar Maestro. India.

      Srinivasa (Hal) Iyengar.

      Structural Engineering genius. Designer of John Hancock Building (1970) and the 110 story tall Sears Tower both in Chicago (1973). India.

      Dr. Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar.

      Nobel Laureate. Physics. India.

      Dr. Sudhir Srivastava.

      Cardiac Surgeon. Pioneer in Robotic Heart Surgery. India.

      Dr. Suresh Gadasalli.

      Interventional Cardiologist, who performed the world’s first Tandem Robotic Heart Surgery along with Dr. Srivastava. India.

      Yul Brynner.

      Hollywood Legend. Hungary.

      Fareed Zakaria.

      Journalist. India.

      Dr Zach Zachariah.

      Florida Cardiologist. Member of President Bush’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans. India.

      Zubin Mehta.

      Symphony Conductor. India.

      The 20 –meter-high busts of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln were carved into solid granite at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.

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      States of the Union

      The 48 contiguous states called the continental USA together with Alaska and Hawaii constitute the 50 States. In addition, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands are governed by the US.

      The States, 2 letter codes and names of capitals:

      Two letter state codes are used to identify cities. Instead of writing Chicago, Illinois it is enough to write Chicago, IL.

      The Big Apple

      New York City is often referred to as the Big Apple. In the early years of the nineteenth century refugees from war torn Europe began arriving in New York in large numbers. Landing without money or friends many women were forced to survive by their wits and charms. That is when, a beautiful, charming and educated French lady by the name of Evelyn set up a bordello for the well heeled, calling her vivacious temptresses as “my irresistible apples” - pretty, round and firm! So, for a long time the term came with sexual connotations. The phrase became pretty well sanitized in the 1930s, after the Apple Marketing Board in upstate New York, which got alarmed by declining apple sales, launched a vigorous “Product positioning campaign” to boost apple sales. The term ‘The Big Apple’ or ‘The Apple’ soon passed into popular use as a sobriquet for New York City. So NYC is The Big Apple – Pretty and desirable. Destination, that is!

      A Church in the small Midwestern city of Burlington Iowa.

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