• Travel Destinations

    Borobundur, Java, Indonesia

    Hindu-Buddhist Temple

    Ankor Vat, Combodia

    Hindu Temple

    Civil War Battle Fields

    Cold Harbor

    St. Petersburg

    Chatanooga

    Shiloh

    Vicksburg

    Washington DC

    Folger Shakespeare Library

    Capitol Hill Tour

    Woodrow Wilson House

    White House Tour

    Library of Congress

    New York City

    The Frick Collection

    Othership Sauna

    Museum on Ellis Island

    Toronto

    Othership Sauna

    Paris

    Louvre Museum

    Prague

    Beer Bath

    The Netherlands

    Fenix Museum - Rotterdam

  • Investment

    Indices to Consider

    1

    High Dividend Stocks

    Dow, Inc

    McDonalds

    UPS

    BKSC

    BASFY

    ADNOC Gas PLC

    2

    NASDAQ 100

    3

    German DAX 40

    Adidas

    Allianz

    Zalando

    Siemens

    SAP

    Deutsche Telekom

    Munich Re

    Deutsche Bank

    Commerzbank

    4

    EURO STOXX 50

    Fincantieri (FCT.MI)

    5

    FTSE 100

    Babcock International Group (BAB.L)

    Ontario Power Generation (OPL.L)

    6

    CAC 40

    7

    IBEX 35

    Acciona

    Santander

    BBVA

    Grupo ACS

    Ferrovial

    Grupo FCC

    Repsol

    Iberdrola

    Sener

    8

    NASDAQ-Composite

    9

    Bel-20

    10

    OMX Copenhagen 20

    11

    FTSE MIB

    12

    AEX

    13

    Oslo Bors

    14

    OMX Stockholm

    15

    Swiss Market

    16

    BIST 100

    17

    FTSE 100

    18

    ASX 200

    19

    NIKKEI 225

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

    20

    Straits Times

    21

    KOSPI

    Hanwha Ocean

    HD Hyundai Heavy Industries

    22

    TAIEX

    23

    SET

    24

    BMV IPC

    25

    TSX Comp

    ATCO (ACO.X)

    26

    BOVESPA

    27

    WIG - Poland

    Erste Group Bank

    Santander Bank Polska

    Orlen Energy Firm

  • Gold Investment

    Platforms to Consider

    1

    Gold Company Stock

    Newmont (NEM)

    Barrick Gold (ABX)

    2

    Gold ETF

    SPDR Gold Shares

    3

    Physical Gold

    APMEX

    JM Bullion

  • Empires

    Wish List

    1

    Russian Empire

    The Romanovs (Simon Montefiore)

    Catherine The Great and Potemkin (Simon Montefoire)

    The Story of Russia (Orlando Figes)

    Stalin (Simon Montefiore)

    Young Stalin (Simon Montefiore)

    The Great Game (Peter Hopkirk)

    The Crimean War (Orlando Figes)

    Natasha's Dance (Orlando Figes)

    Revolutionary Russia (Orlando Figes)

    The Whisperers (Orlando Figes)

    The Europeans (Orlando Figes)

    2

    Mughal Empire

    Baburnama

    3

    Roman Empire

    Emperor of Rome (Mary Beard)

    SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Mary Beard)

    Those Who Are About To Die (Harry Sidebottom)

    4

    Ottoman Empire

    The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (Marc Baer)

    Ottoman Centuries (Lord Kinross)

    The First Crusade (Peter Frankopan)

    The Last Crusades (Barnaby Rogerson)

    Osman's Dream (Caroline Finkel)

    Mehmed the Conquered and His Time (Franz Babinger)

    Suleiman the Magneficent (Andre Clot)

    The Ottoman Empire and Europe (Halil Inalcik)

    The Ottoman Empire: The Classic Age (Halil Inalcik)

    Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

    The Fall of the Ottomons (Eugene Rogan)

    Between Two Worlds (Cemal Kafadar)

    Seyahatname - The Book of Travels - Kitab Al Safar (Evliya Celebi)

    The Administration of Warfare (Caroline Finkel)

    An Ottoman Traveller (Evliya Celebi)

    The Aviary Gate (Kate Hickman)

    Empress of the East (Leslie Pierce)

    The Imperial Harem (Leslie Pierce)

    1453 (Roger Gowley)

    A Line in the Sand (James Barr)

    Setting the Dessert on Fire (James Barr)

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom (T.E. Lawrence)

    The Young T.E. Lawrence (Anthony Sattin)

    Pardise Lost (Giles Milton)

    The Bin Ladens (Steve Coll)

    The Birth of Saudi Arabia (Gary Troeller)

    Ataturk (Andrew Mango)

    The Ottoman Centuries (John Balfour)

    Ataturk: Bir Milletin (John Balfour)

    5

    British Empire

    Victoria and Abdul

    The Great Game (Peter Hopkirk)

  • Novels

    Wish List

    1

    Amish Tripathi

    Shiva Triology

    Immortals of Meluha

    Secret of the Nagas

    Oath of Vayuputras

    Ram Chandra Series

    Ram

    Sita

    Raavan

    War of Lanka

    Legend of Suheldev

    2

    Sally Rooney

    Normal People

    Intermezzo

    Conversation with Friends

    Beautiful World, Where are You

    3

    George R. R. Martin

    Song of Ice and Fire

    A Game of Thrones

    A Clash of Kings

    A Storm of Swords

    A Feast of Crows

    A Dance of Dragons

    Fire and Blood

    The World of Ice and Fire

    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

    4

    Salman Rushdie

    Midnight's Children

    The Satanic Verse

    Victory City

    5

    George Orwell

    Animal Farm

    1984

    The Road to Wigna Pier

    Down and Out in Paris and London

    Homage to Catalonia

    Burmese Days

    Coming Up for Air

    6

    Dan Brown

    Robert Langdon Series

    Angles and Demons

    The Da Vinci Code

    The Lost Symbol

    Inferno

    Origin

    The Secret of Secrets

    Digital Fortress

    Deception Point

    7

    Michael Connelly

    Lincoln Lawyer Series

    The Lincoln Laywer

    The Brass Verdict

    The Reversal

    The Fifth Witness

    The Gods of Guilt

    The Law of Innocence

    Resurrection Walk

    The Proving Ground

    Nightshade

    8

    Xiaolu Guo

    Call Me Ishmaelle

    A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

    20 Fragments of a Ravenous

    Once Upon a Time in the East

    9

    Ismail Kadare

    Chronicle in Stone

    A Dictator Calls

    General of the Dead Army

    The Successor

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    Simon Montefiore

    Sashenka

    Red Sky at Noon

    One Night in Winter

    11

    Cosy Crime

    Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman)

    Savvy Summers (Sandra Jackson Opoku)

    The Quick and the Thread (Amanda Lee)

    50% off Murder (Josie Belle)

    Death Bee Comes Her (Nancy Coco)

    Deadly to the Core (Joyce Tremel)

    Murder, She Goat (Lucy Jackson)

    No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Alexander Smith)

    12

    Frederick Forsyth

    The Day of the Jackal

    The Odessa File

    The Dogs of War

    13

    Miscellaneous

    Beartooth (Callan Wink)

    The Boy from The Sea (Garrett Carr)

    The Dream Hotel (Laila Lalami)

    Flesh (David Szalay)

    The South (Tash Aw)

    Theft (Abdulrazak Gurnah)

    Twist (Colum McCann)

    We Do Not Part (Han Kang)

    Tea Country (Lekha Sharma)

    The Moutains Sing (Nyugen Phan Que Mai)

    The Forty Rules of Love (Elif Shafak)

    A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khalid Hosseini)

    Eleven Minutes (Paulo Coelho)

    Wonder (R.J. Palacio)

    Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)

    A Little Life (Hanya Yanagiraha)

    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (John Boyne)

    A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman)

    Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)

    The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

    Among Friends (Hal Ebbott)

    Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman)

    The Director (Daniel Kehlmann)

    Fox (Joyce Carol Oates)

    Fulfillment (Lee Cole)

    Great Black Hope (Rob Franklin)

    Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way (Elaine Feeney)

    Ripeness (Sarah Moss)

    The Wildelings (Lisa Harding)

    14

    Agatha Christie

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    15

    Ngaio Marsh

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    16

    Dorothy Sayers

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    17

    George Simenon

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  • Books

    Wish List

    1

    Business and Technology

    Empire of AI (Karen Hao)

    Apple in China

    Like: The Button That Changed the World

    Superbloom (Nicholar Carr)

    The Corporation in the 21st Century

    The Code Book (Simon Singh)

    Beyond Entrepreneurship (Jim Collins)

    Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

    The Science of Revenge (James Kimmel)

    The Genius Myth (Helen Lewis)

    Move Fast and Fix Things (Anne Morriss)

    More and More and More (Jean-Baptiste Fressoz)

    Waste Wars (Alexander Clapp)

    2

    Pakistan

    Pakistan - A Hard Country (Anatol Lieven)

    The Sole Spokesman (Ayesha Jalal)

    The Struggle for Pakistan (Ayesha Jalal)

    The Great Partition (Yasmin Khan)

    3

    Biography - First Ladies

    Becoming (Michelle Obama)

    Something Lost, Something Gained (Hillary Clinton)

    Spoken From the Heart (Laura Bush)

    Melania (Melania Trump)

    4

    Corporate Biography

    The Founders (PayPal)

    Setting the Table

    The Sky High (Indigo)

    Bad Blood (Theranos)

    No Filter (Instagram)

    Winner Sells All (Amazon)

    House of Huawei

    Mood Machine (Spotify)

    The Whole Story

    The Everything Store

    Reentry (SpaceX)

    Electronic Value Exchange (Visa)

    Nuts! (Southwest)

    Netflixed

    No Rules Rules (Netflix)

    The Shopify Story

    Amazon Unbound

    The Thinking Machine (Nvidia)

    The Nvidia Way

    Sam Walton - Made in America (Walmart)

    Becoming Trader Joe

    5

    Biography

    Napolean (Andrew Roberts)

    Stalin (Simon Montefiore)

    Young Stalin (Simon Montefiore)

    The Party's Interests Come First

    Mark Twain (Ron Chernow)

    The Party's Interests Come First (Joseph Torigian)

    Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (Leo Damrosch)

    Free (Lea Ypi)

    Indignity (Lea Ypi)

    Wifedom (Anna Funder)

    Eileen (Sylvia Topp)

    The Young T.E. Lawrence (Anthony Sattin)

    Zbig (Edward Luce)

    Buckley (Sam Tanenhaus)

    Careless People (Sarah Wynn-Williams)

    6

    English Language

    Pronoun Trouble (John McWhorter)

    Proto (Laura Spinney)

    7

    Adulting

    Infantilised (Raffi Grinberg)

    How to Be a Grown Up (Keith Hayward)

    8

    Politics

    The CIA Bookclub

    Democracy (Lea Ypi)

    That Book is Dangerous (Adam Szetela)

    In Covid's Wake (Stephen Macedo)

    Summer of Our Discontent (Thomas Williams)

    9

    History

    Peak Human

    Fatherhood (Augustine Sedgewick)

    Total Defense (Andrew Preston)

    The World: A Family History (Simon Montefiore)

    Strangers and Intimates (Tiffany Jenkins)

    Jesus Wept (Philip Shenon)

    10

    Miscellaneous

    Is a River Alive?

    In Praise of Floods

    Adventures in the Louvre

    11

    Investment

    Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

    Richest Man in Babylon

    Think and Grow Rich

    Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of the Crowd

    The Intelligent Investor

    Money Master of Our Time (John Train)

    Paths to Wealth Through Commons Stocks (Phillip Fisher)

    Rich Dad Poor Dad

    Our Dollar, Your Problem

    The Missing Billionaires

    As a Man Thinketh

    You2 (Price Pritchett)

    12

    Classics

    The Epic Gilgamesh

    13

    Biography - Bill and Melinda Gates

    Source Code (Bill Gates)

    The Next Day (Melinda Gates)

    Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World (Anupreeta Das)

    14

    History - Peter Frankopan

    The Silk Roads

    The Earth Transformed

    The First Crusade

    15

    Finance and Economics

    The World in Depression

    Capitalism and its Critics (John Cassidy)

    Chokepoints (Edward Fishman)

    The Chastening (Paul Blustein)

    16

    City History

    The Last Days of Budapest (Adam LeBor)

    Jerusalem (Simon Montefiore)

    Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

    17

    Personal Growth

    The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg)

    Supercommunicators (Charles Duhigg)

    Atomic Habits

    How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)

    18

    History - Simon Montefiore

    Titan of History

    Voices of History

    Written in History

    19

    History - Prominent Indian

    Patel: A Life (Rajmohan Gandhi)

    Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives (Rudrangshu Mukherjee)

    Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths (Taylor Sherman)

    Who is Bharat Mata? (Purushottam Agarwal)

    20

    Indian Philosophy

    An Introduction to Indian Philosophy (Satischandra Chatterjee)

    21

    Science

    The Art of Uncertainty (David Spiegelhalter)

  • Investment Apps

    Betterment

    Wealthfront

    Alpha Architect

    NDVR

    Quantinno

    Separately Managed Accounts

    Etoro

  • Credit Cards

    Morgan Stanley Amex Platinum Card

  • TV Series

    Paramount Plus -- Hulu -- Disney Plus -- HBO Max -- Amazon Prime -- Netflix

    1

    Paramount Plus

    The Agency

    Criminal Minds

    Lioness

    The Guardian

    Frasier

    Dallas

    2

    Amazon Prime

    Mussolini: Son of the Century

    Panchayat

    Mirzapur

    Jack Ryan

    The Narrow Road to the Deep North

    3

    Hulu

    The Chosen

    The Americans

    The Dropout

    The Wonder Years

    Boston Legal

    Rivals

    Reasonable Doubt

    Tell Me Lies

    House L.A. Law

    Dying for Sex

    4

    Netflix

    Mary

    The Lincoln Lawyer

    Emily in Paris

    The Crown

    Adolescence

    Inventing Anna

    The Residence

    Bridgerton

    Thursday Murder Club

    Toxic Town

    5

    HBO Max

    The West Wing (S1, E2)

    Silicon Valley (S1, E1)

    The Pacific

    Lincoln: Divided We Stand

    The Pitt

    The Wire

    Sex and The City

    Succession

    The White Lotus

    Mildred Pierce

    Rome

    Band of Brothers

    Mare of Easttown

    VEEP

    Elizabeth I

    Gunpowder

    Forbidden History

    Catherine The Great

    The Last of Us

    True Detective

    The Newsroom

    Hacks

    6

    Disney Plus

    The Americans

    Grey's Anatomy

    Scandal

    How to Get Away with Murder

    Lost

    Andor

    7

    Undecided

    Halt and Catch Fire

  • Movies

    Paramount Plus -- Hulu -- Disney Plus -- HBO Max -- Amazon Prime -- YouTube TV

    1

    Paramount Plus

    Selma

    No Strings Attached

    2

    HBO Max

    Paterno (2018)

    Indictment (1995)

    Heretic (2024)

    Babygirl (2025)

    Casablanca (1942)

    Sex and the City (2008)

    The Last Emperor (1987)

    The Lord of The Rings

    Dune (2021)

    Dune Part 2 (2024)

    Warfare (2025)

    Seven (1995)

    3

    Disney Plus

    Mufasa (2024)

    The Jungle Book (2016)

    Man on Fire (2004)

    4

    Hulu

    The Amateur (2025)

    Anora (2024)

    The Real Pain (2024)

    La Chimera (2023)

    Perfect Days (2023)

    The Hunger Games

    The Three Musketeers - Part 1

    The Three Musketeers - Part 2

    The Prestige

    Pride & Prejudice

    The Brutalist

    The Girl Next Door

    Anatomy of a Fall

    Alone Together

    Beautiful Disaster

    Red Sparrow

    L.A. Confidential

    Armageddon

    Contagion

    The Last Showgirl

    5

    Netflix

    3:10 to Yuma (2007)

    A Star is Born (2018)

    I'm Still Here (2024)

    6

    Unassigned

    Eddington (2025)

    The Green Ray (1986)

    The Little Things

    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

    Spotlight (2015)

    Words of War (2025)

    The Departed (2006)

    CODA (2021)

    The Fall (2006)

    The Next Three Days (2010)

    Holy Cow (2024)

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    YouTube TV

    Bridget Jones's Diary

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