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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
1High Dividend Stocks
Dow, Inc
McDonalds
UPS
BKSC
BASFY
ADNOC Gas PLC
2NASDAQ 100
3German DAX 40
Adidas
Allianz
Zalando
Siemens
SAP
Deutsche Telekom
Munich Re
Deutsche Bank
Commerzbank
4EURO STOXX 50
Fincantieri (FCT.MI)
5FTSE 100
Babcock International Group (BAB.L)
Ontario Power Generation (OPL.L)
6CAC 40
7IBEX 35
Acciona
Santander
BBVA
Grupo ACS
Ferrovial
Grupo FCC
Repsol
Iberdrola
Sener
8NASDAQ-Composite
9Bel-20
10OMX Copenhagen 20
11FTSE MIB
12AEX
13Oslo Bors
14OMX Stockholm
15Swiss Market
16BIST 100
17FTSE 100
18ASX 200
19NIKKEI 225
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
20Straits Times
21KOSPI
Hanwha Ocean
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
22TAIEX
23SET
24BMV IPC
25TSX Comp
ATCO (ACO.X)
26BOVESPA
27WIG - Poland
Erste Group Bank
Santander Bank Polska
Orlen Energy Firm
Gold Investment
Platforms to Consider
1Gold Company Stock
Newmont (NEM)
Barrick Gold (ABX)
2Gold ETF
SPDR Gold Shares
3Physical Gold
APMEX
JM Bullion
Empires
Wish List
1Russian 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)
2Mughal Empire
Baburnama
3Roman Empire
Emperor of Rome (Mary Beard)
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Mary Beard)
Those Who Are About To Die (Harry Sidebottom)
4Ottoman 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)
5British Empire
Victoria and Abdul
The Great Game (Peter Hopkirk)
Novels
Wish List
1Amish 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
2Sally Rooney
Normal People
Intermezzo
Conversation with Friends
Beautiful World, Where are You
3George 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
4Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
The Satanic Verse
Victory City
5George 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
6Dan Brown
Robert Langdon Series
Angles and Demons
The Da Vinci Code
The Lost Symbol
Inferno
Origin
The Secret of Secrets
Digital Fortress
Deception Point
7Michael 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
8Xiaolu Guo
Call Me Ishmaelle
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
20 Fragments of a Ravenous
Once Upon a Time in the East
9Ismail Kadare
Chronicle in Stone
A Dictator Calls
General of the Dead Army
The Successor
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10Simon Montefiore
Sashenka
Red Sky at Noon
One Night in Winter
11Cosy 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)
12Frederick Forsyth
The Day of the Jackal
The Odessa File
The Dogs of War
13Miscellaneous
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)
14Agatha Christie
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15Ngaio Marsh
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16Dorothy Sayers
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17George Simenon
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Books
Wish List
1Business 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)
2Pakistan
Pakistan - A Hard Country (Anatol Lieven)
The Sole Spokesman (Ayesha Jalal)
The Struggle for Pakistan (Ayesha Jalal)
The Great Partition (Yasmin Khan)
3Biography - First Ladies
Becoming (Michelle Obama)
Something Lost, Something Gained (Hillary Clinton)
Spoken From the Heart (Laura Bush)
Melania (Melania Trump)
4Corporate 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
5Biography
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)
6English Language
Pronoun Trouble (John McWhorter)
Proto (Laura Spinney)
7Adulting
Infantilised (Raffi Grinberg)
How to Be a Grown Up (Keith Hayward)
8Politics
The CIA Bookclub
Democracy (Lea Ypi)
That Book is Dangerous (Adam Szetela)
In Covid's Wake (Stephen Macedo)
Summer of Our Discontent (Thomas Williams)
9History
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)
10Miscellaneous
Is a River Alive?
In Praise of Floods
Adventures in the Louvre
11Investment
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)
12Classics
The Epic Gilgamesh
13Biography - Bill and Melinda Gates
Source Code (Bill Gates)
The Next Day (Melinda Gates)
Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World (Anupreeta Das)
14History - Peter Frankopan
The Silk Roads
The Earth Transformed
The First Crusade
15Finance and Economics
The World in Depression
Capitalism and its Critics (John Cassidy)
Chokepoints (Edward Fishman)
The Chastening (Paul Blustein)
16City History
The Last Days of Budapest (Adam LeBor)
Jerusalem (Simon Montefiore)
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
17Personal Growth
The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg)
Supercommunicators (Charles Duhigg)
Atomic Habits
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
18History - Simon Montefiore
Titan of History
Voices of History
Written in History
19History - 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)
20Indian Philosophy
An Introduction to Indian Philosophy (Satischandra Chatterjee)
21Science
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
1Paramount Plus
The Agency
Criminal Minds
Lioness
The Guardian
Frasier
Dallas
2Amazon Prime
Mussolini: Son of the Century
Panchayat
Mirzapur
Jack Ryan
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
3Hulu
The Chosen
The Americans
The Dropout
The Wonder Years
Boston Legal
Rivals
Reasonable Doubt
Tell Me Lies
House L.A. Law
Dying for Sex
4Netflix
Mary
The Lincoln Lawyer
Emily in Paris
The Crown
Adolescence
Inventing Anna
The Residence
Bridgerton
Thursday Murder Club
Toxic Town
5HBO 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
6Disney Plus
The Americans
Grey's Anatomy
Scandal
How to Get Away with Murder
Lost
Andor
7Undecided
Halt and Catch Fire
Movies
Paramount Plus -- Hulu -- Disney Plus -- HBO Max -- Amazon Prime -- YouTube TV
1Paramount Plus
Selma
No Strings Attached
2HBO 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)
3Disney Plus
Mufasa (2024)
The Jungle Book (2016)
Man on Fire (2004)
4Hulu
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
5Netflix
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
A Star is Born (2018)
I'm Still Here (2024)
6Unassigned
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)
7YouTube TV
Bridget Jones's Diary
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