Top 25 Political Icons chosen by Time.com

495px-MKGandhi Mahatma Gandhi, born as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar, a coastal city in the Indian state of Gujarat. During his employed as a lawyer in South Africa, he pioneered the concept of satyagraha, the resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence. This concept helped India to gain independence, and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. His role in the bloodless revolution earned him the title of Father of the Nation (of India) and his birthday, 2 October is commemorated as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday in India, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.

Time.com in its publication of “Top 25 Political Icons” on February 4, 2011 placed Mahatma Gandhi as on of its chosen political icon. Several popular and admirable characters such as Alexander the Great, Mao Zedong, Winston Churchill, Genghis Khan, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln and also Adolf Hitler are amongst the list. 

See the complete list from Time.com : Top 25 Political Icons

AskMen’s Top 99 Women 2011 Edition – who are amongst the top ladies ?

AskMen.com, men’s lifestyle site has published its annual rankings of the “Top 99 Women - 2011 edition”.  This year’s most desirable women nomination marks the 10-year anniversary of the site’s Top 99 polling.

According to the site, a woman’s ranking on the Top 99 list is determined by the value of her overall score; the higher the value, the higher her place on the list. Overall scores were determined by a vote hosted on AskMen. Readers were asked to rate each of approximately 200 finalists on a scale of 1 to 10. These results were then averaged out with AskMen's staff's own ratings. The highest median overall scores were then set aside to comprise 2011's Top 99 list. Approximately 5 million votes were cast for 2011’s Top 99 Most Desirable Women list.

Who are among the list of AskMen’s Most Desirable Women 2011 ?

Seated at the top of the list as the chosen #1 was “ the Gossip Girl” Blake Lively. Following with Mila Kunis at #2 and Sofia Vergara at #3. While the hottest models and Victoria’s Secret angels, Selita Ebanks and Miranda Kerr spotted at #4 and #5 respectively.

Here are the top 10 most desirable women of AskMen.com :

  1. Blake Lively
  2. Mila Kunis
  3. Sofia Vergara
  4. Selita Ebanks
  5. Miranda Kerr
  6. Cheryl Cole
  7. Scarlett Johansson
  8. Katy Perry
  9. Anne Hathaway
  10. Jessica Pare

Follow the complete list in here : Top 99 Most Desirable Women