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Mercedes is known throughout the world as a symbol of wealth and class. Mercedes Benz cars are well known for its quality and durability. Did you know that all Mercedes cars are personally signed off to maintain its quality by top engineers in the automotive industry? The history of Mercedes Benz goes back almost 150 years ago back to when Gottlieb Daimler got together with Karl Benz to form this brand that we all know today.More than a hundred years ago, the birth of two men set the history of Mercedes Benz. Gottlieb Daimler was born in Germany. A decade later, Karl Benz was born also in Germany. Interesting enough, there were 60 miles apart but they both shared a common interest. At a very young age, both were already exposed to machines but both had different approaches to building cars which no one believed at that time they will merge.In the year 1886, Karl Benz made his first motorized tricycle which was soon followed by a four-wheeler in 1893. Daimler on the other hand built a horseless carriage in 1886 and two years later struck a deal with William Steinway to produce his horseless carriages in the United States. Steinway produced Mercedes cars and trucks for 3 years. This was a stepping stone for the history of Mercedes Benz.The war in Germany, played a very important role to the birth of this prestigious car. With a downfall in economy, there were little or no fuel for cars and a high tax of 15% made automobile production disastrous and because of this, Benz sought for a strong partner considering DMG but was rejected initially. Then, the economy became worse and there were very few cars in the United States with only a third of cars produced by each Benz, Ford and DMG. Due to necessity, Benz and DMG signed an agreement of mutual interest while maintaining the individual identities.The greatest achievement in the history of Mercedes is when both DMG and Benz merged. There was an insignia made for the merger of both companies. The insignia was a three pointed star with a laurel around it with the words Mercedes on the top and Benz at the bottom. The merge was very successful and production their cars rose to about 7000 automobiles in 1927. In 1930, the largest and most prestigious car was launched and Mercedes Benz remained one of the leading brand in automotive industry till today.Main article: Mercedes-Benz in motorsport
A DMG Mercedes Simplex 1906 in the Deutsches Museum
1957 Mercedes-Benz 300Sc Cabriolet
1959 Mercedes-Benz W120 Model 180

The two companies which were merged to form the Mercedes-Benz brand in 1926 had both already enjoyed success in the new sport of motor racing throughout their separate histories—both had entries in the very first automobile race Paris to Rouen 1894. This has continued, and throughout its long history, the company has been involved in a range of motorsport activities, including sports car racing and rallying. On several occasions Mercedes-Benz has withdrawn completely from motorsport for a significant period, notably in the late 1930s, and after the 1955 Le Mans disaster, where a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR collided with another car and killed more than 80 spectators. Stirling Moss and co-driver Denis Jenkinson made history by winning the 1955 Mille Miglia road race in Italy during a record-breaking drive with an average speed was almost 98 mph in a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR.[49]

Although there was some activity in the intervening years, it was not until 1987 that Mercedes-Benz returned to front line competition, returning to Le Mans, Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM), and Formula One with Sauber. The 1990s saw Mercedes-Benz purchase British engine builder Ilmor (now Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines), and campaign IndyCars under the USAC/CART rules, eventually winning the 1994 Indianapolis 500 and 1994 CART IndyCar World Series Championship with Al Unser, Jr. at the wheel. The 1990s also saw the return of Mercedes-Benz to GT racing, and the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR, both of which took the company to new heights by dominating the FIAs GT1 class.

Mercedes-Benz is currently active in three forms of motorsport, Formula Three, DTM and Formula One.

Dear friends,

I am going to share with you today a bit of StreetArt - I have not done this in quite a while, right?! In the first weekend of this lovely November month I managed to get these pictures below presented. Truly I love searching for new corners of art that involves paint, scattered around the town, and I really hope you will like this post as much as I did taking these pictures (at least ;p).
Sprzataj po swoim psie = Clean after your dog - Krakow is a dog friendly city and it has parks especially for dogs but also it has strict rules about dogs behaviour inside the city (that includes owners carrying poop-bags for the doggies and cleaning after them - which is an awesome thing as I never stepped in a poop here ;) 10 point to Krakow for that! as unfortunately in Romania we do not have this law).
And lets be frank, who doesnt love Krakow?! If people come here they will fall in love with the city and will wish to come back to see more and more of it - almost like a drug... Please, can I have some Krakow on a daily basis?!
Here you can see St. George fighting the dragon - or at least that is my idea :) it could also be Prince Filip on its way to save Aurora from her sleep. Bad Maleficent! Bad! She was quite a spiteful character, was she not?!
And I also really like this cute and cozy shop with 1000 miracles inside - small little things to brighten up your day and your house... but sincerly speaking recently (actually in the last year or so) I became less interested in things that are beautiful yet not practical... I do not want to fill my house with things that look pretty yet have no sense to have around... But I love looking at them and imagining houses with them in them....
Plus the angels in the enterance are just adorable :) I wanted to take a picture for a while now and each time I was passing by I hoped they would not change a thing - eventually the first weekend of November it was point and shoot time and I am now able to show you the angels who guard the door to the adorable shop :)

I hope you like the splashes of paint done in an artistical way ;) I know I did! Have an awesome Monday, my dear friends!

Yours truly,
The LadyBug

Dearest friends,

** Pay attention, this post is long and has SPOILERS! but I have poured my heart and soul into it so I hope you guys will read it and tell me what you think! :) **

There are multiple other secondary characters that you cannot help loving and crying for them when they finally end up leaving the show. As the series was such a huge success it ran for 11 seasons - 1 season longer than FRIENDS! -  there were a lot of characters running around but a few are stable and stuck to my heart. One of them is Major Sidney Freedman, the psychiatrist. Also Radar, Corporal Walter Eugene O Reilly, who used to sleep with his very own teddy bear. Or Klinger, the looniest of them all, with his Scarlett O Hara dresses ;)) Not to mention Major Charles Winchester the 3rd... with his love for classical music :) Or Major "Hot Lips" Houlihan with her very serious demeanour but very warm and kind heart.

M.A.S.H. Team now :)

• The song at the beginning of the show is an instrumental of “Suicide is Painless”, which is the theme song from the movie. 
• As of November 2011, the M.A.S.H. series finale is still is still the most watched broadcast in U.S. television history. The day that the show was aired, the New York City public works made note of the fact that the highest water usage in the city’s history was on that day. The reason for this was because in the 3 minutes after the finale ended, approximately 77% of New York City flushed their toilets.
• The series lasted for eleven years, but the Korean War only lasted for three.
• Mike Farrell was the one who asked that his character’s daughter’s name be Erin, after his own daughter.
• Alan Alda and Jamie Farr were the only cast members to actually serve in Korea. Both did their tours after the 1953 cease fire.
• Gary Burghoff’s (Radar) left hand is deformed and he went to great lengths to hide that during filming. Usually by holding something in his hand.
• Klinger was only supposed to be in one episode, but he was so popular that they wrote him into the cast.
• On Sesame Street, Big Bird’s teddy bear is named Radar. And yet, the name of his teddy bear on MASH is never known.
• Alan Alda is the only actor who appeared in every episode.
• Dr. Michael DeBakey, the physician who is given credit for being the most responsible for creating MASH units for the U.S. Army, died on July 2008. In only 2 months, he would have been 100 years old.
• Harry Morgan stated in an interview that he wanted to play Colonel Potter forever. 
• The decision to end MASH was made by a vote of the cast’s members. The ones who voted for it to stay on were featured in the spin-off show, After Mash.