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Meet the Letter G

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Here is a story about the letter G. You make uppercase G like this. You make a big curve to here, then a line to here. You make a lowercase g like this. You make a circle first, and then a line down that ends with a curve. Some things what begin with G are . . . Gorilla. Goose. Golf ball. Okay, here's our story. Gage the gorilla lived in a tree. One day, he saw something fly by his tree. It was a golf ball! And then another golf ball. And then another! “Hmm. I have to do something with these golf balls!” Gage thought. Each time a golf ball would go by, Gage would grab it and glue it to his tree. Gary the goose waddled to the tree. “Excuse me. I was playing golf and hit all my golf balls this way. Have you seen them?” Gary said. Just then, Gary saw the golf balls on the tree and gasped. “Hey! I want those back!” Gage the gorilla wanted to make him happy, so he said, “Okay, I’ll give you the golf balls. ” He pulled and pulled, but the golf balls were glued on too tight. He couldn’t do it! “Oh no!” Gary the goose said, “I have an idea! He flew up into the tree with his golf club and took a huge swing at the golf ball, and it flew off super-duper far. He did that over and over again ’til he had all of the golf balls. Then he asked Gage the gorilla to play golf with him. The End. G! What G words did you hear in the story?

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The G Story: About us

We are an artistic styling atelier based out of Mumbai, India, that spins creative visual stories to help captivate your audiences.

We know words alone aren’t enough to narrate your brand and product story, that’s where we step in. Whether you’re trying to rise above the clutter of Instagram or communicate your brand ethos and product on your website and other ecommerce marketplaces, the right visuals can help elevate your brand. And we are here to help you do just that.

Our team takes the time to closely understand your product and brand, what it stands for and the key-message you want to deliver to your community before we build your visual story. The G Story with it’s talented young team of creative individuals, strives to narrate your story through the visual creative medium for varying platforms from digital, print to outdoor media.

She’s a painter on weekends, a photographer on holidays, a stylist on most days and an artist every day.

What started as a passion project for Gayatri Jhaveri Patel has become an extension of herself with the launch of her visual studio, The G Story.

“Sometimes, we find our calling when we least expect it and that’s exactly how things worked out for me. Having completed my formal education in visual communication & design, creating compositions has always been my forte. However, over time, taking aesthetic photographs became a part of me. Everywhere I went, I looked for inspiration, trying to transform the mundane into the extraordinary; a way to tell my story in pictures. Like everything else in life, the more I did it, the better I got at it.

You know what they say, ‘do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’ which is why both for my team and I, The G Story isn’t just a job or a company but a creative outlet to express ourselves and do what we love every single day.

My passion created The G Story, and we want to dedicate this chapter to you!"

She’s a painter on weekends, a photographer on holidays, a stylist on most days and an artist every day.

What started as a passion project for Gayatri Jhaveri Patel has become an extension of herself with the launch of her visual studio, The G Story.

“Sometimes, we find our calling when we least expect it and that’s exactly how things worked out for me. Having completed my formal education in visual communication & design, creating compositions has always been my forte. However, over time, taking aesthetic photographs became a part of me. Everywhere I went, I looked for inspiration, trying to transform the mundane into the extraordinary; a way to tell my story in pictures. Like everything else in life, the more I did it, the better I got at it.

You know what they say, ‘do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’ which is why both for my team and I, The G Story isn’t just a job or a company but a creative outlet to express ourselves and do what we love every single day.

My passion created The G Story, and we want to dedicate this chapter to you!"

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Nizhny Novgorod - an ancient city, a glorious city, a young city

Nizhny Novgorod - one of the most ancient cities in Russia, the administrative center of the Volga Federal District, the fifth most populous metropolis in the country.
Nizhny Novgorod was founded in 1221 by the Grand Duke of Vladimir George (Yuri) Vsevolodovich. This is one of the few Russian cities founded by a saint.
From 1932 to 1999 the city was called Gorky in honor of the world famous writer, classic of world literature Maxim Gorky, a native of Nizhny Novgorod.
Nizhny Novgorod is located at the confluence of the two great rivers Volga and Oka.

Many world celebrities came to admire the view of Strelka, where their waters merge. And today tourists are fascinated by this majestic, incomparable view. Oka divides the city into two parts: upland, located on the right high bank on the Dyatlovy mountains, and spread out on the left lowland, extending to the Volga bank beyond the river. The Volga separates Nizhny Novgorod and the Bor District. Two ancient monasteries - the white-stone Annunciation, the same age as the city, built on the Dyatlovy mountains, and the Pechersky Voznesensky, founded in 1328-1330 by St. Dionysius of Suzdal, located on the "foothills" of the famous Starling Mountains, are real "pearls" of the city.

The stone one deserves special attention The Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, built at the beginning of the 16th century to replace the burned-out wooden one. This medieval fortress in its entire history is the only one in Russia that has remained impregnable for the enemy. Here, at the Ivanovskaya Tower, the great citizen and patriot of the land of the Russian Zemstvo Kozma Minin raised funds and organized together with Prince Dmitry Pozharsky People's militia, which liberated Moscow from the Polish-Lithuanian invaders in 1612.
The Kremlin also played a significant role in the defense of the city of Gorky during the Great Patriotic War. Then the roofs of the Tainitskaya, North and Clock towers were dismantled and anti-aircraft machine guns were installed on the upper platforms, protecting the city from Nazi aviation. The Kremlin was seriously damaged during the war years, but thanks to the architect-restorer, architectural historian Svyatoslav Agafonov, who led its restoration, to this day it impresses the townspeople and numerous guests of Nizhny Novgorod with its monumental architecture and centuries-old glorious history.

In 1817, in Nizhny Novgorod, on the left bank of the Oka, the famous throughout Russia, the largest in the country, was transferred from the city of Makariev Makarievskaya Fair . The landscaping of the area around the fair pavilions has grown into a real masterpiece of urban development, and already in 1896 the world-famous, the largest in the history of the Russian Empire World Art and Industrial Exhibition was held here. It was thanks to the Fair that Nizhny Novgorod became the real capital of the Russian merchants and received the nickname “Pocket of Russia”.

In Soviet times, the city also developed rapidly. The thirties of the XX century were marked by the rapid growth of industry. In 1932, The Gorky Automobile Plant , the largest industrial enterprise in the country, was built with the participation of Ford Motor Co. GAZ cars quickly became famous all over the world. The automobile plant, along with other industrial enterprises of the city, played a huge role during the Great Patriotic War.

To this day, Nizhny Novgorod residents are trying to achieve historical justice - the city is awarded the title of "city of labor and military glory. " The contribution of Gorky residents to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War can hardly be overestimated. More than 800 thousand inhabitants of our city fought on the fronts, and over 350 thousand of them gave their lives for the Victory. The contribution to the Victory made by the Gorky people in the rear, at the factory machines, is also huge. It was in the city of Gorky that every second car, every third tank and every fourth artillery installation was created for the needs of the front. For example, only at the Gorky Machine-Building Plant during the four war years, as many artillery pieces were produced as at all enterprises in Germany. That is why the city was regularly subjected to massive bombardments by enemy aircraft. German bombers made 43 raids, 26 of them at night. 339 were dropped on the city34 incendiary bombs and 1631 high explosive. The bombing of Gorky became the largest blows of the Luftwaffe to the rear areas of the entire Soviet Union during the war years.

In the very center of the city to this day there is a functioning Orthodox Church of the All-Merciful Savior, on the walls of which there are traces of German bombardments. The air raid, the memory of which the church keeps, was carried out in November 1941. Here are the lines from a schoolboy's diary: “On November 13, they bombed from 5 in the morning… Three houses were bombed on Polevaya Street. People were chipped away from the rubble of burnt houses for two whole days…”
Shells were exploding in the immediate vicinity, but the building survived. In 2015, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, on the initiative of the administration of the Nizhny Novgorod region, with the support of the Nizhny Novgorod Metropolis, a memorial plaque was installed on the wall of the temple ... for foreigners.
In 1970, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the city of Gorky was awarded the Order of Lenin.

On October 22, 1990, the historical name of Nizhny Novgorod was returned to the city, and in 1991 the restriction on visiting by foreign tourists was lifted. Today, Nizhny Novgorod is still an important economic, industrial, scientific, educational and cultural center of Russia, one of the largest transport hubs, an important river tourism destination and a popular tourist center both in Russia and in the world.

The city has more than 600 unique historical, architectural and cultural monuments, about 200 cultural institutions, including: 14 theaters, including 3 academic ones, a philharmonic society, 5 concert halls, 97 libraries, 17 cinemas, 25 children's clubs, 8 museums, a conservatory, a digital planetarium.

On the territory of Nizhny Novgorod there are many different museums, among them: the only museum in Russia, N.A. Dobrolyubov in the former tenement house of the Dobrolyubov family, as well as a house-museum in the wing of the Dobrolyubov estate, where critics spent their childhood and youth, several museums of M. Gorky, the museum-apartment of A.D. Sakharov, Russian Museum of Photography.

Nizhny Novgorod has 8 universities, 3 academies, a conservatory and more than 5 institutes. In total, there are over 50 higher educational institutions and branches.

Institute of Philology and Journalism (IFIZh) Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky is located in the historical center of the city on Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street - the main pedestrian tourist "trail" of the city. It is noteworthy that it was here that the first state university of the Soviet Union was located.

12 interesting facts about Nizhny Novgorod

1. The most impregnable Kremlin in Russia is located in Nizhny Novgorod. Five times in history, the invaders besieged the Kremlin, but they never managed to take it.
The thickness of the walls of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin is from 3.5 to 5 meters. Height - up to 22 meters. The total length is more than two kilometers. During the Great Patriotic War, anti-aircraft guns stood on the Kremlin towers.

2. In Nizhny Novgorod, the famous militia of Kozma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky was formed, which liberated Russia from the Polish-Lithuanian intervention. The Church of St. John the Baptist, from the steps of which the saviors of the Fatherland began their journey, still stands today. And in the Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum you can see one of the largest paintings in the world "The Appeal of Kozma Minin" by Konstantin Makovsky. Its size is 6 by 6 meters.

3. In Nizhny Novgorod there are 2 of the 4 churches existing in the world, built in a special unique style at the expense of the merchant Grigory Stroganov - the famous "oligarch" of the time of Peter the Great. Two legends are associated with one of them, located on Rozhdestvenskaya Street. The first is very similar to the story of the blinding of Postnik and Barma after the construction of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, only the name of the builder of the Nizhny Novgorod church was not preserved by popular rumor.
The second legend is connected with the icon “Almighty Savior”, painted by the serf master of the Stroganovs, Stepan Narykov. In the image of Christ, the familiar features of Grigory Stroganov were immediately discernible, and Emperor Peter I, who arrived at the consecration of the temple, saw this icon and exclaimed in anger: “What is it - I have to worship Grishka Stroganov, my serf? Let this not happen!”, and left the temple. Therefore, the Stroganov Church stood unconsecrated for several years.

4. The longest pedestrian staircase in Russia is located in Nizhny Novgorod. It got the name "Chkalovskaya", because it leads from the monument to Valery Chkalov to the Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment, on which the famous boat "Hero" is installed. The staircase is built in the shape of a figure eight and has 560 steps on both sides 442 steps from bottom to top on the right side From the Volga, the staircase looks fundamental, which is why Nizhny Novgorod residents not only organize athletics competitions on it, but also use it to create a unique art object. For example, about a thousand men from Nizhny Novgorod turned the Chkalov Stairs into a greeting card for their loved ones on March 8. The largest “live” postcard in the country was included in the Russian Book of Records in 2018.
The famous staircase was built by German prisoners of war. When they worked, people from Nizhny Novgorod brought them food and cigarettes. The second name of the stairs is “Volzhskaya”.

4. Nizhny Novgorod has the highest embankment of the Volga in Russia. It is called Upper Volga. Its height is 80 meters. On the embankment there is a model of the Newport aircraft, on which the pilot Pyotr Nesterov made the first "dead loop" during the First World War.

5. In Nizhny Novgorod there is the longest cable car not only in Russia, but also in all of Europe. Its length is 3362 meters. It is noteworthy that 800 meters pass above the water surface. The Nizhny Novgorod "cable car" is also an intercity vehicle connecting Nizhny Novgorod and the city of Bor, which are located on different banks of the Volga.

6. In Nizhny there is a “street of pickpockets” – Osharskaya. The street got its name because at the taverns located on it, pickpockets regularly stalked and “scrabbled” drunken revelers. Today it is a quiet street. Only the name reminds of the past.

7. The name of one of the 8 city districts - "Kanavino" comes from the phrase "Kuma, wine!". This is what lovers of alcohol said when they entered the tavern, which were also numerous in the area of ​​the world-famous Nizhny Novgorod Fair.

8. The name of the district “Sormovo” comes from the word “shame”, or “litter”. Five hundred years ago, "stray" people were settled there - tramps and beggars.

9. There are many memorable places in Nizhny Novgorod associated with the name of Maxim Gorky. One of them is the Bugrovs' doss house that has survived to this day, which served as a prototype for the famous doss house from the play "At the Bottom". It is noteworthy that the real life of the rooming house differed from that described in the play, so the inscription “Do not drink vodka! Do not sing a song! Be quiet!" The tramps strictly observed these requirements.

10. Nizhny Novgorod has the most modern planetarium, which is also a serious research center. The main hall of the planetarium is equipped with the Argus Planetarium projector system, the only Russian equivalent of Western projection systems. The Nizhny Novgorod Planetarium has both a digital telescope and the only spacecraft docking simulator in Russia that is available to visitors.

11. In Nizhny Novgorod, there is one of Stalin's bunkers, built at the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, which the leader never used. The secret bomb shelter was named "Special Object N74". Its area is 1231 sq.m., 828 of which are the so-called usable area. The bunker was built in strict secrecy. The inhabitants of Nizhny Novgorod themselves only recently learned about its existence.

12. In August 2007, the first birch-bark letter and writing was discovered in Nizhny Novgorod, as well as a treasure of 14 hryvnia silver ingots from the 12th-13th centuries.

In the summer of 1870 the great artist Ilya Efimovich Repin visited Nizhny Novgorod. His words about our city later began to be used by many writers, journalists, travelers as an epigraph to their memoirs: “ This city, royally placed over the entire east of Russia, completely turned our heads. How delightful are its boundless distances! We choked with admiration for them, and before our eyes stood the living history of Russia, whose people, these strong people of good nature, were so able to appreciate life, its warmth and artistry. These did not like to settle somewhere and somehow ... »

Nizhny Novgorod is the birthplace of the world-famous publicist, critic, poet Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov , who wrote such beautiful lines:
Dear city!.. How I know everything
On your narrow streets!
How much these houses awaken
Memories dear to the heart!0004 in his book “The Great River” he admired Nizhny Novgorod: “ Hardly any other Russian city can boast of such a wide panorama, such extraordinarily beautiful views as Nizhny. At least, I just froze, stopping at the edge of the slope ... Before me, at a vast distance, the distance of the opposite bank of the Volga suddenly unfolded ... Its waters had just entered the banks; and all this green soft low ground sparkled with dashes, shields and bends of spills still remaining in it. Under the brilliance of the sunset, the edges of these shields turned golden, and where the lower itself was no longer visible, it merged into one impenetrable blue . .. At first, you don’t know where to look, what to stop at. It’s a pity to break away from these blue distances, I want to see, right below me, small steamers, Mokshans and Belyans, moored to the shore ... »

All his life, our famous fellow countryman, writer Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov) kept in his heart love for his native city. In one of his letters to St. Petersburg to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, he remarked: “ You, in your foggy city, cannot see how quickly life goes forward, cannot see how a person grows and his spirit grows stronger and self-esteem rises in him. Here it is clearer. And how glad I am that I live here, and that you are there - it's a pity ".

And here is what the great writer wrote Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin – “the sun of Russian poetry”:
From Onegin’s Journey

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Longing, longing! He wants to go to Nizhny,
To Minin's homeland. Before him
Makariev busily busies himself,
Boils with his abundance.
An Indian brought pearls here,
Fake European wine,0009
The breeder brought from the steppes,
The player brought his decks
And a handful of helpful bones,
The landowner - ripe daughters,
- days of fashion A.
Everyone fusses, lies for two,
And everywhere the mercantile spirit.