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Amazing
Truths
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If you
attempted to count the stars in a galaxy at the rate of one every second,
it would take you around 3000 years to count them all.
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There are
many tiny organisms living under the ground. What can be found in 1 gram
--- Algae 1000, Fungi 1 million, Bacteri 100 million. Up to 1000
earthworms beneath 1 sq. m (11 sq.ft.).
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 Mother
If I could give you diamonds
for each tear you cried for me.
If I could give you sapphires
for each truth you've helped me see.
If I could give you rubies
for the heartache that you've known
If I could give you pearls
for the wisdom that you've shown.
Then you'll have a treasure, mother,
that would mount up to the skies
That would almost match
the sparkle in your kind and loving eyes.
But I have no pearls, no diamonds,
As I'm sure you're well aware
So I'll give you gifts more precious
My devotion, love and care.
When I came home in the rain,
Brother asked why didn't you take an umbrella.
Sister advised, Why didn't you wait till rain stopped.
Father angrily warned, only after getting cold, you will realize.
But Mother, while drying my hair, said, stupid rain!
Couldn't it wait, till my child came home?
That's MOM
(Courtesy:
Salil Naik, UAE)
Facts &
Facts
Arnold Schonberg suffered
from triskaidecphobia, the fear of the number 13.
He died 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.
RMS Titanic struck an
iceberg on its maiden voyage on 14 April 1912.
A cat is more inclined to
watch a TV than a dog.
Water Polo developed in
England in 1869, originally called soccer in water. The aim was to score
goals, as in soccer, at each end of a
swimming pool.
The placement of a
donkey’s eyes in it’s head enables it to see all four feet at all
times.
Former Indian Test
cricketer Bhagwat Chandrashekar is the only cricketer in the world to have
managed to score fewer runs
in his entire test career than the number of wickets he took with his
quirky leg-spin bowling –
242 wickets as compared to a meager 177 runs.
In the year 1859, 24 rabbits
were released in Australia. Within a span of just 6 years the population
increased to 2 million
During its lifetime an
oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times
Middleweight boxer Carlos
Monzou holds the record of most consecutive successful defences. Between
1970 and 1977, he defended his title 14 times.
Lobsters, like Grasshoppers
feel no pain. They have a decentralized nervous system with no cerebal
cortex, which in humans, is where a reaction to painful stimuli proceeds.
A coward was originally a
boy who took care of cows.
Beer foam will go down if
you lick your finger and stick it in the beer.
A hippo can open its mouth
wide enough to fit a four feet tall child inside.
The record holder for the
maximum ducks (zeros) in Test Cricket is Courtney
Walsh of West Indies (25). He overtook Danny Morrison of New
Zealand record of 24.
If each count were one
second long, it would take about twelve days to count to a million and 32
years to count to a billion.
Heavyweight boxer Joe Louis
holds the record of most consecutive successful defences. Between 1937 And
1949, he defended his title 25 times.
Tiger eye, a semi-precious
gem known for its changeable colours when tilted, comes in 4 colours- red,
blue, green (the most uncommon) and yellow—the colour that acquired the
name.
Boxer Roberto Duran has the
distinction of being the oldest man to win the middleweight title. He was
37 years and 8 months when he won the title..
Mortuary
Temples in ancient Egypt were places of worship of deceased kings and the
depository for food and objects offered to the dead monarchs.
The
word grenade probably derived from the French word for pomegranate,
because the bulbous shapes of early grenades resembled that fruit.
Dead
Sea Scrolls are ancient manuscripts (of leather, papyrus and copper)
discovered in desert caves and ancient ruins in the wilderness of Judaea.
The
Germans produced the first synthetic detergents for general use in the
World War I period so that available fats could be used for other
purposes.
Caligula,
the Roman emperor, loved his horse so much that he gave it a stall of
marble, a manger of ivory, purple blankets, a collar of precious stones,
and a house!
The sentence ‘The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog’ uses every letter of the alphabet.
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DID
YOU KNOW ?
* Indonesia is only 65 miles from the southern most
Indian island.
* That but for Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, Tajikistan
is just 27 miles from India.
* That India had a common border with Iran in 1947.
* The legal tender
of Kuwait till 1938 was the Rupee.
* Europe
is the only continent without a desert.
*
Although covered with ice (all but 0.4 percent of it), Antarctica is the
most dry places on the planet, with an obsolute humidity lower than the
Gobi desert.
*
King cobras, the longest venomous snakes in existence, have been known to
grow to more than 18 ft in length. Their half-inch fangs administer upto
450 mg of venom, enough to kill 13 adult humans or one elephant.
* The historic
Victoria Terminus, now called Chhatrapathi Shivaji Terminus, this magnificient
Italian Gothic style structure, was built in 1888 and designed by legendary
architect F.W. Stevens. Made from Porbunder sand stone and the dome is
around 50,000 square feet. And it is must see for tourists coming to Bombay.
Jupiter
has 16 satellites. They are 1. Adarastea
2. Metis
3. Amaithea
4. Thebe
5. Lo
6. Europa
7. Ganymede
8. Callisto
9. Leda
10. Himalia
11. Lysithea
12. Elara
13. Ananke
14. Carme
15. Pariphone and
16. Sinope.
Saturn
has 17 satellites . They
are 1. Atlas
2. Promethens
3. Pandora
4. James
5. Epimetheus
6. Mimas
7. Encelandus
8. Tethys
9. Telsto
10. Calypro
11. Dione
12. Helene
13. Rhea
14. Titan 15.
Hyperio 16.
Lapetus 17.
Phoebe.
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Laugh
and be merry
Teacher :
Why are late for school.
Student :
Because of a sign on the road.
Teacher :
What does a sign on the road have to do with your being late?
Student :
The sign said, 'School ahead, go slow'.
Son
: Mom, we learned how to make babies.
Mom
: (Worried) Interesting. But how and who taught you?
Son
: Mom, it's simple. You just change 'y' to 'ies'.
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Know
all about Batman
Batman
was co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Fuiger in 1939.
He
struck instant chord with readers because unlike other superheroes he used
his intellect and physical prowess to fight crime. A cultural icon, Batman
has been adapted into a variety of media, from radio to TV and film. The
cover of the first Batman comic - 'The Case of the Chemical Syndicate',
published in Detective Comics in May 1939.
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10
QUESTIONS
--- By
Advait Naik
1. Who invented the credit card system which is accepted all over the
world ?
2. Who was the World's first women head -of-state, other than a monarch
?
3. When was Burma separated from India, to form a separate country ?
4. Which is the coldest place on earth where the lowest temperature has
been recorded ?
5. Where is the only sanctuary for the Indian wild ass ?
6. Who sculpted the giant monolithic statue of Bahubali which is
installed at Dharmasthala ( Karnataka ) ?
7. Where is the deepest drilled hole on the surface of the earth ?
8. Which country's ambassador to India during 1986 was of Indian
descent ?
9. Mohsina Kidwai is the third Indian woman to be a Central
Minister. Who were the other two ?
10.Where does the river Indus originate ?
ANSWERS
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( All correct : very smart * eight correct : smart * five
correct : good * two correct : dumb )
1. An American businessman
named Frank Mc Namara.
2. Isabel
Peron of Argentina .
3. In
1937.
4. The
Russian station of Vostok, having recorded the lowest temperature of -
126.9 degrees F..
5. Kinjuvada
desert in Surendranagar district.
6. Ranjala
Gopal Shenoy, internationally known sculptor who died in 1985 at Karkala
in Karnataka.
7. The
shafts of Kolar Gold Fields in Karnataka extend to 13,000 ft in
depth.
8. Jamilla
Sirkar, Ambassador of Nicaragua.
9. Rajkumari
Amrit Kaur and Indira Gandhi.
10.Indus originates
from Tibet's Mansarovar lake.
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AMAZING
FACTS
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The
shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Great Britain in
1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
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Armored
knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past
their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
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Everyone
in the Middle Ages believed -- as Aristotle had -- that the heart was
the seat of intelligence.
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Seven
of the eight US Presidents who have died in office -- either through
illness or assassination -- were elected at precisely 20 year
intervals.
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The
ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
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The
Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal. It was adopted as
the international signal for distress in 1912, and the Titanic struck
the iceberg in April of that year.
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The
very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed he only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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Cats
have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about
ten.
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The
smallest mushroom's name is 'Hip-low'.
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DRAW
& COLOUR
Take out
your crayons and colour, palette and brush, draw these pictures and colour
them and send it to us with your name, age and address. The best 2
drawings will be carried in the next issue.
This
is your page kids – your magazine
Kids
are invited to send drawings, poems,stories, interesting titbits, jokes
etc. Interesting ones will be carried
in the forth-coming issues.
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MOONNY
FACTS
Who was the first man and the last man on Moon ?
Neil Armstrong was the first man and Eugene Cernan, the last man on the
Moon.
Apollo 11 was
the first rocket to land on the Moon. It landed on a dusty surface. The
astronauts stayed for 6 hours.
Apollo 17 was the last rocket to land on the Moon. It landed on a mountainous
area. The astronauts stayed for 75 hours and also took a moon vehicle (lunar
rover) and drove 21 miles.
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THOUGHTS
ON MOTHERS
# The mother's heart is the child's
schoolroom -- Henry
Ward Beecher
# Men are what their mothers made
them -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
# God could not be everywhere and so
he made mothers -- Anon
# Youth fades; love droops, the
leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope ... outlives them
all -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
# The most important thing a father
can do for his children is to love their mother.
# Motherhood : All begins and ends
there -- Robert Browning
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'The
Barbie doll got her first car in 1962. It was a coral coloured Austin
Healy manufactured by the Irwin Corporation for Mattel'.
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RODENTS
RUIN TOWN
----Rohan
Basu
This is a story
of a town ruined by rats and how it drove away the people from there.
In 700 BC, Abdera
was a prosperous coastal town in Thrace, Greece. It is said to have been
founded by the great hero, Hercules.
It is widely
believed that those who breathed the air of Abdera grew stupid ! But the
town gave birth to some famous Greeks like Democritus and Anaxarchos,
the well-known philosophers.
If the rumour
of stupidity did not affect the town, the menace of rats did. For some
unknown reason, the rat population increased drastically. They ate up
all food and harassed everybody. They grew
more and more menacing day by day. The people had to flee the town. And
the town lay deserted. Its ruins spread over seven small hills, can be
seen to this day.
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STAMPS
---- Manoj Venkat
Different children
have different hobbies. Stamp collecting is one of them. Stamp collecting
is known as philately. It is a very popular hobby among children and grown
ups throughout the world.
Stamps are available
in different shapes and sizes. A banana- shaped stamp was once issued
by the country of Tonga. The world's first official stamps were issued
in Britain in May 1840. They are prized possession of collectors and are
known as the Penny Black and the Two penny blue.
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INTERESTING
TITBITS
----Gayatri
Menon
Did you know
that the only man-made structure visible from space is the Great Wall
of China.
In some parts
of China, Mongolia and Tibet, people drink their tea with salt.
The first circus
was performed in ancient Rome.
Ancient Egyptians
were the first to use a lock and key to close and open doors.
There are 206
bones in a human body.
The smallest
muscle is located in the middle ear.
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ELEPHANT --- The facts
--- Lata Malhotra
Elephants are
found in Asia and Africa. The Indian elephant is smaller than the African
elephants.
The Indian bull
rarely exceeds 315 cms and the cow is 30 cms lower.The bull weighs around
6000 kgs. The cow is 1000 kgs less.
The African
species is larger and heavier than the Indian counterpart. The bull weighs
over 7000 kgs and reaches a height of nearly 330 cms. The cow weighs 1000
kgs less than the male.Its large ears hang low. The African elephant has
long tusks.
The ears of
the Indian elephant is smaller than the African elephant.
An elephant
grows as many as six sets of teeth in its lifetime.
The tip of its
trunk is sensitive enough to pick up a tiny pin.
It can hold
upto nine litres of water in its trunk. A large elephant drinks upto 225
litres a day.
It makes ultrasound
low frequency sound waves that we cannot hear. These waves travel a distance
of 2.5 kms and help the elephants to keep in contact.
An adult elephant
eats around 270 to 320 kgs of green fodder per day.
Its average
life span is 60-70 years.
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Children in Nursery School,
Malaysia
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KNOW
YOUR STARS
India has produced a number of great cricketers right from the 1930 -
40's to 1990 - 2000. Kapil Dev is one of the best known cricketer
from India. He is one of the greatest allrounders India has
produced. Till recently, he was the highest wicket taker in Test Cricket -
434 wickets. His courageous knock of 175 runs against Zimbabwe, when India
were in a very bad position that Kapil was mainly instrumental in India
progressing and going onto win the World Cup in 1983. With this great
victory, the 1983 World Cup team came to be known as ' Kapil's Devils '.
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BABLOO'S
GOOGLY---by Smartkid
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* What is the difference between the Superman and Commonman
?
-- Superman
wears his brief over the pants and Commonman wears it under the
pants !
* Why did the eunuch vist the Raymond Showroom ?
-- To
become a complete man !
* My father's father is not my father ?
-- Very
simple, he is my grandfather !
*
I am a flower, but not a flower. Who am I ?
--
Cauliflower
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April
fool
In1952,
King Charles IX adopted the Gregorian calendar and accepted the
beginning of the new year as January 1. Before that New Year used to
be celebrated on April 1 and out of habit, many people continued to
observe April 1 as the beginning of the year. These people received
foolish gifts and invitations to non-existent parties. They were
known as April fools, and eventually the custom of playing tricks on
that day rose.
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Maths,
the easy way---by Chintu
Kids,
do you get scared of maths or mathematics ? Do you think it is difficult
to understand it. Its not very difficult as you think. Once you understand
it, you will enjoy yourself and you will be able to unravel the mystery of
numbers. You will be able to play with numbers, and get surprising
answers. Here we will show you some tricks with the numbers. It is fun.
If you
take the numbers 123456789 and multiply by 8, and add 9, you will be
surprised to see the original number in reverse order, ie. 987654321.
Lets
see how this happens.
123456789
x 8 = 987654312, then take
987654312
+ 9 = 987654321
Secondly,
if you add number 8 in a special way, the answer you get will be 1000.
Lets
see how this happens.
You
take 888+88+8+8+8 = 1000
Now
kids tell me isn't maths interesting !
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Daddy Cool, Beta
Fool !
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Dad:
Sachin has made a name for himself and the country.
You should learn from him.
Beta: Dad,
his father never nagged him, 'study, study, but said 'bat, bat'
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"Watching
Circus together"
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PC
(Personal Computers) facts
-----Atul
Srinivasan
· 12 August ’01 was celebrated as the 20th anniversary
of the birth of the PC.
· IBM launched PC model 5150 on 12 August 1981
· It was sold at $ 3000 ie about Rs. 1,40,000
· This PC had an Intel processor 11 !/2” long, green tinted
monitor, one keyboard and 36 KB Memory capcity Disk drive, etc.
· After IBM, other companies like Apple, Commodore, etc entered into
PC manufacturing
· And later in 1982, Compbell Computers too entered the field
· Next in 1984, Dell Computers and in 1985 Gateway Computers too
commenced PC manufacturing
· In USA, 40 percent of the PC market
comprises of the Business sector
· Last year a Business computer costing $ 2000 is now available for $
1200
· These days it is available at $ 868
· In future – computers would be as small as a wrist watch. Instead
of the keyboard, it would follow voice commands. And next it could
identify the users likes and dislikes and start fuctioning on its own.
What next !!!
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Spinix
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It took 10,000 workers over 20 years to build the Great Pyramid of Cheops,
located just outside Cairo in Egypt. About 6.5 million tonnes of stone
were used.
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