Author: Kinooze Learning
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Doctors of The Past
These days we have special doctors and hospitals to take care of all our illnesses. Dentists for teeth problems, pediatricians for the sick children, foot doctors, doctors who help in the birth of babies, dermatologists for skin infections and the bone doctors. There are hospitals everywhere where you could run to and get yourself checked…
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Piggybacking On The Comet – The Rosetta Misson
This event is the first of firsts. Nothing like this has ever happened ever. A spacecraft named Rosetta has landed on a comet for the first time. The comet is Comet C-G named after the scientists Churyumov-Gerasimenko who found it. History got made today. Do you know how blazing fast the comet is moving? Its…
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Hawaiian Volcano Lava creeps into a House
Aloha! Hawaii! The fresh flowers and the calm waters is what one mostly thinks of when we talk of this island. But all is not that hunky dory!! The largest island amongst an archipelago of eight major islands, is home to probably the most active volcano on earth – Kilauea (pronounced as Kil-uh-wai-aa) volcano. Kilauea…
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The Solar-Powered Floating Schools
Where there is a will there is a way! Whoever said those words was so right. A perfect example of this is a young architect Mohammed Rezwan in Bangladesh. In 1998, he was shocked by the fact that so many children are dropping out of school. He started Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangsthaa ( Shidhulai is the…
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The One With Singing Wings – Crickets
What sings with its wings? To water it mostly clings. All the summer long, The chirping goes on. And the song goes on. But the cricket does not even open its mouth to chirp. Strange huh! It raises its stiff leathery front wing and rubs one over the other to make its high creaking sound.…
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Mass Whale Stranding on New Zealand Beach
A mystery that has left scientists baffled for years – a phenomenon where whales or dolphins swim to shallow waters and then getting stranded on the beach. Why do they do that? Scientists guess that there might be two reasons either the whales get sick and swim to shallow waters for safety or they lose…
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Rainbow Punches a Hole in The Cloud..
Something bizarre recently happened over the skies of the little seaside town of Wonthaggi, Victoria in Australia. The rainbow and the cloud had a fight, and the angry rainbow punched a hole in the cloud. What did the cloud do then? It just cried and cried, and its tears fell down on the ground as snowfall. Little pixies…
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Come Autumn, Fall leaves
In many countries, especially in the west, as autumn approaches, the leaves of some trees change color. It changes from a green to gorgeous hues of red, orange and brown. And then after this marvelous show of beauty, the leaves fall. The tree stands without leaves, just a skeletal of branches until the arrival of…
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Jack’s Adventure
(Lennon,8, writes a brave story about a fish named Jack) Once upon a time there was a little fish, called Jack. One day Jack went too close to the sea shore, and he was washed up by the big waves onto the beach. He had to save himself fast. Jack quickly looked around for a rock…
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Cixi – The Dragon Lady
Not very long ago there was a forbidden city, a royal palace in China. Located in the center of what we call Beijing today. This palace was a home to kings and queens for almost 500 years. The strangest queen that ever ruled from the forbidden city got its name “The Dragon lady”. Her real…
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Olive Ridley Sea Turtles At a Beach Near You!
Well, it is nesting time for sea turtles around the Indian Ocean. And we are so excited to tell you about that in advance. The Marine Wildlife Sanctuary in the state of Odisha, India is expecting thousands of olive-shelled sea turtles, or Olive Ridleys as they are called, to emerge out of the Indian Ocean anytime now. Going by the past…
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Keeping Track Of History – Timelines
Did Alexander the great rule first or king Napoleon? Did Indus Valley civilization exist before or after the Mesopotamian civilization? Did Thomas Watt live around the same time as Einstein? How does anyone remember these baffling before and after questions of history? Aren’t they so tricky? With so many events in thousands of years of…