Author: Kinooze Learning
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The French Revolution – Part II
After the uprising in France, many nobles, unhappy with the changes made by National Assembly left the country. King Louis and his wife, Marie Antoinette, also planned an escape, but were caught. Assembly decided that France should continue to have a king, but the one without any power to make critical decisions. So, Louis XVI was put back on the throne,…
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Why Don’t Phones Work On An Airplane?
Julie and her mother were just getting on the plane. It was going to be Christmas soon, and they were going to meet her grandparents. Dad was also joining them there in a few days. Julie was happy to get the window seat as she loved to look outside. Just when the plane started rolling, she remembered that she forgot to say…
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South Africa, Vietnam Seal the Rhino Deal
Rhino poaching is banned as per international laws. Still, 618 rhinos were poached in South Africa in 2012, most of them in the world famous Kruger National Park. Shockingly, it is double than the number of rhinos Poached in 2010. South Africa is home to 25,000 rhinos. This makes 85 percent of the total rhino…
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Ancient Lake of Antartica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWbznvXPrEU Lake Ellsworth is about 14km long, 3km wide and 160m deep and lies under 2 miles of thick. It has been like that for almost half million years. British scientist Martin Siegert discovered the subglacial lake in 1996. The scientist’s are not going to get this done easily as the lake is located in a part of Antarctica that is…
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The French Revolution – Part I
Revolution is usually a sudden change made to the government or other structures of power. Between the years 1789 – 1799 there were changes in the ideas about how France should be ruled. So there were many changes made in the government. This period is popularly known as The French revolution. At that time, France was ruled by King Louis…
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Happy Hanukkah
Moshe was supremely happy. His favorite time of the year was back again. Today was the beginning of Hanukkah – the Jewish festival of lights. Moshe and his family were Jews. Like how Christians celebrate Christmas, Hindus celebrate Diwali and Muslims celebrate Id, Jews all over the world celebrate Hanukkah! This eight day festival each year brings along a lot of fun and frolic for Moshe. Just like every year,…
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Book Your Tickets for Moon
SpaceX recently announced that it will be constructing buildings on Mars. Now another space company Golden Spike hopes to start personal trips to the moon by 2020. Alan Stern, the head of the company hopes that people could visit the Moon for scientific research or to make their country proud. There is a lot of platinum…
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My Kid is Little Mr. Perfect
You would think that I am the luckiest mother, but nothing would be farther from the truth. My son is a perfectionist. The strange thing is that he is definitely not getting it from me. I am yet to clean the cabinets that required my attention months ago, and it does not bother me. Initially,…
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Mexico gets a New President
Enrique Peña Nieto is the new president of Mexico. He’s just 46-years old. He won the election in July but started on job earlier this week. Mr. Peña Nieto won Mexico’s recent election with the support of the the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party). The U.S. is following these developments closely as they share a 2000-mile long border…
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Our Earth at Night from Space
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) for the first time in history, have created photo-stitch of our planet Earth, as seen from space at night. They have titled it “Black Marble.” The night side of Earth twinkles with light and the first thing to stand out is the cities. “Nothing tells us more…
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Five eclipses in 2013
We will get to see five eclipses in year 2013 out of which three will be lunar eclipses and two of them will be solar eclipses. An eclipse is an astronomical event where one object in the sky moves into the shadow of another such object. During Lunar eclipse, the moon passes through the shadow…
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Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Tommy had turned nine this November and this Christmas was going to be different. This year he was not sure if Santa existed. Some of his friends at school snickered and made fun of him when he told them, he believed in Santa. “There is no Santa Claus,” Marty laughed. “You are so dumb!” jeered Sam. “What? Who told…