Author: Kinooze Learning
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Pilot Whales Stranded on Scottish Beach
Around 30 pilot whales found themselves on the beach of Fife coast in Scotland. Each of the whales was almost 20 Ft long. That’s huge! Sadly around 20 of them died. Nine whales have been saved by the vets from British Divers and Marine Life Rescue, with help from the emergency services. A vet is…
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Labor day celebrated across US today
Labor Day is being celebrated all across the United States today. It always falls on the first Monday of September every year. Who thought of Labour day? How did it start? All working men and women are called ‘Labor’. Labor day started on the suggestion of an American machinist named Matthew Maguire. It is celebrated…
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Lunar Crater found to have Ice
Lunar crater Shackleton, near the moon’s south pole is found to be made up of 5 to 10% of ice. Scientists had always guessed that there could be ice present there as the crater is permanently dark and cold due tilted spin axis of the moon. Since water which is essential for any life, is evolving on the…
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Balloons of the Body
Arin came running to his mom with a pretend cape around his neck. He then took a long deep breath to puff up his chest and said, “Look at me mamma, I am a superman.” His mother smiled while continuing to work on her laptop. Arin pretended to be a superman almost the entire day.…
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The Monsters that Ate Fire
Ohhh! Scared? Don’t be! Because we are talking about imaginary creatures – dragons. These are not real creatures and are safely locked inside fairy tale books along with other imaginary creatures. Most of the times in the stories, the prince or the knight would be looking to find the treasure, or for something magical or…
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Earthquake hits Indonesia – 7.6 magnitude
An earthquake of 7.6 magnitude struck off the Philippines on Friday destroying roads and bridges. A lot of people moved to higher areas because of tsunami warnings. The quake was centered off the east coast, 91 miles (146 km) off the town of Guiuan. The region has been hit by devastating quakes in the past decade. Last year,…
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Sunita William’s Fifth Spacewalk
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, stepped outside the International Space Station to attend some maintenance issues in ISS. However, they had difficulties driving the bolts to secure the replacement switching unit and therefore were unable to fix it. The outing was fifth spacewalk for Sunita and it lasted 8 hours and…
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The iPad Generation
These days we are bringing up kids in a generation that we like to call the iPad generation. Kids can spend hours playing their favorite games on the tablet. Since most of us parents have a laptop that we are hooked on to 24/7, it is normal for our kids to feel that that’s the…
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How are rocks formed?
If someone asked us “What’s special about rocks?”, we will probably say “Nothing, really!! Just stony, hard things we see around us often” They are hard and yes they are stony, but there is so much more to rocks than just that. Did you know that rocks are tiny particles tightly cemented together? And that they…
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World’s Largest Marine Park
The Cook Islands announced the creation of the world’s largest marine park Tuesday. It is an enormous marine park almost twice the size of France at 1.065 million square Kilometer. It is amazing that tiny island nations have created such a huge marine park. The Cook Islands, nation of 20,000 people on 15 islands. Previously the world’s…
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Lost Post from India, found in Alps after 46 years
An Air India plane had crashed in the French Alps in January 1966. Exactly 46 years after the incident and around the same spot, a jute bag containing diplomatic mail from India was found by a mountain rescue worker Arnaud Christmann and his neighbour Jules Berger. “Some tourists came and told us they had seen something shining…
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Country’s Highest Sporting Honour Awarded
Olympic medal winners Vijay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt were on Wednesday presented with the country’s highest sporting honour – Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by President Pranab Mukherjee . 25 sportspersons were honoured with the Arjuna awards. The ceremony took place at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi. Usually Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna is given one sportsperson…