Author: Kinooze Learning
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What is happening in Assam?
So what is happening in Assam? Why are we hearing about so much violence in Assam? First you have to know this. Our neighbouring country Bangladesh and our north eastern state Assam share a huge border area.This border is not very securely guarded by Border Security Force(BSF) due to the lack of equipments. Also, heavy…
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Somalia is ready to elect new president
Somalia is enjoying a some peace after nearly thirty years of conflict. The trouble maker militant group al-Shabab was forced out of the capital Mogadishu more than a year ago. Somalia’s new parliament is preparing to hold a vote to name a president for the country.
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Cheeza Pizza
Where was the first pizza made? Italy is what you may say for the answer. But did you know that ancient Greeks used to eat something similar, back in 600 BC. Naples in 600 BC was a Greek settlement. A lot of people used to eat a flat bread topped with tomatoes, cheese, olive oil, anchovies and garlic. These ingredients were…
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Man without limbs swims across continents
Can you believe it? It is difficult to believe or even imagine that a person who has lost both his arms and legs can even move. But frenchman Philippe Croizon has made the impossible possible. Mr. Croizon, who lost both his legs in an electric accident in 1994 when he was 26, used paddle-like prosthetics to…
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Monkey Trouble
Once there lived a monkey, in a jungle, who was always unhappy because he thought that others were better than him. No matter how many times his parents told him that he was a special monkey he was still sad. One day he was playing with his friends in a cave when he found a magic lamp.…
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Earthquake hits Indonesia, yet again
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.6 hit Sulawesi islands in northern part of Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was 61 kilometers southeast of Palu city on Sulawesi Islands. This not the first time that Indonesia is undergoing such a disaster. In 2004 (earthquake magnitute 9.1) and in 2005 (earthquake magnitute 8.6), had hit Indonesia.…
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Curiosity ready to vaporize the Martian rocks
Curiosity has a Chemcam laser that can emit rays that vanish the target in an instant and reveal interesting information about it. Whoa! Don’t you wish you had that power where you could vanish a target?? Especially all that homework :) The Mars rover has selected its first target which is most probably a typical Mars basalt – basaltic…
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“Super Mom” galaxy found
What is the name of the galaxy that our solar system is a part of? Milky Way. Now Scientists have found a new galaxy that they’re calling a ‘super mom’. This new galaxy makes more stars in a day than our galaxy make in an year. No wonder it is called the “super mom” :…
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Fairy Floss or Cotton Candy
There is a very cute fairy tale about how “fairy floss”, was made. There was once a little pink fairy in the fairyland that just could not stop running once she started. Once her mother was making a sweet and she put sugar on a hot plate. The little fairy was very impatient and she could…
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Are Jugglers Magicians?
Jugglers? We are talking about people who have many balls in their hands, throw it up in the air, catch it and then toss it again in the air only to catch it again. And they are not magicians. They ‘toss and catch’ so quickly that you might begin to think that they are magicians. Jugglers learn…
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Yuvraj Singh back in action
Cricketer Yuvraj Singh who was recently diagnosed with cancer and underwent treatment at the Cancer Research Institute in Boston, USA has been selected by BCCI to play 2012 world twenty20. This international cricket tournament, will be held in Sri Lanka from september 18. He will play after a long time when India will play Afghanistan…
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What is happening in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is a nation that has suffered a lot in the past and still is suffering. Let us try and understand what is happening in Afghanistan. First of all, who are the Afghanis? Geographically, Afghanistan lies in between Central Asia, the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent. It is therefore a nation made up of many different nationalities…