Author: Kinooze Learning
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All About Olympic Rings
With so much Olympics talk all around, You surely must have noticed those colorful rings – three on top and two under them and all of them interlaced. Do you know what these five rings are for? The five Olympic Rings represent the five continents – Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. You must be…
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Sudden Melt in Greenland Ice
The surface of Greenland’s massive ice sheet has melted this month over an unusually large area, Nasa has said. This is a completely unexpected event and scientists are wondering if it is a natural thing or the effects of Global Warming. “Melting even occurred at Greenland’s coldest and highest place, Summit station.The thawed ice area…
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Ants Heavier Than Humans?
Yes, it is hard to believe but it is true! We are considering the fact that their combined weight is greater than the combined weight of all humans. Actually the ants by far outnumber humans so if you put all the ants of this Earth and all the humans on a scale, the ants will be heavier.…
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Core Tiger Reserves Away From Tourists
The Supreme Court of India, in an attempt to keep the vanishing tigers safe, banned tourists from the core reserve areas of tiger forests. These are protected areas where tigers are kept safe. Almost hundred years ago there were 100,000 tigers in India and now there are only 1700 of them left. Clearly, the number…
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Car number plates..What do they mean?
What is written on this number plate? Does it mean anything or is it just scrambled letters and numbers? Have you ever thought about it? Let’s find out. Let us try to understand this first. Think about a big picnic where children from many schools have joined. Let’s say your school is ABC Public School…
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Big Ben to Ring 40 times at Olympics Onset
In celebration of the first day of the London 2012 on Friday July 27, Big Ben and thousands of bells across the U.K. will ring out as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes. Big Ben is the main bell hanging in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminister , the home of the Houses of Parliament in the…
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Daddy! It is Easy, Use the Plastic money
The kids of this generation think that parents have a money machine and getting money is as easy as pulling cash out from an ATM or charging it on a plastic card (that is a credit card for grown ups). We as parents often observe that our children don’t appreciate the ‘value of money‘, so…
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Who was Amelia Earhart?
Amelia Earhart was the most famous aviator in history. An aviator is someone who is actively involved in flying of an aircraft. Today marks Amelia Earhart’s 115th birth anniversary. She was the first woman aviator fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Sadly, this celebrated woman disappeared 75 years ago while flying over the South Pacific on July 2, 1937, and was…
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Olympic Sport : Tennis
Tennis is one of the most popular sport in Olympics. World’s top tennis stars come to represent their country at Olympics. At Beijing 2008, Rafael Nadal won the Men’s Singles, while the Williams sisters triumphed in the Women’s Doubles. This year since Olympics are held in London, players will have a face off on the…
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We Keep The Plants Grounded!
So you thought only parents keep their children grounded. Roots do for plants what parents do for their kids. The roots help plants in anchoring them to the soil. They also serve as transport systems, allowing the plant to suck up water and dissolved minerals from the soil that it needs to grow. Some plants can…
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Largest Waterfall on Earth – Is it Underwater?
Did you think that the world’s largest waterfall is the Angel Falls in Venezuela or the Niagara Falls in Canada? Wrong ! The Earth’s largest waterfall is a large cataract beneath the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland. Dropping nearly 11,500 feet, this underwater waterfall is more than three times larger than the Angel Falls which is at…
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Shrimp That Fires Bubble Bullets
And you thought that a one inch long prawn can not show a punch or two? Well, meet the pistol shrimp, which can stun its prey by spurting out a jet of water bubble, to create a deafening ‘crack’ like sound, as loud as a gunshot under water. What is amazing is that this is no…