Category: Facts For Kids
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Why do We Have Seasons?
Radha loves winters. She loves wearing furry jackets and fluffy scarves. This year on Christmas she wished for winters to stay forever. Sophie likes summers. She loves the fact that she doesn’t have to wear layers of clothes, and gets to eat ice candies whenever she wants to. Every year she hopes for summers to stay throughout the…
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Mind your Manners
I know, I know, all of you are not discourteous enough to keep shoes on the computer, but aren’t you all a little bit impolite sometime or the other? Do you disagree? Hmm.. Let me remind you. When was the last time you said please or thank you to your mother who got up in middle of…
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Mummies – Ghosts Of The Past
Are mummies really ghosts of the past? Well, not at all. The pictures of mummies might look a little scary, and many movies project them as haunted, but there is nothing to be afraid of them. In fact, mummies are really helpful to us. Mummies are bodies of an animal or human preserved for many years. They…
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What is Time?
Yesterday was past, Today is not going to last, And hey, tomorrow is coming really fast! Now, all of you are too old to understand what time is? Don’t we talk about time all the time :) Time to take a bath. Time to eat food. Time to sleep. Wake up time. So let me…
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Mister Jupiter
Sun is my center, I am a big mister, Only Venus is brighter, I am a Planet not a planter. Can you guess who am I? Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. Although it is a planet its composition is almost like a star. In fact if it were 80 times heavier…
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Whale Hunting Halts in Japan
After a clash between the anti-whaling protesters and the Japanese Whalers, Japan has ordered a halt to the whaling activities. Whaling is hunting of the whales and Whalers are the people who hunt whales. In Japan this started almost 900 years ago. In 1986, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) prohibited anyone from hunting the whales. Japan continued to do…
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Inca – The Ancient Civilization
Inca was an ancient civilization that ruled a part of South America in the 1400’s, almost 600 years ago. Incans called themselves the “Children of the Sun”. Inca were fierce warriors. They ruled Peru and large parts of modern Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia when their civilization was the strongest. Incans lived in the mountain peaks of Andes…
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What is Liberty?
What does liberty mean? Why do people care about it so much? Is it really that important? To answer all these questions we have to understand that all men are created equal and born free. Liberty means that we decide many things about our lives. In other words, people have freedom to rule themselves. That means people…
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Ice Water Steam
The water that you guzzle, the ice that you pause to crunch while drinking your juice or the fumes that come out of water while you lay in a tub of hot water are all water in different forms. But why does water have different forms? Well you see water is matter. Matter is anything that…
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The Golden Touch
Long time ago in ancient Greece, there lived a king named Midas (pronounced mahy-duh-s) who ruled the Greek kingdom of Phrygia. He was a good king and looked after his people well. King Midas had one thing peculiar about him -he loved gold. He was a rich king and had plenty of gold. His palace was made of gold. So much…
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Rocks In the Sky
Did you know that there are rocks floating in the outer space? Some are as tiny as a dust grain and others may be as big as a small planet. The smaller rocks are called meteoroids. We have a special name for the bigger rocks: they are called asteroids. The biggest asteroid that we know about is called Ceres.…
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer born on 15 February 1564. He was born in Pisa, Italy. He was a brilliant scientist of the 17th century. His contributions to science and astronomy are immense. His discoveries are used as fundamentals in physics and astronomy. In ancient Greek, Aristotle was a famous scientist. His theories taught that heavier things fall faster…