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  H EALTH BENEFITS OF EATING WAETERMELON  Watermelon is a delicious and refreshing fruit that's also good for you. It contains only 46 calories per cup, but is high in vitamin C, vitamin A and many health plant compounds. Here are the top 5 health benefits of eating watermelon: 1.HELPS YOU HYDRATE Watermelon has a high water content. Interestingly, watermelon is 92% water. This hydrates and helps you feel full. The combination of water and fiber means you're eating a good volume of food without a lot of calories. 2.CONTAINS NUTRIENTS AND BENEFICIAL PLANT COMPOUNDS Watermelon is a low-caloried fruit, high in some nutrients, especially carotenoids, vitamin C, cucurbitacin E and many other nutrients. It is also high in carotenoids, including beta-carotene and lycopene. 3.IMPROVES HEART HEALTH Several nutrients in watermelon have specific benefits for the health of the heart. Studies suggest that lycopene may help lower cholesterol and blood pressure. It can also help prevent oxid...

FASINATING PLACES IN THE WORLD SERENGETI The Serengeti ecosystem is located in northwestern Tanzania and extends to southwestern Kenya. The region hosts the largest mass movement of land mammals on the planet and one of the most breathtaking events in animal kingdom. African safari tours make a 500 kilometer round trip from Southern Serengeti in Tanzania to northern edge of Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya following the one million wildebeest and 2,00,000 zebra. The Great Migration is probably African's greatest safari spectacle and the most exceptional of all the natural wonders of the world. GALAPAGOS ISLANDS The Galapagos Islands are a small archipelago of volcanic islands belonging to Ecuador in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The island are quite remote and isolated, lying some 1000 km west of the South American continent. The archipelago is world renowned for its unique island ecosystem which was the inspiration for Charles Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection. AMAZON The ...

  ELON MUSK GREATEST INNOVATIVE ENTREPENEUR OF OUR TIME  One of the greatest innovative entrepreneur of our time, Elon Musk is working to revolutionise human life on Earth and in space. Elon Musk's net worth is estimated at $163.9 billon in March,2021.He holds South African, Canadian and U.S. citizenships. Elon's original success came from founding PayPal, now one of the most commonly used payment gateways on the internet. Early Life  Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South African on 28th June, 1971. Elon read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica as a child. At the age of 12, he created a video game called Blaster, which he sold to a magazine called PC and Office Technology for approximately $500. Zip2 After dropping out of Stanford University to pursue entrepreneurship, Elon founded Zip2. It was a web software company, which developed and marketed an Internet 'city guide' for the newspaper publishing industry. Later he sold it to Compaq for $307 million. PayPal With $22 m...

  KUMARI KANDAM- THE LOST CONTINENT The world has seen many establishments and the demise of land and people migrating from one land to other land. A billion years ago, earth's landform looked different . At first, the lands are combined together which is called Pangaea. Around 200 millions years ago, there was a continental drift in which Pangaea divided into two new continents - Laurasia and Gondwanaland.  Different landforms of Earth This continental drift resulted in formation of mountains, and also caused many disasters like volcanic eruptions, tsunami and earthquakes. It also caused many landforms disappear. One such land is Kumari Kandam (Lemuria). Kumari Kandam is a continent which is said to be located in the present South India and is lost in the Indian Ocean now. It is said to be ruled by Tamil king Pandiyan. It is said that Pandiyan Kings almost ruled Kumari Kandam for 10,000 years before it got submerged underwater. It is said to extended from " present Kanyakumar...

  A BLACK HOLE The first images of a black hole, previously thought impossible to capture, was named 'the top scientific breakthrough of 2019' by the journey Science. What is a black hole? Black hole are some of the strangest and most fascinating objects found in the outer space. They are objects of extreme density, with such strong gravitational attraction that they eat up everything around them including light. This can happen when a star is dying. What gives them the enormous power? Have you ever used vacuum clearer in your home? When you do, watch closely because you will see the dirt and crumbs start moving towards the vacuum clearer. A black hole is similar to vacuum cleaner, cleaning up the debris that is left behind in the outer space. Instead of suction power, a black hole uses the power of gravity to pull things towards it. How big are black holes? Black holes can be big or small. Scientists think the smallest black holes are as small as just one atom. Another kind of...

I ntelligence is not the special privilege of human alone. The so-called 'lower' animals are equally skilled and hence are not really lower. We often assume that we are at the acme of the high pyramid of evolution. But contemporary studies are revealing unbelievable facts about the intelligence of various animals. Let's take a look at some of these findings. DOLPHINS Dolphins are extremely social animals. They can find their relatives separated miles away in the sea for unknown reasons but they have their own language to communicate. Compared to other animals, dolphins are believed more intelligent.   SHEEP Sheep make large groups and run away together from predators. Sheep can remember and identify animal faces and also human faces.  CHIMPANZEES Chimps are a lot like humans. They posses genomes that are 98 percent identical to people, and make and use tools. They are able to organize work in groups, express a range of emotions and may show a violent side. They've actua...

  MICHAEL FARADAY(1791-1867) Michael Faraday(1791-1867)was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century. From his experiments came devices that led to the modern electric motor, generator and transformer. It was largely due to his efforts that electricity became highly useful for day to day life. EARLY YEARS  Faraday was the son of a poor blacksmith, born in the village of Newington in Surrey, England. He started work as an apprentice bookbinder. Although Faraday received little formal education, he was one of most influential scientists in history. HUMPHRY DAVY'S ASSITANTS He became an assistant to the great scientists Humphry Davy. Michael Faraday was said to be Davy's greatest discovery. BENZENE Faraday discovered the important chemical benzene. Faraday drew huge crowds to his brilliant and entertaining Christmas lectures on science at the Royal Institutions in London. FIRST PRIMITIVE ELECTRIC MOTOR In 1821 Faraday showed that the magnetism created by an electric curr...

  The Man behind the Mickey Mouse   Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901-December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, animator, screenwriter and entertainer. Walt Disney failed in almost every front of his life, suffered from depression, but nothing could stop him from achieving his goal. He took his extreme struggle as a road to opportunity and finally reached his destination. He went bankrupt several times. He was rejected by over 300 investors before finally build the Disneyland. His never-give-up attitude rewarded him at last. If he had given up, there would have been no Disney Land today. Early Exposure Walt Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois. He always loved drawing and was selling his artwork from the age of seven years. During the World war I Walt Disney tried to join the army but then he was too young. So, he lied to the Red Cross about his age and they sent him overseas where he drove an ambulance, which he had covered in cartoon characters....

 BURF KHALIFA - FACTS TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD   The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai with a total height of 829.8 meters (2722 ft) and a roof height (excluding antenna) of 828 meters ( 2717 ft).It has been the tallest building in the world since 2009. The building has 2,909 stairs from the ground floor to 160th floor. Apart from holding the world record for being the tallest building in the world ,the Burj Khalifa holds six other world records The Burj Khalifa is also the tallest freestanding structure in the world, has the highest number of stories in the world, has the tallest service elevator in the world and similar other records. It took 22 million man-hours to complete the Burj Khalifa. At the peak of construction, 12,000 workers worked on the building per day. It took more than 1,10,000 tons of concrete,55,000 tons of steel rebar to build it. The weight of the concrete used is equivalent to 1,00,000 elephants. The speed of the elevator in Burj Khalifa is 10 m...

  VANISHED GLACIER Marked with memorial Iceland has honored the passing of Langj ö kull , its first glacier lost to climate change. Scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate. Langj ö kull was an amazing glacier. A jeep or snowmobiling tour was the best way to experience the sheer size and beauty of glacier. A bronze plaque was mounted on a bare rock on the former glacier in a ceremony. Iceland's Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir who attended the sad event said, " I hope this ceremony will be an inspiration not only to us here in Iceland but also for the rest of the world, because what we are seeing here is just one face of the climate crisis." Cymene Howe who created a 2018 documentary called 'Not Ok' on this subject said, "These bodies of ice are the largest freshwater reserves on the planet and frozen within them are histories of the atmosphere." "With this memorial they want to underscore that it is up to...