Thursday 7 March 2013

15 GREAT QUALITIES OF A IDEAL STUDENT

A rich library is an important thing for an ideal student

 

















1. An ideal student should maintain the rules of health and performs his religious activities.

2. He has to be social and hard-working.

3. He should love his country.

4. He actively takes part in games and sports and other extra-curricular activities.

5. He should have the interest in doing social work.

6. An ideal student makes proper use of his time and never shirks his duties.

7. He should be obedient to the existing rules and regulation of the country.

8. He should devote himself fully to gain knowledge.

9. To be an ideal student, he should cultivate all the virtues and hold values in him.

10. An ideal student fixes up a noble aim.


11. He should give topmost priority in molding his character.
 
12. He should lead a strictly disciplined life and never indulges in evil thoughts.

13. To be an ideal student, he should spends highest amount of time in the acquisition of knowledge because he should know that knowledge is the gateway of success.

14. An ideal student must not dabble in politics which is responsible for most of the ills of the youth nowadays. He should bear in mind that student life is the time of preparation for struggle in life.

15. An ideal should be sincere, truthful, dutiful, energetic, neat and clean.
                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                by,
                                                                                                                            Dharini 
                                                                                                                             IX-A

Wednesday 6 March 2013


7 Tips to Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking
Start Small: 
If you're new to the world of speaking, start small. Find a few friends and family to practice on. Begin by speaking to smaller groups and build up from there.
In my business speaking career, I speak to groups of 30 to 3,000. One discovery I made is the size of the audience makes no difference. If you know your topic, you're pre-speaking fear will quickly evaporate.
Prepare:
 Nothing helps ease the fear of public speaking than knowing your material. The ability to connect with your audience comes from having the confidence you won't get lost during your delivery. Rehearse several times before the big talk. Time your presentation and always have back up material in case time is left over.
Don't Memorize: 
Mastering the art of public speaking comes not from memorizing word for word your entire speech. The real pros know their material by remembering key points and prompts on sub topics and examples to cover.
Avoid Bullets:
 The majority of business presentations and speeches are boring monologues filled with endless PowerPoint slides and bullet points. Trash the PowerPoint presentation and make your material the focal point of the talk. If you do use PowerPoint, take the approach of using visuals that quickly convey your message.
Reduce Stress: 
The most fearful moment of any presentation is the one minute before your stage entrance. Use the tactic of elite athletes by visualizing a positive outcome and using deep belly breathing to reduce stress and build confidence.


Find a Friend:
 Prior to your public speaking on stage introduce yourself to a few members of the audience in the front row. During your talk look these people in the eye to ease your nerves and connect with your audience.
Engage the Audience:
 Creating a monologue presentation puts the entire task of informing and entertaining the audience on you. Make your talk a two-way interaction with questions and participation to reduce boredom and speak with ease. Having the group involved also gives you time to reorganize your thoughts if things are going off track.


Gaya3
IX-A

Monday 25 February 2013

GREAT WORDS OF MAHATMA GANDHI:

Freedom is not worth having if it does not
Can note freedom to err.It passes my
Comprehensions how human beings be
they ever so experienced and able can
delight in depriving other human beings of
that precious right

.BY,
LAKSHMI.K.M
IX-A

Wednesday 13 February 2013

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS


  • Fastest land animal         -   Cheetah
  • Oldest National Flag       -   Denmark
  • Fastest Bird                   -   Swift
  • Shortest River               -   Roe river in Montana (61 m long)
  • Lowest point on earth   -   Dead sea
  • Most densely populated province   -  Monaco
  • Least populous city       -        Vatican
  • The oldest plant           -         Rose
  • The oldest city             -         Damascus
  • Most poisonous fish       -         Puffer Fish
  • Coldest Place               -         Vostok, Antarctica
  • Hottest Planet             -          Venus
  • Fastest Planet              -          Mercury
  • Strongest Natural Fiber -          Silk
  • Widest Bridge               -          Sydney Harbour Bridge
  • Fastest Planet              -          Mercury                                                                                                                 by,  
                                                                                                         Dharini Kathirvelu
                                                                                                                 IX-A                                                                               

Monday 11 February 2013

PRAYER QUOTES



 







1) To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

2) Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

3) Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

4)Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. 

5) Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. 

6)God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability.Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. 

7)Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

8) Never forget the two powerful resources you always have available to you: prayer, and forgiveness.
                                                                                                                        by,
                                                                                                               Dharini Kathirvelu
                                                                                                                       IX-A
                                                                        
 


Friday 8 February 2013

National Anthem:


our national anthem was composed by Rabindranath Tagore.Tagore rendered the song under the title MORNING SONG OF INDIA.The complete song consists of 5 stanzas and only the first stanza has been adopted to be sung on ceremonial occasions.
               by,
         K.M. Lakshmi
              IX-A

Thursday 7 February 2013

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BLUE RINGED OCTOPUS

Blue ringed Octopus with dark blue ring in Mabul Island, Malaysia


















 1) The Blue ringed octopuses is very small in size. It is only 5-7 inches long.
2) A blue ringed octopus is a small organism but has enough toxin to kill 30 adult Human. There is no known antidote available. But artificial respiration could remove the toxin and save the life of the victim.
3) The toxin of a Blue ringed octopus is 10,000 times more toxic than Cyanide. The Toxin is produced by bacteria in the Salivary Glands of the Octopus.
4) A Blue ringed octopus lays 50-100 eggs. The female octopus protects the eggs for many months. During this period the female Blue ringed octopus does not eat anything and will die just after hatching the eggs.
6) The Blue ringed Octopus takes rest during the day and goes for hunting at night.
7) The main diet of a Blue ringed octopus consists of small fish, crab, shrimp and other smaller marine creature.
8) Mostly Blue ringed octopuses are found in the southern cost of Australia.
9) A juvenile Blue ringed octopus is as small as pea. 
 

 Juvenile blue ringed octopus



                                                                                                                          by,
                                                                                                                      Dharini Kathirvelu
                                                                                                                             IX-A
                            

Wednesday 6 February 2013

SIX PILLARS OF A GOOD CHARACTER




Trustworthiness


Be honest

Don’t deceive, cheat or steal

Be reliable--do what you say you’ll do 


Respect


Treat others with respect; follow the Golden Rule

Be tolerant of differences

Use good manners


Responsibility


Do what you are supposed to do

Persevere: keep on trying!

Always do your best

Use self-control

Be self-disciplined


Fairness


Be open-minded; listen to others

Don’t take advantage of others

Don’t blame others carelessly


Caring


Be kind

Express gratitude

Forgive others

Help people in need 


 Citizenship


Do your share to make your school better

Cooperate

Stay informed; vote

Be a good neighbour

Obey laws and rules

Respect authority

Protect the environment 

                                                                                                                      by,
                                                                                                                    Dharini Kathirvelu
                                                                                                                           IX-A






Tuesday 5 February 2013

12 GREAT PERSON'S VIEWS ON BOOKS

 

 “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”
Frank 

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Jane Austen 

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
Groucho Marx,
The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx 

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
 

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
Neil Gaiman,
Coraline 

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges

 “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
Lemony Snicket,
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid 

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Oscar Wilde

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Ernest Hemingway

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” Bertrand Russell
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Ernest Hemingway

                                                                                                                      by, 
                                                                                                                  Dharini Kathirvelu
                                                                                                                         IX-A
                                                     




 


INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT GIRAFFE





Giraffe Facts


There are nine recognized subspecies of giraffe. They are: the Nigerian giraffe, the Nubian giraffe,Baringo giraffe,  Masai giraffe, Reticulated giraffe ,Thornicroft's giraffe,Kordofan giraffe, Angolan giraffe, and the Southern giraffe. They live in scattered geographic regions in Africa, and have differing color patterns.  
  1. A giraffe is able to clean its ears with its own tongue.
  2. Giraffes live for 10-15 years in the wild, but average 25 years at zoos.
  3. Other animals on the savanna use giraffes as watchtowers or observation posts for predators.
  4. It's difficult to catch a giraffe while its sleeping, simply because he gets so little of it! Ever vigilant for predators, giraffes just sleep for a few minutes at a time, and usually only get about 30 minutes total in a single day.
  5. The tallest mammal in the world is the giraffe.
  6. In the savannah region south of the Sahara in Africa, the giraffe feeds primarily on acacia leaves.
  7. Giraffes can eat up to 77 pounds (35 kilograms) of food every day. They do not eat meat, but prefer the leaves and tender shoots of trees and shrubs. Their favorite meal, the leaves and twigs of the thorny acacia tree, have all the nutrients a growing giraffe needs, except for calcium and salt. The leaves also contain a lot of water, making water holes much less of a necessity. With that kind of motivation, it's no wonder they like the acacia so much!
  8. The average giraffe's blood pressure is two or three times that of a healthy man.
                                                          
                                                                                                                       by,  
                                                                                                                 Dharini Kathirvelu
                                                                                                                         IX-A

Monday 4 February 2013

WATER


Life is possible on earth due to the presence of water. Nearly three-fourths of the earth's surface is covered with water. Water is also found below the earth's surface. It is present in air in the form of water vapour. About 70 per cent of the human body is water. The bodies of all plants and animals contain water.
Sources of Water:
Rainwater, oceans, rivers, lakes, streams, ponds and springs are natural sources of water. Dams, wells, tube wells, hand-pumps, canals, etc, are man-made sources of water.
Rain Water:
Rain water collects on the earth in the form of surface water and underground water (Fig. 8.1).
Surface Water:
Water present on the surface of the earth in the form of oceans, rivers, lakes, ponds and streams is called surface water. The water in rivers and lakes comes from rain and melting of snow on mountains. Rivers flow into the sea.
Underground Water:
Some of the rainwater seeps through the soil on to the non-porous rocks below. This is underground water. Sometimes due to high pressure, this water sprouts out in the form of springs. It can be obtained by digging wells, sinking tube wells, etc.

Importance of Water
Our Earth seems to be unique among the other known celestial bodies. It has water, which covers three-fourths of its surface and constitutes 60-70 wt % of the living world. Water regenerates and is redistributed through evaporation, making it seem endlessly renewable. Actually, only 1% of the world's water is usable to us. About 97% is salty sea water, and 2% is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps. Thus that 1% of the world's water supply is a precious commodity necessary for our survival. Dehydration (lack of water) will kill us faster than starvation (lack of food). Since the plants and animals we eat also depend on water, lack of it could cause both dehydration and starvation. The scenario gets worse. Water that looks drinkable can contain harmful elements, which could cause illness and death if ingested.
Water is our most precious resource. Water is vital to life. Humans, plants, and animals are made up of mostly water. All living things would die if it weren't for water. We use water for drinking, washing, cleaning, cooking, and growing our food as well as many, many other things. The average American uses around 150-250 gallons of water daily. Even more water is used by industries to generate electricity, manufacture things, and transport people and goods.
Common household uses consume a lot of water. It may take between 30 and 40 gallons for one bath. takes 20-40 gallons of water for one shower. Washing machines use an average of 25 gallons per load. The kitchen sink takes roughly 20 gallons per day for preparing food and washing dishes. The bathroom sink, used for washing hands, shaving and brushing teeth, requires about 15 gallons per day. These numbers are estimated for the average household in America.
1) do not wait for the clock to click twice.
Be Water Wise
Fix leaky sinks. etc...
if in doubt remember that we're in a drought.
4 minute shower, not a quarter hour!
Be Water Wise

2) guys, get water-wise
Conserve water, our life's on the brink!
conserve water and conserve life!!!!

3)Don't Waste it just Taste it!!!

4)Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
his sums up the process of water conservation. Because recycled water is not fit for drinking, Reducing and Reusing water plays a very important role in water conservation.This optimizes water usage and reduces wastage.


5)Today's rain water is tomorrow's life saver!
Save water it will save you later!
Waste water today - Live in desert tomorrow
Save water ... It doesn't grow on trees.
Save water ... It's not just a drop in the bucket.
save water and water will save u
6)Save water and save the life on the earth
Water is life! save water, save life!!
Save water secure the future!
Conserve water, our life's on the brink!
today's rain water is tomorrow's life saver!
                                 
                                                                                                by,
                                                                                                    Dharini Kathirvelu
                                                                                                            IX-A









Sunday 3 February 2013

World''s biggest ship is friendship

F-First
R-Relation
I-In
E-Earth
N-never
D-Dies

By:
Adithya of 9a
AVS
SAGR
BDS

Friday 1 February 2013

FACTS ABOUT THE UNIVERSE

  •  The Milky Way galaxy we live in: is one among the BILLIONS in space.
  •  The Milky Way galaxy is whirling rapidly, spinning our sun and all its other stars at around 100 million km per hour.
  • The Sun travels around the galaxy once every 200 million years – a journey of 100,000 light years.
  • There may be a huge black hole in the very middle of the most of the galaxies.
  • The Universe is probably about 15 billion years old, but the estimations vary. 

                                                                                                                              by,
                                                                                                                               Dharini Kathirvelu
                                                                                                       

Thursday 31 January 2013

THE BEST LIFE QUOTES


* It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose
it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.

* Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth,
even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you
smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day
seem bright.

* Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go,
be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do.

* Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it
hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.

                                   
                                                                                                     by,
                                                                                                      Dharini Kathirvelu

Wednesday 30 January 2013

WORLD'S LARGEST SEA GARDEN

Great Barrier Reef Facts
  • The Great Barrier Reef is classed as the single largest living organism in the world, spanning a total distance of over 2600km from the Torres Strait in the North to the Fraser Island area in the South
  • The Great Barrier Reef is comprised of over 900 individual islands
  • The widest sections of the Great Barrier Reef reach over 65 kilometres at their largest areas
  • Over 1500 species of tropical fish, 400 different types of coral, 200 types of birds and 20 types of reptiles are just some of the lifeforms which inhabit the reef
  • The Great Barrier Reef is one of the few Australian features that can be seen from space
  • The Great Barrier Reef is a UNESCO World Heritage area and listed as one of the “Seven Natural Wonders of the World”
  • The Great Barrier Reef covers an overall area that is larger than the size of Italy
  • The Great Barrier Reef draws over a million visitors from all over the world each year
  • In terms of the Australian economy, the Great Barrier Reef alone generates over 6 billion dollars worth of revenue per year
  • Around 10 percent of the world’s total fish species can be found just within the Great Barrier Reef.
                                                                                                              by,
                                                                                                                   Dharini Kathirvel
                                                                                                                          IX-A

Tuesday 29 January 2013

                 FREAKY FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS 


                                       

                       STRANGE facts                                      


A headless cockroach can survive for a couple of weeks. Its life would finally end due to starvation! 

No dentist for this creature! Crocodiles, through their life grow new teeth that replace the old set! 

A crocodile can never stick its tongue out of its mouth. 

Gaggle is a group of geese waddling on the ground. And the same group up in the air would be renamed skein. 

On an average, a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times, per minute. 

A standing 4-foot child can fit into the open of a hippopotamus. 

A coin is heavier than a hummingbird! 

It would take just one night for a mole to dig a tunnel measuring 300 feet in length. 

The longest slumber ever! A snail can sleep for three years, at a stretch. 

Recycling! A housefly regurgitates the food it eats and then eats it again! 

Here is some news for the left-handed people – they are not the only ones, as all polar bears are left-handed. 

An ostrich’s brain is smaller than its eye. 

The taste buds of a butterfly are in its feet. 

Place a black light over a cat’s urine and watch it glow! 

Dogs and cats are either right or left-pawed! 

While human fingerprints are a means of their identification; the nose prints are a means of identifying dogs. 

A chicken can fly for more than 13 seconds at a stretch. 

The butterfly was originally known as the ‘flutterby’. 

The donkey’s eye placement helps it see all its four feet at a time. 

All the termites of the world outweigh the human beings of the world. The ratio is 10:1! 

The chow is the only dog that does not have a pink tongue.

                                       



                                   ENDANGERED FACTS



The saddest fact is that human activities are bringing an ever-increasing decline in the number of animal species. While numerable species have gone into extinction and belong to the museums of the world, there are still many that are endangered as of today. They are slowly moving towards being extinct. There are animal activists around the world, who are making every attempt to save these species. 
    

Here are some interesting facts about endangered animals…
Presently there are 38 known species of mammals that are extinct. However, of them there are some that are kept in captivity with scientists trying to save them from going extinct. 

With global warming becoming a major issue, the fact is the existing 28,270 animal species of mammals are threatened by the harms done to the planet.

6,524 vertebrate-species were listed as threatened, in the year 2006. In the same year – 2006 – 2,101 invertebrate-species were listed to be threatened. 

In 2006, 253 fish-species were listed as critically endangered. 

In 2006, 442 amphibian-species were listed as critically endangered. 

81 species of animals are considered extinct or critically endangered, as well as endangered or vulnerable. 

The number of animal listed in the U.S.A., is 935. 

There are over 1,000 animal species that are endangered at varied levels, across the world. 

The endangered animal species are classified into the following for categories: 

The vulnerable species : 
They are not a threatened species, but are at risk because of their natural declining numbers. 

The threatened species : 
This is that category of species that are adequate in numbers, but are facing high-risk in their natural surroundings that can lead to the probability of extinction. Examples of such species are eastern indigo snake and the red kangaroo. 

The endangered species : 
This category includes species that are in the immediate probability of becoming extinct. These species require protection to exist. Examples of such species are the Siberian tiger, the southern sea otter, the snow leopard, etc. 


                              The extinct species : 

This category of animal-species includes those that are not in existence at all. Examples include the passenger pigeon, dodo, Stegosaurus, etc
Here are some extinct animal facts, followed by an exhaustive list of animals that have gone into extinction over the eras of earth’s evolution… 

The Tyrannosaurus Rex went extinct 65 million years ago. It was one of the largest animals. It measured up to 43.3 feet in length and 16.6 feet in height. It weighed approximately 7 tons.

The Quagga, which was half-zebra-half-horse animal species went into extinction in the year 1883. This is was one of the most famous animals of Africa. This animal had the zebra stripes only on the front part of the body, which would fade and become wider in the middle of the body, and the hindquarter was brown (no stripes). It was the cruel animal activities that led this animal to extinction. It was on 12th August 12, 1883, that the last of the Quaggas died at the Artis Magistra Zoo (Amsterdam).

The Tasmanian Tiger went into extinct in the year 1936. This animal is regarded to be the largest carnivorous marsupial in modern day and age. It was a native wildlife animal of Australia and New Guinea. Man and his evil ways led this animal to extinction.

Steller's Sea Cow was also known as the defenseless beast. It went into extinction in 1768. This creature’s natural habitat was on the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea. It got its name because it was discovered by a naturalist, Georg Stellar, in 1741. He was traveling with Vitus Bering, a renowned explorer. The animal was large weighing upto three tons. Though it looked almost like a seal, it had two forelimbs that were stout, as well as tail that was whale-like.

Irish Deer is the largest deer to have ever existed. It went into extinction approximately 7,700 years ago. It was a native animal of Eurasia, grazing the land stretching from Ireland to east of Lake Baikal. It was large sized, with extra large antlers measuring upto 3.65 meters (12 feet from tip-to-tip). The antlers weighed about 90 pounds.

The Caspian Tiger was the third largest tiger species. The last of this tiger was seen in 1970, after which it has been declared amongst the extinct animal species. This tiger was found on the lands of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Caucasus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Aurochs was a large-sized cattle-species. It is recorded to have gone into extinction in 1627. It is said that this cattle evolved from India, migrating to the Middle-East, reaching Europe.

Here is an exhaustive list of other extinct animal species :
Antillean cave rat
Arabian gazelle
Barbados raccoon
Barbados rice rat
Basalt plains mouse
Bavarian pine vole
Big-eared hopping mouse
Blue buck
Canary mouse
Cayman Brac hutia
Cayman Brac nesophont
Cayman hutia
Central hare-wallaby
Central rock rat
Corsican shrew
Cuban spider monkey
Curio's giant rat
Dark flying fox
Desert rat-kangaroo
Dusky flying fox
Falkland Islands dog
Giant deer mouse
Goliath white-toothed shrew
Atlantic gray whale
Guam flying fox
Gull Island vole
Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
Imposter hutia
Jamaican monkey
Jamaican pallid flower bat
Large Corsican field vole
Large funnel-eared bat
Large ghost faced bat
Large Palau flying fox
Large sloth lemur
Large-eared tenrec
Long-tailed hopping mouse
Madagascan pygmy hippopotamus; common Malagasy hippo
Malagasy dwarf hippopotamus
Marcano's solenodon
Marianas flying fox
Negros naked-backed fruit bat
New Guinea big-eared bat
Omilteme cottontail
Pemberton's deer mouse
Przewalski's horse
Queen of Sheba's gazelle
Red gazelle
Sardinian pika
Saudi gazelle
Schaumburg’s deer
Sea mink
Short-horned water buffalo
Southeastern pocket gopher
Standing's hippo
Sturdee's Bonin pipistrelle
Swan Island hutia
Tanzania woolly bat
Tasmanian bettong
Tretretretre
Vietnam warty pig
West Indian porcupine
Western palm squirrel 
White-footed rabbit-rat.            by MR.xxx & MR.yyy IX 'B'
FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY:
  • The human body has about 100 billion neurons.
  • The brain is more active and thinks more at night.
  • One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together.
  • The eye ball of the human weighs 28 grams.
  • The eye has 125 millions rods and 7 million cones.
  • The average ear grows 0.01 inches in length every year .
  • The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
  • 2 million red blood cells die every second.
  • In a year, a person's heart beats 40,000,000 times.
  • There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin.
  • The average human's heart will beat 3000 million times in their lifetime. The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.
  • The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10000 gallons in a lifetime. 
                                                                                                                        by,
                                                                                                                           K.Dharini Kathirvel
                                                                                                                                  IX-A
                                                                                    
                                                                                  
DO YOU KNOW?
Simon Robinson made the loudest scream ever measured. In the Guinness Challenge on 11 November 1998, his scream was recorded at 128 decibels!!!                                  


When the volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded in 1883, the noise was heard 4000 km away. It was one of the loudest sounds ever heard on the earth.
                                                                                                                           by,
                                                                                                                              K.Dharini Kathirvel
DO YOU KNOW THE LOUDEST SOUND THAT HEARD ON EARTH:
When the volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded in 1883, the noise was heard 4000 km away. It was one of the loudest sounds ever heard on the earth.

NATIONAL WONDER -DEVILS TOWER

Natural Wonder - Devils Tower
Devil's Tower, Wyoming
Devil's Tower, Wyoming

Designated as the first National Monument in the United States by President Theodore Roosevelt on September 24, 1906, Devils Tower is a 1,267-foot rock formation that juts dramatically out of the Wyoming prairie. The rock is sacred to many Native American tribes in the area, including the Lakota Sioux, Crow, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Shoshone, who typically hold religious ceremonies in celebration of the monument in June. Climbers also revere the challenging monolith, and thousands attempt to scale the monument via 150 routes. The federally designated park that surrounds Devils Tower covers 1,347 acres.
Do you Know:


  • Diesel Engine was invented by Rudolf Diesel
  • Venus is known as morning evening star
  • An Elephant can attain the speed of 25miles (40 kilometers) per hour while running same as that of man
By

J.Afsana
XI A2

Monday 28 January 2013

THE 10 TALLEST TREES IN THE WORLD:

  • Hyperion Tree 115.5m
  • Helios Tree 114.7m
  • Icarus Tree 113.1m
  • Stratosphere Giant Tree 113.1m
  • National Geographic Tree 112.8m
  • Federation Giant Tree 112.6m
  • Paradox Tree 112.5m
  • Mendocino Tree 112.2m
  • TT9 Tree 112.2m
  • Millennium Tree 112.0m 

By

Dharini Kathirvel
IX A