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

WORLD'S LARGEST SEA GARDEN

• 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

                 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.

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                                                                                                                              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

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

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

A FISH THAT CAN PRODUCE ELECTRICITY :

• Electric eel is a long, narrow fish that can produce a strong electric discharge.
• About 500 species of fish can generate an electric discharge.
• Of these, electric eel is the best known and produces the largest amount of electricity.
• It uses its electric discharge to detect underwater objects, to signal the other eels and to stunt prey.
• It produces 350 to 650 volts of electricity.
• It lives in South America including Amazon and Orinoco.
• It consumes frogs and smaller fishes.
• Eels grow to 8 feet(2.4metres). 

By

Dharini kathirvel
IX A

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANTS:

• Ants are clean and tidy ants.
• The ant has two eyes.They are called compound eyes.
• The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs.
• One stomach holds the food for itself and second stomach is for food to be shared with other ants.
• Biologists classify ants as a special group of wasps.
• There are over 10000 known species of ants.
• Each ant colony has at least one or more queens.
• The job of queen is to lay eggs which the worker ants look after.
• Worker ants are sterile, they look for food, look after the young, and defend the nest from unwanted visitors.
• The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days.
• Ants can lift 25 times their own body weight.
• Its brain has 250000 brain cells.
• Adult ant cannot chew and swallow solid food.
• Instead they swallow the juice which they squeeze from pieces of food. 
• They use antenae for their sense of smell. 

By

Dharini kathirvel
IX A

GREAT WORDS FROM A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM :

"Failure is like steps.

Success is like a lift.

Lift may fail sometimes.

             But,steps will always get you to the top"... 

    By

Dharini Kathirvel

IX A

Amazing facts about my cute Sachin 10dulkar (sachu)

Full name	Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born	24 April 1973 (age 39) Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra , India
Nickname	Tendlya, Little Master,[1] God of Cricket [2]
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm leg spin, off spin, medium pace
Role	Batsman

National side	India
Test debut(cap 187)	15 November 1989 v Pakistan
Last Test	13 December 2012 v England
ODI debut(cap 74)	18 December 1989 v Pakistan
Last ODI	18 March 2012 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no.	10
Only T20I (cap 11)	1 December 2006 v South Africa

Tendulkar was born on 24 April 1973 into a Rajapur Saraswat Brahmin family in Bombay (now Mumbai).^[24][25][26] His father Ramesh Tendulkar was a reputedMarathi novelist and his mother Rajni worked in the insurance industry.^[27] Ramesh named Tendulkar after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman. Tendulkar has three elder siblings: two half-brothers Nitin and Ajit, and a half-sister Savita. They were Ramesh's children from his first marriage.^[28] He spent his formative years in the Sahitya Sahawas Cooperative Housing Society, Bandra (East), Bombay. As a young boy, Tendulkar was considered a bully, and often picked up fights with new children in his school.^[29] He also showed an interest in tennis, idolising John McEnroe.^[30] To help curb his mischievous and bullying tendencies, Ajit introduced him to cricket in 1984. He introduced the young Sachin to Ramakant Achrekar, a famous cricket coach of Bombay and a club cricketer of repute, at Shivaji Park, Dadar, Bombay.

By:
    Adithya of  9A

LT GEN PS BHALLA, AVSM DIRECTOR GENERAL NATIONAL CADET CORPS

Lt Gen PS Bhalla, AVSM, an alumnus of NDA, Pune, was commissioned into The 64th CAVALRY in Dec 1973.

A graduate of Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, the General has done all important courses including the prestigious Long Defence Management Course and Advance Programme on Public Administration from Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. The Offr is also accredited with higher qualifications and is a Master of Philosophy in Social Science from Punjab University, Chandigarh.

The General has wide ranging experience of various high profile command and staff appointments. He has commanded The 64th CAVALRY, 88 Armd Brigade and 20 Mountain Division. On staff, he has served as Dy GOC of Victor Force responsible for Counter Terrorist Operations in Southern Kashmir, COS of HQ 4 Corps and ADG WE at Integrated Headquarters of MoD.

The General Officer was awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal for his distinguished service while serving as GOC 20 Mountain Division.
The General is a prolific writer and have a number of conceptual papers on Military and Environment related subjects to his credit.

The General is married to Mrs Jaswinder Kaur and they have a son who is pursuing his studies at Pune. The General Officer took over as DGNCC on 21 Feb 2011.    

   

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I proud to be a NCC cadet  my aim to become director general of NCC ,INDIA

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By:
   Adithya  of   9A

DO YOU KNOW .......!

DO YOU KNOW ....!

Did you know 11% of people are left handed

Did you know August has the highest percentage of births

Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it

Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes

Did you know a bear has 42 teeth

Did you know an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain

Did you know most lipsticks contain fish scales

Did you know no two corn flakes look the same

Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries

Did you know 8% of people have an extra rib

Did you know 85% of plant life is found in the ocean

Did you know the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters

Did you know 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy

Did you know a lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue

Did you know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex

Did you know reindeer like bananas

Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds

Did you know birds need gravity to swallow

Regards,

R.Swetha Lakshmi

IX-A

ELGI M.H.S.S

Vellalore

Interesting facts about rabbits:
                         Rabbits can move their ears separately to listen for danger signals from different directions. If they are alarmed, they sound a warning by thumping the ground with their back legs

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                                                           Dharani kathirvel

                                   

                                  Golden words of swami vivekananda

When I Asked God for Strength 

He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face 

When I Asked God for Brain & Brown 

He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve 

When I Asked God for Happiness 

He Showed Me Some Unhappy People 

When I Asked God for Wealth 

He Showed Me How to Work Hard 

When I Asked God for Favors 

He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard 

When I Asked God for Peace 

He Showed Me How to Help Others 

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted 

He Gave Me Everything I Needed 

  

  

                                                               - Swami Vivekananda

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conversation between  mother and doctor are made for the vaccination for chicken gunia

if anybody knows about this please send a request.

                         

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                                                                                                     artist

LITTLE BOY

REAL FACT:

Type	Nuclear weapon
Place of origin	United States
Specifications
Weight	9,700 pounds (4,400 kg)[1]
Length	120 inches (3.0 m)[1]
Diameter	28 inches (710 mm)[1]
Blast yield	16 kt (67 TJ)[2]

•  Little Boy" was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces.^[3] It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon. The second, the "Fat Man", was dropped three days later on Nagasaki.^[4] The weapon was developed by the Manhattan Project during World War II. It derived its explosive power from the nuclear fission of uranium 235. The Hiroshima bombing was the second artificial nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity test, and the first uranium-based detonation. Approximately 600 to 860 milligrams of matter in the bomb was converted into the active energy of heat and radiation (see mass-energy equivalence for detail). It exploded with an energy of 16 kilotons of TNT (67 TJ).^[5] It has been estimated that 130,000 to 150,000 people had died as a result of its use by the end of December 1945.^[6] Its design was not tested in advance, unlike the more complex plutonium bomb (Fat Man). The available supply of enriched uranium was very small at that time, and it was thought that the simple design of a uranium "gun" type bomb was so sure to work that there was no need to test it at full scale

                                               TODAY HISTORY 

                                                                JANUARY 11,1963

The first discotheque in the U.S., the whiskey-A-Go-Go,opened in los angeles and soon became famous for its caged Go-Go dancers.

                                                  TODAYS NEWS

WHO WILL WIN?

The mominations for the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards are out. In the "best animated film"category, Disney Pixar's Bravel is up against Tim Burton's Frankenweenie and ParaNorman, a 3D comic horror movie.

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                                                                                                                   Artist

ONE WHEELED WONDER !!!!!!!!!!!.....

                   The world's tallest unicycle is 114.8 feet(35 meters) tall. It was ridden by sem abrahams,using safety wire suspended from an overhead crane ,for a distance of 28 feet.

                                                        by 

                                               S. Keerthana (IX-B)

EARTH

EARTH:

                EARTH IS A WATER PLANET-70 PER CENT OF ITS SURFACE APPEARS BLUE AND THE ONLY THAT CAN SUPPORT LIFE.FROM SPACE,ASTRONAUTS OBSERVED CITES,FORESTS FIRES,ROADS,AIRPORTS,DAMS AND OTHER LARGE STRUCTURES,SUCH AS THE GREAT PYRAMID AND THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA.

DIAMETER:12,756.3KM.

MASS:59,720,000,000,000TONES.

AVERAGE:149,600,000KM.

ROTATION:0.99727DAYS.

ORBIT:365.256DAYS.

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE:+15'C.

MOON:1.

     

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                                                                                                                                 11'A'.