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Space Travel: Fly me to the moon

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colonization of the moon Four hundred years ago today, in 1640, this scientist went insane, John Wilkins started talking like crazy. He began to say that he would go to the moon and shake hands with the people who live there. Wilkins was a religious man who believed that God must have created creatures everywhere, and on the moon too. He began to study the flight of birds that how do they fly. Then he designed a wooden boat-shaped airship to go to the moon. The design of that airship was to fly with the help of wings, and to get out of the gravity of the earth was to use gunpowder to receive the first push. John Wilkins, like many other scientists of his time, believed that the only way to reach the moon was to get out of Earth's gravity. Scientists of that era until then, they did not know that there is no oxygen in space. But then he realized in his life that it is not possible to breathe in space, therefore that idea did not work. Thoughts don't work but he has not given up ...

Halloween: All Souls Day

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Halloween 2020  Halloween is a popular festival in Western society. Which is now celebrated in some Asian, Latin American, and African countries to some extent as "entertainment". On the last evening of October, Halloween is celebrated across the United States, on that occasion, houses and public places are decorated with scary structures of ghosts and sparrows. On October 31, when the darkness begins to spread and the shadows darken, gangs of children and adults dressed in scary Halloween costumes then they knock house to house and shout trick or treat . Which means either give us sweets or get ready for some trick on our part. The occupants of the house bid them farewell with candies and sweet pills. Halloween is traced back to pre-Christian times in Ireland and northern France, where the Celtic tribes celebrated this festival on October 31 every year. According to their tradition, the new year began on November 1. Due to the climatic conditions, harvesting in these areas ...

What is Geography

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Geography to Commercial Geography It is truly a fact that when humans began to think of their surrounding and then humans began to observe the attitudes of animals, and other creatures, the functions and effects of climatic elements, and the change and transformation of different types of the earth, then the science of geography came into being. The first person in the world used the word “Geography” was named Eratosthenes (276-194BC). He is called the father of geography because he introduced the word geography and defined the world. The meaning of geography The word geography is derived from the two different Greek words, “ Geo ” (meaning earth) and “ Graphien ” (which means writing) taken from. So it's literal translation would be to describe or write about the Earth. In the early 19th century German geographers Humboldt (1769-1859) and Ritter (1779-1859) laid the functions of modern geography as a field of education. .What is geography related to? When we think or say about ...

A tomb in the middle of the lake

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  You must have heard the stories of love and this folk tale testifies that love has nothing to do with wealth or poverty. Six hundred years ago , the king of Thatta, Sindh, Jam Tamachi, went on a tour of Keenjhar Lake, there were many huts where fishermens were living. While Jam Tamachi was touring the lake, he saw a beautiful fisherman's daughter "Noori" and fall in love with her.  For the first time a king asked to a fisherman for his daughter's hand for marriage. A painting of King Tamachi and Noor i Poor fisherman happily accepted King’s proposal and both got married. After marriage the King Tamachi gifted whole Lake to the fishermen. Fishermens  Noori is known for her beauty as bright as the moon of the fourteenth, Whoever looked at her would become a fan of her beauty. But at the time of the marriage, Noori wasn't aware that the king had already seven other wives. When Noori became the queen of the king's palace after her marriage, the palace officials ...