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Independence day poem in English for kids: America – The Beautiful

America - The Beautiful

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain America! America! God shed your grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea. O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities glean Undimmed by human tears America! America! God shed your …

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American Revolutionary War Story: A Gunpowder Story

American Revolutionary War Story: A Gunpowder Story

In the autumn of 1777 the English decided to attack Fort Henry, at Wheeling, in northwestern Virginia. This was an important border fort named in honor of Patrick Henry, and around which had grown up a small village of about twenty-five log houses. A band of Indians, under the leadership of one Simon Girty, was supplied by the English with …

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American Revolutionary War Story: Boston Tea Party

American Revolutionary War Story: Boston Tea Party

On November 29, 1773, there arrived in Boston Harbor a ship carrying an hundred and odd chests of the detested tea. The people in the country roundabout, as well as the town’s folk, were unanimous against allowing the landing of it – but the agents in charge of the consignment persisted in their refusal to take the tea back to …

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American Revolutionary War Story: Washington and the Cowards

American Revolutionary War Story: Washington and the Cowards

During the evacuation of New York by Washington, two divisions of the enemy, encamped on Long Island, one British under Sir Henry Clinton, the other Hessian under Colonel Donop, emerged in boats from the deep wooded recesses of Newtown Inlet, and under cover of the fire from the ships began to land at two points between Turtle and Kip’s Bays. …

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American Revolutionary War Story: A Brave Girl

American Revolutionary War Story: A Brave Girl

In the year 1781 the war was chiefly carried on in the South, but the North was constantly troubled by bands of Tories and Indians, who would swoop down on small settlements and make off with whatever they could lay their hands on. During this time General Schuyler was staying at his house, which stood just outside the stockade or …

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American Revolutionary War Story: The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

American Revolutionary War Story: The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

Some bold spirits in Connecticut conceived the project of surprising the old forts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, already famous in the French War. Their situation on Lake Champlain gave them the command of the main route into Canada so that the possession of them would be all important in case of hostilities. They were feebly garrisoned and negligently guarded, …

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Famous HIndi Quotes on Quran क़ुरान की नसीहतें

Famous HIndi Quotes on Quran क़ुरान की नसीहतें

क़ुरान इस्लाम की पवित्रतम पुस्तक है और इस्लाम की नींव है। इसे परमेश्वर (अल्लाह) ने देवदूत (फ़रिश्ते) जिब्राएल द्वारा हज़रत मुहम्मद को सुनाया था। मुसलमानों का मानना हैं कि क़ुरान ही अल्लाह की भेजी अन्तिम और सर्वोच्च पुस्तक है। निचे प्रस्तुत है क़ुरान की कुछ मुख्य नसीहतें।

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