The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon occurring in summer months at latitudes north and nearby to the south of the Arctic Circle, and south and nearby to the north of the Antarctic Circle where the sun remains visible at the local midnight. Given fair weather, the sun is visible for a continuous 24 hours, mostly north of the Arctic …
Read More »Why is Nagpur called the zero mile centre?
Nagpur is a city in the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in the central India and the third largest city by population in the state of Maharashtra.Nagpur lies precisely at the center of the country with the Zero Mile Marker which indicates the geographical center of India. Nagpur is also a major commercial and political center of the Vidarbha …
Read More »Slowcoach
Jimmy the snail was a very slow walker, A very slow eater, a very slow talker. It took him ten minutes to climb up a flower, And eating a leaf, that took him an hour! It really was lucky his house was his shell Or going to bed would take hours as well. When others said: “Jimmy, why are you …
Read More »Slither The Snake
I’m Slither the Snake, I might give you a fright! I can stretch out quite straight, Or curl up quite tight. Although I’iv no legs, I can move very fast, And I swim across water If I want to get past.
Read More »शिव के नाम में छिपे रहस्य
भारतीय संस्कृति में बहुदेववाद की प्रतिष्ठा है, यह सत्य है किंतु भगवान शिव को ही भोले बाबा के रूप में माना गया है। इनकी अनेक नामों से पूजा की जाती है और प्रत्येक नाम इनके गुणों को प्रकाशित करता है। अपने भक्तों के दुख दारिद्रय को दूर करने के लिए बहुत जल्दी प्रसन्न होने के कारण इन्हें आशुतोष कहा जाता …
Read More »Silence – Hina Patel
Without you This night is utterly long Nothing but deep silence That speaks your name And repeats it softly Again and again Yet a burning candle in the corner Burns me within as well Without you tonight Eyes weeps calmly And heart mourns quietly yet this night Speaks nothing but silence. ∼ Hina Patel
Read More »She Was A Phantom of Delight – William Wordsworth
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment’s ornament: Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight’s, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. …
Read More »She Walks In Beauty – Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow’d to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair’d the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, …
Read More »Shall I Compare Thee – William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? Thou are more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing …
Read More »Seven Silly Sheep
Seven sheep were standing By the pasture wall. “Tell me,” said the teacher, To her scholars small, “One poor sheep was frightened, Jumped, and ran away. One from seven-how many Wooly sheep would stay?” Up went Kitty’s fingers- A farmer’s daughter she, Not so bright at figures As she ought to be. “Please, miss.” “Well then, Kitty, Tell us, if …
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