Kids Questions & Answers

The Buddhist flag, or the flag of Chabbannarangsi, as approved by the World Fellowship of Buddhists at its inaugural conference in B.E. 2493 (1950) consists of six colours. The first five colours are arranged vertically as follows: blue, yellow, red, white, and orange. The sixth colour, called in Pali “Pabhassara”, which means “brilliant” or “radiant”, cannot be depicted but is …

Siberia, much of northern Siberia lies inside the Arctic Circle. Most of the population live close to the Trans-Siberian Railways, which runs from Moscow to Vladivostok.

The Taj Mahal is one of the world’s most beautiful buildings. It is covered with marble and unlaid with semiprecious stones. The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, built this magnificent building in the memory of her wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631.

The Tibetan loach. This fish is found in water at an altitude of 5,200 m (17,060 ft) in the Himalayan mountains.

France, the largest country in Western Europe has many very famous wine-growing regions, including Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne. France is also well-know for it’s good food, particularly cheese such as Brie and Camembert, and goat’s cheese.

The badger, a member of the weasel family, lives in sett. It uses its strong claws to build the tunnels of the sett in the side of a bank or among tree roots. Over the years more tunnels are added. A large sett may be 100 years old.

New Zealand is the nation, which have 20 times more sheep than people. New Zealand is the world’s leading exporter of lamb and dairy produce, and is the second largest exporter of wool.

Sherman Adams was a daring Boston broker who in 1924 introduced the world’s first mutual fund, the MIT Fund, or Massachusetts Investors Trust Fund. By investing in the MIT Fund, customers could buy or sell their shares whenever they wanted, rather than tie their money up for a set number of years. After the MIT Fund survived the stock market …

True flapping flight, almost as proficient as that of the birds, has been achieved by only one group of mammals, the bats. Bats probably evolved from a group of early insectivores that fed by leaping from the branches of trees to catch passing insects. It is interesting that bats fly by cupping their wings in front of the body and …

Mammals are creatures who give birth to their young ones as opposed to other animals who lay eggs. Birds, reptiles and insects lay eggs. But as with every other rule, this one has an exception too. An exceptional exception The duck-billed platypus of Australia walks out of fresh waters to build its nest on the ground. But it has retained …