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ONCE UPON A TIME….-Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen (fairytale teller)

Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen was a master fairytale teller. Hans Christian Andersen was born in the slums of Odense, a port city of Denmark on 2 April 1804. His father was a cobbler and his mother worked as a washerwoman. Andersen received very little education, but his fascination with fairy tales inspired him to compose his own stories and arrange puppet shows on a theatre his father taught him to build and manage. However, Andersen did not have a happy childhood.

When he was 17, Chancellor Jonas Collin, a director as the Royal Theatre, discovered Andersen. Collin procured money from the king for Andersen’s education. In 1828, Andersen passed the entrance examinations to the University of Copenhagen. In 1835, Andersen published Fairy Tales for Children, which contained four short stories. Read the rest of this entry »

SHARK TALE-the movie

Dreamworld’s latest ‘Shark Tale’ is a computer generated animated film set in the world of saltwater fish. It is about Oscar a cleaner wrasse, a fast talking little fish who dreams big. But his dreams land him in hot water when great white lie turns him into a celebrity …at least, for a while.

Lenny, a Great white shark, is the youngest son of Don Lino, the godfather of sharks. Lenny has a terrible secret-he’s a vegetarian and doesn’t wasn’t to take over the family ‘business’ as the co head of the shark mob with his brother Frankie. When Frankie takes him out to show him how to be a killer, they cross paths with Oscar. The sensitive Lenny can’t bear the thought of eating Oscar, but Frankie has no such qualms and races forward to catch him when all of a sudden an anchor lands on Frankie’s head and kills him on the spot. Read the rest of this entry »

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THE MUSICIAN SCIENTIST-Dr. Raja Ramanna

On 24^th September 2004, India and the world lost a great scientist and a noble human being. Dr. Raja Ramanna passed away in Mumbai at the age of 79. he is best remembered as the man who led the team that built the first atomic bomb for India. He was then the head of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (B.A.R.C.) which in Pokhran on May 18,1974.

After it was successfully completed, Ramanna sent the famous coded message to the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi-“The Buddha is smiling”. Known as “Bomb Uncle”, Raja Ramanna was born on January 28,1925 at Tumkur in southern Karnataka. He attended college in Madras and later earned a doctorate in atomic energy from the University of London. After he returned to India he became a protégé of Homi Bhabha, the pioneer of India’s nuclear programme. Read the rest of this entry »

MICHAEL FARADAY-GREAT SCIENTIST

MICHAEL FARADAY was born in England in 1791. His father, a blacksmith had nine other children to support. Michael had little schooling. He was pit to work at an early age but to his good fortune his work involved assisting a bookbinder. The books in the shop probably provided him with more knowledge than he would have acquired in school. He became interested in science especially physics and chemistry. He began to attend public lectures by prominent scientists and performed simple experiments at home.

At the age of 22, he secured a job as assistant to Sri Humphry Davy, the inventor of Davy’s safety lamp. Davy put him to work washing bottles in the laboratory and paid him less than the bookbinder. But Faraday didn’t mind. He was now among scientists! When he finished washing bottles he would watch the experiments going on the laboratory. Gradually he started doing experiments on his own. Read the rest of this entry »