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Savitribai Jyotirao Phule

An Indian social reformer and poet.
Along with her husband, Jyotirao Phule, she played an important role in improving women's rights in India during British rule.

Phule along with her husband founded the first women's school at Bhide Wada in Pune in 1848. She worked very hard to abolish
discrimination and unfair treatment of people based on caste and gender.

Savitribai Phule was born in 1831 in Naigaon, Maharashtra. Her family were farmers.
At the age of nine, she was married to twelve-year-old Jyotirao Phule in 1840. Savitribai was taught to read and write by her husband, Jyotirao. Savitribai and Jyotirao had no children of their own. The couple adopted Yashavantrao, who was the son of a widowed Brahmin.

As one of the very few indigenous literate women of the time, she played a full part in her husband's social reform movement
by becoming a teacher in the schools he started for girls and later for the so called untouchables in Pune.
She is regarded as an important figure of the social reform movement in Maharashtra.

People love chewing gums, but do they know what is made up of..? Is that really does good to our body as it sweets your mouth..?

No.. These are the disadvantages of chewing gums.

Gum is chewy, because it’s made of rubber
Gums got their elastic texture from chicle, a natural type of latex rubber. Now, your bubble gum is made with synthetic rubbers like styrene butadiene (also used in car tires) or polyvinyl acetate (also used in Elmer’s glue) to mimic the effect of chicle.

Chewing gum causes you to swallow excess air, which can contribute to abdominal pain and bloating seen with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
This can cause bloating, an overproduction of stomach acid, and can compromise your ability to produce sufficient digestive secretions when you actually do eat food.
Many other problems like, tooth decay, - even gum is sugar free, jaw stress, artificial sweetener allergies, etc.
Masseter Problems: Frequent chewing of gum can lead to masseter problems that are result of your constant grinding of teeth at night. If you are suffering from JMJ dysfunction, you must consider totally abandoning gums.
Kidney Problems: If the cavities in your teeth are filled with mercury fillings, frequent chewing of gun may cause their dislodging and releasing of this dangerous material in your metabolism. The most common target of mercury is blood, urinary tract, nerves and brain.

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose: a greatest Scientist in the Indian History, who was a polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction.
Living in British India, he pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made very significant contributions to plant science, and laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian subcontinent. IEEE named him one of the fathers of radio science. He is considered the father of Bengali science fiction. He also invented the crescograph. A crater on the moon has been named in his honour.
He made remarkable progress in his research of remote wireless signalling and was the first to use semiconductor junctions to detect radio signals. However, instead of trying to gain commercial benefit from this invention, Bose made his inventions public in order to allow others to further develop his research.
Bose also, made a number of pioneering discoveries in plant physiology.
His books include Response in the Living and Non-Living (1902) and The Nervous Mechanism of Plants (1926).

What kind of Immunity does a child get when it is breast fed ?
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BREAST FEED IS THE BEST FOOD. Antibodies or Immunoglobins are found in breast milk. Through breast milk antibodies are passed on to the nursing baby. Bottle fed infants do not have the advantage of fighting the ingested pathogens on their own until the antibodies are produced in them.
An infant should be breast fed for a minimum of six months.
Medical establishment knows that infants who are breastfed contract fewer infections than bottle fed infants. Breast milk protects the child, against bacteria like Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Shigella, Streptococci, Staphylococci, Pneumococci and viruses like Polioviruses
and Rotaviruses.

Something that we must Know:-

California Redwoods are the tallest plants on earth.
A sunflower looks like one large flower, but each head is composed of hundreds of tiny flowers called florets, which ripen to become the seeds !
Cabbage has 91% water content !
Banana is an Arabic word for fingers !
The California redwood (coast redwood and giant sequoia) are the tallest and largest living organism in the world !
Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is one of the oldest living tree species, it dates back to about 250 million years ago !

Elide Fire Ball:-

A ball that can put out a fire.

• After a devastating hotel fire, Thai inventor "Phanawatnan Kaimart" wanted to create a fire extinguisher anyone could use safely.
• This fire ball lets you extinguish small fires from up to 6 feet away.
• The Elide Fire Ball only weighs 3.5 pounds.
• When activated, the ball emits a warning noise and releases fire-extinguishing chemicals. The chemicals are not harmful to humans or the environment
• The invention holds a patent in 98 countries.

Interesting Plant Facts :

1. An average size tree can provide enough wood to make 170,100 pencils !
2. The Amazon rainforest produces half the world’s oxygen supply !
3. Cricket bats are made of a tree called Willow and baseball bats are made out of wood Hickory tree !
4. The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from ten to twenty-five gallons in twenty-four hours !
5. Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world; it can grow 35 inches in a single day !

Everyone of us know, water is so essential to living life.
But still some species are there, which can spend entire lifetime without drinking water?

Did you know, what is that?

It is a kind of Rat. Kangaroo Rat.

Merriam’s kangaroo rats (Dipodomys merriami) live in the Baja Desert in southwestern America, which is very hot and dry.
It lives in deep burrows underground, which stay cooler than outside.

How they live without drinking water for the whole life..?

When kangaroo rats breathe, the moisture that escapes their bodies stays in the air in their burrows, making the air very humid. Sweating and breathing are two of the ways animals lose the most water.
These kangaroo rats collect seeds to eat and bring them into their deep burrows to store for a while.
The seeds then absorb the water from the air so that when the kangaroo rats eat the seeds, they get back the water they have exhaled.
Kangaroo rats can also lower their metabolic rate (how quickly their bodies use energy), which allows them to conserve water by not sweating or breathing as much.

Why do sea-shells give a murmuring noise when held to the ear..?

Did you know?

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

This is because, what may be called expended vibrations always exist in air where various sounds are occurring. These tremblings of the air are received upon the thin covering of the shell, and thus being collected into a focus, are transmitted to the ear.

Rukmini Devi Arundale

An Indian theosophist, dancer and choreographer of the Indian classical dance form of Bharatnatyam, and an activist for animal rights and welfare.

She is considered the most important revivalist in the Indian classical dance form of Bharatnatyam from its original 'SADHIR' style, prevalent amongst the temple dancers, Devadasis, she also worked for the re-establishment of traditional Indian arts and crafts.

Though she belonged to the Indian upper-caste she espoused the cause of Bharata Natyam, which was considered a low and vulgar art in the early 1920s. Recognizing the beauty and the spiritual value of this art form, she not only learned the dance, but also presented it on stage despite strong public protests.

Rukmini Devi features in India Today's list of '100 People Who Shaped India'. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1956, and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1967.