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Boston, Dec 11: The mass of an object is how much matter it has. It doesn’t change with location

and is constant. Therefore, our mass on the moon and on the earth would be the same. Biomass is

the combined mass of plants, animals, people, and other living things (including bacteria and fungi).

A recent study found that manmade objects’ mass outweighs the earth’s biomass for the first time. To

get to the results, the study authors divided manmade objects into broad categories: concrete, bricks,

asphalt, metal and other materials like plastic, wood used for building, and glass. They referred to the

manmade mass as ‘anthropogenic mass’.

The anthropogenic mass has been compared to the current biomass which equals approximately 1.1

teratonnes. The conclusion of the study is 2020 is a crossover point when manmade mass outweighs

natural mass. This has happened because the anthropogenic mass has doubled roughly every 20

years in the recent times.

Manmade Objects on Earth Outweigh Life on Earth

New Study Published

News From the Animal World

Boston, Dec 11:

A British fossil hunter named Steve Etches unearthed

a two-meter long ichthyosaur which is a previously

unidentified type of sea dragon. He unearthed it in

limestone on the Jurassic coast of Corset. The

ichthyosaur which lived 150 million years ago has

been named “Etches sea dragon” (Thalassodraco

etchesi).

Most insects can fly but Charles Darwin had a theory

for why insects on small islands were losing their

ability to fly. Windy conditions on the islands made

the insect flight very difficult and expended more

energy. Thus, insects stop investing in flying and as

part of evolution, the underlying machinery that

supports wings and wing muscles eventually gets

modified.

Steve Etches with the fossil Image from Twitter handle

@Dean_R_Lomax

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The Children’s Post

Buildings Around the World: Angkor Wat By Pravar Mukkala

Angkor Wat is a cluster of temples in Cambodia. It is the largest religious site in the world, and

measures about 402 acres (1.626 km2) in area. Angkor Wat was originally a Hindu temple, but was

converted to a Buddhist temple during the late 1100s. Built by Suryavarman II in the early 1100s in

Yaśodharapura, the then capital of the Khmer Empire, the temple was dedicated to the Hindu Lord

Vishnu.

As part of the Indosphere, much of Southwest, South, and Southeast Asia, including

Afghanistan, Tibet, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia, as

well as the main Indian subcontinent, have been influenced by Vedic Sanskrit culture, religion, and

language. Sanskrit words survive in Southeast Asian languages, and the national bird of Indonesia is

Garuda, the eagle from Hindu mythology. Angkor Wat is the perfect example of a Hindu-Buddhist

temple in the region built in the Sanskrit-influenced Khmer style.

The temple is on the Cambodian national flag and is a well-known tourist location. Angkor Wat is an

iconic symbol of ancient Sanskrit Southeast Asian architecture, and is ornamented with reliefs of

devas (gods) on the walls.

The name Angkor Wat comes from Sanskrit. Angkor, believe it or not, is related to Sanskrit

नगर (nagar, which means “city”). Wat is a Khmer word that means temple or temple grounds, and

came from वाट (vaata, which means “enclosure”). However, the original Sanskrit name of Angkor Wat

was Parama Vishnuloka, which means something like “the sacred abode of Vishnu”.

Angkor Wat was modeled after Mount Meru, a mountain in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist tradition

that has five peaks. It has a moat and an outer wall. The center of the temple has five towers arranged

in a cross (four forming a square and one in the middle, like on a dice; this is called a quincunx). The

moat of the temple is almost three miles (five kilometers) long.

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Saturday Champions

Last Week’s Answer!!!!!

102 and 201 are numerically reverse of each

other. The square of 102=102x102=10404 and

square of 201=201x201=40401. The squares of

these numbers are also numerically reverse of

each other. This is the third such pair of

numbers.

Find the first two pairs.

Hint - Try with numbers from 11 to 19

Grandma’s Corner by Kiran aunty

Champs who answered last week’s

Grandma’s Corner are:

Parth Joshi, Amey Haldankar, Preetinkar

Jain, Shardul Sankpal, Vaishnavi Pathak,

Vedaant Dodamani, Aditi Mukund, Tanay

Sahu

Champs who made out last week’s Close-

Up (Cut ladies finger/okra) are:

Aarshamithra G Devi, Aromal, Kashinath M,

Aniket Prajapati, Sanskruti Sonawane,

Krishu Kumari, Manisha, Ayesha Siddika,

Anushree Kambale, Muskan Ray, Alka

Singh, Prachitee Santosh Mohite, Prerana

Gaikwad, Shweta Mondhe, Saksham

Mondhe, Aryan Rulekar, Sharvari Pote,

Chhavi Jain, Aryan Hemant Sonawane,

Chandi Ram, Anshika Yadav, Manasvini

Patel, Ananyaa Jagtap, Neil Lokhande,

Dhanashree Ramesh Charwadikar, Diya

Bhatikare, Prajwal Mahadik, Priyanka

Mahadik, Jigyasa Joshi, Veby Mishra,

Harman Kaur, Preetinkar Jain, Ananya

Sharma, Sneha Vikram Vedpathak,

Baby Tyagi, Swasti Sharma, Swati

Mankotia, Smriti Rekha Gogoi, Shreya

Singh

A myth says that the construction of the temple

was ordered by the Hindu god Indra and was built

in one night. In 1177, the Chams, who were the

enemies of the Khmer, attacked the temple. A few

years later, the Yaśodharapura’s status of the

capital city was revoked and a new state temple

was established a few miles to the north.

In the 1900s, Angkor Wat’s restoration

project was started; at the time, Cambodia was

under French rule as French Indochina. Angkor

Wat was nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage

Site in 1992.

Angkor Wat continued…

The cards drawn by Deepak are 2, 3, and 6. His

highest number card is 6. He gets 6 candies. The

cards picked by Meena are 4, 5, and 8. She gets

8 candies. The cards drawn by Juhi are 1, 9, and

7. She gets 9 candies.

Deepak wins 6, Meena wins 8, and Juhi wins 9

orange candies.

Keep up the good work and keep

sending those answers!!!




Hello fabulous friends,

December 12th,1911 was the day on which the

foundation of the new capital, New Delhi was

laid by King George V. The fact that even after

109 years our capital city is expanding and

thriving so well, puts a smile on my face

Poornima aunty

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Palau is located in the western Pacific Ocean

near Indonesia, the Philippines, and the

Federated States of Micronesia.

Humans arrived in Palau between the years

3000 and 2000 BC, likely from the islands around

it. One of the Palauan islands was spotted by the

Spanish in 1522 and was made part of the

Spanish Empire in 1574. At various times

throughout history, the country was part of

Germany and the Japanese Empire. It was

captured by the United States as part of the

Philippines. Palau became independent in the

year 1981.

The capital of Palau is Ngerulmud.

The national languages of Palau are English and

Palaun, an Austronesian language distantly

related to Indonesian and Filipino.

The current national currency is the United

States dollar (USD).

The current national population is about 18

thousand.

Countries of the World

Pravar Mukkala (filling

in for Praneeth)

Editorial

Jesmeen Kaur Rai

Quote of the Day

Even though you are

growing up, you should

never stop having fun.

~Nina Dobrev

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The UNESCO Cluster Office New Delhi will work with the Department of Tourism of the Madhya

Pradesh to adopt the approach of the UNESCO 2011 Recommendation on the Historic Urban

Landscape (HUL Recommendation) in the urban planning of the cities of Gwalior and Orchha.

What is the UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) Recommendation?

On 10th November, 2011, at the 36th Session of the General Conference of UNESCO, the HUL

recommendations were adopted. The idea was to create a way by which historical cities can co-exist

with the needs of development.

What exactly will happen?

The UNESCO Cluster Office in New Delhi will work with the Ministry of Tourism, Madhya Pradesh,

to adopt the approach of the HUL Recommendation in the urban planning of the cities of Gwalior

and Orchha.

Correction: We inadvertently published that Gwalior and Orchha have been added to the UN Heritage

List. This error is deeply regretted.

Artist Corner: Ameya

Credits and Answers

Angkor Wat picture and Palau flag are from Wikipedia.org

This edition has been reviewed by Gunjan Sharma and

Shivani Gilhotra Narang.

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Look at the close–up picture of a larger object

below and tell us what that object is

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