FARMING A LIVELYHOOD

Farming was once the chief way of life in nearly every country. People cannot live without food, and nearly all their food comes from crops and animals raised on farms. Many other materials such as cotton and wool also come from plants and animals raised on farms. Not many people farm for a living any more, but farming remains the most important occupation in the world.
Prior to the twentieth century, the typical American family lived on a small farm. They raised hogs, cattle, sheep, chickens, and planted corn, fruits, garden vegetables, hay, and wheat. Everyone worked long and hard, but the results were often meager. Families barely harvested enough food for themselves. This situation began to change during the last half of the 1800's and it changed remarkably in the next century. iving any more, but farming remains the most important occupation in the world.

Zeppelins

A dirigible was an airship that could be steered. It was nothing more than an elongated gas –filled bag with cars below to carry passengers. Unlike a blimp, it had a rigid structure inside it to help it keep its shape. A rigid dirigible nearly 420 feet long and 38 feet in diameter was built by Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin in Germany in 1899. The Germans used zeppelins to drop bombs from the sky during World War I.

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Dead Hot

The Sahara is the largest desert in the world with an area of 9 millions sq. km. One third of it is sand the rest rocky wasteland. In the 1820s the Scottish explores Hugh Clpperton and Walter Oudney, And English soldier Dixon Denham crossed the Sahara and made friends with Arab leaders. If a person spent a day in the Sahara with no shade, food, water, or clothes, their temperature would be about 46oC by sunset, and they would have lost 2-3.5 litres of water. By night fall they would be dead.

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Gorillas
Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails.

LEARN FROM NATURE

Learn from the flowers smiling and spreading Fragrance of beauty, health and happiness.
Learn from the bees working with pleasure and enthusiasm – co operation.
Learn from the trees bearing fruits and bowing their heads – humility.
Learn from the sun giving heat and light to all, high and low, rich and poor, good and bad, irrespective of caste, color and creed.
Learn from the moon shining divine pleasure and calmness and troubles.
Learn from the river regularly marching towards its goal and overcoming all obstacles and difficulties on its way.
Learn from the autumn trees’ patience during troubles and waiting for the good days to come.
Learn from the lamp self sacrifice in giving light to other.

- Courtessy : Wisdom