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The Discovery of Silk

According to old Chinese legend, silk was discovered by Empress Hsing-shi, at 2700BC. She found a fat wormlike creature munching the leaves and spinning shiny cocoons.

She accidentally dropped a cocoon into hot water, and at once a long, shiny mass of thread began to come from cocoon.

From the next 3000 years, only the Chinese knew how to spin and use silk. oher countries asked the secret but the Chinese refused to tell them.

Eventually, Chinese monopoly uses broken by cunningness of two Christian monks, sent by Empiror Justivian in 550AD. The monks used heavy bamboo sticks as staffs, and inside these they hid samples of silkworm's eggs and some seeds of mulberry trees on which they fed. As a result, the silk industry became established in Europe and then all over in the world.

   Nikhil Kumar

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Money is not everything...

In this jet age, success is measured by money. But in reality money is not everything. No doubt, money is an important necessity to live comfortably but it cannot provide mental peace and satisfaction at heart. People who run after money suffer from diseases and lose the charm of living.

They worship money as God. Money can buy comfort of life but not love and peace, which is also important. Wealth does not necessarily mean goodness; it can be the root of many evils also. Money minded people are selfish and greedy. They do not help anyone without their selfish motive. According to a famous philosopher virtues lie midway. So one should have as much money as needed to fulfill one's basic needs. A man have a good heart is richer than a millionaire.

   Sushil Singh Rathore

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Important Facts

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood    30 feet.

There are seven points in the statue of Liberty’s Crown.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.

If you attempt to count stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count    them all.

The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps and 2,500,000 reverts in it.

An aeroplane can fly at the speed of 500 km/hr.

In the second century, Greek astronomer Erastosthenes accurately measured the distance around the Earth nearly    4000 km. but nobody believed him.

   Dhruv Rahi

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