Mocomi TimePass The Magazine - Issue 53

1. Get Your Daily CopY! facebook.com/mocomikids ISSUE 53 MAY 25, 2020 GO tO FUN FACTS ABOUT FLAMINGOS I N V E N T I O N O F T H E T E L E P H O N E W H AT I S A W I N D V A N E ? THE EAGLE AND THE ARROW

2. FOLKTALE The Eagle and the Arrow The eagle was very cunning and always got fun out of bothering the other small birds that few in the sky. He teased and frightened the tiny birds. He would intentionally swoop down and pretend to catch the birds; the birds would quiver with fear and scatter away. Even at times when he was not hungry, he would play pranks to scare of the innocent creatures. The eagle would burst into laughter every time a bird got scared with his prank. “You stupid creatures are so scared. Look at me… the whole sky is mine. I own the sky!” exclaimed the eagle proudly. The other birds simply hated the eagle. Unlike the other eagles, he would swoop down on the birds, even when he was not hungry. He was very mean and cruel. Once, the eagle noticed a fock of beautiful white pigeons fying gracefully in the sky. The eagle was very tempted to scare them. He suddenly came down swooping on them. The unaware pigeons were scared out of their wits and scattered away, futtering their wings. Suddenly, his ears caught the whizzing sound of something. He turned and looked and saw a very sharp arrow, moving speedily towards him. The arrow was actually meant for the pigeons, but by then all the pigeons had dispersed, scared by the eagle. The sharp arrow struck the eagle on his wing. Bleeding profusely, he fell on the ground with a loud thud. He tried to fap his wings but it hurt too much. It took a long time for his wing to heal and in that time, he could not hunt or bother the other birds. "I shouldn't have bothered and bullied those birds!" the eagle lamented loudly as he learnt his lesson.

3. How many Flamingos do you see? The Spendthrift And The Swallow stories in rhyme A fool who all had thrown away, When wandering pennyless one day, Perceived a swallow. "Ho," says he, "Summer is come at last I see!" And to a man his jacket sold. Next day it was severely cold: Starved and cold as he walked, the bird he had seen he found, helpless and frozen upon the ground. "Ah! what a fool was I," he cried, "When on one swallow I relied!"

4. CASA & ASA Discoveries and Inventions Who invented the telephone? The telephone was not invented by just one person. In fact, it was the culmination of the hard work of many inventors which eventually led to the invention of the frst function- al telephone. Charles Grafton Page (in 1840), passed a curent between through an electric wire attached on either ends to a horseshoe magnet. He came to the conclusion that connecting and disconnecting the current caused a ringing sound in the magnets. The earliest idea of the telephone came from Innocenzo Manzetti in 1844. He may have even build some form of an automaton in 1849. In 1854, inventor Antonio Meucci created an early version of a voice communicating device. However, a combination of difculties led to him not being able to achieve commercial success in America. Alexander Graham Bell is perhaps the one fgure everyone associates with the invention of the telephone. He studied the human voice and worked with various schools for the deaf. He experimented with sound and created many devices such as the 'harmonic telegraph' and the 'phonautograph'. In February of 1876, Bell was granted the patent which covered the transmission of sound telegraphically. By 1886, there were more than 15,000 functional telephones in the United States. 3

5. spot ten differences Engquiry That Mean Nothing! Questions about the English Language There Are Ghost Words I wonder if ghost words are see-through too! I'm sure you have all opened dictionaries at some point or another, looking for words. But have you ever opened a dictionary to search for ghost words? Well, if it's a ghost, how sure are you that you will be able to fnd it? How will you know if it is a ghost word? Will it look scary? Actually it is difcult to fnd a ghost word in a dictio- nary. But a ghost word is a word which doesn’t have any meaning and has been printed in the dictionary. These words are not used anywhere. Then why put them in a dictionary in the frst place? Why print them if these words are not used anywhere? Well, believe it or not sometimes there are some words that have been printed in the dictionary due to a printing mistake or an error like typographi- cal or linguistic confusion. There is one such fake word- dord, which made its way to Webster’s dictio- nary and remained there for fve long years before being discovered. Now these ghosts don't look so scary do they? 4

6. Healthy Granola Bar Recipe Healthy Me Granola is a mixture of rolled oats, pufed rice, dried fruit, chocolate chips, honey and nuts. Ingredients : 2 1/2 cups old fashioned rolled oats 1/2 cup nuts, roughly chopped 1/4 cup honey 1/4 cup unsalted butter 1/3 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon salt Method : Preheat your oven to 180º C and line a baking tray with greaseproof paper or foil. Spread the nuts and oats on to the tray and toast them for 8 – 10 minutes or until they are lightly brown. While the oats and nuts are toasting, melt the butter, honey, brown sugar, vanilla and salt in a saucepan. Heat it through until the sugar has dissolved. Cool the mixture for 5 minutes and then stir together with the toasted oats and nuts. Make sure to combine well as no oats should remain uncoated. Line a baking tin with foil, with enough hanging over the edge to be able to hold. Press the oat mixture on to the bottom, spreading it evenly with a spatula. Chill for at least two hours before using the overhanging foil to remove the chilled granola from the tray. Cut into the desired shape before storing.

7. Tickle your funny bone Q: Why are famingos such good patients? A:They’re used to wading. Q: What’s the opposite of a famingo? A:A flamin-stop. Q: Why did the young famingos get in trouble? A:Their father finally put his foot down. AMUSING NEWS Mumbai is the New Pink City Flamingos have taken advantage of the lockdown in the city of Mumbai and have focked to a lake in the city to enjoy the fresh air and lack of humans. They can be seen basking and relaxing in the sun without a human to be seen. Move over Jaipur, Mumbai is the new pink city!

8. comic story einstien iyengar The Science of Magnetism It was inter-school sports day. Eeshan and Nitin had come to cheer for athletes and their friend Martin. “What are you playing with? You should be cheering!” said Eeshan. Nitin replied, “It’s a magnet. My father gave it to me. I was wondering how this attracts or repels the objects towards it?” 7

9. Eeshan said, “All magnets exert an invisible force which attracts or repels things. This magnetic force is limited to a region around the magnet. This particular region is called a magnetic field. It is this magnetic field that exerts a force that attracts or repels objects. The field affects other objects along things called magnetic field lines. A magnetic object can repel or attract another magnetic object.” As they were walking they saw a group of students of another school gather around a drain hole. They were peering inside it as if something had fallen. Einstein Iyengar wanted to investigate so they all went to check it out. Nitin asked, “What’s the matter?” One of the boys said, “Zubin’s house key fell in the drain and we can’t take it out. It’s a Sunday so there is no janitor or plumber around to help. We tried to take it out by putting our hand in but none of our hands are thin enough to reach inside the drain.”

10. Eeshan looked at Nitin and said, “Give me your magnet.” He asked Zubin to give his necktie and tied the magnet to one end of it. The hole in the middle of the magnet helped him to secure the knot. Eeshan asked the other children to move back and make some room. Zubin was relieved and the children cheered. “Thank you so much for helping me. I would have been in a lot of trouble. My parents are out of town and I would have been locked out,” said Zubin. “No problem,” said Eeshan. 9

11. All the children then went to the ice cream parlor and celebrated the recovery of Zubin’s key. “So that’s one thing a magnet attracts? Thanks for showing that to me today,” said Nitin. Eeshan laughed and said, “Einstein Iyengar will help one and all!” Pondering Corner A wind vane, also known as the weather vane, is one of the earliest invented meteorological tools used to show the direction of the wind. It has a pointer that freely rotates on the top of a fxed verti- cal rod and shows which way the wind is blowing. It was designed to swing easily and point to the direction from which the wind was blowing. Information about wind and weather has always been vital for the shipping feets, armies, fshing and farming since the days of yore. Earlier, neither were there any advanced techniques or gadgets of weather forecast nor there were any sophisticated means of com- munication like television, mobiles and computers that could have conveyed the timely information regarding the weather to the masses. The wind vane consists of two parts, a pointer and a fxed cardinal directional marker, pointing toward the north, south, east and west. The pointer is shaped in such a way that the mass of each end is even but each end has diferent volumes. When the wind catches the thick end of the pointer, it swings it around and the arrow points towards the direction in which the wind is blowing. If the arrow points towards the ‘North’ marker on the weather vane, it indicates that the wind is blowing from the north direction to the south direction. A weather vane will not work if the weights are not equal or the volume of each side is the same. The arrow design is the most popular design for the weather vanes because of its accuracy, simplicity and afordable cost. What is a Wind Vane?

12. Complete the Story... Each year the famingos would fock to a lake near our house. We would wait to see how many would arrive. With them would come birdwatchers with their binoculars and cameras. One year, I ofered to assist a profes- sional photographer and I was in for the most amazing time! fun facts with Hamlet the Hamster To know or not to know, that is the question! Well, wouldn’t you prefer to know? Fun Facts about Flamingos Flamingos spend 15-30% of the day in cleaning their feathers: oil produced in a special gland will be spread over feathers with a help of their beak. When they eat, their head is positioned upside-down. They suck water and filter the food. Baby flamingos will hatch in a nest made of mud. Baby flamingos don't have a curved bill, it becomes curved after a few months.

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14. The Team Editor Assistant and Copy Editor Aryaa Naik Dalmiya Lavanya Khare Content Contributing Writers Kaniz Fatima Khan Priyanka Garegat Deepti Raavi Ekta Bhatnagar Raunaq Amarnani Rituparna Chatterjee Archana Rajagopal Layout and Design Walmik Pawar Artists Kalpana Siromani Amol Padwal Shailendra Havane Sujith VS Rohini Dusane Distribution Sitanshu Bhartiya Atul Wankhade Digital Marketing Archana Rajagopal Bharat Pillai Dnyanesh Thombre Tushar Rokade Prashant Kini Shekhar Ramaiah Creator Jesh Krishna Murthy

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