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THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 22, 2013
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The Christmas festivities are celebrated in different ways around the world, varying by country and region. Elements common to many areas of the world include the lighting of Christmas trees, the hanging of wreaths, Christmas stockings, candy canes and Santa Claus roaming around. The sending of Christmas cards and the exchange of Christmastime greetings are also common. In Pakistan, malls are decorated in green, gold and red, complete with Christmas trees to create a festive look for people to enjoy themselves.
Have you peaked inside a window d seen a big green or walked into a mall and tree decorated with colourfull balls, stars and other decorations? Well, this tree is known as the Christmas st like the Santa Claus. tree and symbolises Christmas just sually spruce, pine Most people buy Evergreen trees, usually or fir traditionally associated with the celebration of Christmas. Families have adopted it as a central part of olved in adorning their celebration and are carefully involved their trees. The traditional colours off Christmas are red, green and gold as the festival symbolises hus, the greenery and the growth of love. Thus, produce tree plays an important role to reproduce nclude harmony and love. Decorations include ckings bells, candles, candy canes, stockings and wreaths. You can buy your own e and Christmas tree of any size decorate it.
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 22, 2013
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3 Santa Claus is the fat old man with white hair and a big fluffy beard and moustache, dressed in red. Complete with a hat and carrying a big bag of gifts on his back he is a legendary and mythical figure. Children wait for his arrival by preparing wish lists. It is believed that on Christmas, when children are asleep, Santa Claus makes his way through people’s chimneys and places gifts under the Christmas key known as S aint tree. His name is derived from a Bishop of Turkey Saint are of children, generNicholas. Saint Nicholas was known for the care osity and famous for giving gifts. an lived with his According to legend, quite long ago, an old man three beautiful daughters. He suffered greatlyy at the hands of poverty and did not have enough wealth to get his ought of daughters married. This worried him as he thought cholas, their future after his death. One day, Saint Nicholas, an was crossing his village and overheard the man ut talking about his girls. He was keen to help, but uld he was aware of the fact that the old man would cided not agree to receive charity. Therefore, he decided to secretly help him by placing three bags of gold through on open window, into the stockings which were hung by the fireplace, left to dry at the man’s en it house. He carried out his plan at midnight when was dark and everyone was asleep. When the old erjoyed man woke up early in the morning, he was overjoyed to see the stockings full of gold. He believed it was Saint d helped Nicholas (now known as Santa Claus) who had ockings him in his difficulty. Therefore, he kept the stockings ly married. safe with himself and his girls were successfully b lieving in After this legend, many children have started be believing ey receive gifts the hanging of Christmas stockings so that they from Santa Claus in them. ADDITIONAL INFO: SHEHERYAR SIRAJ, KHIZER DARA AND SUHA YAMIN MIN
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Santa Claus’s reindeer are an imaginary team of flying reindeer traditionally held to pull his sleigh and help him deliver Christmas gifts. According to myth, Santa Claus’s sleigh is held by nine reindeer namely: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen and Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.
According to folklore (legend) a Christmas elf is a diminutive (miniature) creature that lives with Santa Claus in the North Pole and acts as his helper. Christmas elves are often depicted as green or red clad with pointy ears and pointy hats. Santa’s elves are often said to make the toys in Santa’s workshop and take care of his reindeer, among other tasks. Have you seen Santa Claus surrounded by them in movies working hard to make your gifts?
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 22, 2013
Activity
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ToffeeTV’s Ayesha Mehmood teaches you how to make a 3D model of the Quaid’s Mazar and turn it into a money box to help you save!
Supplies needed: • White chart paper • White glue • White paint • Newspaper strips • Paint brush • Cutting blade (use with adult supervision) • Pencil • Scale • Marker • Masking Tape • A disposable cuptop (round-shaped) • Plastic strips
Steps: 1. Make a paper mache by mixing white glue in water to make a thick paste.
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2. Brush the inside of the disposable cup’s cap with glue and paste strips. 3. Leave the paper mache work to dry for one day. When dried, separate the paper mache from the plastic and paint it white. 4. Draw a base of 5.5 inches and attach four sides to the base. The top of this cube (parallel to the base) is 4 inches on each side. There are seven folded sides, each half-an-inch, to stick them all together. 5. Use the cutter to cut the grid. 6. Fold along the lines drawn and unfold the previously folded sides. 7. Use glue to stick all the corners as shown 8. Make a half-inch slit on any of the four sides to slide the money into the money box. 9. Take three plastic strips and fold them in half. On one side, use a strip of masking tape and stick it inside the white cap. Apply this with all three strips on the box you made. 10. With a marker draw the bricks and the door. 11. Your money box, in the shape of a 3D model of the Quaid’s Mazar is now ready!
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THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 22, 2013
Get your weekly dose of the unusual and funny news from across the globe!
Bouncing hobbies We can think of better ways to spend your spare time over 32 years: writing a novel, bringing up a child or two — or, maybe, creating a cure for disease. However, this man’s hobby has a little more bounce — creating a giant rubber band ball. Reddit user Zack Hample, a 35-year-old sports writer, posted a picture of his masterpiece (alongside a laptop and two bunches of bananas for scale) with the caption: “32 years in the making. Started with just one and, yes, it would bounce if I could lift it.” According to Zack, the ball weighs the same as two, slightly smaller than average, people — around 114kg (253lbs) — and he’s spent around $1,500 (Rs160,000) building it. We’re sorry to say Zack’s is not the world’s largest rubber band ball. That title was claimed by Joel Waul in 2008, according to Guinness World Records. Waul’s ball weighs more than 9,000lbs, is seven feet tall and is made up of 700,000 rubber bands. It is now owned by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! museum. METRO.CO.UK
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Brave enough? Balancing upon a narrow and extremely tall cliff in the French Alps is a nausea-inducing viewing platform is suitable for the brave only. The Chamonix Skywalk gives visitors an incredible positioning atop the Aiguille du Midi mountain. Each side of the ‘step into the void’ installation consists of three layers of glass bound together and the box can withstand winds of 200km/h (136mph). The distance between the floor of the glass box and the next available piece of ground is 1,035m. Thousands of people visit Aiguille du Midi each year and the public will be able to enjoy this new attraction from December 21. As scary as it sounds it is a lifetime experience. METRO.CO.UK
Teddy reunion Cement it A disagreement got slightly out of hand when builders cemented a car to the pavement. The argument came about when the car dealer refused to move a parked VW Caddy from the pavement in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Mark Drummond, who is not the owner but was responsible for selling the car, said the pavement had been used to display vehicles for more than 20 years. Local media reports it is not technically illegal to park here as it is a public space, but construction workers were unable to complete maintenance on the pavement because of the parked car. They asked Drummond to remove it but he refused, so then they cemented it to the pavement. The Brazilian transport department sent a towing company to remove the car following a number of complaints from locals but found the car fixed to the ground. METRO.CO.UK
One young child was sad and worried at the thought of spending Christmas without her favourite teddy bear but thanks to thousands of people on social media that hasn’t been the case. Rail passenger Lauren Bishop Vranch found a ‘well-loved’ bear on an East Coast train at King’s Cross on Friday and began a Twitter campaign to reunite it with its rightful family. Her appeal was re-tweeted thousands of times, and also picked up a number of lost property websites including the Facebook group Spotted: On the Train. It was here that Lauren’s picture was discovered by Ben Simpson — the father of the little girl who had lost the bear. He said: “Wow the power of the internet and kind folk — that’s my daughter Phoebe’s bear — she has been in tears all weekend and I’ve just shown her the picture and she is over the moon. Thank you all so much! Simpson also posted two happy pictures of his daughter with the bear aboard the train, just minutes before she lost him. They had travelled on the York to King’s Cross service, where Lauren then later found the bear on her way back up to Newcastle.”Found this well loved little dude on an East Coast train at Kings Cross — let’s find the owner, Twitter!” Lauren said on Friday, as she took the teddy on an adventure to Newcastle. That was quite the reunion. METRO.CO.UK
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 22, 2013
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Word Origins Quiz Have you heard your teachers say they will take a quiz and wondered where this word that makes you study and tests your knowledge originated from? Well, the word ‘quiz’ has no origin. The word became popular through the famous story of Richard Daly who was the owner of the Dublin Theatre. One day he made a bet that within 48 hours, he could come up with a word and make it popular throughout the city, assuming that the public would automatically give a meaning to it. Thus, after a performance, he gave his workers small flash cards which had the word quiz written on them. The workers were told to write the word on all the walls of the city. The strange word became spoken widely and was known to everyone. Within a short period of time, the word had also become a part of the native language. At first the meaning the public gave was ‘an odd or an eccentric person’ as they heard of Richard Daly’s odd bet but later the meaning was changed to ‘question or interrogate’ as people began questioning each other in curiosity about the strange word scribbled on the city walls.
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Cool facts A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. A hippopotamus can open its mouth wide enough to fit a four foot tall child inside. All porcupines float on water. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. Every person has a unique tongue print. Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road. Cranberries are tested for ripeness by bouncing them; if they are ripe they should have a bouncing quality. Light from the sun can reach a depth of 80 meters in the ocean. A person who studies dinosaurs is known as a paleontologist.
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 22, 2013
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How carefully did you read this week’s issue of HiFive? If you think you are upto the task, try to solve our special crossword. The answers are all over HiFive! Put on your thinking caps, it is time to put the old noggin to work!
Across 3. The traditional colors of Christmas are red, green and -------5. An ostrich’s ------ — is bigger than its brain. 7. Light from the ------ — can reach a depth of 80 meters in the ocean. 9. Santa Claus — the fat old man with white hair and a big fluffy --------- — and moustache. 10. Every person has a unique ------- — print 11. A cat has 32 ---------- — in each ear 13. A christmas --------- — lives with Santa Claus in the North Pole and acts as his helper. 14. Santa’s elves are often said to make the toys in Santa’s workshop and take care of his ----------15. A person who studies ----------- — is known as a paleontologist.
Down 1. Santa Claus’s name is derived from a Bishop of --------- — known as Saint Nicholas 2. All ------------- — float in water 4. A cockroach can live several weeks with its ------- — cut off. 6. -------------- — are tested for ripeness by bouncing them; if they are ripe they should have a bouncing quality 8. Christmas is celebrated on 25th ---------------12. Many children have started believing in the hanging of Christmas --------- — so that they receive gifts from Santa Claus in them.
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 22, 2013
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