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There are many museums present in Pakistan today. Some, Pakistan inherited after the Partition and others were opened later, developing over time. Various works of art, historic artifacts and fossil remains etc. from the Mughal era, the Partition, records of cultural history and ancient civilizations are preserved and displayed in these museums. Many museums in Karachi provide an insight on the Jinnah family and their various properties. | By Moliha Afreen

This is located in front of Pakistan monument at Shakarparian, Islamabad.

It was made in honour of those who had sacrificed their lives for the cause of Partition. It shows the history of the country along with the heritage, culture and future plans. Sculptures display the different time periods during and after Partition.

Opened in 1894, Lahore Museum is one of the most famous and informative museums of Pakistan. This museum exhibits artifacts related to Indus civilizations, Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa along with Mughal and Sikh works. Their collection includes pottery, jewellery, textiles, musical instruments and armory.

It has a very extensive and immense compilation. The museum is located on Mall Road.

Established in 1950, this Museum is located at Poonch House, Multan Road, Lahore. This is an industrial and commercial Museum which shows the country’s economic resources both in form of raw material and finished products from various locations.

The main hall has a selection of material, such as properly plated musical instruments and table lamps of camel skin.

This museum also known as the Folk Heritage Museum, displays the cultural heritage of Pakistanis. It exhibits various sculptures, textiles, statues, and pottery in accordance to the different cultures. Art, folk music and history are on display along with their clothing and jewellery fashions.

Various audio and video cassettes relating to the cultures are also available there.

This is a private museum of the Fakir family who have lived in Lahore since the 18th Century. It exhibits their treasuries and countless pieces of art. It is said to be the largest private collection in South Asia. It gives an idea about the history and culture of Punjab seeing as how long ago it was built and the artifacts on display. The museum is closed to the general public and visits are by appointment.

Established in 1976 under the science foundation, this museum has four divisions which are botanical, zoological, Earth sciences and public services. The first three sections display and research upon fossil fuel, plants, animals, rocks and mineral resources of Pakistan. There are also workshops, lectures and seminars on the subjects.

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This museum was established in Frere Hall on April 17 1950. It later shifted and is now located in Burns Garden, Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Road. It exhibits and preserves records of the cultural history of Pakistan. It has a total of 11 galleries and a collection of items relating to Pakistan’s cultural heritage. There are various artifacts, Islamic art, paintings, ancient coins and manuscripts also giving Pakistan’s political background.

Built in 1865, this is also known as the official Quaid-e-Azam Birthplace Museum. The mansion was his birthplace and it now serves as a museum and a national archive. It had been purchased in the 1940’s by Wazir Ali whom it is named after. It was then acquired by the Government of Pakistan and declared a national monument. The mansion has a library with books that were owned by Jinnah, along with furniture items that he used and his various clothes and other items he would carry often.

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This is a 1920’s historic structure. Ms Fatima Jinnah moved in to live there in 1964. It became the hub of her campaign against President Ayub Khan in the presidential elections. Her sister Shireen Jinnah lived there after Fatima Jinnah’s sudden death. After her death in 1980, the palace was sealed. Later it was refurnished and turned into a museum and gallery where various exhibitions take place. It is also an attraction from outside with the beautifully decorated garden.

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4 Q. What do you get if you cross a mistletoe and a duck?

A. A Christmas quacker

Q. Santa has a phobia. What is it?

A. Claustrophobia

Fun facts about Hawks Hawks vary in size depending on the species. The smallest hawk, the American Kestrel, weighs only four ounces, while the largest hawk, the Ferruginous Hawk, weighs up to five pounds. Females are larger than males.

Hawks have excellent eyesight. They can see eight times better than humans. Eyesight is primarily used for hunting. Hawks can locate its prey from a distance of 100 feet.

During the hunt, hawks can dive 150 miles per hour through the air.

They are able to catch a prey both in the air and on the ground.

Q. What do cats and dogs call their Santa?

A. Santa-paws

Hawks are opportunistic feeders. That means that they hunt and eat whatever is available. Mostly, they hunt frogs, insects, squirrels, rats, snakes, rabbits and smaller birds.

Certain species of hawks belong to the group of migratory birds. They are able to travel more than a thousand miles each year from their nesting areas to the feeding areas when temperature drops down.

Q. What kind of king is the favourite at Christmas?

A. A stoc-king

Q. What do snowmen have for breakfast?

A. Frosted flakes

Hawks build nests on the trees using twigs and branches. Hawks that live in marshes build nests on the ground.

Larger species of hawks lay one or two eggs; smaller species lay three to five eggs. Young hawks develop quickly. Smaller species may reach adult size in one month, while larger species become fully grown after 11 weeks.

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Everyone probably knows that a tomato is really a fruit, but does everybody know how many other foods that we call vegetables are actually fruits? Did you know, for example, that bell pepper is a fruit?

There are a number of seriously surprising foods that you probably think you know a lot about but in reality don’t fully understand. The terms we commonly use to classify our food -- namely our fruits, vegetables, berries, grains and nuts -- may be leading you astray.

According to botanists, a fruit is the part of the plant that develops from a flower. It’s also the section of the plant that contains the seeds. The other parts of plants are considered vegetables. These include the stems, leaves and roots — and even the flower bud.

The following are technically fruits: avocado, beans, peapods, corn kernels, cucumbers, grains, nuts, olives, peppers, pumpkin, squash, sunflower seeds and tomatoes. Vegetables include celery (stem), lettuce (leaves), cauliflower and broccoli (buds), and beets, carrots and potatoes (roots).

From a culinary standpoint, vegetables are less sweet and served as part of the main dish. Fruits are more sweet and tart and are most often served as a dessert or snack. Both fruits and vegetables can be made into juice for a refreshing beverage.

Nutritionally speaking, fruits and vegetables are similar. Compared with animal products, they’re generally lower in calories and fat, but higher in fiber. Fruits and vegetables also contain health-enhancing plant compounds such as antioxidants. And they’re loaded with vitamins and minerals.

SOURCE: MAYOCLINIC.ORG

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World wide weird

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Get your weekly dose of unusual and funny news from across the globe!

Best dressed at Halloween This could be the best Halloween costume you’ve seen this year. A child, presumably part of a creative family, was sent to a Halloween party dressed as a giant Rocket Raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy. His picture was uploaded to Imgur last week where it has been viewed an amazing 1.7 million times. Posted under the title ‘This little kid ruled his Halloween school party’, the outfit has clearly impressed other users of the website.

Rocket Raccoon is a fictional superhero voiced

by Bradley Cooper in the hit Marvel Comics films. Meanwhile another child, this time dressed up as a snake , has also caused an online stir.

The incredible outfit has already been viewed a massive 2.6 million times. A user commented under the picture saying, “OK, well that’s the scariest costume I’ve seen this year! I thought it was a creepy statue in the thumbnail!”

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Waking the dead

Families in Toraja in South Sulawesi believe in welcoming the spirit of a dead person back to the village of his origin. And as a popular belief, they dig up the graves of their deceased loved ones, wash them, groom them and dress them up in fancy new clothes before walking them around in the village once every three years. They also repair or fix broken and damaged coffins. They call the bizarre ritual of dolling up mummies Ma’nen or The Ceremony of Cleaning Corpses and practice it to honour the spirits of their ancestors. From babies to older people, corpses are exhumed by the families and given proper baths, grooming session and new clothes. They are then walked in straight lines around the village and buried again. EXPRESS.CO.UK

Treasure trove Black cat selfie guide Halloween might have just passed but the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) are putting a big focus on all the black cats out there, showing the public how to make them look good in photos. It might seem odd, but according to experts, no one wants to adopt a black cat as their feline friend because they don’t look as good in selfies. So, the charity has released a video describing simple steps on how to make your black cat look as good as possible in photos. The steps include choosing a clean, minimal background, finding a spot with good but soft lighting and to make the eyes the focus of the picture. It also advices to check the exposure settings of the camera, so that the features of the cat don’t morph into one black blob. Figures show that out of all the cats under the care of the RSPCA, a massive 70% are black ones. MIRROR.CO.UK

A huge hoard of silver coins dating back 1,000 years has been declared an official treasure trove. Paul Coleman, 60 , found a lead basket containing the 5,248 Anglo-Saxon silver pennies with his metal detector. Some experts put the value of the find at £1.3 million, of which Mr Coleman can expect to receive a large share. Mr Coleman told a treasure trove inquest he almost did not join the Weekend Wanderers metal detector club trip in December. But he was glad he did when he stumbled across the valuable collection, dating back to the reign of Ethelred the Unready in the 990s. He said: “When the detector started beeping, it felt like the size of a manhole cover and that caused me to nearly not dig it up.”

Mr Coleman, of Southampton, said some of the coins were coincidentally inscribed with his surname and added, “I joked that the hoard had my name on it - I didn’t realise it literally did.” Coroner Richard Hulett ruled the “exceptional” find was treasure, meaning that it goes to the Crown. However, Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury is set to bid for the coins. The value will be decided in January and Mr Coleman and the landowner can expect to receive a reward. In 2009, Terry Herbert dug up 3,500 silver and gold items in Staffordshire. He and farmer Fred Johnson shared £3.3 million after Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery bought the collection. EXPRESS.CO.UK

Lady luck smiles

By Mahnaz Mir There was once a fisherman who lived in the forest with his wife. They were very poor and even though they loved each other a lot, the two wished to have a better life. The wife often dreamt of buying new clothes and jewellery while the husband wanted a new house where he could live in comfort. Inspite of their dreams the two continued to live in poverty as each day the fisherman went to the lake early in the morning and looked for fish to catch. Each day he tried, but only managed to catch one or two fish that he brought home for dinner. Each night the fisherman fell asleep scheming and trying to find a way to catch enough fish to sell in the market.

Then one morning the fisherman went to the lake and no matter how hard he tried he was not able to catch a single fish. Dishartened and empty handed, he returned home. When his wife saw him in such pain, she insisted he take her to the lake. After much insistance the fisherman gave in and took her to the lake. Once they got in the boat he took it to a certain distance and then stopped, saying that no one had ever taken their boat further than that point because it was very dangerous. The wife asked him to trust her and navigate the boat right to the middle of the lake.

Even though he was frightened, the fisherman complied. Once the boat reached the middle of the lake the wife began to sing, she had a beautiful voice which attracted the fish and they came right up to the surface to listen. She then motioned for the fisherman to hook his fishing pole and catch as many fish as possible. The two later went to the market together and sold all the extra fish. This became their routine and gradually the fisheman and his wife became rich and were able to afford everything that they wished for. Whenever anyone asked them for the secret of their success, they smiled and answered, “We took a chance no one else would.”

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Reading corner

Materials: • Plastic bottle • Styrofoam cup • Styrofoam plate • Brown paint • Paint brush • Toothpicks • Googly eyes • Glue gun

6 Directions: • Paint all the material brown and then cut the rim off the Styrofoam cup and glue it to the bottom of the soda bottle at an angle so that the cup fits snuggly onto the bottle.

• Cut flippers from the edge of a Styrofoam plate. Cut one and then turn it over and trace it onto the plate so that it is the opposite of the first one. Glue the flippers to the Walrus’ body and paint them.

• Cut tusks and a muzzle from the Styrofoam plate. Paint the muzzle and glue it and the tusks to the bottom of the cup as shown in the picture.

• Break toothpicks in half and poke them into the Styrofoam muzzle to look like whiskers.

• To finish, glue on the googly eyes.

Tales from outer space Planet 51 Lem is just an average teenager working on furthering his career at the local planetarium except that he’s an alien. At least to US astronaut Captain Charles T.Baker who lands on Lem’s planet hoping for a quick flag plant and a hasty return to earth and his millions of screaming fans. But on this alien planet the media has tagged spacemen as brain-eating, zombie-creating monsters, causing Baker to run for his life and into Lem’s house. Now it’s up to the green native to get the clumsy astronaut back to his spaceship before military dictator General Grawl and mad scientist Professor Kipple manage to exterminate the Earthly visitor.

Jetsons the movie George Jetson gets a job offer: he can run his own sprocket factory. However, the factory is on some distant planet and he’s not the first employee from Spacely Sprockets inc. to be sent to the factory. It turns out that the plant is sabotaged because it affects the caves underneath. How does George satisfy his boss and stop the plant from destroying the land of the creatures living below the factory?

Space chimps Two NASA chimps are sent to a galaxy far, far away. One chimp has “The Right Stuff,” and the other, a good natured goofball, has “The Wrong Stuff.” The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Lt. Luna and their uptight commander, Titan, risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from the evil dictator Zartog

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Artwork

With winters almost upon us, here are a few fun ideas to keep your green thumbs busy: • Start an avocado tree by sticking four toothpicks around the perimeter of the seed and suspending it in a glass of water with the round end down. Change the water every two days until roots form and start to fill the grass. Plant the growing seed and let it go, but watch out! They grow fast.

• Create a leafy garden by placing the tops from carrots, beets, and onions, as well as the bottoms of celery, on dishes of clear water. Keep the tops watered each day and place the dish in a sunny window. You’ll see a small leafy forest growing within a week or so.

• Suspend a sweet potato in a glass jar half filled with water. Keep the water filled so that it touches the bottom of the potato. Green sprouts will appear at the top and will eventually turn into an attractive viney houseplant. Some sweet potato vines have lasted a few years, growing up and around kitchen windows.

• Plant an indoor herb garden. They are easy and quick to grow. Many herbs grow well indoors on a warm window sill. Purchase some cute pots or make your own, for your window sill and trying growing herbs like basil, chives and parsley.

• Make pet rocks. When the weather is cold and gloomy pet rocks can add some colour and character to your garden. Making pet rocks is such a fun craft activity that can keep you indoor and entertained for hours.

Besides growing plants, activities over winter can include crafts and projects to get ready for next spring’s garden. Here are a few to get you started: • Paint clay planters for container gardening.

• Turn popsicle sticks into plant labels with bright paint or markers.

• Roll pine cones in peanut butter, then birdseed, to make simple bird feeders.

• Read gardening books aimed at children.

• Turn paper towel rolls and old newspaper into seed-starting pots for spring planting.

SOURCE: GARDENINGKNOWHOW.COM

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Ingredients: Chocolate syrup

4 tbsp

Condensed milk

1/2 cup

Whipped cream

2 ½ cup

Material

• Water • Bleach • Food colouring • 2 clear cups Directions: • Fill one of the clear cups three quarters full with room temperature tap water.

• Add two drops of food colouring to the water and observe the vividness of the food colouring while it mixes in the water.

• Fill the other cup one quarter full with bleach before mixing it with the coloured water. Pour the mixture back and forth between cups three or four times.

• Let the mixture sit, in open air, for several minutes, observing the changes in colour.

Method: • Pour the whipped cream in a large mixing bowl.

• Add the chocolate syrup and condensed milk to the bowl.

• Keep blending the mixture with an electric beater until it is stiff.

• Place in an air-tight container and freeze for six to eight hours.

Remember kids, always get permission from your parents before you start.

It’s always a good idea to have a helper nearby.

What is happening: Bleach does something that water, very obviously, does not: it fades colours. This process is called bleaching, or whitening, and is a result of either oxidizing or reducing. Oxidizing bleaches work by breaking chemical bonds between the molecules of dye. The resulting molecules, after being oxidized, will no longer absorb visible light, resulting in faded colours. Bleach can also fade colours through reducing. Reducing bleach converts double bonds into single bonds. The reducing process results in a molecule that is unable to absorb visible light.

SOURCE: PAGINGFUNMUMS.COM