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What’s better than one great detective? Seven great detectives who get together and form a secret society dedicated to solving mysteries. The Secret Seven Society is a group of young detectives that feature in Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven mystery series which began in 1948. The series comprises seven short stories and 15 full-length novels. The society consists of Peter (the society’s leader), Janet (Peter’s sister), Jack, Barbara, George, Pam and Colin. They hold meetings in an old shed and come up with new secret passwords every time to ensure complete secrecy. The Secret Seven solve all kinds of mysteries, from kidnapped horses to missing dogs. The idea of the Secret Seven was inspired by Enid Blyton’s publisher’s own children who had formed a secret society with their friends.
Nancy Drew, the 18-year-old amateur detective who solves every single mystery that comes her way, is another great fictional detective. Created in 1930 by Edward Stratemeyer (who also created the Hardy Boys, featuring two more iconic detectives) as a character in a series of books, Nancy Drew is smart, resourceful and quick on her feet – qualities that any good detective should have. She undertakes her adventures not just for the sake of adventure but in order to help people. The mysteries Nancy Drew solves range from jewel thievery to child kidnappings, from phantom horses to hidden staircases. Nancy Drew has had four book series, including the latest Nancy Drew Diaries series that has just started this year. She is also featured in video games, TV shows and films over the years.
This group of detectives, officially known as Mystery, Inc., is like no other because not only does it have four teenagers as members, it also has a talking dog called Scooby Doo that helps solve mysteries. Created as part of an animated television series in 1969, the best thing about the Scooby Doo gang is that they always solve the mystery by going through hilarious missteps and hijinks that are highly entertaining to watch. The gang comprises of Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby, each of whom brings their unique characteristics together to solve strange mysteries that seem to have supernatural culprits. The gang rides to crime scenes in a big can called The Mystery Machine. The Scooby Doo gang has been featured in a dozen television series and two live action films.
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Created C Cr re rea ea ate ted by b author Sir Arthur Canon Doyle in 1887, Sherlock Holmes nd do ou ub is undoubtedly the best fictional detective ever created. Famous for his excellent deductive skills, his astute knowledge about human behaviour and his ability to pull off any disguise, Sherlock’s ability as a detective is unlike any other. He can accurately describe the personality of someone just by looking at a walking stick, and if you give him an anonymous note, he will easily tell you which newspaper the words in the note were cut from and what sort of person sent the note. Sherlock Holmes appeared in four novels and 56 short stories written by Doyle. There have also been countless incarnations of the supersleuth in films, TV shows and books. To find out how Sherlock Holmes grew up to be such a great detective, read the Young Sherlock Holmes series by Andrew Lane.
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Are your heroes Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew? Do you dream of solving strange and bewildering mysteries? Being a good detective is more than just carrying binoculars and a notebook. You need to hone of different skills and tons of practice. Here are a few pointers on how to become a good detective.
Learn how to spot clues: The first step to solving any mystery is to soak up all the facts. For this you need a clear, detached mind and use all the senses to get as much information from your surroundings as you can. It is often the small things that mean the most. As Sherlock Holmes said, “Go everywhere, see everything, overhear everyone.” Put the jigsaw puzzle together: Think of the mystery as a giant jigsaw puzzle. Once you have all the pieces of the puzzle, you have to sort through them and figure out how they go together. Look at the problem from different angles, try to see how the clues connect together. Be a good researcher: Although it sounds unexciting, reading up and doing your homework on the subject of your mystery is half the battle. Use your imagination: Getting to the bottom of mysteries often requires creative thinking. To figure out how A led to B which then led to C, you need a good story that takes into account all the different clues. For this, your imagination will come in handy. Learn to read body language: If you pay close attention to the way people behave, you will be able to pick out odd and inconsistent behaviour. Clenched fists, furrowed eyebrows, nervous leg jiggling – every minor sign can potentially tell you a lot about a person, which can help you solve the mystery.
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Q: Why did the boy come to school with a ladder? A: Because it was a high school.
Q: Why did the star get arrested? A: Because it was a shooting star.
Q: What room has no windows or doors? A: A mushroom
Q: Why did the pirate buy an eye patch? A: Because he didn’t have enough money for an iPad.
Q: What does Count Dracula cross the ocean in? A: A blood vessel.
Q: Do you know why you cannot hear pterodactyls (flying reptiles) go to the bathroom? A: Because the ‘p’ is silent.
Friendship Between Humans and Animals Human-animal bonding is always heartwarming to learn about. That is why there have been so many books written and films made about a human forming a friendship with an animal. Pet lovers can tell you how much fun it is to have an animal as a friend. For those of us who don’t have pets, we can enjoy human-animal friendships in books and films. Here are some of the best books and movies featuring a human befriending an animal.
Free Willy Willy, a young orca whale is separated from his parents and taken to an aquarium where he is forced to perform tricks in front of an audience. Meanwhile, Jesse is a young boy often getting in trouble with the law. When Jesse is asked to work at the aquarium as punishment for his offences, he and Willy form a budding friendship. But when the evil aquarium owner makes a plan to kill Willy, Jesse must risk everything to return his best friend back to the ocean. Watch Free Willy to join the unlikely pair in their adventures. Life of Pi Pi is the son of a zoo owner so he has grown up surrounded with animals. But when Pi’s family decides to move to Canada along with all their animals, Pi gets extra close to some of the animals. They’re all travelling on a ship when a storm rages and everyone on board drowns. Everyone, that is, except Pi who manages to get on a lifeboat along with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger nicknamed Richard Parker. As Pi and his travelling companions continue to be lost at sea, they must find a way to work together and be friends if they want to survive. Join Pi and his animal friends on his wonderful adventure at sea in Life of Pi.
Monkey Trouble Eva has been begging her parents to get her a pet, but she keeps getting turned down. Lucky for Eva, a sweet little monkey named Dodger comes barrelling into her life. She secretly keeps Dodger as her pet, and he becomes her closest friend. Imagine Eva’s surprise when it turns out that Dodger used to be the pet of a thief, and has been trained to rob and steal other people’s belongings. Can Eva teach Dodger to let go of his thieving ways or will his stealing get in the way of their friendship? Watch Monkey Trouble to find out.
Because of WinnDixie Opal is having a boring summer with her father in their sleepy little town. But things begin to look up when she walks into the Winn-Dixie supermarket and finds a big old dog there. Opal decides to adopt him and name him Winn-Dixie. Before Winn-Dixie’s arrival, Opal was quiet and lonely, never bothering to open up and make friends. But Winn-Dixie teaches Opal a lot about friendship and love. Read Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo and discover how important a pet can be for a little girl.
Chained Hastin is forced to leave his village in India and go work in a circus as an elephant keeper. He thinks it will be an adventure but the circus owner is cruel to the workers and animals alike. Hastin befriends Nandita, a sweet elephant that is treated badly. Together, Hastin and Nandita have to come up with an escape plan because that is the only way they can survive. Read Chained by Lynne Kelly to find out how the twosome escape the terrible circus.
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World’s oldest art It has been discovered that the oldest piece of human art is a series of Indonesian wall graffiti depicting human hands and stick-legged animals in motion. Sixty years ago, archaeologists found a series of paintings in 100 limestone caves in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. It was a great discovery, but scientists were sure that the paintings couldn’t have been older than 10,000 years. But now it has been confirmed that the paintings are so old that they are considered the oldest known specimens of art in the world. In fact, they are at least 39,900 years old, making them 2,000 years older than European cave paintings (which had previously been thought to be the oldest paintings). This scientific discovery is important because historians had previously thought that the ability to create art was something that only early Europeans had, but these Indonesian paintings show that humans in other places had been drawing and painting a long time before the Europeans. ATLANTIC.COM
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Monkeys are people too
Tommy is a 26-year-old pet chimpanzee. He lives behind a trailer park in New York, USA. His hobbies include watching cartoons. He is also the centre of a very curious legal battle in America. An animal rights group called the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) has submitted a lawsuit that wants Tommy to be recognised by law as a person. The case argues that Tommy has to live in a “small, dank, cement cage in a cavernous dark shed” and that he is all by himself all day. The NhRP considers this inhuman and therefore seeks to have Tommy be considered a person with rights. In New York, the law has previously awarded the status of legal personhood to pets. The group argues that science has established that chimpanzees are “autonomous, self-determined, self-aware, highly intelligent, emotionally complex” and therefore Tommy should be considered a person under law. BBC.CO.UK
Blood red moon Google Maps in the Sahara Google Maps is an internet mapping service that offers satellite imagery, street maps, and a 3D feature called Street View. Until now, the Street View has been restricted to viewing streets in cities and towns. But now, Google Maps has extended the Street View deep into the Sahara Desert. The trek (which you can view online) cuts a narrow path through the Liwa desert, 150 kilometres southwest of Abu Dhabi, winding through an endless stretch of sand dunes measuring upwards of 40 metres in height. You can even see a silhouette of Google’s camera mounted atop a camel’s back. “We hope this collection gives you a glimpse of what it may be like to travel the desert as caravan merchants have for the past 3000 years,” Google wrote in a statement. Now, thanks to Camel View, everyone can take a virtual trek across the biggest desert in the world. TIME.COM
Earlier this week, a total lunar eclipse was observed in several countries around the world, turning the moon a dusky orange before the rising sun obliterated the view. The lunar eclipse is also known as a blood moon and is the second total eclipse in a series of four that began in April and will end next September. Such consecutive total eclipses, known as a tetrad, are relatively rare. Only seven more will happen in this century. People in different cities got up before dawn to witness the eclipse. Witnessing an eclipse is exciting on its own, but total lunar eclipses are even more fascinating because they can shift the colour of the moon dramatically, from a light rusty orange to blood red or even black (hence the name ‘blood moon’). “It’s rare and an awesome spectacle to look at,” says Ben Burress, an astronomer at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California. A lunar eclipse happens when the moon passes behind Earth and into our planet’s shadow, with the sun, moon and Earth all on a straight alignment. The next lunar eclipse will occur in April 2015. NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM
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6 Did you know? Why was Pluto kicked out of the planet club? Pluto, a celestial snowball with a surface of methane ice 3.6 billion miles from the sun, was first discovered and classified as a planet in 1930. In 2006, however, the International Astronomical Union (the global organisation that decides whether celestial bodies are stars, planets or asteroids) declared that Pluto was not a planet. It was classified as a dwarf planet. To understand why Pluto’s planetary status was taken away, it is important to understand how planets are defined. The official definition of a planet is that it is a celestial body which is in orbit around the sun, which is round or nearly round, and which is not surrounded by objects of similar size and characteristics. While Pluto fulfilled the first two conditions, it failed on the third qualification. Due to greatly advancing technology, it was discovered later that Pluto had several other dwarf planets around it. Therefore, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet. People were really upset when they found out that Pluto was no longer a planet. It was the end of the mnemonic to remember the order of the planets — My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas — and we had a lovable Disney animal named after it. In fact, there were recently media reports that Pluto might become a planet again (that’s not true, according to official reports). But Pluto’s reclassification reflects what is so great about science — it is ever-changing and constantly evolving, correcting its own misconceptions as new data is collected. There was once a time when science thought the earth was flat, but new data disproved the theory. Similarly, as new information about the solar system emerges, it is only natural that some celestial bodies will be given new statuses.
How to say ‘happy birthday’ in different languages Afrikaans
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Gelukkige verjaardag
Basque
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Pozik urtebetetzea
Bosnian
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Srećan rođendan!
Catalan
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Feliç aniversari
Filipino
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Masaya kaarawan
French
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Joyeux anniversaire
Galician
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Feliz Aniversario
German
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Alles Gute zum Geburtstag
Italian
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Buon compleanno
Latin
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Gaudeamus Igitur
Spanish
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Feliz cumpleaños
Persian
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Toldat Mubarak
Cool facts Outer space is only an hour’s drive away if your car could drive straight up in the direction of the sky. The word ‘crisp’ starts at the back of your mouth and ends at the front. There is a jellyfish that can age in reverse, reverting to its earliest stage of life where it can restart its life-cycle and cheat death. One million earths could fit inside the sun. “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence, using three different definitions for the word ‘buffalo’. The computer used to guide the Apollo 11 moon mission was less powerful than a modern calculator. The atomic bomb was built 20 years before we had colour television. There are more combinations for a deck of playing cards than there have been seconds since the beginning of time. A blue whale’s heart is the size of a car.
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What to do: 1. Fill the zip-up bag halfway with water and seal it up. 2. Hold the bag over a sink and poke the pencils straight through the bag, from one side to the other. 3. When the pencil goes into the bag, the bag seems to magically seal itself around the pencil, and no water leaks out. 4. When you’re done, remove the pencils over a sink.
What is happening: Plastic bags are made out of polymers, which are chains of molecules that are flexible and give the bag its stretchiness. When the sharp pencil pokes through the bag, the stretchy plastic hugs around the pencil, creating a watertight seal around the pencil, and the bag doesn’t leak. TINKERLAB.COM
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Flour 2 cups Baking powder 4 tablespoons Caster sugar 2 tablespoons Cocoa powder (sifted) 2/3 cup Eggs, lightly beaten 2 Milk 1-1/2 cups Melted butter 1/4 cup
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2. Gradually whisk in the eggs and milk. Mix until you get a thick, smooth batter.
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3. Heat a frying pan over a medium flame and brush with melted butter.
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4. Scoop out 1/4 cup of the mixture into the pan. When bubbles form on the top, flip it over to cook the other side. 5. Keep in a warm place while you cook the rest of the batter. This recipe makes 12 pancakes. 6. Serve with vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, fresh strawberries and marshmallows. KIDSPOT.COM.AU
Remember kids, always get permission from your parents before you start. It’s always a good idea to have a helper nearby.