The Express Tribune hi five - October 20

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Superheroes You cannot lift a car or jump off building and you shouldn’t try to either, but superheroes can.

Superheroes are gifted with natural powers which give them strength and ability to do such things but all we can do is wear their costumes and pretend to be like our favourite superheroes. Come let’s take a closer look at some of the most popular superheroes.

Superman Superman is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by DC Comics, and is widely considered an American cultural icon. Superman helped to create the superhero genre (type) and establish its primacy within the American comic book.

Superpowers: Superman possesses extraordinary powers, with the character traditionally described as ‘faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a car engine, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound’, a phrase coined by Jay Morton. Superman’s famous powers include flight, strength, superspeed, extraordinary vision and hearing, intelligence and the ability to blow out air at freezing temperatures, as well as high-speed winds.

Costume: Superman’s appearance is distinctive (different) and iconic. He usually wears a blue costume, red cape, and stylized redand-yellow “S” shield on his chest.

Superhero A superhero is a type of character possessing extraordinary powers which allow them to do things such as lift cars and climb buildings with ease.

Superheroes use their superpowers to protect the public. Superman was the first superhero and after his creation in 1937, many superhero characters have followed. However, by most definitions, characters do not require actual superhuman powers to be considered superheroes. For example, Batman has no natural powers but still shares superhero traits and is therefore considered a superhero.

Batman Batman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.

Superpowers: Batman has no natural superhuman powers. He relies on his own scientific knowledge, detective and athletic skills.

Batman is an expert in interrogation techniques and would often use law enforcement methods as well as torture. Batman has the ability to function while tolerating massive amounts of physical pain and can withstand mind control. He is also skilled in spying, thus allowing him to hide in unexpected places. However, Batman’s most defining characteristic is his strong commitment to justice and his unwillingness to take life, regardless of the situations he has faced.

Costume: Batman’s costume is similar to the imagery of a bat in order to frighten criminals. The details of the Batman costume has changed repeatedly through various stories and movies, but the most unique elements remain the same: a cape, a cowl covering most of the face featuring a pair of bat like ears, a stylized bat emblem (badge) on the chest and the ever-present utility belt. The costume protects him from gunfire and other significant impacts.

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Power puff girls The Powerpuff Girls is an American animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken and produced

by Cartoon Network Studios for Cartoon Network.

Costumes: All three girls have oval-shaped heads, large eyes, short arms and legs and lack noses, ears, fingers and necks. They wear dresses that match the colors of their eyes with black stripes, as well as white stockings and black Mary Janes (shoes).

Superpowers: Blossom’s personality ingredient is ‘everything nice’, her signature colour is pink, and she has long red hair with a red bow. Her unique power is freezing objects with her breath.

Bubbles is the cute and sensitive one. Her personality ingredient is sugar, her signature colour is blue, and she has short blonde hair in two pigtails. Bubbles is seen as kind and very sweet but she is also capable of extreme rage and can fight monsters just as well as her sisters can. She exhibits the ability to understand foreign languages such as Spanish and communicate with various animals (squirrels, cats, monsters). Her unique power is emitting supersonic waves with her voice. Buttercup is the toughest of the three. Her personality ingredient is spice, her signature colour is green and she has short black hair. She is a tomboy, who loves to get dirty, fights hard, and plays rough. She does not plan and is all action. Buttercup is the only Powerpuff Girl without a unique super power.

Chota Jutt Inspired by Lollywood movies from the 70s and Japanese Anime (animated productions), Chota Jatt tells the story of the legend behind the man who inspired an entire movie genre (Maula Jatt), and highlights Pakistan’s rich culture. The character Chota Jatt who uses his strength to fight for justice and battle against corruption is a Pakistani superhero.

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Spiderman Spider Man is a fictional character, a comic book superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Spider Man is one of the most popular and successful superheroes.

Superpower: Spider Man’s creators gave him super strength and flexibility - the ability to cling to most surfaces, shoot spiderwebs using wrist-mounted devices of his own invention which he called ‘web-shooters’, and react to danger quickly with his ‘spidersense’, enabling him to fight his enemies. Gifted with a brilliant mind, Parker (Spider Man) excels in applied science, chemistry, and physics.

Costume: With his talents, he stitches his own costume to conceal his identity and constructs many devices that complement his powers, most notably mechanical web-shooters.

This mechanism ejects an advanced glue, releasing web-fluid in a variety of ways, including a single rope-like strand to swing from, a net to bind enemies and a simple glob to foul machinery or blind an opponent. He can also weave the web material into simple forms like a shield or a hang-glider wing. Other equipment include spider-tracers, a light beacon which can either be used as a flashlight or project a ‘Spider-Signal’ design and a specially modified camera that can take pictures automatically.

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Activity

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Batman Mask Step 1

Supplies needed: •Black Card Sheet •Pencil •Scissor •Cutter •Punching machine •Rubber bands

Take a black card sheet and draw a sketch of Batman’s mask with the help of a pencil. You can also use any stencil for your mask.

Step 2 Use a scissor to cut the mask as shown.

Step 3

Now take the cutter and cut out the eye patch of your mask.

Using punching machine make the holes on the two corners of the mask.

Step 5

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Log onto Toffeetv.com and check out the Activities section!!

Now pass a rubber band through the holes and tie a knot.

Step 4

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

Too restless to be lion around One-month-old Karis was being weighed at Blair Drummond Safari Park, near Stirling in Scotland yesterday, when she became popular on newspapers and the safari park with her tricks. The little lion was described by park manager Gary Gilmour as ‘a real handful’ as she is playful and entertains visitors by doing tricks and flashing her tiny teeth. The 11lb baby African lion was born on September 10 to mother Teekay and father Dudley. She has a big sister called Libby, who is two, and she will stay with her mother until she is 12 weeks old when they can both be returned to the rest of their pride. Her birth takes the pride to a total of eight lions at the safari park and a lot of entertainment. The park manager claims that she is very active and intelligent for her age. METRO.CO.UK

Love bugs Falling in love is widely used as a metaphor but photographer Monica Monica Anantyowati, 41, captured stunning photos as she spotted two caterpillars in Malang, Indonesia literally falling in love. Resting on the edge of a flower, the caterpillars appear so captivated by each other that they don’t even notice themselves slowly falling off the edge. As they continue to stare adoringly at each other, they tumble off the flower petal, with legs still entwined. She captured this moment to show that falling in love is real. METRO.CO.UK

World wide weird

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Mr and Mrs Goat

A ‘billy goat’ in Taxila has become a local crowd-puller after it started producing milk. The owner, auto mechanic Raja Jamshed, had bought the goat for Rs26,000 to sacrifice on Eid ul Azha. He did not initially notice the unique characteristics of the animal. In fact, he only learnt of this when a local jeweller, Ijaz Ahmed Khan, visited his shop on Museum Road in Taxila.

The goat also does not eat grass or coarse food, and only accepts fruit, including apples, grapes and pomegranates. Jamshed, who feeds the goat around five kilos of fruit every day, says that when he bought the goat and offered it fodder and grass, it refused to eat and started losing weight.

Finally, he bought fruit, which the goat ate happily.

Although rare, many male mammals have been reported to produce milk, with documented cases of male animals feeding their offspring when the mother or another suitable female was not available. The rarity though has caused a stir. TRIBUNE.COM.PK

Caught red-pawed An adorable kitten with a fondness for stealing pizza was caught red-pawed last week when her owner, Chris Drago, shot a short video of the wideeyed cat clinging to a stolen slice. Baby Girl, a 6-month-old rescue, had snatched the slice away from Drago’s wife, who had momentarily turned her back on the pie. “She flew up, grabbed the pizza and ran off, pizza in mouth,” Drago explained in an email to Yahoo News. “My wife ran to try to grab the pizza out of her mouth and [Baby Girl] went crazy. Our normally sweet cat lunged at my wife with her claws while maintaining a death grip on the pizza, all while growling.” That’s when Drago grabbed his cellphone to record the footage. The Myrtle Beach, SC, couple eventually managed to remove the slice from Baby Girl’s claws. “If you’re not watching your food or turn your back she will jump up and take it before you realize it,” Drago wrote of the unlikely pizza predator. “If you or another cat come after her she growls and hisses.” Baby Girl is a pizza thief. Drago added: “She’s harmless and wouldn’t hurt you, and she’s adorable when she does it.” The cat only wants to eat pizza and means no harm. NEWS.YAHOO.COM

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Did you know?

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Word Origins Paperclip Have you ever wondered why paperclips are called such and who invented them? Well, ‘clip’, comes from the Old English word ‘clyppan’ and means: to embrace. This combined with ‘paper’ from the Latin ‘papyrus’ (made from papyrus stalks), gave birth to the word paperclip. Interestingly, the common style of paperclip today was never licensed and was known as the ‘Gem paperclip’. Not surprisingly, it is thought to have first been manufactured by the Gem Manufacturing Company around the 1870s and later introduced to the United States around the 1890s. This is also why the Swedish word for paperclip is ‘gem’. One very popular false origin of the paperclip was that it was invented by Norwegian patent office manager, Johan Vaaler. He was even granted licences in Germany and the U.S. for a paperclip of similar design as the Gem style paperclip, but his design was slightly different as it didn’t include the all too critical second loop that makes the Gem style, much more functional. Thus, although Vaaler gets the credit in so many places, including in many encyclopedias and dictionaries after the 1950s, it is largely thanks to a patent (license) agency worker who was visiting Germany to register Norwegian patents in the 1920s. When he was doing so, he noticed Vaaler’s design for the paperclip and wrote an article stating Vaaler was the original creator of the paperclip though it was not the case.

How to say ‘children’ in different languages Catalan Croatian Czech Ducth Filipino Finnish French German Hiatian-creole Italian Malay Norwegian Polish Portugese Romanian Spanish Turkish

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Nens Djeca Deti Kinderen Mga bata Lapset Enfants Kinder Timoun yo Bambini Kanak-kanak Barn Dzieci Criancas Copii Ninos Cockuklar

Cool facts Houseflies have a lifespan of 14 days.

Ostriches can run faster than horses.

Bats are the only mammals that can fly.

Kangaroos use their tails for balance, so if you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop.

On average, there are 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.

Tigers not only have stripes on their fur, they also have them on their skin.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Elephants can smell water up to three miles away.

Koala bears eat only eucalyptus leaves and nothing else.

Beavers’ teeth never stop growing.

There are one million ants for every human in the world.

SOURCE: LIST25.COM

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Fun & games

Crossword

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. Butterflies have --------- compound eyes consisting of thousands of lenses, yet they can only see the colors red, green and yellow.

4. ---------- bears eat only eucalyptus leaves and nothing else.

8. Houseflies have a ----------- of 14 days.

9. ------------ was the first superhero and after his creation in 1937 many superhero characters have followed.

11. Ostriches can run ----------- than horses.

12. ------------ has no natural powers but still shares superhero traits and is therefore considered a superhero.

Down 1.

Spider Man is one of the most -------------- and successful superheroes.

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On average, there are 50,000 spiders per acre in -------- areas.

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Kangaroos use their -------- for balance, so if you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop.

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The Power puff girls wear dresses that match the colors of their --------- with black stripes, as well as white stockings and black Mary Janes (shoes).

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A ------------ is a type of character possessing extraordinary powers which allow them to do things such as lift cars and climb buildings with ease.

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------------- can smell water up to three miles away.

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Tigers not only have stripes on their fur, they also have them on their ------------.

10. A ---------- has 32 muscles in each ear.

11. Bats are the only mammals that can ---------.

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Books and Movies

by Faiza Rehman

Topi drama Is the ‘cap’ a type of hat? Or is the ‘hat’ a type of cap? This is where English makes you want to pull your hair. Now, if we were to talk in Urdu, both the cap and the hat would be a topi and life would be much, much simpler.

Apart from the cap and the hat, the fez, the helmet, the beret, the mortar board – all have been united in language. They are all ‘topis’.

To honour the many ‘topis’ that top our heads, the BookGroup has put together a poetry book titled Kis ki topi; kaisi topi, complete with illustrations of each of the several types of caps (or hats) under discussion.

The poem will make you want to sing at the top of the voice. And you will stare in delight at the funny pictures of the many topis in the book.

Do you have a favourite book that was made into a movie?

Send an email about it to Faiza at hifive@tribune.com.pk

Colour it..!