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Celebrating New Year? This can make it more Amazing!

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 ORIGIN There are two stories about the origin of New Year:-   1st story - New Year wasn’t always celebrated on 1st Jan. The earliest New Year celebrations date back to about 4,000 years ago. At that time, the people of ancient Babylon began their New Year in March. They had an 11-day celebration at the beginning of Spring as the crops were being planted for the upcoming year. 2nd story - New Year on 1st January was declared by Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor. He declared 1st Jan as a national holiday after the name of the god Janus, the Roman God of doors and gates. Janus had two faces one looking forward and the other looking back. FACTS 1.) North America - People celebrate New Year by gathering family and friends for parties. Sometimes, meals and spectacular firework displays are also on. 2.) Greece - a gold or silver coin is mixed in the cake called a Vasilopita. The person receiving the piece of cake with the coin is said to be lucky for the rest of the year. 3.) Spain ...
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HAVE YOU SEEN THESE UNSEEN DISCOVERIES?

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 1. THE DEATH RAY – NIKOLA TESLA The death ray or death beam was a theoretical particle beam or electromagnetic weapon first appeared around the 1920s and 1930s. At that time, notable inventors such as Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Harry Grindell Matthews, Edwin R. Scott, etc. were there. A military weapon that would shoot mercury particles at 48 times the speed of sound in a vacuum chamber and shoot a high velocity beam that could bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 250 miles. Tesla offered his beam to many governments, including U.S.A., but the only country which showed interest was the Soviet Union which conducted a test in 1939. 2. THOUGHT CAMERA – NIKOLA TESLA Tesla believed that it could be possible to photograph thoughts. The inventor thought of reflecting an image on an artificial retina, taking a picture and projecting it on a screen. In this way every thought of the person could be read. Then our minds would be like, open books. 3. BARRELED CA...
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