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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

What is the importance of Plants in life’s framework?

It is only when we stop to think that we realize the importance of land plants to us. We eat them in our cereals and vegetables, we make use of them for fibers like cotton, we depend on them for many drugs such as penicillin. But even when we eat meat, we must remember that the animals which produce the meat probably lived on Plants.

Plants are nature’s producers. From sunlight, oxygen, and other foods from the soil, plants manufacture the foods upon which all animals ultimately depend. It is worth noting that it was with the rise of land plants in the Devonian, that land animals also began to evolve.

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Saturday, December 8, 2007

What is the largest freshwater fish in the world?

The Arapaima from South America is generally thought to be one of the largest freshwater fishes in the world. The biggest one found is said to have been 15 feet in length with a weight of over 400pounds. Most are between 7 and 8 feet long with a weight of 200 pounds, but even this is a colossal size for a fresh water fish.

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Friday, November 9, 2007

Spy Cameras

Different types of spy cameras

1. Wireless spy cameras
2. Night vision spy cameras
3. Hidden cameras to caught the thief
4. Motion activated spy cameras
5. Peep hole spy cameras

Wireless spy cameras are the most selling spy cameras in the world. It is very convenient due to lack of cables. We can place this spy cameras inside the shelf , on ceiling, inside the toys etc.

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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Who was the French Forest Ranger famous for his fables?

His name was Jean de la Fontaine. His father was the ranger of the forest of the duchy of Chateau-Thierry in champagne, Jean was born there July 8, 1621, and educated at first for the Church. He turned, however to the law but abandoned this on succeeding to his father’s ranger ship in 1647.

He married the same year but soon separated from his wife and he must have de3cided that forest ranging was not for him for its is known that form 1660 he lived in Paris. He began to write verses and translated some the minor classics.

In 1668 his first six books of animal fables were published. In wonderfully easy verse, they rate high among the glories of French Literature. In them Fontaine demonstrated a deep knowledge of nature, gained probably from the days when he roamed the forest Chateau-Thierry as a ranger.

A second series of fables appeared in 1679 and a third in 1693. They are today still read extensively throughout the world.

Jean de la Fontaine died in Paris April13, 1695.

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