“Teachers open the doors, but you must enter yourself.”
- Margaret Mead
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music.”
- Aldous Huxley
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Spotlight:
1980 - The eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington marked one of the largest volcanic eruptions in North American history.
Birthdays:
1) 1868 - Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia.
2) 1872 - Bertrand Russell, renowned British philosopher and mathematician.
3) 1920 - John Paul II, Pope of the Catholic Church.
4) 1933 - H.D. Deve Gowda, Indian politician.
5) 1946 - Andreas Katsulas, American actor.
6) 1971 - Rekha, Indian actress.
7) 1988 - Zain Imam, Indian actor.
Events in History:
1) 1642 - Paul de Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve founded Montreal.
2) 1860 - Abraham Lincoln became the Republic candidate for the U.S. presidency.
3) 1883 - Walter Gropius, an influential german architect and educator, was born in Berlin.
4) 1896 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case provided that the provided segregated facilities were equal for all.
5) 1899 - The first of many international conferences that eventually led to the birth of the Hague Convention was held in Hague, Netherlands.
6) 1940 - Brussels fell to the invading German army during WWII.
7) 1953 - Jacqueline Cochran, an American pilot, became the first woman to break the sound barrier.
8) 1974 - The first nuclear bomb test by India was conducted in Pokhran, Rajasthan.
9) 1912 - The first Indian film, Shree Pudalik, was released.
10) 2012 - Facebook held its Initial Public Offering(IPO) and managed to raise $16 billion USD.
11) 2017 - Roger Ailes, the CEO of Fox News and an influential Republican, died, aged 77.
Nisha ThapaAda Lovelace - the Mathematician daughter of a Poet!
Ada Lovelace was a talented mathematician and the only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron. Lord Byron is a world famous poet but as a father he was absent from Ada’s life. However, being a girl child abandoned by her father, she faced a lot of difficulties in her childhood. Later, she came in contact with great scientists like Charles Babbage and made significant contributions in creating the model of computers. Read more to find out how she did that…
Before she was born, Lord Byron expected a ‘glorious boy’ to come to this world and hold on to his legacy in poetry. So, when Ada was born a girl, Lord Byron was very disappointed. In Fact he was so disappointed by the birth of a daughter that he left his wife and made no attempt to claim his parental right. Lady Byron was so furious with Lord Byron’s conduct that she did not reveal the identity of her father to Ada before her 20th Birthday.
Lovelace was a sickly child, and her mother was too bitter to her. The shock of her husband leaving her made her dislike her own child. Due to her mother’s ignorance towards her, Ada suffered from various diseases and took a lot of time to recover. She was so weak and sickly that she required crutches to walk. In spite of that, she was a very intelligent child who developed her mathematical and technological skills at a very early age.
From the age of seventeen, Ada’s mathematical genius began to grow. Her mother was so desperate to restrict Ada from taking up interest in poetry and arts, that she began homeschooling her in mathematics and science. Later, because of her scientific training, Ada was able to modify Babbage’s model of computer.
Charles Babbage wanted to design a model of a machine for only calculating purposes. But it was Ada who suggested that it should also have the ability to analyze data. Without this significant contribution, we would not have had computers to make our life easy. She even assisted Babbage with his invention for a year. In Fact she was such a genius that she wrote the first algorithm for the Analytical Engine of Computers.
However, apart from that Ada worked on her theory of “a calculus of the nervous system”. It is a different matter that she could never achieve it. Lovelace died very early, at the age of 36 in 1852.
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Take paper, scissors and all that you can gather from scratch at your home, and make a real-like toy to play with. It can be a puppet, a card-board car or a battery operated helicopter. Summer is the time to get creative.
On a daily basis, do you try to improve yourself and get smarter? How?
Beware! Fake CBSE Board exam 2020 date sheet being circulated on social media. HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ took it to twitter yesterday, i.e. May 17, 2020, that the revised date-sheet for pending CBSE Board exams 2020 will be out on 17 May. CBSE released the date-sheet for class 10 and class 12 today at 5 pm. Students who have been waiting for the date-sheet are requested to visit CBSE’s official website i.e. cbse.nic.in to check and download their respective date-sheet.
CBSE has decided to prepare a question bank for classes 9 to 12.
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The UN-Habitat Programme is an organization that works on urban planning and promotes urbanization as a method to ameliorate poverty, inequality, and discrimination. The organization works with its partners to build sustainable, safe, and resilient urban environments and communities.
The UN-Habitat operates in over ninety countries and employs a holistic approach to promote urbanization and provide sound technical knowledge to do the same. The programme saw its inception after the General Assembly resolution 3327.
The key areas that the UN-Habitat works on are -
a) Urban Planning and design
b) Urban Economy
c) Urban legislation
d) Improving the quality of life in slums
e) Promoting the establishment of basic urban services
f) Urban research
g) Rehabilitation
In addition to these key areas, the organization also aims to fulfil other internationally agreed-upon goals like significantly improving the quality of lives of slum dwellers by 2020, and halving the number of people without access to clean water by 2015. Aside from that, the recently adopted 2020-2023 strategic plan aims to employ a much more integrated and more efficient approach towards solving the challenges in the fields of urbanization and urban development in the 21st century.
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a) Think: Using the power of modern-day technologies to carry out extensive research, monitor progress, and improve build capacity to develop a set of standards that can act as guidelines. Ergo, this embodies the UN-Habitat’s normative work.
b) Do: This embodies the UN-Habitat’s operational work by which it uses its superior technical knowledge and expertise to provide customized support to the countries.
c) Share: The UN-Habitat constantly tries to spread the advantages of urbanization and urban development by means of advocacy and communication. It also encourages and supports countries to bring about qualitative changes in national development plans, develop robust policy frameworks, etc.
d) Partner: The UN-Habitat partners with governments of various countries, intergovernmental agencies, NGOs, academic institutions, and civil organizations to bring about discernible improvements in urban development.
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In these troubles we have today
I have something to say
Maybe these days feel long
As a country we have to stand strong
Lockdown everywhere, everyone at home
There is no place to roam
Markets are shut
Big lock on Pizza Hut
No movie theatres to go
But the courage is not low
We will fight together
But don’t keep any get-together
Don’t come out. Please, please
Unless you have some urgent needs
Animals and birds are wandering out
We are having our classes on Hangout
Don’t panic. Be at home
STAY SAFE, STAY HOME
The greatest thing parents can give their children is to talk to them about family roots. Parents with a high self-esteem breed confidence in their children through their love and care. Children who are brought up in a loving and disciplined environment, grow up to respect their elders more. More than physical comfort, a child needs love and care from his or her parents.
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