The philosopher George Santayana from Spain, defined fanaticism as “redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim”. This means that the person has misplaced his devotion and no one can persuade him that it is wrong. Another philosopher Tõnu…
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The Game of Football
Over the next few weeks the Football World Cup is being played in Qatar. An estimated 1.2 million football fans from across the world will travel to Qatar to watch the matches live. A further 5 billion worldwide are expected…
The Importance of the Heart
The body is made up of many different organs, that together allow humans to live, although the heart is the most important organ. The heart is the main organ of the cardiovascular system, a network of blood vessels that constantly…
The Pulling Down of Strongholds
The Himalaya mountain range acts as one of the best natural barriers possible between one country and its neighbour. Nevertheless not all countries have such a superior barrier and so some build their own. One of the most infamous was…
Quilting
Quilting is believed to be more than five millennia and takes on various forms in many different cultures. Examples of quilting have been found in tombs of the Pharaohs dating back to 3400BC. It is believed that Joseph’s coat of…
The Influence of One Good Man
Many men want to influence the world, at present in England they are voting again for a new prime minister as the last one only lasted 45 days, making her the shortest serving prime minister in the history of the…
The Sun
The sun is the most important celestial body in our solar system. Its radius is about 695,000 kilometers with a diameter of around 1.39 million kilometers. This is 109 times greater than that of Earth. Its mass is about 330,000…
Humpty Dumpy
As with many nursery rhymes over the years their meaning and story behind them change with the changing society. One such rhyme is Humpty Dumpy. The 20th century rhyme states “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a…
Buddhism in the United States of America
Mr. Kishore Sherchand, Ph.D. My humble perception is that there exist limited publications or discourses in the current media about the Western Buddhism explained by Nepalese scholars. I am prompted to write something from what I have observed and learned…
He’s Clean
James Lewis Kraft was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor back in the early 1920s. He was the first to patent processed cheese and was one of the founding brothers of the Kraft company. One day a friend of James Kraft…