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Since the beginning of the world according to someone, the Earth’s surface is divided into many countries, and some of them are real giants like Russia, Canada, USA, China, Brazil and Australia. They occupy huge areas and stretch across the continents. The 10 largest ones are more or less known by everybody. But even […]
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According to Roger Ebert, Francois Truffaut’s “The Wild Child” is the story of a “wolf boy” who lived like an animal in the woods, and about the doctor who adopted him and tried to civilize him. The story is essentially true, drawn from an actual case in 18th Century France, and Truffaut tells it simply
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The Reach Cambridge Summer scholarship essay competition is designed for academically excellent high school students aged between 14 and 18 who would otherwise not be able to attend the School’s summer programmes. Please note that this scholarship competition is not for application to the University of Cambridge. Essay Topic: “What do you think your country could learn
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Without doubt, teachers are the best thing to happen to most of us. They are generally caring and nice. But then every now and then, there are always those particular spoilt eggs that simply just spoil the rest and make a mess. If you are currently a student or have been a student, you will
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If you happen to live in big cities like Lagos, Abuja or Enugu, you’d probably have come across teenagers who are bigger than their age. Some of them are simply just so big you would almost be tempted to think they are actually really grown. You see, a female friend of mine once recalled the
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There’s no better way to describe the camera than to call it the artificial representation of the human eye. This is so because the functionalities of the Camera are similar, if not the same as those of the human eye. But then this post is not about comparing the eye with the camera, but rather
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We all know about the Sun, that spherical ball of fire up in the sky which literarily never allows anyone look at it bare-eyed! The Sun is the ultimate star, located in the centre of the Solar System and radiating its heat across space. Often described as “a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma”, the
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What Are Hormones? They are types of chemical that the body uses to send a signal from one body part to another. A hormone might be made in the brain, released into the blood and travel to some distant organ, such as the kidney. When it reaches the kidney, this chemical will usually trigger some
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Imagine going to bed tonight as your calendar reads November 2, 2016; only to wake up the next morning and be told the new day is November 14, 2016! You invariably have lost 11 days!! Yet this was exactly what happened in Britain on September 2, 1752. Exactly what could have warranted this? Let’s take a
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Biology, SS 2 Week: 1 Topic: What is a Cell? Introduction – What is a Cell? The cell was discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665, who named the biological unit for its resemblance to cells inhabited by Christian monks in a monastery. Cell theory, first developed in 1839 by Matthias Jakob Schleiden and Theodor Schwann,
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