SUPER AMAZING WORLD

• The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist  who invented the Digit Zero.
• The World's first granite temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single 80-tone piece of granite.
• The game of snakes and ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. The ladders i the game represented virtues and the snakes were vices. Later the game underwent several modification but the meaning remained the same i.e. good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of rebirth.
• Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the European astronomers. His calculations were - time taken by earth to orbit the sun : 365.258756484 days.
• The entire species of Aldabra banded snail died out after warmer weather cut off the rainfall in its habitat!
• The pine beetle, which feed on pie trees spread through an area as big as Ireland, and killed off entire Canadian forest within a year! The beetles have been present in these forests for thousands of years, but their population was checked by the winter cold!
• If all of the ice in Antarctic melts, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 metres!
• More than half of the 110 known harlequin frog species have vanished due to climate change and global warming!
• Globally, the 1990s were the warmest decade and the year 1998 was the warmest year recorded since         1861.
• 14.6 million hectares of natural forest are lost each year - an area larger then England. This is a rate of 30 hectares every minutes!
• Because of rising temperatures, polar bears are waking up early from their winter slumber. When they are not able to hibernate, they become grouchy and increasingly aggressive.

AMAZING FACTS

There are many kinds of building around you-house, shops, schools, offices, hospitals and factories. There may also be a famous building. Many famous buildings are very old. Some are castles and forts. Some were built as places to worship gods. Others are monuments, built to celebrates a person or something that happened. On this page you can see some very different buildings. Some are old and some are fairly new. They 

come from all over the world. In the past it took many years to finish an importanat building. Today, with modrn machinesand methods, builders work much faster. 

STEP PYRAMID FROM ANCIENT EGYPT :

Parthenon, An Important Temple In Ancient Greece:

Eiffel Tower, Paris. Made of Iron Girders For An Exhibition In 1889:

 

A Japanese Pagoda:

 

Geodesic Dome Built For A World Fair In Montreal, Canada:

Woven Grass And Branches Make Cool, Movable Homes In Parts Of Africa:

Sydney Opera House, Australia, Opened in 1973:

Colosseum, A Sports Arena Built By The Ancient Romans:

The City Center of Brasilia, Brazil: