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When Started ? Part 1
Catagory: History
Author:Roger Bridgman
Posted Date:04/04/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Stone tools From 3,000,000 bc the main difference between ourselves and most other animals is that we use tools. The oldest known tools, found in Africa, were made more than two million years ago. They are simply lumps of stone that have been shattered with another stone to make a sharp edge for chopping meat or wood. The people who made them would also have made tools from wood, but none have survived. Use of fire From 1,400,000 bc People discovered the value of fire long before they found out how to make it. Fires can be started naturally by friction, lightning, or sunlight striking through a drop of water. The first people to use. Hand axe The best stone for tools was flint. This flint hand ax, from about 1000–5000 bc, was found in Saint Acheul,near Amiens, France. Mining From 40,000bc Early people made full use of everything around them, including rocks, which they used to make tools and to extract minerals. After a time, the good rocks on the surface were all used up, and people had to start digging to find what they wanted. The first mines were just shallow pits, but miners were eventually forced underground. One of the minerals they wanted was red ochre, which was used as a pigment for ritual purposes and for cave paintings. The oldest known underground mine was used for collecting red ochre. It is at Bomvu Ridge in Swaziland, Africa.


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The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Part 4
Catagory:Fiction
Author:Thousand Nights and One Night ( POWYS MATHERS)
Posted Date:04/03/2025
Posted By:utopia online

You will find the mother of my children a loving and attentive sister to you, and we shall live together in all tranquillity, talking over the merits of the dead.’ Having thus spoken, Ali Baba fell silent and waited for an answer, and in that moment Allah lighted the heart of the wicked woman, and purged it of its spite and pride. She understood Ali Baba’s goodness and generosity, and accepted his offer with a grateful heart; thanks to her marriage with this noble man, she became an excellent woman. Ali Baba, having thus prevented the woman from alarming the neighbourhood with her cries, left her to the care of his first wife and went down to find young Marjanah. He met her as she was returning from a visit in the town; for she had lost no time in concocting a plan and putting it into execution. She had gone to a neighbouring druggist and asked for a special theriac which is used for the cure of mortal ailments. The druggist had sold her the draught and asked her who was ill. She sighed, and answered: ‘Alas, alas, the red evil has stricken down my master’s brother, and he has been carried to our house for better attention. But we can do nothing for him; his face is quite yellow, he is dumb and blind, he is deaf and motionless. Our only hope is in your theriac, O sheikh.’ She carried the drug back and told Ali Baba briefly of her scheme, which he applauded with genuine admiration. At this point Shahrazad saw the approach of morning and discreetly fell silent. But when the eight-hundred-and-fifty-sixth night had come SHE SAID: Next morning Marjanah returned weeping to the druggist and asked for a certain electuary which is only used upon patients whose cases seem to be hopeless. ‘If this does not succeed,’ she mourned, ‘all is lost, all is lost!’ Also, as she departed with the electuary, she took care to spread the evil tidings among the folk of that quarter. Therefore the people were not surprised to be woken on the following morning by piercing and lamentable cries, and to be informed of the death of Kasim. Now Marjanah had said to herself: ‘It is not enough to make a violent death seem natural, my girl. You will have succeeded in nothing if you cannot hide the fact that the body has been cut into six parts.’ As soon, therefore, as she had played her part in the mock mourning, she walked to the shop of an old cobbler in a quarter of the city where she was quite unknown. She slipped a dinar into the cobbler’s hand, saying: ‘We have need of your great skill to-day, sheikh Mustafa.’ ‘You bring me a fortunate morning, O face of the moon,’ answered the gay and talkative old man. ‘Speak, dear mistress, and all shall be as you require.’ ‘You have only to collect what you need for sewing leather, and to follow me,’ said Marjanah, ‘but first it is necessary that I blindfold you, for that is a strict condition of the work.’ She bound a kerchief about his eyes, but he recoiled, saying: ‘Would you make me commit a crime or deny the Faith of my fathers for one poor dinar?’ So Marjanah soothed him with a second dinar, saying: ‘Your conscience may be clear, O sheikh. We only want you to do a little sewing.’This satisfied the cobbler and he allowed himself to be led along the streets and down into the cellar of Ali Baba's house. There Marjanah removed the bandage and showed him the six pieces of the body which she had set in order. Then she gave him a third gold coin, saying: ‘I wish you to sew the pieces of this body together; if you work quickly, you shall have a fourth dinar.’ This munificence decided the old man and, in a very short time, he had joined the unfortunate Kasim into one body. Marjanah gave him the rest of his wage, and led him back blindfolded to the door of his shop. Then she returned home, taking care that the old man did not spy upon her direction.When she reached the cellar again, she washed the reassembled body, perfumed it with incense, and smeared it with aromatic oil. Then she shrouded it, with Ali Baba’s help, and went forth to purchase a litter.For this she paid well, and insisted on carrying it to the house herself,so that no porter might spy upon her master and herself. The body was covered with thick shawls bought for the purpose, and then the Imam and other dignitaries of the mosque were invited to attend. Four neighbours took up the litter, the Imam headed the procession, the readers of the Koran went next, followed by Marjanah uttering lamentable cries and beating her breast, and Ali Baba with his friends brought up the rear. While the train went on and came to the cemetery, Ali Baba’s two wives mourned loudly in the house, and all the women of the quarter mourned with them. Thus Kasim was buried, and no one outside that household had a suspicion of the way in which he had met his death.When the forty thieves returned after a month to their cave, they found no sign at all of Kasim’s pieces or Kasim’s putrefaction. Their captain thought deeply over the matter, and then said: ‘My men, our secret is known; unless we wish to lose all the riches which our fathers collected with such noble labour and to which we ourselves have added so notably, we must find out the accomplice of the man we killed, and kill him also. The best way to do that will be for one of us, who is both brave and circumspect, to disguise himself as a darwish and enquire about the city until he hears some whisper concerning a man cut into six parts. As it is absolutely necessary that no word of our doings should leak out, it will be as well to pass sentence of death upon our messenger in the case of his unsuccess.’ But in spite of this threat one of the thieves volunteered for the duty, and was dismissed with praise and congratulation.He came to the city in the early morning and found all the shops shut save that of Mustafa, who stood at his door, awl in hand, and was already engaged upon the confection of a saffron leather slipper. The craftsman lifted his eyes and beheld a darwish watching his work with obvious admiration; he gave him good morning, and the holy man at once expressed surprise to see such excellent eyesight and such nimble fingers in so venerable a cobbler. The old man preened himself and answered: ‘Thanks to Allah, O darwish, I can still thread a needle at the first attempt, I can still sew together the six parts of a dead body in a dark cellar without a light.’ The robber nearly fainted for joy and sent up a silent prayer of thanks that he should have been led to his desire by so short a road. He feigned astonishment and cried: ‘The six parts of a dead body, O face of fair omen! What do you mean by that? Is it a custom in this country to cut the dead into six parts, and then sew them up again? Do they do it to find out what is inside?’ Cont…


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Come See the Babies
Catagory:News
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:04/03/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Incubators have been around since the late 1800s, originally just to warm babies, but then helping premature babies everywhere thrive. However, they haven’t always been in the same atmosphere you normally see them in. Because incubators were too expensive for most hospitals to have, Dr. Martin Couney, an innovative specialist in this area, turned them into an exhibit for the first time in 1903. That’s right, people would come and pay a fee to watch the babies. One incubator exhibit was a permanent fixture for decades at Coney Island, and others were added at Luna Park and Dreamland. While many were skeptical and Dr. Couney was hesitant to charge people money, it was something that attracted public interest, and it helped save the lives of over 6,000 babies. Bonuse  Your brain consumes 25 watts of power while you are awake. This amount of energy is enough to illuminate a lightbulb.  Some moths never eat anything as adults because they do not have mouths.They must live on the energy they stored as caterpillars.  It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.  A dentist invented the electric chair.


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Make somebody's day
Catagory:Reading
Author:Chandler, Steve.
Posted Date:04/03/2025
Posted By:utopia online

To basketball coach John Wooden, making each day your masterpiece was not just about selfish personal achievement. In his autobiography, They Call Me Coach, he mentions an element vital to creating each day. "You cannot live a perfect day," he said, "without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."I agree with that. But there's a way to make sure you can't be repaid and that's doing something for someone who won't even know who did it. This gets into a theory I've had all my life, that you can create luck in your life. Not from the idea that luck is needed for success, because it isn't. But from the idea that luck can be a welcome addition to your life.You can create luck for yourself by creating it for someone else. If you know about someone who is hurting financially, and you arrange for a few hundred dollars to arrive at their home, and they don't even know who you are, then you've made them lucky. By making someone lucky,something will then happen in your own life that also feels like pure luck. (I can't explain why this happens, and I have no scientific basis for it, so all I can say is try it a few times and see if you aren't as startled as I have been at the results...it doesn't have to be money, either. We have a lot of other things to give, always.) When you get lucky, you'll get more motivated, because you feel like the universe is more on your side. Experiment with this a little. Don't be imprisoned by cynicism posing as rationality on this subject. See what happens to you when you make other people get lucky.


Type:Technology
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Can you believe it?
Catagory:Facts
Author:Na zar Santoro and Matthew Shevchenko
Posted Date:04/02/2025
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 A female oyster produces 100 million young in her lifetime, the typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year, and it is possible for one female cat to be responsible for the birth of 20,736 kittens in four years. Michelle Duggar holds the record for largest human family, having given birth to 17 children.  Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour, making them one of the fastest insects. This is good since they are in a big hurry, as they only live about twenty-four hours.  750ml of blood pumps through your brain every minute, which is 15-20% of blood, flow from the heart.  Elephants have the longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom at 22 months.The longest human pregnancy on record is 17 months, 11 days.  Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.  A housefly will regurgitate its food and eat it again.  It is impossible to lick your elbow. Encyclopedia *** Jocks  "I'm the only guy I know who prefers big fat girls. But then again, I'm also the only cannibal I know." Cannibals  "I was approached by a member of Greenpeace in the street the other day and he told me that if I don't donate 2 a month then people in Africa will die. I can’t believe Greenpeace employ such violent people." Charity  "TV: So please, dig deep into your pockets and give generously... I would, but they're round my ankles at the minute." Charity


Type:Technology
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Penicillin and the Dodgy Fruit
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:04/02/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Penicillin has literally been a lifesaver since it was discovered back in the 19th century by Alexander Fleming. However, he does not deserve all of the credit for the discovery because he was actually coming up short with his attempts to study mold. He discovered it by accident, but the levels he was originally producing were insufficient for it to be of any use to anybody. Thankfully for him, along withthe rest of the world, his assistant inadvertently came to the rescue. One day, Mary Hunt brought a cantaloupe into the lab for no specific reason other than she had just picked it up from a shop. Upon cutting it open, Fleming saw that it was covered in a golden mold, and as a result of this examination, he discovered that it was a form of Penicillium that was able to produce over 200 times more penicillin than he had been able to do up until that point. In other words, the millions upon millions of people that have been saved due to penicillin can give thanks to Fleming as well as the shop that was guilty of selling that rotten cantaloupe. Quot “There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.” Jennifer Aniston actress “Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.” Bill Watterson cartoonist


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Celine Dion
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:04/02/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Celine Dion’s story proves that you never know where life will take you, even when you’re one of fourteen children from a poor family. Celine is one of the most popular singers the world has ever produced, and is a multi-million dollar contributor to charities. As the best-selling female pop singer of all time - with some 200 million albums sold - and one of the richest women in the world of entertainment, you might think that Celine Dion has had an easy life. In fact, along with the gold records and successful world tours, her life has had many challenges, both in her childhood and during the days of her superstardom. As the youngest of fourteen children in a poor Quebec family, Celine learned the value of a dollar from an early age. Her huge family provided her with love, encouragement, and a devotion to music, but all of the children had to pitch in to make ends meet financially. Beginning with a homemade audio tape she made at age twelve, her career as a singer and songwriter first blossomed in her native province. Celine then had to work hard to learn English and perfect her show-business skills before she could break into the broader world music market. In 1989, at the beginning of her career, Celine Dion nearly lost her famously powerful voice for good! She injured her voice box during a concert and was told she might need surgery to ever speak properly again. It took weeks of rest, therapy, and a new regimen of practice and technique before Dion regained her abilities. Ten years later, she was at the height of her popularity, with gold records in both English and French covering her walls. Songs like “My Heart Will Go On” (used in the hit movie Titanic) made her a global success. But, Dion had not been able to have the one thing she wanted most - a child. And then, her husband was diagnosed with cancer. Dion made the decision to take time off from her career. She focused on her family, nursing her husband back to health, and undergoing fertility treatments so that she could have a child. Her first child, a son, was born in 2001. She then successfully restarted her career, producing more albums and a series of sold-out shows in Las Vegas. Today, she still reigns as the biggest music star Canada has ever produced, and one of the most popular singers in world history. As a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations, and a multi-million dollar contributor to health and education charities, Celine Dion helps others overcome their life challenges. In 2010, she gave birth to twin boys.


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HOW ENTHUSIASM WILL AFFECT YOU?
Catagory:Reading
Author:NAPOLEON HILL(Law of Success)
Posted Date:04/02/2025
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Mix Enthusiasm with your work and it will not seem difficult or monotonous. Enthusiasm will so energize your entire body that you can get along with less than half the usual amount of sleep and at the same time it will enable you to perform two to three times as much work as you usually perform in a given period, without fatigue. For many years I have done most of my writing at night. One night, while I was enthusiastically working at my typewriter, I looked out the window of my study, just across the square from the Metropolitan tower in New York City, and saw what seemed to be the most peculiar reflection of the moon on the tower. It was a silvery gray shade, such as I had never seen before. Upon closer inspection I found that the reflection was that of the early morning sun and not that of the moon. It was daylight! I had been at work all night, but I was so engrossed in my work that the night had passed as though it were but an hour. I worked at my task all that day and all the following night without stopping, except for a small amount of light food. Two nights and one day without sleep, and with little food, without the slightest evidence of fatigue, would not have been possible had I not kept my body energized with Enthusiasm over the work at hand. Enthusiasm is not merely a figure of speech; it is a vital force that you can harness and use. Without Enthusiasm you would resemble an electric battery without electricity.Enthusiasm is the vital force with which you recharge your body and develop a dynamic personality. Some people are blessed with natural Enthusiasm, while others must acquire it. The procedure through which it may be developed is simple. It begins by doing work you like. If you cannot engage in the work that you like best, for the time being, then you can continue in another line very effectively by adopting a Definite Chief Aim that contemplates your engaging in your chosen work at some future time. Lack of money and other circumstances over which you have no control may force you to engage in work that you do not like, but no one can stop you from determining in your own mind what your Definite Chief Aim in life shall be. Nor can anyone stop you from planning ways and means for translating this aim into reality, and nor can anyone stop you from mixing Enthusiasm with your plans. Happiness, the final object of all human effort, is a state of mind that can be maintained only through the hope of future achievement. The happy person is the one who dreams of heights of achievement that are yet unattained. The home you intend to own, the money you intend to earn and place in the bank, the trip you intend to take when you can afford it, the position in life you intend to fill when you have prepared yourself, and the preparation itself-these are the things that produce happiness. Likewise, these are the materials out of which your Definite Chief Aim is formed, and these are the things over which you may become enthusiastic, no matter what your present station in life may be. More than twenty years ago I became enthusiastic over an idea. When the idea first took form in my mind, I was unprepared to take even the first step toward its transformation into reality. But I nursed it in my mind and I became enthusiastic as I looked ahead, in my Imagination,and saw the time when I would be prepared to make it a reality. The idea was this: I wanted to become the editor of a magazine, based on the Golden Rule, through which I could inspire people to keep up courage and deal with one another squarely. Finally my chance came, and on Armistice Day 1918, I wrote the first editorial for what was to become the material realization of a hope that had lain dormant in my mind for nearly twenty years. With Enthusiasm I poured into that editorial the emotions which I had been developing in my heart. My dream had come true-my editorship of a national magazine had become a reality.As I have said, this editorial was written with Enthusiasm. I took it to a man of my acquaintance, and with Enthusiasm I read it to him. The editorial ended in these words: "At last my twenty-year-old dream is about to come true. It takes money, and a lot of it, to publish a national magazine, and I haven't the slightest idea where I am going to get this essential factor, but this is worrying me not at all because I know I am going to get it somewhere!" As I wrote those lines, I mixed Enthusiasm and faith with them.I had hardly finished reading this editorial when the man to whom I read it-the first and only person to whom I had shown it-said: "I can tell you where you are going to get the money, for I am going to supply it:' And he did! Enthusiasm is a vital force; so vital, that until you have it highly developed you cannot even begin to imagine its potential power in the achievement of success. Before moving to the next step in this lesson, I wish to repeat and to emphasize the fact that you may develop Enthusiasm over your Definite Chief Aim in life whether you are in position to achieve that purpose at this time or not. You may be a long way from realization of your Definite Chief Aim, but if you will kindle the fire of Enthusiasm in your heart, and keep it burning, before very long the obstacles that now stand in the way of your attainment of that purpose will melt away as if by magic, and you will find yourself in possession of power that you did not know you possessed.


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