Andrés Escobar was a Colombian footballer. He was a defender. In the 1994 FIFA World Cup match against the USA, he inadvertently scored an own goal. Columbia lost to the USA 1-2. After ten days he was killed by 12 bullets fired at him by three gunmen in Medellín, Columbia. It is believed that he was killed…
The black rhino is not actually black but grey or brown. It has a hook-shaped lip. The white rhino has a square lip. Both species of rhinos are found in Africa and have two horns. The black rhino is a near-extinct species.
The diamond is the hardest substance known, and therefore unbreakable. The word ‘diamond’ is derived from adamas, a Greek word which means ‘unconquerable’. The word adamas was altered to the Latin and early French word diamant and to the English word ‘diamond’.
Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft. He is a billionaire. In 1975 he dropped out of Harvard University in his second year when he was nineteen. ‘When I dropped out,’ Gates said, ‘I told my dad I’d be back.’
Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world. It has 31 lakes covering more than 1,300 square kilometres (500 square miles) in area. The largest among these lakes are Great Bear, Great Slave, Dubawnt and Baker. St. Lawrence, Ottawa and Saguenay are some of the great rivers of Canada.
The word ‘vaccine’ is derived from the Latin word vacca meaning cow. A vaccine is prepared from killed microbes or other substances that resemble the activity of the organisms that are known to cause the disease. English physician and scientist Edward Jenner established the system of vaccination. He used the vaccination material extracted from virus of…
