SRIRAM SITTING IN CENTER OF A RIVER

Hi all
look at this photo of me sitting in the center of a river.

A POEM OF THE BREEZE

                                       A POEM OF THE BREEZE


                                                    I was sitting under a tree
             
                                            When a cool breeze swept past me

                             When i went inside my house and sat in my cozy chair

       I could still see the picture of the chill breeze sweeping past me among the trees.




                                                                             G.SRIRAM TANTRI
                

                    LUIGI ALOISIO GALVANI

During the 1780's Italian physicist  Luigi Galvani discovered that a dead frog's leg would twitch whenever it was hung from a iron hook and it's nerves were touched by a copper hook. galvani had also observed the same effect when frogs legs were shocked by a spark of static electricity. He believed that "animal electricity" from the muscles was causing the legs to twitch.


SMALL FACTS ABOUT LUIGI

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2. Luigi Aloisio Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who discovered the animal electricity and he is recognized as the pioneer of the bioelectromagnetics.

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A POEM OF GARDEN

GARDEN

Beautiful grains of sand

Beautiful stars in the sky,

                                      Beautiful birds that fly.

Beautiful blades of grass,

Thousands of pretty flowers,

Very beautiful trees.

-G.SRIRAM TANTRI Std.V,

SRIRAM DRAWINGS

RIO DE JANEIRO

7/7/2014 

RIO  DE  JANEIRO


If you like parties, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil has the biggest of them all. It is called Carnival and takes place in February or March each year.

CARNIVAL

The highlight of the Carnival is the colorful parade. Thousands of people, dressed in elaborate costumes which are often decorated with feathers, sequins, mirrors, or metal, dance to samba music. As soon as the party is over, many people start making costumes for the next Carnival.

FACTS

Rio de Janeiro means "River of January." The Portuguese explorers who named it arrived in January 1502. Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Brazil until 1960, when a new city, Brasilia, was given that honor. Carnival takes place just before Lent, when Christians often give up certain foods. The people want to have a good time first. On New Year's Eve people throw gifts into the sea. They hope the Sea Goddess will bring them luck for the next year.

RIO'S BEACHES

Rio has a 30 mile coastline and many beautiful beaches. The most famous of these is Copacabana. Football, volleyball, and surfing are popular pastimes on this 21/2-mile stretch of white sand.

RIO'S FAMOUS STATUE

Rio's most famous landmark is the statue of Jesus Christ, which overlooks the city from the top of Corcovado mountain. The 130-foot- high statue, called Christ the Redeemer, was built in 1931. The local people like to think the statue's outstretched arms are embracing and protecting the city.

THE MARACANA

The Maracana is one of the largest and most famous stadiums in the world. Over 180,000 people once watched a football match there. now it is an all Seater stadium holding 95,000. Pop concerts take place there as well as sporting events.

MOUNT FUJI

MOUNT FUJI


Mount Fuji's famous cone shape and snow-capped peak make it one of the world's most recognizable mountains. It is also sacred to the Japanese people.

A volcanic country

Mount Fuji rises 12,388 feet above Honshu, the largest of Japan's islands. It is the highest of the country's 186 volcanoes, and one of around 60 that are still active. When Mount Fuji last erupted, in 1707, ash covered the city of Tokyo 62 miles away. There is a post office at the summit of Mount Fuji Letters posted from here carry the postmark "Japan's highest point.' Around 300,000 people climb Mount Fuji every year. It was against the law for women to climb Mount Fuji until 1872.

The crater

The crater at the top of Mount Fuji is covered in snow for eight months of the year. Many climbers walk around the top of the crater, which is about 2,000 feet across. Mount Fuji actually consists of three separate volcanoes. These have erupted over a period of hundreds of thousands of years, changing the shape of the mountain dramatically. The mountain we see today was formed when the three volcanoes erupted around 10,000 years ago. In 2006 Shigeyoshi Sasaki set a new record by climbing Mount Fuji 121 times in one year.

Pilgrims

Thousands of torch- carrying climbers head for the summit of Mount Fuji in time to see the spectacular sunrise. At the summit there is a shrine to the goddess Konohana-sakuya, known as the Blossom Princess. According to legend, this beautiful princess didn't grow old, so she rode to the top of Mount Fuji on a white horse and ascended to Heaven.