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  • Most of Africa’s rural peoples use natural resources that are locally available
    for their homes. In grasslands, people typically use grass to cover the walls and
    roofs. In forested areas, they use hardwoods as well as bamboo and raffia palm.
    Earth and clay are also major resources used in construction. In areas with few
    natural resources, people often live as nomads, moving from place to place.
    Instead of making permanent homes, they usually use simple shelters or tents
    made of animal skins and woven hair.
  • An architect must consider how a structure will be used and by whom. An
    apartment building, a palace, a hospital, a museum, an airport, and a sports
    arena all have different construction requirements. Another factor is the ideas
    the structure should communicate. For example, some buildings are made to
    impress people with a display of power and wealth; others – to make everyone
    feel welcome. Other things to consider are the location and surrounding
    environment, including weather, and the cost of materials.
  • Did you know that an eleven-year-old child first created the Popsicle? The
    boy’s name was Frank Epperson. In 1905, Frank left a mixture of water and
    powdered soda out on his porch by mistake. It also contained a stir stick. That
    night, fortunately for Frank, the temperatures fell to a record low. As a result,
    he discovered the substance had frozen to the stick, and a frozen fruit flavoured
    ice treat was created. He decided to call it the epsicle, which was later patented
    by him and named as Popsicle.
  • As Earth goes around the sun, the North Pole points to the same direction in
    space. For about six months every year, the North Pole is tilted towards the
    sun. During this time, the Northern Hemisphere gets more direct sunlight than
    the Southern Hemisphere and more hours of daylight. During the other six
    months, the North Pole is tilted away from the sun. When the Northern
    Hemisphere gets the most sunlight, it experiences spring and summer. At the
    same time, the Southern Hemisphere gets autumn and winter.
  • In southern Peru, there is an isolated plateau where the wind almost never
    blows. Here, around the year 400 to 650 AD, the people of the Nazca culture
    created the famous Nazca lines, by removing the red stones covering the
    ground so that the white earth beneath was visible. These Nazca lines are
    actually portraits of animals such as monkeys, birds or fish. It is a mystery how
    such a primitive civilization could create such artwork with precision when
    they had no means of viewing their work from the air.
  • Antarctica, which is the southernmost and fifth largest continent, does not have
    twenty-four-hour periods divided into days and nights. In the South Pole, the
    sun rises on about September 21 and moves in a circular path until it sets on
    about March 22. This “day”, or summer, is six months long. During this period,
    if the weather conditions are good, the sun can be seen twenty-four hours
    a day. From March 22 until September 21, the South Pole is dark, and
    Antarctica has its “night”, or winter.
  • Any ship that hits an iceberg can be damaged. The most famous iceberg in
    history sank the “Titanic”, a ship travelling in the northern Atlantic Ocean, on
    April 15, 1912. The ship’s side scraped the iceberg, which tore holes in the
    hull. Within three hours, the ship was at the bottom of the ocean. After the loss
    of the “Titanic”, several nations worked together to establish the International
    Ice Patrol. Today the U.S. Coast Guard runs the patrol, which warns ships
    about icebergs floating in Atlantic shipping routes.
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  • Building materials
  • Designing a building
  • Invented by accident
  • Why seasons change
  • How did they do it?
  • The longest on Earth
  • Safe travel