Questions And Their Answers
IS A POTATO A VEGETABLE OR A TUBER? Both. Vegetable is strictly a term for any member of the plant kingdom, but in common use it means a part of a plant, leaves, root, or stalk, which we cook and eat as a savoury dish. The potatoes we cook are tubers of the plant.
WHY DOES A STICK APPEAR BENT WHEN STANDING IN WATER ?
Because the rays of light reaching our eye from the part of the stick which is in, the water are bent, and the stick appears to be in a position that it is not really in. This action of light in changing its direction as it passes through different substances from air to water for instance, is called refraction.
WHAT ARE THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD TODAY ?
There is no recognised list of modern wonders of the world, which might include such things as the Eiffel Tower and the Nile Dam. In the Middle Ages the seven wonders were reckoned to be the Colosseum at Rome, the Catacombs, at Alexandria, the Great Wall of China, Stonehenge, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Porcelain Tower of Nanking, and the Mosque of St Sophia at Constantinople,
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Northern Advocate, 21 February 1939, Page 2
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