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The wind phone

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  T he  wind phone    is an unconnected telephone booth  in otshuchi , iwate perfecture , Japan, where visitors can hold one-way conversations with deceased loved ones. Initially created by garden designer Itaru Sasaki in 2010 to help him cope with his cousin's death, it was opened to the public in the following year after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami  killed over 15,000 people in the Tohoku region . The wind phone has since received over 30,000 visitors.  When garden designer Sasaki lost his beloved cousin in 2010, he came up with a unique way to deal with his grief: telephone calls to the departed. He decided to build a white British-style telephone booth in his hilltop garden. In it he placed a battered old Bakelite rotary phone, unconnected to any earthly telecom system, to keep in touch with his cousin’s memory by talking with him regularly. “Because my thoughts couldn’t be relayed over a regular phone line,” he told the Japanese public broadcasting network NHK, “I w

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows

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Did Leonardo forget to draw them? A lot of people wonder why the Mona Lisa doesn’t have any eyebrows.  Some people say the Mona Lisa is an unfinished work.   Some people say Leonardo painted her with eyebrows, but they were erased over time.   Well, that mystery has now been solved thanks to an engineer called Pascal Cotte. The Mona Lisa when Leonardo painted her, she did indeed have eyebrows but that over time and over cleaning have eroded them to the point that they are no longer visible. Pascal,  an engineer who has been studying the Mona Lisa using highly detailed scans explained:      “If you look closely at Mona Lisa’s eye you can clearly see that the cracks around the eye have slightly disappeared, and that may be explained that one day a curator or restorer cleaned the eye, and cleaning the eye, probably removed the eyelashes and eyebrow,” he said. Pascal, says that from these scans he can see traces of a left eyebrow long obscured from the naked eye by the efforts of the art r

Put some color on your feet.

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     The #lotsofsocks campaign       World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) is marked each year on March 21, beginning in 2006. The 21st day of March (the 3rd month of the year) was selected to signify the uniqueness of the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome which cause down syndrome Every year on March 21, World Down Syndrome Day is observed to create awareness about Down syndrome. It is a condition in which a child is born with an extra 21st chromosome.      We want to get the world talking about World Down Syndrome Day! How can you help?  media.   By wearing lots of socks that are going to get noticed.  But not just any sock.  they might be mismatched socks or your craziest and most colorful and  bright socks, long socks, printed socks ,   one sock, even three socks for three chromosomes  whatever takes your fancy!     Get your friends, class mates and colleagues to join in too! If you're at home you can connect  via social media. If you do not normally wear socks, wear them!

Internet is a boon to the Bhutanese

         The internet is a helpful resource. The internet is a worldwide computer network that offers a wide range of information and communication services. With the advancement of modern technology, the internet has grown tremendously in recent years, drastically altering the lives of ordinary people in Bhutan. At the same time, it has been observed that the new problem of internet addiction has serious social and personal consequences. However, some people prefer to use the internet because it facilitates data retrieval and comparison. It has now become an inextricable part of everyone's life, and provides betterment in the areas of communication, education and business.       Firstly, The Internet has become a major tool for effective teaching as well as a learning tool. Internet helps in education as it allows students to watch lectures online and access study materials in a variety of multimedia formats. It also assists teachers by allowing them to use a variety of

People are just people. why do we always feel the need to label them?

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Label Don't let what people label you define who you are. Just because someone call you by the name does not mean that is what you are required to be. Instead go out and define yourself. You will find that you have so much more to offer than what you ever imagined. If you line up one thousand randomly selected people from across the earth , none of them would share exactly same skin tone. You could arrange them from darkest to lightest and there wouldn't be a single tie. of course, the continuity of skin tone hasn't stopped humans from assigning each other to discrete skin-color categories like "black" and "white" categories that have no basis in biology. labelling people has become a trend in the world. Each and everyone is being labelled by some other people that we hardly know. People like to label a lot. They may tell you they don't, but its not true. we all are victims of someone. Be it fair or dark, tall or short, thin or fat, poor or rich each

She Walks in Beauty

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She Walks in Beauty   She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace which waves in every raven tress, or softly lighten o'er her face; where thoughts serenely sweet express, How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, so soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!

Life goes on

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Hello everyone! i am here now. My name is Sonam Choki and i am Bhutanese. Currently i am here at Gyalposhing college of information technology studying in first year. It was always a great dream of mine to graduate and i am really excited that it will become reality soon. And these are some of the things I cannot go on without. I'm obsessed with cats, music, coffee, pink, rainbow, moon and many more. Maybe you can guess my personality keke :))