Interesting List Coffee History According to a coffee history legend, an Arabian shepherd named Kaldi found his goats dancing joyously around a dark green leafed shrub with bright red cherries in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Kaldi soon determined that it was the bright red cherries on the shrub that were causing the peculiar euphoria and after trying the cherries himself, he learned of their powerful effect. The stimulating effect was then exploited by monks at a local monastery to stay awake during extended hours of prayer and distributed to other monasteries around the world. Coffee was born. Despite the appeal of such a legend, recent botanical evidence suggests a different coffee bean origin. This evidence indicates that the history of the coffee bean beagan on the plateaus of central Ethiopia and somehow must have been brought to Yemen where it was cultivated since the 6th century. Upon introduction of the first coffee houses in Cairo and Mecca coffee became a pa...
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Interesting Corner DNA reveals some mystery on King Tut, raises questions CAIRO (AFP) - – DNA testing has unraveled some of the mystery surrounding the birth and death of pharaoh king Tutenkhamun, revealing his father was a famed monotheistic king and ruling out Nefertiti as his mother, Egypt's antiquities chief said on Wednesday. Zahi Hawass announced the results of the study involving DNA tests and computerised tomography (CT) scans on Tutankhamun's mummy at a packed media conference in the Egyptian Museum. The testing showed the pharoah died of malaria after suffering a fall, putting to rest the theory that the enigmatic boy-king was murdered. He was also shown to have suffered from a club foot and used a cane as a walking aid. Hawass said what seemed as an injury to the back of Tutankhamun's skull, which some had taken as evidence that he was murdered, was in fact a hole made by embalmers. "We found evidence from DNA that proves he had very severe malaria," Ha...
Today i want to finish my homework. Just Kemahiran Hidup and Science. Geografi maybe tomorrow or later. This holiday i,m not going anywere. Just helping my parent at home.. Cooking is my favourite work! Yesterday i cooked Laksa Kedah because my house also in Kedah. I hope tomorrow i will cook and learn more how to cook well than today!
1.Daily Log -have done@ plan to do 2.Reflection -personal thoughts 3.Interesting Reading List -article/newspaper -give personal comment
Robinson Crusoe - The novel’s protagonist and narrator. Crusoe begins the novel as a young middle-class man in York in search of a career. He father recommends the law, but Crusoe yearns for a life at sea, and his subsequent rebellion and decision to become a merchant is the starting point for the whole adventure that follows. His vague but recurring feelings of guilt over his disobedience color the first part of the first half of the story and show us how deep Crusoe’s religious fear is. Crusoe is steady and plodding in everything he does, and his perseverance ensures his survival through storms, enslavement, and a twenty-eight-year isolation on a desert island. Friday - A twenty-six-year-old Caribbean native and cannibal who converts to Protestantism under Crusoe’s tutelage. Friday becomes Crusoe’s servant after Crusoe saves his life when Friday is about to be eaten by other cannibals. Friday never ...
Robinson Crusoe Synopsis: Robinson Crusoe is the name of young Englishman who is shipwrecked. He is the only survivor. On the island, he has to be an independent person because there was nobody that can help him. He decided to make his own clothes from animals’ skin, hunt for food, make pottery and a boat and built his own shelter without any experience! He also rears goat, plant rice and corn and collect fruit to continue his life. One day, Crusoe saves a man from being killed by a cannibal. This man becomes his most trusted companion and friend. He calls the man Friday because he rescued him on the Friday. After that, Crusoe and Friday save Friday’s father and a few others from the cannibals. One day, Crusoe and Friday saves an English captain accidentally. Crusoe helps the English captain defect the mutineers. Then, the English captain offers Crusoe a ship to return back to England. He accepts the offer and after 28 years of being away, he goes back to England. Char...