The Letter This Edition Is D-
Name
Dhyan Chand-
His birthday, 29th August, is celebrated as the National Sports Day in India and the President gives away awards such as Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna and Dronacharya awards on this day!
He joined the army when he was 16yrs and took up hockey while he was still enrolled. Since he practised a lot during the night, Dhyan Singh was given the nickname Chand!‘Chand’ means moon in Hindi.
Dhyan Chand was the leading goal-scorer at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics with 14 goals!
A news report about India’s victory said “This is not a game of hockey, but magic. Dhyan Chand is, in fact, the magician of hockey.”
In the 1932 Summer Olympics, India beat the USA 24–1 and Japan 11–1!
Once, when Dhyan Chand was unable to score in a match, he argued with the match referee about the measurement of the goal post.
To everybody’s amazement, he was right; the goal post was found to be in contravention of the official minimum width prescribed under international rules!
Dhyan Chand loved wrestling when he was young and had no serious interest in hockey.
So impressed was German dictator Adolf Hitler with his performance after India’s win at the 1936 Berlin Olympics that he is said to have offered Chand German citizenship and a position in the German military!
Dhyan Chand’s younger brother, Roop Singh, was also a hockey player. The two were called the ‘hockey twins’
In 1972, the International Olympic Committee is reported to have sent him a special invitation to witness the Munich Olympics.
Despite his achievements, he has still not been awarded the country’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna!
Place
Delhi-
Delhi is the second most populated city in the world!
New Delhi and Delhi are 2 different places, New Delhi is the capital of India!
The City was Designed by British Architects Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker.
The city of New Delhi is 110 years old (as of 2021).
As of 2019 Delhi has entered the list of the world’s top 10 most popular cities for tourists!
Five of the Original 14 Gates of the Walled City of Delhi are Still Standing, they are:Lahori Gate — facing Lahore in Pakistan, Delhi Gate — pathway to earlier cities in the state, The Ajmeri Gate — facing Ajmer in Rajasthan, Kashmiri Gate — facing north to Kashmir, and the Turkman Gate!
From the auto-rickshaws to the blue-line buses in Delhi, everything runs on the eco-friendly gas!
Indira Gandhi International Aiport in delhi, was voted the 4th best airport in 2010!
Delhi is the home to the largest market of spices in Asia!The Khari Baori market was established in the 17th Century!
After Nairobi in Kenya, Delhi is the second most bird-rich capital in the world!
Being the capital of the country, Delhi is one of the leading commercial centres within the northern part of India.
In 2013 alone, New Delhi suffered from 12 earthquakes!
New Delhi is the most polluted capital city in the world. This is despite the city’s entire public transport system being run on CNG!
Delhi is home to the World’s Tallest Brick Structure: The Qutub Minar
This Mughal landmark, which stands at 73 metres tall, is one of the most popular tourist spots in the city!
New Delhi has a unique International Museum of Toilets!The museum hosts a rare collection of photos, facts and objects documenting the historic evolution of toilets from 2500BC to the modern era.
The Red Fort use to be white in colour,the Fort was made up of limestone and when the stone started to wither away, the British painted it Red to preserve it!
The Delhi Metro, which covers a distance of nearly 277 km, is one of the largest networks in the entire world.
Completed in 1986, Lotus Temple in Delhi is the only place of worship of the Baha’i community in South Asia!
Delhi is known for its world famous food!
Azadpur in Delhi has a wholesale market which is the said to be a biggest fruits and vegetables market in Asia.
Animal-
Deer
You may have seen the animal deer on the covers of our young joy magazine, but they have a much more significant impact on the environment itself they are at the bottom of the food chain providing food for the predators keeping the food cycle alive.
Physical Characteristics
Deer are lean, long-legged mammals. Their typical coloring ranges from reddish-brown to gray-brown with cream-colored undersides. Male deer may also be identified by their impressive antlers. These large pests stand three feet tall at the shoulder and approximately six feet long from nose to tail.
Weight — Deer Weights generally range from 40 to 200 kilograms depending upon the Species.
Height — Deer Heights range from 13 Inches (33 cm) to 7 Feet (2.1 meters) depending upon the Species.
Deer generally have Lithe, Compact Bodies and Long, Powerful Legs which are suited for rugged woodland terrain.
Deer are the only group of animals in the world to have antlers. Antlers are the fastest growing living tissue in the world!
Habitat
Deer, being adaptable creatures, are found in a variety of environments; however, they are best suited to forested habitats. Forests provide deer with a place to eat, to rest, to escape, to bear and rear young.
They are found throughout India, except high Himalayas, desert, kutch and the coast. Their habitat ranges from dry to moist deciduous forest, scrublands to wetlands, tropical evergreen forests, to pine and oak forests. Sambar deer prefers moist habitat but are easily adaptable to the dry areas.07
Most forests in India are home to the Indian muntjac, also called barking deer. Found across southern India, including the Western Ghats, in the dry forests of central India, the evergreen temperate forests of the Himalayas and the dense rainforests of northeast India, Indian muntjacs are a quiet and solitary species.
Sustenance
Deer food- Deer love some types of food that are not necessarily available all the time. Food they absolutely love are: pecans, hickory nuts, beechnut acorns, as well as acorns. Fruits such as apples, blueberries, blackberries, and persimmons are also appealing to deer and satisfy their appetites.
High-quality food is the name of the game in summer. Productive, high-protein food plots in peas, beans or lab-lab can provide up to 35 percent protein when properly fertilized and are also very palatable, so your deer are able to digest most of the protein and nutrients that they consume.
Late Summer / Early Fall — Provide acorns, corn and soybeans. These are among deer’s favorite foods. Fall and Winter — Cereal grains including oats, triticale, and wheat. Cool season legumes such as clovers, alfalfa and winter peas attract deer and provide nutrition.25-Jul-2019
Facts
Deer often represents childhood youth and joy . In many cultures, the deer is a symbol of spiritual authority. During a deer’s life the antlers fall off and grow again and the animal is also a symbol of regeneration. In the Christian imagination, the deer is a symbol of piety, devotion and of God taking care of his children: men.
A deer represents innocence, kindness, grace, and good luck. Seeing a deer is usually a good omen and means that your spirit guides are watching over you.
- Deer’s eyes are on the side of the head. …
- Deer have great hearing senses. …
- Great sense of smell. …
- Deer walk in groups called herds, they are social animals. …
- Deer have special ways of communication.
Surprise
Daisies
The daisy is a flowering plant belonging to the family Asteraceae (also called Compositae). There are approximately 4000 species of daisies that differ in size, shape, color and type of habitat.
They are found on every continent except Antarctica.
Daisies can live in both wet and dry climates, and they are resistant to pesticides and insects.
Not a picky plant, daisies grow well both in full sun and in part sun or shady areas.
Daisy is herbaceous plant that can grow from 7 centimeters to 1.2 meters (3 inches to 4 feet) in height, depending on the species.
Daisy is attached to the ground via rhizome.
Daisy has green leaves that form rosette at the base of the stem. The Daisy leaf texture varies and may be smooth or covered with hairs on the surface. Leaves of most species of daisy are divided in several lobes and have narrow base.
The Daisy flower stalks are generally longer than the leaves.
Daisy has composite flower that consists of large number of small flowers, called florets.
The center of a daisy is called the flower head or floral disc. Though it looks like one piece, the flower head is composed of many small flowers, called disk florets; they are small and have tubular shape.
Ray florets form outer part of the flower and they look like typical petals.
Each ray or disk florets is an individual flower made up of a stamen, carpel and ovary. The ray florets, however, are sterile. Only the disk florets are fertile. Each carpel contains one or more ovaries, which house the female reproductive components of the daisy. The stamen are the male parts of the daisy and produce the pollen that fertilizes the female parts.
The entire flower that is known as a daisy is a collection of disk flowers and ray flowers that are secured by a base called a peduncle. The peduncle forms from the stem of the daisy plant and holds all of the composite flowers together.
Within the insect world, bees are the primary pollinators and are responsible for the propagation of many types of plants and flowers, including daisies.
When a bee lands on a daisy flower, it immediately seeks out nectar; in the process, it picks up thousands of microscopic pollen grains on its body. As it moves around on the daisy, it redeposits the pollen from the male anthers to the female stigmas. It also moves from flower to flower repeating this procedure hundreds of times each day.
Some daisy species are annual, lasting only one year, and some are biennial (life cycle ends after two years).
Color of the flower depends on the species. Daisy can be white with yellow center, purple with brownish center, red with yellow center, orange with yellow center, pink with yellow center, yellow with dark red center, blue with green center…
The most popular types of daisies are Marguerite daisy, Gloriosa daisy, Shasta daisies, African daisy and Gerber daisy.
The flower symbolism associated with the daisy is purity, innocence, loyal love, beauty, patience and simplicity.
In Christianity, the daisy is a sacred symbol of Virgin Mary signifying her chastity, grace and purity.
The April birth flowers are Daisy and Sweet Pea.
Daisy comes from the Old English “daes eage,” meaning “day’s eye.” The name refers to the way they close their petals in the evening, and open again at dawn, marking the beginning of a new day.
Daisies have been popular flowers in history, believed to be more than 4,000 years old.
