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  AMAZONE RAINFOREST. The Amozone rainforest , also called Amozone jungle or Amazonia,is a moist boardleaf tropical rainforest biome.that covers most of the Amazone basin of South America .This basin encompasses.70,000,000 Km2 of whitch 5,500,000Km2 are coverd by the rainforest. this region includes territory belonging to nine nations and 3.344 formally anknow ledged indigerous territory. The majority of the forest ,60% is in Brazil ,followed by Peru with 13%in Colombia with 10% and with minor amouts in Bolivia,Ecuador,French,Gulana ,Guyana,Suriname and Venizuela. four nations have 'Amazonac' as the name of their first-level administrative regions ,and France usees the Guiana's protected rainforest area.The amazone represents over half of Earth's remaining rainforest ,and comprieses the largest and most biodivercse tract of tropical rainforest in the world ,with an estimated 390 billion idividual trees in about 16,000 species. More that 30 million people of 350 differen...

KATHARAGAMA DEVIYAN. Katharagama deviyo also called,Skanda kumar,Kartikeya is a guardian deity of Sri Lanka . A popular deity who is cconsidered to be very powerful ,shrines dedicated to Kataragama deiyo are found in many places of the country .sinhalese buddhist believe him also as a divine patron of the Buddha sasana in Sri Lanka .An ancient temple dedicated to God Katharagama ,know as Ruhunu Maha Katharagama Devalaya is situated in the South -Eastern town of Kataragama in Monaragala District of Uva province . Today ruhunu maha katharagama devalaya has become a temple which attracts and unites peapole of different religious and faiths.Thousands of devotees from Sri Lanka and other part of the world visit this temple daily .katharagama deviyo is identified with God Skanda of Hindu tradition,who is called as Murugn by the Tamil peapole.There is also an identical gurdian deity of Mahayana Buddhism ,know as Skanda . Katharagama deviyo is native and long - celibrated in Sri Lanka lore and...

CHRISTMAS Christmas is an annual festival commemorating thr birth of jesus christ ,observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of peapole around the world.A feat central to the liturgical eyer in christianity ,it follows the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast,and initiates the seasone of christmastide,which historically in the west last twelve days and culminates on Twelfth night.christmas day is a public holiday in many countris ,is celebrated  religiously by a majority of christmas ,as well as culturally by many non - christmas ,and forms an integral part of the holiday season surrounding it. The traditional christmas narrative recounted in the new Testament ,know as the Nativity of jesus .says that jesus was born in Bethlehem ,in accordance with messianic prophecies .when josep and mary arrived in the city .the inn had no room,and so they were offered a stabel whrer the christ child was soon born.with angels proclaiming this news t...

  PIANO. The piano is a kkeyboard instrument that produces sound when pressed on the keys .most modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys 52 white keys for the notes of the C major scale and 36 shorter black keys raised above the white keys and set further black,of sharps and flats.this means that the piano can play 88 different pitches ,spanning a range of a bit over seven octaves.The black keays are for the "accidentals",which are needed to play in all twelve keys. There are tow main types of piano , *the Grand Piano *the upright Piano  The grand piano offers better sound and more precies key control,making in the preferred choice when space and budget allow .The grand piano is also considered a necessity in venus hosting skilled planists.The upright piano is more commonly used due to its smaller size and lower cost. When the keyboard is pressed,the tightened strings inside are struck by coated wooden hammers.the vibrations are transmitted throught a bridge to a s...

  EARTH. Earth is the third planet from the sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life .this is enabled by earth being a water world ,the only on is solar system sustaining liquid surface water .almost all of Earth's water in contained in its globel ocean,corering 70.8% of Eath's crust.the remaining 29.2%  of earth crust is land ,of wish is located in the from of continental land masses within one hemisphere,Earh's land hemisphere .most of Earth's land is somewhat humid and coverd by vegetation ,while large sheet of ice at Eath's polar deserts retain more water than Earth's ground water ,lakes,riversand,atmospheric water.combined Rath's crust and earthquakes Earth has a liquid outer core that generates a magnetosphere capable of deflecting most of the destructive solar ninds and cosmic radiation . Earth has a daynamic atmosphere ,which sustain earth surface conditions and protects it from most meteoroids and UV- light at entry .it has a compos...

  W.D.AMARADEWA. Sri lankabhimanya Wannakwatta waduge Done Albit Perera better know by is adopted name Amaradewa was a prominent Sri Lanka Sinhalese vacalist ,violinist and composer,primarliy using traditional instrument like sitrs,tablas and harmoniums,he in corporated sinhala folk music with india ragas in his work.many consider his contribution to the development of sinhala music as unmatched ,hence .he is occasionally cited as the 'Maestro Of Sri Lanka Music' In the mid - 1950 Amaradewa in his janagayana project consulted experts of the Kandyan Dance tradition .like Panibharath Kirigenita ,Gunamala,Ukkuva and Suramba in his path  to undestand what consititued Sinhala folk Music nothin that is mostly revolved around a singel melody he created a uniquely sinhales music style that stayed true to folk while incoparation outside influences.His work has vital in the creation of the 'Sarala gee'practised subsequently by artists like SanathNandasiri,Victor Rathnayeka ,T.M.J...

  RAVANA. Ravana is a Multi-headed rakshasa king of the island of Sri lanka ,and the chief antogonist in the hindu epic Ramayanaya.in the Ramayana Ravana is describe as the eldest son of sage Viharava and Kaikesi .He abducted prince rama's wife Sita and took her to his kindom of Lanka,where held her in the shoka vatika.Rama's with the support  of vanara king sugriva and his army of Vanara's ,launched an invasion agnst Ravana in Sri Lanka .Ravana was subsequently slain and Ramarescued his beloved wife Sita. Ravana is widely prortrayed as being an evil character ,thought he is also a lerned scholar.He was well versed in the six shartras and the four vedas,including the Shiva Tandava stotra .Ravana is also considered to be the most revered devotee of shiva .image of are of ten seen associated with shiva at temples. He also appears in the buddhist Mahayana text Lankavatara sutra,in buddhist jatakas as well as in join Ramayan's . The world Ravana means "roaring" th...

  NILE RIVER. The Nile River is  a major north flowing river. in northerstern Africa.it flows in to the Mediterunean sea.The Nail is  the longest river in africa and has historically been considerd the longest river in the world.thougth this has been contested by reserch suggesting the Amozone river is slightly longer.of the world;s major river,the Nile is one of the Smallest ,as mosured by annual flow in cubic materes of water.About 6.650 Km long.it's drainage basin covers eleven countries the democratic republic of the congo,tanzania,South sudan ,Additionally the Nile i any important economic river supporting agriculture and fiddshing.                              The Nile has two major tributaries the white Nile and the Blue Nile .The White Nile is traditionaly considerd to be the headwaters stream. the blue nile is the source of most of the water of the nile downsterm ,containig 80% of the wate...

KRISHNA. K rishna is a major deitly in Hindunism.He is worshipped as the eighth avatar of vishnu and also as the supreme god in his own right .He is the good of among Hindu divinities .Krishna's birthday is celibrated every year by hindus on krishna janmashtami according to the lunisolar Hindu calender ,which falls in late Augast or erly September of the Gregorian clender . The anecdotes and narratives of krishna's life are generally titled as krishna . He is a central figure in the Mahabharata,the Bhagavata purna,the bhagavata purna,the brahma vaivarta purna , and the Bhagavad gita,and is mentioned in many hindu philosophical,the logical ,and mythological.They portray him in vairous perspectives.as a good chil,a prankster, a model lover,a divine hero,and the universel.supreme being.eating buttare,a young boy playing a flute.a young boy with Radha surrounded by female devotees,or a friendly charioteer giving counsel to arjun. 

 RAFFLESIA. Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae .The species have enormous flower ,the bunds rising from the ground or directly from the lower stems of their host plants one species has the largest flower in the world plants of the world online list up to 41 species from this genus.all of them are found throughtout South Asia. Western Europeans first learned about plants of this genus for french sugeon and naturelist lon is Deschamps when he was in Java between 1971 and 1794 but his hotes and illustrations,seized by the british in 1803.were not Availabel to western science until 1861. The firtst British person to see one was josepu Amold in 1818 in the Indunesia rain forest in Bengkulu Sumatra after malay servant working from him discoverd a flower and pointed it out to him.The flower and the gens.was later named after stamford Raffles ,the leader of the expedition and the founder of the British colony of Singapore.

  MOON. T he moon is Earths only naturel satellite .it orbits at an average distance of 384,400Km about 30 times Erths diamenter.The moon always presents the same side to erth,becourse gravitational pull has locked its ratation to the planet .This results in the lunar day of 29.5 earth days matching the lunar month .The moon gravitutional pull-and to a lesser extent the suns are the main drivers of the tides. The moon is in geophysical terms a planetary mass object or satellite planet.it has a moss that amounts to 1.2% of earth and a diameter that is rougly one-quarter of earth or with 3.414 Km about  as wide as Australia.

UNIVERSITY OF THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ART S. The University of visual and performing arts[UVPA] is a public university located primarily in Colombo,Sri Lanka ,specializing in art.design fashion and the performing arts.it was formerly.known as the institute of Aesthetic studies of the university of ceylone,college of art. The university has a history spanning over 120 years,with evidence of teaching as far back as 1893 is the only university in Sri Lanka to exclusively offer special dgree programs in visual and performing ats,the university has three faculties, Faculty of Dance and Drama Faculty of Music. Faculty of Visual Arts.     

  MARIANA  TRENCH . The Mariana Trench is an ocenic trennch located in the western pacific ocean, about 200 kilometers oceanic trench on earth.it is crescent-sharped and measurs about 2,550 Km[1,580 mi] in length and 69 Km in width .The maximum known depth is 10,984  ± 25 metres at the southern end of a small slot-shaped valley in its floor known as the challenger Deep.The deepest point of the trench is more than 2 Km father from sea level than the peak of mount Everest. At the bottom of the trench ,the water column above exerts a pressure of 1.086 bar more than ,1.071 times.the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level .the density of water is increaced by 4.96% the temperature at the bottom is 1 to 4  °C.in 2009 the Mariana Trench was a US National Moument .

  LUDWING VAN BEETHOVEN. ludwing van beethoven baptised 17th December 1770-26 March 1827 was a German composer and pianist .Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of western music .his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the classical period to the romantic era in classical music. Beethoven was born in born.his musical talent was obrious at an early age.He was initially harshly and intensively .taught by his father , jhonn van beethoven . his first major ochestral work ,the first symphoney premiered in 1800, and his first set of strins quartets was published in 1801  .despite his hearing during this period he continued to conduct , premiering his third and fifth symphonies in 1804 and 1808,respectively his violin concerto,dedicated to his frequent patron Archduke Rudolf of austria premiered in 1811 without Beethoven as soloist.he was almost complaetly deaf by 1814,and he then gave up per...

 CLASSICAL  GUITAR . The Classical  Guitar also called Spanish Guitar .is a member of a guitar.familly used in classical music and other styles.An accoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylone ,it is a Percusor of the modern steel - sting acoustic and electric guitars both of which use metal strings.Clasical Guitars derive from the Spanish Vihuela and Gittern of the 15th and 16th century. those instruments,evolvedinro the 17th and 18th century baroque guitar and by the mid-19th century ,erly froms of the modern Classical Guitar. For a right -hand player,the traditional Classical Guitar has 12 frets clear of the body and is properly held up by the left leg.so that the hand that pluckes or strums the string does so near the back of the Sound hole.the right - hand may move closer to the fretbhord to achieve different tonal qualites.The player typically holds the left leg higher by the use of foot rest .The modern steel string guitar,on the other hand ...