Plague doctors

 in 1656 the plague broke out and it was the most horrifying and lethal disease in human history.

It killed 10s million people and had at best was at best a 40% survival rate.

It started in the Asian and African countries and spread around the world and in western Europe in the 17th century that's when the "plague doctor" emerged.

As described it had a hood with crystal eyepiece (somewhat like glasses), and a beak with a strong combination of herbs and spices, it may have had pepper, cinnamon, turpentine, roast copper, and sometimes powdered viper flesh, the uniform used was somewhat like the modern-day hazmat suit, as it was designed to block miasma from entering the pores on the skin.

This concoction was inspired by the famous 2nd-century Greco-Roman physician Galen and was thought to ward off poisoned air, known as miasma, people believed the plague from originating from swamps, and sources of decay such as dead animals and plants. 

In earlier centuries Doctors around Europe used metal pomanders (which looked like Christmas ornaments filled with the above, and most guess that the beak from the doctor's mask was a hands-free alternative to holding the pomander.

People did not know that the culprit behind the plague was a tiny flea named Yersinia pestis.

The Doctors who wore the coat were protected from flea since the fleas cannot fit through the cloth.

In the 20th century, there were no treatments for the plague, but people did try some things, such as taking the blood of the patent and cupping, and a hot poker to pop the bubbles filled with pus.  

Well with all things, it (luckily) disappeared with enough time.

Iran

This is synonymous with Persia, but not all Iranians are Persians.

The capital is Tehran.

Strangely the world's hottest surface temperature ever recorded was 70.7c in the Lut desert in Iran, but also it is the best ski resort (yes ski resort) in the middle east.

Iran is the largest producer of turquoise (a gem) and Zinc.

Also, they also are the world's largest producers of Saffron Pistachio and stone fruits, they are also the largest producer of Caviar in the world and the second largest oil producer in the middle east. 

The population of 80 million people.

The Iranian Rial is their currency.

Persians are not all Arabs, but not all Persians are Iranians. 

In the Shade of the Qur'an by Dr Abd Aziz pt: 5

The adequate of entering the Prophet's house, only come if invented or if invited to eat food there.

• Dont' stay long (leave immediately after eating)

• Don't Come before the food is served (as to avoid the embarrassment for the Prophet having no food at the table.

Aloe Vera

Aloe vera is a plant that has antibacterial, antiviral, and antiseptic properties, used as far back as 1810 it is still a healthy remedy for many types of burns and wounds.

Aloe Vera possesses anti-inflammatory chemical compounds which reduce swelling called anthraquinone.

It can also be useful for stomach pains.

But it may not be all great, as it is important to remember that eating too much of it can cause diarrhea as it has laxative properties, and if you are already on prescription medicine it is always good to ask your doctor before consuming it if you have prescribed medicine as it could make your situation worse.

If used to treat burns and wounds, it can be beneficial for that usage it is good to keep a plant in case, because all you have to do to get the clear gel inside is to cut it with scissors, and the gel can be used to treat the burns and wounds.

Just use it sparingly.

Philippines

 https://youtu.be/LVFvRNRTEd4?list=PLR7XO54Pktt8_jNjAVaunw1EqqcEAdcow Source

The capital is Manila where half the population lives.

Around 7 thousand islands in the archipelago.

The islands are made of the 11 largest islands.

The world's largest Nickel producer.

110 million people, but they have 10 million people abroad spanning 100 countries.

Philipino peso as currency.

Pens

https://www.britannica.com/technology/pen-writing-implement Source

Pens are writing utensils dating back to the 1st millennium China, as early Egyptians used thick reeds for pens around 300 BCE

Bird feather quills were roughly used around the 7th century,  and used until the 19th century, when John Mitchel from Birmingham, England, brought the first steel pen (which is like the quill but made of steel), which is the precursor of the Fountain pen "a cool pen mind you", as the inconvenience of constantly dipping the pen into the ink the Fountain pen was created.

As it had a type of "reservoir" of ink the first one that was most practical was made in 1884 by the American inventor L.E. Waterman.

After the 19th century, the well-known ballpoint pen was made, Lázló Bíró the person behind it patented it around 1895, known as the "biro" and was popular in Britain around 1930, after a decade it became a popular pen used around the world.

How it worked was a metal ball that was coated in ink from the pen reservoir and the ball rotated around in a socket that fast drying ink on the ball that would touch paper and the ink would hit the paper causing it to write.

Soft-tipped pens came around the 1960s and used a synthetic polymer on the tip instead of a ball, and the ink sunk into the soft tip and was used in: brush pens and markers, etc.

So the history of the pens hopefully left its mark, on history.

Survival myths can will *probably get you killed

https://youtu.be/Gs26bZTRkdU (source)

Say you are stuck in a blizzard or in a desert and your car stalls, your phone is dead and you have no food in your car, well first you are screwed. Not really actually but most of the normal survival tips are not really tips.

Water

Normally you would want to get water, as it is necessary to live as a human, so how about all the ice or snow that is around you in a blizzard. Well, do you eat the snow as a watercourse, well no, don't do that, bad idea? Very bad idea. Snow can be safe to eat, but it is been on the ground for a long time, and it might be harmful to digest. The reason why it is bad to eat is that the snow needs to be melted, so you are using your own body heat to melt the snow, and putting it on your arm and chest does even worse because that will make you even colder, do just don't do that.

So if you are in the desert, well don't eat cactus juice, "Unlike Sokka from Avatar the last Airbender, you will not get high on eating cactus juice", If you drink cactus juice, it is mainly toxins, and or toxic chemicals, which could make you even more thirsty or making you feel worse. First cacti use a different type of photosynthesis named CAM, which uses way less water than other kinds of photosynthesis, so using less water in the desert is very useful, but if you eat them it will not give you lots of water in return. CAM photosynthesis, makes a side product named Oxalic acid, which binds to calcium and will mess up your body. It can also build up in your kidneys, which makes Calcium Oxalate,  which is what kidney stones are made of, "so my recommendation is don't do that". The flesh of the cactus is made of Alkaloids, which are harmful if you do eat the cactus, you will have diarrhea and vomit. Although fishhook barrel, and pink prickly pear, do have fewer toxins than most but do not taste that good, it is good if you need something to eat and are in a tough situation. 

Urine or blood

Don't drink this either even though it is fluids, it may not be healthy fluids.

The reason why you don't do this is that when you remove waste the waste is well, waste, and putting it back into your body is unhealthy, to say the least, if you add the waste back into your system it basically makes your kidneys work harder to clean it which in turn could cause systems like kidney failure.

What about blood, also no, you can drink blood, but only in small doses, because blood contains iron and too much iron can be toxic, and then your body will try to store the extra iron in your heart and liver, and that makes organ failure, so that's not good either unless you want to die, don't do that, that will be more harmful than helpful.

Moss

Moss does not work like a compass, and moss does not lead north, so you can't use it for navigation, moss likes wet surfaces because they lack the indoor plumbing that most plants have, and they have to rely on the moisture in the air, and on the object, they are on to get some water if a large patch of moss is on somewhere, it is most likely from just it being damp and wet, things that moss likes very much.

Alcohol 

Alcohol although it does feel like you are warm, alcohol makes you warm because it gets a rush of warmth to your face and cheeks, but it is the complete opposite of what you want.

Because alcohol opens your blood vessels near the surface of your face, and it can make you warm when it transports the blood near the surface all heat although it feels nice, for a while, the heat will soon dissipate which is bad.

If you are trying to retain your body heat, that would not be easy if all your warmth goes into the air.

Frostbite

If you have frostbite, don't rub the frostbitten parts, frostbite makes microscopic crystals in your skin tissues, and if you rub them you will effectively use the ice crystals to cut your skin tissue.

So don't do that, and don't rub it because it will hurt more, also if you try to thaw the frostbitten toes also have the danger of refreezing, if they do have the danger of refreezing then it could cause more crystals from forming, which is bad.

If you have you also have Hypothermia, meaning your body drops below 35 degrees, the thing that is important is that you must introduce warmth in a slow way, and not quickly, 

Snake Bites

Do not suck venom from a snake bite, it is not good, the effects vary from snake to snake some give tissue damage or internal bleeding, and some are neurotoxins.

If you do try this, as in sucking venom, it will increase the risk of getting the bite infected (which is worse), and to add to all the bad side effects it will not remove that much poison.

Instead, health experts recommend you keep the wound below the level of the heart, keep the victim warm, and get to the hospital as fast as possible.

If you do get to the hospital, they can administer Antivenom, different Anivenom works for different kinds of poison, so if you can try to remember the color or the defining features of the snake that the hospital can give the right treatment to the right poisons.

Jellyfish stings

Contrary to popular belief if you pee on a Jellyfish sting it will most likely make it worse, jellyfish tentacles have stinging cells called Cnidocytes which are like harpoons and those harpoons will have poison, and that poison can poke holes in cells (and that's bad), the trick is that you must get most of the Cnidocytes off your body without triggering others.

The myth is that if you pee it will neutralize the stinging, in practice it can trigger the Cnidocytes to go off, funnily enough, vinegar is a good way to help as that will neutralise the ones that have not gotten set off yet.

I would not recommend doing anything above. Tq.

The Salem Witch Trials

https://youtu.be/NVd8kuufBhM source 

The witch trials were held for people who were convicted of witchcraft, in Salem Massecutsets from February 1692 and May 1693.

if you confess and ask for forgiveness you may be able to walk free without getting publicly hanged.

They were the cause of paranoia and superstitions and a justice system that valued repentance over truth.

People feared starvation and disease, and to make things worse 1692 brought the coldest winters on record, that winter two cousins 9year old Better Parris and 11-year-old Abigail Wiliams, behaved strangely, a physician found nothing wrong, but diagnosed the girls and "under an evil hand".

Puritans  (people who were protestants) believed that the devil wreaked mayhem in the world by controlling humans, or witches. As the "symptoms" began to spread, 12 girls were found, 4 of them accused three local women of tormenting them, and on February 29th authorizes they arrested Sarah Good which was a Pregnant mother, Sarah Osbourne who was very absent from church, Tituba an enslaved woman In Betty Parri's home known only by her first name.

Tituba denied the accusations, but after a while, she confessed to practicing witchcraft by the "devil's orders", and said that Sarah good and Sarah Osbourne had forced her.

Osbourne died in prison, while Good was turned on in court by her own husband, saying that "she was a which ore would turn to be one very quickly". Good gave birth in jail, her baby died and she got hung shortly after, Tituba was held in custody, then released.

They made false confessions to save themselves from getting hung, one of the authorities told one of the 4 that "if you don't confess we will hang you, but if you do we can let you go."

The court accepted all types of evidence, as well as dubious evidence, (meaning that the accused would twitch and rave when "touched" by invisible ghosts).

Those who dared to speak out such as Jude Nathanial Saltonstall came under suspicion.

by the spring of 1893 over 100 people had been imprisoned, 14 women and 6 men hung after while accusations went outside of Salem, only after the Governor of Massachusetts colony's wife was accused, then he suspended the trials. Sentences were amended, prisoners released and arrests stopped. 

The reason is still unknown to this day, but what we do know is that adults accepted "evidence" from children as hard evidence. 

Peru

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0XCXGXGZMs&list=PLR7XO54Pktt8_jNjAVaunw1EqqcEAdcow&index=138

Known for Machu Pichu and Incans.

Capital Lima.

Peru was the center of the Incan Empire.

The 6th gold producer.

33 million people.

Peruvian Sol and their currency.

Also Known for Festivals.

Minhaj al Muslim By Sh Tariq Appleby pt: 4

It is not ok to swear by anything other than Allah.

Al- Ghumus is a person who intentionally swears a lie, such as lying to get a lower price at a market.

Do not make Oaths about small things, like "I will not go to the gym" (then you go the gym, so broke your oath), do not make oaths in anger "if you lose this i will do such and such".

Don't make Oaths like "if this happens then I will fast for one month", "don't do that, why make it harder for yourself".

  

Paraguay

 Known as the heart of South America, because it is in the center of South America.

Capital Nuestra Senora Santa Maria De La Asuncion (yes that is the name of the capital or known as Asuncion).

They use hydropower, meaning they are very clean in power.

The population of 7 million people.

Guarani as their currency.

Paupa new Guinea

 Papua New Guinea's capital is Port Moresby.

Papua New Guinea is the 3rd largest rainforest after the Amazon and the Congo.

Rich in minerals, iron, and copper.

Under 9milion people, and it is a very linguistic country with over 850 languages .

Kina as their currency.

Panama

 It is literally a bridge between Colombia and Costa Rica.

At it its narrowest point it is only 48 Kilometers or 30 miles wide.

The capital is Panama City.

The population of 4 million, and it is the least populated country in central America.

And the USD as their currency.

The swimming pool

The "Great Bath" at the site of Mohenjo-Daro in modern-day Pakistan was most likely the first swimming pool, used during the 3rd millennium BC. This pool is 12 by 7 meters, lined with bricks, and covered with a tar-based sealant.

The ancient Greeks and Romans made their pools for athletic training and were used by their militaries for training. It was noted that Roman emperors had pools in which fish was kept.

The first heated pool was made by Gaius Maecenas of Rome in the 1st century BC. He was a rich Roman lord and considered one of the first patrons of arts. 

The modern Olympic Games started in 1896 which included swimming races, after that the popularity of pools did increase.

Swimming pools became widespread in Britain in the mid-19th century. As early as 1837, six indoor pools with diving boards existed in London, England. The Maidstone Swimming Club in Maidstone Kent, is believed to be the oldest surviving swimming club in Britain, which is still around today.

In the USA there are over 10.4 million residential and 309,000 public swimming pools but surprisingly New Zealand holds the record for most pools per capita (pop.4,116,900), with 65,000 home swimming pools and 125,000 spa pools.

So why don't you take a dip in one.

In the Shade of the Qur'an by Dr Abd Aziz pt: 4

  The Prophet was sent as a deliverer of good news and a warner.

and a caller for Allaah and a beacon of light.

Give good news to the believers that they will get a great bounty from Allah.

Put your trust in Allah and do you yield to the disbelievers and the hypocrites

Toast (yes i am running out of ideas)

The word toast comes from the Latin torrere 'to burn'.

You know it, the great the wonderful. Toast.

Around the  1400s to 1600 another popular phrase associated with the word "toast" is the expression "to toast someone's health", which is typically done by one or more persons at a meeting by raising a glass in salute to the individual. This meaning is from the early meaning of "toast", which meant warm bread that was placed in a drink.

Either toasted on the pan, or in a toaster, melted cheese sandwiches are great.

Tea time, breakfast, lunch? dinner? doesn't matter, toast is great, eaten in the UK with baked beans, it is tasty food for everyone to eat.

Pulau

 The country has about 340 islands, but if you consider the small smaller rocks and islets, the capital is on the largest island Babeldaob where the capital Melekeok is and it is the least populated capital in the world at 400 people.

Shockingly they use the American USD as their currency.

Allen and Hex wrenches

Allan was similar to the other companies developing similar fasteners and Hex tools in the 1860s. The probable reason was the move to Hex fasteners and drivers is because it was safer for industrial workers and to pay royalties to the Hex companies, but after it was sold it became a success.

From their arrival to the market in 1910, the hex key (which is the thing that screws the Hex drivers in place), has not changed that much. It is a standard L shape and that's really it.

Every house has a screwdriver or hammer, but now you will see lots more Allen wrenches and keys that are used in almost everything from bikes to Ikea furniture.

Even after 100 years, the Hex wrench has not changed all that much, but it's ok since there is. Beauty in simplicity.

Disk Breaks

The disc brakes function pretty easily. You step on the brake pedal, and brake fluid is sent to a piston on the disc brake. The piston causes the calipers to squeeze the disc or rotor that spins the wheels. The pads inside the calipers create friction, which slows down your car.

Disc brakes were first used on race cars in 1951. In 1955, they started being addon to mass-produced cars. By the 1980s, most cars were using disc brakes, at least on the front wheels as their main braking system.

Brake booster. Today most vehicles have what’s called “power brakes.” Power brakes increase the force produced from your pressing on the pedal, which is applied to the rest of the braking system. That means you don’t have to press down on the brake pedal with too much effort to get your car to slow or stop. The brake booster is what makes power brakes, power brakes.

Youth Talk Class: 4

 Allah knows everything, meaning he knows everything that happens, he will everything happen will happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aptgedJIsmk

Even if everything is gone, Allah will remain.

https://youtu.be/AHf-WggTw5E

Static electricity

 How static electricity is made by an imbalance between negative and positive charges in an object? These charges can make the surface of an object have "static" electricity and will hold that charge until they find a way to be released or discharged. One way to discharge them is through an electrical circuit.

Although it is labeled as "electricity", it is not dangerous, even if is several thousand volts, because there's not enough of it to sustain a current, even elevated amounts of static electricity won't kill you. 

microfiber

Microfiber is made from very small fibers, invented in 1986 it is a polyester from petrol constructed with "Microfiber" and nylon, nylon in this case is very important, as it is the one that holds the piece of cloth from tearing apart. There is a fine line for adding nylon, add too much, and it could scratch the surface you are trying to clean, too little and it might be very fragile.

Microfiber has the remarkable ability to clean and dry surfaces incredibly quickly, and it is used in swimming towels and is useful for cleaning wet exteriors such as cars after a wash, and on computers and screens, eyeglasses, etc.

If dampened with water or a cleaning solution, as these are washable, they are reusable, unlike something like paper kitchen towels, but the more nylon you put, the less it picks up liquids, so take the one that best fits your needs.

Pakistan

 Pakistan basically translates to "Pure Land".

the capital Islamabad.

Also home to the second largest salt mine in the world, the Khewra salt mine.

Ranked 4th in cotton production, and 3rd in goat meat.

Pakistani rupee.

Terrorism is known here sadly.

Viking longships

The Vikings were from Scandinavia.

The Viking longship is from the humble canoe, the Vikings used these to travel along rivers for it was faster than moving on land.

Through forests and mountains, it was an "easy" ride to take rivers, the first of the canoes, was made with a tree log, with the insides hollowed out to make the inside of the small boat and used oars, overtime they added planks to the log boat, using the clinker or lapstrake method, instead of it being a log boat, it was a layered hull.

as the Roman empire expanded north, some Scandinavians joined the Roman armies and brought back to Scandinavia, roman maritime technology. 

As the Romans used Sails to move boats instead of rowing and had large warships that controlled the sea, and cargo ships that ferried goods along the waterways.

Now the "newer" Viking longships used anchored oars, basically locking the oars to 180 degrees of movement, making the boats more efficient, before working with the Romans, the Vikings used cloth and sewing to bind the wood pieces together, but after working with the Romans, they started to used iron nails instead. 

They removed the wood log origin for a keel wood plank. But the strength of the boat did not come from internal beams and planks but relied on the strength of the outer shell of the ship. The boat which was made with keel wood was faster than the Roman warships.

As sails were expensive, they did not use sails.

Then the Roman empire collapsed.

By the 8th century, the idea of a sailing ship was proposed, as it would be used for long-distance travel, they added sails to this new "sailing ship" and the speed that the boats traveled was the quickest in their fleet, and then the "Viking Longship" was created. 

The longships could carry 100 Vikings to battle, and the ships were used to travel along seas, and big rivers, if need be the ships were light enough (in weight), to carry over land. 

The bigger ones were used in large sea expeditions, and the smaller ones were used for fishing.

The Vikings sailed west and were able to travel to North America and they set up multiple settlements centuries before any European was able to reach.  

Oman

 The capital city of Muscat.

Most buildings are white or beige and traditional architecture is treasured here.

Known for frankincense and myrrh.

The population of 5million.

Omani rial as currency.

Also, the lingua Franka with Mozambique made Swahili.

Minhaj al Muslim By Sh Tariq Appleby pt: 3

The inheritors must be alive on the day of the death of the person who is leaving the inheritance. So if one of a woman's children dies and she has an unborn child in her womb, this unborn child has the right to inherit from its brother (who dies) if it is born alive. This is due to the fact that it was certainly alive( in the womb)  on the day of its brothers' death. If the woman conceived the baby after the death of its brother, the baby has no right to inherit from his brother who died, because he was not created(conceived) until after ( the brother's death)

The Felmale Inheritors:

1. The wife.

2. The female manumitter (who frees a slave).

3. The relatives: and they are of three categories. The parental woman: they are the mother and the grandmother on either the mother's or the father's side. The offspring and are the daughters, the son's daughter (granddaughter), and any descending female grandchildren (i.e, through the male),. The kin: and this is the and this is the female relative, who is only the sister.

Note: The maternal and perinatal aunts, the daughter's daughter (granddaughter)(, the daughter's son (grandson), the brother's daughter (niece), and the uncle's daughter (cousin) do not inherit at all.

Youth Talk Class: 3

 The prophet cures those who consume riba (interest) and those who pay it and curse the image-makers. This indicates that making images is forbidden. The scholars interpreted that as referring to images of animate being such as animals, people, and birds.

But drawing unanimated things is allowed.

But if it is an emergency say the identification of a criminal is needed, then It is o

The watch

 The watch was created in the 17th century from spring-powered clocks, last time it was driven by clockwork and powered by a mainspring, these were called mechanical watches. 

In the 1960s the quartz watch was invented which was powered by a battery and it used a quartz crystal to keep time, then by the 1980s these watches overtook the market.

Now by the 2010s smartwatches became a thing which are computers built into the watch, now they can give heart rate, GPS, alarms, and much more.

Expensive watches are sought after because of the craftsmanship to make elaborate watches.

Now, most watches are mainly smartwatches.

Drop the penny

 If you drop a penny from a very high place say, the Burj Kalifa from Dubai, would it hurt someone walking below, yes, no, kinda?

Well, there is something called terminal velocity, it is basically a speed-cap, like for to stop something from exceeding a certain speed, since the penny falls then it displaces air, like pushing your hand out the car window while it is moving forward, you will feel a wind blowing your hand back, right? same thing here.

The wind or terminal velocity, is stopping the penny from getting too fast, although it will act like a bullet, it will still hurt but not like being shot.

Norway

 There are town called hell, very interesting. 

Located in Scandinavia and has the capital Oslo.

They really just make a literal hotel out of ice here.

Norway is very much known for its Fjords since there are about 1.7k named fjords.

They export more than they import, with is very impressive, and are the highest exporter of salmon.

98% of the energy comes from hydroelectric power.

They have more winter Olympics gold medals than any other country.

A population of 5.4m people.

the Norwegian krone as currency.

Also, metal music is known here.

Microchips

The first microchip was created by Jack Kilby in 1958, he did not realize that his making his first integrated circuit would change history and start the extraordinary journey of modern technology.

Thanks to his invention Kilby won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.

The microchips are now used everywhere Jack wanted to auction the his first microchip, and the chip could have sold for $1 million or $ 2million; however, the highest bid did not even reach $850,000. 

Now it is in the Smithsonian and the Chicago Museum of Technology, and can be marveled at by all technology enthusiasts.

Nicaragua

Capital Managua.

For some weird reason they don't have postal codes, so if you want to send something you must say landmarks, and sometimes they don't even exist anymore, so they might need to say "the statute that is on the left of the green building, on the other side, and behind the pot with the duck statue", "you get the idea, well it is not that extreme but you get the idea."

Sadly  Nicaragua is ranked as the second of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere.

With a population of 6.2 million people.

Pencils

As you well know, pencils are very a common writing utensil used everywhere to write on paper.

Pencils started with Camel's hair, "yes Camel hair", to make a brush before pencils were made.

Now scribes in ancient Egypt were using a type of pencil called lead point or silver point.

The value of graphite would soon be realized to be huge, mainly because of the use of graphite for pencils. but most of the graphite for pencils had to be smuggled or stolen from the graphite mines.

Around 1560s, an Italian couple named Simon and Lyndiana Bernacotti produced what are probably the first blueprints for the current, wood-encased carpentry pencil.

The first endeavor to manufacture graphite rods from powdered graphite was in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1662. It used a combination of graphite, antimony, and sulfur.  

the American colonists imported pencils from Europe until after the American Revolution.

On March 30, 1858, Hymen Lipman acquired the first patent for connecting an eraser to the end of a pencil.

After all of that, we have normal color pencils, charcoal pencils, liquid, watercolor, and many other pencils, for current usage.

Then after that then the mechanical pencils were first created.

And after all of that, the rest is from then to now.

Halloween

This is Halloween This is Halloween pumpkins scream in the dead of night. - Nightmare before Christmas.

halloween is a celebration held on the 31st of October, the tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain when individuals would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. Pope Gregory III established the 1st of  November as a time to glorify all saints in the eighth century. Soon, All Saints Day incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. 

Over time it went from that to the trick-or-treating and candy we all know today, as one-quarter of all the candy sold yearly in the U.S. is bought just for Halloween.

News and community members motivated parents to take anything “scary” or “grotesque” out of Halloween festivities. Because of these measures, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and spiritual acts by the start of the twentieth century.

Halloween movies are well known to be watched and viewed during the "spooky month" “Scream,” “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Friday the 13.” as classic horror titles, regarded as well as one of the best stop-motion animation movies LThe Nightmare Before Christmas".

As we well know, black cats are associated with bad luck as well as being associated with Halloween.

Happy end of "SPOOKY MONTH". :D

In the Shade of the Qur'an by Dr Abd Aziz pt: 3

•  If you adopt a human you must call them by their last name, regardless of your last name

Plants

 Plants are vital, and essential to life on earth as you need to eat plants to survive.

Plants use a method called Photosynthesis. which uses Chlorophyll, the things that make up a plant's leaves.

Using the leaves, the chlorophyll takes in Carbon Dioxide, water, and sunlight to produce food, during this process the plant is releasing oxygen for us humans and other animals to breathe.

The roots of the plant are what hold it in place, while it also takes in minerals and water from the soil.

The flower of the plant is used to pollinate and can be used to increase the quantity of the plant by spreading the seeds, there are many ways for a plant to spread its seeds. 

One method is that the seeds are light enough for the air or wind to pick them up and float them to another location. 

Another method is pollination by bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, moths, and flies, this pollination is accidental as the incests just want the sweet-tasting nectar of the flower and the animal accidentally rubs against the stamens (the part of the flower that contains the pollen) and gets pollen stuck on itself. It then transfers to another flower and transfers some of the pollen to another flower.

 

TURN ON THE LIGHTBULB PLEASE

When you wanted light you had to light a flame and put it on a candle, there were drawbacks to using a candle, because if it was a small flame then it would not be so bright, while a big flame definitely dangerous.

Thomas Edison wanted to make something that created light using electricity. 

Thomas and aided by his own personal research team started work on making the light bulb, the main idea was to pass the electricity through a wire-like substance, named filament, causing it to glow.

They started by finding different substances for the filament, they started by making the filament out of platinum, but they scraped the idea because platinum is expensive, and would cost consumers lots of money, but there were some problems such as the weakness of the light, it being expensive for consumers to purchase, and some that did not last long before the light broke. 

After hundreds of failed attempts, they finally found the substance capable of passing electricity so that it glowed, was strong enough to not break so soon and was inexpensive, their solution?.

Bamboo, the plant being cheap and easy to find, as well as a renewable object, with long strong fibers that would glow much more and would last quite long before burning out than most of the tried and failed prototypes of filament.

Thomas was finally able to market and produce his product that took years to make, failed prototype after failed prototype, he finally found the filament to make it a reality.

After all, a light bulb is a symbol of a great idea.

Nigeria

 The capital is Abuja.

But strangely Lagos is the most populated city, in all of Africa, with 21 million.

The world's most producer of Yam, cassava, and taro.

The population of 200 million people. 1/6 people from Africa are from here.

They use the Nigerian Naila.

Home to Nollywood, which is where the "why are you running meme came from", Africa's third most valuable market in the world.

WATER

 I don't have to go into it pretty deeply to understand that water is indeed important to our daily lives, water is H20, and includes one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms.

Around 70% of the freshwater used by humans goes to agriculture, clearly, plants need to grow, fishing in salt and freshwater bodies continues to be a major source of food for many parts of the world, providing 6.5% of protein globally eaten, it can be frozen to make ice and that is used to make drinks and in the winter the lakes and ponds and can be used in Ice Skating.  

Water is in the seas and oceans mainly used by boats and is used to transport items such as oil, natural gas, and manufactured products, and is also used for recreational purposes.

Rain is the concept of water going down to earth, drying up, and then the microscopic water droplets form together to make clouds, which with enough water droplets in the cloud it will rain, and then the cycle loops. "that is the very barebones way of putting it". 

Water on earth is vital because if no water then animals and people will become dehydrated, then after that then well, most things will die.