S CREATIVE WRITER

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is has held a meeting with ambassadors and officials of international diplomatic missions based in Kathmandu, among other representatives of bilateral development agencies, to apprise them of the government’s foreign policy. The ambassadors and diplomats have attended the meeting at the PM’s official residence in Baluwatar, Kathmandu today. Addressing the meeting, PM Oli has raised various issues of national and international interest. He said, Nepal has undergone transformation of historic proportions in the past one decade. The impact of transformation has not been confined to political sphere but has also been felt across all spheres of national life. He expressed happiness that over 41 percent of women representation has been ensured in elected bodies, which he said is not a small achievement by any standard. However, he added that the government would make further efforts to bridge the gap of the remaining nine percent. PM Oli said, “

The first recorded  thermometer  was produced by the Italian, Santorio Santorio (1561-1636) who was one of a group of Venetian scientists working at the end of the Sixteenth Century. As with many inventions the thermometer came about through the work of many scientists and was improved upon by many others. 1596  Galileo Galilei and the first thermoscope Galileo Galilei is often claimed to be the inventor of the thermometer. However the instrument he invented could not strictly be called a thermometer: to be a  thermometer  an instrument must  measure temperature differences; Galileo's instrument did not do this, but merely  indicated  temperature differences. His instrument should rightly be called a  thermoscope . The Thermoscope The predecessor to the thermometer, the thermoscope is a thermometer without a scale; it indicates differences in temperature only ie it can show if the temperature is higher, lower or the same, but unlike a thermometer it cannot measure

Metals and Non-metals Elements can be grouped into two broad categories-metals and non-metals. Metals are elements that are Opaque, lustrous, and good conductors of heat and electricity. lron, gold, and silver are common metals. Non-metals are elements that cannot conduct electricity or heat very well. Examples of non-metals are oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon. Only 18 elements in the periodic table are generally considered non-metals while there are over 80 metals. Properties of metals ° Metals have lustre. They are shiny when cut, scratched, or polished. ° They are malleable, that is, they can be hammered into thin sheets without breaking. ° They are good conductors of electricity and heat. ° They are ductile, that is, they can be melted and drawn into thin wires. ° All metals except mercury are solid at room temperature. ° Most metals have high melting points. Properties of non-metals ° Non-metals have no lustre, that is, they have a dull appearance. ° Th

Aside from unsuccessful attempts at invasion in 1274 and 1281 by the Mongols under Emperor Kublai Khan, Japan has neither faced a foreign invasion nor a crisis of national sovereignty due to foreign invaders throughout its history. A nine hundred-ship fleet faced a fierce challenge from Japanese samurai and bad weather; and was forced into retreat in 1274, the first attempt at invasion. In this attempt, a combined force of about thirty thousand Mongols, Chinese and Koreans tried to subdue Japan but were driven back by a big typhoon. Prior to this invasion, the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, who had succeeded in subduing most of China and Korea, sent emissaries and demanded that Japanese rulers accept their country as being a tributary vassal of the Mongol kingdom. This was rejected by the Regent Hojo Tokimune (125 l~84) in Kyoto. After failing in his first attempt, Kublai Khan became even more determined to invade the Japanese archipelago. He sent a mission of envoys to convince the Jap

Origin of the Japanese The origin of the Japanese people is still obscure. mysterious, and dispute” by anthropologists, historians, and scientists. but many people believe that they are the products of mixed ancestry of immigrants from central parts of Asia the southern region of China. Southeast Asia and the South Pacific islands: Observing their physical traits. biological characteristics, and a Mongoloiq resemblance, and the geographical location of Japan, it is not very difficult tr} come to a conclusion that the dominant group of migrants had entered from mainland Asia via the Korean peninsula; although other races like the Ainu were believed to be living in the Japanese archipelago before the arrival or modern Japanese. Modern Japanese might be the descendants from a fusion of several races of migrants. The people who came from mainland Asia, mainly by the way of the Korean Peninsula, might have played the dominant role. Among these, the Manchu-Koreans, Chinese, or Mongol

Studying Science The curiosity of humans to know more about the natural world has been observed throughout history. Humans have recorded their observations since time immemorial. These observations formed the basis of early scientific records. Modern science emerged in 16th and 17th century during the Renaissance in Europe. Before the Renaissance, almost all people believed whatever was told to them by the government and whatever was written in the religious scriptures  without any question. The Renaissance gave birth to the questioning mind of the human being. It saw a more methodical and scientific approach to knowledge. The works of Galileo and Francis Bacon led to the emergence of modern science. Biology The word ‘biology’ is derived from the Greek Word bios meaning life and logos meaning the study and description of the life of animals and plants. Hippocrates and Aristotle were the first people to study life in a systematic and scientific manner. Father of Medici