The Harry Potter series has been around for a while now and has cemented itself into the fantasy genre. Though some may not take the series at the same level as a Lord of the Rings or a Wheel of Time, it deserves its own place at the table of fantasy book series.

In October of 1998 the first edition of this Book was released and it was written by J.K. Rowling.  The book starts off introduction the wizarding world from the vantage point of the Dursley’s who we later find out are the Aunt and Uncle of Harry potter, a boy who’s parents were murdered while he manage to survive. The attack on Harry’s parents left a signature lightning bolt scar on his forehead. The way of introduce of the new world is very much interesting and the way was very much creative and fantastic and it steeps the reader into the world from a perspective that would  likely be more like our own.

There is a lot going on in favour of this book that will be repeated as we continue through the story. The descriptions are very vivid of locations and items as well as character motives. This leads to a pretty laid back and easy read. Understandably these books are children books, anyone of any age can enjoy these books though and really appreciate everything else they have to offer for a relatively small time commitment based on this books size. The school year structure of this book and the subsequent books makes for a really easy method to control pace for the story. The ending ties in many story notes from earlier on in the book such as learning magical spells that come in handy at the end of the book, playing a game of chess. Paying attention in potions class. Even getting onto the schools Quidditch team (Which can be best defined to me as football on brooms.) plays a role in the end.

Character introductions are very well done. It takes very little for each character to be painted into the mind of the reader as well as share the base level motives and beliefs of each. Though later books handle these ideas in a more deep and complex manner, the method that is done in this book tends to match the age of the characters in the book which is around 11. The way J K Rowling rights this allows for easy understanding and the same level for children around the age of these characters as they can relate to what is happening in the book easily. Hermione’s introduction is well handled also. Though not the same experience as Ron, we are treated to her joining the group later on in the story. I feel that this was a good idea as to not overload the reader with new characters right away.

The plot of the book once the book has made it to the wizarding world and Hogwarts is very school oriented as well as getting Harry Potter situated in the wizarding world. When Harry finds that Hagrid, the groundskeeper of Hogwarts has helped the headmaster named Albus Dumbledore hide a mysterious item, he and his friends jump into action figure out what the item is and protect it. Along the way they get into trouble a few times leading them to go into several restricted sections of the castle that only increases their curiosity.

Throughout the book Harry also learns a lot about who he is and about his parents since they went to the same school of Hogwarts as himself. He also needs to come to terms with being a celebrity in the wizarding world that he has only just now discovered.

In the end, this book is an example of a series that can be enjoyable for children and adults. It’s a perfect book to grab and start reading to your kids, but also is a strong escapism book. It’s incredibly easy to get enveloped in the story and the characters.

Farmers are the backbone of our country and our society. If not farmers, neither are we, The farmer is the one because of whom we get food which we eat it.Farmers never stop their work whether it is rain, cold or sun. Farmers do their work with all their heart for us without any meaning And it is true that the entire population of the country is dependent on farmers.

Hindu, Muslim Sikh, Christian farmers cannot be compared with any religion because people of all religions live in India and farmers are bigger than religions and we should never respect anyone by seeing religion because farmers of every religion deserve respect because they grow food grains for us. We should respect the farmers of our country.

Whether the country is big or small, today everyone is dependent on the farmers. We are able to live on earth only because of farmers and we are getting good fruits, vegetables and grains because of them, they work day and night for this. That’s why it is said from our history that farmers are very important for us, for our country and society. And for our future. Although it is true that farmers are very important for us, but still they are not able to live their life well. We all know that what is the role of farmers in our life because every person needs proper food for their living, so it is a necessity in the society.

Farmers do their work very sincerely. The farmer has the ability to survive with the harsh devastation of different climates, climate change, soil conditions and frequent wildfires, droughts and floods. Because of farmers, people are eating fresh fruits and vegetables because of him, everyone should respect farmers. In simple words, farmers are the ‘backbone’ and ‘heart’ of the nation. Farmers sow seeds and then cultivate the crop and supply food grains to the people. Agriculture is an important part of every country, as they are also one of the major contributors to economic development. The government should worry about our agricultural heroes. People should give more support and respect to the farmers.

There are different types of farmers. And we should do the respect for all of them.

1. First of all they are the farmers who grow crops like wheat, barley, rice etc. Since most of the consumption in Indian households is of wheat and rice. So, the cultivation of wheat and rice is more in agriculture. In addition, the farmers growing these crops are of prime importance.
2. Second, there are those who cultivate fruits. These farmers have to prepare the soil for different types of fruits. Because these fruits grow according to the season. So farmers should have good knowledge about fruits and crops. There are many other farmers who do other types of farming. Moreover, all of them have to work very hard to get maximum harvest.

Agriculture is very important because our economy also depends on agriculture. So we should support the farmers of our country and also respect agriculture because without them we are not

There are many such things about farmers about which we do not know, but today agriculture has a big role in the economy of the country and we should be aware of farming farmers because this is the biggest power of India and we are Indians.

Penguins are amazing birds! They are not quite like any bird you have seen before in your backyard or at the park. They have adapted to their cold environment in a way that makes them pretty special. Here are some fun facts:

– Penguins are flightless birds.

– While other birds have wings for flying, penguins have adapted flippers to help them swim in the water.

– Most penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere.

– The Galapagos Penguin is the only penguin species that ventures north of the equator in the wild.

– Large penguin populations can be found in countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina and South Africa.

– No penguins live at the North Pole.

– Penguins eat a range of fish and other sealife that they catch underwater.

– Penguins can drink sea water.

– Penguins spend around half their time in water and the other half on land.

– The Emperor Penguin is the tallest of all penguin species, reaching as tall as 120 cm (47 in) in height.

– Emperor Penguins can stay underwater for around 20 minutes at a time.

– Emperor Penguins often huddle together to keep warm in the cold temperatures of Antarctica.

– King Penguins are the second largest penguin species. They have four layers of feathers to help keep them warm on the cold subantarctic islands where they breed.

– Chinstrap Penguins get their name from the thin black band under their head. At times it looks like they’re wearing a black helmet, which might be useful as they’re considered the most aggressive type of penguin.

– Crested penguins have yellow crests, as well as red bills and eyes.

– Yellow eyed penguins (or Hoiho) are endangered penguins native to New Zealand. Their population is believed to be around 4000.

– Little Blue Penguins are the smallest type of penguin, averaging around 33 cm (13 in) in height.

– A Penguin’s black and white plumage serves as camouflage while swimming. The black plumage on their back is hard to see from above, while the white plumage on their front looks like the sun reflecting off the surface of the water when seen from below.

– Penguins in Antarctica have no land based predators.

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Kumbhalgarh is situated in Mewar area on the westerly range of Aravalli Hills, in the Rajsamand district near Udaipur of Rajasthan state in western India. It was built in 15th century. It’s area is 268 ha (1.03 sq mi) (662 acres). The mighty fort is 3600 ft tall and 38km long. It was built by Rana Kumba. Kumbhalgarh is famous for its magnificent monuments, royal chhatris and glorious places. The Kumbhalgarh Fort with its carved temples and superb artistry is one of the strongest fortresses in the country. The Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary is popular with wildlife birdwatchers. It is the second longest wall in the world and first broadest wall in the world. Fort comes in the top 10 most Haunted places in INDIA . The night view is so dangerous. Fort’s seemingly never-ending walls. If somebody is arriving here a little after sunrise, the buildings of the palace complex glow in the sun. A large gate in the battle-mented walls allows people to enter the fort. Most vehicles are parked just outside this gate. The fort is further declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is under the group Hill Forts of Rajasthan. Having witnessed a large number of wars, the hill serves as the boundary that is unbreakable. The fort that has seven fortified gateways and a number of Jain temples within it , along with the Lakhola Tank which is the most famous tank inside the fort that was constructed by Rana Lakha. This fort has a major tourist attraction .

HISTORY OF KUMBhALGARD FORT
Rana Kumbha constructed the Kumbhalgarh Fort in 1458 AD. It took around fifteen years to compete the construction. The fort was built on the ruins of Jain king Samprati, the grandson of Ashoka. The construction of the fort separated Mewar from Marwar. Rana Kumbha belonged to the Sisodia Rajput clan. Rana Kumbha built 31 more forts to protect his kingdom. It is believed that the original Kumbhalgarh Fort dates back to the 6th century and was built by King Samprati of the Maurya Age. However, due to the lack of any recorded evidence, the history of the fort from its origins till invasion by Alauddin Khilji in 1303 AD remains vague. It was designed by a famous architect of that period, named Mandan. According to local legends, Rana Kumbha faced many difficulties during the construction of the fort that he nearly abandoned it. Then a holy man told him that all these problems would end if a pure-hearted man willingly sacrificed his life for the construction. On hearing this, the king was disappointed and that was when the holy man beheaded himself and sacrificed his life. After that, the king was able to build the fort without any problems. It is believed that the entrance to the fort marks the place where the holy man’s head fell. Kumbhalgarh was used as a safe refuge by the rulers of Mewar at times of threat or danger. It has remained witness to many significant events that have shaped the region’s history like that Maharana Pratap was born in this citadel.

THINGS TO SEE IN THE FORT-

Kumbha Palace, the residence of the king
Badal Mahal, a two-storied structure built by Rana Fateh Singh
Lakhola Tank, constructed by Rana Lakha
Ram Pol, the main gateway to the fort
Aaret Pol, Hanuman Pol, and Halla Pol, other major gateways to the fort
Badshahi Bavdi, a water tank
Hindu temples, including the ancient Ganesha temple and Neel Kanth Mahadeva temple
Jain temples, including the Parsva Natha temple, Golera Jain temple, Mamdeo temple, Mataji temple, Surya Mandir, and Pital Shah Jain temple
Chattris, Baoris, and water reservoirs.

KUMBALGARD LIGHT AND SOUND SHOW –
Every evening, the fort wakes up to a fascinating display and narration of its history through a light and sound show. The Kumbhalgarh light and sound, held in Hindi, is a key attraction for visitors who want a glimpse into the fort’s past.
Duration: 45 mins
Timings: 6:45 pm to 7:30 pm; every day
Tickets: ₹ 100 for Indians; ₹ 200 for foreigners.

Thanks for reading……

Hades in the ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous.Hades was the eldest son of Cronus and Rhea, although the last son regurgitated by his father. He and his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, defeated their father’s generation of gods, the Titans, and claimed rulership over the cosmos. Hades received the underworld, Zeus the sky, and Poseidon the sea, with the solid earth, long the province of Gaia, available to all three concurrently. Hades was often portrayed with his three-headed guard dog Cerberus.

Early Years (Mythology)

In Greek mythology, Hades, the god of the underworld, was the first-born son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. He had three older sisters, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera, as well as a younger brother, Poseidon, all of whom had been swallowed whole by their father as soon as they were born. Zeus was the youngest child and through the machinations of their mother, Rhea, he was the only one that had escaped this fate. Upon reaching adulthood, Zeus managed to force his father to disgorge his siblings. After their release, the six younger gods, along with allies they managed to gather, challenged the elder gods for power in the Titanomachy, a divine war. The war lasted for ten years and ended with the victory of the younger gods. Following their victory, according to a single famous passage in the Iliad (Book XV, ln.187–93), Hades and his two brothers, Poseidon and Zeus, drew lotsfor realms to rule. Zeus received the sky, Poseidon received the seas, and Hades received the underworld, the unseen realm to which the souls of the dead go upon leaving the world as well as any and all things beneath the earth. Some myths suggest that Hades was dissatisfied with his turnout, but had no choice and moved to his new realm.Hades obtained his wife and queen, Persephone, through abduction at the behest of Zeus. This myth is the most important one Hades takes part in;it also connected the Eleusinian Mysteries with the Olympian pantheon, particularly as represented in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, which is the oldest story of the abduction, most likely dating back to the beginning of the 6th century BC.

Persephone

Persephone did not submit to Hades willingly, but was abducted by him while picking flowers in the fields of Nysa (her father, Zeus, had previously given Persephone to Hades, to be his wife, as is stated in the first lines of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter). In protest of his act, Demeter cast a curse on the land and there was a great famine; though, one by one, the gods came to request she lift it, lest mankind perish and cause the gods to be deprived of their receiving gifts and sacrifices, Demeter asserted that the earth would remain barren until she saw her daughter again. Zeus then sends for his son, Hermes, and instructs him to go down to the Underworld in hopes that he may be able to convince Hades to allow Persephone to return to Earth, so that Demeter might see Persephone and cause the famine to stop. Hermes obeys and goes down to Hades’ realm, wherein he finds Hades seated upon a couch, Persephone seated next to him. Hermes relays Zeus’ message, and Hades complies,

Persephone does admit that she ate the food of the dead, as she tells Demeter that Hades gave her a pomegranate seed and forced her to eat it. Persephone’s eating the pomegranate seed binds her to Hades and the Underworld, much to the dismay of Demeter. Zeus, however, had previously proposed a compromise, to which all parties had agreed: of the year, Persephone would spend one third with her husband.

Realms Of Hades

In Roman mythology, the entrance to the Underworld located at Avernus, a crater near Cumae, was the route Aeneas used to descend to the realm of the dead. By synecdoche, “Avernus” could be substituted for the underworld as a whole. The di inferi were a collective of underworld divinities.

For Hellenes, the deceased entered the underworld by crossing the Styx, ferried across by Charon kair’-on), who charged an obolus, a small coin for passage placed in the mouth of the deceased by pious relatives. Paupers and the friendless gathered for a hundred years on the near shore according to Book VI of Vergil’s Aeneid. Greeks offered propitiatory libations to prevent the deceased from returning to the upper world to “haunt” those who had not given them a proper burial. The far side of the river was guarded by Cerberus, the three-headed dog defeated by Heracles (Roman Hercules). Passing beyond Cerberus, the shades of the departed entered the land of the dead to be judged.

The five rivers of the realm of Hades, and their symbolic meanings, are Acheron (the river of sorrow, or woe), Cocytus (lamentation), Phlegethon (fire), Lethe (oblivion), and Styx (hate), the river upon which even the gods swore and in which Achilles was dipped to render him invincible. The Styx forms the boundary between the upper and lower worlds. See also Eridanos.

The first region of Hades comprises the Fields of Asphodel, described in Odyssey xi, where the shades of heroes wander despondently among lesser spirits, who twitter around them like bats. Only libations of blood offered to them in the world of the living can reawaken in them for a time the sensations of humanity.

Beyond lay Erebus, which could be taken for a euphonym of Hades, whose own name was dread. There were two pools, that of Lethe, where the common souls flocked to erase all memory, and the pool of Mnemosyne (“memory”), where the initiates of the Mysteries drank instead. In the forecourt of the palace of Hades and Persephone sit the three judges of the Underworld: Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus. There at the trivium sacred to Hecate, where three roads meet, souls are judged, returned to the Fields of Asphodel if they are neither virtuous nor evil, sent by the road to Tartarus if they are impious or evil, or sent to Elysium (Islands of the Blessed) with the “blameless” heroes.

In the Sibylline oracles, a curious hodgepodge of Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian elements, Hades again appears as the abode of the dead, and by way of folk etymology, it even derives Hades from the name Adam (the first man), saying it is because he was the first to enter there.[84] Owing to its appearance in the New Testament of the Bible, Hades also has a distinct meaning in Christianity.

Self-confidence means trusting in your own
judgment, capacities and abilities. It’s about valuing yourself and feeling
worthy, regardless of any imperfections or what others may believe about you.
Self
Confidence is the key to success, or we can say the first step to success. If a
person has self-confidence, he has won half the battle. Those people who have
self-confidence at work, school, and in their daily life always appear on top
of world. Everything seems to go right for these people and they always seem to
present themselves as calm, collected and successful in everything they do.

If you pay attention, you might notice
that these self-confident people usually are successful in every area of their
lives. Is this because they are smarter? Or is it because they have more money?
Maybe they are just lucky? The reality is that none of these things are true.
Self-confident people understand the impact of believing in themselves and
relying on their abilities. Self-confidence is
something that gives you a sense of self-belief and self-assurance and
consequently makes you strong and happy. It boosts up your power and ability to
do things that might fear you and lets you down. Self-confidence is a quality
that comes from within, it’s your inner voice and reflection of what you think
about yourself. It refers to the state of mind where a person pushes their
boundaries and encourages belief within oneself. It is something which comes
from self-love. In order to have confidence in yourself, one must love oneself
to get freedom from constant doubt.

People in school and workplaces achieve
success by taking more initiatives and being more forward and active in life.
Moreover, they tend to make better decisions because of having confidence in
oneself. Thus, it makes them stand out of the
crowd. When you stand apart, people will definitely notice you. Thus, it
increases your chances of attaining success in life. Alternatively, if there is
a person who does not trust or believe in himself, it will be tough. Self-confident
people are always cherished and optimistic towards their work as they always
have a positive attitude. Those who are self-confident are more focused on
success than thinking about the failures as they have enough ability to express
themselves in society. Self-confident people can turntable
towards them by expressing themselves. Those who lack self-confidence finds it
hard in today’s modern world to express themselves, and hence they have to
struggle for success in life as they do not know how to put their words in
front of people. They may fear people around them or fear their expressions and
many other negative things in their minds.

Setting realistic goals is a good practice
to boost self-confidence. We should not set our goals too high or too low as
both can affect your self-confidence badly. Too high goals make one
under-confident as she/he may not be able to achieve and the too low goals can
make one overconfident as one can achieve it easily.

Therefore, self-confidence is essential to
stay happy and achieve success in life. You must learn ways and techniques to
become confident so that you could face any challenges in life and keep going
without looking back.

Sevilla are looking for a deal worth around €80 million (£68m/$95m) if an agreement is to be reached that allows Chelsea target Jules Kounde to leave Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, Goal has learned.

Goal was able to confirm on Tuesday that Premier League heavyweights from Stamford Bridge have entered into talks for a France international defender.

Kounde is open to the idea of taking on a new challenge in England, but a transfer will only be sanctioned if the terms are right for his current club.

The Liga outfit are reluctant to part with the France international defender for any less than his full market value