Book 03: Starport by George R.R.Martin

This is a graphic novel and so I assure you, you get the visual treat. This book is about the aliens' entry to the earth. Human beings and Aliens are trying to be in an alliance to have a peaceful life. However, the story has its own chaos. The story gets more interesting when an alien envoy is murdered on its arrival. Aliens and human detectives tie up to find the murderer. And ofcourse there was a love between an alien boy and a human girl! ❤️

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Movie 02: Ronda Rousey Story (Through my father’s eyes)

This movie is all about the UFC champion - Ronda Rousey. When she was born, she did not have a heartbeat for 1 minute, and then she cried. Looks like her fighting spirit started the minute she was born. 😊

She was not able to speak properly until she was 6 years old. When she was 8 years old, her father died. She was saddened. She then wanted to join “Judo”. Ronda’s Mother (AnnMaria DeMars) is World Judo Champion. Her mother initially declined her interest in Judo. And then AnnMaria joined her daughter to the training “Hayastan MMA Academy, Los Angeles”

Guys were hesitant to join the “Hayastan Team” because they are so rough and tough. She was trained by Gene LeBell who trained Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and a lot of guys.

The movie shows the struggles she went through. Most people in her high school bullied her as “Miss.Man.” She was qualified for the Olympics when she was 17 years old and yet the world unnoticed it and she stayed in her car. She had no money. She took a break for one year and then came back like a Phoenix bird. She changed people’s perspective of women in sports (MMA/Judo/WWE). 🥋 🤼‍♀️ 🥊

Her mom always told, “No one has the right to beat you!” And that’s very true.

Someone’s got to be number one. Someone’s got to be a doctor. There is no reason why not you.

Believe in yourself. Don’t self-reject. Be kind to others. We never know what they are going through.

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Book 02: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

This is a fantastic fictional book. We all have a lot of regrets in our lives. Sometimes people end up making bad decisions due to the regrets they have and because of the absence of love in their lives.

This book gives a chance to a person (Nora Seed) to adventure the experience between life and death.

Nora was given multiple chances to try different possibilities in her life. If she is disappointed in the life she chose she will disappear from that life and land back in the midnight library. For example, if she chose a life where she is a Musician, and if she is disappointed in that life, she will disappear.

Well, we can choose choices but not outcomes. 😜

Each book is each life of hers in a different universe.

If we aim to be something we are not, we will always fail!

Sometimes we can have everything and feel nothing. Let's focus on where we want to go rather than where we have been! Let go of regrets.

The only way to learn is to live!

Live your life to the fullest. Be kind to others.

You will definitely like this book if you like the concept of the multiverse and quantum science. ❤

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Movie 01: 14 Peaks - Nothing is Impossible (Duration: 01 hr 41 mins)

There are 14 peaks in the world over 8000 meters. This movie is all about the journey to reach the summit of those 14 mountains. 🏔

In the history of high-altitude mountaineering, the first person (Reinhold Messner) to climb all the 14 mountains took 16 years!!!

The fastest time to climb all the 14 mountains was seven years.

In 2019, a Nepali (Nirmal Purja) guy took this challenge and completed all the 14 peaks in 6 months and 6 days! 😮 👏🏻

This movie shows the risks involved in it and the way they handled it.

Climbing_Mountains: The edge of life and death.

This movie also describes Nirmal Purja‘s life journey, his time growing up in Nepal, to the Gurkhas, and then being part of the UK special force.

Every time he took up a challenge, he proved the power of possibility!

When we believe in ourselves, we can come alive even from the death zone!

Never give up. Believe in yourself, nothing is impossible! ❤️

And finally, don’t be afraid to dream big!

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Book 01: Thanks a Thousand (A gratitude Journey) by A.J Jacobs

 

In the busy world, we forget to be grateful for the things/people we have in our life. We forget how lucky we are! We never appreciate the 'good' in and around us.

I am so grateful for each and everything I have, for each and every person I met in my life. ❤️

This book is all about the gratitude trail. Started with the love for coffee (I am a coffee lover too) and ended with how grateful we should be for who we are and for what we have!

This book also gives a lot of information about so many things that's being involved in our day-to-day life and how much we should be grateful to have it. 📖📚

I have been to NY a couple of times and I was able to relate to so many stuff that came up in the book. ✈️

The next time I visit NY, I will make sure to stop by 'Joe Coffee' to have my cup of coffee. ☕️

I am glad I read it. When I completed this book, I listed the things I am grateful to have in my life. I enjoyed the gratitude trail. Hope you guys will love it too!😍

It is a ‘Feel Good’ book!

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From Ancient Times to the Modern Era!!

While a "sea" is generally defined as a large lake that contains saltwater, or a specific portion of an ocean, the idiom "Sail the seven seas," is not so easily defined.

"Sail the seven seas" is a phrase that is said to have been used by sailors, but does it actually refer to a specific set of seas? Many would argue yes, while others would disagree. There has been much debate as to whether or not this is in reference to seven actual seas and if so, which ones?

Seven Seas as a Figure of Speech?

Many believe that "the seven seas" is simply an idiom that refers to sailing many or all of the oceans of the world. The term is believed to have been popularized by Rudyard Kipling who published an anthology of poetry titled The Seven Seas in 1896.

The phrase can now be found in popular songs such as, "Sailing on the Seven Seas" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, "Meet Me Halfway" by Black Eyed Peas, "Seven Seas" by Mob Rules, and "Sail over the Seven Seas" by Gina T.

Significance of the Number Seven

Why "seven" seas? Historically, culturally, and religiously, the number seven is a very significant number. Isaac Newton identified seven colors of the rainbow, there are Seven Wonders of the ancient world, seven days of the week, seven dwarves in the fairy tale "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves," the seven-day story of creation, the seven branches on a Menorah, seven Chakras of meditation, and seven heavens in Islamic traditions -- just to name a few instances.

The number seven appears again and again throughout history and stories, and because of this, there is much mythology surrounding its importance.

The Seven Seas in Ancient and Medieval Europe

This list of the seven seas is believed by many to be the original seven seas as defined by the sailors of ancient and Medieval Europe.

The majority of these seven seas are located around the Mediterranean Sea, very close to home for these sailors.

1) The Mediterranean Sea - This sea is attached to the Atlantic Ocean and many early civilizations developed around it, including Egypt, Greece, and Rome and it has been called "the cradle of civilization" because of this.

2) The Adriatic Sea - This sea separates the Italian peninsula from the Balkan peninsula. It is part of the Mediterranean Sea.

3) The Black Sea - This sea is an inland sea between Europe and Asia. It is also connected to the Mediterranean Sea.

4) The Red Sea - This sea is a narrow strip of water extending south from Northeast Egypt and it connects to the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. It is connected today to the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal and is one of the most heavily traveled waterways in the world.

5) The Arabian Sea - This sea is the Northwestern part of the Indian Ocean between India and the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia). Historically, it was a very important trade route between India and the West and remains such today.

6) The Persian Gulf - This sea is a part of the Indian Ocean, located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. There has been a dispute as to what its actual name is so it is also sometimes known as the Arabian Gulf, The Gulf, or The Gulf of Iran, but none of those names are recognized internationally.

7) The Caspian Sea - This sea is located on the Western edge of Asia and the Eastern edge of Europe. It is actually the largest lake on the planet. It is called a sea because it contains saltwater.

The Seven Seas Today

Today, the list of "Seven Seas" that is most widely accepted is inclusive of all of the bodies of water on the planet, which are all part of the one global ocean. Each is technically an ocean or section of an ocean by definition, but most geographers accept this list to be the actual "Seven Seas":

1) North Atlantic Ocean

2) South Atlantic Ocean

3) North Pacific Ocean

4) South Pacific Ocean

5) Arctic Ocean

6) Southern Ocean

7) Indian Ocean

The Origin of Wildfires and How They Are Caused!!

It is interesting to note that, of the four billion years of earth's existence, conditions were not conducive for spontaneous wildfire until the last 400 million years. A naturally-occurring atmospheric fire did not have the chemical elements available until major several earth changes occurred.

The earliest life forms emerged without needing oxygen (anaerobic organisms) to live about 3.5 billion years ago and lived in a carbon dioxide based atmosphere. Life forms that needed oxygen in small amounts (aerobic) came much later in the form of photosynthesizing blue-green algae and ultimately changed the earth's atmospheric balance toward oxygen and away from carbon dioxide (co2).

Photosynthesis increasingly dominated earth's biology by initially creating and continuously increasing the earth's percentage of oxygen in the air. Green plant growth then exploded and aerobic respiration became the biologic catalyst for terrestrial life. Around 600 million years ago and during the Paleozoic, conditions for natural combustion started developing with increasing speed.

Wildfire Chemistry

Fire needs fuel, oxygen, and heat to ignite and spread. Wherever forests grow, the fuel for forest fires is provided mainly by continued biomass production along with the resulting fuel load of that vegetative growth. Oxygen is created in abundance by the photosynthesizing process of living green organisms so it is all around us in the air. All that is needed then is a source of heat to provide the exact chemistry combinations for a flame.

When these natural combustibles (in the form of wood, leaves, brush) reach 572º, gas in the steam given off reacts with oxygen to reach its flashpoint with a burst of flame. This flame then preheats surrounding fuels. In turn, other fuels heat up and the fire grows and spreads. If this spreading process is not controlled, you have a wildfire or uncontrolled forest fire.

Depending on the geographic condition of the site and the vegetative fuels present, you might call these brush fires, forest fires, sage field fires, grass fires, woods fires, peat fires, bushfires, wildland fires, or veld fires.

How Do Forest Fires Start?

Naturally caused forest fires are usually started by dry lightning where little to no rain accompanies a stormy weather disturbance. Lightning randomly strikes the earth an average of 100 times each second or 3 billion times every year and has caused some of the most notable wildland fire disasters in the western United States.

Most lightning strikes occur in the North American southeast and southwest. Because they often occur in isolated locations with limited access, lightning fires burn more acres than human-caused starts. The average 10-year total of U.S. wildfire acres burned and caused by humans is 1.9 million acres where 2.1 million acres burned are lightning-caused.

Still, human fire activity is the primary cause of wildfires, with nearly ten times the start rate of natural starts. Most of these human-caused fires are accidental, usually caused by carelessness or inattention by campers, hikers, or others traveling through wildland or by debris and garbage burners. Some are intentionally set by arsonists.

Some human-caused fires are started to reduce heavy fuel buildup and used as a forest management tool. This is called a controlled or prescribed burn and used for wildfire fire fuel reduction, wildlife habitat enhancement, and debris clearing. They are not included in the above statistics and ultimately reduce wildfire numbers by reducing conditions that contribute to wildfire and forest fires.

How Does Wildland Fire Spread?

The three primary classes of wildland fires are surface, crown, and ground fires. Each classification intensity depends on the quantity and types of fuels involved and their moisture content. These conditions have an effect on fire intensity and will determine how fast the fire will spread.

• Surface fires typically burn readily but at a low intensity and partially consume the entire fuel layer while presenting little danger to mature trees and root systems. Fuel buildup over many years will increase intensity and especially when associated with drought, can become a rapidly spreading ground fire. Regular controlled fire or prescribed burning effectively reduces the fuel buildup leading to a damaging ground fire.
• Crown fires generally result from intense rising ground fire heat and occur in the higher sections of draping trees. The resulting "ladder effect" causes hot surface or ground fires to climb the fuels into the canopy. This can increase the chance for embers to blow and branches to fall into unburned areas and increase the spread the fire.
• Ground fires are the most infrequent type of fire but make for very intense blazes that can potentially destroy all vegetation and organic manner, leaving only bare earth. These largest fires actually create their own winds and weather, increasing the flow of oxygen and "feeding" the fire.