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World Forest Day
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In November 1971, the "States members" at the 16th session of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization, voted to establish "World Forestry Day" on March 21 of each year. From 2007-2012, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) convened a series of six Forest Days, in conjunction with annual meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties. CIFOR organized these events on behalf of and in close cooperation with other members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF). Following the International Year of Forests in 2011, the International Day of Forests was established by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on November 28, 2012.
Earth’s rotation is changing speed. This means that, on average, the length of a day increases by around 1.8 seconds per century. 600 million years ago a day lasted just 21 hours.




You have to DREAM before your dreams can come true

- Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
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Adj.  requiring the use of the intellect

S Somnath

Sreedhara Panicker Somanath is an Indian aerospace engineer who is the chairman of the "Indian Space Research Organisation" (ISRO). Under his chairmanship, ISRO carried out the third Indian lunar exploration mission named "Chandrayaan-3". The lander named Vikram and the rover named Pragyaan landed near the lunar south pole region on the 23rd of August 2023 at 18:04 IST, making India the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and the fourth country to demonstrate a soft landing on the Moon's surface. S. Somanath has served as the director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram and director of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, Thiruvananthapuram. He is known for his contributions to launch vehicle design, particularly in launch vehicle systems engineering, structural design, structural dynamics, and pyrotechnics.

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