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Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues Summary Class 11 English

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  Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues Summary Class 11 English Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues Summary In English It was 6 p.m. on January 5, 2005 when the mummy of Tutankhamun moved smoothly and quietly into CT scanner which had been carried to Tut’s resting place. The aim was to probe the persisting medical mysteries of this young ruler who died more than 3,300 years ago. His dead body was embalmed and buried in a royal grave in the Valley of the Kings. Howard Carter, a British archaeologist discovered Tut’s tomb in 1922 after years of futile search. Its contents remain the richest royal collection ever found. They include extremely attractive artifacts in gold as well as everyday things like board games, a bronze razor, linen undergarments, cases of food and wine. Carter first recorded the Pharaoh’s funeral treasures. Then he began investigating his three nested coffins. The first one had a shroud covered with garlands of willow and olive trees, wild celery, lotus petals and cor

We’re Not Afraid to Die… if We Can All Be Together Summary Class 11

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  We’re Not Afraid to Die… if We Can All Be Together Summary Class 11  We’re Not Afraid to Die… if We Can All Be Together Summary In English In July 1976, the narrator, a 37 year-old businessman, his wife Mary, six year old son, Jonathan and seven year old daughter, Suzanne set sail from Plymouth, England. They wished to go round the world on a long sea journey as Captain James Cook had done 200 years earlier. They started in 23 metre, 30 ton wooden-hulled boat named Wavewalker. The first part of their planned three-year, 105,000 kilometre journey passed pleasantly. They sailed down the west coast of Africa to Cape Town. They took on two crewmen-Larry Vigil, an American and Herb Seigler, a Swiss to help them cross the rough southern Indian Ocean. On their second day out of Cape Town, they faced extremely strong winds, which blew continuously for next few weeks. Waves rose up to 15 metres. On December 25, they were 3500 kilometres east of Cape Town. Though the weather was very bad, they

The Portrait of a Lady Summary Class 11 English

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  The Portrait of a Lady Summary Class 11 English May 6, 2019  by  Bhagya The Portrait of a Lady Summary In English In ‘The Portrait of a Lady’, Khushwant Singh has given an account of his grandmother. He draws a life-like portrait. She was very old. Her face was wrinkled. Her hair was white. It was hard to believe that once she had been young and pretty. His grandfather’s picture hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room. He wore a big turban. His clothes were loose. He looked at least a hundred years old. It was hard to believe that he had once a wife or children. Khushwant Singh’s grandmother was a short lady. She was fat and slightly bent. She couldn’t walk straight. She hobbled about the house. She had to keep one hand on her waist. It was to balance her stoop. In the other she held a rosary. She was always telling the beads. Her lips constantly moved in prayer. She put on white clothes. Her silver locks scattered over her pale face. She looked like snowy mountains in winter.