Ravi Shankar - Navo

• Ravi Shankar, his name often preceded by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician who was one of the best-known exponents of the sitar.
• In the second half of the 20th century as well as a composer of Hindustani classical music. 
• Shankar was born in April 7, 1920, Varanasi (Kashi) and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. 
• He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan.
• He dies on 11 December 2012 age 92, San Diego, California, U.S.

White House - AJ

• The White House is the main home and workplace for all the Presidents of the United States of America.
• The White House has been designed by a man named James Hoban who was born in Ireland and lived most of his life in Ireland.
• The White House was built between 1792 and 1800 and was painted the color Aquia Sandstone.
• The White House was the home and workplace for all of the presidents from John Adams and above.
• In 1814 the White House was set on fire by the British army and was the fatal burning of Washington. 

Parrot - Anita

• Parrots are birds, often vividly colored, with a short down-curved hooked bills, grasping feet, and a raucous voice, found especially in the tropics and feeding on fruits and seeds. Many are popular as cage birds, and some are able to mimic the human voice.
• The most important parts of a parrot's diet are seeds, nuts, fruit, flower buds, carrion and small animals.
• Most parrots prefer to have only the feathers on their head touched. And get this! They want you to stroke towards the beak, not the tail. A parrot who is enjoying having his head scratched will fluff all of his feathers up in response to touch. 
• Parrots like to dance, sing, talk, and argue with their owners.
• Some other species that are related to parrots are Amazons, African Grey Parrots, Cockatoos, Eclectus, Hawk-Headed Parrots, and Macaws.
• Links : Parrot Dancing To Whip Your Hair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUvVHPY5r04

Plant Fertilizer - Anita

• Plant fertilizers are like plant food because plant fertilizers have the nutrients needed for the plant to develop and grow just like the human body.
• Plants need to be fertilized because most soil does not contain the nutrients plants require to thrive and grow.
• Most plant fertilizers contain and are made of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. 
• Roses need fertilizer made up of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, iron, and magnesium.
• Are you thinking, "I can't spend so much money on plant fertilizer!" Don't worry now! There is a type of plant fertilizer that can be made by you and doesn't cost any money! It is called compost. You throw all your wasted fruit, vegetables, eggshells and many other things in a basket. In a few months, the wasted food will turn into compost, one of the richest types of soil that your plant will love!

Reflecting Pool - Navo

• The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is the largest of the many reflecting pools in Washington, D.C.
• United States. It is a long and large rectangular pool located on the National Mall, directly east of the Lincoln Memorial, with the Washington Monument to the east of the reflecting pool.
• Part of the iconic image of Washington, the reflecting pool hosts many of the 24 million visitors a year who visit the National Mall.
• It is lined by walking paths and shade trees on both sides. Depending on the viewer's vantage point, it dramatically reflects the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Mall's trees, and/or the expansive sky.
•  It is approximately 2,029 feet (618 m) long (over a third of a mile) and 167 feet (51 m) wide. It has a depth of approximately 18 inches (46 cm) on the sides and 30 inches (76 cm) in the center. It holds approximately 6,750,000 U.S. gallons (25,500,000 L) of water.

Washington Monument - Navo

• The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the early Continental Army and the first American president.
• Standing due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial, the monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 554 feet.
• Construction of the monument began in 1848, and was halted from 1854 to 1877 due to a lack of funds, a struggle for control over the Washington National Monument Society, and the intervention of the American Civil War.
• Although the stone structure was completed in 1884, internal ironwork, the knoll, and other finishing touches were not completed until 1888.
• The monument was damaged during the 2011 Virginia earthquake and Hurricane Irene in the same year and remained closed to the public while the structure was assessed and repaired. After 32 months of repairs, the National Park Service and the Trust for the National Mall reopened the Washington Monument to visitors on May 12, 2014.

National Mall - Navo

• The National Mall is a national park in downtown Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.
• The National Park Service (NPS) administers the National Mall, which is part of its National Mall and Memorial Parks unit.
• The term National Mall commonly includes areas that are officially part of West Potomac Park and Constitution Gardens to the west. 
• Often is taken to refer to the entire area between the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Capitol. 
• With the Washington Monument providing a division slightly west of the center.
• The National Mall is 1.9 miles in the steps of the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial.
• The National Mall is 1.2 miles in the steps of the Capitol and the Washington Memorial.

Salamander - AJ

• A Salamander is an animal that is cold blooded and is apart of the group of amphibians  because it spends part of it's life in water and land.
• There are about 50 species of salamanders out there approximately 100 of salamanders are out there.
• Salamanders have long tails and short legs and are mostly found in moist arabic areas in the northern hemisphere.
• Many Salamanders come in different sizes and they are mostly small but two species are up to 5 feet long and tall.
• They live near water because the ground becomes moist for the Salamanders to be able to live in.

Capitol Hill - Navo

• The United States Capitol, atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government, completed in the year 1800. 
• Though not at the geographic center of the Federal District, the Capitol forms the basis for the District's street-numbering system. 
• It is the origin point at which the District's four quadrants meet, and around which the city was laid out.
• In 2014, the appearance of the dome was altered by the scaffolding erected for a restoration project scheduled to be completed by early 2017.
• The construction started in September 18 1793, 211 years ago

Baltimore Aquarium - Anita

• The Baltimore Aquarium is the National Aquarium in Baltimore which is a non - profit public aquarium located 501 East Pratt Street in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Maryland in the United States.
• Originally established in 1873 in Wood's Hole, Massachusetts, this National Aquarium is considered the first public aquarium in the United States.
•  Meanwhile, during the 1970s, then-Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer conceived and championed the idea of an aquarium as a vital component in the redevelopment of Baltimore's Inner Harbor.   
• On September 30, 2013, National Aquarium, Washington, DC, closed its doors to the public, due to necessary renovations in the Department of Commerce.
• Today, the National Aquarium, Baltimore, features a living collection of more than 17,000 fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and marine mammals living in award-winning habitats. In summer 2013, the Aquarium opened Blacktip Reef, a breathtaking exhibit replicating an Indo - Pacific reef and featuring more than 700 animals, including a school of blacktip reef sharks.

Luray Caverns - Anita

• On August 13, 1878, 3 young boys slid through a hole in the ground to discover the amazing Luray Caverns which is about 7 million years old.
• The formations of Luray Caverns grow 1 cubic inch every 120 years.
• In the cave, there is a rock formation that is 144 feet tall and is about 700 years old, making it the biggest and oldest formation in the cave.
• Another giant formation in the cave is oddly lying on its side. But why? A long time ago, the formation fell from the cave's ceiling under its weight and over the years molded into the surrounding rocks.
• Lastly, a body of water named the Wishing Well is found in the caves. The water is crystal clear and its deepest point is 6 feet. If you go on the tour, you are allowed to make a wish and throw a coin into the water.

If you go on the tour of Luray Caverns, you can experience all these wonderful formations and many more!  

Fallen Formation

Wishing Well

Smithsonian Institution - AJ

• The Smithsonian Institution is a research and educational institute and also i a museum complex about many famous things of the world.
• It is administered and funded by the United States Government and is funded by it's own endowment and contribution.
• Most of the institution is in Washington D.C  and it is 19 museums together and many of those museums are in many places of the country.
• The Smithsonian Institution has many interesting places in the museums like there special Imax  3 dimensional theater.
• All of the museums combined that make up the Smithsonian Institution has over 137 million items combined.

Lincoln Memorial - Navo

• The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
• The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural Address.
• Approximately 6 million people visit the memorial annually.
• It is open to the public 24 hours a day. 
• The first public memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., was a statue by Lot Flannery erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after Lincoln's assassination.
• Demands for a fitting national memorial had been voiced since the time of Lincoln's death.
• An American sculptor, Clark Mills, was chosen to design the monument. His plans reflected the nationalistic spirit of the time, and called for a 70-foot (21 m) structure adorned with six equestrian and 31 pedestrian statues of colossal proportions, crowned by a 12-foot (3.7 m) statue of Abraham Lincoln.
• On the morning of July 26, 2013, the memorial was shut down after the statue's base and legs were splashed with green paint.It reopened later that day.A 58-year-old Chinese national, Jiamei Tian, was later found responsible for the vandalism. He was admitted to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, a psychiatric facility, and was later found to be incompetent to stand trial.

Ratan Tata - Navo

• Ratan Naval Tata (born 28 December 1937) is an Indian businessman and chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons.
• He was the chairman of Tata Group, a Mumbai-based conglomerate from 1991–2012.
• He stepped down as the chairman of Tata Group, on 28 December 2012 but continues as the chairman of the Group's charitable trusts.
• Ratan Tata's middle name is Naval.
• Ratan Tata's nationality is Indiana and was born in Surat, British India.

Mukesh Ambani - Navo

• Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born 19 April 1957) is an Indian business magnate who is the chairman, managing director and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India's second most valuable company by market value.
• As of 2013, he is India's richest man and second richest man in Asia.
•  Ambani is listed as the 19th richest person in the world with a personal wealth of $23.6 billion.
•  He has retained his position as India's richest person for the sixth year in a row.
• In 2012, Forbes named him one of the richest sports owners in the world.