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11 Fun Facts That Will Flabbergast You

  Hydra- is an aquatic creature and it is the only creature that can never die because its cells keep regenerating.                                          Coca-Cola was originally green because of its fresh cocoa leaves.                                                                                               . The bulletproof vest was actually invented by a pizza delivery guy from Detroit, USA after he was shot twice on the job.                        If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs of the horse in the air, the person died in battle.  ...

Joan's Rainbow Cake Recipe

 The Joan's Rainbow Cake has a very interesting backstory to it. The story goes like this " There was once a French lady name Juan waiting for her lover to come back from war. On the first day of her wait she makes a strawberry cake. However, he does not come that day. Hoping he will come the next day; she makes an orange cake. Again, he does not show up. On the third day she made a pistachio cake but like the other days he does not show up again. She went to bed disappointed that night but, to her surprise her lover came to her with a box of chocolates the next morning. Overjoyed, she combines all the cakes into one cake using whipping cream and melted the chocolates that her lover gave her and poured it on top of the cake.  They ate it together in celebration of his return and their never-ending  love. INGREDIENTS FOR STRAWBERRY CAKE Baking powder – 2 tsp * Thick Strawberry Puree – 1/3 Cup Yogurt – 1/4 Cup or (more yogurt or strawberry...

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How Ordinary People Did Extraordinary Things To Make a Change in the Holocaust

Helping others was not simple during the Holocaust, but some still did it . In the article “Grand Mosque of Paris”, Muslims helped many Jews survive the Holocaust in Paris by doing heroic actions. In the article , “Saving the Children”,  Nicholas Winton rescued many Jewish kids in Austria by his kindful and valiant nature . Ordinary people did extraordinary things to help others, as evidenced in, “The Grand Mosque of Paris” and “Saving the Children.” In “The Grand Mosque of Paris” Muslims stand up for the right thing against the Nazis and save Jewish kids .When communicating about how Muslims helped in the Holocaust, the text states, “Benghabrit wrote out false birth certificates for Jewish children, claiming they were Muslim” (8). The Muslims helped the Jews by making them fake birth certificates. They saved the lives of Jews that would have died without their help. This was a very risky action. If the Muslims got caught doing any of this, their lives would probably not have bee...