Treehouse Volume 2 Issue 32

Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Volume 2, Issue 31

Tales From the City under Attack attack Episode 73: Under

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey friends, Hop in for some amazing reading time this week. In Speedy’s Zone (Pg5) we have facts about Romans, Romulus and Remus. Find more fun facts in Bhootum’s Classroom (Pg4). Did you ever get a chance to eat the submarine

sandwich? It’s awesome. Why? Check out Dr. Meow’s Lab to find out! Do send us you writings, drawings and poetry to treehouse@dhakatribune. com.

Love Jonaki

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DhakaTribune Editor Zafar Sobhan Executive Editor Shahriar Karim Managing Editor Jahangir Hyder Magazine Editor Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Asst Magazine Editor Tahsin Momin Treehouse Team Natasha Rahman Saudia Afrin Raisa Rahim Rad Sharar Baizid Haque Joarder

Solution: Yes, Joe is telling the truth. The sales clerk took the money himself and made up the whole story. Proof: a gas tank for a car like a Ford Focus or Mazda 3only holds about 15 gallons, not 25 gallons

Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Rio Shuvo

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Graphics Tahsin Momin Mohammed Mahbub Alam Colour specialist Shekhar Mondal Production Masum Billah Advertising Shahidan Khurshed Circulation Masud Kabir Pavel Mail us at treehouse@dhakatribune.com www.dhakatribune.com

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2 Discobang’s pad

Drawing of the week Connect the dots Word on the street Smile that says it all

3 Tales from the city Under attack

4 Bhootum’s Classroom Amazing facts Learn English kids

5 Speedy’s Zone

History The city of seven hills

6 Dr Meow’s Lab

Food Facts Submarine Sandwich A Place from History Red brick memorial

Discobang's Pad

2 Word on the street Suhadha Afrin

Smile that says it all!

Ready? Say cheese! Click... you and I may give a hard pressed smile in front of the camera unlike these children who broke into a natural laughter! Children do not need any language to share their feelings, it’s their innocent smiles that goes straight into your heart and you can’t help but say, “how adorable!” Shahela Afoz

Source: Jaago Foundation www.jaago.com.bd

Connect the dots

drawing of the week

Name

Ibrahim Ahmed Class II Foundation School Dhaka

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Treehouse Comic

3 Story and created by Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Illustration by Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Coloured by Rio Shuvo

Tales From the City

Episode 73: Under Attack

The story so far

Treehouse is under attack and Bhootoom comes in to save the day.

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Bhootum's Classroom

TONGUE TWISTERS Tongue twisters are difficult to say.

How fast can you say it without making any mistakes?

I can think of six thin things, but I can think of six thick things too.

Find lots more fun things to do at www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglishkids

Š British Council 2013

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Speedy's Zone

History

The city of seven hills

The Romans belonged to modern day Italy and ruled Europe and North Africa. They help change much of the philosophies, architecture and government system today.

Legend

Rome was founded in 753BC by its first king, Romulus. Roman legend says that Romulus had a twin brother called Remus. As babies they were left alone when a she-wolf found and raised them. When they grew up, Romulus fought and killed Remus and built the city of Rome on seven hills.

Army

Roman Empire was greatly known for its very disciplined military. Roman

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military had two main branches and armies. They were groups of only Roman people and others who were non from the city.

Amphitheaters

The amphitheater is a unique Roman structure used for gladiator fights and chariot races etc. About 230 amphitheaters existed throughout the Roman Empire and some could hold as many as 60,000 viewers.

The Colloseum in Rome is the largest

amphitheater in the world.

Architecture

Early Roman architecture was largely influenced by Greek architecture.

However the Romans put their own style and ideas in their buildings. The aqueduct is an special creation of the Roman architects. Aqueducts were large and long water bridges that helped to bring water from distant natural water supplies into the cities.

Government

Rome has witnessed many political changes. At its earliest stage Rome was republic. The important decisions of running the empire was taken by the Senate of 300 people. These people were elected by the citizens to take the decisions for them. Over the time Rome came under the imperial rule which means ruled by emperors and the Senate became unimportant.

Ehsan Sunny

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Dr Meow's Lab

Food facts

Submarine Sandwich

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The sandwich first came from the Italian American families in the Northern United States in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries.

The use of the word “submarine” or “sub” is because the sandwich has the shape of a submarine.

The world’s largest submarine

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sandwich weighed 5,440 pounds.

Americans eat more than 300 million sandwiches every day which is almost the same as the American population.

The most expensive submarine sandwich ever sold was sold for $28,000 in 2004. Ehsan Sunny

A Place from History

Red brick Memorial Have you heard of the red brick memorial in Rayerbazar? Do you know why it was built?

A large number of teachers, doctors, engineers, poets and writers were killed

by Pakistani armies and their local partners, Al-Badr and Al-Shams, during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. Moreover, just two days before Pakistani army surrendered, over 200 of the smartest people of East Pakistan, today’s Bangladesh, were killed on December 14. Hence, it was built to honour those smart people. The memorial was designed by architect Farid U Ahmed and Jami Al Shafi.

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