Social Science Questions & Answers

In Sikhism the equivalent to baptism is the Amrit ceremony of rebirth. Sikh initiates drink an elixir prepared from sugar and water stirred with a sword. Initiates agree to give their head and sever ties with their former way of life in a symbolic gesture of surrendering their ego. Initiates adhere to a strict spiritual and secular moral code of …

Sikhism’s Holy Scripture is known formally as Siri Guru Granth Sahib. The Granth is a volume of text containing 1420 pages of poetic verse written in 31 musical measures. Guru Granth Sahib is compiled from the writings of Sikh Gurus, Hindus, and Muslims. The Granth Sahib has been formally inaugurated as the Guru of the Sikhs for all time.

There are nearly fifty different kinds of sea snakes, all with one exception living in waters between the Persian Gulf and Polynesia. The Yellow-bellied Sea Snake lives in Africa and Mexico. Sea snakes, with black rings or bars on its blue body, belong to the Hydropphidae family. It has a wide tail which is uses as an oar when swimming, …

Some steep sided ash and cinder cones are made of small fragments of magma exploded out of the vent (opening) On the other hand, quiet volcanoes emit streams of molten lava. If the lava is thick and pasty, it flows only a short distance before cooling. this lava creates steep sided mountains. Runny lava spreads out over large areas before …

Most spiders spin webs of one sort or another but only some use the web to entangle their prey. The trapdoor spiders from tropical and subtropical countries are spiders that spin a tubular web in a hole in the ground. The hole the spider digs may be several inches deep and about an inch across. The web is spun to …

Experts have a divided opinion about this. Part of reality television’s appeal is due to its ability to place ordinary or ‘real’ people in extraordinary situations. These shows have an element of drama in which some characters are seen as heroes while others become villains. These aspects, along with the element of conflict make them entertaining. Supporters of this genre, …

Apart from the species of camel already mentioned, there are four other member of the camel family which do not possess humps. These are the Llama, Guanaco, Alpaca and vicuna, all from South America. From the time of Inca civilization these animals have been domesticated by man, and to this day they are invaluable to Indians living at high altitudes. …

Dragons have always been very popular subjects for folklore and legends. There are friendly dragons, but most of them are very hostile and likely to kill on sight with a burst of flames from their nose or mouth. Almost every hero in folklore has killed a dragon at some point in his career, as well as all the other daring …

A new study has authenticated the phrase “cry crocodile tears”, by discovering that crocodiles really do weep while eating — but it is purely physiological reasons that makes them bawl. A University of Florida researcher observed and videotaped four confined caimans and three alligators, both close relatives of the crocodile, while eating on a spit of dry land at Florida’s …

For many years railway engineers have been thinking about new kinds of track for trains to run along. The parallel metal rail tracks with which we are familiar are not very efficient by modern standards. Because wheels are needed to move the trains along, a good deal of power is lost through friction in the moving parts. Ordinary railway tracks …