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Epiphyllum

  Epiphyllum is a species of cactus that blooms rarely and only at niIndiaght. The flower wilts before da. It is one of most cultivated species in the Genus, E. Oxypetalum.   In  India, it is called "Iruludavare" in Kannada, meaning "night lotus", it is also called "Brahma Kamalam" in Sanskrit, after the god of creation, Brahma. It is called "Gulebakavali" in Ancient Tamil, "Kadupul" in San Lanka.     The Chinese Chengyu (成语), 昙花一现 (tan hua yi xian), describe a person who has an impressive moment of glory, but it is very brief. This Chinese Chengyu mentioned about epipllum.

Pandas

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   Pandas are cute animals created by God on the sixth day of creation. God created them so that they can increase in number and fill the earth. They are mammals that have white and black fur.    Pandas live in the bamboo forest in central China. They are national animals of China. Pandas feed on bamboo shoots and roots. A panda can eat 12kg of bamboo a day!! Sometimes, pandas will hunt for mice and fish to eat. Pandas are one of the endangered animals. Their home, the bamboo forests, are used for cities. Their food, bamboo plants, are reducing. We should be good steward of God and protect the pandas. 

Antoine Lavosier

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    A ntoine Lavoisier was born on August 26,1743, in Paris. He was a French nobleman and a chemist. Jean Antoine, the father of Lavoisier, was a lawyer in the French Parliament.  Antoine Lavoisier's mother, Émilie Punctis, was a butcher.   Lavoisier was the first and only son of the wealthy family. He studied at Collège des Quatre-Nations and University of Paris in 1754, at the age of eleven, and studied chemistry, botany, astronomy, and mathematic.   In 1778, Antoine discovered oxygen. He discovered hydrogen in 1783 and also discovered that water is not an element. Water is made of hydrogens and oxygen. In 1787, he discover silicon.   Antoine Lavoisier was guillotined on May 8, 1794, during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. He was executed because he was a tax-collected of the government. Antoine Lavoisier, at the age of fifty years old, was guillotined with his father-in-law.