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FROM REFUGEE to CHESS MASTER “I Thank God for Everything That He’S Done for Our Family.” VOL. 7 • NO. 6 • JULY/AUGUST 2021 TANITOLUWA ADEWUMI FROM REFUGEE TO CHESS MASTER “I thank God for everything that he’s done for our family.” page 28 JET BALLOON 6WK21_01_Cover.indd 1 6/10/21 1:40 PM VOL. 7 • NO. 6 • JULY/AUGUST 2021 6-9 10-13 14-17 SCIENCE SOUP TIME MACHINE CITIZEN SHIP A very high Finding an A newspaper bridge and old coin run by a kid very helpful and fi xing an and horses spit old stage ridden by kids 18-21 22-25 26-29 TAKE APART SMART CRITTER FILE JET BALLOON Hair made e last wild Marie Curie’s from bananas macaw and house and a and GPS for the goliath 10-year-old sharks grouper Chess Master also in this issue: 3 PUZZLING TIMES | 4-5 NEWS SHORTS | 30-31 EVEN MORE NEWS SHORTS | 32 PUZZLING TIMES It’s a trick of the eye. We call it an optical illusion. The French say, “trompe l’oeil.” (trohmp luh-yuh) This is an art installation in Trocadero Square in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. French artist and photographer known only as JR created the tricky image. When a visitor stands—or jumps—at just the right spot, the artwork and the tower line up with each other. That creates the realistic perception that a ravine has opened up before the famous landmark. THIS PAGE: AP PHOTO/FRANCOIS MORI • COVER: RUSSELL MAKOFSKY WORLDkids, Issue 6, July 2021 (ISSN #2372-7357, USPS #700-950) is published 6 times per year—September, November, January, March, May, and July for $35.88 per year, by God’s World News, God’s World Publications, 12 All Souls Crescent, Asheville, NC 28803. Periodicals postage paid at Asheville, NC, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to WORLDkids, PO Box 20002, Asheville, NC 28802-8201. EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, WORLD FOR STUDENTS: Rich Bishop, MANAGING EDITOR: Rebecca Cochrane, CONTRIBUTORS: Chelsea Boes, Kate Womack, Anna Smith, DESIGN DIRECTOR: Rob Patete. Member Services: (828) 435-2982, Advertising Sales: (828) 253-8063, [email protected] Mailing address: WORLDkids, PO Box 20002, Asheville, NC 28802-8201. Telephone (828) 253-8063. © 2021 God’s World News, God’s World Publications. 2 worldkids • JULY/AUGUST 2021 6WK21_02-03_Contents_PT.indd 2 6/10/21 1:30 PM which The sneaky pirates put multiple X’s on the treasure map. To find out which X marks JULY/AUGUST 2021 X marks the true spot, unscramble the letters the below to spell four pirate-related words. spot? the right spot, the artwork and the tower THIS PAGE: AP PHOTO/FRANCOIS MORI • COVER: RUSSELL MAKOFSKY OHYA ROTRAP Now solve the last jumble: Take the six circled letters and A unscramble them to reveal where the treasure is located! C PA KALPN NONCAN The treasure is by the PL WORLDkids, Issue 6, July 2021 (ISSN #2372-7357, USPS #700-950) is published 6 times per year—September, November, January, March, May, and July for $35.88 per year, by God’s World News, God’s World Publications, 12 All Souls Crescent, Asheville, NC 28803. Periodicals postage paid at Asheville, NC, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: : Rich Bishop, MANAGING EDITOR: Rebecca ANCHOR Cochrane, CONTRIBUTORS: Chelsea Boes, Kate Womack, Anna Smith, DESIGN DIRECTOR: Rob Patete. Member Services: (828) 435-2982, Advertising Sales: (828) 253-8063, [email protected] Mailing address: WORLDkids, PO Box 20002, Asheville, NC 28802-8201. Telephone (828) 253-8063. © 2021 God’s World News, God’s World Publications. Answers on page 5 JULY/AUGUST 2021 • worldkids 3 6WK21_02-03_Contents_PT.indd 3 6/10/21 12:47 PM The babies are in plastic cribs called incubators that keep them warm and safe. A feeding tube delivers milk and medicine. NINE Newborns! Bioluminescence is a fancy word A woman in Mali was expecting seven beautiful for light made by babies. To keep them all as safe as possible, she went to a living creature. Morocco for the delivery. Morocco has better healthcare than Mali does. A big team of doctors and nurses were there to help. Surprise! When the time came, there were not only seven babies. There were NINE! Halima Cissé and her husband Kader Turn Off the Lights Arby have made history with their big family. “Excuse me. Could you PLEASE turn off the lights?” The babies were all premature. They were born in Fireflies can’t talk, of course. But if they could, that’s early May. That was about 10 weeks early. But several what they’d be saying. weeks later, all nine babies were growing with lots of care Nearly 150 species of flashing firefly light up summer at the hospital. MOROCCO nights in North America. Most of these species have a Khalil Msaif is a two- to four-week mating season. Each evening, males pediatric neona- fly around, producing a species-specific pattern of tologist. That’s a flashes. Females perch in the undergrowth. They doctor for respond with flashes of their own. newborn babies. MALI AFRICA Humans use light too: house lights, path lights, and He says all the streetlights. These can shine all night, year-round. People babies needed can block out a neighbor’s annoying LED floodlight with to stay in the curtains. Fireflies can’t. The more people light up the hospital for more MOROCCO: AP PHOTOS night, the less space fireflies have for their flash dance. weeks. But he also said that As fireflies vanish from their usual they were “stable.” That means homes, insect enthusiasts ask: Is your there were no immediate threats porch light on even when you don’t to the babies’ health. Praise God! need it? Can you give your backyard Children are a blessing and a bugs just a little more dark? reward from Him! (Psalm 127:3) WOODSAT: HANDOUT • CLEVELAND HARBOR LIGHT: MTBANGERT 4 worldkids • JULY/AUGUST 2021 6WK21_04-05_Shorts4.indd 4 6/10/21 12:50 PM A camera on an extendable “selfie stick” will record Will WOODSAT Hold Up? changes to the plywood. A satellite made of . wood? Yes, according to Arctic Astronautics! The Finnish company plans to use a rocket in New Zealand to launch a wooden satellite into space later this year. The project will test the wood in the tough conditions of space. The WISA WOODSAT is a cube-shaped satellite. It is made of lightweight, strong, coated plywood. It measures about four inches tall and wide. The makers say that plywood survives well in harsh environments. Space is a very harsh place! The satellite will experience heat, cold, vacuums (places with very low pressure), and radiation. If it holds up, the plywood might work in other space structures. Imagine a wooden space station or spacecraft! 4 in. One of the cube’s cameras is on a “selfie stick.” It can take pictures of the satellite in space. That will answer questions like “Will the color change? Will the layers crack?” God made humans to be curious and ask questions about how His world works. And He gave us the ability to explore! Four FREE lighthouses? You bet! The federal government announced the fun giveaway. Each of the four lighthouses has an amazing waterfront view. Only government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and community development groups can apply to win one, though. The National Park Service gets to decide who is a good fit for lighthouse life. Built in 1910, the Duluth Harbor North Pierhead Light sits at the tip of Lake Superior in Minnesota. Lighthouse It is on the National Register of Historic Places. Giveaway! The Beavertail Lighthouse is in Jamestown, Rhode Island. It was built in 1749. In 1779, British soldiers burned the beacon. It was rebuilt in 1856. Rhode Island’s Watch Hill Light is a three-story tower with a glass lantern on top. It also has an attached house for the keeper to live in. Every winter, the Cleveland Harbor West The Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Light looks Pierhead Light turns into a beautiful ice castle. very different in winter! When temperatures drop below freezing, the surf sprays the lighthouse and covers it with icicles. Which one would you choose? 1) shoe, he, apron, on, ray, pray, fi nger, n, fern: soaring 2) baby, e, bye, nacho, p, chop, tuna, lip, tulip: banana 3) path, crow, c, throw, purr, shot, push: parrot push: shot, purr, throw, c, crow, path, 3) banana tulip: lip, tuna, chop, p, nacho, bye, e, baby, 2) soaring fern: n, nger, fi pray, ray, on, apron, he, shoe, 1) PUZZLE: 32 PAGE MOROCCO: AP PHOTOS | a 4) a, 3) b, 2) b, 1) Master Chess Curie, Marie p26-29, BALLOON, | JET creation. 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