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Solution - No. 952 All competition entries should be Please enter your full name, certified by a parent or guardian date of birth, home address, as your own work. mobile number and school. Competition entries without the full details requested above, All entries must be will be disqualified. certified Closing date by a teacher or parent Amaan Morris, for weekly competitions: as your own work. Colombo 7 February 24, 2021 Telephone: 2479337/2479333 Email: [email protected] Age: 10 – 12 years Age: 13 – 15 years Word Count: 150 – 200 Word Count: 200 – 250 Topic: Sri Lanka’s National Flag Some national heroes super Topic: who worked towards Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Independence of the country. books Win: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney from Win Win: The Mysterious Mr. Quin The Last Straw is a novel by Agatha Christie Age: 9 years and below written by American author It had been a typical and cartoonist Jeff Kinney, New Year’s Eve party. Word Count: 150 the third book in the But as midnight Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. approaches, Topic: Sri Lanka’s Independence Day Greg Heffley will never Mr. Satterthwaite – change his wimpy ways. Good Old Secret Seven a keen observer of Win: Of course, Greg is able human nature – senses by Enid Blyton to easily sidestep his father’s efforts that the real drama of to change him. But when Greg’s dad Strange things are the evening is yet to threatens to send him to military happening at Torling unfold. And so it proves when a academy, Greg realizes he has to shape up Castle. There is someone mysterious stranger knocks on the or get shipped out. hiding in the ruined door. Who is this Mr. Quin? tower, making the resident birds very Rugrats unsettled. Who is in the castle and what are they doing there? The Secret Seven are on the case. Write at the top of your Essay nBook Competition nEssay Topic TIMES FEBRUARY 7, 2021 TIMES 3 of Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte Sitting afloat in the heart of the administrative capital of the regional modernism, which is reflected country, surrounded by the Diyawanna Oya is the new parliament through the architecture of this building complex which houses the Parliament of Sri Lanka; in that also keeps with the ancient Kandyan styles, Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte. Designed by the renowned it is a unique structure that is extraordinary Geoffrey Bawa Sri Lankan architect, Geoffrey Bawa, the man who introduced to the eye. Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is the By relocating the new administrative, and thus the official, capital Parliament building away from of Sri Lanka, even though it is really a suburb Colombo it was a symbolic break of Colombo, Sri Lanka's commercial capital, from Sri Lanka’s colonial past. approximately 10 km away. The Parliament The Diyawanna Oya was and other government buildings are located excavated to create a large lake here in a peaceful and verdant environment and the Parliament building, beside the Diyawanna Oya. designed by renowned Sri Lankan Although much of this area has been architect Geoffrey Bawa, was built recently developed, it has an interesting on an island in the middle of the Old Parliament building near the Galle Face Green history. In the 13th century, local chieftain lake, linked to ‘the mainland’ by Alagakkonara built a fortress (Kotte) on a narrow causeway. marshy ground at the junction of two rivers, It was inaugurated on April 29,1982 the Diyawanna Oya and the Kolonnawa Oya. by the first Executive President The fortress, 2.5 sq.kms in area was built of J. R. Jayewardene. huge laterite blocks and a channel was dug to connect the two rivers so that the fortress was surrounded by a moat. In 1392, after the conquest of the Jaffna Kingdom that united the whole of the island, Prince Sapumal renamed Kotte as 'Sri Jayewardenepura' (resplendent city of growing victory) and it became the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kotte and remained so until 1597 when it was ceded to the More recent developments in this area Portuguese colonials. But the Portuguese, include Diyatha Uyana (Park), with a Dutch and British colonists chose and walking/jogging track, built on land developed Colombo as their major port and reclaimed from the Diyawanna Oya. capital and Sri Jayewardenepura lost some This park also includes a small island with of its lustre. a few native animals including the elusive In 1930, a building for meetings of the fishing cat. Nearby is the Waters Edge Legislative Council was opened by British Hotel and floating restaurant. At weekends Governor Sir Herbert Stanley at Galle Face this corner of Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte in Colombo. After independence, this building comes alive as a busy plant centre. was used successively as the House of Source: Internet Representatives, National State Assembly and Parliament of Sri Lanka until 1981. The Chamber Door In 1967, it was decided that a new Famous Landmarks Quiz 23 Parliament building was needed but for some Q: Name the architect of the new time there was no immediate agreement on Parliament building of Sri Lanka and where it should be built. In 1979, the date when it was inaugurated. Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa The Mace obtained approval to construct the new Parliament building at Duwa, a five-hectare island in the Diyawanna Oya in Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte. Famous Landmarks Quiz 22 Sachini Ayodhya, Bandaragama FEBRUARY 7, 2021 4 TIMES QUIZ Tomahawk No.180 Questions for the Tomahawk Quiz No. 180 are based on articles appearing in the Funday Times of January 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31, 2021. All you have to do is to find the answers to the questions given. 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