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* About college * About physics department * Students club * Science news * Science facts * Picture of the day * Puzzle * Riddle
ABOUT COLLEGE
Glorious college: Loyola College
Loyola College was founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1925, with the primary objective of providing University Education in a Christian atmosphere for deserving Students, especially those belonging to the Catholic Community. Although this college is meant primarily for Catholics, it admits other students irrespective of caste and creed.
The College aims at training young men and women of quality to be leaders in all walks of life, whom we hope will play a vital role in bringing about the desired changes for the betterment of the people of our country, more particularly of the dalits and other poorer and marginalized sections of society.

The College trains young men and women to serve their fellowmen in justice, truth and love. Loyola College became autonomous in July 1978. The College, however, continues to be affiliated to the University of Madras and is autonomous, in the sense that it is free to frame its own course of studies and adopt innovative methods of teaching and evaluation. The University degrees will be conferred on the students passing the examinations conducted by the college.

In Loyola, we look at education differently. For us, education does not lie in the quantification of knowledge. But it lies in the quality of knowledge that helps form the character of students. We Form them as Competent, Committed, Creative and Compassionate men and women for others. This is what has made Loyola climb to the top in the league of colleges in India.
Today, there are 18 departments (Arts, Sciences and Commerce) and 9 special Institutes offering more than 111 programs to over 10,000 students. 10 departments are offering M.Phil. Programs and 14 departments offer Ph.D. programs. Over 114 teaching staff members out of 277 hold doctoral degree. There is 99 non-teaching staff in service.

UGC conferred the status of "College with potential for Excellence" on Loyola College since 2004 and 2010. NAAC Re-Accredited the college in 2006 and awarded A+ status and again in 2012 (Third Cycle) and awarded 3.70 out of 4 CGPA. India Today magazine has ranked the Arts, Commerce and Science departments of Loyola College amongst the top 3 in India from 2006. Loyola College is also awarded "the Best Men's College in the City on the Employability skills" by PR Syndicate.

The central library has a collection of more than 1, 02,000 books, 225 journals, 8,087 e-journals and 48,146 e-books. The Loyola Digital Library provides 24 hours access to the students. Loyola Hostel, Loyola Women's Hostel, PG Hostel and Berchmans Illam together have 836 rooms and can accommodate 974 students. There are many service centers in the campus to cater to the need of our students like Campus Ministry, Student Counseling Centre, Training and Placement Cell, Centre for Women's studies, Sports Pavilion & Gymnasium, Loyola Health Centre, Canteen, Stationery Co-operative Store, Photo-copy Centre, WIFI, Digital Library, etc. Provisions of user-friendly recreational center and pathways for the differently-abled students are priorities of Loyola, to name a few.
Our Students empower themselves as leaders by participating in Students Union, Forum for Women Students, NCC (ARMY & NAVY), NSS, AICUF, Rotaract Club, Youth Red Cross Society, Enviro Club, AISEC, etc. Apart from all these Clubs, Sports and Games are the co-curricular programs in the Campus.

ABOUT PHYSICS DEPARTMENT:

The department of Physics in Loyola College was established in the year 1926, just one year after the college was founded, to offer physics course for the intermediate program. From this humble beginning it has grown in leaps and bounds to stand tall today, offering B.Sc., M.Sc., and M.Phil. And Ph.D. programs in Physics. During an academic year, it caters to the academic needs of more than 500 students majoring in Physics, around 300 students through allied courses and to another 150 students through elective courses. So far the department has produced more than 200 M.Phil. Scholars and 42 research scholars have obtained their doctorate degree.
Presently there are 27 teaching staff and 9 nonteaching staff in the department. Of the 27 teaching staff, 12 hold Ph.D. degree in Physics. There are 7 research guides under whom more than 45 scholars are registered for their Ph.D. degree. The areas of research being carried out in the department are, Solid State Physics, Crystal growth and characterization, NLO Studies, Organic Semiconductors, Polymers and Thin films.
There are about 400 books in the department library. The department has very well equipped laboratories for conducting all its programs. There are 2 laboratories for UG, 1 for PG, 1 for M.Phil. 3 for research and a spacious workshop.
And Dr. Joe G.M. Jesudurai M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D. has been the successful head of the department since 2009 leading the department towards the path of glory.

STUDENTS CLUB:
There are many clubs that are performing well and developing each student in elegant way some of the clubs we did survey are; * Friends of Police * NCC Navy * NCC Army * NSS.

Friends of Police:

The Loyola Unit of Friends of Police was informally inaugurated on 13/02/2008 with the blessings of Rev. Fr. Principal and the guidance of the Dean of Students, to help the police in the neighborhoods. In the initial year itself, about 100 students are enlisted in the unit. To start with, the volunteers have started regulating the traffic in front of our college in the evenings, thereby easing the burden on the traffic police. The volunteers belonging to friends of Police have motivated Loyola students to participate in an essay competition on the topic, "Wither Police Reforms in India?" To conduct an awareness rally highlighting the use of helmets and not using the mobile phones while riding is in the pipeline. They also help in night rounds around the areas in the college, to reduce crime.

NSS – Navy:
Loyola NCC Navy is endowed with a rich tradition of having trained the promising cadets to be selected as ALL INDIA BEST CADETS at the Republic Day Camp and Nausainik, the two all-India level competition, to be a vital part of the marching contingent at Rajpath and Prime Minister Rally on the occasion of Republic Day Camp, and to foreign countries as ambassadors under the Youth Exchange Programme. It also trains cadets to take part in adventurous activities like trekking and rock climbing and water-borne activities like sailing and kayaking. They experience fun, excitement and learning and it provides them with an opportunity to do a ship attachment with the Indian Navy and go on cruises. Further, the youth are made conscious and sensitive to the needs and problems of the people around them and contribute meaningfully by organizing such programs as AIDS Awareness, Blood Donation and Tree Plantation. In addition lecturers are organized and workshops conducted on leadership and personality development. Another important activity of Loyola NCC Navy is the inviting of service personnel to enlighten the cadets on the selection and recruitment process for the Armed Forces. The highlight of this unique wing is the contribution of the cadets who after their graduation went on to become Officer in the Armed Forces.

Loyola NCC Navy has constantly brought laurels to the college, both at the state and national level. In the last 20 years, Loyola NCC Navy has contributed more than 50 RDC cadets and 24 cadets to the Youth Exchange Programme in various countries like Singapore, United Kingdom, Canada, Vietnam, Mauritius, Seychelles, Bangladesh, Nepal and Burma. 20 cadets also participated in Nausainik held in Vishakapattanam and 8, in Ship -modeling were medalist’s. The most unique achievement is the title “ALL INDIA BEST CADET” awarded at RDC. Loyola NCC Navy has achieved this title 10 times ever since its introduced in 1984. It has won this prize consecutively for the last three years. Celebration-cum-Felicitation to the following cadets and the Officer was arranged within the college premises on March 10,2004:

1) Senior Cadet Captain K. Vinay Babu, a student of Ist M.A. Social Work, silver medalist of All India Best Cadet, Nausainik-2002, Bronze medalists of ship modeling, only cadet from Tamil Nadu to be sent to Singapore under the Youth Exchange Programme, he went on to emerge the “ALL INDIA BEST CADET RDC 2002”.

2) Cadet Captain Dale Michael Brett, a student of III B.Sc. Computer Science, who won the scholarship of Chief Of Naval Staff and was sent to Burma under the Youth Exchange Programme, became “ALL INDIA BEST CADET RDC 2003”.

3) Senior Cadet Captain Roshan George, a student of III B.Sc, Mathematics, made almost the impossible Hat-Trick possible for Loyola NCC Navy, by winning the “ALL INDIA BEST CADET TITLE AT RDC 2004” and one of the cadets from Tamil Nadu to be sent to Singapore under the Youth Exchange Programme as a Youth Ambassador of India.

4) Sub.Lt. K.S. Antony Samy, a selection grade Lecturer in English, commissioned as an Associate NCC officer in Sept. 2000, has been the source of inspiration for these cadets to reach this milestone, a rare feat in the annals of any single college of any wing (Army, Navy, Air Force) all over India.

Present Activities:
Loyola NCC Navy sends the most cadets, compared to other Naval wings, to the preparatory camps at Nausainik and RDC 2005, conducted by TN, PN & AN Directorate.

NSS – Army:

The cadets of NCC Army have performed well in the growth of the society
CVO Maria Joseph Prakash attended the RDC 2002 at Delhi,
CVO Harish attended the IMA Camp at Dehradun and
CVO Shibimon and CVO Nelson attended the NIC at Delhi
7 seniors attended the IGC State level camp at Trichy.
CVO C.N. Paul pradeep attended the SSB Camp at Kamptee.
14 seniors attended the IGC - RDC State level camp at Trichy.
3 seniors attended the IGC - TSC camp at Madurai. CVO M. Ajay Thomas, CVO. B.Oliver and CVO Asem Ramesh Singh attended the S.S.B camp at kamptee.

5 seniors attended an Army Attachment Camp at the JAK Ritles Army Base.

CVO M. Ajay Thomas attended the Indo-Russia Youth Exchange Programme, which is the greatest achievement of the 2004-05 batch.
He is one among the 10 cadets who represented India.

In addition to all the above our cadets have always been a major part in many social welfare programmes like aids awareness, health is hygiene and importance of education in cycle rallies held in the city.

National Service Scheme (NSS):
Motto of N.S.S.: `NOT ME BUT YOU'

AIMS OF N.S.S.: * To develop a national consciousness among the youth * To generate social awareness among the students * To promote the dignity of labor among the educated * To strengthen the spirit of service and sacrifice in the younger generation

CREDIT ELIGIBILITY: * 120 hours of service in two academic years or Special camping programme for ten days * Participation in National level or State level camps

REGULAR PROJECTS: * Traffic regulation * Blind assistance * Medical project * Garments collection * Special coaching classes to the school children * Helping social welfare institution * Rural upliftment * Non-formal education * Project on environment * Blood donation

SPECIAL PROGRAMME: * Legal awareness * Health awareness * First-aid * Career guidance * Leadership training - cum - cultural programme * Working with Police Commissioner's Office * Working with Corporation of Chennai
Working with Health Department

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ALBERT EINSTEIN

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Science news:

Amateur Astronomers See Comet ISON:

Anticipation is building as Comet ISON approaches the sun for a close encounter on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 28). No one knows if the blast of solar heating ISON receives will turn it into one of the finest comets in years--or destroy the icy visitor from the outer solar system.

Astronomer Carey Lisse, the head of NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign, hopes that "every telescope on Earth will be trained on the comet in October and November." He may get his wish. As September comes to an end, amateur astronomers around the world are already monitoring the comet.

"Comet ISON is approaching Mars in the pre-dawn sky," explains Lisse. "It is invisible to the naked eye, but within reach of backyard telescopes."

"I photographed Comet ISON on Sept. 15th using my 4-inch refractor," reports Astor-photographer Pete Lawrence of Sisley UK. "The comet's tail is nicely on view even through this relatively small instrument."

In Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, astronomer Efrain Morales Rivera saw the comet on Sept. 14th "rising above the canopy of the rain forest just minutes before sunrise. I used a 12-inch telescope,
In mid-September, the approaching comet was glowing like a star of 14th magnitude. That's dimmer than some forecasters expected.

"Certainly we would love it to be a couple of magnitudes brighter right now," says researcher Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C.,"but it's doing just fine. I'd say it's still on course to become a very eye-catching object."

Battams is especially optimistic about NASA's twin STEREO probes and the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. Those three spacecraft are equipped with coronagraphs--devices which cover the blinding disk of the sun to produce an artificial eclipse. The coronagraphs will be able to see ISON at its brightest when it is making its closest approach to the sun on Thanksgiving.

The light curve of Comet ISON. The solid line traces the predicted brightness of the comet; red dots are actual observations. These data were compiled by Matthew Knight of the Lowell Observatory on Sept. 20, 2013.
If ISON survives its brush with solar fire, sky watchers on Earth might get an eye-full as well.

Based on the latest images, internationally known comet expert John Bortle says "ISON appears likely to survive the in-bound leg of its journey all the way to the Sun. It will probably brighten more slowly than all the early hype led the public to believe. Nevertheless, Comet ISON should very briefly become exceptionally bright, at least rivaling the planet Venus in the hours preceding its closest approach to the sun."
After Thanksgiving (Nov 28th), Comet ISON will emerge from the sun's glare well-positioned for observers in the northern hemisphere. The comet's tail will likely be visible to the naked-eye in both the morning and evening sky throughout December 2013. A useful point of comparison is Comet Lovejoy, which put on a grand show after it brushed the sun in 2011. People in the southern hemisphere still remember the comet's tail stretching halfway across the night sky. Judging from the brightness of Comet ISON, Matthew Knight of the Lowell Observatory believes that “ISON is likely a few times bigger than Lovejoy was, so I am optimistic that Comet ISON will become an impressive sun grazer."

Because this is Comet ISON's first visit to the inner solar system, no one can say for sure what will happen. Comets are unpredictable, capable of fizzling at the last minute even after months of promising activity.

Battams, who has been "burned" before by sun grazing comets, cautions that "at no point in the next couple of months are we going to know if Comet ISON will survive or not until we actually observe it with our own eyes."

"Observations from amateur astronomers are really valuable pieces of the puzzle for us," adds Battams. "They help us to see how the comet is evolving." Optical illusion
Optical illusions based on Gestalt principles work by showing parts of a possible object and our brains fill in the gaps, based on what we would expect to see and also based on what is “easiest” to comprehend instantly.

The image in the mirror matches up so well with the landscape that our brains don’t perceive it as reflection, but as a completion of the obstructed background. Evolutionary psychologists believe the ability to recognize and deduce an object or person’s form from the environment was an advantage.

Photo via: ESA

Because we have only known about the asteroid for a short time and it has an orbit of about four years, it is difficult to predict its precise path.

The asteroid will likely be near us again in 2032, but there's no need to worry. Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL has said, “The current probability of no impact in 2032 [is] about 99.998 percent. This is a relatively new discovery. With more observations, I fully expect we will be able to significantly reduce, or rule out entirely, any impact probability for the foreseeable future.”

Asteroid 2013 TV135 to return in 2032, but will not hit Earth, NASA says

NASA has allayed fears that asteroid could prove dangerous to the Earth.

Photo courtesy: NASA

A newly discovered 1,300-foot-wide asteroid that buzzed past Earth last month will likely return in 2032, but the chances that it will hit our planet are very slim — just 1 in 63,000 — Nasa has said.

The asteroid 2013 TV135 made a close approach to Earth on September 16, when it came within about 6.7 million kilometers and it is likely to pay our planet another visit in 2032.

However, Nasa has allayed fears that the massive space rock could prove dangerous, with the US space agency saying that the probability this asteroid could then impact Earth is only one in 63,000.

"To put it another way, that puts the current probability of no impact in 2032 at about 99.998 per cent," said Don Yeomans, manager of Nasa's Near-Earth Object Programme Office at the Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

The asteroid was discovered on October 8, 2013, by astronomers working at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Ukraine.

The object should be easily observable in the coming months and once additional observations are provided to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the initial orbit calculations will be improved and the most likely result will be a dramatic reduction, or complete elimination, of any risk of Earth impact, NASA said in a statement.

"This is a relatively new discovery. With more observations, I fully expect we will be able to significantly reduce, or rule out entirely, any impact probability for the foreseeable future," Yeomans said.

As of October 14, asteroid 2013 TV135 is one of 10,332 near-Earth objects that have been discovered.

The asteroid is initially estimated to be about 1,300 feet in size and its orbit carries it as far out as about three quarters of the distance to Jupiter's orbit and as close to the Sun as Earth's orbit.

Light knots: Physicists use Maxwell's equations to describe field lines that encode torus knots and link
Extract from: (Phys.org)

A team of physicists, two from the U.S., and one each from Poland and Spain has used Maxwell's equations to describe field lines that encode all torus knots and links. As they describe in their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the result of using the equations could lead to a method of creating light in the real world that can be tied into knots.

Maxwell's equations (named after James Clerk Maxwell) are a group of partial differential equations that have been used as the basis for developing virtually all modern electrical circuits and optic devices. Back in the late 1980's a team of mathematicians discovered several solutions to Maxwell's equations that described oddly shaped objects in free space that formed closed loops and that were linked together. They called their structures Hopf fibrations and they have since been found to exist in other areas of science such as the physics that describes liquid crystals.
In this new effort, the four physicists built on the previous work and have now found new ways to solve the equations that allow for describing beams of light traveling in the shape of torus knots and links. Torus knots are those kinds of knots that can lie on the surface of a close curve around a line that lies in the same plane, i.e. a torus. A link is a collection of torus knots. The light in the knots described by the solutions developed by the team hold on to their topographical properties and don't disperse. The solutions describe both magnetic and electrical field lines that ultimately control the way light propagates under certain circumstances.
The researchers suggest that creating real world knots made of light might be possible by applying their solutions in the lab using Laguerre–Gaussian beams—a type of beam that carries orbital angular momentum. If that were to happen, they suggest the resulting knots might be used to capture certain types of atoms. Also sending the knots into a plasma field could result in plasma taking on characteristics of the knot, giving researchers a new way of studying the ionized gases.

Quantum mechanical states are extremely fragile. If a quantum mechanical system is not effectively shielded from its surroundings, its interactions with the environment lead to rapid decay of its quantum properties. The newly discovered feature could in principle be used to tune and reduce the decoherence of a quantum system. This new effect could be a major advance in the field of quantum information processing.

GOLDEN THOUGHT:
Worrying is like walking on a treadmill. It doesn’t take you anywhere but makes you sweet!!!!!
Folded paper lithium-ion battery increases energy density by 14 times

Could the solution to the impending battery crunch be… origami? Scientists at Arizona State University have created a lithium-ion battery out of carbon nanotube-coated paper — and then, by folding it like a map, they have increased the battery’s energy density by 14 times.
We should probably start with the fact that this foldable lithium-ion battery is made out of paper. As you’ve probably surmised, it’s not possible to bend a conventional lithium battery, because it has numerous rigid parts (the carbon anode, the protective casing). To create a paper-based battery, the scientists started with a Kim Wipe (a porous lint-free paper towel), coated it with polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) to improve adhesion of carbon nanotubes — and then dunked the PVDF-coated paper into a solution of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Powders of lithium titanate oxide (LTO) and lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) — standard lithium battery electrodes — are sandwiched between two sheets of CNT-imbued paper. Thin foils of copper and aluminum placed above and below the sheets of paper complete the battery.

Paper-based lithium-ion battery. Top image is the battery in its base state; bottom image is what it looks like after being folded once.

The end result is a thin, flexible paper-based battery with reasonable energy density for its mass/volume. The battery truly comes into its own when it’s folded, though. By using the Miura fold to stack the paper-based battery 25 times, the Arizona scientists found that the energy density could be increased by 14 times. The Miura fold, a rigid origami fold, was created by Japanese astrophysicist Koryo Miura for the space-saving deployment of spacecraft solar panels. Today, it’s most commonly found in fold-up maps, though even there it’s rarely used (probably because of the complexity of the fold). In short, the crease pattern of the Miura fold allows you to completely fold or unfold a piece of paper with just a single motion.
Using the Miura fold, the scientists took a 6×7-centimeter (42 cm2) lithium-ion paper battery, and kept folding it until it had a surface area of just 1.68 cm2. While this is a size reduction of around 25 times, the energy density was only increased by 14 times, due to losses from the folding process. The folded paper battery has an aerial energy capacity of around 2.0 mAh/cm2, which drops off fairly quickly to 1.5 mAh/cm2 after a few charge/discharge cycles, but keeps its charge fairly well after that.
The scientists will now look at ways of folding the paper even more efficiently, further increasing energy density. Folded paper batteries might eventually be very useful for powering foldable devices — imagine a foldable e-ink or OLED display, powered by a foldable battery, that can be stashed away in your pocket when you don’t need it.

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LOYOLA COLLEGE was found in the year 1925

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LOYOLA COLLEGE was found in the year 1925

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These 10 Amazing Science Facts
Will Help Put Your Problems in Perspective

From the farthest reaches of the cosmos to the curious behavior of subatomic particles, science helps us understand our universe. But science can console as well as explain.
How does it do that? By helping us realize that some of our everyday problems are actually pretty puny. Consider these 10 common vexations and some super-awesome scientific facts that help put things in perspective:

1. This weather is absolutely unbearable. Yes, Earth can get really hot sometimes -- and really cold. And pretty stormy. But the weather is worse elsewhere in the solar system. If you lived on the side of Mercury that faces the sun, for example, you'd be coping with temperatures of 426 Celsius -- or almost 799 degrees Fahrenheit. It's even hotter on Venus, which unlike Mercury has a heat-trapping atmosphere.
And get this: on Neptune, the winds blow at 1,600 miles an hour, the temperature can drop to -201 Celsius (-330 Fahrenheit), and the seasons last more than 40 years.

Planet Mercury.
2. You cut yourself shaving. OK, so you nicked a blood vessel. Did you know anadult body contains about 100,000 miles of blood vessels?

3. You dropped your glasses in the deep end of the pool. Good thing you didn't drop them in the deepest part of the ocean! That would be the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean. It's an almost unfathomable 11,034 meters deep -- almost seven miles down.

4. It took forever for that elevator to come. Forever? A few minutes isn't much when you consider the universe is 13.8 billion years old. And even that's not forever.

5. You got caught doing 70 in a 55-mph zone. Next time that happens, maybe you should tell the officer at least you weren't going the speed of light -- 186,000 miles per second. Just how fast is that? If you could travel that fast, you could circle the earth at the equator 7.5 times in a single second. Of course, if you really could go that fast, you wouldn't have to worry about getting caught by a traffic cop.

6. You got a pebble in your shoe. A pebble, you say? About the size of a pea? Be glad it wasn't something bigger -- like maybe the biggest thing in the observable universe, which is a so-called "large quasar group," or LQG, discovered earlier this year. It spans a distance of four billion light-years, or 24 sextillion miles.
"While it is difficult to fathom the scale of this LQG, we can say quite definitely it is the largest structure ever seen in the entire universe," one of the scientists behind the discovery, the University of Central Lancashire's Roger Clowes, said in a written statement.

Artist's impression of a single quasar.

7. You have heartburn. Heartburn is what happens when stomach acid backs up into the esophagus, and it's no fun. But think how much worse you would feel if your stomach were filled not with the hydrochloric acid that occurs naturally in your stomach but with fluoroantimonic acid. It's been called the world's strongest acid, and is 100,000 billion billion billion times more potent than the stuff in your stomach. Ouch!

8. Your girlfriend's new engagement ring is bigger than yours. No matter how big her rock is, it's no match for BPM 37093, a.k.a. Lucy. What's that, you say? It's a star that's made of diamond. Located in the constellation Centaurus, Lucy has 10 billion trillion trillion carats.
"You would need a jeweler's loupe the size of the Sun to grade this diamond," one of the star's discoverers, astronomer Travis Metcalfe, told the BBC. So there!

9. My boyfriend isn't very romantic. Maybe so, but at least he's not a hippopotamus. Male hippos "tail flick" their feces as a territorial display.

10. The dog ate your homework. Bad dog! But lucky for you, you're not living with a "bad whale." Blue whales, the biggest animals ever to have lived on our planet, can weigh 200 tons -- and consume four tons of krill every day. No telling how many pages of notebook paper it would take to fill one up.

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4. What children want (see 5 down)
7. A spirit that haunts a house
8. A small ugly fairy that plays tricks on peopleDown2. Halloween colors are black and ___
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5. The children say "___ or treat!" on Halloween
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Hard Short Riddles

1) How is the moon like a dollar

2) why is the letter I like Delhi?

3) What is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

4) if you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

5) How could a cowboy ride into town on Friday, stay two days, and ride out on Friday.

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