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  Gardening is deemed one of the most authentic ways of growing one's own food and flowering plants for healthier lives, environments, and ways of living.  Here's an ultimate guide to get you started with vegetable gardening and flower gardening alike, from planning through harvest. #1 Getting Started: Plan Your Garden: Define Your Garden Goals: Determine what you want to grow vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, and lettuce are popular while flowers may include sunflowers, zinnias, or perennial flowers such as lavender. Choose the Right Location: Most plants require at least 6-8 hours of sunlight per day.  You need to select a place that has the amount of sun you want and has easy access to water for your convenience. Test Your Soil: Good soil is the most important thing.  You can take a simplified soil test to determine pH and nutrient levels.  Most vegetables like neutral soil with a pH between 6 and 7. Decide Layout: Raised beds, containers, or in-ground rows ...

  Below is a brief description of what major events occurred in the world, mapping key periods and transformative moments in human history. Prehistoric Era (2.5 Million Years Ago – 3000 BCE): #1 Paleolithic Age (Stone Age): Early humans developed stone tools, learned to control fire, and tended to begin the formation of simple social units. Cultural evolution was manifested by the development of language, cave paintings, early religion, and other features. #2 Neolithic Revolution (c. 10,000 BCE): This in turn had led to permanent settlements once transition to agriculture and domestication of animals took place.  The rise of farming communities, such as those in Mesopotamia and the Nile Valley, laid the ground for civilization.  #3 Bronze Age (c. 3000 BCE): Invention of bronze signaled technological advances in tools and weapons. Early civilizations now emerged in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and China, based on writing, trade, and government.  Ancient Civil...

  Changing your attitude toward challenges, learning, and personal development is what developing a growth mindset entails.  A core part of this process is embracing challenges and learning from mistakes made, since it helps you view your abilities and intelligence in a dynamic way to develop over time.  Here are just a few practical strategies to help you do so and squeeze challenges and mistakes for every ounce of learning. #1 Identify and Change Fixed Mindset Beliefs: Identify limiting beliefs. First, take notice of any fixed-mindset beliefs you may have for example, "I'm just not good at this," or, "I'll never get better."  Thoughts like these imply that abilities are fixed, rather than developed. Replace with growth-oriented beliefs: Replace these thoughts by changing the structure of the thought to learn and improve.  Instead of "I can't do this," try "I can learn to do this with time and effort." #2 Accept challenges they are t...

  The effects of social media on mental health are multilevel and complex they mold the ways in which people connect, interact, and perceive themselves and others.  Though social media has the potential to nurture relationships and provide support, it does have risks that prove to be destructive to mental health.  Here is an in-depth look at the pros and cons involved in the process of social connection through social media. Advantages of Social Media on Mental Health: #1 Increased Connectivity and Social Support: Social media helps people keep in touch with friends and family over large distances, which may help to curb loneliness and create a sense of belonging. People can connect with communities of shared interests, values, or struggles, finding supportive groups that reduce isolation. The internet gives people with niche interests or unique challenges—like minority status or chronic illness valuable spaces of understanding and support. #2 Access to Mental Health Reso...

  Let's look a little more deeply into the world's 10 most spoken native languages, regarding the number of native speakers, geographical distribution, their cultural importance, and some of their unique characteristics. #1 Mandarin Chinese: Native Speakers: More than 920 million Geographic Region: Mainly spoken in China, Taiwan, and Singapore. Features: Mandarin, the most spoken of the Chinese languages, belongs to the SinoTibetan language family.  It is a tonal language its pitch or intonation alters the meaning of a word.  In writing, Mandarin is logographic, which is another important feature wherein symbols represent words or morphemes.  This makes this language quite hard to learn. Cultural Significance: Being the official language of China, Mandarin is more than just a way of communication but supposedly the very vehicle through which Chinese culture, philosophy, and literature have evolved over millennia. #2 Spanish: Native Speakers: About 475 million Region:...

  Real estate agents and brokers have indispensable roles in the property market, providing services for facilitating transactions and expert advice for both buyers and sellers.  A fuller explanation of each of these roles will be as follows: #1 Representation and Advocacy: They assist buyers by understanding the needs of the buyers, providing listings, arranging showings, and advising on market conditions.  They will help you make competitive offers, guide negotiations, and handle the paperwork involved in closing a deal. Agents introduce competitive pricing by Comparative Market Analysis, listing of properties, home staging, and marketing.  They organize viewings and collect feedback, offer negotiations, and get their clients the best possible sale price. #2 Market Knowledge and Expertise: They know the local and regional markets inside and out. They know the trends, zoning, and market forecasts that many times help their clients make a decision.  This goes al...

  Festivals and celebrations in Spain are renowned for being very colorful, musical, and filled with a lot of activity, with most of them given a historical and religious base.  Some of the most iconic ones include: #1 La Tomatina (Buñol): La Tomatina is a very lively food fight where participants throw overripe tomatoes at each other, held every last Wednesday of August in the town of Buñol.  Originally, this festival began in the 1940s, possibly as an impromptu food fight, and has grown into a massive internationally recognized event.  The town starts to put up protective tarps, while thousands of tourists come from all over the world to participate in this unique celebration. #2 Running of the Bulls (San Fermín): Running of the Bulls: This event is part of the annual San Fermín festival in Pamplona from July 6-14 and features hundreds of participants running through the streets alongside bulls.  The history of this event dates back many centuries, as part of ...

  Career advancement frameworks assist people so that they can enhance their career skills, acquire set objectives and effectively compete in the market.  Here are key strategies: #1 Specify Specific Objectives and State a Purpose: It is important that one sets both operational and strategic goals. These should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timed (SMART goals).  Establish your career target and plan to work towards achieving the best possible promotion within the current sector, switch to another sector or become a manager. #2 On the Job Training, and Professional Development: About career: There have been many changes in the job market in the present day which makes it compulsory for someone to update his skills every now and then.  They should be specialized in the field of writing or behavior analysis or have certificates, workshops, or online courses or an advanced degree in the related area.  Getting new knowledge in the fields that ar...

Singapore, known for its blend of modernity and nature, offers several top tourist attractions: #1 Marina Bay Sands: This is one of the world’s finest luxury resorts standing at 184 meters high and has five star facilities with three main towers linked by the world’s highest ‘surf board,’ known as the Sky Park which comprises what could be arguably the highest infinity pool in the world.  The SkyPark Observation Deck gives a view of the Marina Bay, city skyline and parts of Indonesia and Malaysia in case the weather is clear.  There are luxury brands, fine dining outlets operated by renowned chefs, a integrated resort, a Marina Bay Sands Casino and the Marine Bay Art Science museum, a strange lotus-shaped building with ultra-modern exhibitions. #2 Gardens by the Bay: This park is a nature park that sits on over one hundred hectares of reclaimed land, and is most known for its Supertree Grove, which up to fifty meters high structures that are basically vertical gardens.  G...