Issue 306 - February 2021

MiniMag

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Dearest MiniMaggers!
The day has arrived! You have counted down 365 days for it to be here again. You get dressed in your school uniform and try to look extra neat for today. Your palms are sweating all the way to school and the closer you get the harder it becomes to hi
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MANAGING EDITOR: Elva Sim MARKETING: Megan Seymore 082 680 0586 megan@minimag.co.za ACCOUNTS: accounts@minimag.co.za GRAPHIC DESIGN: Bella ❤ Designs ENTERTAINMENT MANAGER: Gaminim CONTRIBUTORS: Febé Meyer and Irene Schoeman HONORARY MEMBER: Verona Lo
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DARE To Be YOU!
Boys and girls everywhere have been finding their awesome and daring to be themselves thanks to bestselling author Matthew Syed. Now he’s created an interactive journal full of life hacks, challenges and activities to give kids the confidence to come
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Cranston Academy monster Zone
CRANSTON ACADEMY: MONSTER ZONE is the story of Danny, a 15-year-old genius bullied for his intelligence and struggling to fit in at school and Liz, the daughter of a famous scientist whose legacy she strives to overcome and be considered a genius in
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Do You Get The Picture?
Hint: Look at the shape of the speech bubble in every frame to correctly identify each bubble! Visual communication is one of the most effective ways of sending information. The main reason lies in the cognitive function of the human brain. Nowadays,
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The History Of Saint Valentine
February is the month of love. Which means chocolate hearts, flowers, cuddly toys and cute cards are being chowed, sniffed, hugged and read on 14 February by people all over world. After all, that is how we celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day. A day for
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Join The Meal time Heroes!
Answer: ACROSS: 3. octopus; 6. turtle; 7. shark; 11. squid; 13. angelfish; 15. walrus; 16. shrimp: 1. scomber (Atlantic mackerel); 2. butterflyfish; 4. crab; 7. sunfish; 8. sailfish; 9. seahorse; 10. fugu; 12. dolphin; 14. ray While waiting for your
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12 Incredible Inventions to Make You Feel Proudly South African
Sasol – previously know as the South African Gas Distribution Company – was founded in 1950 when the government realised that our country had oil reserves. To this day, Sasol remains the world’s first and largest oil-from-coal refinery and produces a
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TOM & JERRY
One of the most beloved rivalries in history is reignited when Jerry moves into New York City’s finest hotel on the eve of “the wedding of the century,” forcing the event’s desperate planner to hire Tom to get rid of him, in director Tim Story’s “Tom
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Meet The Element: Crazy Carbon – The Good, The Bad And The Beautiful
Carbon is such an important element that it divided the entire discipline of chemistry into two fields: the study of compounds with carbon, called organic chemistry and compounds without carbon, called inorganic chemistry. There is carbon in the soil
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Make Your Own Moiré Pattern!
Once an organism dies the 14 C starts to decay like all radioactive material. Measuring how far the 14 C radioactivity has decayed in a fossil tells scientists when it lived. Ever wondered how we know that your favourite dinosaur, T-rex, lived betwee
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Marshy Miracles – Wetlands Are Earth’s Key To Coping With Climate Change
Freshwater and salt wetlands provide some of the most essential ecological functions of any other ecosystem. They are often found on coastal flats, alongside rivers, lakes and estuaries and in inland depressions where water cannot quickly drain away.
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Plastics Providing Solutions
Sustainable solutions to modern day problems come from materials all around us. Creating and finding new materials to solve the dilemmas of the world won’t happen overnight. However, using a material well known to us, in an inventive way, can make bi
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What Is An Invention?
An invention can be the result of an individual’s work, but it is just as likely to come from the work of a team. Similar inventions have often appeared independently of each other at around the same time in different parts of the world. The first ti
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The Romantic Era Of Diamonds, mailcoaches And Robbers …
Kimberley is associated worldwide with diamonds. Although diamonds had been mined since 1869, the great rush only took place in 1871. Thousands of diggers and fortune hunters from all points of the compass converged on Kimberley. The population of th
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February 2021
BRAND NEW SERIES Family; you can’t live with them and can’t live without them but, blood or not – there’s nothing better than family. This February, Cartoon Network brings you Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese. This brand-new hilarious, animated series t

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