I have eight fingers and two thumbs but I do not live. What Am I?

There are two words one resembles the "state of rest" and the other is related to "writing/reading material".

Can you name these two words which also sound similar?

What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth, I am dissolved into air. What am I?

What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

If there are fifteen crows on a fence and the farmer shoots a third of them, how many crows are left?

I am a ten letters word
The first four letters have the power to rule,
Next, four-letter can be eaten.
The next three-letter represents a lady.
I can fly as well

what am I looking for?

Can you solve the tricky chess rebus puzzle below by ciphering the hidden meaning?

What goes up but never comes down?

What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?