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Paris Climate Pact The 21st meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN 1- Framework Convention on Climate Change was held in Paris in November-December, 2015. Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact called Paris Agreement to fight climate change. The “Paris Agreement” aims to keep global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius between now and 2100, a key demand of poor countries ravaged by rising sea levels...
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July 10, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Astrosat : Indian Space Observatory Astrosat is India’s first dedicated multi-wavelength space observatory. It was launched on a PSLV-XL on 28 September 2015. After the success of the satellite-borne Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment (IXAE), which was launched in 1996, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) approved further development for a full-fledged astronomy satellite, Astrosat, in 2004. A number of astronomy research institutions in India, and abroad have jointly built instruments for...
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Take Time by The Forelock The common figure of Old Father Time represents him as having a small curly lock drooping over his forehead: otherwise he is as bald as a new-born babe. Shakespeare (King John, tn. i) calls him 7 “Old Time, the clock-seller: that bald sexton, Time.” The origin of our phrase goes back to the time of Thales of Miletus (636-546 B.C.), and the underlying idea seems to...
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June 14, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Put In Jeopardy Day by day his life he gan ieoparte To fore their walles for to preve his mighte. —LYDGATE Cbron of Tray The modern sense of the word “jeopardy,” whether substantive or verbal, means: to be in extreme danger of loss ; as though one might say that the Great War put civilization in great jeopardy. Strange as it may appear, the words “joke” and “jeopardy” are closely related,...
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At All Hazards When we say that we will undertake a certain venture “at all hazards,” we mean that we shall be prepared to stake. all we have on the risk of defeat and consequent total loss. Soldiers and sailors, it has been remarked in other notes, have been responsible for the introduction into our language of many words: Some of these words were coined from the faulty pronunciation, on one...
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Cut Off The Nose To Spite The Face “He that smites his nose and has it not, forfeits his face to the king.” —Old proverb. To cut off the nose to spite the face is said of one who, Ito be revenged on his neighbour, materially injures himself. (Grose: Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796). The origin of this phrase is probably based on the story of a man who, having...
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Cut The Gordian Knot “His sword would have cut the Gordian Knot of hereditary right.” -BOLINGBROKE: On Parties (1735). “Cutting the Gordian knot” is ordinarily held to signify a promptitude in the determination to solve an intricate problem. As the result of a chariot race which he had won, he being the first to enter the Temple of Jupiter at Gordium, a certain peasant of Phrygia, named Gordiok, was chosen by...
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The Jingo Spirit One would imagine that men have always given expression to oaths—some by heaven, others by earth and the things on the earth. Many kings and queens of history have been guilty of these stupid practices. Louis XII of France is said to have uttered as his favourite oath: “The devil take me I” Oaths commonly ascribed to certain of our English rulers are : “God’s wounds !” ;...
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