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Astronomy

27 August 2008

Solar Eclipse:
Celestial event during which the new Moon passes directly between the Earth and Sun, temporarily blocking the Sun’s light.
Lunar Eclipse:
A darkening of the moon caused by the passing of the earth between the sun and the moon. Lunar eclipses always happen during the full moon phase.
Universe:
The Universe is most commonly defined as everything that [...]

Idioms and phrases

27 August 2008

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Wear your heart on your sleeve - Meaning: Display one’s emotions openly.
Weasel words - Meaning: Ambiguous or quibbling speech.
Wet behind the ears - Meaning: [...]

Abashed ?? The Frog in the Well

26 August 2008

There was a frog that lived in a shallow well.
” Look how well off I am here ! ” he told a big turtle from the Eastern Ocean. “I can hop along the coping of the well when I go out, and rest by a crevice in the bricks on my return. I can wallow [...]

Today’s Inspirational Quote:

26 August 2008

“I can complain because rosebushes have thorns, or I can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

Idioms and phrases

26 August 2008

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Under your hat - Meaning: Keep it secret.
Up the apples and pears - Meaning: Up the stairs.
Upset the apple-cart - Meaning: To [...]

Proverbs

25 August 2008

Where there’s a will there’s a way - When a person really wants to do something, he will find a way of doing it.
Between the devil and the deep sea  - To choose between two equally bad alternatives in a serious dilemma.
A friend in need is a friend indeed - A friend who helps when one [...]

Idioms and Phrases

25 August 2008

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Sacred cow - Meaning: Something too highly regarded to be open to criticism or curtailment.
Salad days - Meaning: The days of one’s youthful inexperience.
Separate the sheep from the goats - Meaning: [...]

Idioms and Phrases

22 August 2008

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Quality time - Meaning: Time in which individual attention is given to an otherwise neglected child or partner.
Queer as a nine bob note - Meaning: Odd or unusual.
Queer Street - Meaning: [...]

Idioms and Phrases

22 August 2008

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Odds bodkins - Meaning: God’s body.
On the bubble - Meaning: Finely balanced between success and failure
On cloud nine - Meaning: In a state of blissful happiness.
On your tod - Meaning: On [...]

Follow your faith and not your fear

21 August 2008

Some Timid Bunnies Change Their Tune
One day some bunnies gathered round
To moan their awful fate,
They cried: How sad it is to live
With terrors small and great,
        Those hunters, dogs & wolves we dread!
        That is no life! We’re better dead!
Let’s die! said they, and headed down
Into a pond to crash,
But as they galloped toward the pond
They [...]

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