Restaurant Etiquettes

A list of etiquettes with the students was discovered which were later converted into passive voice.
The students then showcased the do's and the don't s that are followed in a restaurant

James Cook the three journeys

James Cook (October 27, 1728- February 14, 1779) was a British explorer and astronomer who went on many expeditions to the Pacific Ocean, Antarctic, Arctic, and around the world.

Cook's first journey was from 1768 to 1771, when he sailed to Tahiti in order to observe Venus as it passed between the Earth and the Sun (in order to try to determine the distance between the Earth and the Sun). During this expedition, he also mapped New Zealand and eastern Australia.

Cook's second expedition (1772-1775) took him to Antarctica and to Easter Island.

Cook's last expedition (1776-1779) was a search for a Northwest Passage across North America to Asia. Cook was killed by a mob on Feb. 14, 1779, on the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). At the time, he was trying to take the local chief hostage to get the natives to return a sailboat they had stolen.

Cook was the first ship's captain to stop the disease scurvy (now known to be caused by a lack of vitamin C) among sailors by providing them with fresh fruits. Before this, scurvy had killed or incapacitated many sailors on long trips.

Endeavour

The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun (3–4 June of that year), and to seek evidence of the postulated Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown southern land".

The voyage was commissioned by King George III and commanded by Lieutenant James Cook, a junior naval officer with skills in cartography and mathematics. Departing from Plymouth-Dock (Devonport) in August 1768, the expedition crossed the Atlantic, rounded Cape Horn and reached Tahiti in time to observe the transit of Venus. Cook then set sail into the largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the Pacific islands of Huahine, Borabora and Raiatea to claim them for Great Britain^{[citation needed]}, and unsuccessfully attempting to land at Rurutu. In September 1769, the expedition reached New Zealand, being the second Europeans to visit there, following its earlier discovery by Abel Tasman 127 years earlier. Cook and his crew spent the following six months charting the New Zealand coast, before resuming their voyage westward across open sea. In April 1770, they became the first Europeans to reach the east coast of Australia, making landfall on the shore of what is now known as Botany Bay.

The expedition continued northward along the Australian coastline, narrowly avoiding shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef. In October 1770, the badly damaged Endeavour came into the port of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, her crew sworn to secrecy about the lands they had discovered. They resumed their journey on 26 December, rounded the Cape of Good Hope on 13 March 1771, and reached the English port of Deal on 12 July. The voyage lasted almost three years.

James Cook

James Cook

Captain James Cook, FRS, RN (7 November 1728^{[NB 1]} – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years' War, and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec. This helped bring Cook to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society. This notice came at a crucial moment in both Cook's career and the direction of British overseas exploration, and led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages.

In three voyages Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe. He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in greater detail and on a scale not previously achieved. As he progressed on his voyages of discovery he surveyed and named features, and recorded islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. He displayed a combination of seamanship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage and an ability to lead men in adverse conditions.

Cook was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779. He left a legacy of scientific and geographical knowledge which was to influence his successors well into the 20th century and numerous memorials worldwide have been dedicated to him.

The Palindrome

TODAY IS A SPECIAL DAY.

WHY YOU ASK? Look at the date today

5-10-2015

Now Reverse it

5-10-2015

It remains the same

Why? Well continue to read

A Palindrome Day happens when the day’s date can be read the same way backwards and forwards. The dates are similar to word palindromes in that they are symmetrical.

Palindromes read the same way forwards and backwards, like 'BOB'.

Because date formats vary from country to country, not all dates that are be considered palindromic in one kind of date format are Palindrome Days in another. For instance, June 10, 2016 or 6-10-2016 is a palindromic date in the month-day-year (m-dd-yyyy) format, but is not if you write the date as mm-dd-yyyy (06-10-2016); as day-month-year (dd-mm-yyyy: 10-06-2016) or as year-month-day (yyyy-mm-dd: 2016-06-10).

CURRENT AFFAIRS SEPTEMBER 2015
Lets know all the happenings around us .

• Naina Lal Kidwai  is the author of   book,    30 Women in Power: Their Voices , Their Stories .

• Highest  mountain  of North  America   Mt  McKinely  renamed as Denali.

• India  won  three - match  test series  against Srilanka.

• Bihar  to give  2%  reservation to  grand children of freedom fighters in  government jobs.

• India won UNESCO 's  Award  of Excellence  2015  for  conserving Sree  Vadakkunnathan Temple  in  Kerala.

• Mercedes   driver Lewis   Hamilton  of Britain  won 2015  Italian  Grand Prix  of Formula 1.

• Union  Government  announced  One Rank One Pension  for  ex- serviceman.

• Music  Composer  Aadesh   Shrivastava died.He  had composed  music for over 100 Hindi  films.

• Indian  boxer  Vikas  won  Silver  medal  in 75 kg  category at 2015  Asian  Boxing  Championships.

• Black Mamba  Anti-Poaching Unit of South  Africa  selected  for 2015 UNEP Champions  of the  Earth award.

• Acclaimed writer Jhumpa Lahiri awarded with 2014 National Humanities  Medal  by President   Barack  Obama   at the White House.

• Weightlifter Deepak Lather Won Goin 2015 Commonweath Youth Games.

• First -ever  Census on India's Leopard presented around  7910 in country  excluding North  eastern region of  India.

• Leander Paes , Martina Hingis  won US  Open  Mixed  Doubles  Title  2015.

• Sania  Mirza-  Martina  Hingis  won  2015 US  Open Women Doubles  title.

• Novak  Djokovik defeated  Roger Federer   to win 2015 US  Open Men's single  title.