Daily Content Archive
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William S. BurroughsBurroughs was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter, and spoken-word performer whose two dozen books controversially blend homosexuality, science fiction, drug use, and underworld depravity. Much of his work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as a long-time opiate addict. A primary member of the Beat Generation, he was an avant-garde writer whose style and ideas influenced popular culture as well as literature. Who did Burroughs accidentally kill in 1951? More... |
This Day in History | |
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PLoS Publishes Open Access Scientific Journal (2003)The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of scientific journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. Therefore, PLoS journals are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License. PLoS began as a petition urging scientists to stop submitting papers to journals that did not make the full text of their papers available within six months. What Nobel Prize winner helped found PLoS? More... |
Today's Birthday | |
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Margaret Thatcher (1925)The first female prime minister of Great Britain, Thatcher served longer than any other British prime minister in the 20th century. She is noted for policies that dismantled many aspects of Britain's postwar welfare state and privatized many state-run industries. Her introduction of a controversial "poll tax" met with widespread public disapproval and contributed, along with internal party disputes over European integration, to her 1990 resignation. Why was she called the "Iron Lady"? More... |
Quotation of the Day | |
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I'm not a bit changed—not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me—back here—is just the same. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) |
Idiom of the Day | |
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country bumpkin— Someone from a rural area who is therefore not versed in city life or its social norms. More... |
Today's Holiday | |
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International Cervantes Festival (2022)Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), best known for Don Quixote (1605), is honored in a three-week festival held in Guanajuato, Mexico, featuring orchestral music, opera, theater, dance, film and folklore. Although most festival events are held in the Teatro Juarez and the Teatro Principal, amateur Mexican actors often give street performances of Cervantes's famous one-act plays in the Plaza de San Roque. Various musical performances are a popular attraction, as are art exhibits, children's theater, and folkloric dance ensembles. More... |