Daily Content Archive
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining Personal PronounsA personal pronoun is a pronoun that represents a grammatical person within a sentence. While personal pronouns often do indicate actual people, what else can they refer to? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Great Red Spot: Jupiter's StormThe Great Red Spot (GRS) is a very large, high-pressure atmospheric feature on the planet Jupiter, characterized by anticyclonic winds circulating at a speed of about 248 mph (400 km/h). The storm has persisted on Jupiter's surface for more than 300 years since first observed. The cause of its reddish color is unknown, and it tends to vary from brick-red to brownish. The GRS is not to be confused with another storm on Jupiter called "the Baby Red Spot," which was initially what color? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 The Eiffel Tower Is Inaugurated (1889)Among the most recognized and visited structures in the world, the Eiffel Tower was built beside the Seine River in Paris between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance arch for the Exposition Universelle, a World's Fair marking the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was constructed by 300 workers who joined together 18,038 pieces of puddled iron using 2,500,000 rivets. How many people died during the tower's construction? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 René Descartes (1596)René Descartes was a French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher who is considered the father of modern philosophy. Aiming to apply the rigor of mathematics to all fields of human knowledge, Descartes discards the authoritarian system of the scholastics and begins with universal doubt. His methodology was a major influence in the transition from medieval science and philosophy to the modern era. What is thought to be the meaning of his most famous statement, "Cogito ergo sum"? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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worthy cause— A cause that merits attention, aid, or action due to an inherent goodness of values or intention. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Malta Freedom Day (2023)In 1814, Malta became a crown colony of the British empire. Although Malta gained independence in 1964, the British armed forces did not completely leave until March 31, 1979. This freed Malta of foreign military occupation for the first time in history. In Malta, Freedom Day is a public holiday that commemorates the day the last of the British military left the Maltese Islands. On this holiday, a ceremony is held at the War Memorial in Floriana. The main events of the day take place around the Freedom Day Monument in Vittoriosa. In the afternoon, a competitive regatta is held in Grand Harbour. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: selectelegant - Comes from Latin eligere, "select." More... eximious - Means "choice, excellent, select," or "distinguished." More... garble - Originally meant "to sort out" or "to select in a biased way," and was applied to the selection and sorting out of individual passages from a person's writings or any separation of the good from the bad, of a selection of the worst and setting aside the better; it evolved to mean "to jumble, scramble." More... select - From Latin legere, "choose," with the prefix se-, "apart." More... | |