Daily Content Archive
(as of Tuesday, November 8, 2022)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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 E. E. CummingsCummings was an American writer and painter whose poetry was noted for its eccentricities of typography, language, and punctuation. His publishers often mirrored his atypical style by writing his name in lower case, though Cummings did not endorse this and typically used capital letters in his signature. Many of his poems exude a childlike playfulness and seek to convey a joyful awareness of sex and love. Cummings's celebrated work, The Enormous Room, recounts his experiences where? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Wilhelm Röntgen Discovers X-Rays (1895)In 1895, Röntgen, a German physicist, discovered rays that did not exhibit properties such as reflection or refraction. Because of their mysterious nature, he called them X-rays. His discovery, which gave medicine a critical view inside the body and allowed bones to be photographed, remains a valuable diagnostic tool. Röntgen's breakthrough earned him the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. One of the first X-ray photographs he took was of his wife's hand. What did she say when she saw it? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Bram Stoker (1847)Though he was best known during his lifetime as the longtime manager of actor Henry Irving, Stoker's enduring popularity rests squarely on his 1897 Gothic horror tale, Dracula, about the eponymous vampire. Although he did not invent the vampire novel, Dracula is singularly responsible for scores of literary, theatrical, and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Why did Stoker's widow demand that the 1922 film Nosferatu be destroyed? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) | |
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a bit beyond (one's) ken— Advanced beyond one's ability to understand or make sense of the subject matter or task at hand. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Saints and Martyrs Day (2022)Since the Reformation the Church of England has not added saints to its calendar. Although there have certainly been many candidates for sainthood over the past 450 years, and many martyrs who have given their lives as foreign missionaries, the Church of England has not canonized them, although a few are commemorated on special days. Instead, since 1928 it has set aside November 8, exactly one week after All Saints' Day, to commemorate "the unnamed saints of the nation." More... | |