Daily Content Archive
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Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining Semi-Modal Auxiliary VerbsSemi-modal auxiliary verbs are verbs that sometimes behave like modal auxiliary verbs. Like the "proper" modal verbs, they are used with the base form of verbs (the infinitive without "to") to create a unique meaning. What is the complete list of semi-modal verbs? More... |
Article of the Day | |
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Totem PolesTotem poles are towering sculptures carved from trees by a number of Native American peoples along the Pacific Northwest coast of North America. They display mythological images, usually animal spirits. The poles are erected to identify the owner of a house or other property, welcome visitors, indicate a portal or passageway, mark a gravesite, and even to ridicule an important person who failed in some way. Why was this last type of pole—a "shame pole"—erected in Cordova, Alaska, in 2007? More... |
This Day in History | |
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Cable News Network (CNN) Begins Broadcasting (1980)CNN, a division of the Turner Broadcasting System owned by Time Warner, is widely credited with introducing the concept of 24-hour news coverage. Today, the network reaches more than 1 billion people in more than 200 countries. Its coverage of the Gulf War and other conflicts and crises of the early 1990s, including, perhaps most famously, the "Black Hawk Down" incident in Mogadishu, Somalia, led to the coining of the term "the CNN effect." What phenomenon does the phrase describe? More... |
Today's Birthday | |
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Marilyn Monroe (1926)Monroe was an American actress, world-famous sex symbol, and cultural icon. The onetime model made her screen debut in 1948 and was at first patronized by critics, but she studied acting and eventually won more challenging roles. Her private life, including her marriages to baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, has been subject to intense scrutiny, and her death from a barbiturate overdose at age 36 only increased her mystique. Why was her childhood particularly tumultuous? More... |
Quotation of the Day | |
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You see, but you do not observe. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) |
Idiom of the Day | |
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anonymous tip— Information about something (typically criminal or illegal activity) that is offered by an anonymous source. More... |
Today's Holiday | |
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Brigham Young's Birthday (2023)Often referred to as "the American Moses," Brigham Young led thousands of his religious followers across 1,000 miles of wilderness from their Illinois settlement to find refuge in what is now Salt Lake City, Utah. He became the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, whose members are also known as Mormons. The anniversary of Young's birth on June 1, 1801, is observed by Mormon churches worldwide, as is July 24, the date on which he arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. More... |
Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: interpretationeisegesis - The interpretation of a word or passage by reading into it one's own ideas. More... hermeneutic - An adjective meaning "concerned with interpretation," especially of scripture. More... case-sensitive - If something is case-sensitive, there is a different meaning or interpretation based on upper- and lower-cased letters. More... semiotics - The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. More... |