Daily Content Archive
(as of Friday, April 5, 2019)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining Quotation MarksQuotation marks are most commonly used to indicate the exact words that someone else said. What is this type of speech known as? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 Mongolian WrestlingBökh is a martial art and traditional style of Mongolian folk wrestling with a long history. Genghis Khan considered it to be an important part of keeping his army in good physical shape and combat-ready, and the Manchu dynasty imperial court held regular wrestling events between Manchu and Mongol wrestlers. Today, wrestling plays a key role in Mongolian rituals and festivals and is one of the Mongolian culture's historic "Three Manly Skills," which also include what other activities? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Battle of the Ice (1242)The Teutonic Knights attacked the Republic of Novgorod in 1242 as part of their Northern Crusades, which were directed against pagans and Eastern Orthodox Christians rather than Muslims in the Holy Land. Waged on the frozen surface of Lake Peipus, which now sits on the border of Estonia and Russia, the Battle of the Ice proved disastrous for the knights. Though some historians consider the battle a major turning point in the Northern Crusades, others believe it was only a minor skirmish. Why? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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.jpg) Thomas Hobbes (1588)Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher and political theorist whose famous 1651 book Leviathan profoundly affected political-legal theory in general and influenced the early formation of US law in particular. In Leviathan, Hobbes argues that man is by nature a selfishly individualistic animal and advocates absolutist government as the only means of securing civil society. A lack of such authority, he postulated, would lead to bellum omnium contra omnes, which means what? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.E. M. Forster (1879-1970) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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do the right thing— To act or behave correctly, appropriately, or with the best intentions. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Thay Pagoda Festival (2023)This Vietnamese festival is held in honor of Buddhist monk Dao Hanh, who lived during the Lý Dynasty (1009-1225 CE). Dao Hanh was said to have invented what is known as mua roi can, "water puppetry," an activity that plays an important part in the festival. In addition to water puppet performances, the festival features firecracker competitions, folk singing, rowing contests, and mountain-climbing events. It is held in the village of Thay (or Thuy Khe village) in the Quoc Oai District of Ha Tay Province. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: narrativenarratage - The technique of having one character in the role of storyteller or the act of inserting bits of explanation into a narrative. More... narrative - First an adjective meaning "telling the facts of a story," from Latin narrare, which is also the base of narrate. More... | |