Daily Content Archive
(as of Monday, March 21, 2022)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Job Titles and Familial RolesMany times, a person may be referred to according to a professional title or familial role instead of by name. In this case, the title is being used as a noun of address and is considered a proper noun, even if it would be a common noun in other circumstances. Should such titles be capitalized? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 White TigersWith their striking coloration, white tigers are popular attractions at zoos and in other forms of entertainment that showcase exotic animals. Their white coats can be pure white, but more often they have dark stripes. Though these tigers seem exotic, they are not their own subspecies. Rather, they are a selectively bred mutant form of normal orange tigers. Because of the extreme rarity of the white tiger allele, white tigers are often inbred, which leads to what health problems? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Who Shot J.R.? (1980)The 1980 season finale of the popular prime-time soap opera Dallas ended with the show's central character—J.R. Ewing, a greedy, scheming oil baron—being shot by an unknown assailant. The cliffhanger left viewers wondering for months whether he would survive and which of his many enemies had pulled the trigger. The episode that revealed the culprit became one of the highest rated television shows in history, drawing an estimated 83 million viewers. So, who shot J.R.? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685)One of the greatest and most influential composers of the Western world, Bach created masterful works in almost every musical form known in his period. During his lifetime, Bach was better known as an organist than as a composer, and his works, which include the Brandenburg Concertos, four orchestral suites, and more than 200 church cantatas, were not fully appreciated until long after his death. Bach is the most represented composer on the Voyager Golden Record, which is what? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.Richard le Gallienne (1866-1947) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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cut from whole cloth— Completely fictional or utterly false; totally made up. A reference to tailors who would falsely advertise garments being "cut out of whole cloth," when in reality, they were pieced together from different cuts. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Vernal Equinox at Chichén Itzá (2023)Chichén Itzá, located on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, is one of the country's biggest and best preserved Mayan ruins. Every year on the Vernal Equinox, the angle of the sunlight hitting the enormous El Castillo pyramid creates a shadow that gives the illusion of a snake slithering down its side. The Mayans believed that this was Kukulcán, the feathered snake god known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl. Tourists converge on the site on the equinox, and visitors enjoy folk dancers, musicians, and poets while they wait for the moment of the serpent's appearance. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: projectingledgit - A label or memo slip projecting from a book's pages. More... broach - Comes from Latin brocchus/broccus, "projecting." More... eminent - Can mean "projecting, protruding" and is based on Latin eminere, "project." More... eaves - Its etymological meaning is "going over the edge, projecting." More... | |