Daily Content Archive
(as of Thursday, June 1, 2023)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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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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 Hannah SzenesDuring World War II, Hannah Szenes was one of 17 Jews living in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine who were trained by the British army to parachute into Yugoslavia to help save the Jews of Hungary. She was arrested at the Hungarian border, imprisoned, tortured, and eventually executed. Szenes is regarded as a national heroine in Israel, where streets are named after her and her poetry is widely known. One of her songs was used to close versions of what film? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Mary Dyer, Boston Martyr, Hanged for Being a Quaker (1660)Dyer was an English Quaker who was hanged in Boston after repeatedly defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. Her death and those of the three other "Boston Martyrs" led to the easing of anti-Quaker laws in Massachusetts. Years earlier, in 1637, after Dyer had given birth to a stillborn fetus and buried it privately, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had the "monstrous birth" publicly exhumed to serve as evidence of the heresies of what religious doctrine? 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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 In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) | |
| 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... | |