Daily Content Archive
(as of Saturday, July 23, 2022)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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face-off
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Adverbs with Two FormsThere are a few adverbs that have two generally accepted forms. In these cases, they also have two commonly used comparative and superlative degrees. What are some examples? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Hanging Gardens of BabylonThe Hanging Gardens were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. According to legend, Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II built the gardens around 600 BCE to soothe his wife, who was homesick for her mountainous homeland. Though extensively documented by ancient historians, no extant Babylonian texts mention the gardens, and there is little physical evidence of their existence. Alternative theories suggest that the gardens were built by the Assyrian king Sennacherib near what modern city? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 12th Street Riot Begins (1967)In 1967, racial tensions spurred by high unemployment rates and poor housing conditions in Detroit exploded when police officers raided a speakeasy on the corner of 12th Street and Clairmount. The confrontation with the patrons developed into one of the deadliest and most destructive riots in modern US history, lasting five days and resulting in 43 deaths, 467 injuries, more than 7,200 arrests, and the destruction of more than 2,000 buildings. How was the rioting finally brought under control? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856)Known as the "Father of the Indian Unrest," Tilak was an Indian nationalist, social reformer, and the first popular leader of the Indian independence movement. As a journalist, Tilak voiced his criticisms of British rule in India through two weekly newspapers. In response to the Partition of Bengal in 1905, he initiated a boycott of British goods and passive resistance—two forms of protest later adopted by Gandhi. He was one of the first and strongest proponents of swaraj, which is what? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.Aesop (620 BC-560 BC) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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get the knack of— To learn how to do something competently or well after a certain period of practice or development. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Osorezan Taisai (2023)Mt. Osore, located on the Shimokita Peninsula in the north of Honshu, Japan, is a spiritual center for many Japanese. It is known as a place where departed souls congregate. During the Osorezan Taisai Festival, or Osorezanrei Grand Festival, people flock to the mountain at Mutsu City, Aomori Prefecture, where psychics endeavor to summon the spirits of the dead by chanting. The priests who cross the weathered slopes of the mountain in procession add to the festival's grim and ghostly atmosphere. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: taughtacademy - Came from Akademos, the man or demigod for whom Plato's garden, where he taught, was named. More... pedagogue - A Roman slave who took children to school and on outings, but also taught them—from Greek ped, "child," and agein, "to lead." More... recant - Can mean "sing again"; its usual meaning stresses the withdrawing or denying of something professed or taught. More... doctor, physician - Doctor is derived from Latin doctus, "having been taught; learned," from docere, "to teach"; physician comes from Latin physica, "natural science; physics." More... | |