Daily Content Archive
(as of Sunday, March 3, 2019)| Word of the Day | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
flounder
| |||||||
| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
|---|---|
Predicate PronounsWe can use a predicate pronoun after a linking verb to re-identify the subject. In what kinds of sentences does this most commonly happen? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
|---|---|
 The Secret SpeechAfter Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, Nikita Krushchev emerged from a bitter power struggle as the Communist party's first secretary. At the party's Twentieth Congress in 1956, he delivered a "secret speech," "On the Personality Cult and its Consequences," harshly denouncing Stalin and his policies. The program of de-Stalinization, which had already begun, was thus supported and continued by Khrushchev. When was the full text of this "secret speech" finally officially released to the public? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
|---|---|
 Bulgaria Regains Independence from Ottoman Empire (1878)Though the April Uprising of 1876, a Bulgarian revolt against the perceived Ottoman oppression, failed as a revolution, it succeeded in raising international support for the Bulgarian plight. News of atrocities committed by Ottoman troops suppressing the uprising quickly spread to the international community, and Russia soon declared war on the Ottomans. The subsequent Treaty of San Stefano created a large autonomous Bulgaria within the Ottoman Empire, but it was later revised. Why? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
|---|---|
 Alexander Graham Bell (1847)Bell was a scientist and inventor. He patented the telephone in 1876 and months later sent his now-famous telephone message to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want to see you." Bell also invented a device that transmitted sound in rays of light, a machine that tested hearing and detected auditory deficiencies, and an apparatus capable of locating metallic objects in the human body. This last device was hurriedly assembled in an attempt to find a bullet in whose body? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
|---|---|
 For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
|---|---|
candle in the wind— Something that is particularly vulnerable, weak, fragile, or precarious and likely to fail, perish, or be eliminated at any moment. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
|---|---|
-byTodorBozhinov.png) Bulgaria's Day of Liberation from Ottoman Domination (2023)Bulgaria's Day of Liberation from Ottoman Domination, celebrated each year on March 3, commemorates the day in 1878 when the Peace Treaty of San Stefano was struck between Russia and Turkey. Throughout Bulgaria, citizens pause on this day to pay tribute to those who helped Bulgaria to become a modern, independent country. Festivities often include parades, concerts, religious services, cultural exhibitions, and fireworks. Those who died fighting for Bulgaria's freedom are honored by the placement of ceremonial wreaths upon their graves. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
|---|---|
Today's topic: towertower - A group of giraffes. More... spire, steeple - A spire is the tall pointed roof of a tower or the tall pointed structure on top of a steeple; a steeple is the tower plus the spire. More... ziggurat - A tower in the form of a terraced pyramid. More... Big Ben - Not the clock in the tower of the Houses of Parliament but the bell itself. More... | |