Daily Content Archive
(as of Tuesday, March 20, 2018)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Identifying Interrogative PronounsInterrogative pronouns are used in interrogative sentences to ask questions, functioning either as the subject or object of such sentences. Why is an interrogative pronoun easy to identify in a sentence? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Right of ReturnThe right of return is a principle in international law which asserts that members of an ethnic or national group have a right to immigrate to and become naturalized citizens of a country that they, the destination country, or both consider to be that group's homeland, independent of prior personal citizenship there. This belief is sometimes reflected in immigration laws that facilitate or encourage the reunion of a dispersed ethnic population. Why is the concept controversial in some countries? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 The Subway Sarin Incident (1995)On March 20, 1995, members of the Japanese religious sect Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas, a nerve agent, on several lines of the Tokyo Metro system in five coordinated attacks, killing 12 and injuring thousands. Carrying homemade liquid sarin packaged in plastic bags, the perpetrators boarded the trains, punctured the packets, and left them to vaporize on the car floors. More than 10 Aum members were sentenced to death for their involvement in the incident. What was the group's motive? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Ovid (43 BCE)Publius Ovidius Naso, a Roman poet better known as Ovid, is ranked alongside Virgil, Horace, and others as one of the canonical poets of Latin literature. He was a great storyteller whose writings generally deal with the themes of love, mythology, and exile. No other Latin poet wrote so naturally in verse or with such sustained wit, and his works had a decisive influence on European art and literature for centuries. Why did Augustus banish Ovid in 8 CE? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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cut it close— To do or complete something very near to its limit, especially of time. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Tunisia Independence Day (2023)Independence Day is a public holiday in Tunisia commemorating a treaty signed on this day in 1956 that formally recognized Tunisia's independence from France. It had been a French colony since the 1880s. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: rentrentier - A person who makes income from rent. More... disposable income, discretionary income - Disposable income is money you have left after paying taxes; discretionary income is money left over after paying for rent, food, utilities, and life's other necessities. More... farm - Comes from medieval Latin firma, "fixed annual payment or rent." More... | |