Daily Content Archive
(as of Monday, December 5, 2022)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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 Perfect PitchPerfect pitch, also known as absolute pitch, refers to the ability to sing or recognize the pitch of a tone by ear. Experiments have shown that this skill, a form of memory, can be acquired through practice, but in some individuals, it appears to be inborn. Although there does not seem to be a correlation between absolute pitch and musical genius, many celebrated composers—like Mozart and Beethoven—are thought to have had perfect pitch. What is the more common skill known as "relative pitch"? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin Debuts in US (1926)Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, based on the real-life 1905 uprising aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin, is a seminal film in cinematic history. Eisenstein deliberately wrote the silent film as a revolutionary propaganda piece and used it to test his theories of "montage," a form of movie collage consisting of a series of short shots edited into a sequence intended to effect emotional or intellectual responses. What is the film's most famous montage sequence? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Fritz Lang (1890)A successful Austrian director, Lang gained worldwide acclaim with his early German expressionistic films Metropolis and M. After making the anti-Nazi film The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse, he fled Germany in 1933, eventually settling in the US, where he revived his career. His Hollywood films rival his earlier works in their intensity, pessimism, and visual mastery. What was Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels's unexpected response to The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 God is truth and light his shadow.Plato (427 BC-347 BC) | |
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it is what it is— The situation, circumstance, or outcome has already happened or been decided or established, so it must be accepted even if it is undesirable. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas's Eve) (2022)Very little is known about St. Nicholas's life, except that in the fourth century he was the bishop of Myra in what is now Turkey. On the eve of December 6 in the Netherlands, St. Nicholas, or Sinterklaas, rides into town on a white horse, dressed in his red bishop's robes and preceded by "Black Peter," a figure in Moorish costume who rewards the good children with candy and gifts. St. Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, and churches dedicated to him are often built so they can be seen off the coast as landmarks. More... | |