Daily Content Archive
(as of Wednesday, May 19, 2021)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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intemperate
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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The Two Reciprocal PronounsThe two reciprocal pronouns in English are "each other" and "one another." In more traditional grammar, "each other" is used to identify only two people who are engaged in the mutual action, while "one another" describes how many people? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 Typhoid FeverA potentially fatal disease characterized by high fever, headache, intestinal bleeding, and rose-colored spots on the skin, typhoid is caused by the bacillus Salmonella typhi. The bacterium is passed into the waste of infected patients and is transmitted chiefly through contaminated food or water, a pathway of disease transmission known as the fecal-oral route. The most notorious carrier of typhoid in history, Mary Mallon, or "Typhoid Mary," infected how many people during her lifetime? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Anne Boleyn Beheaded for Adultery (1536)Boleyn was the second queen consort of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I. Anne's marriage to Henry was a key part of the English Reformation. Henry had divorced his first wife to marry Anne, whom he hoped would produce a male heir. When she did not, she was brought to trial on charges of adultery and incest. Under great pressure, a court headed by her uncle—the Duke of Norfolk—condemned her, and she was beheaded. According to one account, what did her executioner do before beheading her? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Malcolm X (1925)Malcolm X was an African-American activist. His home was burned by the KKK when he was a child, and he joined the Nation of Islam in prison as an adult. Upon his release in 1952, he renounced his "slave name," Little, and took the surname X, representing his lost African ancestral surname. He became a minister and soon rose to prominence campaigning for black separatism, but he publicly broke with the militant Black Muslims in 1964 after a pilgrimage to Mecca. Who assassinated him the next year? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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to (one's) heart's desire— As much as or to the point that one wants; to the point of contentment, satiety, or surfeit. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Pied Piper Open Air Theater (2025)This dramatization of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is presented on an open-air stage in Hamelin (or Hameln), Germany. According to the legend, in 1284 Hamelin was infested with rats. A stranger promised to free the town of vermin if they would pay him. The town agreed, and the piper led the rats to the Weser River where they were drowned. When the citizens refused to pay the piper, he led 130 children out of the town and they disappeared forever. Today, the children of Hamelin are the principal performers in the play, and their number is limited to 130 in keeping with the legend. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: touchingadjoining - Implies meeting and touching at some point or line. More... tact, taction - Tact first referred to the sense of touch, from Latin tactus, "touch, sense of touch"; taction is the action of touching. More... contact - Its underlying notion is "touching," from Latin tangere, "touch." More... attinge, attingent - To attinge is to touch or come into contact with; attingent is touching or being in contact. More... | |