Daily Content Archive
(as of Thursday, April 2, 2015)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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pleonastic
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Countable NounsCountable nouns (also known as count nouns) are nouns that can be considered as individual, separable items, which means they can be counted with numbers—we can have one, two, five, 15, 100, and so on. Are abstract nouns ever countable? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 Moses MontefioreMontefiore was a famous 19th century British-Jewish philanthropist. He was connected through marriage to the famed Rothschild family and became affiliated with the family's banking business. After accumulating a fortune on the London stock exchange, he retired at age 40 to devote himself to philanthropy and to securing political and civil emancipation for Jews in England, founding a hospital and girls' school in Jerusalem in 1855. Montefiore was knighted by what queen? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 As the World Turns Premieres (1956)Soap operas began in the early 1930s as 15-minute radio episodes and continued in that format when they began appearing on TV in the early 1950s. As the World Turns premiered as the first half-hour TV soap. The show, which primarily focused on two professional families in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, ran for 54 years and aired nearly 14,000 episodes. For 20 of those years, it was most-watched daytime drama in the US. What interrupted a live broadcast of the show in 1963? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Émile François Zola (1840)Zola was the founder of French naturalism, a literary school that maintained that novel-writing should be scientific, appraising reality in terms of natural forces such as heredity or environment. Inspired by his readings in sociology and medicine, he applied his theory in a vast series of novels in which the characters are impartially observed and presented in minute, often sordid, detail. Zola also had an ardent zeal for social reform. He died in his sleep under what suspicious circumstances? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Heathen, n.: A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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have got to (do something)— To be obligated, obliged, or required to (do something). More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Georgiritt (2018)St. George is honored each year at Traunstein in Bavaria, Germany, on Easter Monday to commemorate the legend of George's victory over the dragon that was threatening the pagan city of Sylene. Because St. George is usually depicted on horseback, the farmers of Traunstein decorate their own horses with garlands and ribbons and ride them across the fields and three times around the parish church. After the local priest blesses the horses and other animals, the procession turns toward the village. The festival ends with ritualistic sword dances that have been handed down from medieval times. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: lampfinial - The decorative knob on the top of a lamp, holding the shade on. More... pendeloque - A pear-shaped glass (crystal) pendant on a lamp or chandelier. More... lantern - Traces back to Greek lucerna, "lamp." More... match - First meant "wick of a candle or lamp" or "spout of a lamp" before it was the item used to light candles and lamps. More... | |
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