Daily Content Archive
(as of Sunday, September 6, 2020)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Prepositions with VerbsCertain verbs require prepositions in order to connect to their sentences’ objects. These combinations are also known as prepositional verbs. How do prepositional verbs differ from phrasal verbs? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 Crepuscular RaysCrepuscular rays—sometimes called God Rays or Jacob's Ladder—are streaks of light radiating from the sun. Usually occurring around daybreak or sunset, they shine through breaks in the clouds or through irregular spaces along the horizon and are made visible by particles in the air. Though crepuscular rays are nearly parallel, they appear to fan out from the sun due to perspective. Anticrepuscular rays are less easy to spot and differ from their crepuscular counterparts in what way? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 The Munich Massacre (1972)During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Palestinian terrorists from the group Black September infiltrated the Olympic Village and took a number of members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage. Two of the athletes were killed during the initial assault, and nine others lost their lives in the course of a failed rescue attempt, during which a German police officer and five of the eight kidnappers were killed as well. What went wrong during the rescue attempt at Fürstenfeldbruck airbase? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Walter Robert Dornberger (1895)A German artillery officer during World War I, Dornberger was captured and spent two years in a French prisoner-of-war camp. After his release, he studied engineering, and, beginning in 1932, directed construction of the V-2 rocket, the forerunner of all post-war spacecraft. Along with other German scientists, Dornberger was brought to the US as part of Operation Paperclip and worked as an advisor on guided missiles for the US Air Force. He became a key consultant on what major American venture? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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two a penny— Very common, ordinary, or widespread. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Aloha Festivals (2022)Aloha Festivals is a celebration of Hawaiian culture. Once a week-long event called Aloha Week, it's now a two-month affair with 300 events that starts in Honolulu in early September and runs through the end of October, with a week of festivities on every island of Hawaii. The celebrations include canoe races between the islands of Molokai and Oahu, coronations of royal courts as commemorations of the former Hawaiian monarchy, street parties, cultural events, parades, and pageantry. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: passionacokoinonia - Sex without passion or desire. More... excandescence - The state of being glowing hot, anger or passion. More... incense - Once meant to kindle any passion, good or bad. More... wrangle - To wrangle can mean "to scream with passion." More... | |