Daily Content Archive
(as of Wednesday, August 29, 2018)| Word of the Day | |||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Expressing Inequality Using "As … As"One way of expressing similarities, differences, or changes with comparative adverbs is by using the structure "as … as." We can use that construction to say that two actions are unequal, as long as we add an auxiliary verb and what word to the sentence? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 SigiriyaTowering above the surrounding plains, Sigiriya is an ancient Sri Lankan rock fortress noted for its unique frescoes and landscaped gardens. Likely built in the fifth century, the site includes the remains of an upper palace on the flat top of the rock, a middle terrace featuring a polished porcelain "mirror wall," a lower palace, and a surrounding moat system. An important example of urban planning in the first millennium, the fortress contains sophisticated engineering features, such as what? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Chemical Element Meitnerium Is Synthesized (1982)In 1982, a German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research created a new element. While bombarding bismuth-209 atoms with iron-58 ions, they detected a single atom of what is now called meitnerium. Its atomic number is 109. The artificially-produced, radioactive element is named for Lise Meitner, the Austrian-Swedish physicist and mathematician who helped discover nuclear fission. When was the name "meitnerium" officially adopted? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 John Locke (1632)Locke was an English philosopher and founder of British Empiricism. He summed up the Enlightenment in his belief in the middle class and its right to freedom of conscience and right to property, in his faith in science, and in his faith in the goodness of humanity. His influence on philosophy and political theory has been incalculable. His 1690 Two Treatises of Government influenced the American and French revolutions. He once fled to Holland under suspicion of involvement in what plot? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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ride the rail(s)— To travel on a vehicle mounted on rails (especially a train or streetcar). More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist (2025)St. John the Baptist was beheaded by King Herod because he had denounced Herod's marriage to Herodias, the wife of his half-brother Philip. Herodias' daughter by a former marriage, by legend called Salome, pleased Herod so much with her dancing that he swore to give her whatever she wanted. At her mother's urging she asked for the head of John the Baptist on a platter. The Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist has been celebrated by Christians since the fourth century. The observance started at Sebaste (Samaria), where the Baptist was believed to have been buried. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: rightscharter - Confers powers and rights from the state or an organization to people, local chapters, or corporations. More... devolution - A passing down from stage to stage or the passing of property, rights, or authority from one person to another; it implies moving backward. More... perk - A special privilege or right, it is an abbreviation of perquisite. More... prejudice - Originally meant harm or injury caused to a person resulting from a disregard for their rights; it is from Latin, meaning "to judge beforehand." More... | |