Daily Content Archive
(as of Thursday, November 5, 2020)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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engrossing
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Categories of PrepositionsPrepositions can be divided into eight categories: time, place, direction or movement, agency, instrument or device, reason or purpose, connection, and origin. However, many prepositions will fall under two or more categories. In that case, how can you determine what type of preposition is being used in a sentence? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The HammockA hammock is a length of canvas or heavy netting suspended between two trees or other supports and used as a seat or bed. The hammock and its name were introduced to Europeans by Christopher Columbus, who encountered them in the New World. Hammocks have been used to save space on naval vessels and as a means of conveyance—similar to a stretcher—in tropical areas. They are symbolic of relaxation and are popular with hikers. A spreader bar can make a hammock wider but comes with what drawback? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Susan B. Anthony Breaks US Law to Vote (1872)Anthony was an important figure in the 19th-century US women's suffrage movement. In 1869, Anthony, together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded an association dedicated to securing voting rights for women. Three years later, she defied US law and voted in the presidential election, asserting that the 14th Amendment entitled her to do so. She was arrested and fined, but her actions drew considerable attention to the women's rights movement. Why was she expelled from the National Labor Union? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850)When her Poems of Passion was published in 1883, Wheeler gained notoriety for writing "immoral" poetry. Her subsequent works showed a marked change in content, focusing on temperance, religion, and sentimental, inspirational verse. Her best known poem is "Solitude," which earned her five dollars when it was published in an 1883 issue of the New York Sun. It famously opens, "Laugh and the world laughs with you / Weep and you weep alone." What inspired her to write these lines? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 The man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.Washington Irving (1783-1859) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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good books— Favorable, kindly, or approving regard or treatment. Usually used in the phrase "in someone's good books" or some variation thereof. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Veterans Homecoming Week (Branson, Missouri) (2023)Veterans Homecoming in Branson, Missouri, is the largest Veterans Day commemoration in the United States, with more than 50,000 veterans and their families attending annually. Events extend over the week before November 11, and include special entertainment performances, lectures, social receptions, and military memorials. Special tributes to veterans take place throughout the town, including the world's largest flying American flag, a salute to the troops on the showboat Branson Belle, and candlelight memorials remembering those who lost their lives in war. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: productionarborization - The production of a treelike structure. More... Broca's area - An area of the brain involved with the production of speech; it was named after P. Paul Broca, a French surgeon. More... economic, economical - Economic means "pertaining to the production and use of income," and economical is "avoiding waste, being careful of resources." More... value-added tax - A tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production. More... | |