Daily Content Archive
(as of Sunday, March 22, 2020)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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insupportable
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Idioms that Start with "Out Of"A number of idioms start with the prepositional phrase "out of." Some examples include "out of the blue" and "out of order." What are some others? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 Pier Paolo PasoliniPasolini was an Italian writer and film director. A former Roman Catholic and a Marxist, he brought a religious and social consciousness to his work, but the eroticism and violence of his films drew criticism from religious authorities. His final work, Salo, was based on a Marquis de Sade novel and generated immense controversy. Shortly after its completion in 1975, Pasolini was murdered under mysterious circumstances, allegedly while on his way to meet with thieves who had stolen what? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Clint Malarchuk's Carotid Artery Slashed during Ice Hockey Game (1989)Malarchuk is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League from 1981 to 1992. He is perhaps best known for sustaining a life-threatening injury during a 1989 game, when two players collided in front of his goal, and one of the players' skate blades slashed Malarchuk's internal carotid artery. Remarkably, Malarchuk was able to skate off the ice despite bleeding heavily. He survived because his team's athletic trainer, a former army medic, did what? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Adam Sedgwick (1785)One of the founders of modern geology, Sedgwick coined the term Cambrian to describe the earliest geologic period of the Paleozoic era, and, in his most important work, he and geologist R. I. Murchison named the Devonian Period—after the rock formations they studied at Devonshire. Sedgwick was outspoken in asserting the consistency between his scientific findings and his religious beliefs. How, then, did he respond when his former student Charles Darwin published Origin of Species? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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in a/the flash of an/the eye— So quickly as to seem almost imperceptible (i.e., in the space of time it takes a person to blink). More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 World Day for Water (2024)In 1992, the United Nations declared March 22 World Day for Water. Programs associated with the day draw attention to the ways in which proper water resource management contributes to a nation's economic and social vitality. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: researchdisquisition - A diligent or systematic search, a thorough investigation or research. More... primary source - A direct source of information or research, a document not emended by a third party. More... secondary source - Information or research that is derivative, such as a comment by a historian, an encyclopedia article, or a critical essay. More... Rh factor - Named for the rhesus monkeys used in research to identify blood types. More... | |