Daily Content Archive
(as of Tuesday, March 14, 2023)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Forming Sentences with Dependent ClausesA dependent clause relies on the information from an independent clause to form a complete, logical thought. What usually indicates a dependent clause? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 Anna AndersonAnna Anderson was the best known of several women claiming to be Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, believed to have been executed with her family after the Russian Revolution. Anderson first claimed to be Anastasia after a failed suicide attempt in 1920, which led to a protracted court case involving a long line of people who had known the real Anastasia. DNA tests in the 1990s revealed what about the claim's legitimacy? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Nazis "Liquidate" Poland's Kraków Ghetto (1943)In 1941, the Nazis ordered all remaining Jews in the Polish city of Kraków—15,000 of an original 68,000—to move into a walled-off district of the city, thereafter known as the Kraków ghetto. The systematic deportation of these Jews to concentration camps began in May 1942. On March 13 and 14, 1943, the deportation of 8,000 Jews to a nearby camp and the killing of 2,000 in the streets completed the Nazi's "liquidation" of the ghetto. What non-Jewish ghetto resident saved countless Jewish lives? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Doris Eaton Travis (1904)Travis was a Broadway and film performer who began her career at the age of 14 by joining the Ziegfeld Follies, the long-running annual Broadway revue famous for its extraordinarily elaborate theatrical productions and chorus of beautiful women, known as the Ziegfeld Girls after the show's producer. Travis, who became one of the stars of the revue, lived to the age of 106 and was the last surviving Ziegfeld Girl. What did she do in the 74 years after her show-business career ended? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares.Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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be as good as gone— To be very nearly, inevitably, or for all intents and purposes lost, departed, defunct, or deceased. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Mamuralia (2024)According to one Roman myth, Mamurius was a smith who was run out of the city because the shields he made for the soldiers failed to protect them when they were substituted for the sacred shield that had fallen from heaven. Another explanation is that Mamurius represented the old year, which had to be driven away on the day preceding the first full moon of the new Roman year. In any case, the rite that took place on March 14 involved leading a man wearing only animal skins through the streets of Rome. He was pursued and beaten with long white rods until he was driven out of the city. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: specialartificial language - An invented language, as opposed to a hereditary one, intended for a special use, as in international communication, a secret society, or computer programming. More... auspicious, propitious - Auspicious implies success in the future, while propitious means favorable conditions are present; auspicious means promising or of good omen—not just special or memorable. More... niche product - A product that is made and marketed for use in a small and specialized but profitable market. More... | |