Daily Content Archive
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining Intensive PronounsIntensive pronouns are identical to reflexive pronouns. However, intensive pronouns serve a different grammatical function in a sentence. What is it? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 Pantone Inc.Pantone, Inc. is a multi-billion dollar corporation that publishes the Pantone Guides, which are used by graphic designers and others to 'color match' specific colors when a design enters production stage. The Pantone Color Matching System works within the existing color systems, such as the CMYK system, but it has not yet been linked with screen-based colors. In recent years, the parliament of what country debated a petition to define the blue in its flag as "Pantone 300?" More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Andrew Johnson Avoids Impeachment by One Vote (1868)Johnson became president following Abraham Lincoln's assassination. When he attempted to dismiss his Secretary of War without senatorial consent, congressional leaders—for the first time in US history—sought to remove the president from office. Their first attempt failed, but in 1868, the House passed a resolution of impeachment against him. During the trial, the charges proved weak, and the two-thirds vote needed for conviction failed by one vote. Which senators voted against their party? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Dorothea Lange (1895)Lange was a profoundly influential American documentary photographer. During the Great Depression, her photos of stark poverty led to her employment by a federal agency to bring the plight of the poor to public attention. Her images were so effective that the government was compelled to establish camps for migrant laborers. Lange produced several other photo essays, including one documenting the WWII internment of Japanese-Americans. Who is the subject of her best-known photo, "Migrant Mother"? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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be brought in from the cold— To be allowed to join or participate in a group from which one was previously excluded; to be accepted in a certain social setting. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Georgia Independence Day (2024)Georgia Independence Day celebrates the republic's brief period of independence from Tsarist Russia from May 26, 1918, until its forced incorporation into the Soviet Union in 1922. Georgia declared its independence from the former Soviet Union on April 9, 1991, but the national holiday commemorates the country's original independence earlier in the century. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: leanextenuate - Comes from the Latin verb extenuare, "make thin or lean," and originally meant "to treat as of small importance, make light of." More... macilent - Means "lean, thin" or "shriveled," i.e. lacking in substance. More... recubation, recumb - Recubation is reclining in a near-horizontal position; to recumb is to "lean, recline, rest." More... streaky - Describes bacon with alternating strips of fat and lean. More... | |