Daily Content Archive
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining the Future PerfectWe use the future perfect tense to say that something will finish or be completed at a specific point in the future. We also often include durations of time to indicate how long something has been happening once a future moment in time is reached. Can you identify the future perfect in the following sentence? "This June, I will have lived in New York for four years." More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 Lucid DreamingIn a lucid dream, the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming while the dream is in progress. During lucid dreams, it is often possible to exert conscious control over characters and environments, as well as to perform otherwise physically impossible feats. Children tend to enter such dream states more easily than adults, but there are techniques one can learn to intentionally induce a lucid dream. Lucid dreaming is sometimes suggested as a remedy for what disorder? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Nellie Tayloe Ross Becomes First Woman to Head US Mint (1933)In 1925, following the death of her governor husband, Ross was elected to serve out the remainder of his term, becoming the US's first female governor. She remained politically active after her gubernatorial term and was appointed director of the US Bureau of the Mint in 1933—becoming the first woman to hold that office as well. In her 20 years as director, she saw the Mint through the economic throes of the Great Depression and through WWII. What did Ross do before becoming governor? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Bernhard von Bülow (1849)A German statesman, von Bülow was appointed state secretary for the foreign department in 1897. He quickly became a potent force and succeeded to the chancellorship in 1900, serving until 1909. Together with Emperor William II, he pursued a policy of German aggrandizement in the years preceding WWI, inadvertently antagonizing the English, French, and Russians, who eventually formed an alliance against Germany. He lost the emperor's confidence in the Daily Telegraph affair, which was what? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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keep (one's) socks on— To remain patient and calm, especially when beginning to become angry or upset with impatience. Usually said as an imperative. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Constitution Memorial Day (Japan) (2024)Constitution Memorial Day, or Kempo Kinen-Bi, is observed as a national holiday on May 3 and commemorates the adoption of the democratic constitution in 1947. The holiday is part of Golden Week, which includes Children's Day (Kodomo-no-Hi) and Greenery Day. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: teardiscerp - To shred or tear something apart. More... avulse - To tear or pull away or pluck off. More... deracinate - "To pluck or tear up by the roots," from Latin racine, "root." More... dilacerate, dilaniate - To tear or rip something or someone to shreds is to dilacerate or dilaniate. More... | |
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