Daily Content Archive
(as of Saturday, June 25, 2022)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Mitigators and IntensifiersAdverbial phrases are commonly formed when an adverb's intensity is being modified by another adverb. These modifying adverbs are known as "mitigators" and "intensifiers." How do mitigators and intensifiers each function in a sentence? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 Mojave DesertThe Mojave Desert occupies a significant portion of southeastern California and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. It is named for the Mojave tribe of Native Americans, who made it their home. It is also home to the world's largest Joshua tree forest and the third-tallest dunes in North America, the 600-foot-high Kelso Dunes. The desert's Death Valley, the lowest, hottest, driest area of North America, has recorded some of the world's highest air temperatures. What is the Mojave's largest city? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Custer Dies at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)Popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand," the Battle of the Little Bighorn occurred during the US government's campaign to force the Cheyenne and Sioux onto reservations using federal troops. Upon encountering a large encampment of the tribes, General George Custer launched an early attack with a party of approximately 200 soldiers. The troops were annihilated by the vastly larger force, and Custer himself was killed during the battle along with two of his brothers. Who led the Indian alliance? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 George Orwell (1903)Best known by his pseudonym George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair was a British novelist and essayist famed for his scathingly satirical and frighteningly political novels: the anti-Soviet fable Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, a prophetic novel that portrays the catastrophic excesses of state control over the individual. Orwell was distrustful of all political parties and ideologies, and this sentiment is reflected in much of his work. What are some of his other novels? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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good graces— Favorable, kindly, or approving regard or treatment. Usually used in the phrase "in someone's good graces" or some variation thereof. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Mozambique Independence Day (2023)This national holiday commemorates Mozambique's independence from Portugal, attained on this day in 1975 after 10 years of warfare and nearly half a century of Portuguese rule. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: secondsblipvert - A TV advertisement of a few seconds' length. More... centiday - A period of 14 minutes 24 seconds, a hundredth of a day, used especially in the study of plant growth. More... fireflies, lightning bug - Fireflies glow for a while but die down; lightning bugs flash their taillights for only a few seconds and never in the same place twice. More... | |