Daily Content Archive
(as of Sunday, July 4, 2021)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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ignominious
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining the Imperfective AspectAs there is no separate verb form in English for the imperfective aspect, it is expressed through different grammatical structures, which change depending on what we are saying about the temporal structure of the action. We sometimes classify these structures as what two subclasses of the imperfective? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Emin Pasha Relief ExpeditionBorn Eduard Schnitzer, Emin Pasha was a German explorer and doctor who served as a medical officer and governor in Equatoria, part of the Egyptian Sudan. In 1885, he was cut off from the outside world by a Mahdist uprising, prompting a European rescue mission. The rescue party undertook a year-long steamer ship journey through densely forested "Darkest Africa," where food was scarce, disease was rampant, and natives shot them with poison arrows. When they finally reached Pasha, how did he react? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Henry David Thoreau Begins Two Years of Simple Living (1845)In 1845, Thoreau, an American author and naturalist, built himself a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. He spent the next two years, two months, and two days there, observing nature, reading, and writing. He also kept a journal that he later used to write his masterpiece, Walden, or Life in the Woods, which compresses his time there into a single calendar year and uses the passage of the seasons to symbolize human development. What were Thoreau's enigmatic last words? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Meyer Lansky (1902)Lansky was a Russian-born US gangster. After partnering with Bugsy Siegel as a young man, he joined Lucky Luciano in forming a national crime syndicate. By 1936, he ran gambling operations in Cuba and the US, and by 1970, he had amassed a fortune estimated at $300 million. In 1979, a government investigation linked Lansky with Jack Ruby, the nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy. In what wartime effort did Lansky partner with the US government? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 The years teach much which the days never know.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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grease payment— A sum of money, typically a bribe, paid to a government official or business person so as to facilitate or expedite some decision or transaction. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Fourth of July (Aalborg, Denmark) (2023)The Fourth of July celebration held in Aalborg, Denmark, each year since 1912 was started by Dr. Max Henius of Chicago. He bought 200 acres of land in Rebild and deeded the land to King Christian X, with the stipulation that his fellow Danish Americans be allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July there every year. The area is now a national park, and about 35,000 people come to observe America's Independence Day. A replica of the Liberty Bell is rung, the national anthems of both countries are sung, and there are bilingual readings of the Declaration of Independence. More... | |
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