Daily Content Archive
(as of Friday, April 19, 2019)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining Complex SentencesComplex sentences are one of the four main sentence structures. They are made up of one independent clause (or "main clause") and one or more dependent clauses. What do we use complex sentences to indicate? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The LoquatThe loquat is a small ornamental evergreen tree that belongs to the rose family and is related to the apple and other temperate-zone fruit trees. It bears yellowish, oval-shaped fruits that grow in clusters and taste similar to mildly tart apples or pears. Probably indigenous to China, it has been grown from antiquity in Japan and northern India and is also cultivated in Indochina, the Mediterranean region, and New World subtropics. What deadly poison is found in the fruit’s seeds? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 The Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the opening engagements of the American Revolution. While marching from Boston to Concord to seize colonists' military stores, a British force of 700 was met at Lexington by 77 local minutemen. After a brief exchange of shots, the outnumbered colonists fell back. The British continued on to Concord, where they were defeated by a militia of about 500. Who had been sent to warn the people of the Massachusetts countryside about the impending British attack? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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.jpg) David Ricardo (1772)Ricardo was a British economist who made a fortune in the stock market before turning to the study of political economy, publishing his major work, The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, in 1817. According to his labor theory of value, the value of almost any good is a function of the labor needed to produce it; thus, a $10 watch requires ten times more labor than a $1 pencil. According to his "iron law of wages," what keeps wages stabilized around the subsistence level? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.E. M. Forster (1879-1970) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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in the same mold— Of or in the same or similar style, fashion, or manner. Primarily heard in US. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Primrose Day (2024)Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, novelist, and twice prime minister of England, died on this day in 1881. When he was buried in the family vault at Hughenden Manor, near High Wycombe, Queen Victoria came to lay a wreath of primroses—thought to be his favorite flower—on his grave. Two years later, the Primrose League was formed to support the principles of Conservatism that Disraeli had championed. The organization's influence ebbed after World War I, but Primrose Day is remembered in honor of Disraeli and his contribution to the Conservative cause. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: slopingpitched - Describing a "steeply downward sloping" roof built at an angle. More... fastigiate - Means "sloping up to a point." More... slalom - From Norwegian sla, "sloping," and lam, "track." More... squint - Short for the obsolete asquint, which may have come from Dutch schuin, "sideways, sloping." More... | |