Daily Content Archive
(as of Friday, November 18, 2022)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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cat's-paw
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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IntensifiersIntensifiers are adverbs or adverbials that modify adjectives and other adverbs to increase their strength, power, or intensity. What are some examples of intensifiers? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Taj MahalThe Taj Mahal in Agra, India, is considered one of the most beautiful buildings in the world and the finest example of the late style of Indian Islamic architecture. Mughal emperor Shah Jahan ordered it built as a mausoleum for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The building's white marble exterior is inlaid with semiprecious stones arranged in Arabic inscriptions, floral designs, and arabesques, and its gardens reflect the Islamic Paradise. When was the monument's construction begun? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Pope Boniface VIII Issues Unam Sanctam (1302)Historians consider the papal bull Unam sanctam—which proclaimed that there is no salvation outside of the Church—to be one of the most extreme statements of papal spiritual supremacy ever made. It stemmed from Pope Boniface VIII's ongoing feud with Philip the Fair of France over Philip's taxation of clerics without papal consent. Unam sanctam thus emphasized that Catholic princes are subject to the pope in temporal and religious matters. How did Philip respond to the bull? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Louis Daguerre (1787)Originally a scene painter for the opera, Daguerre was a French inventor who devised one of the first practical photographic processes—the daguerreotype. He, in collaboration with Nicéphore Niépce, found that a permanent image could be formed on a silver iodide-coated copper plate if it was exposed to light, then fumed with mercury vapor and fixed by a solution of common salt. His daguerreotype process was announced in 1839 at the Academy of Sciences. Who acquired the patent for the invention? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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have (someone) coming and going— To put someone in an inescapable position or situation; to leave someone with no viable options or solutions. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Morocco Independence Day (2023)Independence Day, also known as Fête de l'indépendance, is a national holiday commemorating Morocco's independence from France on November 18, 1927. Other public holidays in Morocco include: August 20, the anniversary of the king's and people's revolution, and November 6, the anniversary of the Green March in 1975. In order to claim the Western Sahara for Morocco, more than 300,000 Moroccans marched into the territory, which the Spanish still controlled; Spanish troops left the area by early 1976. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: traineddolphinarium - An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment. More... Navy SEAL - A member of the special forces unit for the US Navy who is trained for unconventional warfare on sea, air, and land. More... pergola - Can be described as an arbor formed of growing plants trained over a trellis. More... brain drain - The emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a country or other place. More... | |