Daily Content Archive
(as of Wednesday, March 16, 2022)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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assuage
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Using Commas with Long NumbersIt is standard practice to add one or more commas to long numbers to make them easier to read. What are commas used in this way technically known as? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Milgram Experiment: Obedience vs. ConscienceThe Milgram experiment, a famous scientific experiment of social psychology, was designed to measure the willingness of a person to follow orders when those orders conflict with their conscience. Stanley Milgram devised the experiment in an attempt to understand the behavior of Nazi soldiers during the Holocaust. What was involved in Milgram's experiment, and what were his results? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 My Lai Massacre (1968)During the Vietnam War, US troops searching for Viet Cong fighters massacred hundreds of civilians from the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. Though they had not located any insurgents in My Lai, the soldiers opened fire on the villagers, killing men, women, and children. The incident was initially covered up by army officers. When it was revealed in the press nearly two years later, it divided the US public and increased pressure to end the war. How many soldiers were convicted for their crimes? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas (1925)Miramontes was a Mexican chemist whose extensive scientific contributions include numerous publications and nearly 40 national and international patents in different areas, including organic chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, petrochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and polluting agents. However, Miramontes is best remembered for his synthesis, in 1951, of norethindrone, a progestational hormone that would be used as the base of one of the first forms of what? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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be cleaned out— To be emptied or devoid of money, food, resources, etc. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 St. Urho's Day (2024)St. Urho, whose name in Finnish means "hero," is credited with banishing a plague of grasshoppers that was threatening Finland's grape arbors. His legend in the United States was popularized in the 1950s; after being celebrated as a "joke holiday" for several years in the Menahga-Sebeka area, the idea spread to other states with large Finnish populations. The actual celebrations include wearing St. Urho's official colors—Nile Green and Royal Purple—drinking grape juice, and chanting St. Urho's famous words, "Grasshopper, grasshopper, go away," in Finnish. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: inhabitantinfernal - An inhabitant of the underworld can be called an infernal. More... sherpa - Literally means "inhabitant of an eastern country." More... aborigine - From Classical Latin meaning "ancestors," it was spelled with a capital A as the name of the primeval Romans; the first people called aborigines were the original inhabitants of Italy and Greece and aborigine was specifically applied to the inhabitants of a country ab origine, "from the beginning." More... sylvans - Natives or inhabitants of forests or woods. More... | |