Daily Content Archive
(as of Sunday, January 14, 2024)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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sophistry
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Noun PhrasesNoun phrases are groups of two or more words within a sentence that function grammatically as nouns. Noun phrases consist of a noun and what else? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 TopographyIn Ancient Greece, topographers were charged with writing detailed descriptions of places, works that are now called “local histories.” By the 20th c, the practice of topography had evolved into the study and representation of the features and configuration of land surfaces. Topographic maps use symbols and coloring to represent elevations, depressions, and depths of water and depict the contours of both natural and man-made features. In what other scientific fields has topography been applied? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 San Francisco's Human Be-In Launches "Summer of Love" (1967)In 1967, the burgeoning counterculture movement took center stage in San Francisco as a number of figures who would become its icons gathered for a "happening" in Golden Gate Park. Announced as a "Human Be-In" in the San Francisco Oracle newspaper, the event was attended by tens of thousands of people and featured speakers Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, as well as performances by The Grateful Dead, among many others. What famous phrase did Leary introduce in his speech at the Be-In? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Berthe Morisot (1841)Morisot was a French impressionist painter best known for her loose brushwork and the sensitivity she brought to her female subjects. She studied with many gifted painters, including Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, and was highly influenced by Édouard Manet, whose brother she later married. She exhibited regularly with the Impressionists, and although none of her exhibits proved commercially successful, she outsold Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. What are some of her best known paintings? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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be a roaring success— To be extremely or triumphantly successful. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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.jpg) Feast of the Ass (2024)This festival recalling the flight of the Holy Family (Jesus, Mary, and Joseph) into Egypt to escape King Herod reached its peak during the Middle Ages in France. It was customary to have a girl carrying a baby and riding an elaborately decorated ass led through the streets to the church. But the celebration gradually took on comic overtones, with the priest and congregation imitating the braying of an ass during the service and the ass itself being led into the church. By the 15th century the feast was nothing more than an occasion for laughter and was suppressed by the Church. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: snake | |