Daily Content Archive
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Identifying Interrogative PronounsInterrogative pronouns are used in interrogative sentences to ask questions, functioning either as the subject or object of such sentences. Why is an interrogative pronoun easy to identify in a sentence? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 Hangzhou Bay BridgeThe Hangzhou Bay Bridge in eastern China is the longest trans-oceanic bridge in the world, stretching 22 miles (35.7 km) across Hangzhou Bay and consisting of six traffic lanes and a central cable-stayed portion. Opened to the public in 2008, the bridge links the municipalities of Jiaxing and Ningbo in the Zhejiang province and cuts travel time between Shanghai and Ningbo from 4 to 2.5 hours. According to most definitions, it is the second longest bridge in the world. What is the longest? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Dutch East India Company Established (1602)Chartered by the parliament of the Netherlands to expand trade and assure close ties between the government and its colonial enterprises in Asia, the Dutch East India Company was the world's first multinational corporation. It had quasi-governmental powers, including the ability to wage war, and wrested control of the Spice Islands trade from Portugal. However, it was plagued by corruption and insolvency in the late 18th century and was dissolved. What issues contributed to its decline? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Henrik Ibsen (1828)Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright, is considered the father of modern theater. Emphasizing character over plot, he explored psychological conflicts stemming from frustrated love and destructive family relationships, and he addressed social problems such as political corruption and the changing role of women. Many considered his plays scandalous, but he earned a worldwide audience with powerful studies of middle-class morality, such as A Doll's House. What, allegedly, were Ibsen's last words? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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the idiot box— slang A television set, or television in general. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Tunisia Independence Day (2024)Independence Day is a public holiday in Tunisia commemorating a treaty signed on this day in 1956 that formally recognized Tunisia's independence from France. It had been a French colony since the 1880s. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: loudhappy-clappy - Refers to any Christian congregation that is extremely enthusiastic, loud, and musical. More... stentor - Homer introduced Stentor, a very loud herald, in the Iliad—which gives us stentor, "person with a loud voice," and stentorian, which originally meant "loud, booming." More... rodomontade - Meaning loud bragging, it got its name from Rodomonto, a loud bragging Moorish king of epics. More... thersitical, clamant - To be thersitical is to be loudmouthed or foulmouthed; clamant is loud and insistent. More... | |