Daily Content Archive
(as of Wednesday, September 6, 2023)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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complaisance
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Major and Minor Sentences (Regular and Irregular Sentences)A major sentence is any complete sentence that contains an independent clause. Minor sentences do not have both a subject and a complete predicate. What are word sentences? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!L. Frank Baum was an American journalist, playwright, and author. In 1900, he published his most famous work, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a story about a girl named Dorothy who is carried by a tornado to the magical land of Oz. Baum's fame rests largely on his 14 stories of Oz, all of which emphasize the virtues of practicality, self-reliance, tolerance, and egalitarianism. In 1938, the story was made into an extraordinarily popular motion picture. Who played the role of Dorothy? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Leon Czolgosz Assassinates William McKinley (1901)In 1901, anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition, a World's Fair in Buffalo, New York. McKinley died a week later, and Czolgosz was convicted of his murder and executed that same year. Though judged sane during the trial, Czolgosz is believed by some to have been mentally unstable after suffering a breakdown years earlier. What Broadway musical incorporates the story of Czolgosz with those of eight other presidential assassins? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt (1817)Galt was a British-Canadian statesman. Born in London, he immigrated to Canada in his teens and began his political career there in 1849, eventually serving several terms as minister of finance. Although he signed the 1849 manifesto favoring the annexation of Canada by the US, he became one of the most persistent and influential leaders of the movement for confederation of the provinces and later advocated Canadian independence. He was a founding member of what company that still exists today? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.Edith Wharton (1862-1937) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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have a (good/solid/sound/etc.) grasp of/on (something)— To have a firm, clear understanding or determination of something. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Aloha Festivals (2023)Aloha Festivals is a celebration of Hawaiian culture. Once a week-long event called Aloha Week, it's now a two-month affair with 300 events that starts in Honolulu in early September and runs through the end of October, with a week of festivities on every island of Hawaii. The celebrations include canoe races between the islands of Molokai and Oahu, coronations of royal courts as commemorations of the former Hawaiian monarchy, street parties, cultural events, parades, and pageantry. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: heapmogul - A small mound of snow on a ski course, from Old Norse mugl, "little heap." More... congeries - A Latin word meaning "heap or pile of disparate items" or "disorderly collection." More... midden - Traces back to Scandinavian forms mog, "muck," and dynge, "heap," and first meant "dunghill" before it denoted a prehistoric or historic refuse heap. More... accumulate - One of its Latin elements is cumulus, "a heap." More... | |