Daily Content Archive
(as of Wednesday, July 20, 2022)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining the Question MarkQuestion marks ( ? ) are used to identify sentences that ask a question (technically known as "interrogative sentences"). Where do question marks almost always appear in a sentence? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 BeekeepingBeekeeping is one of the oldest forms of food production—humans have been harvesting honey from bee colonies for thousands upon thousands of years. Beekeeping was particularly well developed in Egypt and is discussed by the Roman writers Virgil, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Varro, and Columella. Bees were traditionally kept for their honey, but today crop pollination often provides the greater part of a commercial beekeeper's income. What are four useful hive products other than honey? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Battle of Peachtree Creek (1864)In the spring of 1864 during the American Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman began preparing his troops for their first major attack on the defenses of Atlanta, Georgia. Just days after taking command of a Confederate army in that area, General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attacked Sherman's troops as they crossed the nearby Peachtree Creek. Most historians consider the attack a grave error, as the Union troops routed Hood's army. What went wrong for Hood? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Gregor Mendel (1822)Mendel was an Austrian monk who laid the mathematical foundation for the science of genetics. While working in his monastery's garden in 1854, he began planning the experiments that led him to identify the basic principles of heredity. By crossing different varieties of pea plants, he determined that each parent plant contributes a "factor"—now known as a gene—to its offspring for a particular trait. His findings went unrecognized until the 20th century, when they were rediscovered by whom? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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Elysian Fields— A place or time of perfect, happy contentment, likened to the paradisiacal afterlife of Greek mythology. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Moon Day (2023)The first man to walk on the moon was American astronaut Neil Armstrong. On July 20, 1969, he and his fellow astronaut, Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, left the command module and landed the lunar module Eagle on the moon's Sea of Tranquility. Armstrong's first words as he stepped out on the lunar surface were heard by an estimated 600 million viewers: "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." The Apollo 11 mission was completed eight years after President John F. Kennedy told Congress he believed that the United States could put a man on the moon before the decade ended. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: restinglotus position - Sitting with the feet resting on the thighs. More... resting - A kind adjective for "between acting jobs." More... superincumbent - Means "on the surface of" or "lying or resting upon." More... couchant - Describing a cat sitting with its body resting on its legs and its head raised. More... | |