Daily Content Archive
(as of Monday, February 4, 2019)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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inestimable
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Pronunciation Changes with NominalizationWhen creating nouns, there are instances in which, instead of changing a word's spelling, we change where we pronounce a stress on the word's syllables to indicate a shift from a verb to a noun. What is this change known as? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Venera ProgramThe Venera Program consisted of a series of unmanned Soviet planetary probes sent to Venus between 1965 and 1983. Venera 2 flew to within 15,000 miles (24,000 km) of Venus in 1966. A few days later, Venera 3 crash-landed on its surface, becoming the first spacecraft to strike another planet. Later missions analyzed Venus's atmosphere, made soft landings, and mapped and sent back the first close-up photographs of some of the planet's surface. What does Venera mean in Russian? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Facebook Is Launched (2004)With over a billion active users, Facebook is the most popular social networking site on the Web. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 as a way to facilitate online communication between Harvard University students, the platform was a great success and was soon opened up to students at other colleges, then to high school students, and eventually to anyone in the world over the age of 13 with access to the Internet. What new words and word meanings have been added to the lexicon thanks to Facebook? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (1917)Yahya Khan was the president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971. As president, he inherited a two-decade old constitutional problem of interethnic rivalry, complicated by economic grievances and the problem of transforming a virtual autocracy into a democracy. He declared martial law, but it failed to curb domestic unrest, and civil war between East and West Pakistan broke out. Pakistan's army was defeated, and Yahya Khan resigned after the establishment of what independent republic in 1971? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance…and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.Henry James (1843-1916) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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pearly whites— A person's set of teeth. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Sri Lanka National Day (2022)The former British colony of Ceylon changed its name in 1972 to Sri Lanka, which means "Blessed Isle." Sri Lankans commemorate the granting of their independence from Great Britain on February 4, 1948, with public gatherings throughout the island and special services in the temples, churches, and mosques. There are also parades, folk dances, processions, and national games. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: trybeseech - First meant "search for, try to obtain." More... emulate - Means "try to equal or surpass, especially by copying." More... experience, experiment, expert - Experience, experiment and expert derive from Latin experiri, "try." More... quorum - First the genitive plural of Latin qui, "who," it originally referred to the "number of justices who need be present to try a case." More... | |