Daily Content Archive
(as of Sunday, March 18, 2018)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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blackjack
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining ComplementsComplements are words or groups of words that are necessary to complete the meaning of another part of the sentence. Complements act like modifiers to add additional meaning to the word or words they are attached to. Are complements always part of the subject or the predicate? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Year and a Day RuleThe year and a day rule was an English legal principle holding that a death could not be deemed murder—or any other form of homicide—if it occurred more than a year and one day after the act that was allegedly its cause. Though it became enshrined in common law, the rule was finally abolished in 1996. Now, if an act can be proved to have caused a death, it can constitute murder regardless of how much time has passed. In what other ways has the specific time limit of a year and a day been used? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Lon Nol Ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia (1970)Nol became defense minister and army chief of staff in Norodom Sihanouk's Cambodian government in 1955 and later served as premier under him. In 1970, he led the coup that deposed Sihanouk and assumed control of the government. His unsuccessful attempts at suppressing the Communist Khmer Rouge guerillas plunged the country into civil war, and he fled the country in 1975 with the Communist takeover imminent. What prompted Nol to resort to the use of "magic sand" as a military defense? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Frederik Willem de Klerk (1936)The last state president of South Africa, de Klerk served from 1989 to 1994. He is best known for engineering the end of apartheid, South Africa's racial segregation policy, and beginning the process of drafting of a new constitution for the country based on the principle of "one person, one vote." As president, de Klerk moved quickly to free political prisoners, and, in 1991, he obtained the repeal of all remaining apartheid laws. With whom did de Klerk share the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.H.G. Wells (1866-1946) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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sleep rough— To sleep outside at night, usually because one has no home or shelter. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Congo National Days (2022)The Republic of the Congo has two historical holidays in addition to its independence day: the assassination of President Marien Ngouabi on March 18, 1977, and the beginning of the civil war on June 5, 1997, which restored President Denis Sassou-Nguesso to power. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: huskbeer nut - A peanut served with its husk but not its shell. More... brown sugar, brown rice - Brown sugar is unrefined or partially refined; brown rice is unpolished with only the husk removed. More... husk - A shortening of Dutch huisken, "little house." More... paddy - As in "field," it is from a Malay word meaning "rice in the straw or husk" (making rice paddy redundant). More... | |