Daily Content Archive
(as of Tuesday, April 20, 2021)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Adjectives after the NounWhile attributive adjectives are generally found before the noun they modify, especially in simple sentences, there are also many cases in which they are placed immediately after the noun. What are these adjectives called? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of NantucketThe only complete novel written by Edgar Allen Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket describes the fantastic adventures—and misadventures—of the eponymous character, who stows away on a whaling ship. Though the 1838 novel influenced writers such as Melville and Verne, Poe—who is best known for his short tales of the macabre—called the novel "a silly book." Contemporary reviews were likewise unfavorable, and readers disliked the book's abrupt ending, in which what happens? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 The Ludlow Massacre (1914)In the spring of 1914, the Colorado National Guard machine-gunned and torched a tent colony in Ludlow, where striking coal miners and their families had been living after being evicted from their company-owned homes some months earlier. Nineteen people, most of them women and children, were killed. For the next 10 days, the strikers attacked nearby mines and battled mine guards and militia. Federal troops were needed to put an end to the violence. Which side eventually prevailed in the strike? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Edward L. Beach, Jr. (1918)A highly decorated American naval officer and WWII veteran, Beach became the naval aide to the US president following the war. In his free time, he wrote. Drawing on his wartime experiences, Beach penned 13 books. His first and best-known published work, 1955's Run Silent, Run Deep, was made into a film of the same name in 1958. In 1960, Beach commanded the first submerged circumnavigation aboard the USS Triton, an American nuclear-powered submarine unique for having two what? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation.Mary Shelley (1797-1851) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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bottom of the ninth— The final and critical moment or moments of a tense, important, or desperate situation. It refers to the ninth inning of baseball, the "bottom" of which is batted by the home team as their last chance to win the game. Primarily heard in US, South Africa. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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.jpg) National Poetry Month (2021)Established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, this month-long event centers attention on the contributions and accomplishments of American poets. It is celebrated primarily by educational institutions, libraries, bookstores, and nonprofit organizations throughout the United States and Canada, and its activities include poetry readings, poetry festivals, displays and exhibits, workshops, and other events designed to help Americans of all ages learn more about poetry and its place in our contemporary culture. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: stallloge - A booth or stall; also a box in a theatre. More... cage - Came to English from Latin cavea, "enclosure for animals; coop, hive, or stall"—or "dungeon." More... install - Its earliest sense was "place in office by seating in a stall or official seat," from Old French estaler, "to place," from estal, "place." More... pedestal - Comes from Old Italian piedestallo, a conflation of pie de stallo, "foot of a stall." More... | |