Daily Content Archive
(as of Sunday, May 19, 2019)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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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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 Tissue EngineeringTissue engineering is the development of biological substitutes to repair or replace damaged tissue or organs. It is an interdisciplinary field based on life science and engineering principles and relies on the use of living cells as engineering materials. The process begins with the extraction and cultivation of cells, which may later be transferred to a scaffold that helps them develop the proper structure. Finally, the tissue is implanted in the patient. What materials are used for scaffolds? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Nine-Year-Old Cynthia Ann Parker Kidnapped by Comanches (1836)Parker was a young girl when Comanches raided Fort Parker—located in what is now Texas—and massacred its inhabitants, capturing her in the process. Raised by her captors, she was adopted into the tribe and went on to bear the last great Comanche chief, Quanah Parker. At first, Quanah led raids on frontier settlements, but after his defeat and surrender, he learned to live alongside his white neighbors and eventually became the richest Native American in the US. What became of his mother? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Lorraine Hansberry (1930)At just 29 years of age, African-American playwright Lorraine Hansberry secured her place in theatrical history when she became the first black woman to have a play produced on Broadway. Her acclaimed A Raisin in the Sun, a penetrating psychological study of a working-class African-American family in Chicago, was inspired in part by the discrimination and legal battle Hansberry's own family faced upon buying a home in a white Chicago neighborhood. Whose poem gave rise to the play's title? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.Mark Twain (1835-1910) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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kick the tires— To inspect or test something or someone to ensure that he, she, or it meets the required or expected standard of quality. Primarily heard in US, Canada. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Ho Chi Minh's Birthday (2021)Often referred to as the "father of modern Vietnam," Ho Chi Minh spearheaded the Vietnamese revolt against French and Japanese occupation. In 1954, after the French and Japanese left, the United States entered the scene, and it was during this struggle that Ho Chi Minh died in 1969. In 1975, North and South Vietnam united into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. On Ho Chi Minh's birthday each year, people hold parades in cities, carrying posters depicting him. Many women wear the áo dài, traditional Vietnamese dress. Speeches about Ho Chi Minh often follow the parades. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: touchingadjoining - Implies meeting and touching at some point or line. More... tact, taction - Tact first referred to the sense of touch, from Latin tactus, "touch, sense of touch"; taction is the action of touching. More... contact - Its underlying notion is "touching," from Latin tangere, "touch." More... attinge, attingent - To attinge is to touch or come into contact with; attingent is touching or being in contact. More... | |