Daily Content Archive
(as of Wednesday, June 21, 2017)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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exceptionable
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 Germicidal LampsGermicidal lamps are specially designed lights that kill microorganisms and are used to clean wastewater, workspaces, and medical and scientific tools. The lamps work by emitting ultraviolet light that damages microorganismal DNA, rendering pathogens harmless or removing their reproductive capabilities. Some germicidal lamps also produce ozone, a substance known to have disinfectant properties. Why must people take care to shield their eyes and skin from the light these lamps emit? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Japanese Submarine Attacks US Mainland (1942)With the exception of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US was able to largely avoid fighting WWII on home soil, mainly because of its relative geographical isolation. However, Japan attacked the West Coast of the US several times. In 1942, a Japanese submarine fired at Fort Stevens in Oregon in the first and only attack on a mainland US military installation during the war. The shells damaged phone cables and a baseball backstop, but the fort's gunners were ordered not to return fire. Why? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Mary Therese McCarthy (1912)McCarthy began her storied writing career as a drama critic for the Partisan Review in the 1930s, gaining a reputation for wit, intellect, and acerbity—qualities that are evident in her later works of satirical fiction as well as in her personal life. She engaged other authors in public feuds and repeatedly took contentious literary and political stands. Author Lillian Hellman filed a multimillion-dollar libel suit against McCarthy after she made what comment about Hellman's writing? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 U.S. Open Championship (Golf) (2020)The U.S. Open is the oldest golf tournament in North America, first held in 1895. More than 6,000 professional and amateur golfers vie for only 156 available places. Unlike the Masters, which is an invitational tournament, the U.S. Open is for anyone good enough to survive the qualifying rounds. Rather than being played on the same course each year, its location changes, traditionally played on the nation's best courses. The tournament itself takes four days. There is a qualifying round followed by three days of 18 holes each, for a total of 72 holes. More... | |