Daily Content Archive
(as of Saturday, January 11, 2020)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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QuantifiersQuantifiers are used to indicate the number or quantity of the noun being referred to. How do we choose which quantifier to use? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 ScotomataA scotoma is a blind spot or area of depressed vision in the visual field, surrounded by an area of relatively normal vision. There are many types of scotomata, including central scotoma, an area of depressed vision involving the point of fixation and interfering with central vision; peripheral scotoma, an area of depressed vision toward the periphery of the visual field; and scintillating scotoma, an area of diminished vision edged by colored lights. Scintillating scotomata often precede what? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Anglo-Zulu War Begins (1879)The Anglo-Zulu War was fought between the British Empire and the Zulu nation. It began when Zulu king Cetshwayo, determined to resist European advances, rejected British demands to disband his troops. The British attacked, and Cetshwayo routed them at Isandlwana with a disciplined army of 40,000. However, his forces were utterly defeated at Ulundi, with 1,500 Zulus, compared to 13 Britons, killed in the final battle. The British then burned the town. What became of Cetshwayo? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Alexander Hamilton (1755?)Pictured on the US $10 bill, Hamilton was an American Founding Father and the first secretary of the treasury. Differences between Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson led to the rise of political parties, with Hamilton heading the Federalist Party and Madison and Jefferson leading the Democratic-Republican Party. In 1804, Aaron Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel, and though Hamilton opposed the practice and had even lost a son in a duel, he agreed and was mortally wounded. Why did Burr challenge him? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Pain like mine demands new modes of song.Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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tighten the purse strings— To become less liberal with or more controlling of one's expenditures; to decrease the availability of money for spending purposes. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Albania Republic Day (2020)Republic Day was a national holiday in Albania, also known as Anniversary Day, which commemorated the founding of the Communist government on January 11, 1946, until April 15, 1991, when the first Parliament since the fall of the Soviet Union convened. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: ridingdavering - Riding or walking in a dazed condition. More... dressage - The art of riding and training horses, from French dresser, "to train." More... road - First meant "riding" or "hostile incursion on horseback"—a sense preserved in "inroads." More... jounce - To move roughly or violently up and down, as when one is riding a horse. More... | |