Daily Content Archive
(as of Tuesday, January 28, 2025)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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blamable
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Possessive Reciprocal PronounsWhen we wish to make reciprocal pronouns possessive, we always treat them as singular. What ending is added to show possession? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 Guerrilla GardeningGuerrilla gardening is a form of activism in which groups take over abandoned plots of land that they do not own in order to grow crops or plants. The earliest recorded use of the term was in 1973, when the Green Guerilla group transformed a derelict private lot in New York's Bowery district into a garden. That garden is still being cared for by volunteers and is now protected by the city's parks department. What American folk hero do some consider an early practitioner of guerrilla gardening? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice First Published (1813)Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice while living at "Steventon," her father's Hampshire vicarage where she spent the first 25 years of her life. However, the book was not published until much later—in 1813, four years before her death. Like Austen's other novels, Pride and Prejudice is a comedy of manners that depicts the self-contained world of provincial ladies and gentlemen. In 2003, the novel placed second in a BBC poll for the "UK's Best-Loved Book." What book came first? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Arthur Rubinstein (1887)Rubinstein was a Polish-American pianist whose enormous popularity spanned many decades. He debuted in 1900 and performed with moderate success until the 1930s, when he stopped performing for five years to improve his technique and reemerged as a giant of 20th-century music, active into his 80s. In the US, he was equally noted as soloist and chamber musician. His repertoire ranged from Bach to 20th-century Spanish composers, but he was particularly noted for his interpretation of what composer? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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lubrication payment— A small sum of money or other gifts or services to be paid or given to government officials to expedite business operations in countries that do not prohibit such activity. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 St. Charlemagne's Day (2025)Charlemagne wasn't actually a saint at all; he was an emperor and the first ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, crowned in 800 by Pope Leo III. Although he was never able to read and write himself, Charlemagne, whose name means "Charles the Great," founded the University of Paris. In fact, his reign was marked by a huge cultural revival, including significant advances in scholarship, literature, and philosophy. He died on January 28, 814. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: mentionoojah, ooja-ka-piv, oojiboo - An oojah or ooja-ka-piv or oojiboo is "a thing whose name one forgets, does not know, or prefers not to mention." More... apophasis - Mentioning a subject by saying one is not going to mention it. More... infandous - Describing something too horrible to mention. More... mention - Its etymological notion is "reminding," from Latin mentio, "remembrance." More... | |