Daily Content Archive
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Idioms that Start with "In"As there is no way to decipher a prepositional idiom's meaning simply by looking at it, it is best to memorize as many combinations as possible. Many combinations start with "in," such as "in advance," "in common," and "in general." What are some others? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 OlfactionThe organs of smell are confined to a small area in the roof of the nasal cavity. Olfactory cells are stimulated when certain molecules reach them, and nerve fibers extend from these receptor cells to the olfactory bulb in the human brain. Smell is one of our most subtle senses, amplifying the sense of taste and detecting tens of thousands of distinct scents. Odor information is easily stored in long-term memory and has strong connections to emotional memory. Why might this be? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 First Permanent ARPANET Link Is Established (1969)Funded by the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), ARPANET was the first digital network that utilized packet switching, a method of data transmission. A revolutionary technology, it ultimately led to the creation of the modern Internet. The network's first permanent connection was made between computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute. By 1983, more than 300 computers were connected. What was the first message sent through ARPANET? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Hetty Green (1834)Green was an American financier and reputedly the wealthiest American woman of her time. In 1865, her father and aunt both died, leaving her an estate valued at $10 million. She invested her inheritance so shrewdly that she came to be regarded as the greatest woman financier in the world, amassing an estate valued at $100-200 million. An extremely miserly woman, the "Witch of Wall Street" allegedly refused a hernia operation because it cost $150. What are some other examples of her stinginess? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.E. M. Forster (1879-1970) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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on the leading edge— Having or knowledgeable of the most advanced technology in a given area, activity, or endeavor. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Mobile International Festival (2024)Founded in 1982, the Mobile International Festival is meant to share the many cultures of the Mobile, Alabama, community with the public. The festival begins with an opening ceremony and a parade of flags. The Mobile Civic Center houses native dancers, costumes, crafts, musical concerts, acrobats, martial arts, puppet theatre, and cuisine from such countries as Japan, Korea, Ireland, Kenya, China, Greece, Panama, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, and India. Visitors are given a "passport" when they enter the festival and collect a stamp as they visit each country's cultural exhibit. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: narrativenarratage - The technique of having one character in the role of storyteller or the act of inserting bits of explanation into a narrative. More... narrative - First an adjective meaning "telling the facts of a story," from Latin narrare, which is also the base of narrate. More... | |