Daily Content Archive
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining Declarative SentencesA declarative sentence makes a statement or argument about what is, was, or will be the case. That is, it talks about that which is asserted to be true. What mark of punctuation do declarative sentences usually end in? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 ReikiReiki is an alternative healing practice in which the practitioner is believed to channel energy into the patient in order to encourage healing. Named for a Japanese term meaning "universal life force," it was developed in the 19th century by Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese scholar of religion who was intrigued by accounts of Christ's ability to heal people by touching them. Reiki practitioners use simple hands-on, no-touch, and visualization techniques during sessions in which what happens? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 John F. Kennedy Defeats Richard Nixon for US Presidency (1960)In 1960, Kennedy, a US senator, earned the Democratic nomination for president. In the campaign that followed, he engaged in a series of televised debates with his Republican opponent, Richard M. Nixon. After a vigorous campaign managed by his brother Robert F. Kennedy and aided financially by his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, he defeated Nixon by a narrow popular margin. At 43, he became the youngest person ever, and the first Catholic, elected president. How did the debates affect the election? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Hermann Rorschach (1884)Rorschach, a Swiss psychiatrist, devised his eponymous inkblot test to gauge the perceptions, intelligence, and emotional traits of his patients and used it to gather data for his 1921 book Psychodiagnostics. Based on the idea that people project their unconscious thoughts onto stimuli, the controversial test requires an individual to look at a series of inkblots one at a time and report what he or she sees in each of them. What was Rorschach's surprisingly prescient childhood nickname? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do.William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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kick the can down the road— Especially in politics, to postpone or defer a definitive action, decision, or solution, usually by effecting a short-term one instead. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Saints and Martyrs Day (2024)Since the Reformation the Church of England has not added saints to its calendar. Although there have certainly been many candidates for sainthood over the past 450 years, and many martyrs who have given their lives as foreign missionaries, the Church of England has not canonized them, although a few are commemorated on special days. Instead, since 1928 it has set aside November 8, exactly one week after All Saints' Day, to commemorate "the unnamed saints of the nation." More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: highwayfrontage road - A smaller road that runs alongside a highway or major road. More... highway, expressway, freeway, parkway, turnpike - A highway is a main road, while an expressway is a multilane highway; freeways, parkways, and turnpikes are types of expressways. More... scamp - Once meant a highwayman; as a verb, it meant "rob on the highway." More... interstate - A highway that is part of the federal network of major roads; despite their name, some interstates do not cross state lines. More... | |