Daily Content Archive
(as of Wednesday, March 16, 2022)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining the PeriodThe period (also known as a full stop, especially in British English) is a punctuation mark ( . ) primarily used to indicate the end of a sentence. It appears as a single dot on the bottom line of the text, and it comes immediately after what in a sentence? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Milgram Experiment: Obedience vs. ConscienceThe Milgram experiment, a famous scientific experiment of social psychology, was designed to measure the willingness of a person to follow orders when those orders conflict with their conscience. Stanley Milgram devised the experiment in an attempt to understand the behavior of Nazi soldiers during the Holocaust. What was involved in Milgram's experiment, and what were his results? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Caligula Becomes Emperor of Rome (37 CE)When Caligula became the Roman emperor in 37 CE, replacing the hated Tiberius, the public welcomed his reign, and for a time it was uneventful. Seven months later, he fell severely ill, and when he recovered, he was a changed man. Suddenly, his reign was marked by financially ruinous extravagance, unmatched cruelty, and rampant executions, even of his former supporters. He was assassinated within a few years. What may have caused the mental instability Caligula displayed after his illness? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750)Caroline Herschel was a British astronomer. At the age of 10, she contracted typhus, which permanently stunted her growth—but not her ambition. Her family assumed that she would never marry because of her height and trained her to be a household servant. But when her brother, Sir William Herschel, took up astronomy and accepted the position of King's Astronomer, she joined him as his assistant and assumed the laborious task of cataloguing thousands of stars and nebulae. What did she discover? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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marry (someone) for (his or her) money— To marry someone solely or primarily to have access to their personal wealth. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 St. Urho's Day (2025)St. Urho, whose name in Finnish means "hero," is credited with banishing a plague of grasshoppers that was threatening Finland's grape arbors. His legend in the United States was popularized in the 1950s; after being celebrated as a "joke holiday" for several years in the Menahga-Sebeka area, the idea spread to other states with large Finnish populations. The actual celebrations include wearing St. Urho's official colors—Nile Green and Royal Purple—drinking grape juice, and chanting St. Urho's famous words, "Grasshopper, grasshopper, go away," in Finnish. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: rollingbeachcomber - A long wave rolling in from the sea. More... sprag - A block placed behind a car wheel to keep it from rolling down a hill. More... keep the ball rolling - An allusion to rugby or bandy. More... voluble - "Flowing with speech, talkative"; such a person has words "rolling" off their tongue. More... | |