Daily Content Archive
(as of Sunday, March 9, 2025)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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repulse
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining Negative Interrogative SentencesAs their name implies, negative interrogative sentences (sometimes called "interro-negative sentences") are interrogative sentences that are made negative. In addition to asking literal questions, negative interrogative sentences are often used to imply what? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Hidden Art of SteganographySteganography is the practice of hiding secret messages in seemingly innocuous documents such as pictures, articles, or shopping lists. The practice dates to the 5th c BCE, when early practitioners concealed information under the wax of wooden writing tablets or on the tattooed scalps of slaves. As technology evolved, so did steganography; and today, information is often hidden in computer files. Which terrorist group has been accused of using steganography to transmit secrets over the Internet? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Edward R. Murrow's See It Now Airs McCarthyism Episode (1954)In the early 1950s, US Senator Joseph McCarthy persecuted scores of people he deemed subversive in a series of widely-publicized hearings that whipped the public into an anti-Communist frenzy. In 1954, journalist Edward R. Murrow produced an episode of his TV show See It Now that criticized the Red Scare and turned public opinion against McCarthy using the senator's own words. Murrow later invited McCarthy to respond. What happened when the senator accepted? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Vita Sackville-West (1892)Sackville-West was an aristocratic English writer and gardener who married the diplomat and author Harold Nicolson in 1913. Their complicated relationship is chronicled in Portrait of a Marriage, a biography inspired by her journals and written by their son Nigel. The gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, which she designed, are among the most visited in England. However, she is perhaps best remembered for her love affair with author Virginia Woolf, which inspired which of Woolf's novels? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 I always advise people never to give advice.P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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manoeuvre the apostles— obsolete To borrow or take money from one person or source to repay the debt of another (i.e., rob Peter to pay Paul). More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Forty Martyrs' Day (2025)The "Forty Martyrs of Sebaste" were Roman soldiers quartered in Armenia in 320 CE; they are greatly revered in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In Greece, special foods are prepared, such as cake with 40 layers of pastry and stew with 40 herbs. In Romania, little cakes called sfintisori ("little mints") are baked and given to and received from every passerby. Coliva is also traditional. Farm tools are readied for work, and hearth ashes are spread around the cottage to keep the serpent from entering. (Each home is said to have a serpent protecting it). More... | |
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