Daily Content Archive
(as of Tuesday, June 25, 2019)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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deface
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Non-Restrictive AppositivesAppositives that are not essential to the meaning of the sentence are known as "non-restrictive appositives." How do we set non-restrictive appositives apart from the rest of the sentence? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Discovery ExpeditionIn 1901, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society organized a British expedition to Antarctica aboard the Discovery. The voyage was led by Robert Falcon Scott and its purpose was to allow for the study and exploration of the continent, which was then largely untouched. The expedition yielded several discoveries, such as an emperor penguin colony at Cape Crozier and King Edward VII Land, but it has been asserted that its main failure was its inability to master what technique? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Slovenia National Day (1991)Following WWI, Slovenia formed a federation with Serbia and Croatia that in 1929 became Yugoslavia. In 1991, Slovenia declared its independence from Yugoslavia on the same day as Croatia—after elections in 1990 showed that 88 percent of the people wished to secede. Yugoslavia immediately took military action, but the resulting Ten-Day War had few casualties, and the Slovenian victory solidified the new nation's independence. In 2008, Slovenia became the first post-communist country to do what? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Robert Henri (1865)Henri was an American painter and teacher and a leading figure in the Ashcan school, a realist movement in American art best known for its scenes of ordinary city life. He studied in Paris and taught and worked in Philadelphia and New York. He rebelled against academic art and impressionism and encouraged his students to shun the formalization of style and view art as a medium through which to express life and humanity. What exhibition did he organize in New York in 1908 that became a sensation? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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odd duck— A rather unusual, strange, or peculiar person. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Slovenia National Day (2025)Slovenia declared its independence from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, after elections in 1990 showed that 88% of the people wished to secede from Yugoslavia. Previously, Slovenia, which is a little smaller than New Jersey, was part of the Austria-Hungarian kingdom. It joined with Serbia, Croatia, and Montenegro at the end of World War I, and this federation was called Yugoslavia after 1929. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: spoilbilk - A term originally used in cribbage, meaning "spoil one's opponent's score." More... corrupt - Comes from Latin corrumpere, "destroy completely," and first meant "to destroy or spoil the flesh, fruit, or organic matter by dissolution or decomposition." More... infect - From Latin inficere, "put in" or "dip in," which came to mean "stain, taint, spoil." More... | |