Daily Content Archive
(as of Sunday, August 25, 2019)| Word of the Day | |||||||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Defining Compound-Complex SentencesCompound-complex sentences are one of the four main sentence structures. They are made up of two independent clauses and how many dependent clauses? More... | |
| Article of the Day | |
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 The Royal Library of AshurbanipalThe Royal Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh was the first systematically organized library in West Asia. It was created by Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king, who reigned in the 7th century BCE and controlled most of the then-known world. Excavations at the site have uncovered thousands of clay tablets constituting today's chief source of knowledge about ancient Mesopotamia. The collection includes historical and scientific literature, flood and creation myths, and what famous epic? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 WWII: The Liberation of Paris (1944)The Liberation of Paris is considered the last battle of the Normandy Campaign to free France from German occupation. In July, about a month after the Allied invasions of southern France and Normandy, Allied ground troops finally broke out of the beachheads and began a rapid advance across northern France. With help from the French resistance, Free French and US forces and liberated Paris in August. Why did the German military governor of Paris disobey Hitler's order to leave the city in ruins? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Althea Gibson (1927)Gibson, a US tennis player, was the first African-American woman to compete on the world tennis tour. Though tennis had essentially been segregated until that time, she was finally given an opportunity to play at the US Championships in 1950. Having broken the color barrier, she went on to become the first black person to win Wimbledon. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971. In 1964, Gibson became the first African-American player in what other sports organization? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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leather-lunged— (used before a noun) Having an extremely or inordinately loud or strong voice, as of someone with very robust lungs. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Uruguay Independence Day (2023)This national holiday commemorates the declaration of independence of Uruguay from Portuguese rule on this day in 1825. By 1828, Uruguay was officially autonomous. Patriotic ceremonies are held in the capital city of Montevideo, with speeches and the singing of the national anthem. More... | |
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