Daily Content Archive
(as of Friday, September 15, 2017)| Word of the Day | |||
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| Daily Grammar Lesson | |
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Constructing Negative Interrogative SentencesAs with all negative sentences, we generally form the negative interrogative by adding the word "not." How do we know where to put "not" in the sentence? More... | |
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| This Day in History | |
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 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963)Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church has been an Alabama institution since 1873. During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, it served as an organizational headquarters, meeting site, and rallying point for Blacks protesting racism in the South. This made it a target for the Ku Klux Klan, which arranged to bomb the church during Sunday services. Four young girls died in the attack and more than 20 others were injured. What sermon were congregants about to hear when the bombing took place? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Dame Agatha Christie (1890)Christie, a British mystery novelist and playwright known for her detective figures Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, wrote over 75 novels, including Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None. Her books have been translated into 100 languages and have sold over 100 million copies, and her play The Mousetrap, still running after 23,000 performances, holds the record for longest initial run in theatrical history. What prompted Christie's 1926 disappearance? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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| Idiom of the Day | |
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have a light heart— To have a carefree, uplifted attitude; to be in a happy or gladdened state or condition. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Battle of Britain Day (2021)In England, September 15, 1940, is remembered as the day of the biggest daylight bombing raid of Britain by the German Luftwaffe. The German air attacks had begun in June 1940, and beginning September 7, bombs rained on London for 57 consecutive nights. The Royal Air Force (RAF) had a secret advantage—radar—and the early warning gave RAF pilots a half-hour's notice of German planes taking off from France. The Luftwaffe was finally defeated in April 1941. Today, the RAF and civilian aviation organizations commemorate Battle of Britain Day with air displays of various kinds. More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: sininequity, iniquity - Inequity is "injustice, unfairness"; iniquity refers to "immorality, sin, wickedness." More... remission, remit - Remission originally meant forgiveness or pardon for an offense or sin, and remit meant "forgive, pardon." More... reprehensible - Usually applied to things, not people—the sin and not the sinner. More... | |