Today's Highlights
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The Anticipatory "It"There are a number of other situations where "it" can be used as a dummy pronoun, without pertaining to weather, distance, or time. What is the anticipatory "it"? More... | |
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 El Gran CapitánKnown to his contemporaries as "El Gran Capitán", or "the Great Captain," Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish general who made Spain the world's preeminent military power. Born in 1453, de Córdoba was one of the founders of modern warfare. He formed the first modern standing army and was the first European general to organize the pursuit of defeated armies after a victory in order to destroy the retreating enemy. Historians refer to him as the father of what kind of warfare? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Mount Holyoke Female Seminary Opens Its Doors (1837)The first of the Seven Sisters—traditionally female colleges often considered the equivalent to the historically male-dominated Ivy League—Mount Holyoke is one of the oldest women's colleges in the US. It was founded by Mary Lyon, a pioneer in women's education, in the midst of a movement that created unprecedented new educational opportunities for women in the US. Many colleges were later modeled on Mount Holyoke. What unusual feature did each dorm room at the seminary originally have? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Dorothy Day (1897)Day was an American journalist, Christian anarchist, and social reformer. She originally wrote for the New York socialist journals The Call and The Masses. After the birth of her daughter in 1927, she converted to Catholicism, cofounded The Catholic Worker, and started a movement to aid the urban poor. Although her outspoken pacifist views were criticized by Catholic conservatives, she influenced Catholic liberals. What honor did she receive 20 years after her death? More... | |
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 It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) | |
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be taken by surprise— To be happened upon when one is not ready, prepared, or on guard; to be shocked or startled by someone or something. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Saints and Martyrs Day (2025)Since the Reformation the Church of England has not added saints to its calendar. Although there have certainly been many candidates for sainthood over the past 450 years, and many martyrs who have given their lives as foreign missionaries, the Church of England has not canonized them, although a few are commemorated on special days. Instead, since 1928 it has set aside November 8, exactly one week after All Saints' Day, to commemorate "the unnamed saints of the nation." More... | |
| Word Trivia | |
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Today's topic: representationmacrograph - A life-size drawing or representation. More... simulacrum - In the original sense of the word, it was simply a representation of something, such as an oil painting or marble statue. More... representational art - Art that seeks to depict the physical appearance of reality; also called objective art and figurative art. More... logogram, logograph, grammalogue - A logogram or logograph is the same as a grammalogue, a word represented by a single sign, like $. More... | |
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