Word of the Day
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:00:00 GMT
miry
Definition: (adjective) (Of soil) soft and watery.
Synonyms: boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged.
Usage: Right across the lower part of the bog lay a miry path.
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Article of the Day
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:00:00 GMT
The Father of the Yellow School Bus
In 1939, American educator Frank Cyr organized the first national standards conference for school transportation. One of the most memorable accomplishments of the conference was the selection of a highly visible, standardized color for school buses that would allow them to be easily identified by other motorists. The hue became known as "National School Bus Chrome," and Cyr was hailed as the "Father of the Yellow School Bus." According to Cyr, what was the main priority of conference attendees? Discuss
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Idiom of the Day
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:00:00 GMT
make matters worse
To make an already bad, unpleasant, or difficult situation even more so. (Sometimes used as an independent clause in the infinitive form: "to make matters worse.") Watch the video
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Today's Birthday
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:00:00 GMT
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (1857)
Powell was a British army officer and founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, later the Girl Scouts. He was a hero of the South African War and author of Aids to Scouting, a military textbook. Upon learning that his book was being used to train boys in woodcraft, he wrote Scouting for Boys and established the Boy Scout movement in 1908. In 1910, with his sister and wife, he founded the Girl Guides. What disguise did Powell use while gathering information in war? Discuss
https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Robert+Baden-Powell,+1st+Baron+Baden-Powell

Today's Holiday
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:00:00 GMT
St. Lucia Independence Day
The West Indies island of St. Lucia celebrates its national independence holiday on February 22. On that day in 1979, the country gained full independence from Britain. St. Lucia had been a British Colony since 1814. Discuss
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/St.+Lucia+Independence+Day
This Day in History
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:00:00 GMT
Adams-Onís Treaty: Spain Sells Florida to the US (1819)
In the early 1800s, tensions between the US and Spain were increasing over border disputes in North America. With Spanish power in the New World declining, it was widely believed that Spain would lose land to the US. The Adams-Onís Treaty settled the dispute by attempting to draw clearer borders, roughly granting Florida and Louisiana to the US while giving everything west of Louisiana to Spain. The US did not pay Spain directly for the new land. Instead, it compensated Spain in what way? Discuss
https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Adams-On%c3%ads+Treaty
Quote of the Day
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:00:00 GMT
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. Discuss
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NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500
The Arteries of Ashgabat
Nighttime lights reveal the structure of Turkmenistan’s capital city.
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January Puzzler
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
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