Daily Content Archive

Word of the Day
fervent Definition: (adjective) Having or showing great emotion or zeal. Synonyms: ardent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid Usage: She was a fervent opponent of the death penalty and organized a monthlong hunger strike to protest the practice.

Article of the Day

Energy Vampires In New Age terminology, an energy vampire is a being said to have the ability to feed off the "life force" of other creatures. Such entities include the tiger-women of Asia and the incubi and succubi of Judeo-Christian mythology. Though not as popular as their blood-sucking counterparts, energy vampires have nonetheless made appearances in a number of works of popular fiction. Who popularized the term "psychic vampire" in the 1960s? More...

This Day in History

King Macbeth Is Killed (1057) Macbeth was originally a governor and military commander under Scottish King Duncan I, whose ancestors had seized power from the ancestors of Macbeth's wife. Macbeth ascended to the throne by killing Duncan in battle in 1040 and ruled Scotland for the next 18 years. In 1057, Macbeth was mortally wounded at the Battle of Lumphanan by Duncan's son Malcolm. Malcolm was crowned king the following year. Is Shakespeare's famous tragedy about Macbeth historically accurate? More...

Today's Birthday

Sir Walter Scott (1771) Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott is widely regarded as both the inventor of the historical novel and one of the genre's greatest writers. His extremely popular "Waverley" series consists of more than two dozen romances of Scottish life. The first, published in 1814, was an immediate success, yet Scott continued to write anonymously until 1827. In 1825, his business nearly failed. By what means did he attempt to stave off bankruptcy, eventually achieving financial solvency after his own death? More...

Quotation of the Day
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

Idiom of the Day
be not short of a penny (or two) — To be exceptionally wealthy; to have no concerns regarding money. More...

Today's Holiday

Dozynki Festival (2025) For many Christians around the world, August 15 is the Feast of the Assumption. But in Poland, it is also a time for celebrating the harvest. During the wheat harvest festival known as Dozynki Pod Debami, or Festival under the Oaks, the reapers make wreaths out of grain, flowers, nuts, and corn. When they present their wreaths to the master and mistress of the estate on which the wheat is grown, they are invited in for a feast, which is followed by dancing. More...