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Let us enjoy reading this one of Birbal Stories of Birbal Returns Home. Birbal was in Persia at the invitation of the king of that country. Parties were given in his honor and rich presents were heaped on him. On the eve of his departure for home, a

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The Emperor Akbar was traveling to a distant place along with some of his courtiers. It was a hot day and the emperor was tiring of the journey. Cant anybody shorten this road for me? he asked, querulously. I can, said Birbal. The other courtiers loo

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One day the Emperor Akbar startled his courtiers with a strange question. If somebody pulled my whiskers what sort of punishment should be given to him? he asked. He should be flogged! said one courtier. He should be hanged! said another. He should b

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Birbal arrived late for a function and the emperor was displeased. My child was crying and I had to placate him, explained the courtier. Does it take so long to calm down a child? asked the emperor. It appears you know nothing about child rearing. No

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A farmer and his neighbor once went to Emperor Akbar's court with a complaint. Your Majesty, I bought a well from him, said the farmer pointing to his neighbor, and now he wants me to pay for the water. That's right, your Majesty, said the neighbor.

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One day Akbar and Birbal were riding through the countryside and they happened to pass by a cabbage patch. Cabbages are such delightful vegetables! said Akbar. I just love cabbage. The cabbage is king of vegetables! said Birbal. A few weeks later the

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One fine morning, a minister from Emperor Akbar's court had gathered in the assembly hall. He informed the Emperor that all his valuables had been stolen by a thief the previous night. Akbar was shocked to hear this because the place where that minis

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One day Akbar asked his courtiers if they could tell him the difference between truth and falsehood in three words or less. The courtiers looked at one another in bewilderment. What about you, Birbal? asked the emperor. I'm surprised that you too are

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As you've probably experienced firsthand, some mosquito species have a real taste for warm, human blood. So much so that if you raise them on it the lab, they'll accept no substitute. Fortunately, I don't get major reactions at all. Brad Main is a mo

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Cloze: Stingers of the Sea 海中刺客 ── 水母 Given impressive-sounding names like Portuguese man-of-war, jellyfish are certainly respected and feared by humans. Not exactly a fish, and lacking a spine, this creature has a single body cavity

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The itsy bitsy spider climed up the water spout. Down came the rain, and washed the spider out. Up came the sun, and dried up all the rain, And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.

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By Jim Teeple Ramallah 23 January 2006 Politicians in the Palestinian territories wrapped up final day of campaigning Monday, ahead of crucial vote Wednesday to elect new legislature Politicians in th

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Oum Sok began working as a cyclo driver when he was 18. He says the city has become very expensive over the years, making it much harder to earn a living. New York has its yellow cab. London has its red bus. But Phnom Penh has its cyclo - a three-whe

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The State Department said Thursday an agreement for the start of direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians is close to completion. The deal will apparently be sealed by statements from the United States and the International Middle East

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ROME, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Italy lacks the necessary energy(能量,活力) and strength for an economic revival while unemployment and poverty are on the rise, warned a report issued Friday. The 44th edition of the Censis think tank social survey, the

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In Africa's battle against malaria, two low-tech tacticsinsecticides and bed netshave done a decent job killing off mosquitoes. But it's mainly one species that's been affected. That's a species called Anopheles gambiae, sometimes called the African

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - April 18, 2002: Synopsis: 1920-1940 By David Jarmul VOICE 1: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (Theme) History usually is a proce

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The Ant and the Dove An ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning. A dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the strea

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You might not think there would be that many people in the world prepared to devote lifetimes to the study of something so inescapably low key, 你或许会认为,世界上不会有多少人愿意花毕生的心血来研究那个不起眼儿的东西

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addendum factor
aeronautical communication log
airport council international
ambulance chaser, ambulance-chaser
anemometer
aparima (tahiti)
Aristoharpes
arovane
automatic flap
Bence Jones bodies
black slag
blot test
booked in
botryosphaeria ribis
bugless
chain under cutting machine
cholestenol
class lycopsidas
closed entry
cockroffs
COM Express
composite rate depreciation
Crystules
cupula (pl. cupulae)
curshed stone chips
dendrosteroside
divna
edpa
electronic lean meter
electronic reverser
estimated time of completion of discharging
flesh colour
for-plaint
g' boy
gas-flow equation
Gaspé, C.
genus serrasalmuss
gross absorption
group algebra
guesstimations
harmels
have credit at
high-speed arithmetic and logic unit
iconic models
igneduct
induplicate
interlocked signal
interlocking ring structures
intervening
jungle yellow fever
Khvoynova, Mys
leptogium pichneum
lexicographers
lower sieve
martingana
masaharu
metro-urethrotom
minimum pendulum
Morera's stress function
Moreton I.
neokinetic
nuclear ore carrier
observation boat
occupation licences
Panaplex
parent substance
patient harness
penning up
pillor
portrait right
portuguese heaths
pylorodilator
quarter spring
remote access concentrator
republicism
rheocardiogra
saugh
schizopodous
select transmit frequency
self-employments
separated compilation strategy
sergeants-at-arms
sifting machine
skelps
Skillinge
smartcards
sodium tetraborate peroxohydrate
spakona
sports event
squeeze page
standard heat pipe
stopped-up
swashly
tacosis
thermosetting plastic(s)
thyreohyoideus
toys-r-us
ventzke scale
Verkhneizhemskiy
voice recording equipment
Weiveld
wood-rots