December 17th, 1903Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. The brothers achieved the pioneering feet with their experimental craft dubbed the Wright Flyer. 1957Th

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January 6th,1412According to tradition, Joan of Arc, Frances national heroine and Cathelic Saint is born in the village of Domrmy. 1838Inventor Samuel Morse gives his first public demonstration of the telegraph dots-dashes in Morristown New Jersey. 1

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4. Columbus. 4.哥伦布 Meantime Christopher Columbus, an Italian, had returned from an even more startling voyage. 一段时间之后,意大利人克里斯托弗哥伦布完成了一次更令人吃惊的航行。 From what he had read, and from

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23. Sir Walter Ralegh. 23.沃特罗利爵士 Still another famous Englishman of Elizabeth's time was Walter Ralegh. 在伊丽莎白时代还有一位著名的英国人,他的名字叫沃特罗利, He never saw the coasts of the United States, b

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以史为鉴,可知兴衰.学习历史可以了解过去,丰富人生阅历.我们喜欢历史,但并不一定要学习历史专业,其实有许多专业和历史也紧密联系,一起来看看吧. 1. Park naturalists 1. 公园自然学者 Park natur

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The History of English in Ten Minutes. Chapter four. The King James Bible or light there be. 十分钟了解英语历史。第四章,钦定版《圣经》或消遣读物。 In 1611 the powers that be turned the world upside down with a labour of lo

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September 6th, 1901President William McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The gunman: Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist who is executed the following month. Vice President Teddy Roosevelt succeeds McKinley when he dies more

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September 26th, 1960And I think in the final analysis, it depends upon what we do here. Millions of Americans tune in to watch presidential candidates debate on television for the first time. Squaring off in Chicago: Massachusetts Senator John F. Ken

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November 20th, 1945Months after World War II ends in Europe, two dozen Nazi leaders go on trial before International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. 1925 Violence or lawlessness in variety make no sense whatsoever in the United StatesRober

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We did get something as a gift after the election.September 23rd, 1952 Future president Richard Nixon uses what's then a new medium, television, to make his case. Nixon, at that time the Republican candidate for vice president, denies charges of use

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November 12th, 1927, Josef Stalin becomes undisputed ruler of whats then the Soviet Union. His rival Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party. More than a dozen years later, Trotsky is killed with an ice-pick while in exile in Mexico. Stalin

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November 29th, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson names a commission to investigate President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. The bipartisan panel,chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren, becomes known as the Warren Commission. It later conc

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November 6th, 1860Abraham Lincoln, former Illinois congressman who opposes slavery wins a four-way race for president. After his victory, southern states begin to secede from the Union. The American Civil War breaks out the following year. 1854John P

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November 6th, 1860Abraham Lincoln, former Illinois congressman who opposes slavery wins a four-way race for president. After his victory, southern states begin to secede from the Union. The American Civil War breaks out the following year. 1854John P

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June 8th, 632The Prophet Muhammad who founded the religion of Islam dies in Medina, part of what's now Saudi Arabia. Muhammad leaves no arrangement for a successor, creating a rift within Islam which lasts to this day. 1968Authorities announce a capt

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September 6th, 1901President William McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The gunman: Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist who is executed the following month. Vice President Teddy Roosevelt succeeds McKinley when he dies more

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Chapter 5 第5章 Virginia and Maryland 弗吉尼亚和马里兰 31. The Virginia Company, 1606. 31.弗吉尼亚公司(1606年) English people were now beginning to think in earnest of founding colonies. 现在英国人开始认真地思考创建

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Chapter 3 第三章 Pioneers Of England 英格兰的开拓者 21. Sir John Hawkins. 21.约翰霍金斯爵士 For many years after Cabot's voyage Englishmen were too busy at home to pay much attention to distant expeditions. 卡伯特的航海之后许

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