Caesar Augustus 凯撒奥古斯都 Many consider Augustus to be Rome's greatest emperor. 许多人认为奥古斯都是罗马最伟大的皇帝。 His policies certainly extended the Empire's life span and initiated the celebrated Pax Romana or Pax A

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Julius Caesar 尤里乌斯.凯撒 Nearly two thousand years ago there lived in Rome a man whose name was Julius Caesar. 大约两千年前,罗马有一个名叫尤利乌斯凯撒的人。 He was the greatest of all the Romans. 他是全体罗马人中

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38. Religious Intolerance. 38.宗教不容忍 In 1625 King James died, and his son Charles became king. 1625年,国王詹姆斯死去, He left the Virginians to themselves for the most part. They liked this. 他的儿子查理继位,他极度放

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The principal conquests of the Romans were achieved under the republic; and the emperors, for the most part, were satisfied with preserving those dominions which had been acquired by the policy of the senate, the active emulations of the consuls, and

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Islamic State Executes 20 in Palmyra Roman Theater IS在巴尔米拉罗马剧场处决20人 A Human Rights group says that the Islamic State militants have executed 20 people in the ancient Roman theater in Palmyra, a UNESCO World heritage site. The

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1. President Barack Obama paid a quick visit to Afghanistan this Memorial Day Weekend. Air Force One 1 touched down a Bagram Air Force Base under cover of darkness. He told commanders that he'll announce the post 2014 troop level soon. 2. Police in S

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Lesson 36 第36章 The Dead and Alive City 死亡而又活着的城市 Two thousand years ago you could start out on any road anywhere, and if you kept on going far enough 两千年前,如果你从地球上的任意一个地方的任意一条路出发

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Michael Buble - Home Home在英文中取家的意思,固有大量音乐作品以《HOME》命名,以麦克布雷的经典曲目Home为代表,后来西城男孩(即Westlife,也译作西域男孩)在专辑Back Home中作为主打翻唱 英文

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Another summer day Has come and gone away In Paris or Rome... But I wanna go home ...uhm Home May be surrounded by A million people I Still feel all alone Just wanna go home I miss you, you know And I've been keeping all the letters That I wrote to y

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Lesson 21 Day 1.You'd better save up for a rainy day. 2.It rained the whole week-day in and day out. 3.OK.Let's call it a day. 4.Rome was not built in a day. 5.Sometimes he gets up at break of day. 6.At last she carried the day. 7.It's not my day tod

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He began his campaign for world-domination with the murder of all Roman citizens who happened to be in Asia Minor, men, women and children. Such an act, of course, meant war. The Senate equipped an army to march against the King of Pontus and punish

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As for Sulla, he became Dictator, which meant sole and supreme ruler of all the Roman possessions. He ruled Rome for four years, and he died quietly in his bed, having spent the last year of his life tenderly raising his cabbages, as was the custom o

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He crossed the Rubicon River which separated the province of Cis-alpine Gaul from Italy. Everywhere he was received as the friend of the people. Without difficulty Caesar entered Rome and Pompey fled to Greece Caesar followed him and defeated his fol

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May 13th, 1981, Somebody said: its the Pope. Hes shot. You know, we just shocked, it was just unbelievable. At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded by a Turkish gunman in St. Peters Square. The pontiff recovers and a few years

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May 13th, 1981. Somebody said: its the Pope. Hes shot. You know, we just shocked, it was just unbelievable. At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded by a Turkish gunman in St. Peters Square. The pontiff recovers and a few years

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The person we usually think of as embodying British national resistance to Rome, Queen Boudicca of the East Anglian tribe of the Iceni, actually came from a family of happy, even eager collaborators. It only took a policy of incredible stupidity, arr

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文本: In 60 AD, Boudicca rose up in furious revolt, quicklygathering an army bent on vengeance. With the cream of the Roman troops tieddown suppressing an insurgency in north Wales, Boudicca's army marched towardsthe place which most symbolised t

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As the years went by the influence of Carthage upon her neighbours increased until the greater part of the African coast, Spain and certain regions of France were Carthaginian possessions, and paid tribute, taxes and dividends to the mighty city on t

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Our best guess is that the Etruscans came originally from Asia Minor and that a great war or a pestilence in that country had forced them to go away and seek a new home elsewhere. Whatever the reason for their coming, the Etruscans played a great r?l

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The Senate promised the help of the Latin armies, but the preparation for this expedition took some time, and meanwhile Saguntum had been taken and had been destroyed. This had been done in direct opposition to the will of Rome. The Senate decided up

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