2012 a Banner Year for American Roots Musicians Since American Roots music is difficult to define, it might be easier if you listen to some of the years best like the Grammy-nominated Hold On by Alabama Shakes. Rolling Stone Magazine named that Alaba

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241.Have you ever seen the Grand Canyonu? 你见过大峡谷吗? 242.The view is wonderful from up here. 从这儿看过去景色很美丽。 243.Lets go watch the sunset. 我们去看日落吧。 244.Its hard to get a picture in this light. 在这种光线下很难照相。 245.The cr

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Unit 4 Colorful Lands,colorful people(I) PartI Warming up A Key words:-est Vocabulary: peninsula altitude trench Greenland the Sahara Desert the Caspian Sea Lake Superior Mt.Qomolangma(Mt.Everest) Baykal Mariana Trench the Nile Here are some statemen

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American Roots Music Sound Continues to Evolve in 2011 In the old days, folk singers sang folk songs, rockers were always loud, and bluegrass never mixed with the blues or jazz. But today, youll find all kinds of American roots music living under the

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California's Silicon Beach Is Growing Hub for Tech Start-Ups On the west side of Los Angeles, people from around the world come for the beach, year-round sunshine and warm weather. This also is where Gregg Spiridellis and his brother operate the onli

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We're getting you caught up today on something that's caused catastrophic damage on parts of California, wildfires. Firefighters are currently battling at least 10 of them across the state. That includes the Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest wildfi

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The city of Tenness was consumed by the desert in the sandstorm of the last of the holy year. Wiped clean by ? Indiana Jones' friend, ?, explaining the fictional fate of the City of Tenness in Raiders of the lost Ark. Back in real life scientists hav

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Solar Eclipse in 1097 May Be Rock Carving Subject 古代雕刻记载天文景观 More than 900 years ago, the Pueblo people were thriving in New Mexicos Chaco Canyon. While they were there, the region experienced what the whole country is looking for

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By Deborah Block Washington, D.C. 20 June 2007 The National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C. works to protect historic sites in the United States. Each year the private group identifies America's most endangered places. This year t

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Today is the deadline for the Environmental Protection Agency to announce a new rule designed to clean up the haze that obscures views in national parks. A court-imposed deadline is part of a decade long fight over pollution, and that fight may not b

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By David McAlary Washington 15 February 2007 A U.S. spacecraft has provided fresh evidence that water once flowed on Mars. In this case, it is water that ran deep underground through rock fissures, places where scientists say life could have thrived

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Study: Noisy Environment Affects Plants Researchers havent given much thought to the effect of noise and noise pollution on plants. But that could be about to change. In northwestern New Mexicos Rattlesnake Canyon, gnarled juniper trees and pi?on pin

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Advocates Say New York City Facing Hunger Crisis 支持者说纽约面临饥饿危机 NEW YORK In the Harlem section of New York City, people come early and line up each day for food to feed their families at a pantry run by the Food Bank for New Yor

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The American dinner plate today is an exercise in variety, and that's thanks in part to a man named David Fairchild. He was a government botanist at the end of the 19th century. Back then, meals were mostly about sustenance, and Fa

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The painter David Hockney once said, quote, it is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. A major retrospective opens in London tomorrow at the Tate Britain museum, giving vi

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Opinion: 'National Enquirer' Publisher's CEO Could Testify About Trump And UFOs SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The reports that David Pecker, head of the company that publishes National Enquirer, received immunity to testify about those payoffs Michael Cohen han

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The canyon has power and attraction compelling the visitor to gaze into its depth. These few points to a time when rainfall here would be significantly greater and the river evermore able to cover its channel through the granite landscape. This volca

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The death of 6 teenagers and a teacher on Tuesday afternoon while they were on a school camp came as a terrible shock to all New Zealanders. They were coming down a steep river gorge or canyon on the Mangatepopo River in the centre of the North Islan

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The Silas Lake Park reopens today after being closed for six months. The park was closed because mud and rock slides destroyed part of Cambridge Road, the only access into the park. We had to remove tons of boulders and rocks, said Hugh Foster of the

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U.S. President George Bush is launching one of the biggest conservation efforts in the world. He is designating large tracts of the Pacific as national monuments - meaning they are protected from commercial fishing, mining and other uses. 美国总统布

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