July 12th, 100 B.C. Julius Caesar, the Ancient Roman dictator and military conqueror who was assassinated on the Ides of March, is born. 1984,Walter Mondale picks the first woman to run on a major party ticket for the White House. The Democratic pres

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DIDA: Paul Merton Sun, 19 Sep 93 Duration: 35 mins Sue Lawley's castaway is comedian Paul Merton.

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Top 5 Songs for Week Ending June 27 We're counting down the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart, for the week ending June 27, 2015. His album Everything Is For was released earlier this month and its lead single has rea

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'New York' Magazine Features 35 Cosby Accusers 纽约杂志采访35名指控考斯比迷奸者 WASHINGTON The latest issue of New York magazine features 35 women who say they were drugged and raped by film and television celebrity Bill Cosby. The wom

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Comedian Sasheer Zamata is at a crossroads. She was a cast member on Saturday Night Live for four seasons. One of her characters was Beyonce at her gynecologist's office while she was pregnant with twins. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, S

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From NPR news in Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst.German counsellor Angela Merkel is trying to get Turkey's help in stemming the flow of migrants to Europe. She presented an EU plan to the Turkish prime minister today that would offer aid to help Turke

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Johnny Vegas SUN 3 OCT 2010 Comedian Johnny Vegas joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.

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Tiger Woods is one of the most successful golfers ever. He has the potential to be the greatest of all time. He has been number one in the world for most of the past decade and looks like hanging on to that position for a while to come. His real name

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script: Well this does seem like it was too long ago that the Dow Industrials crossed the 13,000 mark for the first time. Well today, the Dow flirted with 14,000. Stephanie Elam joins us from New York to tell us just how close we came. Hey there, St

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This is AP News minute. Monday marks the first day of new normalize relations between the United States and Cuba. In Washington, people gathered to watch the Cuban flag was raised over the reopened embassy. It's the first time the flag was flown sinc

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This is AP News Minute. 1. Jurors in the Colorado theater shooting trial declined to rule out the death penalty as they move toward sentencing James Holmes, finding his defense failed to persuade them to show him mercy. The decision clears the way fo

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Movie Star, Comedian Robin Williams Dead at 63 喜剧巨星罗宾威廉姆斯去世,享年63岁 Actor and comedian Robin Williams has died in an apparent suicide. Police said the 63-year-old entertainer was found dead in his home in Tiburon, Californ

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AS IT IS 2016-07-22 Michelle Obama Appears on 'Carpool Karaoke' 米歇尔奥巴马亮相《拼车卡拉秀》 This is Whats Trending Today 欢迎收听《今日流行》栏目。 British comedian James Corden is the host of The Late Late Show.A regul

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Taylor Swift Is Rich Beyond Her Wildest Dreams' Pop music star Taylor Swift is rich, likely beyond her Wildest Dreams. Forbes magazine lists the highest-paid celebrities each year. It puts the singer-songwriter at the top of its 2016 list. It says Sw

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AS IT IS 2015-12-17 One Direction, Cast of Star Wars Sing on Late Night TV This is Whats Trending Today. Cast of Star Wars in a capella video Everyone is excited for the new Star Wars movie coming out on Thursday night. Cast members like Daisy Ridley

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Most restaurants in the United States offer their customers a glass of tap water at no charge with their meal, but this week many restaurants are asking diners to pay a dollar, or more , for a glass of water. Placards on their tables explain that thi

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W. KAMAU BELL: My name is W. Kamau Bell. I'm a stand-up comedian and host of CNN's United Shades Of America. And I'm a dad. For me, you know, I don't think of myself as a patriot first. I think of myself as someone who's fighting for the ideals that

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Just a day after Carrie Fisher died unexpectedly, her mother, Debbie Reynolds, passed away. There have been many remembrances of both Hollywood stars. But today, we're going to focus on a different side of Carrie Fisher, not on the

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Judd Apatow started writing stories from his own life into his comedy on the late-90s TV show Freaks and Geeks. It was about a kid named Bill Haverchuck. When Judd Apatow was young, he says he would make himself hamburgers or gri

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今天我们要学的词是 envoy. Envoy 是特使的意思。Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan resigned as international peace envoy for Syria. 前联合国秘书长安南辞去了叙利亚国际和平特使的职务。A UN human rights envoy v

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