Australia Day is celebrated annually on January the 26th. It is an official national holiday and most Australians take the day off work. All schools close. Australia Day commemorates the creation of the first British settlement in Australia in 1788.

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We're blasting off with the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending Nov. 4, 2017. We greet one new song this week, and you don't have to wait long. Number 5: Imagine Dragons Thunder Imagine Dragons is b

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hey there everyone, I'm Ben Tinker filling in today for Carl Azus. we hope you had a great weekend, we are all rested up and ready to kick off a brand new week of CNN student news.and we are going to start today in Afghanistan. Officials from that co

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St. Petersburg, the very name brings to mind some of Russia's greastest poets, writers and composers: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tchaikovsky. The 19th century was a golden age for St. Petersburg's wealthy classes. It was a world of ballets and balls, of ar

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So,People across China are preparing to celebrate the annual Dragon Boat Festival, 全中国正在准备迎接端午节的到来, which includes many traditions and customs that date back more than two thousand years ago. 端午节的习俗和传统

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Independence Day in the United States is also known as the Fourth of July. It is a national holiday that commemorates the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. This was the day the USA was born and became independent from Great Britain. The te

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Armistice Day is on November the 11th every year. It commemorates the end of World War I on the 11th of November 1918. It was on this day that the Allies and Germany signed a ceasefire that was the beginning of the end of the Great War. Hostilities e

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The marathon was NOT an event of the ancient Olympic games. The marathon is a modern event that was first introduced in the Modern Olympic Games of 1896 in Athens, a race from Marathon northeast of At

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One of President Obama's top economic advisors Lawrence Summers warns that any delay by Congress in passing economic stimulus legislation could have serious consequences for the economy. He called on lawmakers to transcend politics and act quickly d

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BBC Learning English The Monument Callum:Hello, I'm Callum Robertson. London is famous for many of its sights and historical buildings. Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, the Tower of London, to name but a few. Today I'm visiting one, a monument, which per

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端午节 端午节在英语中叫做龙舟节: Dragon boat festival: 端午节 维基百科上,也将端午节直接翻译为: Duanwu Festival: 端午节 但如果对方不是非常了解中国文化的外国人,还是第一种说法更加易懂

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Slavery in Africa;Gathered in the marketplace; 文艺;书评;非洲奴隶制;汇集于集市; The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the African Slave Trade. By Alastair Hazell. 《最后的奴

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The Feast of the Assumption is an important day in the Catholic religion. It is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin, the mother of Jesus Christ. This feast commemorates two events: the departure of Mary from the soul life and the assumption of

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Friday marks Teachers' Day in China. As a reminderthat teachers should be honored for bringing knowledge and moralsto students, it inheritsthe thousand-year tradition of respecting teachers in China. The proposal of Teachers' Day was passed in 1985 a

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More than 10,000 soldiers from the Chinese armed forces, WWII veterans, 500 military vehicles and about 200 aircraft participated in the rehearsal that started on Saturday night. The parade will commemorates the 70th anniversary of the victory of the

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This is AP news minute. 1. At least 44 people were killed and 126 wounded after a suicide bomber attacked two Coptic churches in Egypt, turning Palm Sunday service into scene of horror and outrage. The Islamic state group claimed responsibility for t

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Japan fell silent Sunday in a solemn minute of prayer and reflection marking six months since the massive earthquake and tsunami that left 20,000 people dead or missing and sparked a nuclear crisis. Sirens wailed at 2:46 in the afternoon as tens of t

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The Dragon Boat Festival occurs on the fifth day of the fifth moon of the lunar calendar. It is one of the three most important of the annual Chinese festivals. The other two are the Autumn Moon Festival and Chinese New Year. 端午节在每年阴历的

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The Chinese Year of the Goat 中国羊年 Hello, This is Natasha and this is a special story to celebrate 2015. 你好,这是娜塔莎,这是一个特殊的庆祝2015年的故事。 As you may know, there are 12 animal signs in the Chinese calend

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Today marks China's annual youth day. Chinese Youth Day was established in 1949 to commemorate the beginning of the May 4th Movement. The movement in 1919 was a student protest that grew out of dissatisfaction with the Treaty of Versailles. It is see

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