Julius Caesar, the Roman military and political leader, was born in 100 BC. He is considered to be one of the ancient world's mightiest leaders. Caesar caused a civil war in 49 BC. After winning the war, he became the head of the Roman world. He gain

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Twenty-nine A Priest and a Bus Driver [00:05.30]A priest and a bus driver both died and went to heaven at the same time. [00:12.28]They get to the pearly gates where an angel greets them. [00:17.53]The angel motions to the priest, [00:21.39]and they

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And what a century it has been. America became the world s mightiest industrial power; saved the world from tyranny in two world wars and a long cold war; and time and again, reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for the bless

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Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this island was settled by the red-men. 最早定居于这块不毛之地的是红种人。 Thus goes the legend. 关于此,还有一段传说呢。 In olden times an eagle swooped down upon the New

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US President Obama's Remarks at July 4 Naturalization CeremonyEast Room, the White HouseJuly 4, 2012奥巴马总统在美国新公民在入籍仪式上的讲话白宫东厅2012年7月4日THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Good morning, everybody. 奥

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The International Day of Non-Violence is on the 2nd of October. It is not surprising that this is also the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. The day started in 2007 after the United Nations General Assembly voted for it. The U.N. resolution asked all its m

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At this last presidential inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century, in a new mi

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AS IT IS 2016-06-08 South Africans Remember US Senator Robert Kennedy 南非人纪念美国参议员罗伯特肯尼迪 In June 1966, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy visited South Africa and made what some historians believe was his best speech ever. E

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China's film industry 中国电影产业 Kung fu propaganda 中国功夫的大肆宣传 Theres a ton of easy money in praising the party 赞美共产党就可以轻松大量获利 Jul 14th 2011 | HONG KONG | from the print edition THERE are two ways

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Carthage was the richest and mightiest city for miles around and the Romans referred to its Phoenician inhabitants as Punics. 迦太基是远近一带最富有、最强大的城市,罗马将它的腓尼基居民称为布匿人。 Its ships went far

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Carthage was still standing, a fact which many Romans would not accept, in particular a patrician named Cato. 迦太基居然还存在,许多罗马人都不能容忍,特别是有一个名叫加图的执政官。 Cato was a just and honorable man,

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Glory be to thee, oh Nile! 赞美你啊,尼罗河! You rise out of the earth and come to nourish Egypt! 你来自大地,来到这儿,给埃及输送营养! You water the plains and have the power to feed all cattle. 你灌溉田野,喂养全部

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He didn't just put the whole empire in order, he put time in order too. 但是他不仅在整个帝国而且也在时间方面建立秩序。 He put time in order? Whatever does that mean? 这是什么意思? He reformed the calendar, so that it en

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Breaking up the Treasury 财政部分裂 Your money or your life 要钱还是要命? The knives are out for Whitehall's mightiest department 利刃直指白厅最强大的部门 TONY BLAIR once kidnapped a civil servant. It was 2005 and the then pr

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Breaking up the Treasury 财政部分裂 Your money or your life 要钱还是要命? The knives are out for Whitehall's mightiest department 利刃直指白厅最强大的部门 TONY BLAIR once kidnapped a civil servant. It was 2005 and the then pr

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King of the Jungle森林之王A lion woke up one morning in the jungle. 丛林里一只狮子在早上醒来。 He went out and cornered a small monkey and roared, Who is mightiest of all jungle animals?他走出去,逼住一只小猴子吼道:谁是

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It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches, and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot. All this was a puzzle, but Hess had a war to take part in, and put such t

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With loud lament the parents saw their child borne out of sight over the wide waters. 那婴孩的父母高声恸哭地眼看他们的小孩被拖过了辽阔的海洋而消逝了。 They resolved to follow in the same direction. 他们决定循着那个

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For as the mightiest elephant is but a terrier to Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan's tail, his trunk is but the stalk of a lily. 因为在大鲸看来,最大的象也不过是条狗罢了,所以跟鲸尾比较起来,象鼻就不过是一支

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Nevertheless, Leviathan is of so mighty a magnitude, all his proportions are so stately, 不过,大鲸是属于一种巍然大物的,它的身体各部都非常雄伟, that the same deficiency which in the sculptured Jove were hideous, in him i

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