AS IT IS 2015-12-30 Deadly Bombings in Homs, Syria 叙利亚霍姆斯发生汽车爆炸事件 32人死亡 Up to 32 people were killed in two bomb attacks Monday in the Syrian city of Homs, near the border with Lebanon. The second attack killed people

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Topics: The Roaring Twenties; The Empire State Building; Indians (Asians) versus Indians (indigenous peoples); to blow up versus to explode; staging ground Words: decade booming to be independent roaring invention flapper corset jazz to improvise to

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Today is December 21st 2012. According to some the Ancient Mayan civilization predicted today would bring about a global doomsday. This idea is gripping the world. To discuss the potential doomsday we have Kristine Larsen, Professor at the Copernican

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Hubble Detects Oxygen-Bearing Minerals on Moon 哈勃天文台探测到月球上拥有含氧矿物质 The orbiting Hubble observatory is usually aimed at extremely distant areas of the universe. But f

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16, When is the best time? Some people go so far as to say that time does not really exist; it is all in the mind, they claim. Others note that according to astrophysicists, time really does exist; it is inseparable from space, coexistin

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1. Outrageous. That's President Barack Obama's one-word reaction to a report that Wall Street employees got more than 18 billion dollars in bonuses last year. Obama has said financial companies that have accepted federal bailout money should limit b

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Dozens Killed in Terror Attack at Tunisian Hotel In the News today, Tunisian officials say at least 28 people, including some foreigners, have been killed in a terrorist attack near a hotel along the Mediterranean coast. Officials say gunmen opened f

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AS IT IS 2016-05-26 Airstrikes Hit Islamic State in Raqqa 美在叙利亚拉卡空袭伊斯兰国家 The U.S. led a group of planes on airstrikes Tuesday against Islamic State positions in Raqqa, Syria. 周二美国对叙利亚城市拉卡的IS据点进

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Recently, some researchers in Australia were excited about messages from a distant galaxy. But it turns out that the signals were from a completely different source. The scientists at Parkes Observatory in Australia specialize in radio bursts- short

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While Europe lingered in the Dark Ages, the splendor of the Maya world was reaching its zenith. Their temples soared hundreds of feet into the heavens. They developed a system of hieroglyphic writing. Works of art and sculpture displayed the Maya's i

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Wang Yifang, from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, attended the award ceremony of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics at the NASA Ames Research Centre. He is the director of the team behind China

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It's been a beautiful Thursday in this vast grassland area in the Siziwang Banner, which surrounds the city of Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia. Hours before China's two astronauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong are scheduled to return, reporters had a chance t

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It was a stunning discovery. After a quest lasting decade, Donald Lynden-Bell had been proved right. Here indeed, just where he had predicted, was a super massive black hole. But in the last year, the quest to find and understand black holes has sudd

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Evans's is a talent so exceptional that Oliver Sacks, in An Anthropologist on Mars, devotes a passage to him in a chapter on autistic savantsquickly adding that there is no suggestion that he is autistic. Evans, who has not met Sacks, laughs at the s

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A third Saturn moon may have a subsurface ocean with potential for life, researchers say. 研究人员日前表示,第三颗土星卫星可能存在表面深层海洋及潜在生命形式。 Using gravity data from the Cassini probe, researchers at

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Part 3. The Time Ball. Keywords. time ball, drop, time signals, tradition. Vocabulary. install, observatory, revive, sweep, viable, hoist, gravity, mechanism, aluminum, flavor, sponsor, Greenwich, Miami, Atlanta. A. Listen to some statements about th

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China's national observatory renewed its orange alert for cold wave- the second highest level - on Sunday evening. Sun jun, chief forecaster of the National Meteorological Center, says the strong cold front is linked with the activity of the polar vo

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The intention of the collider was to let scientists probe the ultimate nature of matter, as it is always put, by re-creating as nearly as possible the conditions in the universe during its first ten thousand billionths of a second. The plan was to fl

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Coincidentally, at about the time that Einstein was affixing a cosmological constant to his theory, at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, an astronomer with the cheerily intergalactic name of Vesto Slipher (who was in fact from Indiana) was taking sp

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Meanwhile, a 45-meter wide asteroid has hurtled safely past earth after it came within 27-thousand kilometers, making it the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. The asteroid, named 2012 DA14 came closer to earth than many communication and we

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