December 17th, 1903Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. The brothers achieved the pioneering feet with their experimental craft dubbed the Wright Flyer. 1957Th

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 历史上的今天-2014年

Unit 5 Text A Pre-reading Activities 1. As you listen to the passage, write down the idioms and expressions that match each definition below. Warning: One of the definitions fits two expressions that

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影片对白 MAJOR HALBERT: My lord, there is a rider at the gates. A civilian carrying a white flag. CORNWALLIS: I'm occupied . MAJOR HALBERT: He has a pair of dogs with him. Great Danes. CORNWALLIS: Now we come to the matter of the specific targeting

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Today I am proud to announce the appointment of an experienced public servant, a devoted patriot, my friend, fellow Chicagoan Bill Daley, to serve as my Chief of Staff. Few Americans can boast the breadth of experience that Bill brings to this job. H

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. A shooting spree at a Connecticut elementary school has left an unknown number of people dead. School district officials at Sandy Hook Elementary School say the shooting occurred this morning. Law en

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1. FBI Director Robert Mueller says he's to blame for not putting more safeguards in place that could have prevented abuses of the Patriot Act. An audit found the FBI secretly got personal information about people in the United States improperly and

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WASHINGTON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House of Representatives will vote on an amendment of the Defense Authorization Act to restrict surveillance of the American public, a House committee announced Tuesday. The House Rules Committee on Tuesday posted

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I've spent the last decade subjecting myself to pain and humiliation, hopefully for a good cause, which is self-improvement. And I've done this in three parts. So first I started with the mind. And I decided to try to get smarter by reading the entir

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Even though she has never seen Game of Thrones, primarily because we are not the worst parents who ever lived. 即使她未曾看过《权利的游戏》,主要是因为我们并不是最糟的父母。 But she knows there's someone called the Moth

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Unit5 A True Patriot 第五节 一个真正热爱国家的人 The airplane was obviously in trouble. 飞机显然出了问题。 One engine was on fire, another was sputtering, 一个引擎着火,另一个嘎嘎作响, and the machine was slowly,

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Well, we got to see Edward Snowden for the first time in some time, publicly, on camera. Now that that day is ending in Moscow, are we any clearer about what his situation is? ELLEN BARRY, The New York Times: I think so. I mean, for one thing, we kno

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Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林 Franklin's life is full of charming stories which all young men should know-how he peddled ballads in Boston, and stood, the guest of kings in Europe; how he worked his passage as a stowaway to Philadelphia, an

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During the Battle of Long Island, which led to British victory and the capture of New York City, via a flanking move from Staten Island across Long Island, Hale volunteered on September 8,1776,to go behind enemy lines and report on British troop

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Mexico had a historic standing as one of the countries on the flank of the United States, who had stood up to Yankee imperialism at the turn of the century. Ernesto reconnects with his Cuban friends and is introduced to Raul Castro. After serving 22

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A.J.雅各布斯用了整整一年的时间,遵循他听到的每一条健康建议--从用玻璃杯来抹防晒霜到戴着自行车头盔购物。在TEDMED的演讲台上,雅各布斯与大家分享了他在这个过程中发现的许多让人意

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The 2014 World Tank Biathlon Championship ended in Russia on Saturday, with China taking bronze in the competition. Host Russia was crowned the winner while Armenia gained silver in the competition. The competition's winners will be rewarded with a R

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BERLIN, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- The German cabinet on Thursday agreed to participate in a NATO mission sending Patriot missiles and some 400 soldiers to Turkey to help the country cope with potential security threats from Syria. Turkey is currently the mo

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