Broadcast: Jan 29 2003 John Coltrane's favorite drummer Elvin Jones comes from a renowned family of jazz musicians. His brother, pianist Hank Jones, was named an American Jazz Master in 1989. His othe

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[00:00.99]Poet of PianoChopin [00:03.83]Frederic Francois Chopin, Polish-born composer and renowned pianist, [00:11.16]was the creator of 55 mazurkas, 13 polonaises, 24 preludes, [00:17.29] 27 etudes, 19 nocturnes, 4 ballads, and 4 scherzos. [00:23.9

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Day 1 abject 可怜的 advocate 主张 brutal 凶残的 clumsy 笨拙的 dignity 庄严 ferocious 残忍的 hound 追踪 idle 无来由的 lavish 挥霍 nasty 令人厌恶的 miser 吝啬鬼 optimism 乐观 renowned 有声誉的 rigorous 严格的 talented 天才的 vigorous有力的 virtuous 道

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The Virgin Queen 女王未出嫁 by Matthew Brown Like many historical figures that keep people fascinated, Elizabeth I remains somewhat enigmatic. No one knows the whole truth about the personal aspects of Elizabeth's story. Of course, these things

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It is that time of year again, everyone is eating strawberries with cream, drinking Pimms with lemonade and watching the worlds best tennis players battling for supremacy at the Wimbledon Tennis Championship. However there is something very different

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Plane cutting or oblique cutting? 平刀,斜刀。 A cook specialized in Chinese cuisine knows it too well that even the slightest change in cutting may directly result in a total difference in the feeling on the tongue and teeth. 有追求的中国菜

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Sculpting the landscape, the Aztecs created a beautiful ideal model, intended to bring rain to the real world. Water channel from the mountain through an aqueduct flowed around the hill, filling baths

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Every year around Christmas, Stockbridge, a small town in western Massachusetts, puts on a display unlike any other in the US. The celebrated American artist Norman Rockwell, who passed away some 30 years ago, used the New England town as the setting

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A rare performance by renowned Aboriginal dancers marked the start of one of Australia's most important festivals of indigenous art. The unique dance of the Gurrir Gurrir people depicts events associated with a devastating tropical cyclone in 1974. T

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Wax Museum Focuses on African-Americans The 150 wax figures in the museum include educator and author Booker T. Washington, jazz legend Eubie Blake, and the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. Theres also Harriett Tubman,

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Todd: Clare, you're from England. 克莱尔,你来自英国。 Clare: That's right. 没错。 Todd: How would you compare England and Japan? 你怎么对比英国和日本呢? Clare: Well, I think, let's take price-wise, they're actually quite si

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This is Ping Opera, one of the most popular art forms in northern China. It origins trace back to Luan County here in Hebei. The County has been officially named the hometown of Ping Opera. As part of this year's Luan River Cultural Festival, singers

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外国有个一星差评的网站,汇集了所有网上对经典图书的差评(外国人城会玩==),从海明威、加缪到雨果,名人大家一个都不放过的被喷了一遍。英语君节选了一些搞笑的差评,大家来一起乐

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Fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee. He was a Baptist minister and an activist. He was a writer and a gifted speaker. 50年前的今天,马丁路德金博士在田纳西州的孟菲斯被暗杀。他

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Todd: Clare, you're from England. Clare: That's right. Todd: How would you compare England and Japan? Clare: Well, I think, let's take price wise, they're actually quite similar. Well, not, maybe not England as a whole but, say Japan and London is ve

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Idiom: Play hard to get ( pretend not to want something ) Hit the book: Consume Calm effect Tryptophan Engage in Meditation Renowned Hypnotherapy Consuming banana and drinking a glass of milk Other insomnia remedies are by consuming certain fruit, su

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考研写作题目揭晓了。大作文:敬老爱老。这不是2005年写作真题养老足球赛的翻版吗!那一年的漫画中四个儿女把老人当球踢。通过那个漫画作者要讽刺有些儿女不孝敬老人,而今年的漫画则通

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In an age when the unceasing invention of digital gadgets is encroaching on the enjoyment of reading paper books, theres a small town in the UK sticking to the old tradition. Internationally renowned as the Town of Books, Hay-on-Wye in Wales is liter

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The communiqu said that a number of sectors including science, technology and culture need to be made more innovative, and that China will continue to encourage mass entrepreneurship in the hope that it will lead to new technology. Zhu Jianfang, an e

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An international security forum is getting underway in Beijing, with China's role in Asia Pacific and global governance being discussed by those involved. CRI's Yu Yang brings the details. The Wanshou Dialogue on Global Security has attracted around

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