[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.] Moderator: Ladies and Gentlemen: The President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. President Reagan: Thank you. Thank you

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Alicia Keys打榜热歌:Empire State Of Mind续篇 Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down收录于美国创作女歌手Alicia Keys 第四张个人大碟《The Element of Freedom》。这首歌作为曾获得美国公告牌热门单曲榜冠军作

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音乐咖啡厅:Waldo's People - World Empire 相关介绍:Waldos People是芬兰一个很有名的Eurodance组合。组合从1995年出道至今已推出4张大碟,在芬兰音乐界的地位无人可及。两位男女主唱Waldo - (原名Marko

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今天我们要学的词是empire。 Empire, 是帝国的意思。历史上曾有辉煌的Roman Empire,罗马帝国,美国纽约有着名的Empire State Building, 帝国大厦。Empire也可以用来形容个人、家族、集团或是公司所控制

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Empire State Of Mind Jay-Z Ft Alicia Keys [Jay-Z] yeah Yeah I'm out that Brooklyn. Now I'm down in Tribeca. Right next to DeNiro But I'll be hood forever I'm the new Sinatra And since I made it here I can make it anywhere (Yeah they love me everywher

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And they put it into this tank here. Now this tank has already got water in it. So as they pour the olive oil in, it flows to the surface, all of the impurities go down to the bottom. And see this little trench here? A vital piece of gourmet equipmen

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Just like the people of modern Istanbul, the Byzantines loved fresh bread and fresh vegetables. While the bread,at least the grain for it, they brought from their province of Egypt, the vegetables they grew themselves, in little plots beside their

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This was once a marble square on a highway at the middle of Constantinople. I didnt suppose the Turks on modern Istanbul think much about ancient Byzantine victories. Yet, therere still some fragments here of that great memorial column that made it a

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Southwest of Istanbul, three days sailing on an ancient slave ship, is the Isle of Marmara, its very name in stone. In the first centuries of Byzantium, slaves in their tens of thousands worked in these marble hills. How the Byzantines love marble! I

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Once though, Constantinople held the palace of all palaces, the palace of the Christian empire. Church, hippodrome and palace, Constantine had made a sacred engine that would power Byzantium for ever. To protect the holy city of Constantinople, the e

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Its only a little building, but it was actually the heart of ancient Palmyra. Its the senate, the Oval Office where government was conducted, where the town elders met, where plots were hatched, all that sort of thing. Of course, in Constantine's gre

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This was the extent of Constantines ambition, the late Roman Empire, with Constantinople, not Rome, as its capital, and in the far north, in Germany, the city of Trier, a great imperial garrison. It still shows something of what ancient Constantinopl

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A lonely ancient relic in a modern city. In the year of our Lord 330, on a lovely May morning, A great procession came down this road whichs the highway of an ancient city called Byzantium, and the procession was led by the great Roman Emperor Consta

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Istanbul, one of the very greatest of Islamic cities, the monuments of the conquering Turkish Sultans whod ruled here since 1453, dominating its skyline. Underneath there are much older ghosts, brushed each day by people of the living city, the ruins

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The eye of all the world, the ancients called it, the heart of a lost empire that had lasted for a thousand years and more. Saint Sophia, the church of the divine wisdom, this was their crowning glory---the glory of Byzantium. The vanished empire o

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But Simon was a nutter. Simon had tremendous presence like an emperor. He sat still and silent, and in his contest between flesh and the devil, it seemed to most people, that he was beyond touch. And there he was, on his pillar, half way between heav

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Such mysterious cargos, such magic marbles from across the empire, now sailed the seas and came to the holy city of Byzantium to be gathered up upon the site of the imperial communion. This is the finished dream, the tense climax of all of ancient en

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The man there is Justinian, the emperor who 200 years after Constantine completely remade the Roman Empire, the man who made Byzantium. He was a man, they said, who was gentle and approachable, a man who never showed his anger, a man who in the quiet

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Squares become circles, circles octagons, and all around a single central point. Space spins into ever smaller spaces. It's as perfectly mysterious as the finest natural crystal. The walls, the columns, seem to be nothing more than an illusion, and s

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Each man stands inside his own mysterious inner space, for each one of them was occupied. And from that space they look outwards, from the soul towards the heavens. As you might expect, if you should move around them, solid bulk of marble in the huma

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