In memory of Skip and Mary Dickinson For Quintin and Griffin And for Louise Dennys, with thanks Most of you, I am sure, remember the tragic circumstances of the death of Geoffrey Clifton at Gilf Kebir, followed later by the disappearance of his wife,

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Fridays are awesome and so are the Noels at Seminole High School in Florida,because one of you got our social media question of the week correct.All right.I am Carl Azuz.Let's get to the day's headlines. Peaceful purposes or weapons?That is the const

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A massive earthquake followed by the threat of tsunamis, for people in Indonesia, that combination could bring up tragic memories. In 2004, there was an earthquake off the Indonesia coast and that triggered tsunamis, this giant wall of water, it kill

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[00:00.30] 13.A Tragedy or a Blessing? [00:04.23]Years ago in Scotland, the Clark family had a dream. [00:08.36]Clark and his wife worked and saved, making plans for their nine children and themselves to travel to the United States. [00:17.07]It had

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Todd: OK, Shawn, I'm going to talk about your favorites. Shawn: Sure. No problem. Todd: What's your favorite color? Shawn: I say, green. Todd: Green. Shawn: Yes. Todd: OK. And what's your favorite fruit? Shawn: My favorite fruit: orange. Todd: Orange

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So there were competing visions for the company? 你们对公司的发展有不同的看法? Oh clearly well... not so much competing visions for the company. Because I don't think John had a vision for the company. 是,也不是,因为John根本

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15. Pens 笔 Small as it is, the pen has changed the course of history, shaped the destiny of nations, facilitated the commerce of peoples, imprisoned the elusive thoughts of man, recorded events, carried news, and done more work for mankind than all

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International Students' Day is on November the 17th every year. It has a tragic beginning, at the start of WWII. Nazis attacked the University of Prague in what was then Czechoslovakia. On November 17, 1939, nine students were executed and 1,200 sent

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Tips for Applying to US Colleges 申请美国大学的几点建议 Editor's note: Here at VOA Learning English we get a lot of questions from our audience about higher education in the United States. So we visited several universities and spoke with

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Acehnese Try to Build a Life on Shuttered Dreams 亚齐人民挣脱恶梦重建家园 Within days after the killer tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra , VOA Correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins

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【经典】迈克尔.杰克逊:people make the world go round Here...here I am again And I am starin at these same four walls alone again And now all the colors blend And I'm growing up and I've become this empty page Hold on it's tragic stumblin

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The state of Queensland was preparing to move from crisis to recovery when the situation deteriorated sharply. The death toll is expected to rise from flash flooding in the town of Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, with dozens of people still missing.Loca

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1. A tragic day in Pennsylvania Amish country. Police say a gunman killed at least 3 young girls in a schoolhouse . The suspect who police say killed himself reportedly told his wife he was seeking re

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1. Karl Rove put s in his fifth appearance before a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer’s identity. President Bush’s deputy chief of staff and a lawyer entered the federal courthous

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很多人在英语学习的过程中经常被这样一个问题困扰,且往往百思不得其解平时花大量时间背诵单词,然而待到动笔之时,能派上用场者却寥寥无几,即便用上若干,对其正确性仍旧缺乏信心

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歌曲:电视原声-Nothing To Forgive Many Downton Abbey fans still angry about Dan Stevens' gruesome exit from the PBS miniseries have accused him of 'going Hollywood.' 很多《唐顿庄园》的粉丝们还在对大表哥丹斯蒂文斯的退出生

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You won't find me here, the place that you expected me to be, in my bed on the second floor. I'm outside your house, I'm closing in on you. And all the times you smiled, you said hello and thought I was ok, I was planning your final struggle. {Chorus

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作为流行天后Christina Aguilera阔别四年之后的回归大作《Bionic》的电音首单,《Not Myself Tonight》并没取得期待中那么理想的成绩。但是CA并不向商业妥协,像前几张专辑一样依旧二单打抒情。综合

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. Today and next week we bring you the story and songs from the American musical play West Side Story. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Richard Beyme

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AS IT IS 2015-07-05 Summer 2015 Brings Movies for Toddlers to Teens 2015夏天上映电影指南 We have a question for the many children out of school for summer break: are you bored yet? Boredom usually sets in just after the first week without cla

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