约翰温斯顿列侬(John Winston Lennon,1940年10月9日1980年12月8日),出生于英国利物浦,英国摇滚乐队披头士成员,[1] 摇滚音乐家,诗人,社会活动家。[2] 1952年9月,列侬在进入Quarry Bank初级中学

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海伦凯勒(Helen Keller,1880年6月27日-1968年6月1日),著名的美国女作家、教育家、慈善家、社会活动家。在十九个月时因患急性胃充血、脑充血而被夺去视力和听力。1899年6月考入哈佛大学拉

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Earth Day is an annual event that aims to inspire awareness of and appreciation for our environment. It was founded in 1969 by peace activist John McConnell. He introduced the idea of a global holiday called Earth Day at a UN conference on the enviro

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By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: March 6, 2005 ((THEME)) VOICE ONE: Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Arthur Miller. Many theater critics believe he was one of the greatest

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Program Offers Job Experience, Pay for High Schoolers At the start of the school year, Aelina Pogosian could not wait to tell her friends about the most interesting thing she had done over the summer. The 16-year-old did not want to talk about a trip

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Too Much Tourism? Cities particularly in Europe are increasingly taking steps against tourists. 各个城市,尤其是欧洲的城市都开始越来越多地对游客采取措施。 Venice, Italy, for example, is planning to bar some large passenge

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American Women Try to Break Barriers in Show Business Chelsea Shorte is telling jokes on a cold Wednesday night at an eatery in Alexandria, Virginia. Shorte tells the restaurant-goers, many of them women, about her decision to perform stand-up comedy

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Parkland Students Return to School After Mass Shooting Students in Parkland, Florida returned to their high school on Wednesday, two weeks after a gunman killed 17 people there. A former Stoneman Douglas student, Nikolas Cruz, carried out the attack.

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South African Parliament Names Ramaphosa President South Africas parliament has chosen Cyril Ramaphosa as the countrys new president. Ramaphosa was elected by the parliament without a vote in Cape Town, the legislative capital. South Africas chief ju

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Leaders, Activists Launch Campaigns to End Sexual Violence in South Sudan 领导人与活动人士发起运动打击南苏丹性暴力 Many cases of rape are reported in the worlds newest country, South Sudan. Government forces, unidentified armed gr

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273 英国允许法拉坎入境 Britain Allows Farrakhan To Enter Tom Rivers London 31 Jul 2001 15:56 UTC A British judge has lifted a ban on black American 1)activist , Louis Farrakhan. The governmen

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3 Die in Gaza Blast Meredith Buel Jerusalem 20 Aug 2001 13:56 UTC A Palestinian man and his two children died after an 1)explosion ripped through their home in the Gaza Strip. The three died under 2)d

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A Vietnamese court recently sentenced blogger and human rights activist Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh to 10 years in prison. We are deeply concerned, said State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert, about the conviction of. . .peaceful blogger, Nguyen Ngoc

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As has been the case in previous years, human rights conditions in Zimbabwe remain deeply troubling, according to the recently-issued State Department Country Reports On Human Rights Practices. In 2016, the government of President Robert Mugabe conti

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All right, breaking news this morning. The FBI has made 3 arrests in a terror probe right here on US soil, being a father and a son in Aurora, Colorado also a man in Queens, New York under arrest, all for making false statements. Yeah, that's the ch

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It's a great wait to launch today's show.From those students in Ohio to CNN news room here in Atlanta,G.We are welcoming our viewers from around the world.This is CNN students news. First up.Strong words from the Gulf Cooperation council about a cris

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More people are still losing jobs faster than they're finding them. This morning, the Labor Department released its September employment report. Ninety-five thousand jobs went away last month and kept the unemployment rate stuck at 9.6 percent. It wa

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The US markets are reacting in part to more upbeat economic news this time in retail. The Commerce Department reports consumers spent more money in the last three months than previously thought. In July, retail sales rose 0.5%, and the government rev

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The political tug-of-war(拔河) in Greece is threatening to unravel Greeces bailout arrangement with its EU and IMF partners, which could cause a ripple effect through global markets. Theyre struggling to form a coalition government, without that, n

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CAIRO, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- The draft law limiting protests in Egypt, which is currently being studied after recently being announced by Justice Minister Ahmed Mekki, stirred up an overwhelming debate in the Egyptian political arena. Contradictory repo

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