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Tajik Leader: No More Big Burial Markers Over the years, Tajikistan has taken numerous steps to control the lives of its citizens. The government has rules restricting how long men can grow their beards and the length of womens clothing. It also limi
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This is Scientific American-Sixty Seconds Science. I'm Chris *. Got a minute? I'm guessing you brush twice a day, or aspire to. Our ancestors were a little less diligent. But that's a good thing for scientists, because ancient placode teeth are like
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Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the nearly 500-year-old skeleton of a man who died in a surprisingly modern way, from a gunshot wound to the head. A team of experts believes the man is the first documented victim of a shooting in the new world
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I was sound asleep. My grandfather appeared in a dream. He asked why I had never visited him and grandma at the cemetery. He said that even my mom hadnt visited since October 4 (grandmas birthday). He told me that, when I was young, I had walked out
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What's this? They're firing at us! I exclaimed. 怎么？他们朝我们开炮！我喊道。 Good lads! the Canadian muttered. 勇敢的人们！加拿大人小声说。 That means they don't see us as castaways clinging to some wreckage! 这么说他
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Chapter 19 The Gulf Stream 第十九章 海湾暖流 This dreadful scene on April 20 none of us will ever be able to forget. 4月20日那可怕的一幕，我们任何人都永远忘不了。 I wrote it up in a state of intense excitement. 我心情澎
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Section 32 Death It is surprising how different cultures treat death. The ceremonies surrounding it vary from culture to culture, country to country. Even the colors associated with death vary. In wes
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10 Years After Tsunami, Fishermen Still Feel Slighted 海啸十年后,渔民仍感觉不被重视 BAN NAM KHEM, THAILAND When the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit Thailands coast 10 years ago, the world saw images of huge waves hitting scenic beachsi
VOA标准英语2014年(十二月)
1. After intense talks spanning two weeks, the US has made a U-turn on climate change. First rejecting negotiations, US finally agreed to a compromise: a two-year plan to develop a replacement for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. 2. In a nationally-televise
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Flu season occurs annually in countries that have cold weather in the winter. Although the influenza virus is alive throughout the world in all four seasons, it seems to have its greatest impact on humans during the winter. Scientists are not sure wh
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This is AP news minute. 1. Americans went to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to elect the country's first woman president or hand power to a realistic mogul known for proposing on orthodox cures for various problems plaguing the nation. The unexp
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Memorial Day Honors Military Service and Sacrifice Welcome to This Is America with VOA Learning English. Steve Ember and Barbara Klein tell about Memorial Day. We Remember The last Monday in May is a national holiday. Memorial Day honors those who di
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Thousands of Sudanese attended a state funeral for former president Jaafar Nimeiri, who led the country from 1969 to 1985. Mr. Nimeiri died Saturday, at age 79. A Sudanese holds a poster showing former Sudanese President Gaafar Numeiri during his mi
VOA标准英语2009年(六月)
Excavations are continuing at two mass graves which have been discovered in the southeast of Turkey, a predominantly Kurdish southeast Turkey. The bodies are believed to be victims of Turkey's war against the Kurdish rebel group the PKK, which for de
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Leader of Egyptian Jews Honored at Funeral Egypt's fading Jewish community has receded even further. Carmen Weinstein, the leader of about 20 elderly women who make up the last of Cairo's once vibrant Jewish presence, was laid to rest Thursday. She w
VOA标准英语2013年(四月)
Originally these graves had been dug into the rocks of the western mountains 最初，这些坟墓是建在西部山脉的岩石里面， but as the Egyptians moved northward they were obliged to build their cemeteries in the desert. 随着埃及人向
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U.S. army is reported to be in a heightened state of alert in response to detererating security conditions in Libya. the state department says it's advising citizens against traveling to capital xx. the British government says it will temporarily dra
2013年NPR美国国家公共电台5月
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The love story between Isabell and Preble Staver came quietly to an end last month. The couple was together for more than seven decades. The Stavers were two of the hundreds of World War II veterans who are dying each day. NPR's S
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林肯盖茨堡演说150周年 One hundred and fifty years ago this month (November 19), at the height of the U.S. Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short address at a battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The bloody battle that had
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美国任命第一位女性海军上将 For the first time in its 236-year history, the U.S. Navy has a woman as its second-highest ranking officer. Michelle Howard was promoted Tuesday to a four-star admiral and assumed her new duties as Vice Chief
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