Stone Age Pottery Reveals Signs of Beekeeping陶器揭露人类养蜂历史 You have bees to thank every time you drizzle some honey into your tea. And the human-honeybee relationship is long-standing. Iconography of honeybees adorns 4400-year-old wa

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Unit 64 The Story of Corn Before 1492, when Columbus discovered America, no one living in Europe knew corn existed. Up to this time, corn grew only in the Americas. Scientists believed corn was originally cultivated by Indians in the highlands of Mex

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Why Did Cleopatra Wear Makeup? Over five thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians used eye shadow, not only for cosmetic but practical purposes as well. Dark pigment painted around the eye helped protect the eye from the bright midday sun glaring of

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Listen Read Learn Shirley: Oh, what nice makeup! You look so well! Stranger: Thanks very much! You look great too! Shirley: Whenever I go to dinner. I try some makeup. Stranger: All men search for beauty. Maybe you will feel better after you put on m

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By Cheng Xiaohong Washington, DC 30 January 2007 watch She Loves Me report A heart-warming love story set in Budapest during the 1930s was recently staged at Arena Stage in Washington D.C. Elaine Lu takes a look at the musical She Loves Me. The plot

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Australian scientists say an organic compound used by Indian women to paint dots or bindi on their foreheads could hold the key to a breakthrough in cancer treatment. Rose Bengal was first used in the early 1900s as a dye for food, textiles and cosm

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For Filipino-Chinese Merchants Ties Trump Tensions The Chinese have been doing business in the Philippines for more than 1,000 years, integrating into a well-established Filipino-Chinese community. More than just business, they also produce political

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LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: By now, you'd better have your holiday shopping done. Maybe you did more of it online this year. Easy for you but bad for your local mall - brick-and-mortar stores are losing jobs. And it turns out some workers are hit harder tha

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In the early days of the 20th century, radium factories in New Jersey and Illinois employed mostly women to paint watch faces and clock faces with luminous paint. The paint got everywhere - hair, hands, clothes. They were cal

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It was going to be my wife's 30th birthday this week and I was surprising her with a trip to San Diego for the weekend. Since it was going to be a surprise, I needed to pack both of our bags before picking her up from work and hitting the road. Packi

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By Greg Flakus New Orleans 13 May 2006 The more than 2,000 graduates of Tulane University in New Orleans heard from not one, but two former U.S. presidents at their graduation commencement ceremony Sa

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