Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims performed the ritual stoning of the devil at Muzdalifa, outside the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Friday, in one of the high points of the annual Hajj. Edward Yeranian | Cairo 27 November 2009 Muslim pilgrim thro

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Joshua Leo. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 On two days every year, most places

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Lesson 11 Spies in Britain英国的间谍 Alfred the Great acted as his own spy, visiting Danish camps disguised as a minstrel. In those days wandering minstrels were welcome everywhere. They were not fighting men, and their harp was their passport.

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Members of a Beijing diving club had the chance to experience China's Great Wall in a way few others have by exploring a section of the landmark that was submerged in the cloudy waters of a reservoir. There is no doubting that the Great Wall of Chin

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Queen of Denmark Margrethe II has continued her state visit to China. The Queen has arrived in east Chinas Nanjing city, and visited the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders. During her stay in Beijing, China and Denm

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On Mondays we focus on technology. Today an invitation to hackers. A hacker has broken into Vista, that's Microsoft's new operating system, but the company did not try to stop the invasion. In fact developers welcome the attack. Microsoft invited c

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Radio Essays Explore Technological Creativity There are mechanisms in nature as well as in human endeavors like engineering and art. Since 1988, the creative manipulation of these mechanisms has been explored in short radio essays about the history o

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Members of a Beijing diving club had the chance to experience China's Great Wall in a way few others have by exploring a section of the landmark that was submerged in the cloudy waters of a reservoir. There is no doubting that the Great Wall of China

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Course'ssociety reads like who is who south African politics, Tuba Mbeki,Desmond Tutu, Oliver Tumble, Nelson Mandela, all famous courses. I feelbetter already. The talkativerelaxed people with a habit of producing leading politicians. I will speak li

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Being so high also made the powers perfect strategic location, the sheer cliffs on three sides, and the steep summit made the city door virtually impregnable. (From here the slopes are very steep, any invaders would find it almost impossible to climb

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The flower morph larva in the muesli get busy, spinning a web. In the process coating with cereal and sticky tendrils. Not very appetising. And seen under the scanning electro-microscope, the blue cheese Maria bought at the market looks even less app

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In 795, monks on an island near Dublin saw a fleet of ships approaching. The long ships with a dragons head carved on the bow carried a force of warriors who would plunder the treasures accumulated by the monastery over 2 centuries. A monk wrote late

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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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By Jessica Berman Washington 04 October 2006 New research suggests that infectious diseases may run in families. Investigators say the discovery represents a major shift in the way scientists view human disease. Experts have always accepted that cer

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By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 13 November 2009 A new report from a Zimbabwe union says workers on the country's white-run farms were subjected to even greater violence than their employers during violent farms seizures under Zimbabwe President

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Last week we learned a little about Germany. Today, we will learn about a country that is close by, Italy. You probably know already that this country of sixty million people has been a major(our) influence on Western civilization. So, what is Italy

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On The Prowl 猫是一种地盘性的动物,它们喜欢在外面与别的猫划分领地。公猫比母猫尤为如此公猫的领地可能会是母猫领地的十倍。猫划份地盘是与其自然天性有关的。对于一只野猫来说,占领

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