Like all stories from history, this is a search for ghosts -- a quest for the people who made us what we are, and for one man in particular. William Shakespeare is the most famous writer of all time,

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 其他文化

Confusing accents and odd public transport habits have beenlisted among the biggest culture shocks for people moving tothe UK. 难懂的口音和奇怪的公共交通习惯双双跻身外国人到英国后感受到的最大文化冲击之列。 Users

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跟踪流感的新手段 As influenza season peaks in the United States, one researcher is working to bring the public into tracking the epidemic. Using new technology, he may be able to provide public health officials with useful information more qu

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Newsworthy Clips 2 Lake of Warning System hindered Scientists Who Saw Early Threat By James Janega / 2004, as first appeared in Chicago Tribune . KRT. Distributed by TMSI. With a killer tsunami bearin

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Stay on Top of Your Reading By Richard G. Ensman Jr. Thousands of pages of reading material are put in front of you each month. How can you manage to digest it all? T hey just keep coming and coming:

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If you splashed down in the Atlantic, you'd flounder on which way to swim. But a hatchling loggerhead turtle would know just where to paddleby reading the Earth's magnetic field. Scientists knew turtles can pinpoint latitude this way, because the fie

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The remote village of Kodinji in southern India, population about 13,500, is home to more than 100 pairs of twins, and 90% of those were born within the last 18 years. No one quite knows why, and no published study explains the phenomenon. At the las

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GWEN IFILL:And we close about with new findings about declining life spans for some women. Those come from a pair of new studies. The first reported that, in 43 percent of the nation's counties, many of them in the South and the West, womenmore women

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The Viking longship might have looked like this. A 1,000-year-old Viking longship is thought to have been discovered under a pub car park on Merseyside. The vessel is believed to lie beneath 2 metres to 3 metres of clay by the Railway Inn in Meols,

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B-Mac - This is a method of transmitting and scrambling television signals; the are time-multiplexed with a digital burst that contains digitized sound, video synchronizing, authorization, or informat

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In 1865, Pierre Paul Broca pinpointed the part of the brain responsible for language by autopsying brains of the language-impairedthe region is now called Brocas area. But more info has been hard to get. Because most brain research is done on animals

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1. It's been a day of gains and losses for the military in Iraq. Officials say they have captured two top al-Qaeda leaders there. However they also say seven troops have been killed in roadside bombings. 2. Federal investigators working in South Caro

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今天再来一组逼死强迫症的照片。今天的照片乃是逼死强迫症的霸中之霸,几乎无图能敌。本文摘自life buzz,原文的标题是30 people who failed at their only job,这个标题极具调侃,only job,唯一的工作

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Tender Is the Night - Book Two by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 8 During the next weeks Dick experienced a vast dissatisfaction. The pathological origin and mechanistic defeat of the affair left a flat and metallic taste. Nicole's emotions had been use

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If you woke up this morning thinking the toughest day of the week had been and gone, you were wrong. Mondays may have long been thought of as miserable, but were more likely to feel down in the dumps on a Tuesday. According to researchers from the Lo

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Google has unveiled a system that attempts to pinpoint the location of where a photograph was taken by analysing the image, as the internet group continues to experiment with advanced machine learning technologies. 谷歌(Google)推出了一套试图利

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无论你从事什么工作,在每一个繁忙的工作日中,都会隐藏着各种引爆工作怒火的地雷,可能是老板的不分青红皂白,可能是客户的无理取闹,也可能是同事的胡搅蛮缠,总之要解决工作中的

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Latest research shows that the Moon could be younger than previous estimates. The findings were published online Wednesday in the Nature journal. The prevailing theory of the Moon's origin is that it was created by a g

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If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she's going to call me Point B, 如果我有一个女儿,她会叫我B点(Point B),而不是妈妈, because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to

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Ever wonder why, no matter how hard you try, you cant be one of those exercisers who jog 5km every dawn. 有没有想过为何不管怎么努力,你都无法像那些专业锻炼者一样每天晨跑五千米? Stop blaming yourself. Its not becau

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