The Four Freedoms In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to

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Harvard Seal came into being in a meeting held by Harvard College on September 27, 1643. The meeting was hosted by the second President of Harvard College Henry Duster. The sketch of that meeting clearly recorded the pattern design of the coat of arm

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This is Whats Trending Today. The MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles included performances by popular musicians of the last 12 months. A number of musicians also denounced racism and discrimination after recent violence in Charlott

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Much of the buzz at the Mobile World Congress is about a product not even there. CNN's Adrian Finighan reports. Barcelona, capital of Catalonian, cosmopolitan, cultured and arguably the most economically vibrant city in Spain, and for 4 days, every

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Topics: The Jason Bourne Films; American Presidents-Andrew Johnson; to shiver versus to tremble versus to quiver; at-risk student Words: identity amnesia troubled supremacy ultimatum rumor tailor to secede to veto citizen to impeach reputation to shi

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A police officer and father of two shot to death at the hotel in Memphis last night. Police say the officer Timothy Warren was responding to a report of shots fire at a hotel where responders had already found the body of one victim when shots starte

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the force of nature behind Apple. 他是苹果公司的灵魂 He distorted reality. It's a mixture of charisma, chutzpah, 他颠覆了人们的认知 他魅力四射 胆识过人 bullshit, self-belief, self-delusion, 能说会道 满怀自信 充满了

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SATURDAY -- I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so, for if there was a day-before-yesterday I was not there when it happened, or I should remember it. It could be, of course, that it did ha

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Chapter 1It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of any other of its possessions. It was so prou

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This is the Vatican City, not only the center of the Catholic Church, but also home to one of the greatest collections of Roman art anywhere in the world. And within that collection, one piece is outs

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The Battle of Jutland was the biggest naval confrontation in World War One. The German fleet wanted access to the Atlantic. The English Channel is too narrow and too well defended, so they went to north towards Scotland. In their way was the Royal Na

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The Battle of Jutland was the biggest naval confrontation in World War One. The German fleet wanted access to the Atlantic. The English Channel is too narrow and too well defended, so they went to north towards Scotland. In their way was the Royal Na

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More Calls for Removal of Confederate Battle Flag The governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, has called on state lawmakers to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol. She says the flag is an important part of the states history, b

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After the collapse of the Soviet entire the United States emerged as the sole superpower. No other power, or the combination of powers, could challenge it's supremacy. But the unipolar world did not take root. When President Bush sought to assert Ame

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Does He Have What it Takes? 他有夺冠的实力吗? It is that time of year again, everyone is eating strawberries with cream, drinking Pimms with lemonade and watching the world's best tennis players battling for supremacy at the Wimbledon Tenni

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October 21st, 1879A coiling filament glowing within the Put away the oil lamps and candles. Thomas Edison perfects a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. 2001A postal worker in Washington D.C. dies from inhaled anthrax

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October 21st, 1879A coiling filament glowing within What way the oil lamps and candles? Thomas Edison perfects a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. 2001Postal worker in Washington D.C. dies from inhaled anthrax as of

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October 21st, 1879A coiling filament glowing within What way the oil lamps and candles? Thomas Edison perfects a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. 2001Postal worker in Washington D.C. dies from inhaled anthrax as of

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Pakistan's fourth ranking snooker cup begins in Karachi ISLAMABAD, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's 4th Snooker Cup Ranking Tournament 2012 started on Sunday at the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) Sports Complex in the country's southern port city of

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As ashore, the ladies often cause the most terrible duels among their rival admirers; just so with the whales, who sometimes come to deadly battle, and all for love. They fence with their long lower jaws, sometimes locking them together, and so striv

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