World Press Freedom Day is on May 3 every year. The U.N. General Assembly introduced it in 1993. The aim of the day is to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press. It is also a reminder to governments to respect the right to freedom

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World Penguin Day happens on or around April 25th each year. This is the time when millions of penguins migrate north. Unlike other birds that migrate each year, penguins do not fly. Instead, they walk, or waddle to their new home and breeding ground

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World Book and Copyright Day is on the 23rd of April every year. It is also called International Day of the Book or World Book Days. UNESCO started it in 1995 to promote reading, publishing and to raise awareness of and protect copyright. There are s

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World Hepatitis Day is observed on May the 19th. It aims to increase awareness worldwide of the diseases hepatitis B and hepatitis C. Its hope is to encourage the prevention and diagnosis of these two diseases, and increase the number of people who r

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World Chocolate Day must be one of the best holidays in the world. Its such a great idea. It could be the most celebrated holiday in the world. Everyone loves chocolate. It is probably the most popular food ever. It is also probably the most popular

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June 20 is World Refugee Day. The United Nations General Assembly decided to create this day in 2000. It marks the 50th anniversary of the international convention relating to the status of refugees. The day is also Africa Refugee Day. A different th

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One of the worlds most serious problems is the use of child labour. June 12 is the World Day Against Child Labour. All around the world people will take part in activities to raise awareness of the damage child labour does to children, families and s

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[00:00.00]An overcoat 一件大衣 [00:04.53]My l4-year-old son, John, [00:07.60]and I spotted the coat simultaneously. [00:10.22]It was hanging on a rack [00:12.53]at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, [00:14.92]crammed in with shoddy tre

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These were our ancestors who may have already been using stones as tools more than 150,000 years ago. 这是我们的祖先,他们也许在15万年前就已经开始用石头当工具了。 They were very different from the Neanderthal people who a

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And when you say these are pictures of daily life, that just doesn't fit. And when I began to notice all these strange points about the paintings, I thought we've got to find some way of cracking the

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In reading the Blake manuscripts, it came very clear that their religion was built around a notion of traveling to a spirit world. It seemed the San believe that while you are still alive, your spirit

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But, how could this help to solve the mystery of the haunting rock paintings created by their ancestors? Having read the Blake papers and found out about altered state of consciousness or trance on th

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Dominic, this is a new experience for me. How my eyes closed but I was seeing things? Tell me why. There are parts of the visual brain that seem to code or represent the types of grid patterns and lat

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79 世界反贪组织声称南美腐败非常严重 Group says South American Corruption Below Average Nico Colombant Rio de Janeiro 28 Jun 2001 05:15 UTC The world anti-1)corruption organization, Tra

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山姆马丁分享了一些照片,展现了一个个性化的奇异世界:人造空间。 ( 它们是量身打造的活动空间,人们可以宣称那里是专属于自己的工作和休闲的空间。

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迪斯尼动画电影《阿拉丁》(Aladdin)的主题曲《全新世界》Alan Menken 配乐、作曲,Howard Ashman、Tim Rice作词,同时也是Howard Ashman的遗作,未完成的部分由音乐剧大师 Tim Rice 接手。 (A Whole New

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: Of the worlds energy, the US consumes about 25% , while Google alone accounts for roughly 0.013%. 这个世界使用能源的情况是 美国消耗了约25% 而Google就消耗了约其中的0.013

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Now, however, many of the diamonds are cut in Kimberley and are all finished there before being shipped to other countries. 然而,现在多数钻石是在金伯利切割,并在那里加工完毕之后就被船送到其他国家。 Diamonds are m

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Thirty years passed and though he went back home several times he always returned to Africa and at last he disappeared. 三十年过去了,尽管利文斯通回了几次家,他总是又返回非洲。最终他消失了。 He was given up for lost

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Singapore is almost on the Equatorit is almost half-way between the North and South Poles. 新加坡几乎位于赤道上,几乎就在南极和北极之间的中途。 Sailors call the Equator The Line. 水手们称赤道为中线。 When you cross

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