March 7th, 1965A Bloody Sunday for Americas civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama, thats where state troopers and a sheriffs posse attack civil rights marchers pushing to register black voters. The violence leads to two more high-profile marches an

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February 26, 1993. In New York, a bomb built by Islamic extremists explodes in the parking garage of the World Trade Center. The blast kills 6 people and injures more than a thousand others. More than 8 years later, the twin towers fall in the Sep. 1

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June 26th, 1963During the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy visits what's then West Berlin, showing solidarity with its citizens against communism. As a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner. The visit takes place exactly fifteen

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June 16th, 1858In Illinois, Abraham Lincoln launches his US Senate bid with the warning about America's split over slavery , arguing the issue must be resolved. Lincoln says a house divided against itself cannot stand. Three years later, the Civil Wa

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March 24th 1999NATO launches US-led airstrikes against Yugoslavia over the Kosovo crisis. President Bill Clinton tells the American people, We have acted with resolve for several reasons. We act to protect thousands of innocent people in Kosovo from

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March 13th,1852Uncle Sam, the iconic symbol of the United States debuts as a cartoon character in the New York newspaper. 1925, in Tennessee, a law that prohibits the teaching of the theory of evolution takes effect. Months later the law is challenge

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Books and Arts; Book Review; The cold war; Feel of history; 文艺;书评;冷战;感怀历史; The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War. By Norman Stone. 《大西洋和它的对手们:冷战史》 诺曼斯通著。 Imagine

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On 26 May 1928, at a meeting in Amsterdam, the Fifa congress decided that a new tournament open to all its members should be played. A year later in Barcelona it was agreed that Uruguay, the Olympic champions and the era's footballing superpower, sho

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For fans of fashionable neckwear for men, what's old is new again. Now Mo Rocca who follows these matters has his own ideas about that. Way back in the 1990s, freedom was ringing everywhere. Women were making huge inroads in the workplace. As for me

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托福听力历史类文章关键要素!本期屌丝听力继续接着上期的内容讲,谈论不同文章类型的把握要点。上期我们讲了TPO中最常考的生物类文章的五点关键要素,本期我们要涉及TPO中最Versatile的文

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November 15th, 1864During the American Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman and his troops begin their march to the sea. Their devastating campaign from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia strikes at the heart of the Confederacy. 1806,In the Rocky Mo

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November 14th, 1940One of the most devastating bombing raids during World War Two. Hundreds of Nazi Germany's warplanes destroy most of the English town of Coventry. 1851Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, the tale about the pursuit of the great white

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