Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫沃尔多爱默生 The United States had won its independence from Britain just twenty-two years before Ralph Waldo Emerson was born. But it had yet to win its cultural independence. It still took its traditions from othe

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John Stuart Mill 约翰斯图尔特穆勒 John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May, 1806 in London. His father was the influential radical thinker James Mill. In his Autobiography, Mill gives one of the most famous accounts of a childhood, certainly of a

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Two churches, one in Massachusetts and one in New York, wanted Martin to become their minister. While Martin was deciding which job to take, another letter camefrom the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. The church, which had no min

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Ha Jin: Across an Ocean of Words 哈金:超越字海 Xuefei Jin, who writes under the pen-name Ha Jin, was born in 1956 in Liaoning province in northern China. At only 14 years of age, Ha Jin joined the Peoples Liberation Army. He began teaching hi

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky 费奥多尔陀思妥耶夫斯基 Dostoyevsky was born in 1821 in Moscow. His childhood was very unhappy. His father, a doctor, was bad-tempered and violent. He believed in very strict discipline for little children. Fyodors mother

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A Word Warrior: Maxine Hong Kingston 文字勇士:汤婷婷 Kingston was born in Stockton, California 1940, she was the 3rd of eight children to a Chinese immigrant parents, and the first to be born in America. Her American name, Maxine, was after a

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Shakespeare: Soul of the Age 莎士比亚:时代的灵魂 Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon, a little town in the heart of England. He was the eldest son of the family and educated at the local grammar school, b

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English Poet: John Milton 英国诗人:约翰弥尔顿 John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608,into a middle-class family. He was educated at St. Pauls School, then at Christs College, Cambridge, where he began to write poetry in Lat

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A Sci-Fi Writer: Arthur Clarke 科幻作家:阿瑟克拉克 Born in western England, on December 16th, 1917, the son of a farmer, Arthur Clarke became addicted to science fiction after buying his first copies of the magazine Amazing Stories. He beg

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American Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 美国诗人:朗费罗 On February 27, 1807,Longfellow descended from well-established New England families. His birth place was Portland, Maine. In his home and in the town library, he had access to many

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Pearl S.Buck:The Cross-Cultural Envoy 赛珍珠:中西文化使者 Pearl was bom in Virginia, the United States in 1892 and her parents were Christian missionaries. When Buck was three months old, her parents took her with them on a mission to Chin

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Magic Mother: J. K. Rowling 魔法妈妈:J.K.罗琳 Joanne Kathleen Rowling entered the world in Chipping Sudbury General Hospital in England, a fitting beginning for someone who would later enjoy making up strange names for people, places and game

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The Firm Helen Keller 坚强的海伦?凯勒 In 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce that she nearly died. She survived but the fever left its mark she could no longer see or hear. Because she could not hear she also found it very diffi

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Mark Twain in Hannibal 马克吐温在汉尼堡 The relationship between Hannibal and Twain began in November 1839, when Twains father, John Clemens, decided to leave the hamlet of Florida, Missouri, and move east about 35 miles to the somewhat large

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Martin Luther King 马丁路德金 Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was the minister of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, as was his father before him M.L, as he was called, lived with his parents, his sister

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