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The solution lay in three key architectural innovations that formed the secret of Rome's great monuments. The most important, is the arch. The arch is an almost perfect design for bearing heavy loads. And that design is so simple. A series of wedge -
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Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. (Horace, ancient Roman poet) 苦难显才华，好运隐天资。(古罗马诗人 贺拉斯) Almost any situation---good or bad ---is affected by the att
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Not on your life! 绝对不会 英文释义 An expression meaning absolutely not! (NOTE: an extreme and forceful way to reply negatively) 例句 When a few younger partners suggested that the stubborn old founder of the company might want to retire s
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'Beware the Ides of March' 留意古罗马历中的三月 Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. People who believe in luck and bad luck -- that is to say, those considered superstitious maythink that some days or events are u
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. 人生就像故事：不在于有多长，而在于有多精彩，这才是最重要的。(Seneca，古罗马政治家、哲学家) 图片1
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Unlike the gentle Indians they didn't willingly submit. 不同于温和的印度人，他们不愿意屈服。 On more than one occasion they threatened to leave the city unless they were treated better and given a share of the fields and pastures wh
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And they put it into this tank here. Now this tank has already got water in it. So as they pour the olive oil in, it flows to the surface, all of the impurities go down to the bottom. And see this little trench here? A vital piece of gourmet equipmen
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This was once a marble square on a highway at the middle of Constantinople. I didnt suppose the Turks on modern Istanbul think much about ancient Byzantine victories. Yet, therere still some fragments here of that great memorial column that made it a
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Once though, Constantinople held the palace of all palaces, the palace of the Christian empire. Church, hippodrome and palace, Constantine had made a sacred engine that would power Byzantium for ever. To protect the holy city of Constantinople, the e
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Its only a little building, but it was actually the heart of ancient Palmyra. Its the senate, the Oval Office where government was conducted, where the town elders met, where plots were hatched, all that sort of thing. Of course, in Constantine's gre
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This was the extent of Constantines ambition, the late Roman Empire, with Constantinople, not Rome, as its capital, and in the far north, in Germany, the city of Trier, a great imperial garrison. It still shows something of what ancient Constantinopl
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A lonely ancient relic in a modern city. In the year of our Lord 330, on a lovely May morning, A great procession came down this road whichs the highway of an ancient city called Byzantium, and the procession was led by the great Roman Emperor Consta
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Istanbul, one of the very greatest of Islamic cities, the monuments of the conquering Turkish Sultans whod ruled here since 1453, dominating its skyline. Underneath there are much older ghosts, brushed each day by people of the living city, the ruins
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The eye of all the world， the ancients called it, the heart of a lost empire that had lasted for a thousand years and more. Saint Sophia, the church of the divine wisdom, this was their crowning glory---the glory of Byzantium. The vanished empire o
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But Simon was a nutter. Simon had tremendous presence like an emperor. He sat still and silent, and in his contest between flesh and the devil, it seemed to most people, that he was beyond touch. And there he was, on his pillar, half way between heav
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Such mysterious cargos, such magic marbles from across the empire, now sailed the seas and came to the holy city of Byzantium to be gathered up upon the site of the imperial communion. This is the finished dream, the tense climax of all of ancient en
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But, as powerful as Rome may have been, they couldn't change the rules of the universe, and neither of these calendars add up to anywhere close to the time it takes us to orbit the sun. After a few years, the seasons are out of whack with the months,
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The man there is Justinian, the emperor who 200 years after Constantine completely remade the Roman Empire, the man who made Byzantium. He was a man, they said, who was gentle and approachable, a man who never showed his anger, a man who in the quiet
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Squares become circles, circles octagons, and all around a single central point. Space spins into ever smaller spaces. It's as perfectly mysterious as the finest natural crystal. The walls, the columns, seem to be nothing more than an illusion, and s
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success tips 成功者的忠告 Don't be afraid of introducing new ideas. From Mark Twain, Famed Author: A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. Believe in your capacity to succeed. From Walter Disney, Founder of Walt Disney Comp
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