(woman) So, uh... as Jim said, James Polk was the eleventh President, and... uh... well, my report's about the next President --- Zachary Taylor. Taylor was elected in 1849. It's surprising because... well, he was the first President that didn't hav

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Politics has quite literally gone to the dogs in one Minnesota village, where a seven-year-old pup has been named mayor. 在美国民尼苏达州的一个小村庄里,狗狗也开始涉足政坛了。一只7岁的小狗被任命为了村子的村长。

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WASHINGTON, June 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday spoke with Haitian President Michel Martelly on efforts to further bilateral ties between the two countries, White House said in a statement on Thursday. In the conversation,

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SAN SALVADOR, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Salvador Sanchez Ceren was sworn in Sunday as El Salvador's new president with a pledge to establish a new security system to tackle crimes in his country, where an average of 10 people are killed each day. Beginning

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最早的First Lady的称谓是由first lady of honor, first lady of the Admiralty演化而来,用来这些称呼指那些有影响力的杰出 推荐信息女性。1834年更出现了first lady in (of) the land的称呼。爱德华-布尔沃-里

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President Niyazov of Turkmenistan has ordered the construction of a palace made of ice in the heart of his desert country, one of the hottest on earth. It is the latest in a series of colossal building projects instigated by the all-powerful presiden

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he personal fortunes of those who would become president of the United States have ranged from extremely wealth to distinctly middle-class incomes, but is does pay to be president, especially in these days of personal speaking engagements. A 24/7 Wal

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Jordan's Prince Ali bin al-Hussein has officially announced his bid for the FIFA presidency. Ladies and gentlemen, today I stand before you and the world. With me are my brothers and sisters of Jordan, the heart of the Arab world and the crossroads o

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ROME, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Saturday charged 10 authoritative experts and political figures with the task to help solve the political impasse stemmed from last month's inconclusive general elections. The figures

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KIEV, May 25 (Xinhua) -- Chocolate King Petro Poroshenko has won Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday with an absolute majority, exit polls showed. Poroshenko won 55.9 percent of the vote, ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko 12.9 percent of the v

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《我仍将奋起》玛娅.安吉罗的代表作,被制作成了公益广告,多年来不断在美国各大电视台上播放,为广大电视观众所耳濡目染。这首诗歌作品是继马丁。路德。金的著名讲演《我有一个梦想

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MANILA, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Philippine President Benigno Aquino III will be leaving for Myanmar Friday to attend the 22th World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia. Aquino said in Monday's briefing that he will meet up with Myanmar President Thein Sein

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MANILA - Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said Wednesday that he would embark on a one-day visit to China to attend the opening of the 10th China-ASEAN Expo. In his speech at the 2013 Apolinario Mabini Awarding Ceremony held in Malacanang, the

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States 「最终,到头来,你活了多少岁不算什么,重要的是,你是如何度过这些岁月的。」亚

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It's a New Year, and with our economy growing and a strong, majority government in power, Britain begins it with renewed strength. There are no New Years resolutions for us, just an ongoing resolve to deliver what we promised in our manifesto: Securi

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American voters elected Donald Trump as the country's next president. After a long, bitter and often divisive race for the White House, work began on the clean transfer of power, a bedrock principle of American democracy. 在经过漫长而艰难、且

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YANGONMyanmar President Thein Sein has congratulated opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy Party (NLD) for their apparent landslide victory in this week's parliamentary elections over the military-backed Union Solid

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President-elect Donald Trump and vice-president elect Mike Pence will lay a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery on January 19. This will be followed by a Make America Great Again! welcome concert at the Lincoln Memorial. 候任总统特朗普和候任

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NICOSIA, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades has made an appeal to the leaders of international lenders to urgently lift controls on bank transactions in a letter made public on Tuesday. Restrictions on bank transactions were int

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HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Joining me now from Santa Barbara, California, to talk about what the first presidential debate is NewsHour Weekend special correspondent Jeff Greenfield. Jeff, I'm hearing Super Bowl-esque number potent

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