For years, Barry Clifford has been trying to solve a 300-year-old riddle. It isn't an ordinary riddle, though. It is a clue to the location of the pirate Black Sam Bellamy's treasure. Piracy came alive in the 1720s and incredibly, 2,000 to 3,000 pira

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Smaller than your fist, your muscular heart just goes on and on. It will beat more than 60 times a minute for 70 years or more. Thats something that most of us take for granted. But its an amazing fact. Sixty times a minute for 60 minutes is 3,600 ti

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BBC News with Eileen McCue. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says voters have approved plans to increase his powers with a clear majority. He told a press conference the yes side got a million votes more than the no side, and that the const

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BBC News with Marian Marshal. President Trump has signed a new executive order imposing a 90-day ban on travelers from six mainly Muslim countries. Iraq has been taken off the list after additional vetting measures were agreed. Most of the controvers

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13. Maybe the receiver is off the hook. 可能是听筒没放好。 还能这样说: There may be someone who didn't replace the receiver. It's possible that the receiver is off the hook. 应用解析: angle with a silver hook 行贿;用银钩钓

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248. America, Britain, and France. 248.美国、不列颠和法国 Napoleon Bonaparte was now Emperor of the French. 此时拿破仑o波拿巴是法国的皇帝, In 1804 he made war on the British and their allies. 1804年,他向英国和英国的

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Chapter 24 第24章 Causes of the War of 1812 1812年战争的原因 247. The North Africa Pirates. 247.北非的海盗 Stretching along the northern shores of Africa from Egypt westward to the Atlantic were four states. 沿着非洲北部海岸从埃

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Jana: So, Peter, I've been asking you about hunting for treasure. Can I ask you a few more questions? Peter: Sure. Jana: So why are there so many sunken ships in South Africa? Peter: Well I guess around the southern tip of Africa because of the reall

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1. Friday of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in his LA home. He was 83. 2. The House has cleared the way for passage of short-term bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security and avert a partial agency shutdown, came just hours a

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The U.S. Navy says it is on heightened alert after receiving what it calls credible al-Qaida threats against American warships and commercial vessels in the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, and the Persian Gulf. The latest threat from Osama bin Laden's

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Australian fighter jets have completed their first combat mission in Iraq. The chief of the Defence Force Mark Binskin says the two jets were armed but did not launch airstrikes. Two FA-18 jets were involved. The jets have returned safely to base. Th

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文本: These fishermen are superstitious about turtles. Bringing one on board is bad luck. It's her lucky day. More and more fishing vessels are being drawn to the South Pacific each year, as this is one of the last oceans where healthy numbers of

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The worlds tallest tower and Japans biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Sky Tree, has opened to the public. Representatives of the building developer, the Tobu Railway Company, cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony. Nearly 8,000 visitors were expected t

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On May 27th, 458 people boarded the ship, starting their cruise tour from Nanjing to Chongqing. After six days of voyage, at around 9:30 pm on Monday night, the ship capsized during a storm in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River. More than three

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Since its establishment 65 years ago, the Chinese Navy has been speeding up its process of modernization, both in terms of the quality of its equipment and the skills of its personnel. Liaoning, the nations first and only aircraft carrier, has been i

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has discussed the recent face-off between Chinese and Vietnamese ships in the South China Sea with US Secretary of State John Kerry in a phone call. Wang Yi urged caution in any comments and actions related to the dis

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Not much of a meal,I need to head in deeper. 还不够吃 我要进到更深处 There's some sort of shaft.It's running straight down into the rock. 这里有一个轴状洞穴 一直往下延伸 到那块石头 You see that?Gonna see what's down the

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China's Ministry of National Defence has responded to a US media report saying that China sent a surveillance ship to monitor the world largest maritime drills the Rim of the Pacific exercise. The ministry said that Chinas naval vessels had the right

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The war which followed (the so-called first Punic War) lasted twentyfour years. It was fought out on the high seas and in the beginning it seemed that the experienced Carthaginian navy would defeat the newly created Roman fleet. Following their ancie

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I'm on a raft off the coast of Alaska,keeping watch for a boat to pick me up. 我正乘坐自制筏离开阿拉斯加海岸 继续找寻救援的船只 It's noticeably colder here. 这里很明显 冷多了 The current is taking me towards a lot of t

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