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What was around the bend in rivers hundreds of millions of years ago? Its a trick questionbecause there werent any bends. Ancient rivers were typically just wide, sheetlike flows of water. New reports in the journals Geology and Earth-Science Reviews

英语听力：自然百科 真实的庞贝—10

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美国学生历史 第32期:驱除法国人(4)

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By Stefan Bos Budapest 17 November 2007 The people of Kosovo are voting Saturday for a new local government. All the main political parties in the Albanian-majority province have pledged to gain independence from Serbia. Kosovo's Serbian minority is

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 20 September 2007 The Pentagon says an Iranian operative captured in Iraq on Thursday and accused of helping Iraqi insurgents was acting under orders from the elite Quds Force. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon. The U.S.

Dallas Continues Spraying in Fight Against West Nile Fever

DALLAS Officials in Dallas, Texas and the surrounding county of the same name are continuing to spray by land and air in an effort to suppress mosquitoes that spread the West Nile virus. Health officials have reported more than 200 cases of fever cau

PBS高端访谈:佛罗里达人因Irma飓风而逃离

Hurricane Irma is now blamed for more than 20 deaths across the Caribbean. It made landfall overnight in Cuba as a Category 5 storm. 155-mile-an-hour winds battered the island's northern coast, and the storm surge reached 12 feet in some areas. In th

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Jobs's sense that his investments in Pixar might actually pay off was reinforced 接下来的一次活动进一步加强了乔布斯认为对皮克斯的投资会有所回报的想法， when Disney invited him to attend a gala press preview of scene

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How wondrous familiar is a fool! muttered Ahab; then aloud, 这傻瓜可多亲热呀！亚哈喃喃道；然后高声叫道， Thou art a full ship and homeward bound, thou sayest; well, then, call me an empty ship, and outward-bound. 你说，你们是

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HARI SREENIVASAN: France began three days of national mourning today for the victims of Thursday's terrorist truck attack in the Riviera resort city of Nice. Today, ISIS claimed responsibility saying the Tunisian man who drove the large truck was one

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and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare. 眼前这一事实，德立克德第尔船长就真个象弗拉斯克说的，确实是拿着一只灯油壶的。 As he mounted the deck, Ahab