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Who would have ever thought that a creature with an extending 1) turtle-like neck, a finger as bright as a nightlight, or a 2) penchant for Coors beer would translate into hundreds of millions of doll
Branded on the American conscious and burned into the national psyche , since 1884 Louisville Slugger has been turning out bats for some of the best players in baseball. Today a museum surrounds the factory in downtown Louisville Kentucky. One versio
When kidnappers attacked a woman on a Guatemala City street and seized her baby daughter, DNA testing came to the rescue. The tests helped reunite the girl with her mother after the baby was left at a religious center with no identification. DNA test
The first well-documented mention of a wand made of elder that had particularly strong and dangerous powers was owned by Emeric, commonly called the Evil, a short-lived but exceptionally aggressive wizard who terrorised the South of England in the ea
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more of our discussion of gesture language. RS: We don't mean formal sign language taught to deaf people, but the way we use our hands either with spoken language or in place of i
Lesson-9 1. They spent many years ______ for oil in this small island . A. exploring B. exploding C. exposing D. exploiting explore 探索,研究 lore 知识文化, 学问 folklore 民俗学,民间
1. Rescue crews in Indonesia are racing to try to find survivors from a 6. 3 magnitude earthquake. So far at least 3, 500 people are known dead and thousands more are injured. 2. President Bush has to
为什么西方人会觉得13是个不吉利的数字,你造吗? 1. THERE WERE 13 PEOPLE AT THE LAST SUPPER. 最后的晚餐里有13个人。 And tradition has held that the 13th to take their seat was either Judas or Jesus himself. 传统的说法是
Encouraged by bright sun and 70-degree temperatures, Marylanders shed socks Saturday to celebrate the first day of spring. In keeping with a 30-year tradition, sailors at the Eastport Yacht Club in Annapolis burned their socks at a waterside gatherin
Charles Dickens wrote his seminal Christmas story, A Christmas Carol, more than 150 years ago. But even today Dickens and his work remain in the public eye, as a new film version of his story is released. Jennifer Glasse | London 19 December 2009 One
'The Ravenmaster' Is Definitely (There) For The Birds LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Christopher Skaife has one of the coolest jobs in the world. He takes care of the famous ravens that haunt the Tower of London. He's got a new memoir out about his lifew
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: People from across the country gathered this weekend in a small North Carolina manufacturing town to celebrate Bigfoot. The first-ever Bigfoot Festival in Marion, N.C., brought everyone out from Sasquatch skeptics to yeti e
The eye cannot look on his dazzling brightness. 眼睛无法注视他那耀眼的光亮。 He seeth all dark places, by night as well as by day. 他看到了所有黑暗的地方,无论在黑夜还是白天。 The light of his countenance is over a
I started to listen to music a whole lot, and I started to read more outside of just science and technologyShakespeare, Plato. I loved King Lear. 我开始听很多音乐,阅读科技以外的书,例如莎士比亚、柏拉图的作品。我爱看《
Tens of thousands of dogs are set to be killed and eaten at this year's Yulin Dog Meat Festival held in southern China in June 2016. Despite protests to boycott the annual event by human rights activists, up to 15,000 animals are expected to be slaug
Its not a chocolate coin wrapped in gold foil, people. Thats actual metal that composes that Olympic medal, so why do athletes bite them? 大伙儿,这可不是包裹在金箔纸里的金币巧克力,奥运会金牌是货真价实的金属制品,
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more of our discussion of gesture language. RS: We don't mean formal sign language taught to deaf people, but the way we use our hands either with spoken language or in place of i
This is going to be a very trying year for people with Triskaidekaphobia, also known as the fear of the number 13. 对于那些患有数字13恐惧症的人们来说,今年可真是难熬的一年。 While the superstitious folks afflicted with thi
2010年,圣诞老人(Santa Claus)庆祝了他的一千七百三十岁生日!其原型尼古拉斯(Nicholas)在公元前280年出生于利西亚小国,这个国家现已并入土耳其。 The origins of our Christmas traditions are the m
When Captain Flint Was Still A Good Man. By Nick Dybek. 《那时,弗林特船长仍是个好人》尼克迪贝克著 VAST, turbulent and mysterious, the sea is a gift to storytellers. It is a perilous passageway to new lands and a bountiful source