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The Reach was wider in those days, Stella Flanders told her great-grandchildren in the last summer of her life, the summer before she began to see ghosts. The children looked at her with wide, silent eyes, and her son, Alden, turned from his seat on

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Englands players and manager pause to remember ahead of their Armistice Day match against Scotland. Again did this spark more debate about poppies and remembrance in the oldest football rivalry. The squad trained for the final time without puppies on

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Agriculture Report - Opium poppy growing has increased in Afghanistan 农业报道 - 阿富汗鸦片种植连年增加 From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 Afghan farmers have ano

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Using a so-called air ambulance can be expensive, which is why such flights are usually only used by the critically ill. But a legal quirk means that paying for one of these flights can actually lead to financial ruin. Congress h

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Armistice Day is on November the 11th every year. It commemorates the end of World War I on the 11th of November 1918. It was on this day that the Allies and Germany signed a ceasefire that was the beginning of the end of the Great War. Hostilities e

VOA慢速英语2018--华盛顿以花墙纪念阵亡将士

Wall of Flowers Honors True Meaning of Memorial Day The National Mall in Washington, DC has something new for Americas Memorial Day holiday this year. For three days, visitors can see a clear wall filled with red poppies. The flowers are to honor the

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Tribal elders meet with U.S. troops in Afghanistan's Chowkay Valley One of the biggest challenges we have has to do with the cultural differences. The Pashtun population is challenging by nature in the way they look at life. Nearly nine years into th

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By Lisa Bryant Brussels 27 September 2007 More than three months after general elections, Belgium remains without a new government. Political parties are wrangling over proposals to hand over greater power to regions and local communities in French-s

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Afghan Opium Crop Headed for Record High The sun is shining in Afghanistan's Helmand province, and farmers are busy harvesting their opium poppies. This year, for the third year in a row, they are looking at a bigger opium crop. Farmer Faiz Mohammed

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: And now we have an update on the fight against the heroin supply. Heroin is made from poppies. Some are grown in Mexico. And the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration recently criticized Mexico's effort to destroy them. The Mexican

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They now came upon more and more of the big scarlet poppies, and fewer and fewer of the other flowers; 他们就跑到了茂盛的深红色罂粟花丛中，别的花儿愈来愈少了； and soon they found themselves in the midst of a great meadow

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This is ANZAC day, a day that New Zealanders and Australians remember all those soldiers who died in wars in the last century. ANZAC means Australia New Zealand Army Corps and it was the name the Australian and New Zealand soldiers gave to their grou

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Beginners. Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May. It is to remember all the soldiers that have died in the various wars around the world, even the Civil War which started in 1861 and ended in 1865.

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By Teri Schultz Brussels 10 November 2007 Belgium has been called an artificial country, a conglomeration of three individual states that have no real affinity for each other: Dutch-speaking Flanders, French-speaking Wallonia and a small German-speak

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By Jennifer Glasse London 09 November 2009 Red paper poppies are worn in recognition of Armistice Day Every year about this time, millions of people in Britain, wear red paper poppies in recognition of Armistice Day and in support of their country's

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ANZAC poppies are made of fabric. They represent the red poppies that were flowering when so many soldiers from Australia and New Zealand were killed at Gallipoli during World War I. Listen to April 24th 2010 for more background to ANZAC day. These p

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Corporal Green! the orderly cried; 格林下士！执勤官点名叫着。 Here! was the answer, loud and clear, from the lips of a soldier standing near; 到！声音清晰响亮，一位士兵，旁边大声回答。 And here! was the word the next

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