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National Handwriting Day is on January 23rd. Its aim is to highlight the importance of the skill of handwriting. It is an important day in todays world where people use a computer keyboard more than a pen or pencil. Some people are worried that in th

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Sigüenza first learnt of Atlantis while studying to be a Jesuit where he came across the work of Athanasius Kircher whose 1665 map of the lost continent was the first in history. Expelled from the Je

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[00:01.44]Okay. 没问题 [00:03.64]But first, I'll take my car, my parents. Maybe you should write that down. 我先要我的车和我父母 你最好抄下来 [00:14.36]Come with me. We'll talk about your car. 跟我来，我们谈谈你的车 [00:

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Unit 12 TEXT I A Winter to Remember Text According to the weather men last winter was one of the worst in living memory. We live in the depths of the country, and my whole family agree that it was cer

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Jesse Marcel remains convinced that there was one thing in the debris that could only be extraterrestrial. He described small metal-like I-beams with hieroglyphic symbols. The metal beam like our small miniaturized I-beam, and had these perplexed vio

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Right, I said. Nevertheless, it isn't mathematically exact proof, because the equinox needn't fall precisely at noon. 是的，我说，不过这个测定从数学上看，并不是完全精确的，因为春分时间不一定是在正午。 No doubt

SSS 2012-01-17

People have used tobacco for well over a thousand years. And researchers recently found unique physical evidence of the ancient habit. They detected traces of tobacco in a 1300-year-old Mayan container. The work is in the journal Rapid Communications

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This is absolutely breath taking, it is actually quite hard to believe in some ways the Egyptians did what they did when they did it, at a time when the rest of the planet, or most of it anyway was in intellectual darkness, the Egyptians were creatin

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Grapes are one of mans oldest cultivated crops. Ancient hieroglyphics show Egyptians harvesting grapes. Greeks, Phoenicians, and Romans used grapes for food as well as wine. Today, about seventy-percent of harvested grapes are used to make wine. Wine

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After several hundred years, the Egyptians lost sight of both these meanings and the picture. 经过了几百年，古埃及人把这两种意义都扔掉了， Here is a picture of a litttle man with a saw, came to stand for a single letter, the let

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Does the removal of a wedding ring mean that marital bliss has gone or even that divorce is looming? That seems to be the message people are sending when they take off their wedding band. Actress Katie Holmes was seen in New York without hers after f

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Chapter 4 第四章 Hieroglyphics 象形文字 These earliest ancestors of ours who lived in the great European wilderness were rapidly learning many new things. 我们这些最早的祖先生活在欧洲的荒野上，他们迅速学习着许多新事

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But this particular slab of black basalt was different from anything that had ever been discovered. 与此前发现的别的物件不同的是，这块特别的黑玄武岩石板 It carried three inscriptions. One of these was in Greek. The Greek lan

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Suppose that you were Champollion, and that you were examining a stack of papyrus sheets, all covered with hieroglyphics. 设想你就是商博良，你正在检视着一叠写满了古埃及象形文字的纸莎草纸。 Suddenly you came across a p

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Nevertheless they have rendered all coming generations one service of the greatest possible value. They gave us our alphabet. 不过，他们给后人留下了一笔极有价值的遗产-一他们创造了字母。 The Phoenicians had been familiar w

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